Palin’s show aims high
Ex-guv sees a public service with ‘Amazing America’
PASADENA — IF we all just watch her new television show, Sarah Palin told television writers here Friday, we can restore America to its former glory.
That might seem like a heavy burden to place on “Amazing America With Sarah Palin,” an outdoor adventure show that she will host when it debuts in April on the Sportsman Channel. But pay i ng at tent ion to its messages about hunting, f ish ing, boating and rugged adventurism, said Palin, “is how we will get back to American exceptionalism.”
Striking themes not unlike those she has championed in her political life, Palin said her experiences in Alaska dovetail with the content of this show.
“Alaska is what America used to be,” she said. “It’s about responsible utilization of our natural resources and the expectation of a work ethic.”
Her program, she said, w ill venture all over America, showing people who harvest their own f ood with bows, guns or fishing rods, or who just explore places most people don’t go.
Dressed in a black pa nt su it with red, white and blue shoes, an energetic Palin joked about her own plunge into a roomful of critics.
“You know how I feel about the med i a ,” she said, goodnaturedly. But her smile and urgency never flagged as she explained how the media can, for one thing, encourage more young women to live the outdoor life.
“We’d be better off if we saw more pictures of young women holding a fish and fewer pictures of young women in front of the mirror holding a cell phone.”
Before she finished, she invited everyone to visit the Palin family in Alaska, promising that she would have her husband, Todd, “throw an extra portion of moose stew into the slow cooker.”
Sportsman Channel CEO Gavin Harvey said the channel, which reaches about 32 million homes, provides a “unique showcase” for “a way of life” that tens of millions of Americans enjoy.