Get ready for Sarah Palin: The Movie. Undefeated, a $1 million, two-hour documentary about Palin, will debut next month in Iowa before hitting the early primary states of New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada — and eventually enjoying a nationwide release. Made (in secret) and financed by conservative filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon, Undefeated is a "sweeping epic... designed, in part, to help catapult Palin from [a] presidential afterthought... to the front lines of the 2012 GOP conversation," says Scott Conroy at RealClearPolitics. Though the film doesn't include an interview with Palin, she helped Bannon gain access to Alaskan officials and the film's narration features audio of Palin reading from her memoir, Going Rogue. Is Palin running — and will this movie really catapult her to the top of the GOP heap?
She's baaaaaack: "All of Washington" may have decided that Palin wasn't going to run for president, but that conclusion now looks premature, says Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Beast. This film's release, in Iowa of all places, clearly puts Palin back in the 2012 picture. This has all the hallmarks of a Palin campaign PR effort: "It is entirely controlled by her; it is designed as pure propaganda; she is running against the media; she is running as a victim; she is running for revenge."
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