SNL’s Tina Fey and Amy Poehler struck gold again with such a hilariously on-target send up of VP nom Sarah Palin, I’m still laughing. I can understand why NBC is keeping these openings to SNL so close to home – YT users are having a terrible time trying to keep it out in the public domain — these scenes are PRICELESS and will go down in the annals of great political comedy. You can still watch it on NBC.com if you click below!
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/couric-palin-open/704042
For those of you who didn’t see the actual interview with Katie Couric, take a look here. This is the entire interview with Katie and ranges from her thoughts on foreign policy to the economy. Watch the original and then watch Tina and Amy’s send-off. I would say that Palin’s real deal is funnier…if it weren’t so gosh darn scary!!!!
What just kills me is that after being skewered for her utter BOMB in this interview with Katie Couric, who by the way did a yeoman’s job in keep a straight face, the McCain-Palin campaign geniuses decided that Gov. Palin should go back and for a DO-OVER! Only this time, Sarah didn’t go in alone. Big John went and sat with her and basically made her look like a moron and made him look like an over-protective father figure.
Palin fans: Do ya’ get the message. Three highly respected conservative political analysts – George Will, David Brooks, and Kathleen Parker- are over you. Parker writes in her article, “She’s Out of Her League,”
If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.
If Palin were a man, we’d all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes. But because she’s a woman — and the first ever on a Republican presidential ticket — we are reluctant to say what is painfully true.
What to do?
Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.
Do it for your country.
Holy Toledo! And Cleveland, and Detroit, and Colorado Springs, and Montana, Wisconsin, and Missouri, swing states all! If that’s not a condemnation of Palin’s qualifications, I don’t know what is. I hope that all those independent voters out there are watching these interviews and listening closely to what this woman is saying. She will be the second most powerful person in this country if McCain gets elected. Think about that.
Please don’t be swayed by the fact that she’s a woman and, we as women, need to support a ticket that has a couple of double XX’s on it. We need to support women who are intelligent, knowledgeable of the issues, articulate in their communication, and know more about geography than saying that “we have foreign countries on either side of us.” I have no doubt that Sarah Palin loves her country and believes in the truth of her principles. I blame McCain and whoever is running his campaign for making a mistake of stupendous proportion which has resulted in the complete humiliation of this politician.
Of course, she could have said “No.” But can a beauty queen like Sarah Palin give up a Diva Moment like this one????? Apparently not.
