SNL/Fey/Poehler lampoon Palin/Couric CBS interview

[DH]

This, IMO, was brilliant:

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Li...n-open/704042/

[busyba]

When she started using some of Palin's actual responses in the sketch, that was brilliant.

I mean, how could anyone make up something more ridiculous than the stuff she says herself?

[procrastinator]

Originally Posted by busyba

When she started using some of Palin's actual responses in the sketch, that was brilliant.

I mean, how could anyone make up something more ridiculous than the stuff she says herself?

I suspect that some portion of the viewers missed that fact. Too bad there wasn't a way to point it out to the audience without being too, too blatant.

[jgerry]

Unfortunately, I think that if the viewer didn't know that a lot of that was her actual responses, word for word, that the skit might have come off as too mean-spirited. How fucking scary is that??

[grondramb]

funny

[Otto]

CNN talking about this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeMypXCUWMw

[Drewster]

I didn't see the Couric interview, thought it was hysterical. I suspected it was heavily weighed on actual responses.

[5thcrewman]

Katie Couric blinks a lot

[smak]

They should have done a South Parkian "This is what Palin actually believes" chyron.

-smak-

[robin]

Originally Posted by busyba

When she started using some of Palin's actual responses in the sketch, that was brilliant.

She used one of my favorites!

[robin]

Originally Posted by 5thcrewman

Katie Couric blinks a lot

I thought Poehler overplayed that. The voice & vocal mannerisms were dead on.

[busyba]

Originally Posted by 5thcrewman

Katie Couric blinks a lot

And wears way too much mascara apparently.

[scottjf8]

Wow, I didn't realize that was an actual line from that real interview. I just thought Tina was being funny

[Mikkel_Knight]

Originally Posted by scottjf8

Wow, I didn't realize that was an actual line from that real interview. I just thought Tina was being funny

+1

Stunned... why is she still part of the McCain ticket? She is going to KILL him (figuratively) on Nov. 4

[TheIndependent]

Originally Posted by Mikkel_Knight

+1

Stunned... why is she still part of the McCain ticket? She is going to KILL him (figuratively) on Nov. 4

i think the upcoming debate will make it happen well b4 Nov4

[QueenBee]

I'm watching Katie Couric right now. She has on too much eye makeup. And she's blinking a lot. I never noticed that before the Saturday Night Live sketch. I can't wait until Sarah Palin comes on. I'd fast forward, but the economic news is too interesting to skip.

[nataylor]

That joint McCain/Palin interview was just about as bad as Palin's other stuff. Somebody on Digg said it best: They didn't look Presidential. They looked like a nervous couple applying for a loan.

[DH]

Originally Posted by nataylor

That joint McCain/Palin interview was just about as bad as Palin's other stuff. Somebody on Digg said it best: They didn't look Presidential. They looked like a nervous couple applying for a loan.

A $7,000,000,000.00 loan?

[Jobeth66]

In the McCain/Palin/Couric interview, it looked like she brought her daddy to the principal's office to get her out of detention.

He was condescending, not only to his *running mate*, but to the American people. After he answers a question that Katie posed to Palin, he then turns to Palin and says 'but she can speak for herself'. Um, REALLY? Because it sure didn't look that way to me.

And to dismiss a comment that Palin made to a voter because it was "at a pizza place", and the question was "out of context", and oh, that was one of those "gotcha journalism" things...HUH?? She was asked what should be done about Pakistan by a concerned American. She SAID what should be done. No "out of context". No "gotcha journalism", because there WAS no journalism involved there - just a lucky bystander with their cell phone on "record".

It's not PALIN'S fault that her idea of what should be done is in agreement with what Obama's been saying, and in direct contradiction to what McCain said. Of course, McCain then backtracks and says "of course that's what we SHOULD do, but we don't TALK about it!!"

Ohhhhkayyyy.

I just don't want these two running our country. Not that I want the other two running our country, but they don't scare me as much.

[DH]

Apparently there is footage that CBS has where Palin was unable to name a single SCOTUS decision other than Roe Vs. Wade, and it is supposed to air this week as part of the pre-debate Vice Presidential Questions Series:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0..._n_130231.html

[Michael]

I think katie Couric should receive the highest honor one can restow for her profession. Any and all awards for this year need to go to her for not laughing her ass off in the interview with Palin and also for not just standing up, walking over and smacking the shit out of her. I would be okay with her getting an Oscar, a Grammy, and Emmy and a Pulitzer. She was that controlled!!!

[grondramb]

Originally Posted by danielhart

Apparently there is footage that CBS has where Palin was unable to name a single SCOTUS decision other than Roe Vs. Wade, and it is supposed to air this week as part of the pre-debate Vice Presidential Questions Series:

It that is accurate.
And this is accurate

"The series is based on the Presidential Questions series," the source says, "in which Couric asks the candidates the same set of questions on wide range of topics from policy to character to leadership."

Then it sounds like her handlers screwed up - they should have known that about Couric. that's why campaigns have Josh Lymons and Toby Ziglers.

[DH]

Originally Posted by grondramb

It that is accurate.
And this is accurate

Then it sounds like her handlers screwed up - they should have known that about Couric. that's why campaigns have Josh Lymons and Toby Ziglers.

Um, I would think the fact that they chose her as the veep candidate in the first place might be the first clue as to their screwupedness.....

[Martin Tupper]

Originally Posted by grondramb

Then it sounds like her handlers screwed up - they should have known that about Couric. that's why campaigns have Josh Lymons and Toby Ziglers.

Known what about Couric? That she might ask questions befitting a Vice Presidential candidate?

While no one should expect the candidates to have every SCOTUS decision committed to memory, ANY serious candidate should be interested enough in the law to have a few favorites and/or least favorites about which they can hold a semi-intelligent discussion. You'd think that decisions like Kelo and Lawrence would be high atop the shit list of any self-respecting conservative. Conversely how could she not praise the recent Heller decision?

[DH]

Originally Posted by Martin Tupper

Known what about Couric? That she might ask questions befitting a Vice Presidential candidate?

While no one should expect the candidates to have every SCOTUS decision committed to memory, ANY serious candidate should be interested enough in the law to have a few favorites and/or least favorites about which they can hold a semi-intelligent discussion. You'd think that decisions like Kelo and Lawrence would be high atop the shit list of any self-respecting conservative. Conversely how could she not praise the recent Heller decision?

And what about that all time conservative favorite (at least until he W lost his luster with the base) Bush vs. Gore??? You would think she would have at least remembered that one. I know I'll never forget it, even after I am dead (and even if dead means a pure dirt nap with no conscious awareness whatsover - I'll even figure out a way to remember it then..;-)