Carl Hiaasen in his latest column unveils "Confidential response of Sarah Palin's book editor to the first draft of her upcoming memoir, Going Rogue."
A few of the notes:
Tony Blair was the prime minister of Great Britain. Tony Orlando is an American pop singer. (See manuscript page 341).
"Mexican'' is not a language. (See manuscript page 188).
The details of your high-school basketball career are inspirational, but would it be possible to condense that section from three chapters to one? Just a thought.
Ironically, as I walked into the offfice this morning, someone had Fox News (The News Channel That Isn't) on in the break room and the upcoming story was "Why today could be a big victory for Palin."
So Carl is not only funny, but timely.
But Palin is hard to parody. That's why Tina Fey just had to quote her to be funny. Here's my favorite response from last year's Couric interview. This was her answer when Couric asked if she could name any other Supreme Court rulings, aside from Roe V. Wade, that Palin thought were wrong:
"Well, let's see. There's ― of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through
the history of America, there would be others but..."
You know, a dim 12th grader could come up with Dred Scott or Plessy v. Ferguson, but what I find amazing is that Sarah couldn't even think of the Supreme Court decision that sided with Exxon against Alaska in 2007.
But why should Palin remember that verdict? She was only the fucking governor.
Jesus. How can you parody a parody?
Thanks to Adrostos over at First Draft for the heads up.
3 comments:
Palin’s words did a pretty good number on herself and SNL turned it into classic must see TV …
This was pretty good, too, though … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYnMYZDsrJM
and equally accurate, especially that bit about "jack" and "squat."
Thanks for this post! i really enjoyed reading it!!!
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