Saturday Night Live started this weeks show using Tina Fey to make fun of Sarah Palin again. This time they did a sad little parody of the Palin - Katie Couric interview. Read about it below and see a photo and a video of the skit.
The Real Sarah Palin
Apparently, using Tina Fey to do an impression of Sarah Palin was such a hit the other week that SNL decided to do it again. The last one used Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton giving a speech together. It was funny, even though it portrayed Palin as dumb and Hillary as bitter. It seemed more or less even handed in the humorous insults. More or less.
This time, however, they try way too hard and it misses the mark in a major way.
Tina Fey portrays Palin as dumb and unsophisticated. In spite of the fact that Palin is the Governor of one of our states and an accomplished businesswoman. Amy Poehler plays Katie Couric in this routine and is humorless and snotty, which is probably a pretty accurate portrayal in my opinion.
As Catherine Friar notes, Sarah Palin has never said she could see Russia from her house, but shows like SNL have said that she said it so many times that people will believe it regardless of what the truth is.
That was one of Hitler’s philosophies. If you are going to tell a lie, tell it often and it will become the truth. Apparently, quite a few people in our society ascribe to that philosophy themselves.
It seems time for these comedians to go back to comedy instead of trying to influence the Presidential election.
The need to pick apart everything she says and spread unbelievably cruel rumors about her and her family is only evidence of how she and John McCain have the far left terrified.
SNL Mocks Sarah Palin - Video
SNL Sarah Palin Skit - Video
September 28th, 2008 at 9:46 am
I watched a few minutes of SNL last night, but there was no humor — just stupidity. So I watched another show I’d recorded earlier. SNL just isn’t funny anymore.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:34 am
I was disappointed with Fey’s answers regarding economic policy. That said, she’s not an economist. At least she won’t do anything stupid. I like a dog’s answer about the economy–”bark, bark” better than anything a Democrat says.
What caused the mortgage mess? Democrats. No restrictions at all were placed on Fannie Mae; banks were encouraged to give ever shakier loans. Democrats created the home mortgage interst deduction which encourages Americans to buy bigger homes than they need simply for tax reasons.
The answer I would have given:
“Democratic policies including an unrestrained Fannie Mae and an increased home-mortgage interest deduction lead to an excessive amount of borrowing by consumers and a lack of oversight by banks. Democrats, who supported Fannie Mae throught the crisis, saw no problem as long is it appeard that the banks were helping them meet their social agenda regarding housing.
When the economy slowed down and many of these borrowers defaulted, banks were left holding billions in mortgages that they cannot sell.
It is common when the economy slows down that the Federal Government will step in and spend money to get the economy going again. In this case, we are targeting this spending at purchasing these loans from banks so that they will remain solvent and once again start lending money that the economy needs to grow.
This needs to be coupled with greater oversight of Fannie Mae and a gradual scaling back of the home mortgage interest deduction. When the American economy has sufficient credit again, we need to ensure that investment is directed at businesses, where it belongs, rather than at building homes much larger than those of other Westernized countries.”
September 28th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
make that…I was disappointed with PALIN’s answer…
November 9th, 2008 at 2:57 am
Tina Fey is a comic and she is funny sometimes.
SNL is supposed to make you laugh. They do sometimes. Their attempts to knock Palin down only helps her. I like to laugh, and I think Palin is great.