Kate Gosselin: camping is "cruel and unusual punishment"

[juliachaos]

Just saw this story.. Kate Gosselin joined Sarah Palin on a camping trip. I feel bad for the kids!

http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... ah-palin/1


Kate Gosselin: 'Miserable' camping trip with Sarah Palin

Camping probably seemed like a good idea, especially to the execs at TLC.

But as it turned out, Kate Gosselin didn't enjoy her outdoor outing with Sarah Palin at all, as shown on last night's Sarah Palin's Alaska.

The buzz this morning is all about what a whiner Kate was. Or, as Sarah Palin's father said, Gosselin "bitched from the moment she got off the plane."

Here's how the camping scene went, with Kate sitting in the rain:

"I'm worried about my toes; they're freezing."

"I've been bitten [by bugs] about 200 times — it's horrible."

"I'm miserable, but somebody's gotta be."

"This is cruel and unusual punishment."

And finally, "This is ridiculous!" she shrieked. "I just don't get it! There are no paper towels! I'm freezing to the bone, I have 19 layers on, my hands are frigid! ... I held it together as long as I could, and I'm done now."

She made the kids pack up and leave, opting not to stay out overnight as planned. When they objected, she said, "OK, goodbye. You're now a Palin, not a Gosselin." That prompted them to follow their mom to a plane that took them out of there.

[juliachaos]

Actually the link in the story explains in better detail. Todd Palin's a smart man..
http://watching-tv.ew.com/2010/12/12/sa ... -gosselin/

'Sarah Palin's Alaska' met the whining fury of Kate Gosselin: 'She bitched the moment she got off the plane'

Last week, Sarah Palin shot a caribou; this week, Sarah Palin might have, at the very least, used a taser gun on Kate Gosselin and I doubt that even Aaron Sorkin would lodge so much as a complaint.

The idea was a TLC match made in heaven, or hell: Put its two biggest stars, Palin and Gosselin, in one episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska. In theory, it made sense. Gosselin is always looking for ways to get out of the house with her eight children and her deeply bitter single-motherhood. So why not fly the brood up to Alaska, roll the cameras, and watch the fun as the two Mama Grizzlies compare media battle scars?

In practice, however, the hour was a remarkable, surprising, tedious catastrophe. The episode started out ordinarily enough. Sarah visited a gun shop to ask, “What’s the best bear gun?” She turned to the camera and explained sunnily that in Alaska, “guns are as common as bein’ in New York City and somebody with a Blackberry on their hip.” (You can untangle that grammar easily enough to figure out what she meant.) She went home and told daughter Piper that Kate Gosslin and her children were coming, informing us that “Piper is a big fan” of Kate’s.

So far, so good. Then the Gosselins arrived in Wasilla. Kate told us that she felt she had common ground with Palin, that here was someone who “can understand the scrutiny and the media” that have become Kate’s crosses to bear. Speaking of bear, Kate was immediately taken to a class in how to survive a bear attack while camping (“Learn To Return” is what the lesson was called). Kate looked apprehensive, as might any city or suburban dweller in what Palin always likes to call “the lower 48.”

Then the trouble started. Or as Sarah’s father said later of Kate, “She bitched from the moment she got off the plane.” The morning of the camp-out, it began to rain. “I’ve never camped for real,” said Kate, gazing at the damp camp site that had been chosen. “You really like this?” she asked Palin. Sarah maintained high spirits in direct proportion to Kate’s plummeting spirits. “We’ll stoke the fire and stoke some fun!” Palin crowed, bustling around with Piper, daughter Willow, and many of the Gosselin children gathering sticks and chunks of wood.

Kate, however, left her brood to the care of Sarah and Palin’s dad. (Husband Todd, wise man that he is, very noticeably went off to fish somewhere where he would not be able to hear Kate’s lamentations.) Kate jammed her hands in her poncho pockets, parked herself under a small open canopy that had been built for minimal rain protection, and started to complain.

“I’m worried about my toes; they’re freezing,” she said.

“I’ve been bitten [by bugs] about 200 times — it’s horrible,” she moaned.

“I’m miserable, but somebody‘s gotta be,” she said nonsensically.

“This is cruel and unusual punishment,” she whined.

When Palin and her daughters helped all the little Gosselins make s’mores over the camp fire, Kate declined to join them. Instead, seeing some gooey marshmallow land on a few sleeves, she went into a temper-tantrum fury.

“This is ridiculous!” she shrieked. “I just don’t get it! There are no paper towels! I’m freezing to the bone, I have 19 layers on, my hands are frigid!”

Kate issued an ultimatum: “I held it together as long as I could, and I’m done now.”

And she told the kids they were not going to camp out overnight as planned; they were heading back home. Their little faces fell. They hesitated and expressed little chirps of protest, saying they wanted to stay.

Kate was cruelly decisive: “Okay, goodbye. You’re now a Palin, not a Gosselin,” she said. Faced with a camp-out versus a loss of identity, the wee ones followed their mom onto a waiting plane to escape Alaska. Cut to an appalled-seeming Piper, who no longer looked as though she was a fan of Kate’s. Palin and her family remained, and spent the night in tents.

