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Home › Politics

Fairness in Politics and Humor | 09/28/2008 6:22 am

Tina Fey Nails Palin. Again. Saturday Night Live Interview Skit with Amy Poehler as Katie Couric (VIDEOS)

Katie Couric’s interviews with the Vice Presidential candidate last week … and Sarah Palin’s performances in them … were highly controversial. Yet in the midst of the drama of the financial crisis, they played somewhat under the general news cycle radar.  However, last night’s Saturday Night Live brought the Couric-Palin interviews front and center through a skit starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler that was devastating in its breathtaking evisceration of the Vice Presidential candidate’s answers to Couric’s questions.

Below you’ll find videos of both the real Katic Couric - Sarah Palin interviews in which the correspondant asks Palin to explain why Alaska’s proximity to Russia gave her foriegn policy credibility and the Saturday Night Live skit (complete with an embedded ad thanks to NBC Universal’s use of revenue-generating HULU versus You Tube…sorry).  

Here are our questions: Was Palin’s performance with Couric Vice Presidential?  Was Couric fair in her questioning? Was SNL’s portrayal fair?  And as a comedy show, does SNL have a mandate to be "fair" anyway?  And, no matter what side you come down on l’affair Palin, how talented is Tina Fey?

Original Couric-Palin Interviews (click on-screen text prompt at end of first interview to go to second interview, which includes at the end a Kissinger video on direct negotiation with Iran):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more about: Amy Poehler, Election 2008, Katie Couric, Politics, Sarah Palin, Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey

191 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

DeBúrca obj
Conservative talking heads and columnists are even calling for Palin to step down. They’re saying she can just say she needs to focus on her infant… funny, weren’t they just recently feigning “outrage” when people suggested that it would be impossible to do the job of VP without neglecting her 5 children, especially when they include a pregnant teen and a special needs infant?! Check out this column by conservative, Kathleen Parker, in the Chicago Tribune today: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped0929parkersep29,0,…
By DeBúrca obj on 09/29/2008 11:55 am
georgia fatwood
Hi, DeB….Here from the Eternal Sunshine of a Wastebasket Mind: Amazon used book..”On Bullshit” by Harry G. Frankfurt.. Jim Hightower:”even a dead fish can go with the flow”…. Thanks for the Kathleen Parker…all may still be well… Re:KP…”hirsute, Birkenstock-wearing sisterhood”? That must be for all the other counties but mine….We’ve only got one of “those” in my neighborhood and she routinely gets horrible dead things in her mailbox and Barbasol sprayed on her car….Everybody else at least makes an effort to put on clean Nascar T-shirts and matching sweatpants before going to Wal-Mart…. Does this mean Sarah Palin is “out of A League of Our Own”?
By georgia fatwood on 09/29/2008 2:04 pm
~ countrywoman ~
Hi DeBúrca Have you read this yet? http://www.newsweek.com/id/161204/page/1 It includes analysis of the following Palin quote: “That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the—it’s got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health-care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.” Sure does seem to be a lot to worry about these days.
By ~ countrywoman ~ on 09/29/2008 5:09 pm
DeBúrca obj
This is why Tina Fey didn’t even have to write her skit… her answer about the bail out was verbatim.
By DeBúrca obj on 09/29/2008 6:35 pm
Elizabeth Bennett
There is another part to the interview airing tonight.
By Elizabeth Bennett on 09/29/2008 12:59 pm
rocky rocky
You all might be interested in seeing Sarah Palin in the Alaska gubernatorial debate held in November, 2006: http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_… Also, RFK Jr. talking on Sept 22, 2008, about voting scams in the “swing” states, targeting old and new Democratic voters: http://www.truthout.org/article/rfk-jr-and-mike-papantonio-is-your-vote-…
By rocky rocky on 09/29/2008 10:08 pm
starry Nite
DeBurca and Step away- keep up the good work - a lot facts included in your posts. Repubs have no respect for intellect. I heard that the term Liberal and Conservative evolved out of the French Parlament where Liberals sat on the left and Conservatives set on the right. Hence left and right wingers. Conservatives I am sure hate to have anything in their pedigree attached to France. Anyway good night all - it has been a very informative night.
By starry Nite on 09/30/2008 12:54 am
amy lamb-hall
I LOVE IT. SIMPLY LOVE IT.TINA AND AMY DO AN EXCELLENT JOB, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MAKE SO GREAT IS THAT THEY LOOSLY BASE THE PARTS FOR TINA AND AMY ONE REAL SPEECHES AND REAL THINGS PALIN HAS SAID,IT SHOWS HOW TINA AND AMY ARE GREAT ACTORS, AND WRITERS.THEY ALSO SHOW HOW PALIN DOES NOT HAVE A CLUE.MAYBE AMERICANS ARE WAKING UP.
By amy lamb-hall on 09/30/2008 6:46 am
Don Larsen
Fey nails Palin. Speaking of which, I swear if I hear from anymore of my supposedly astute Political friends that tell me what an idiot she is (but that they’d still like to $%*# her) I’m going to puke.
By Don Larsen on 09/30/2008 1:44 pm
Alice Alice
Tina Fey is so good that I now don’t know if Tina is channeling Sarah or Sarah is channeling Tina. Your question - “Is Tina Fey good?” She’s wonderful! I’m going to watch “30 Rock” this season. However Amy doesn’t do Katie very well. Almost spoiled the skit. She’s much better when she plays Hillary. As to the clip about Henry Kissinger, why would anyone reference him as an authorative source? Name one thing he got right. I guess people are invited to say anything they want in these blogs, and that’s okay; but I wish they would at least stick to the topic and save their other wide ranging thoughts for another time and place.
By Alice Alice on 09/30/2008 11:44 pm
Linda Rolf
I think Tina Fey was born to impersonate Sarah Palin. Thank you Tina Fey!!!The only difference between watching these two is Fey is hilarious and Palin is just plain scary. Palin was only added to the Republican ticket as a cheap substitute for Hillary Clinton and to appease the religious right. I guess women with brains and people who don’t try to shove their Christian values down other peoples throats don’t matter to John McCain. Obama in 08’!!!
By Linda Rolf on 10/02/2008 3:28 am
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