SNL Spoofs Palin/Couric Interview
By SilentPatriot Saturday Sep 27, 2008 1:18pm
It's becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Sarah Palin and Tina Fey. Not even joking. Her parody is that spot on. See original Palin interview video here.
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"PALIN": "Like every American I'm speaking with, we are ill about this. We're saying, 'Hey, why bail out Fanny and Freddie and not me?' But ultimately, what the bailout does is, help those that are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy to help, uhhh, it's gotta be all about job creation too. Also, too, shoring up our economy and putting Fannie and Freddie back on the right track, and so health care reform and reducing taxes and reigning in spending...'cause Barack Obama, ya know, has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans, also, having a dollar value meal at restaurants. That's gonna help. But 1 in 5 jobs being created today under the umbrella of job creation. That, you know. Also....."
The blog Orange Crate Art compares Palin, Orwell and the English language. Truly scary.
As George Orwell points out in "Politics and the English Language," one need not take on the responsibility of thinking when composing sentences:
You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you — even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent — and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself. It is at this point that the special connexion between politics and the debasement of language becomes clear.
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Let's see a spoof of her with her hands on, witch hunting pastor.
Oh fine, give her the nuclear codes.
I haven't been much of an SNL fan since Lorne Michaels announced his support of McCain, but this was friggin' brilliant. Tina Fey rocks!
This video is not so much a spoof of Sarah Palin, as a close replay of her actual videos.
Most of dialog are virtually direct quotes from her Palin's past interviews.
Let's face facts, the woman will never be a MENSA candidate.
Once again, the ladies of SNL nail Palin, who threw in every talking point into the stew and left Couric and the rest of us ... stupified.
As for Orwell, it is indeed incredible that we are living in Orwellian times. People I thought were intelligent have parroted quotes like "We've got to fight terrorism over there so we don't have to fight them here." Yet that's what Palin said recently, without bothering to wonder, how will they get here? Swim? Fortunately, the comedians have used the magic of video to show us how the talking heads keep saying the same glib lines meant to brainwash us into agreement without thinking critically.
Numinous,
She is a member of MENSA:
Moronic
Evangelical
No
Smarts
Available
This was just great. Myself, well, I got a bit of erectile patriotism and did this to honor Sarah. A tribute of sorts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7trIpspUILg
let's hope so.
who needs SNL when we've got "free republic"?
more wisdom from the freepers:
She is way too articulate
As I just said at Pharyngula, is it too soon to hope that both the MSM and SNL have awoken to their responsibilities again after they both let Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert shoulder the load for so long?
Queen Esther called and she wants her lipstick back!
Tina Fey deserves a shitload of awards for this skit alone. She wasn't just funny, she was dead-on accurate. Tina Fey has somehow managed to get into the mind of Sarah Palin... and it's terrifying.
Unfortunately, SNL's presidential debate skit wasn't anywhere near as funny... or as accurate. They wrong-headedly tried to be balanced in their mockery of McCain and Obama. The problem is, Obama is a satirits's nightmare (How refreshing), they don't have anything on him. And with nothing to ridicule Obama with, the writers instead went with ridiculous falsehoods about Obama being associated with corrupt individuals. Watching the skit you'd think Obama was up to his eyeballs in corruption. That's dangerous in a close election.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzuIHjQYW2c
i think it was a statement from snl saying that you dont even have to revise or play around with what palin said to make it funny. it's funny as it is. no comedic writing can improve on that.
The Rich Peoples Ship is sinking and they want us to Bail for them.
I don't see the physical resemblance much but Fey's got the accent sooo down...
New Poll Shows Palin Equated With ‘Apoca-Lipstick Now’
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=3421
I once had a book that had been written by a computer programmed to choose randomly from lists of phrases (you know, something like introductory modifier, noun phrase, verb phrase, complement). Made more sense than Palin's responses to Couric.
Reminds me also of the Surrealists' game "Exquisite Corpse." Person A writes a phrase and then folds over the page; person B does the same; and so on. Then you unfold the paper and read the sequence of contributions as a single sentence.