Palin said she regretted only that the Gosselin children missed out on the camp-out, a “good experience they never would have forgotten.”

I honestly cannot imagine what goes through Kate Gosselin’s head these days. Why does she voluntarily place herself in situations in which she knows she’ll end up in a foul mood, and then not even try, even if only for the selfish reason of improving her media image, to be minimally pleasant? Since every one of Kate’s complaints was made directly to the camera, no one can even claim that the producers of Sarah Palin’s Alaska somehow edited the footage to make Gosselin look bad.

She did that all on her own.

[JimmyLyding]

I'm sure that camping with Kate Gosselin would be cruel and unusual punishment.

[azbackpackr]

I had to look her up on wikipedia to remind myself of who she is. One of those celebrities who never should have been a celebrity.

[oceanwithin]

“I just don’t get it! There are no paper towels!

Hahaha

[Jim]

Who?

[JimmyLyding]

The only reason I know who she is is because of the garbage celebrity mags that inevitably draw my eyes when I'm checking out of the grocery store.

[JoelHazelton]

“She bitched from the moment she got off the plane.”

Great read!

The only thing in the entire story I find annoying:

Why does she voluntarily place herself in situations in which she knows she’ll end up in a foul mood, and then not even try, even if only for the selfish reason of improving her media image, to be minimally pleasant?

Hmm... It made the news, didn't it? I'm pretty sure any publicity is what she wants, good or bad (kind of like when kids act out in school?). Of course, the journalist knows this; he's simply expressing that opinion so the masses can be like, "Seriously! Kate Gosselin is so stupid!"

Whatever, the bottom line is it made me

[hippiepunkpirate]

Who?

She was on that show "John and Kate Plus Eight" in which two incredibly rich but incapable and dysfunctional parents used in vitro fertilization or something to have 8 children.

[Jim]

Who?

She was on that show "John and Kate Plus Eight" in which two incredibly rich but incapable and dysfunctional parents used in vitro fertilization or something to have 8 children.

I am fortunately unfamiliar with this program and and increasingly validated in my hatred of television that is not Sheen/Cryer based.

[The_Eagle]

The only reason I know who she is is because of the garbage celebrity mags that inevitably draw my eyes when I'm checking out of the grocery store.

What... checking to see if you finally made the cover????

[JoelHazelton]

Who?

She was on that show "John and Kate Plus Eight" in which two incredibly rich but incapable and dysfunctional parents used in vitro fertilization or something to have 8 children.

Oh THAT Kate... Makes it even better!

[chumley]

The only reason I know who she is is because of the garbage celebrity mags that inevitably draw my eyes when I'm checking out of the grocery store.

What... checking to see if you finally made the cover????

My brother is an orthodontist, and he always keeps trashy gossip magazines in the waiting room because while most people don't subscribe to them, it is apparently a "guilty pleasure" for anybody to read once in a while. Supermarket checkout line is one spot. Any waiting room is another.

As for Kate Gosselin, I've never even seen a photo of her until I just googled it. Meh. Whatever. I'd be happy to go fishing with Todd. I did get to see one of the SP Alaska programs, and I'm not sure how he could stand camping with his wife. Nevermind this Kate girl.

Then again, I've known a few girls who were not particularly fond of the idea of camping and somehow managed to have them reconsider their previous opinions after a good experience or two. But they weren't naturally annoying to begin with, so that might have helped. ;)

[Tough_Boots]

Maybe she just meant that camping with Sarah Palin is cruel and unusual punishment. If so, then I would have to think she has a point.

[BobP]

I've known a few girls who were not particularly fond of the idea of camping and somehow managed to have them reconsider their previous opinions after a good experience or two.

Thats because your coolers are filled with huge amounts of alcohol.

[paulhubbard]

chumley wrote:
I've known a few girls who were not particularly fond of the idea of camping and somehow managed to have them reconsider their previous opinions after a good experience or two.

Thats because your coolers are filled with huge amounts of alcohol.

If that's the case, I'll go camping with Chumley any day!!

[chumley]

LOL. Not always. But it is on my checklist right after tent and sleeping bag...

[tibber]

I'm indifferent to Sarah Palin but I did catch bits and pieces of the program while editing my photos. The fishing and fighting bears caught my eye; it was fascinating...very skinny bears I thot. The Palins and a guide also did some hiking and climbing near the base of McKinley which I found interesting.

As for the camping, they had some awesome tents and food and stuff to do. The kids were having a blast so it's too bad that a mom (Kate) who is supposedly all about her children isn't.

[Alston_Neal]

My wife and I started to watch the show last night, I soon realized there was not enough drugs or booze in the house.
I found myself chewing drywall hoping it had lead based paint.

[chumley]

If its that bad Chinese drywall, the chemicals are much better than anything lead paint could do to you. That stuff melts copper!