Self-styled Tea Party queen Sarah Palin is probably the last person you'd expect to line up for a government handout. But it has emerged that her reality TV show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska," received a $1.2 million subsidy from the state, covering almost a third of the show's Alaskan production costs.
The state subsidy was signed into law by Palin herself in 2008.
http://theweek.com/article/index/213730/was-sarah-palins-reality-tv-show-government-subsidized
