Watch SNL’s Tina Fey-As-Sarah Palin Skit

COMMENTS (86)

• Thanks for that link. I was reading about it on twitter, but am TV-less

  Comment by zak — Saturday September 13, 2008 @ 10:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’d like to echo Zak’s thanks. Bravo Nikki, you rock!

  Comment by mheister — Saturday September 13, 2008 @ 10:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Thanks for the link Nikki! Wow Tina Fey is dead on perfect as Palin. I can’t wait for the return of 30 Rock!

  Comment by Cindy — Saturday September 13, 2008 @ 10:11pm PDT  Reply to this post

• She’s a dead ringer for her. It was really good. They both were. It was one of their best skits this political season. It’s what we’ve been missing. SNL political satire. I remember when they were doing Nixon and Ford and Carter.

  Comment by peggy — Saturday September 13, 2008 @ 10:15pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I love Tina. She could be her double and that would really freak people out. No matter who she lampoons I like her anyway.

  Comment by chuck — Saturday September 13, 2008 @ 10:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Funny and charming. Although in fairness, there are at least four different “Bush Doctrines.”

  Comment by Tom J. — Saturday September 13, 2008 @ 10:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Well performed by both and funny at times, but typical of a SNL “political” skit. The Republican’s can be made fun of on their politics while Democrats are strictly made fun of for their personalities. Love how they had to throw in stuff right out of the kooky left as if it was fact like her believing Dinosaurs walked the earth with man or her not knowing the Bush Doctrine. Keep it up guys. The American people can see right through this stuff.

  Comment by Rupert P. — Saturday September 13, 2008 @ 11:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Yup, reality does have a liberal bias.

  Comment by Des — Saturday September 13, 2008 @ 11:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I think that bit is the real reason Obama chose not to appear on SNL this week.

  Don’t blame him. And that was really funny.

  Comment by Salvia Sorry — Saturday September 13, 2008 @ 11:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Actually, Tom J. there really is only one Bush Doctrine. But let’s pretend that there really are 4 — and Sarah Palin didn’t know any of them.

  And Rupert P, Palin is a creationist, so yes, she really believes that dinosaurs walked with man.

  And Palin believes in charging rape victims for the evidence kits. Not to mention that she’s lying about killing the “Bridge to Nowhere.” Congress killed it and then Palin took the money to build the “Road to Nowhere.” She also raised taxes as Mayor of Wasilla and left the town 20 million debt.

  And today the news broke that Palin appointed childhood friends to cabinet positions. Check out this article for how bad a leader she is: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?hp

  Comment by jim — Saturday September 13, 2008 @ 11:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Tina got the accent right on!! Hope she can continue to make guest appearances, at least until November.

  Comment by Dan Zee — Saturday September 13, 2008 @ 11:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• What are the odds these two best friends would find themselves playing with and against each other in this very strange situation. They were both great but I hope they keep it toned down as not upset those folks on Fox….I’m sure Mr. Hannity will be screaming ‘foul’ on Monday.

  Comment by kate — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 12:49am PDT  Reply to this post

• Tina definitely nailed Palin. However, I have to agree with Rupert’s earlier observation that Republican’s can be made fun of on their politics while Democrats are strictly made fun of for their personalities. It’s illustrative of the fact that while Palin and McCain are aggressively grilled by the Democrat operatives in the media, Barack Obama is treated with kid gloves and asked softball questions that any moron could answer. It amazes me that they can call themselves journalists while ignoring the fact that Obama’s associates are rabid leftists, self-proclaimed terrorists and thieves. I’d like to see Charlie Gibson ask Obama about his involvement with crooked Chicago politics and how he ran unopposed for the Illinois senate by successfully having his opponents removed from the ballot. He is a community organizer whose only claim to fame is the fact that he was endorsed by Oprah Winfrey for President. His resumé is void of real accomplishment and yet we are to believe he is more prepared to be President than a woman who has held executive office for a number of years and is currently the Governor of her state. The backlash is gonna be huge and I can’t wait to see the shell-shocked expressions on election night as the Republicans take the White House and regain control in the House of Representatives. I can hardly wait to see Nancy Pelosi knocked off her perch.

  Comment by AaronSch — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 1:10am PDT  Reply to this post

• Oh Jim — please enlighten us. What exactly is the “Bush Doctrine”?

  No, let me help you out. There is actually no such thing. There are four different policies over eight years the ‘media’ called the Bush Doctrine. There was never one named so by the administration. So what exactly do you want her to ‘remember’?

  Egads! She appointed friends to her cabinet?

  First of all, she HAD a cabinet. Interesting admission for a presumed Obama supporter. Once again the left’s desperation actually serves to highlight an accomplishment. You can’t say she has no experience and then complain about her cabinet appointees. That would be dishon… never mind.

  Your ‘change’ candidate (who voted ‘present’ more than any other Senator since he’s been in office) has made one executive decision, choosing a thirty-year Senator as his running mate. Change. If he had any guts at all (and a smaller ego) he would have chosen Hillary and we probably wouldn’t even be having a discussion. The ticket would be thirty points ahead.

  Second, Alaska has an awful small population, Sparky. It’s probably tough to find qualified contemporaries you didn’t know growing up. By the way, how many ‘friends’ did the Clinton’s appoint to their cabinet? Wonder if you bitched about it then?

  And guess what? Alaska has a TEN BILLION DOLLAR SURPLUS this year under her Governorship thanks to the deals she made with Big Oil. And every citizen of the state is getting a CHECK from the state government. The surplus is going back to the people. I would think all the income redistribution liberals would be impressed by that.

  Charging rape victims for evidence kits? Please. And what difference does it make what her religious beliefs are? I’ll bet you don’t hold Black Liberation Theology (and its white man is the devil and God DAMN America) against Barack (no — he never heard any of that). Or Biden’s Catholicism (and their worship of guys in pointy hats) against him.

