SNL Katie Couric: Sarah Palin Pt 4

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SNL Katie Couric: Sarah Palin Pt 4
Tina Fey returned to Saturday Night Live to reprise her widely hailed impersonation of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

The sketch mocks Palin's recent interview with CBS News' Katie Couric (played on SNL by Amy Poehler), touching on Palin's trip to New York and her comments about Russia and the financial bailout.

From SNL, September 27, 2008.
Sep 28, 2008 3:35 AM
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I was hoping for a lot of hand gestures so when Palin herself would watch it when would be able to follow the story even with the sound turned down.
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Classic. Palin is completely humiliated; and you know what, she deserves it.
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Just curious, why does she deserve to be humiliated? Perhaps she deserves to be defeated in the election, but humiliated? I thought only conservatives were full of hate and intolerance. Aren't liberals supposed to be caring and inclusive and respectful?
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Perhaps humiliated is the wrong word. Is ridiculed better? I admit humiliated is a bit strong. It conjures up images of someone who's bound to a wooden cart that's being pulled through a medieval town, while rotten tomatoes and eggs (and occasional stones) fly through the air.

Anyway, I wouldn't be too careful with this Palin; you can count on it that she won't be gentle with those she disagrees with. Given other circumstances, Palin would have been the cruel queen beheading people whenever she feels like it: librarians, scientists, atheists, you name it.
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Naw... I liked 'humiliated'. Palin is not some child who simply doesn't know any better. Anyone paying attention knows she earns every pointed finger and laugh she gets.

Comethefuckon. The dimwit is seeking to attain one of the most important jobs in the country. If she can't say anything that isn't a medley of canned right-wing slogans, or express coherent ideas of her own, it's gotta be open season on the daft princess. Seriously.

Like I said, Palin is no babe in the woods (maybe, milf in wood?). She's a grown up who wants to lord over her fellow citizens at the highest levels. Which is - to put it acutely - a disgrace that she's even getting the chance to run.

(Mind you, she doesn't seem as hopeless as G W. Ya... hard to top.)

So, I say shame to those who look down their noses at people who want Palin to be seen as she truly is: a bad joke.

Another thing:

What kind of a dildo do you have to be to whinge about satire directed at Palin? Judas Priest! SHAAAAA-DAAAAAP! Learn to laugh at the truth, and who gives a bleeding fuck about one full-of-shit party over another full-of-shit party? Not I... and not the majority of the libertarian leaning opinions I see here. If there appears to be love for Obama here, it's mostly because he sounds a hell of a lot better than McCain and Bush. Jesus H Christ. Obama speaks like a man in his position should.
By: EViLMinD
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Sorry, but I have to agree with EVil (so to speak). I they asked me to be the vice president, I'd say, "Jesus, I'm totally honored, but I love my country, and it's important to me that someone qualified be chosen for that very distinguished and important position. I have to decline the offer. Thank you."

She has said, effectively, "Fuck this country...if I can be vice-president, I'm gonna be."

Sorry, but you can't say anything to convince me that's it's any different than that. She is an enemy of the state.
By: ice-9
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"Sorry, but I have to agree with EVil (so to speak)"

Why is agreeing with my view something to apologize for? Fella... Finding out you have an opinion which parallels mine own is something to be revered. Insensitive I may be; cruel, but never wrong (not really, anyway).

I hear ya. No way I'd become PM of Canada, either. Sure, I'd do a lot of cool things; but in all probability, I'd make a royal Canadian mess of the place. So, this is partly why I believe someone like Palin should be expexted to ask herself: Do you have what it takes; regardless of desire?

If Palin bothered to think about it, she'd no doubt be hit with the freight train of truth that she's woefully inadequate for such authority and responsibility.

It's like... it's like knowing yer too pissed to drive. See, I ALWAYS know. I know this because I've always arrived to where i intended... or... err well I always arrived somewhere. Fuck it. My point is Palin doesn't realize she's too drunk to lead America. Errr... only she ain't drunk; just ignorant. Painfully ignorant.
By: EViLMinD
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Sorry, I have to agree with EVil (so to speak) she is drunk.

Or..uh...rather I'm not sorry.
By: ice-9
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Who said W_W was a "liberal?"

Oh wait, just because he opposes a dribbling idiot like Palin? That makes him a "liberal?" Haven't you seen W_W's posts in support of Ron Paul, a more true Republican than any of these NeoCons?

The fact is, there's no such thing as "conservative" or "liberal." That's right. They don't exist. We all have views that fit into both these camps - as well as outside them entirely.

And those bullsh!t terms are merely cheap (but clearly effective) methods of dumbing down Americans and dividing us into polarized camps when we should be working together.

Listen, we're both f*cked by this Socialist Bailout. As Ned Flanders might say, "Homer, we are f*ckddiddlyucked."

And we're f*cked because of these NeoCons who, in actuality, follow the classic liberal model. Yep. It's just that they chose to support of themselves and the multinational banks and corporations who shipped our jobs overseas.

So let's all of us come together to reject the notion of "conservative" or "liberal" that Olbermann or O'Reilly would hang on us. Let's be Americans. Working together to demand our elected public servants return to small federal government, responsible fiscal spending, internal job creation, printing our own money, and rebuilding a nation we can all be proud to call home.