Orwell's observation of how the use of language was corrupted and depreciated back in his time still remains true today. Unfortunately Barack Obama, like Sarah Palin, does not do much to help his cause by his all too frequent use of the insipid phrase "you know." When one reads transcripts of his speeches, it is difficult not to scream that one really does not know but if the good senator would kindly explain then we would all know what it is he is attempting to say.
Tina Fey for V.P.!
I watched the Palin/Couric skit on SNL three times. Yes, I laughed. But in the end, I despaired because there are still a lot of people who sympathize with this lady and ignore the possible national security threat she is to our country.
(the debate skit on SNL wasn't quite that funny, especially when they dredged up the business of the Chicago political machine).
Those who love Gov. Hockey Mom bond with her because either they have fantasies about her, she's a hunter or that she's a wonderful mother. They actually agree that she has foreign and executive experience!!!
And if the original interview doesn't change their minds, I don't know what will. :(
As for the Orwelling reference: I think that is a quite brilliant analogy. We are living in times in which there are people leading us who believe that words (and their semiotic meaning) possess no structure or depth. In fact, they've reduced the meaning of words to the point that they are there merely for window dressing and nothing more. Add to that a disdain for dissent, free thinkers and education, and we've got a fascist society on our hands who in turn can destroy the meaning and depth of a particular word and then recreate it to suit their purposes through the art of shallow repetition. Therefore, everything about the Bush years is about a slew of oxymorons resembling double-speak.
The only good thing is that when Palin mangles the propaganda of the Rovian machine, people are able to see the hypocrisy going on in living color. Tina Fey's portrayal reflects this to a tee. Just by following Palin's speech patterns, the public is able to see the corruption, hubris and stupidity of the Republican machine.
I can imagine the meeting at SNL when they figured out that there was nothing funnier than to repeat Palin's actual words.
Comment #21 correction: "Orwellian", not "Orwelling" :(
[*Still prays for an edit button*]
thank you SNL for keeping it up.
Mr. Pendent @ 10:
MSM or Main Stream Media is a misnomer. It is a corporate media busy representing its own interests. They would like you to believe that they are mainstream.
Five corporations -- Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch's News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom (formerly CBS) -- now control most of the media industry in the U.S. General Electric's NBC is a close sixth.
Thanks Alaskans, for putting a person like Sarah Palin in a governors mansion, and now, she has a chance at getting the launch codes. For a long time I thought of Alaska as just another good ol boy state where greedy, selfish, yet ultimately non-threatening scumbags like Stevens quietly lined their pockets.
Now I realize that Alaska is more like Texas, a state where incredibly stupid and dangerous people can rise to positions of power and gain the ability to to serious damage to the American way of life.
Actually, Sarah Palin has just managed to perfect a new style of politics which was first pioneered by that great political thinker, Dan Quayle, and developed further by that other great modern political thinker, GW Bush. I've labeled it Stream of Consciousness Governance.
Slightly of topic but worth noting. My teenage son mentioned to me this on Friday night even before a cracked open my first beer. It is bizarre and scary in the fact that in can be soo true and disturbing. Seems in one of his classes on Friday the topic of discussion turned to the presidential race. My son said to me that this race to the white house also hinges on who will be VP. I asked why. To that he replied that Senator McCain may die in office. I said that may be a possibility. You know what he said next. Yup,,,, the talk at school said that the advent of Senator Obama's demise from a gunshot is real. It is not openly talked about here or anywhere else and it shouldn't be. But to have children talking about it does lend some serious thought to who will be the next VP. Myself, I would rather chase down all these Wall Street BANDITS and give them a round off torture,,,, oops enhanced interrogation before they make sand out of big rocks. Then the last thing they remember seeing is the bottom of a wicker basket as the blade puts US out of our misery.
Seriously. How Fey portrays Palin is exactly how I see Palin. It's not art imitating life. It's life imitating life. It's not even funny for me. It's sad because a sizable percentage of our population sees Palin as being a perfectly acceptable option for vice president.
i saw the time square
movie "the bush doctrine" too.
there is much to recommend it.
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Funniest part is when she repeats what Palin actually said word for word like:
"But ultimately, what the bailout does is, help those that are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy to help, uhhh, it’s gotta be all about job creation too. Also shoring up our economy has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans "
And there are a lot more of those to just quote word for word. Like when she tried to explain how journalists were treating her unfairly because of her so called foreign policy experience and she couldnt find the right word and Couric had to help her out. Couric: "Mock?"
