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" &amp;quot;Did you know this June marked the 37th anniversary of the completion of the incredible Trans-Alaska Pipeline System?&amp;quot; Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, asks on the Sarah Palin Channel, her new subscription-based online video network. Celebrating the 37th anniversary of anything \u2014 let alone an 800-mile-long collection of metal tubes that was built in the &amp;#039;70s \u2014 might seem odd, but the pipeline is important to Palin, and so, she believes, it is important to her fans. Judging by the comments on the video, Palin is right. &amp;quot;Very informative!&amp;quot; reads one. &amp;quot;Amen! She is so right on!&amp;quot; shouts another. This is the Sarah Palin Channel, a place that allows Palin to be 100-percent Palin, 100 percent of the time. Haters to the lamestream left. A subscription to the channel is available for $9.95 per month, or $99.95 per year. To understand why Palin undertook this venture, I watched every single video available on it as of writing this. I spent more than seven hours with Palin and her thoughts. The result was something rarely experienced: Palin at full capacity. Below is what, exactly, that entails. 1. The Hopeless Plan to Impeach Obama  In one video, titled &amp;quot;We Can&amp;#039;t Be Afraid of the Scary &amp;#039;I Word,&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Palin boldly declares that Obama has committed &amp;quot;25 undeniably impeachable offenses.&amp;quot; The damning number hangs in the air because there is no one around to fact-check it \u2014 only supporters to stand and cheer. That&amp;#039;s a vital aspect of the Palin Channel: Without critics, Palin is able to shine and attack Obama, whom she believes to be the antithesis of herself and her fans. Palin&amp;#039;s favorite way to describe him is &amp;quot;lawless and imperialist.&amp;quot; She says it so often in the videos that it becomes part of his name: Ladies and gentlemen, President Lawless Obama. With Mr. Lawless in office, Palin says, the nation has no hope. And so she calls for his impeachment, over and over again. Anyone paying attention to the real world understands that there is no actual viable plan to impeach Obama, but reality has no place in the Palin Channel. The site is merely an echo chamber for Palin&amp;#039;s politics. Inside the chamber, impeachment is a hot topic. Step outside, and it becomes nonsensical noise. 2. Intimate Moments with the Palin Family  There are cameras planted all around Palin&amp;#039;s home in Wasilla, Alaska, and so, in addition to the videos in which she speaks about politics, there are more &amp;quot;candid&amp;quot; moments, like when she&amp;#039;s reading a book to her son Trig. In these moments, it&amp;#039;s impossible not to feel yourself reeled in by Palin&amp;#039;s warmth. In one video, Palin passionately thanks teachers who help special needs kids. In another discussing the armed forces, she pauses to tenderly appreciate a letter her son, who enlisted in the Army, sent her. She uses the channel to wish her parents a happy anniversary, recalling a poster her husband Todd has in his garage that reads, &amp;quot;God made man first. And then he had a better idea.&amp;quot; 3. Lots and Lots of Catchphrases   An unfiltered and unchallenged Sarah Palin has quite a way with words. Every few sentences, a catchy phrase pops in the air that gives viewers something to latch onto. In &amp;quot;The Truth About the War in Israel,&amp;quot; Palin says that Israel is not to blame for any conflict there, that the issue is &amp;quot;clear as Arctic ice.&amp;quot; She calls Hamas a &amp;quot;death cult&amp;quot; multiple times. In another video, she pumps her fist as she describes &amp;quot;army combat warriors in the war zone fighting the bad guys.&amp;quot; Palin says that Obama is a president who &amp;quot;only reacts, and that&amp;#039;s not a safe way to be in a world full of bullies, terrorists, and tyrants.&amp;quot; The American workforce is not just men and women, it is &amp;quot;hard workin&amp;#039; men and women.&amp;quot; The setting of the more formal videos helps Palin&amp;#039;s cause: She is typically in an office with an American flag, a globe, and a bald eagle statue. When you have no hope of reaching the Oval Office, you make your own.  4. Amateurish Production Values  All too often, Palin seems completely uninterested in the topic at hand. There are awkward, mid-sentence breaks in her speeches, and plenty of blank staring. It&amp;#039;s almost comical, because she&amp;#039;s the one who picks the topics and she can re-record each take until she gets it right. It&amp;#039;s like watching the author of a connect-the-dots book struggle to complete a puzzle he just created. One, two, three, four... Obama is a lawless, imperialist president! These are all Palin&amp;#039;s own ideas. They shouldn&amp;#039;t confuse her. Unscripted moments make it difficult to take Palin&amp;#039;s political arguments seriously, as in one video when a boat cruises by while she&amp;#039;s trying to make her big point. In another, she asks an off-camera Todd for help remembering something she wants to say. Todd, unsurprisingly, offers little assistance. But Palin knows her fans don&amp;#039;t expect the site \u2014 or her \u2014 to be perfect. They just want a space to watch Palin be herself, which is to say, a space to be themselves. Palin might not be a great politician, but the Sarah Palin Channel proves she is a marketing genius. Give the people what they want, just make sure you charge them for it. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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