Posted on 10/18/2008 10:35:53 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
After watching "Saturday Night Live" make fun of her from afar, Sarah Palin witnessed it first hand this week as Tina Fey engaged in fiction by depicting her at the news conference the Republican vice presidential nominee has yet to hold.
Later, Palin came on stage during the Weekend Update mock news segment and bobbed to the beat as cast member Amy Poehler performed a rap song the Alaska governor decided was too hardcore for her to perform personally.
"I'm Jeremiah Wright 'cuz I'm the preacher; I got a bookish look and you're all hot for teacher," Poehler rapped as actors dressed as Eskimos, Palin's husband, Todd, and a caribou pranced across the stage.
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Trivialized.
Truly.
“O.K., I didn’t watch this thing live, but did Governor Palin actually come out a second time and do this? It sounds pretty lame and corny.”
It was actually better than her first appearance. And considering how absolutely unfunny and pathetic the rest of SNL was/is, it was the highlight of an otherwise complete waste of time.
She did come out a second time and rocked the house.
I think this was a big score electorally. She showed she was not intimidated.
Compared to Hillary SNL appearance she was much more at ease and in command. Hillary looked spooked and uncertain. Palin looked comfortable and poised. She was commanding throughout without seeming stodgy.
She did, and she looked great doing it, not belittled at all.
You didn’t see it but it sounds lame and corny. With lines like that you should be om SNL.
This pitbull is going to single handedly drag the dead political carcass of McCain across the political finish line well ahead of Obama/Biden.
McCain is stunned to realize that the NYT no longer likes him.?
It is an amazing herculean feat for her to take a campaign so unwilling to fight for a win, and transform it into a winning campaign.
She is dismantling the political establishment of this nation. It’s amazing.
The rap song was one the funniest things I’ve seen on TV ever. And Sarah handled herself perfectly - staying dignified while going along with the joke.
Wow.
Excellently put.
LOL. AP tries to make it a negative. Anyone who actually saw the 2nd skit was rolling.
When I say Obama you say Ayers...
Obama!
Ayers!
Obama!
Ayers!
And the friggin’ moose. Man, it turned out awesome. You know Poehler is a Hillary fan anyways.
It was actually quite funny, and better than the opening skit. Poehler did the rap, Palin just moved in sync in her seat, which added to the humor (even with her “rock the house” hand moves). The AP article, like most AP articles, has a biased headline, don’t sweat that. People will judge based on the video they see, not the headline in some Obamamedia piece.
If you can stand the stench the two skits are on the Huffinton Post
if we pull it off it will be from her inspiration...God bless her.
Sarah was terrific (but we all knew she would be!). The bottom line is, with THAT audience, she could only win - and I think her personality is so appealing that even some of the enemy might have softened up a little. Certainly she had nothing to lose and, after all, they WERE chanting “Obama! Ayers!” during the rap song! :-)
I can’t get enough of that moose dancing onto the stage and then you-know-what. Replayed it 6 times already and still dyin’
This is such a classic, its being pulled by the minute off YouTube...(yes, that many are trying to post it).
Yup, that rap was hilarious! Sarah was elegant and dignified even as she “raised the roof”. I wish she had done more, but I’m sure they didn’t want to give her too much opportunity to look good. The rest of the show.....errrm, mildly amusing at best. My, how SNL has slid! zzzzzzzzzz
I was only able to catch a few glimpses of it unfortunately. I’ll have to take your word for it that Sarah was able to outsmart them.
Not that I didn’t think she could.
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