Tina Fey's satire of Palin was almost as good as my personal real-life favorite line from the Gold Standard of vice presidents, J. Danforth Quayle. Exact quote:
"Our government unlike many governments and particularly the governments of where the people that founded this country came from is a government that is derived from the people. The consent to govern. The freedom that is based in the people that then elect their representatives to represent them in a free representative democracy that we have today."
grs @ 29:
It is very sad. It shows that the Rovian/Bushian propaganda is actually working. This nation is brainwashed by eight years of terror, fear and authoritarianism.
ROFLMAO
Hard....to .....breathe.....can't ....type...
Of course it was spot on...with the volume turned all the way down. She likes to watch comedy shows that way.
"...connexion...?
It's becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between reality and satire. Not even joking. Sarah Palin is that dumb.
It's easy to tell the difference between the two. One is smart and successful on a national basis, the other was Mayor of Wasilla.
I'll bet money Tina Fey would be more successful as VP than Sarah Palin.
I'm a bit confused; was that Saturday Night Live or was that the real interview? It's hard to tell the 2 apart.
Actually, the Palin interview--the real one--put me in mind of this:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
WTF Was that?
You are all doomed. I was thinking, its been so long since I saw a trustworthy person in any position of power in US politics that all US politicians have become hilarious caracatures.
Seriously, if they win with this mccain/palin clown parade the sensible residents of europe and the rest of the world should just give up on the US. It will mean another 4 years of the rich getting richer while the poor eat mud and starve. The land of the free became the land of the large corperations and vested interests.
Good luck though chums, where I live 'In a european capital city' everyone has healthcare, food is affordable and rent is, although still expensive, very affordable.
I may not be rich, I know very few highly rich people, but everyone is comfortable. Perhaps the US should take a hint without convincing everyone that they must live like P.Diddy the day after a record deal.
Tom @ 32:
Dan Quayle is doing very well these days. He has a high position at Cerberus Global Investments and is one of the Directors at Aozora Bank Tokyo. When GH endorsed MCain, he was sitting behind them on the Platform. I'm guessing he still has his finger in Conservative Politics.
Male Procreation Device @ 9:
As in, "Will the woman ever shut up?"
@Noah (#25)
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@FreddyMacDaddy (#37)
Fey said she didn't want McPalin to win because she didn't want to play Caribou Barbie(tm) for the next four years. It seems to me they could just use the actual footage of Palin, cut with the SNL "interviewer" to reenact the original interview. I think that would be indistinguishable from a comedy sketch.
Far worse than what they have done to the economy is the devastation the Republicans have visited on satire over the last decade. They have take Poe's law to a new level of shock and awe. I am unsure if satire will ever be possible with those people again.
The Very Bitter Ceci Hussein @ 21:
The people who lilke Sarah Palin, sympathize with her and will vote for her are not lost from the Obama column. They were never there.
The first time I saw Bush 43 I knew in my hot of hots that he was dumb. He looked and sounded dumb. I got that vibe the very first time I laid eyes on Sarah. And these old eyes have been sizing people up for over sixty year. There have been very few times when I've ever had to go back and revise my opinion of someone's intelligence upward.
missmarple @ 42:
It shows.
Kathy in St. louis @ 45:
That is true. They will love her like no one else.
I think your instincts are dead on. No matter how much they try to prop up Bush 43, it will never hide the fact that his intelligence is mediocre at best.
If this downward trend continues, the next Repub ticket will be something like Ollie North and a yet to be determined NASCAR driver.
If this is what passes as excellent political satire today, comedy is dead.
Serious question: is this how she conducted her interviews as Mayor and Governor?
I wonder how anyone in Alaska could get through them, let alone the State of the State address.
missmarple @ 42:
None of which puts him the proverbial heartbeat away where he spent four frightening years, so let him do whatever one does at Cerberus Global Investments and Aozora Bank Tokyo..at least they're not the West Wing....
Sarah @ 49:
That's for sure!!!
They missed the best (not to mention the only really good) part.
In the original Palin was occasionally referring to notes. Really!
