Backlash against Palin's Alaska show

Sarah Palin is behind a plan to shoot wolves again, although this time it will be with a video camera. But some environmentalists are just as outraged as ever.

Discovery Communications announced recently that it has acquired the rights to Sarah Palin's Alaska, an eight-part documentary about the natural glories of her home state.

But the eco-kickback came from organizations that have not forgotten her support of allowing people to shoot wolves -- not with cameras --  from airplanes.  Or her state's suit, when she was governor, against the federal government for listing polar bears as threatened by climate change. Or her support for drilling, baby, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Or her rants against global warming.

So Friends of the Earth, which says Palin is getting $1 million per episode, launched a protest, encouraging its supporters to send senryu poems -- similar to Japanese haiku, but more pointed. More than 1,600 were submitted. The staff selected the ten best and is asking people to vote for their favorite, which will top the pile of poems they plan to deliver to Discovery.

Here's a sampling:

Honor Alaska
Let the wolf in sheep's clothing
Represent it not

Oil road to nowhere
Striking down wolves from the sky
Dark Discovery

Red drops on white snow
A thousand howling deaths reaps
A million dollars

Read the rest and vote for your favorite here.