Bozell Column: The Palins vs. The Critics

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From our seats in front of the television, it certainly feels like the TV network programmers have all the power to entertain us. But the press gatherings of the Television Critics Association in Tinseltown suggest that others audaciously think they should be in the driver’s seat, and they’re not shy about saying so.

 

The latest TCA press tour showed off the intimidating power of the television critics flailing away at young, shy Bristol Palin, who’s returning to ABC for an all-star version of “Dancing With the Stars.”

Look, there’s no doubt that Sarah Palin has figured out a way to benefit from all the media attention – mostly negative, often vicious – after the 2008 presidential race. The enemy of my enemy is my friend – and her support has grown by the millions. Her supporters across America made Bristol a fan favorite on “Dancing,” even if she was hardly Ginger Rogers on the season debut. But the Palin-haters who dismissed her as being on the show only because of her famous mother proved their real agenda when Chastity “Chaz” Bono took a turn (as a “male”) on the program, and the crickets chirped.

 

In addition to the TLC series “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” and Bristol’s two turns on “Dancing,” Bristol is currently on the show “Life’s a Tripp” on Lifetime. Her father Todd will star in the fall on the NBC show “Stars Earn Stripes.” There’s no doubt the TV critics hate the idea of this family on television.

 

Washington Post critic Lisa de Moraes made great fun of how the Palins are cashing in to become “the Barrymores of reality TV” and competing with the Kardashians to see which shameless “family business” can do the most programs. The Palins have a good response: “I don’t think it’s our business,” Bristol said of her family, when one TV critic asked that question. “I just think you guys are going to be talking about us either way, so we might as well be doing something enjoyable and fun.”

 

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