I’m still really confused about last night’s Saturday Night Live performance. All of us were in Dustin, Andrew, and Rob’s room watching my fantabulous movie, “The Fifth Element,” and we stopped the movie just to watch the skit. We switched to the channel expecting to see Tina Fey do her usual, absolutely dead ringer, impression of Sarah Palin. Well, Tina Fey impersonated superbly… but, then the camera shot to another Sarah Palin impersonator, who was also a spitting image of the potential (knock on wood) vice president! Wow. Actually, this woman was even better than Tina Fey! No way!
“Is that the REAL Sarah Palin?”
“Oh my god, it totally is.”
“Nuh uh”
“Yeah. It is.”
“NUH UH.”
Everyone watched the TV in a mixed state of horror and utter disbelief. Why is the republican vice presidential candidate on SNL? That is not supposed to happen. Sarah Palin could be accepting the position as the president’s right hand woman in the near future, and she decides to go on a show that has made her the laughing stock of the nation? Did she think it would benefit her? Maybe humanize her… you know, make her seem more like a maverick? I neither found it funny or clever. Rather, it further proved to me that she is in no way capable of helping to run our country. I deeply disliked her before, but now I just think she’s a joke. How can she expect anyone to show her any reverence whatsoever after Alec Baldwin says to her, “You look way hotter in person” and she just stands there saying nothing? It’s just way out of whack. Maybe she acknowledges that she has little hope left at winning this election and wanted to have a little fun while she still had her fifteen minutes of fame. But even if that’s the case, she didn’t even distinguish herself on SNL as anything worth watching. She just stood there and allowed Tina Fey, and everyone else, to dominate at poking fun at her weird accent and awkward winking. If a state governor and vice presidential candidate insists on going on a show such as SNL, shouldn’t they at least do so in attempt to gain support or make a point? Sarah Palin succeeding in doing neither, at least not in the room I was sitting in and not in any of the people I spoke to today. If her one goal was to surprise the American viewers, she succeeded at that. She also succeeded at showing the American public that they might as well vote Tina Fey for vice president, for she does Sarah Palin better than Sarah Palin does herself. Hey, I would vote Tina Fey for vice president, at least she’s funny!
2 comments:
As much as I don't want Sarah Palin as the leader of our nation (read: she's one heartbeat away from the presidency), I have to tell you, it takes some cajones to go onto a show that is blatantly, obviously, shamelessly making you look like a total idiot. It doesn't really say anything about her ability to help run a nation, but, it shows she can take a joke.
i think she just wanted the public to buy into an allusion that she can take a joke. i really dont think she actually can.
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