Sunday, October 19, 2008
Sarah's Limp Appearance
0 commentsSarah Palin is no Tina Fey.
Is it just me, or was Palin's cameo on SNL last night, incredibly lame?
What an egregious waste of space and promo. It's hard to tell who pushed this thing harder—SNL or McCain/Palin.
As part of their recent, desperate above-the-water charm offensive as they foul all the waters below them, Palin failed miserably. She left the charm back in the hotel. She was wooden, churlish, nasty and not at all the "good sport" they sought to portray her as.
America may well feel comfortable with Fey/Palin, and has actually developed something of a crush on her; but real/Palin is turning people off, as long as they're not fans of the KKK, in droves.
Palin didn't help herself a whole lot here.
The way in which she said she wasn't going to take any questions in the opening press conference skit, after taking the podium from Fey, was way too close to how people imagine that she would handle the actual press corps were she to finally give a real press conference. Then, in the bit they'd set up for her in the "News Update" segment—the grumpy way she asserted she wasn't going to co-operate and "do what they'd planned," so that Amy Poehler could carry the heavy lifting in the skit—did nothing but cast her in exactly the evil, bitter, wingnut loser role the campaign put her on the show to try to pull her out of in the first place.
She handled two things well—thanks to the Alaska TV-News Sports Anchor jobs on her resume. She got through the obligatory, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" unscathed. Plus, at the end of News Update, she reverted to her Eyewitness News training and handled the closing tag with Seth Meyers with big-teeth aplomb—arguably her best moment.
Whatever the campaign was hoping to achieve by shoving her onto SNL, she neither helped nor harmed herself in any appreciable way.
So—in light of their desperate need for major wins—this comes off as another lame net loss for McCain/Palin.
posted by Gotham 12:28 PM
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