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October 19, 2008 11:50 AM UTC
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The skits were not showing her in a humorous light, but an all out negative one.
Why would she have participated in this type “satire”.
Another bad move in the Palin/McCain camp, in my opinion.
I am with you. Watching the cold opening, I was totally baffled by Palin’s appearance given the script.
They were making fun of the fact that she hasn’t done an official press conference, and then she got up there and all she had to say was the intro line.
I’m sure she didn’t “approve” script per se, but I am shocked that she still agreed to do the show after she read it. It wasn’t very funny either. Much less funny than all of the debate sketches have been.
I don’t understand why Palin did it. But even more, I think what SNL did was over the line. It wasn’t humor, it was mean and it was beating up someone who, because it was live, had to stand there and take it.
On the local ABC news they had the Powell endorsement clip, interrupted with a clip of Palin dancing when he called her unqualified.
Pretty bad, but I’d feel worse if I didn’t feel like she should know better.
That was hilarious–the Weekend Update portion had me in tears.
Is Palin throwing in the towel? While it is helpful for a candidate to show a sense of humor (see McCain and Obama at the Smith Dinner), it is not helpful to make a parody out of yourself. Particuarly when the primary criticism of you is that you are out of your depth. When Bill Clinton was blowing his horn on Arsenio, he was distinguishing himself from the stiff that was Poppy Bush. Palin looked like she was enjoying herself, but she also came across as a prop. “Look at me, I’m a prop,” is not very presidential or even vice-presidential.
She’s setting herself up to run again later.
Who was the last unsuccessful VP candidate that leveraged that exposure to a later sucessful political campaign? Go back and look. Unsuccessful VP candidates are done. Dole, as Ford’s running mate in ’76, may be the exception that proves the rule, getting the presidential nomination in ’96, but I think Palin has much more in common with Geraldine Ferraro.
I’m not going to get into a back-and-forth about it, we’ll just have to let time be the judge.
(who actually won an election as VP) also was “setting himself up to run” for president later. Intentions today don’t mean squat four or eight years from now.
draw tens of thousands of people to hear him speak?
I mostly found it hilarious because SNL didn’t tone it down with her sitting right there. That was ballsy. I loved it.