Go take a look (if you can stand seeing it again) and watch her
glance down towards her lap every now and then.
The grim truth is that Sarah Palin is funnier than Tina Fey. There is no way to outdo the real thing. She's dumber, more convincingly inarticulate, a much scarier than Tina's impersonation, which is pretty good. What I originally thought was going to be hilarious -- Tina's weekly sendups -- now seem like pale reflections of the real Sarah.
SNL would be funnier if they simply had Palin herself on every week being interviewed by a different MSM buffoon.
palin to the mcLAME campaign....priceless
samdog @ 36:
Not a typo, that's how it was spelled back in Orwell's day...
And it's easy to tell Palin and Fey apart. Fey is tall and thin, Palin is... how to put this delicately... more matronly (having five kids'll do that to you I guess).
Can you imagine what might have happened if McCain didn't announce Palin until 2 weeks before the election? None of us would have had any real idea who she was until it was too late. McLame should have kept it quiet, but I doubt he realized how nuts she was when the Coucil for National Policy decided on his VP for him.
Spot on. Fey would make a better VP pick than Palin! She's way smarter.
Palin is Dan Quale with breasts.
I watched that interview and I cringed and I am a Democrat. I am sure there were many republicans that were in pain listening to that interview.
She is a one trick pony who is way out of her league. Just because you are a republican and can recite the talking points like a trained monkey does not mean you are ready to rule the free world if McCain's dies in office.
galmud @ 31:
Actually, on that part of the SNL interview, it wasn't Tina Fey speaking. They cut in audio from the actual Palin/Couric interview. You can tell b/c the voice accent changes dramatically. And it was so nonsensical that SNL's writers couldn't top it.
But hey, she's pro-gun, pro-God, White, and anti-abortion, which is all the Rethugs really care about. She's as corrupt as Duke Cunningham but that doesn't stop these voters.
grs @ 29:
It shouldn't be sad that so many people support a person like Palin... it should be FRIGHTENING.
They're the same idiots that believe in the rapture, and think we have the right to kill people and invade their countries just because they aren't Americans... especially if their skins are brown.
They're the same folks who also don't believe in evolution.
So, that makes them: Suicidal, murderous, thieving, racist and ignorant.
We shouldn't feel sad for those folks; we should be very, very concerned about them. They're not just from the shallow end of the gene pool, they're from a place where the water has become stagnant... if not outright poisonous.
Make no mistake, those people are dangerous. Studies also show, they're more prone to fear and hostility.
If this was happening on another planet this would be a good comedic movie. Since it's happening on earth it leads me to question the ability of humanity to survive.
Palin seems to have been cobbled together from equal parts of Imelda Marcos and Katherine Harris: A shallow, shitbrained cheerleader with a really mean vindictive streak and a penchant for the abuse of power. Just what the world doesn't need.
As few people as there are in Alaska, it might be a good thing to encourage as many Democrats as possible to move there....in order to turn the state blue.
As good as Palin is for comic relief on SNL, the thought of her being elected to national office in order to supply that comic material scares the hell out of me. Especially so, since the actuarial tables for a man of McCain's age and medical history say that the odds of him falling ill and dying before the inauguration are higher than they are for him surviving to complete a first term. If he has a relapse of melanoma, and it metastacizes to his brain - as it does in about 60% of the cases, he'll have not much more than 3 months to live from the moment that happens, and will be incapacitated from within 6 weeks of the event.
Erroll @ 19:
I'll take 500 'you knows' over 1 more word from this crazy lady.
missmarple @ 42:
Yes, given the rampant closet-homosexuality in the republicans I'm sure his finger is brown.
I think Fey was their first choice, check this out:
http://www.barkobamablog.com/2008/09/real-september.html
Oh, and have you seen the Sarah Palin Quote Generator? It's almost as bad as the real thing!
I almost forgot...
For whatever reason, SNL writers pushed the meme that Obama regularly plays the race card. Being hard up for comedy material is one thing, but that was despicable.
Even worse, it was bad satire.
will @ 56:
Just wait.
Two weeks before the election, give or take, he just might remove Palin from the ticket and replace her with a political unknown. Or with a political known, for that matter, who would still be able to avoid serious vetting in the days before we cast our ballots.
