Posted on 09/19/2009 11:45:39 AM PDT by EveningStar
Tina Fey recently won an Emmy for her uncanny resemblance and venomous impersonation of Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin. In accepting her award, Fey was her typical, obloquious self saying, “Mrs. Palin is an inspiration to working mothers everywhere because she bailed on her job right before Fourth of July weekend. You are living my dream. Thank you, Mrs. Palin!”
2008 marked a departure from the memorable, more cordial years of Chevy Chase as a clumsy Gerald Ford or Dana Carvey’s hilarious H.W. Bush: “wouldn’t be prudent.” Fey was downright mean.
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This is one back biting impersonation that has had it's 15 minutes.
Agreed. My sparse history of reading about King Arthur and his knights, kept ringing a distant bell. For the sorceress portrayed in "Le Morte D'Arthur" is a leading character. She was one Morgan Le Fey. Sometimes spelt as Fay. She was a seductress and had powers given her. The word "Fey" in the old english language has meanings that vary, but agree in that it means some higher power of being able to foresee things. With witchery thrown in.
I checked on "Tina" and it is a short version of something like Stamatina. Yes, I cringed when I heard of the Governor going on SNL. I did not watch, since I have a habit of expletives that disturb my liberal spouse, when she has on the T/V.
Sarah Palin is still our Sarah.
When the series started Tina's self-deprecatory take on her character, Liz Lemon, was refreshing, but Liz is now such a nebbish or shrew that it's hard to tolerate her anymore.
And the rest of the characters -- Jenna, Pete, Kenneth, Frank -- are also uninteresting or repellent. Compare Thirty Rock to Mary Tyler Moore thirty years ago and you can see the decline: the pace is faster but the characters are a lot less interesting.
The last good thing on the show was when Liz went to her high school reunion remembering how the other students tormented her and realize that she'd been the one tormenting them. Since then, I haven't found much reason to watch the show.
Tina's career has had a similar downward trajectory. She was quite funny and not bad-looking for SNL, but nowhere near attractive enough to be on all those magazine covers.
In the same way, Tina isn't as funny or as bright as she came to believe she is. She ate up all the hype and thought it was real and that led her to move too far from her actual strengths.
You are accusing me to be "dishonestly attacking" Palin!?
I referred to an actual statement from her. She said to John Ziegler that she did not know all of the vile Fey jokes. Ziegler showed her a clip about Fey mocking Palin and her daughter... Palin's reaction was clear: she looked appalled and said "a mama grizzly rises up in me!"
And regarding the issue whether it was wise or not to go on SNL, that's a subjective opinion.
In my opinion, it was not a good decision. Many other Palin supporters agree with me. You disagree and think it was a "coup". Fine... a different opinion. That's has NOTHING to do with "falsehoods" or "attacks". The only falsehood is your unfair attack on me.
I guess, but if those days were more cordial it wasn't because of Chevy, but because entertainers couldn't get away with what they can today.
Chase certainly did his bit to sink Ford, and he was never in the running for any humanitarian awards.
Did you watch her on SNL and see the positive effects, the positive media , the positive responses here at FR as Palin reached an audience that would have normally been totally isolated from her and her real persona?
Do you think that Fey’s impressions were not weaker with the SNL audience after they got to see the Governor themselves?
Your negative opinion is well in the minority, yet you keep hammering it on thread after thread, I don’t know why.
Here is a thread on the show with freepers almost all liking it except for instance “ WilliamReading” who posted this “This appearance was a net minus for Sarah Palin. Who is running the campaign these days?”, but he was an anti Palin troll who’s account has been closed.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109432/posts
Chevy Chase forever branded Gerald Ford as the clumsiest President in history which was a negative branding caricature with no friendly or endearing humor in it and it wasn’t even based on any truth or reality.
Guess who was the best athlete to ever be President.
IMO Conservatives shouldn't in any way legitimize these evil leftist propaganda shows.
And her interview statement clearly shows that she was disgusted with the SNL jokes against her family, which she did NOT know at that time.
That being all said, I don't understand why you think I am attacking her with a "falsehood" for just stating my opinion.
Hope I clarified that.
Cheers
On thread after thread you spread the impression that she did badly and that it was a big mistake to go onto the show.
You are creating a new history of the actual event in many people's minds. The SNL appearance by Palin was a very positive and revealing victory in a unique niche of the media, not a degrading defeat for her.
She did great, but it was still a mistake. The problem is not her, but SNL. SNL is a gutter.
I did not say that it harmed her or was a "defeat" for her. I just say that Conservatives should keep distance from these lefist propaganda shows because of who THEY are.
You continue to spread this negative attack on Palin for thread after thread and none of us have been able to shake you from it, I don’t get you.
You continue to spread a false impression that Palin failed on SNL.
After enough posts if someone challenges you then you will back pedal and start explaining as you are trying to do in that post where you admit that she did “great” in reaching that normally unreachable demographic, but on the next thread you will start up again.
You are fighting a war to convince people to start remembering her successful SNL appearance that conservatives enjoyed and applauded as a mistake and a defeat for her.
Big deal, you don’t like SNL, well quit dragging Sarah Palin into that opinion.
Then we are more or less in agreement.
She did well. SNL is mostly lame. We should be building our own networks and not breathing life into the old, lame, toxic ones.
Fey doesn’t realize that part of what made her portrayal of Palin so enjoyable is the fact that people really like Palin. Even being lampooned Palin is well liked. Fey was well-liked because she reminded people of Palin, who they like. I don’t think Fey quite gets that.
Chevy Chase is a doofus.
Tina Fey is a nasty *****.
Whatever.
You are delusional if you think that my criticism of the decision to go on SNL is an evil, manipulative plan to attack Palin.
Stop whining around just because I have a different opinion from yours.
You may not have noticed it, but I maintain the Palin ping and give money to Palin’s cause wherever I can.
To suggest that I am attacking her is shameless and disgusting.
Get real.
The meanest SNL impersonations ever were of Linda Tripp. Even beat out Fey.
Yet you do it a lot on this SNL thing and you can't be shaken from it, the months go by and there you are posting the same negative BS about Sarah Palin and Saturday Night Live.
Fey’s comments are irrelevant. Though she did state a few months ago that Mrs Palin was much prettier than herself..
The entire Fey routine was psych-ops against the McCain candidacy. They were never able to recover from that hit even though they had ample opportunity to do so.
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