Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin has been Punk’d by a Canadian comedian who posed as French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
On one word, the conversation captured on a Montreal radio program was humiliating.
One favourite part? When conversation turned to helicopter hunting. “One of my favoruite activities is to hunt, too,” the fake Sarkozy said. “Oh, very good, we should go hunting together,” Palin replied, adding, “I think we could have a lot of fun together as we’re getting work done. We could kill two birds with one stone that way.”
“I just love killing those animals! Taking away life, that is so fun,” the Sarkozy impersonator said. “As long as we don’t bring Vice President Cheney!!”
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What a stupid, stupid woman.
Yikes… you’d think she would have caught on after a while? Whoever put the call through surely got fired.
Words really can’t describe that this is the person McCain apparently thinks is qualified for VP. Great judgment in either not realizing your VP is a moron or knowing and still using her to get yourself elected. Country first, right McCain?
LOL! Palin is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO stupid!!! hahahahah
I THINK WHAT THE PRANK CALLER DID WAS DOWN RIGHT MEAN! I’M SO GLAD I DON’T LIVE IN YOUR COUNTRY. BEING MEAN TO PEOPLE ISN’T THE LEAST BIT FUNNY. ALL THE HATERS ON HERE COULD NEVER BE GOOD ENOUGH TO RUN FOR VICE PRESIDENT. PLEASE EAT YOUR WORDS WHEN SHE BECOMES YOUR PRESIDENT.
O.M.G….This woman is a fucking idiot. I can only imagine the belly laughs on the Obama plane when they played this audio.
I do agree that the prank callers are *ssholes. But that still doesn’t cover up the fact that she is an embarrassment. On a positive note, I just watched McCain on SNL and I thought he did a really good job and the skit was hilarious.
Hahaha. I felt so embarassed for her ans even tempted to turn off the audio. Hilarious though. I can’t believe the guys got through!
1,3,4,6,7……Bill Gates and Jacques Chirac have also been pranked by the same group. Are they stupid as well?
these people are assholes, but palin isn’t a smart lady.
Funny, all I heard for weeks from the mainstream media were shrill complaints about how Palin wasn’t making herself “accessible” to the media. Seems pretty easy to get a hold of to me.
I feel bad for her … she was so excited to talk with Sarkozy.
She’s so awful.
…………she is a very nice person, sort of fun and silly and really does not belong running the USA…….”Marcel with hair under his armpit” : and she didn’t get it or even listen yet responded ? She was brought in by Republicans purely for image value because McCain is so ugly and they KNOW that the better looking a candidate is, the more chance of election to office. Really, is the Republican party that cynical to give someone that amount of responsibility based on looks alone ? This is like Arnold running CA. The Republican party are a joke based on guns, super ego and hypocrisy.
She should ideally be coaching the middle school cheerleading team and cooking food for the Alaskan Hunter’s Woman’s Club. The Republican’s want someone they can easily control. Not someone with education or a rational mind. That would be far too complicated and make their hypocrisy even more blatant. The Republican enemy is actually analysis and insight, not fictional enemies in countries that pose no legitimate hostile threat. Using a plumber as party mascot to appear real, is desperate and ludicrous. It is obvious who will win and that is good news.
Sarah Palin is a tool for republicans to capture the votes of the bible/guns ignorantly proud!
The bad thing: there are plenty of reckless ignorant Palin supporters, wait for the next round to see how the have multiplied after 4 years more of home-school and internet misinformation.
The good thing: everybody that is not ignorantly proud and intellectually lazy in America and of course everybody overseas, can see the beast with lipstick this candidate is. She is the worse than can a country can have…maybe good enough for a secessionist state submerged in the middle ages, but not for The United States!
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…About spreading the wealth around — isn’t that what taxes have always been? Only non-taxpayers should have a problem with the idea of spreading the wealth.
And with all the Republicans supposedly being christians, all I have to say is, “I am my brother’s keeper,” remember that, you hypocrites? Sure, stop people from getting abortions in the name of Christ, but when it comes to “when I was hungry you fed me, and when I was naked you clothed me,” it’s “you’re on your own, to hell with you, make your own.”
And when you’re all old and broke and eating dog food because of this economy, you’ll be glad to have me around willingly paying my taxes to pay YOUR way, and you won’t even thank me for spreading MY wealth, will you, because I’m not white, christian, or republican, and I despise you even though I gladly pay my taxes to help take care of all you bigoted, ignorant pigs.
Because yes, I am my brother’s keeper, even if you’re my idiot brother.
Sarah’s Pompom Palaver!!
By MAUREEN DOWD
I had hoped I was finally done with acting as an interpreter for politicians
whose relationship with the English language was tumultuous.
There’s W.’s gummy grammar, of course, like the classic, “Is our children
learning?†And covering the first Bush White House required doing
simultaneous translation for a president who never met a personal pronoun he
liked or a wacky non sequitur he could resist.
Poppy Bush drew comparisons to Warren G. Harding, whose prose reminded H. L.
Mencken of “a string of wet sponges. … It is so bad that a sort of
grandeur creeps into it.†When Harding died, E. E. Cummings lamented, “The
only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven
grammatical errors is dead.â€
Being mush-mouthed helped give the patrician Bushes the common touch. As
Alistair Cooke observed, “Americans seem to be more comfortable with
Republican presidents because they share the common frailty of muddled
syntax and because, when they attempt eloquence, they do tend to spout a
kind of Frontier Baroque.â€
Darn right. And that, doggone it, brings us to a shout-out for the latest
virtuoso of Frontier Baroque, bless her heart, the governor of the Last
Frontier. Her reward’s in heaven.
