Video Roundup: Palin, the Economy & Bush’s Legacy
- SNL: Hillary Clinton & Sarah Palin Make an Announcement (NBC.com)
- This segment was inevitable the first time someone noted that Sarah Palin wears “Tina Fey” glasses. Clinton & Palin come together to address sexism in the media; hilarity ensues.
- SNL: Couric interviews Palin, Part 4 (NBC.com)
- Katie Couric, not known for her hardball interviews or journalistic acumen or sophisticated questions, interviewed Sarah Palin this week; disaster ensued. No matter how hard Couric tried to toss Palin softballs, she bobbled them and made Couric look like an intellectual giant. Palin made Couric look cruel for even asking such hard questions, that everybody knows she can’t answer (she’s just a little slow, Katie, ease up). This is a fake interview based on that incident.[1]
- Gov at First Sight by Jon Stewart in 19.09.2008 (Daily Show)
- Jon Stewart feigns love for Sarah Palin, covering her interview with Sean Hannity, who can show Katie Couric a thing or two about tossing softballs.
- President Bush’s Legacy by John Oliver in 23.09.2008 (Daily Show)
- This is classic Oliver; when asked whether the Bush administration could come up with another area to screw up, he said “it’s like finding a vein on a failure junkie.” When pressed for an example where there was still “de-complishing” to be done, he said that it was all about Bush’s legacy, which is now defined thusly: “we all know he’ll never be ranked as the best president, but he could still, if he works hard enough … [Jon says: ‘be the worst?’] … be the last.”
- The Word − OhMyGodSocietyIsCollapsing… by Stephen Colbert (Colbert Nation)
“We have to give unchecked financial power to the president and his appointees so they can implement a plan that no one understands. […] This is one of the most important, irrevocable economic decisions we will ever make; let’s make it in a state of panic.”
Note: the first 20 seconds are confusing because it refers to the previous segment.
[1] It turns out, according to Palin Is Ready? Please. by Fareed Zakaria (Newsweek), that the long, drawn-out, jibber-jabber answer given by Fey as Palin is taken almost verbatim from Palin’s actual answer in the interview; that is, the satirists really have their work cut out for them. Zakaria, a very level-headed and conservative/moderate analyst, went on:
↩“This is nonsense—a vapid emptying out of every catchphrase about economics that came into her head. […] Can we now admit the obvious? Sarah Palin is utterly unqualified to be vice president.”