
Days before its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Nick Broomfield’s hot-button expose documentary Sarah Palin: You Betcha! has been acquired by Freestyle Releasing. The plan is to open in New York and Los Angeles on Sept. 30 and roll out. Broomfield raised more than $30,000 on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter to support the doc’s release, with private investors kicking in more money to launch the film. Cassian Elwes made the deal with Freestyle co-president Susan Jackson. The doc, directed by Broomfield and Joan Churchill, is not a fave of the Palin crowd, and the filmmakers say it lifts the veil off her image as a former hockey mom as the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate gears up for a possible presidential run in 2012.


All this attention for a quitter. Only in American.
If she had stayed in her post while campaigning, liberals would be complaining that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too. You might as well be upset at her accent.
OMG — Please make it stop….
It will be interesting to see if this makes more money than the pro-Palin doc that was released. Not like that would be hard to do or anything, but still.
Sure it lifts the veil. After all, no one in the press has been paying any attention to this woman, or to her family, or to her e-mail records. We’re all completely unaware of who she is and how she has conducted herself. This documentary is so desperately needed.
Hilarious!! Very true. Everyone knows everything about Palin in every way. Their could a documentary on Obama. Palin had more research done on her than Obama had on him. He is PRESIDENT!! She failed VP candidate.
WHY ? Who is going to see this ? Rick Perry ?
Media outlets that insist on shoving this slime in our face should be fined for sound pollution. The woman needs a voice transplant.
I’ve seen the trailer. Looks pretty good and like a fun film too. Americans will be laughing in theaters everywhere!
Hahaha no vicious right-wing defense of Palin? Even the teabaggers are sick of her.
No, Drudge probably just didn’t pick this one up.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some of that kickstarter 30K came from republicans trying to derail her 2012 efforts (e.g., moderates, Perry, Bachman, and Romney supporters).
Both parties are corrupt. Independent2012
Still waiting for the expose on Obama. Not holding my breath though. They’ll dig through this woman’s garbage (or the garbage of any conservative) but they’ll grab a shovel and cover up anything about a liberal politician.
Hey Basil, If you think the right hasn’t tried to find where Obama buried the bodies you’re a bigger idiot than your post implies. If there was “something there” it would’ve been found. Now go back to the hole where you crawled out of and stay there until we need a moron to make fun of.
You have a 24 hour a day “news” channel to give you what you want, and when Fox can’t find something to expose, they hack into someone’s phone or just simply make stuff up. Not sure what you’re complaining about.
Yes, you can really see how the entire US Congress is supporting him, and trying so hard to make him look good.
Can you really be serious?
Your people have tried to “expose” Obama.
And failed.
Because there’s nothing there to expose, nothing to unearth, no skeletons in the closet. If there were, the right would have dragged them up and down Fox Street for the past few years.
Nope. He’s just a good man, a good President, a good husband, a good father. You know, a “family values” type of guy that the Right Wing Extremists claim to be, but so often aren’t.
I have no doubt he’s a good man. But a good president? With unemployment above 9%? No jobs created in August? Continuing wars in the middle east? Guantanamo Bay still open? Patriot Act still in place? Zero leadership in the budget battle?
You are seriously delusional. Your post has no credibility with that statement.
Yeah Obama is a total shite president. Where are the jobs? He doesn’t care about anything economic. His whole presidency is just like more topics for books he will write after his shite presidency is over. Hopefully in 2013.
Right, because he was never slimed for being a secret Muslim Communist who pals around with terrorists and radical preachers while trying to cover up his true ancestral home, Kenya.
I meant birthplace.
How about an edit function, Nikki?
Well put, Basil. One wishes that the Broomfelds of the the world had put this much effort and energy into exploring the background of Candidate Obama, into “ripping the mask off” his alleged qualifications. But, hey…that would have been racist.
Hey Lord Jiggy — the right has done everything short of calling Obama the “n” word (to his face). You folks have dug. You’ve questioned everything from his heritage, his education, his family relations, his children, what he eats, what he reads (at least he DOES read and can recall what he’s read -hintity hint hint). etc… aside from you folks not being able to Manchurian Candidate this guy, you’ve done your worse and all it’s gotten you is what you were going to find: NOTHING. Sarah Palin, however, is a deep well. And as long as she stays in the public eye, there’ll be plenty of hidden garbage floating to surface.
“…They’ll dig through this woman’s garbage (or the garbage of any conservative)…”
…and 9 times out of 10 they’ll find something even the dog wouldn’t roll in.
Just during the 11 years 1998-2009: 14 REPUBLICANS Bob Livingston, Helen Chenoweth, Dan Burton, Henry Hyde, Rudy Giuliani, James West, Don Sherwood, Mark Foley, Newt Gingrich, David Vitter, Larry Craig, Vito Fossella, Mark Sanford, John Ensign. And I’m not counting the rumors which still persist about Nikki Haley, and the suspicions about Michele Bachmann’s husband Marcus.
Contrast with 10 DEMS Bill Clinton, Gary Condit, Jim McGreevey, Gavin Newsom, Antonio Villaraigosa, Tim Mahoney, Eliot Spitzer, David Paterson, John Edwards, Kwame Kilpatrick.
I think if there was any REAL dirt to be dug up about President Obama, all you diligent right wingers would have found it out by now. I guess you’ll have to resort to makin’ stuff up.
I really don’t get the “ditz” characterization.
Palin offers more substantive commentary, faster and more often than any other candidate (real or potential) I’ve seen on either side of the aisle:
http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin?sk=notes
The woman offers substantive support for her views, rather than ad hominen attacks and platitudes. I don’t see a ditz here. What’s with the hate?
Your mind works very differently than mine.
“substantive commentary”??????? you mean like “you betcha” or were you describing hunting analogies?
Really? SUBSTANTIVE SUPPORT FOR HER VIEWS? On what planet? She opens her mouth and dogs howl. (Did you Google the words, or how does that work…?)
Plus she’d be good with foreign policy ’cause she can see Russia from her window.
This is gonna be Tea Party Porn. I can just picture a husband going, “Honey, would you move your head. I can’t see.” Or even better, the wife saying, “Sweetie, don’t make so much noise down there. I can’t hear.”
Isn’t Freestyle pay-to-play?
One question…who the hell cares? This woman is trash and its about time her 15 minutes is up.
Since when does Freestyle “acquire” product? I thought they were where you went when you needed help self-distributing.
They’ll be offerin’ this but few will be buyin’.
Wait, this IS a comedy, isn’t it?
Barry???
Oh no, those horrible, tea-bagger dive-bombers will show up again. I have never seen a bigger bunch of clueless psychos, in my life.
can’t get away from cassian elwes and his “private investors” this year… michael benaroya, avi lerner, megan ellison… he’s doing something right..