Posted on 10/28/2008 11:00:00 AM PDT by presidio9
Tina Fey appeared right when I needed her, just when all seemed bleak.
The NYPD was reporting another murdered child and the latest casualty reports from Afghanistan included a New Yorker who was a particularly nice guy.
That made me think of two other fine men I know in Afghanistan, as well as two buddies in Iraq.
Then my lawyer friend Eddie Hayes called to say that the economy seemed to be headed for the Greater Depression.
"The guys who are supposed to be getting us out of this are the same guys who got us into it in the first place," Hayes observed.
Just when all seemed gloomy, I turned on the TV to see Tina Fey doing her best Sarah Palin routine since "I can see Russia from my house."
All the gloom fell away, and I was silently laughing as the comic figure with the hairdo and glasses went on and on with that tundra accent about the media and her $150,000 GOP wardrobe.
RELATED: HASSELBECK, PALIN UNDRESS CLOTHES CRITICS "The whole thing with the wardrobe. I tried to just ignore it, because it's so ridiculous."
The routine kept going, really getting good.
"These clothes, they are not my property. ... I'm not taking them with me. I'm back to wearing my clothes from my favorite consignment shop in Alaska."
The world seemed just pure, ridiculous fun when Fey was joined by a blond woman whom I took to be her sidekick Amy Poehler doing a routine as a conservative airhead chattering about sexism.
RELATED: LUPICA: HEY, PALIN, THERE ARE REAL AMERICAN HEROES HERE IN NYC Then I realized this second woman was Elisabeth Hasselbeck from "The View" - and that I had not been watching Fey at all, but the real Sarah Palin.
I felt the gloom begin to close in again at the thought that this woman might really become just an aged and anxious heartbeat from the presidency.
Where would we be if she were commander in chief empowered to nuke Russia from her house?
Then I steadied myself with the thought that enough people share my worries about Palin that she will most likely be back in Alaska in time for the famous bowling ball bonfire.
That big event in Wasilla involves placing a bowling ball atop a sawed-off oxygen tank filled with black powder and shooting it into the air to land who knows where.
Not even Fey could top that.
Watching Palin is almost as much fun as watching Tina Fey and - with Poehler on maternity leave after the birth of a baby boy - Hasselbeck will do until Amy gets back. I could listen to that sexism bit again and again. The pouty twist of the lips is priceless.
And, where do they get those extras in the background, cheering as if it all makes sense? They were good for a laugh, as long as I kept at bay the thought that there might be enough of them for McCain/Palin to win.
That possibility was enough to dim the sunshine as I walked on 21st St. in Queens in the glory that was Monday afternoon.
On the next block, I came to Silvercup Studios, where Tina Fey makes her show "30 Rock."
Fey has pledged to cease doing Palin if Sarah Barracuda is elected - and then Palin will cease being funny at all.
At least we will still have the great Tina, who will surely find a way to make us smile.
mdaly@nydailynews.com
Clearly, MDaly is an Obama kool-aid drinker.
And an idiot, to boot!!
That is a liberal’s thought process. They cannot logically assess inputs and come to a RATIONAL moral decision. They are subject to pure emotion and the diseased influence from which they spring. In a North Georgia chicken house, these unhealthy ‘chicks’ would have their necks twisted, snapped and put out of their misery to lessen the potential to infect others.
Who read last weeks Ney York Magazine last week (clip):
“We were talking about Palin again on the way to the Bowling Ball Bonfire, to be held that night in dense forest just north of Wasilla. The Bowling Ball Bonfire is one of those only-in-Alaska sort of entertainments. Bowling balls are placed into sawed-off oxygen tanks loaded with black powder and then shot a hundred feet into the air. Then the suspense sets in because who knows where they’ll come down.”
New York Magazine, sorry.
What a juvenile, assinine screed. It must be really sad to wake up every day full of hate.
If she’s weeping, then Palin’s already Veep?
I weep because I wasted a minute of my life reading that drivel.
It’s time to start building the mental institutions for the Sarah Palin neurotics. There are a lot of them, so we should start with concentrated reeducation camps, because we care.
The emotional Mr. Daly should camp out near Bellevue Hospital psychiatric ward on election day so he can receive the treatment he’s sure to need when Sarah Palin is our new Vice President.
This is typical for the Daily News (they’re competing with the NY Times readership).
Kind of takes their arrogance down; doesn't it?
Daly suffers from....envy. He wishes he were half the woman Palin is.
Same here. Let me guess - he’s gay.
LOLOL......we are just not elite enough to understand the language written by this idiot.
I pray that folks like this will be weeping for the next 12-16 years. ;o)
The Obama - Ayers government will be filled with these types at the lower levels as they get preferentially hired on by the bus load - which you will pay for. They will be rifling through your records and putting together all the information they can dig up on you.
The hard core Marxist killers will be the top level cadre.
Amen.
And I’ll bet this person graduated college.
I went to the 9th grade (although I did pick up my GED a couple of years later) and I think I can write a better, well, anything than this!
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