At Sarah Palin’s old church in Wasilla, they spoke in tongues. Maybe that’s
where she picked it up.
Hillary Clinton and John McCain ran against Barack Obama by sneering that
their prose was meatier than The One’s poetry. Sarah’s running against the
Democrat’s highfalutin eloquence by speakin’ in homespun haikus.
We could, following her strenuously folksy debate performance, wonder when
elite became a bad thing in America. Navy Seals are elite, and they get lots
of training so they can swim underwater and invade a foreign country, but if
you’re governing the country that dispatches the Seals, it’s not O.K. to be
elite? Can likable still trump knowledgeable at such a vulnerable crossroads
for the country?
Did Joe Biden have to rhetorically rush over to Home Depot before Sarah
could once more brandish “a little bit of reality from Wasilla Main Street
there brought to Washington, D.C.?â€
With her pompom patois and sing-songy jingoism, Palin can bridge
contradictory ideas that lead nowhere: One minute she promises to get
“greater oversight†by government; the next, she lectures: “Government, you
know, you’re not always a solution. In fact, too often you’re the problem.â€
Talking at the debate about how she would “positively affect the impacts†of
the climate change for which she’s loath to acknowledge human culpability,
she did a dizzying verbal loop-de-loop: “With the impacts of climate change,
what we can do about that, as governor, I was the first governor to form a
climate change subcabinet to start dealing with the impacts.†That was,
miraculously, richer with content than an answer she gave Katie Couric: “You
know, there are man’s activities that can be contributed to the issues that
we’re dealing with now, with these impacts.â€
At another point, she channeled Alicia Silverstone debating in “Clueless,â€
asserting, “Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be-all, end-all of
just too many people in too many parts of our planet.†(Mostly the end-all.)
A political jukebox, she drowned out Biden’s specifics, offering lifestyle
as substance. “In the middle class of America, which is where Todd and I
have been, you know, all our lives,†she said, making the middle class sound
like it has its own ZIP code, superior to 90210 because “real†rules.
Sometimes, her sentences have a Yoda-like — “When 900 years old you reach,
look as good you will not†— splendor. When she was asked by Couric if she’d
ever negotiated with the Russians, the governor replied that when Putin
“rears his head†he is headed for Alaska. Then she uttered yet another
sentence that defies diagramming: “It is from Alaska that we send those out
to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia,
because they are right there.â€
Reared heads reared themselves again at the debate, when she said that
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac “were starting to really kind of rear the head of
abuse.â€
She dangles gerunds, mangles prepositions, randomly exiles nouns and verbs
and also — “also†is her favorite vamping word — uses verbs better left as
nouns, as in, “If Americans so bless us and privilege us with the
opportunity of serving them,†or how she tried to “progress the agenda.â€
Poppy Bush dropped personal pronouns and launched straight into verbs
because he was minding his mother’s admonition against “the big I.†Palin,
by contrast, uses a heck of a lot of language to praise herself as a fresh
face with new ideas who has “joined this team that is a team of mavericks.â€
True mavericks don’t brand themselves.
the dumb ass didnt even know who the prime minister of canada is!!!!
LMAO!!! SHE THOUGHT THAT THERE WAS A PRIME MINISTER OF QUEBEC!!
What a stupid stupid woman. who ever answered that phone is gonna get fired. lol.
Arasto, you should post the SNL skit. I just watched it, and thought it was funny too. McCain was charming in it.
Sarah Palin is a tool !
Palin is so over her head that can not even see the obvious!
First : Sarkozi’s voice is way more deep. She obviously does not even listen to news from Europe to ignore such basic identity elements. Provincial all the way! How can you have a mandatary with such low level of awareness?
Second: all the things this impersonator said are one dumb phrase after another…like he was on drugs on something. ANd she did not even question the authenticity or even correct or opposed the stupidities he was saying?
Come on?!
this woman is CLUELESS to be in such position republicans have handed her so easily.
But of-course because all republicans care more about guns and bible superficiality, they forget that having somebody with a descent intellectual performance is a MUST!, yeah it is clear that is not the case for Plain supporters! the Reckless Morons!
Sarah (#20): “The Premier of Quebec (in French Premier ministre du Québec, sometimes literally translated as Prime Minister of Quebec)”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_of_Quebec
I’m not defending Palin (far from it, actually), but check yourself before you call someone else stupid.
Very funny… and luckily they didn’t pretend this was a 3am call… - Surely someone got their head bitten off after this one…
#9 posed a great question. Any of you Obama supporters have an answer?
dude: bill gates in not fkn vice president candidate, get a clue!
27…you’re missing the point. Let me break it down for you logically (though I realize logic is a foreign language to you). Many of you are using this hoax as evidence of Palin’s “stupidity”. Logically then you must also consider Bill Gates and Jacques Chirac “stupid” for allowing themselves to be pranked by this same group. Obviously, #9’s point was to show how inconsistent you intolerant, irrational, and illogical hate-mongers are in your insults. Clearly you’re either too stupid or too biased or both to apply the same standard to the other two, obviously intelligent victims of the pranksters. Get a clue.
I think the bottom line with regards to this prank is that yes, these a-holes have managed to fool others, but it is very clear that she cannot handle or carry herself in an intelligent, informed, and professional manner. She thought she was speaking to the French President and that’s how she conducts herself? Honestly, it’s embarrassing. After Bush especially, we don’t need another dim-witted world leader. I agree completely that she is probably a nice woman but completely in over her head. It’s sort of sad that for whatever reason, she doesn’t seem to get this.
28: that comparison is as shallow as plain