And The SNL “Palin” Skits Begin - SNL Video
Keeping in mind SNL could have savaged Gov. Sarah Palin, I thought it was pretty much ‘double-meaning’ and even-handed.
We all knew Tina Fey would be all over portraying this woman. I do think that Fey is steaming at the Obama camp for NOT choosing Hillary as his VP. So, while she doesn’t want the GOP ticket to win in November I would suspect she is enjoying rubbing the democrats’ nose in their abandoning Clinton completely. “The enemy of my enemy …” thing, you know.
Oh, and the whole ‘dinosaur’ type blurbs about Palin that have been thoroughly debunked … you SNL writer guys and gals had better get off it already because you’re starting to sound like you’re accusing her of believing in Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny … or the Great Pumpkin. The public and viewing audience seems to know more than you give them credit for.
Anyhow, we shall see how far the SNL crew and Fey will ride Palin’s back into November. I suspect they will have a field day crafting her into some pseudo “Wasp Woman” of the hinterlands. With all the ‘whose baby is whose’ bullshit early on, they’ve already tried to paint her and her family as if they were some incestuous “polygamist compound” types.
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It was pretty funny, but all the lib talking points were addressed.
September 14th, 2008 at 8:35 amI love that Hillary was ranting and raving while Palin was just standing there posing. lol Even did the Bikini Rifle pose
I love that show. “Well, if I could go back I guess I should have just wanted it more [cue insane laughter] 
“Just ask her about dinosaurs. And I ask the Media to grow a pair, and if you can’t I’ll lend you mine.” 
September 14th, 2008 at 8:44 amThere’s no difference between SNL and ABC.
September 14th, 2008 at 8:48 amOh wait… ABC doesn’t pick on the Dem.
Brilliant!!!
September 14th, 2008 at 9:50 amBut why does Tina have a Minnesotan accent?
I thought it was pretty damn funny. Political satire is funny when both parties are on the receiving end…
September 14th, 2008 at 10:15 amDrew,
I was wondering the same thing.
September 14th, 2008 at 10:33 amI have noticed a slight Minn.-like accent in Palin when she ad libs in a speech.
However, Fey really played on it and exaggerated it over the top. It’s probably a similar regional accent.
BTW, the ref. to Wasilla being the “crack capitol of Alaska” … was that in ref. to Diddy’s “There ain’t no crackheads in Alaska” bullshit?
September 14th, 2008 at 10:39 amSaturday night live has gotten funny again over the years, I think it has to do with “anyone with a name” moving on.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:33 amTo dnwillindr et al:
The reference to meth labs is from an Associated Press report posted online at this link:
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/030805/sta_20050308002.shtml
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Troopers dub Mat-Su area the meth capital of Alaska
WASILLA - The Matanuska-Susitna area is the methamphetamine capital of Alaska, according to Alaska State Troopers.
In 2003, authorities uncovered nine meth labs in the area. Last year, the number increased to 42, said Kyle Young, an investigator with the troopers who works with the Mat-Su narcotics team.
Officials with the Office of Children’s Services in Wasilla said the problem affects children. The office receives about 40 calls a month from people reporting abuse or neglect involving some aspect of the highly addictive drug.
In late February, the Mat-Su narcotics unit arrested a couple at their Willow home. Michelle Motta said for years she tried to warn authorities that her three young nieces lived in the midst of a methamphetamine operation run by their parents, Phillip Dean and Laura Jackson.
Alaska State Troopers reported finding a “large active meth lab” in a detached garage shop. The house was a frigid mess, with piles of dirty dishes, clothes everywhere and frozen pipes, investigators said.
Through a hatch in the shop floor, the team found an underground room with a meth lab in one corner, as well as old marijuana root balls and lights from a past pot-growing operation.
An investigator said the team didn’t find the children at home but saw signs of them there. Motta said the girls - ages 14, 8 and 6 - at times slept in the garage with the lab.
A year ago, the oldest girl detailed the household’s rampant drug problems and squalid living conditions in a handwritten letter to a judge.
“My parents grow marijuana and crystal the(y) did the drugs that they bought in front of (my sisters),” the letter begins. “They spent most money on them instead of food or doing laundry. I got left home with nobody there I got left home with drug(g)ies…”
Motta now has custody of her three nieces. The Jacksons are jailed at Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility in Palmer.
Children sharing homes with meth labs face the risk of contamination, fire, explosion, neglect and hazardous living conditions. Caseworkers report little children complaining of breathing problems from toxic fumes rising off chemicals such as acetone, ammonia and hydrochloric acid.
When authorities surrounded a converted bus housing a meth operation in Big Lake in January, a 13-year-old boy who answered the door bragged that his mom cooked the best meth in the valley, according to the troopers.
During a 2003 bust at a house outside Wasilla, officers discovered five children living inside, all younger than 8 years old.
The calls about meth to children’s services in Wasilla accounts for as many as 40 percent of the agency’s total monthly child protection calls.
The troopers are aggressively going after meth labs, said Capt. Ed Harrington, the supervisor of the state’s drug and alcohol enforcement unit.
“It’s just not a simple process,” Harrington said. “Just because somebody calls in and says ‘So and so’s cooking meth’ doesn’t mean we’re going to kick the door in the next night.”
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