Sarah Palin – still delusional after all these years
By Richard K. Barry
The Hollywood Reporter ran an excerpt recently from a new book about Saturday Night Live. It’s actually an update of an old book. Live From New York is by James Andrew Miller and Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post television critic Tom Shales (due out in September). It adds a couple hundred pages of original material to an earlier history of the show, which came out in 2002, in order to bring things more or less up to date. [icopyright one button toolbar]
If you like this kind of stuff, enjoy. Entertainment industry navel-gazing doesn’t really do it for me.
I did find a couple of comments by that half-term mayor somewhat amusing.
These were attributed to Sarah Palin:
I think SNL is egotistical if they believe that it was truly an effect on maybe the public debate about who should lead the country in the next four years.
And:
I know that they portrayed me as an idiot, and I hated that, and I wanted to come on the show and counter some of that.
Well, who can say if a very popular nationally broadcast program that constantly pokes fun at the intellectual capacity of a given politician really has an impact. I’ve got to think it’s probably not helpful to said politician.
As for the second comment, I didn’t think she did all that badly on the show. Dumb as she obviously is, I gave her points for her appearance. I am, however, pretty sure she didn’t counter anything.
All of which is really just an excuse to post a collection of Tina Fey’s best Palin bits. Outstanding.
Richard Barry is Associate Editor of The Reaction. This is cross-posted from that website.