Just as it was supposed to, sarah palin's alaska onrnTLC inspired me. Not so much when she fished next to brown bears. Or when she hiked up a glacier. It was when she looked toward the reporter who rented a house next door and said, "I would think, really, at the end of the day, he's going to be bored to death if that's all he has to do is observe our kind of normal, boring family and its activities." That's when I realized I could totally produce a show like this.rnI called around to a bunch of politicians I knew and tried to talk them into letting me turn them into reality-show stars. Newark Mayor Cory Booker, whose college-newspaper column I edited back when we were at Stanford, said he was up for it. "Which surprised me, since he had already dealt with me editing his column.
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