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  Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live

  posted by matt | 09.15.08 | permalink | 2 comments

  Brilliantly played by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, this season of Saturday Night Live opened over this past weekend with a bang. Fey played John McCain’s vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin. Poehler played Hillary Clinton.

  Here’s a transcript:

  FEY AS PALIN: “Good evening, my fellow Americans. I was so excited when I was told Senator Clinton and I would be addressing you tonight.”

  POEHLER AS CLINTON: “And I was told I would be addressing you alone.”

  FEY AS PALIN: “Now I know it must be a little bit strange for all of you to see the two of us together.  What with me being John McCain’s running mate.”

  POEHLER AS CLINTON: “And me being a fervent supporter of Senator Barack Obama — as evidenced by this button.”

  FEY AS PALIN: “But tonight we are crossing party lines to address the now very ugly role that sexism is playing in the campaign.”

  POEHLER AS CLINTON: “An issue which I am frankly surprised to hear people suddenly care about.”
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  Tags: 00s tv, 2008 presidential election, amy poehler, flerg, flirj, flurg, hillary clinton, john mccain, parody, politics, sarah palin, satire, saturday night live, season premiere, sexism, snl, tina fey, vice president

• songspeak

  Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran

  posted by jamie | 07.10.08 | permalink | 1 comment

  See? Even John McCain songspeaks!

  I don’t know what reminded me of this truly hideous songspeak from over a year ago, but, well, here it is. The clip pretty much speaks for itself, but basically McCain is asked about his opinion regarding Iran, and he replies by making light of WAGING WAR ON ANOTHER NATION by performing his own version of Barbara Ann by the Beach Boys (actually, in doing my research for this post, I’ve discovered that the Beach Boys version is a cover and it was originally written and performed by The Regents) . I don’t know what’s more disturbing, the fact that he does it at all, or the fact that the people in the crowd seem to think it’s funny. Maybe it was nervous laughter. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

  Although, any politician capable of this, is surely capable of this:
  

  Tags: 60s music, barbara ann, beach boys, bomb iran, iran, john mccain, politics, presidential candidate, the regents