Now, normal, rational Americans would get a little pissed off that McCain would make such changes without adequate time for debates, press conferences, and so forth, and would react accordingly. However, all Americans aren't rational.
castanea @ 68:
That's what I'm thinking he's going to try.
Right now he's desperate. He'll try any stunt to get elected. This is his last chance to try for the presidency, and he knows it.
Sarah @ 49:
Hey Sarah,
If you can laugh at it, it's comedy.
I sure thought it was funny as hell, so did millions of others.
There's only one problem, the frightening prospect of someone as brain dead at that woman getting even close to the presidency.
The only White Houses Palin should eve be allowed to see are igloos.
It's easy to tell the difference. Tina's version of Palin is smarter!
Also, Tina is hotter!
Was Tina Fey( or, Sarah Palin for that matter ) channeling that young South Carolina blonde , beauty queen who was answering the question about locating the U.S.A. on a world map?!
Doesn't Palin (the real one) sound exactly like Principal Victoria from South Park?
And Tina Fey is a quadrillion times sexier than Caribou Barbie, even when aping her.
I hope that we can still afford to laugh if she and her friend get elected in a few short weeks!?! HELP!!!
Tina Fey does a great job and I think she is hilarious.
With regards to the VP debate coming up, do not underestimate Sarah Palin in a debate format. I am not saying she is outstanding or anything like that, but it does appear the bar is being set extremely low for her. The criticism of the McCain campaign to not allow her to make many public speeches is warranted. We just need to follow that up by saying Sarah deserves to be heard. It is insulting to the American people that she is not aloud to speak her mind.
When I see Sarah Palin (actually speak) I always expect her to be just like Tina Fey is in this video. She's pretyy much like that now as it is.
Don't debase me, Bro!
moonsha @ 75:
Hopefully, speaking in one debate will end the senseless adoration-fest put forth by some Americans. Then we won't have to hear her again.
Numinous @ 70:
I've watched it three times today. I love 'byew byew byew' at the end.
Poetic
Tina doing Palin, you can not write this stuff ;)
- JJ
My brother has an expression...dumb as a coal bucket.
Numinous @ 60:
So, we should exterminate them, and have the more fit ones like us build a better world.
Sounds like you are quite afraid, actually.
It reminded me of an SNL news character who mocks the left--the poilitcal events comedian who never talks in full sentances. But in this case its real!
How about skits & articles and comedy sketches for the rest of us. . . where's the skit making fun of the fact that Biden didn't know who the president of the U.S. was during the great depression or that he thought television was invented at that time. . . or how about the fact that Obama doesn't know the difference between veteran's day & memorial day. Obama made a speech honoring Memorial Day. Obama claimed that there were many fallen soldiers in the audience. What are they teaching liberals in Harvard? Apparently they don't teach them the meaning of our most solemn national holiday. Memorial day is for remembering our dead servicemen. Veterans day is for all veterans including the living, the injured and those currently in battle. Far worse then Sarah Palin getting tripped up by liberal feminist Couric.
SS @ 81:
Interesting choice for a tag name: 'SS'.
Does that signify something about you?
I will also point out that it's perfectly valid to be concerned about the kind of people that would support someone so clueless.
A belief that dinosaurs walked alongside man? That being able to see a distant Russian coastline makes you an expert on foreign affairs. Not knowing what the vice president does? Supporting the 'bridge to nowhere' then lying about it?
Anyone who can turn a blind eye to the insanity and ignorance of Palin is probably easily distracted by shiny, shiny, things.
LOL!!!!!
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All of you do realize that SNL is comedy, right? It wasn't a real interview or debate. And just to let you know, the magazines at the grocery check-out are fictional also. Superman does not exist. There is no talking cat named Garfield. Will Smith has never saved the world by fighting aliens. Bill Clinton did have sexual relations with that woman. Matt Damon is not some mindless idiot who can't remember who he is; (well never mind, that one is true.) I have never thought Tina Fey was funny, especially now that she has joined the Obamanation.
Palin is such an idiot --- I keep thinking that on November 5th McCain is going to tell whole country that "we've been punked" and that the whole thing was just a joke. "Just wanted to see how many of you we could actually fool." He seems to be punking a whole lot of you!
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