  There’s so much more but, how about this? There’s no need for you to get all lathered up. You just vote for your candidates and we on the right will vote for ours and we’ll see who wins.

  Unless you’re afraid of that outcome.

  Comment by truth? — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 1:27am PDT  Reply to this post

• Aaron, a little more research would be good.
  Mrs. Palin listed on her filing papers for governor that she had been a “housewife” for the previous four years. As Mayor of a little little town, she left them $22M in debt, her “executive experience” in Alaska is even questioned by the Alaska legislature where a JOINT committee is investigating her for abuse of power AND they even had buttons printed up for members of the legislature “Where’s Sarah” because she really did not like making the trip to Juneau and refused to live in the governor’s mansion to be close to her JOB.
  Obama:890 Bills and Co-sponsored Another 1096 since he started serving in the U.S. Senate.

  For a complete list of bills, amendments, committee assignments and accomplishments, including this one:
  **The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act
  Authored by U.S. Sens. Dick Lugar (R-IN) and Barack Obama (D-IL), the Lugar-Obama initiative expands U.S. cooperation to destroy conventional weapons. It also expands the State Department’s ability to detect and interdict weapons and materials of mass destruction.
  Signed into Law on January 11, 2007.
  URL:
  http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4678548&mesg_id=4678548

  Comment by Awakenedcitizen — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 2:10am PDT  Reply to this post

• Awesome. That is all. Thanks for sharing.

  Comment by Nita — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 2:12am PDT  Reply to this post

• I actually think Sarah Palin is AWESOME, but that was pretty funny. I can’t believe people are giving Gov Palin so much crap over a few things they might not agree with, but everyone acts like B.O. has accomplished so much and has never made a mistake. COME ON!

  Comment by TP — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 2:32am PDT  Reply to this post

• Brilliant act by Tina. It was utterly hilarious. Thanks Nikki.

  Comment by Sam — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 2:35am PDT  Reply to this post

• RupertP and AronSch, you guys are both total Flurges. And I really mean that.

  Comment by AnotherWGAmember — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 2:45am PDT  Reply to this post

• Keep wishing AaronSch. I see you’ve got HOPE.

  Comment by Fassbinder — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 2:46am PDT  Reply to this post

• This was really funny. I figured it wouldn’t be long before Tina took on Palin, considering people were comparing the two since the first day Palin appeared on the national stage. Naturally there’s a left-wing bias to the bit, but you pretty much have to accept that these days or you don’t get to laugh. Besides, SNL has taken more than their fair share of jabs at Hillary too.

  @jim, you may want to read this Post article by the person who coined the phrase “Bush Doctrine,” affirming that in fact the original meaning of the term had nothing to do with how Chuck Gibson defined it in the interview, nor does Gibson’s definition even fit the current understanding of the term. I have to admit, I follow politics pretty closely and I had only heard the term “Bush Doctrine” loosely referred to in a humorous connotation a few times before the interview. Maybe it’s something left-wing bloggers use a lot, and therefore believe should be perfectly crystallized in the minds of all those Americans who ignore them on a daily basis.

  Comment by RodimusBen — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 3:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• And if the “New York Times” said it, it MUST be so, because they never ever get anything wrong and NEVER show bias.

  Comment by Reader — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 4:34am PDT  Reply to this post

• See, SNL is funniest when politics are in play. I stopped watching in the past few years, but I might stick around for the first half hour of the show from here to election day.

  Republicans don’t get it. The reason Democrats’ personalities get made fun of is the same reason Republicans’ policies get made fun of: Each is funnier than the alternative. But I don’t expect them to catch a good joke. They didn’t when Palin was announced as a running mate.

  If she was nominated by the Democrats as a VP pick, what would your reaction be? Would you still be defending her?

  That’s what I thought. Put a little “D” or “R” next to a name and the rules change for your guy/gal.

  Comment by Mike Scott — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 5:29am PDT  Reply to this post

• No, there are 4 Bush doctrines as it is not constant over time.

  Comment by Bdawg — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 5:59am PDT  Reply to this post

• to: Aaronsch,

  First of all Aaron. Who do you work for….the RNC?

  First, McCain has so little respect for the political system, that he actually thinks the Hillary supporters would vote for just “Any woman”.

  Second: The Republicans are so tied to the current disastrous administration they are handcuffed from discussing the issues that Barack Obama has time and time again discussed with great clarity over Iraq, The Economy, The Energy crisis and the right way for foreign policy to be implemented in order to restore this country’s moral high ground again around the world that Bush has completely destroyed. How can we tell Russia not to go after soveriegn nations when we go to war unilaterally against other soveriegn nations (Iraq) Hypocrisy never should be “The cornerstone” of foreign relations.

  What has McCain /Palin done in the interim? – Hijacked the “Need for change” slogan from Barack. Because of Bush, well of people are in fact scrounging for change.

  Lastly,Aaron Have you ever seen/ heard Barack speak? He’s smarter and more eloquent then anyone I’ve seen or heard, since Bill Clinton. I don’t know about you, but I want a president that is smarter than me and smarter than most.

  I want a president who went to Harvard for his Law Degree, not someone who went the U. of Idaho. Is that elitist (as they claim Barack to be) no.Just common sense and just another spin tactic to have us believe that hockey moms are what is need for this nation. Rather than Biden who has more foreign relations experience in his left pinky ten times over than his competitor on the right.MCain’s choice for running mate is a most disastrous decision McCain could make.

  But thank goodness he made it. Now I don’t worry that much if McCain/Palin will be elected. into office.

  My fear is they will be “Selected” into office.

  Comment by Agent Provocateur — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 6:15am PDT  Reply to this post