Wow, now look who sounds like a traditional Republican... :)
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I'm fed up with Sarah Palin and i approve this message.
By: NEU-NEU
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Yep, that labeling business serves little purpose other than to divide, make life a matter of little boxes that we put away on dusty shelves; and some use it to conquer, while others as a marketing tool. This thing is very rampant in book publishing nowadays. It can also be a symptom of snobbery. For example, some will never say that Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is science fiction, while they won't hesitate to call other books that share the same themes or are sometimes almost (or equally as brilliant) science fiction. The same goes for other genres, like crime and fantasy. If you're branded a science-fiction writer, or a horror writer, you'll probably never break out into the so-called mainstream and big bucks. Take for example Stephen King. Okay, not a perfect example, as he's made it. I bet most still think he's a horror writer, and kids' stuff. Wrong!

The worst stuff often gets rewarded, while the best often suffers neglect and ultimately sinks into oblivion. This is getting worse.

A once great land is now being destroyed from the inside. The biggest idiots and corrupt evildoers run it. Maddening. If you hear anyone say that America is the greatest nation on Earth, raise an eyebrow (unless that person's name is Stephen Colbert or someone else who knows his stuff). If you happen to be an Iraqi, to name but one of dozens of examples, you'll definitely raise an eyebrow -- if you're lucky they haven't been seared off by incendiary bombs or whatever.

There are many ideas out there, and we're all people, not liberals, conservatives, libertarians, Democrats, Republicans.

Similarly, there are many stories out there. They are stories, and not science fiction, fantasy, crime, and what not first and foremost.

By the way, I don't deny that labels can be useful; they help point the way to stuff someone may like depending on previous experiences within the same category. I just mean to say that more and more it's the label that nowadays is all that seems to matter. Ask people on the street what fascism is. I bet you'll hear Hitler 9 out of 10 times, but you won't hear them say what it is, and therefore you won't hear them tell you that America is a fascist state right now. Go back in time to Germany in the 1930s and you'll find many proud Germans who are unaware of what they've become. History repeats itself, yes, but do you know why? You should if you're paying attention. (Not aimed at BHG, because I've no doubt he knows.)
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That's a good doggie!
By: EmanResu
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Say, do you expect me to roll on my back, give paws, and look at you with big eyes? If so, I kindly redirect you to your local yellow pages, which will contain the addresses and phone numbers of dog asylums and the like, unless ... unless you're an interesting young lady. Russian, maybe? Blonde? Blue eyes? Boy, I'm starting to drool.
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I'm pretty sorry to say this, but I don't have any problems with the current labeling system. I take issue with a lack of understanding about what the labels mean and the fact that those in power don't give a rat's ass about us one way or another, let alone what it means to be a conservative or a liberal. 4 out of 5 times they are not worth the time it took to vote for them, but that does not mean that these words don't have meaning and signify very distinct world views.

I'm not here to try to persuade you one way or another, only to say that the words liberal and conservative have been abused for a long time now to the point where they're meaning seems to be truly unknown. At the heart of both does not lie a checklist of where you stand on taxes, abortion, gun control, etc. That's what a political party does, and in the United States right now both are pretty f****d up. I'm a (fill in the blank) not because I agree with this or that law, but because I see the world through a VERY different lens then say that of my neighbor. That's why political conversations often seem to go around in circles and end in frustration. Trying to describe the grass as green to somebody who only it as blue can be frustrating and more often than not pointless.

You said it yourself with the word fascism. This is not a catch phrase to describe Nazi's and they're not one and the same. If you learn more about what the word means, you all of a sudden see how America is falling very much into that category. I would say the same is true of liberal/progressive vs. conservative/libertarians. I came into my own political beliefs quite accidentally and without realizing why. Now that I know more about it, when I listen to these chuckle heads go off I see a little bit better what they're actually doing

Words do matter. When you say that America is becoming fascist I know what you mean. If some poncer wishes to have a label define them, maybe it will help them at the very least get laid. But I don't want to let joker's like that detract from the reality that those labels are pointing to.

Wow, this was a rant. I felt compelled, thanks guys for getting me to think (as usual) :)
By: Rou
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You made an excellent point, fella.
By: EViLMinD
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She absolutely deserves to be humiliated after her terrible performance in the CBS interview. This does not in any way imply hatred or intolerance... Please refer to a dictionary.

Being mocked by comedians is a natural and forseeable consequence of choosing to run for such a prominent office, even if you *aren't* utterly unfit for it... Aren't conservatives supposed to be in favor of natural consequences? Or are those just for poor people?
By: quisph
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Making fun of Palin has one flaw: It's too easy.
By: mongojazz
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I hope this Tina Fey/sarah Palin thing becomes a historical thing.
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I'm a little overfed on Sarah Palin these days, but this one's...

wafer thin.

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Damn link's broken now. I don't know whether that's the McCain campaign or NBC that's been scrubbing it off YouTube, but It'd be pretty tough for them to shut this one down:

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/couric-palin-open/704042/

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