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Originally Posted by texas*princess
I NEVER SAID ANYWHERE THAT PALIN HERSELF SAID SHE CAN SEE RUSSIA FROM HER HOUSE. I'm not really sure why you keep going to that.
Point out to me where I said that please, because I didn't type that anywhere. I don't get why you keep going back to the Russia thing anyway, but if you want to keep talking about it, that's cool.
What I did say was
I even linked to a video in a previous post of mine that shows a part of the actual Palin interview with the Tina Fey version side by side and with the exception of a few "ya knows" and a mention of a dollar value menu, and the part about Russia, Tina Fey used a lot of the very phrases Palin herself used in the Katie Couric interview.
You initially jumped into the "SNL" convo saying that the #1 thing people remember was "I can see Russia from my house". So what? I'm failing to see why that one phrase is so incredibly important. Unless you think that phrase was the demise of Palin's credibility, I don't get it, so please explain that to me.
Palin herself said so many things far more damaging than Tina Fey's Russia spoof comment.
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You are REALLY taking this too personally.
I'll agree that Palin said many dumb things on her own. Many of them were politically stupid. I can't find a single one that was as literally stupid as "I can see Russia from my house."
The SNL skit was a spoof, and a good one at that. Almost too good, because
a massive, significant number of Americans who voted thought it was actually Palin.
That's the only point here - people thought she actually said it. You can try to minimize the impact of the skit all you want, but we only have evidence that it
did have impact (because people remembered it as fact - for more information on this phenomenon, look up eyewitness credibility etc.). Can you point to proof that it didn't matter?
I agree with you, for the most part - Palin submarined herself in dozens of ways. These silly political mistakes made Palin an easy mark for lampooning - so easy that she was still being lampooned by Letterman a couple of weeks ago, when she was hardly relevant in any way except for as the butt of a joke.
However, it's pretty clear that the SNL skit took root in the American consciousness (to the extent that it exists). SNL's job is to mock politicians - that's why we enjoy it. However, few if any of these caricatures, for whatever reason, have been as resonant with people as the Palin one - nobody remembers what "Hilary" said in that same skit, do they?
In your fervor to impugn Palin (which, I mean . . . that's not exactly a difficult task) you really seem to want to piss in the wind against this SNL thing. Nobody's blaming SNL for her loss - but it's clear that the specific skit took hold in a way that was really unprecedented. Is that Palin's fault? Maybe - who cares? It doesn't particularly matter, does it?