Posted on 08/22/2009 7:44:41 PM PDT by curth
11:29PM - 1:00AM, NBC (23) Saturday Night Live : "Josh Brolin; Adele" Josh Brolin hosts. Music guest: Adele. Appearing: Sarah Palin, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin and Mark Wahlberg. Original Airdate: October 18, 2008 Repeat TV14 (CC) HDTV
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And Sarah blew it when she quit her Governor post... /s
They should have canceled that show years ago.
The opening skit was alright, but the one with the moose around was HILARIOUS. Sarah wasn’t on enough on SNL during that episode as far as I’m concerned.
I am still not sure if going on SNL was the right thing to do.
I found the campaign handling of her media events very strange. they sent her on SNL, but not Jay Leno.
The entire campaign strategy was a train wreck from the start. The ONLY thing that made me vote for McCain was Sarah Palin. McCain surrounded himself with the wrong people, they didn’t let her do more interviews without letting her be herself.
I agree with that, she should have gone on Leno. I would not be surprised if she shows up on his new show at some point.
But by October 18th the game was long over. Once the markets collapsed that was pretty much it. A shame, as I think McCain was headed for a very narrow victory as of Septmeber 14th or so, but stuff happens.
In the end, though, maybe an Obama win will end up being for the best. It reminds me a bit of when Carter won in 76. Yes, he was awful. But if Ford had won, a lot of the same bad things would have happened, it would have 3 straight terms, 12 straight years of a GOP President, he probably loses in 80 and the dems may well go on to dominate the end of the century.
Instead, Carter came in, proved what a failure he was and how bad liberals were, and Reagan was able to win in 80 and usher in an entire generation of GOP and conservative dominance. The dems were finished for years.
Hopefully, history repeats itself and we’ll look back on this as a time of necessary regrouping and a mere speedbump going forward.
In the end, though, I don’t think going or not going on SNL mattered all that much in the final result of the election. Nor did anything SNL did really matter all that much in the final result of the election.
Hasn’t been funny since the days of John Belushi and Buck Henry in Samurai Delicatessen.
You got that right.
I didn't vote for McCain. I either voted for Palin or against Obama. Take your pick.
Or the Olympia cafe.
I love her putdown of Alec Bladwin.
They can take SNL and the entire NBC network and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.
She will pretty much be able to go on whatever shows she chooses when the book comes out. It should be interesting to see what she decides to do.
“Nor did anything SNL did really matter all that much in the final result of the election.”
Except for one little fact: most if not all of the criticism against Palin is based on impressions left by the Tina Fey performances. Critics have confused themselves into thinking Fey’s Palin is the real Palin.
I would advise Sarah to avoid the oprah...just to keep her from the high ratings of a Sarah appearance.
Yeah, I would rather she not go on The View either.
Well, SNL portrayed Bush as an idiot for 8 yrs and he won both times. Will Ferrell’s Bush left the same impression as Fey’s Palin and was just as critical. It didn’t really matter. Neither did Fey.
The difference is that when Bush ran in 2000 and 2004 the stock market didn’t lose 35% of its value in the weeks before the election and unemployment hadn’t increased by close to 50% over the year of the election bringing the country to the apex of its worst recession in 75 yrs.
There also wasn’t a war that 65% of the country opposed and an incumbent President that 75% of the country disapproved of. Nor was there a democratic opponent who was spending more money and running more ads than any politician in the history of the world.
If those factors were present in 04 Bush would have lost, too. Likewise, if the environment was roughly the same last yr as it was in 00 or 04, a decent economy, no huge opposition to a war, and no massive dem spending advantage, McCain and Palin would have won and Fey would have been an afterthought.
True.
I’m not saying it affects elections. I’m saying that the Fey caricature affects way certain Palin critics think. They think they’re criticizing Palin when in reality they’re criticizing the image portrayed by Tina Fey.
Agreed. One thing I did notice rewatching the end of the show was that Palin actually stuck around for the end of the show where the whole cast is on stage and the host thanks everyone and they all mill around.
It may be a little thing, but I think it says something. I’d be extremely shocked if even one member of the SNL cast voted for McCain/Palin or Bush/Cheney. Heck I’d be shocked if even one member of the SNL cast has ever voted for a Republican for President. I’d wager that the cast and writing staff and probably most of the other staff as well was 100% for Obama.
She still stuck around, was friendly towards them, etc... She didn’t have to do that. I don’t remember any of the other guests ever sticking around to the end. Obama, Clinton, McCain, etc... all made guest appearances...none of them hung around to the end and went on stage with the cast. What that means? Who knows, but I think it shows something.
There was one cast member who actually seemed excited to hug her and talk while all the rest seemed to go through the motions. Casey Wilson. Interestingly, I looked her up and it says her father is involved in GOP politics and her mother attended the GOP convention in 1980 so maybe there was one person in the cast who was supportive.
Also, fwiw, when everyone was standing on stage at the end, Palin looked way better than Tina Fey.
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