And now for a bit of levity - "In Sarah Palin's Alaska, There Are Float Planes for Everyone."

[Blue_In_AK]

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TLC's reality show "Sarah Palin's Alaska" premiers next Sunday, Nov. 14. But the first episode, entitled "Mama Grizzly" appeared briefly online Thursday. It was apparently posted by mistake (or by public relations people trying to generate buzz) and was soon removed. While it was up, I happened to click the link.

Aside from being a political junkie, I'm a big TLC fan. (In my DVR queue at the moment: "Sister Wives" and "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant." I am not ashamed. That's some good TV.) It didn't take much for me to get sucked into the catty domesticity of Palin's Alaska.

Fade in, with plucky music: The Palin kitchen. Sarah, with perfect hair and makeup, and a calculatedly casual running-shorts ensemble, banters with 9-year-old Piper and cousin McKinley. The girls are making cupcakes. Palin tells Piper not to eat the batter. Piper, by now very used to wooing the camera, eats it anyway.

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Surfing through press materials for the eight episodes filmed over the summer, I saw that Sarah fishes in Bristol Bay, four-wheels, kayaks outside of Homer, shoots, scales rock ledges, mushes a dog team, glacier-treks, rafts and climbs part of Denali. I can see a working mother of five doing one or two of those things in a summer up here, but all of them? Maybe if you are a millionaire. With lots of child care. And no regular job.

Oh, that's right.

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Read more: http://community.adn.com/adn/node/154202#ixzz14d7wZ3j2 The comments are pretty funny.

[Angry Dragon]

1. That clip that had been posted was taken down

because her next door neighbor was filmed without his permission, accused of stalking palin's daughter, drilling a hole in her fence so she could spy on him. His lawyers wrote and said he would sue unless they took it down.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Yes, I knew that.

Apparently, Julia wrote this piece before that information was general knowledge. The editors at TLC are probably busy at this very moment taking out all video and the references to McGinniss. I'm rather surprised that the film crew didn't realize what they were stepping into here.

[XOKCowboy]

3. I wonder if they'll show the WORST GOVERNOR EVER banner

and subsequent destruction of private property on the dock that day? ;)

[HipChick]

4. Blue_In_AK..I saw somewhere that all those activities were staged..some material spliced in between

to make it seem like she was really doing it. And also, they used a body double for some scenes..she's really trying to sell the family as The Alaskan Waltons..

[tibbiit]

5. Really a body double?

Is that true??? Then wouldnt that be way worse than say Obama using teleprompters for speeches?
tib