News outlets have widely reported on the prank phone call recently made to vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. A Montreal radio personality called and spoke to Palin, claiming to be French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Speaking in an exaggerated French accent, the interviewer sneakily jabbed at Palin about Joe the Plumber, her comments on seeing Russia from her home and a porno made to spoof her. Palin responded with hesitant, polite conversation until the prankster revealed himself as such, and a campaign aide took the phone to end the call.
Hysterical.
OK, well, a little funny.
Actually, it was mostly dumb, but I give the interviewer an E for effort (which is naturally right between D and F on the standard U.S. grading scale).
Palin's camp has appeared largely undisturbed by the prank, at least in its public statements. One spokesperson described Palin as "mildly amused" by the incident -- although I contend that "mildly amused" is her natural, default demeanor.
In reality, there's another reason why Palin and her people are purportedly passive about the prickly pranksters (conclusion of gratuitous alliteration). It's because Palin is just moments away from revealing a much bigger, more impressive prank.
This blogger has learned that at 9 p.m. Eastern standard time, in a presidential election special of "Saturday Night Live," Palin and her accomplices will reveal that her candidacy for VP has been a carefully executed prank on the people of the United States.
While I have not been able to obtain an exact script of the sketch, SNL insiders say the revelation will occur midway through the program as the real Palin and the Tina Fey version engage in a mock debate, during which they apparently compete to see who can make the most over-the-top idiotic statements. After the real Palin blurts out a serious of comments so ridiculous and offensive to human reasoning that even the staunchest GOP voters in the audience will reconsider their choice, Ashton Kutcher will rush out onto the stage and shout: "America, you've been Punk'd!"
Campaign insiders tell us that a new vice presidential nominee will then be introduced. They wouldn't name him for fear of spoiling the surprise, but they did hint they he was older, whiter and better endowed (in the penis department) than Palin.
The stated motives for the Palin stunt vary widely depending whom we ask. GOP campaign insiders describe the intent as two-fold: A) The party wanted to appear hip and in touch with the young, TV/Internet generation by dropping a major news item for some last-minute publicity, and B) They couldn't get a real candidate to agree to join the ticket in time for a traditional announcement.
However, people close to Kutcher and Fey (who were both instrumental in the prank since its beginning) say the TV stars will describe the prank as one carried out strictly for entertainment purposes. Meanwhile, there's chatter that the liberal Hollywood types have been secretly steering the plan in a direction that would discourage voters from electing the GOP ticket.
Whatever the case, this hoax obviously took a lot of cunning and coordination. One insider suggested that McCain himself hasn't been told yet that Palin is not his real running mate. The same source also said Barack Obama was even in on the prank: "Think of him as the hedge fund short-seller to the plan -- betting on failure by the GOP."
Well, McCain/Palin, it's been a zany ride. Boy, do we all feel silly now.
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Nice :)
Both the post AND to have you back blogging.
I so wish this were real. As it is, I'm just glad the woman didn't have reason to plan for being picked early enough to get prepared. She already has the political intuition of the Clintons and the charisma of Obama combined with some of the worst aspects of Bush's politics. We'd have been screwed if she'd known anything about national or international affairs.
Sadly, I don't think she's stupid, so she'll be ready next time.
So true, Jacob. The funniest thing about the SNL skit this week was when Palin/Fey "went rogue" to sell the Palin in 2012 t-shirts.
And also, I want to work for that radio station. I heard (but am too lazy to verify) that they also pranked Tony Blair. You have to be pretty awesome to get that high. I mean, who do you have to sleep with to get these people on the phone?
Sigh. That would be the best prank ever -- but only, of course, to those of us not voting for her.
So apparently it's pretty easy to get Palin on the phone? All you have to do is pretend to be a world leader? I'd better get started on my Kim Jong Il impression -- Sarah and I have some stuff to talk about.
In this scenario, I'm actually more scared of who might be the actual running mate than Palin as VP if even McCain isn't in on it. It would probably be some archconservative superrepublican hand-picked from the depths of Hades by a commitee of Cheney, Rove, Limbaugh and select members of the secret consortium of bankers and oilmen that actually run the world.
At least with Palin we get a somewhat known quantity. Sort of.
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