Profiles in Excellence: I watched Sarah Palin on TV so you don’t have to

by on September 30, 2008

After her brilliant parody of Tina Fey last week, Sarah Palin sat down with Katie Couric again last night to prove to U.S. Americans why she’s ready to help lead our country into the next depression.

Palin was heavily criticized for her previous appearance with Couric, so this time she brought some muscle in the form of my high school driver’s ed teacher John McCain.

Together, they met with Couric on the CBS Evening News (with Palin wearing the exact same outfit Fey wore on SNL on Saturday) to talk about “gotcha journalism”, Palin’s “executive experience as a city mayor”, and from what I gather, “pizza”.

Since watching the 3 1/2-minute video might have given you a seizure, I took the risk of watching it myself so you wouldn’t have to. I cropped it into the following 6-part series of still images to give you a brief synopsis of what was discussed.

I am not a hero. I merely love this country too much to let you watch this interview.

This was by far my favorite part of the interview. Addressing Palin’s perceived lack of experience, McCain said, “I remember that Ronald Reagan was a ‘cowboy’. President Clinton was a governor of a very small state that had ‘no experience’ either. (laughter) I remember how easy it was gonna be for Bush I to defeat him. I still recall, whoops, that one.”

{ 18 comments… read them below or add one }

I-66 09.30.08 at 8:52 am

I executed a morning poop today. Does that mean I have executive experience?

I-66’s last blog post..Bad Dog

You knew that would rile Lemmonex.

Mike Licht 09.30.08 at 8:53 am

Governor Palin went to five colleges; that Clinton guy only went to three, and one wasn’t even American!

I love that argument. It’s like someone saying he’s an expert at marriage because he’s been married five times.

Lemmonex 09.30.08 at 8:55 am

I-66!! WTF.

Anyways…that collar is supremely unflattering on her.

Lemmonex’s last blog post..Cheap Trick

You knew I-66 would rile you up.

Gilahi 09.30.08 at 8:57 am

Yeah. The collar. THAT’S what’s unflattering on her….

Gilahi’s last blog post..Playing In The Heavy Church

What else is unflattering? Aside from having an old man on her side, I don’t know what it is.

H 09.30.08 at 9:04 am

Are you registered to vote this time in the correct place since you missed the primaries (and didn’t take up the offer to move in with my parents to vote in PA)?

Yes, I’m all registered in Maryland. It’s a blue state, though, so it hardly matters.

But still, I’ll be casting my ballot this time.

Nickels 09.30.08 at 9:14 am

Did she get rid of the Tina Fey glasses? What happened to the square cut ones, American voters want to know! lol

Good question. I heard that the sale of her style of frames shut up a gazillion percent since she was announced as Veep.

I-66 09.30.08 at 9:43 am

Lemmonex - Can I take that as a yes?

jess 09.30.08 at 10:34 am

it’s scary when the parody seems real and the real seems to be a parody….

It is the existential conundrum of our culture.

I don’t know what that means but it sounds smart.

Five Husbands 09.30.08 at 10:57 am

I wish I had know you were going to do this BEFORE I watched the pizza interview. I watched it and I couldn’t sleep last night.

Are you going to be providing the same service for her debate? I really really don’t want to watch.

Five Husbands’s last blog post..Failout

I wish I could but it’s at the same time as the Dodgers-Cubs game. Someone else will have to sacrifice him or herself.

Crissy 09.30.08 at 4:51 pm

I wish Tina Fey was going to be Vice President instead of this stupid cow.

Crissy’s last blog post..Sockettes, Why Dost Thou Disappoint Me So?

Teej 09.30.08 at 5:14 pm

I read a blog comment a while back that told me how Palin was real and loved by the real people of the USA. What happened to that guy who posted over on INPY?

Diane Mandy 09.30.08 at 5:20 pm

His body language WAS painful, wasn’t it?

Diane Mandy’s last blog post..Exclusive!!! Sarah Palin Debate Preparations

rs27 09.30.08 at 5:24 pm

Palin was so good on SNL last week. And hot.

rs27’s last blog post..They Say Two thousand Zero Zero Party Over, Oops Out of Time

Maxie 09.30.08 at 6:25 pm

you know that you’ll have to do this for every one of her interviews from now on, right?

It pains me to watch her so this is a big help.

Maxie’s last blog post..Random Questions

alexa 09.30.08 at 8:12 pm

im impressed with this play by play.

i giggled.

crse 10.01.08 at 4:47 am

This is way better than LOLcats. Comparing Sarah Palin to Bill Clinton with a straight face. Seriously?

crse’s last blog post..It’s Always Better When It Rains.

k8 10.01.08 at 12:14 pm

Okay. Your captions were hilarious.

k8’s last blog post..Little Katie’s Getting Old

Thanks, but they pretty much wrote themselves. I mean, just look at their stupid sexy frozen faces.

janet 10.01.08 at 10:38 pm

I’m salivating over tomorrow night. My pitbull better not let me down!

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