WASHINGTON - Comedian Tina Fey says she’s checking out if her spitting image twin, Republican vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin, and White House contender John McCain win the general election next month.
Fey said she has loved playing Palin in the Saturday Night Live skits so far, especially with Amy Poehler who played Sen. Hillary Clinton in one and CBS News anchor Katie Couric in another.
“That lady is a media star. She is a fascinating person, she’s very likeable. She’s fun to play, and the two bits with Amy, that was super fun,” Fey told TV Guide.
But a long-term gig isn’t in the cards.
“We’re gonna take it week by week. If she wins, I’m done,” she said. “I can’t do that for four years. And by ‘I’m done,’ I mean I’m leaving Earth.”
Fey has been hailed for her impressions of Palin, mocking in great detail her difficulties with media interviews and her lack of international experience.
For her part, Palin has tried to make the best of being the target of Fey’s humor. “I was just trying to give Tina Fey more material - job security for Saturday Night Live,” she told a rally earlier this month.
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Photo credit: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni (Fey and Poehler at the Emmy awards last month)
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Way to confirm my earlier post, that liberals don’t know the issues. Just vote for color. Very intelligent.
- Posted by SandyThe grotesque, surreal and downright horrifying prospect of Sarah Palin even running the local burger bar is enough to send anyone heading for the launchpad to drift amongst the stars.
That is unlikely to happen, however, as the US public grow-up and stop seeing Obama’s color as the ‘elephant in the room’.
That is the salient issue, folks, and let me tell you that shedding that racist mindset is very good indeed for the soul and the good old American psyche.
It ain’t rocket science but it IS the morally right thing to do!
As for Palin, well, I think we all know, really, that she would be thumping great disaster for the USA.
Don’t even think of voting for that ticket!
- Posted by TheTruthIs...I adore Tina Faye. I love her impression of Palin. Seth Meyers did the writing on the sketches and deserves credit for making one of the most on-target political satires I’ve seen in a long time. I thought they were wonderfully balanced; if you watch the whole sketch, they obviously try to be non-partisan. And in unrelated news: 30 Rock is the best comedy on TV in several years.
- Posted by BensonI will contribute a goodly amount if she leaves immediately
- Posted by Bob ImmBob
Tina Fey. Get ready to pack your bags. Because even though you look like Governor Palin, you do not have the heart and spirit of Sarah Barracuda–a high school senior that led her basketball team to a championship title with a stress fracture, who ran state cross country, who hunts and fishes, who runs hills just because it hurts, who took on her own party and battled corruption. She represents the people. I believe Tina Fey and all the disrepect and hateful comments thrust upon Governor Palin will only make her stronger (and make me like her even more!)
Go Sarah!! We will follow. Lead the way for strong women everywhere.
- Posted by swanyI wish both McCain and Palin had better advisers.
They always appear to be playing catch-up. Wish they would rely less on mentioning the “o” opposition and more on laying out their very real plans for America after they get into office.
We hear quite enough about the others. Really frightening information.
- Posted by Patricia CostelowGood bye to Tina. I would be willing to wager that Tina, like so many of the rest of the liberals out there, couldn’t talk intelligently about the issues facing the US, nor do they know what the political platforms really are. You are quick to insult the governor of Alaska and yet overlook Clinton’s lies and indiscretions. If the Democrats are so supportive of Barak’s policies, then they should move to France or some other socialist country and leave our country. Do any liberals understand economics and the importance of rewarding those who develop businesses and provide jobs? The ones who want a level playing field are the same stupid parents who want to give EVERYONE in kids’ sports a trophy, whether they win or not. Because they don’t believe in rewarding accomplishments and think those who are lazy and on public assistance are just as “deserving” as those who work. If Barak gets elected, just watch out, as you will be responsible for destroying American ideology. Those creative individuals who are willing to take a risk with their money to try something new and provide a better way of life for their families and employees will have no incentive to continue since their profit will be redistributed. Why then take a risk? I just hope Tina leaves all her money to the homeless before she leaves earth.
- Posted by Sandy99% of those who appose Sarah Palin don’t have a clue.
If you didn’t know she was a women, and all you had was credentials and accomplishments, you’d be just fine.
I think Tina is very funny, and I think the SNL skits are mostly funny aside from the crudeness, but ultimately you rarely see this type of hatred.
If Sarah Palin truly didn’t have any credentials, then there would be nothing to fear, nothing to blog about, and she would just come and go and nobody would care.
But in fact, she has those credentials and that is what scares democrats the most, so they must attack her viciously as it is all they have.
- Posted by hahahaBush stole the elections? What!?
Do you seriously believe that garbage? Documented? hahaha — any conspiracy theorist that throws trash on a website can be called documented?
You probably believe the war is over oil too? If it was, then were is it? I haven’t put a drop of oil in my car from the war… What conspiracy do you have for that?
Seriously people, stop drinking the kool-aid. Actually go and learn about these people and topics and NOT from whacko conspiracy websites.
- Posted by hahahaWow! And I was just going to move to Canada. I’m with Tina Fey - the thought of a Palin vice-presidency (not to mention the possibility of a Palin presidency) has me wanting to flee the U.S. of A. Not sure I want to flee the entire globe, though.
- Posted by NancyOne more thing, about Palin: I am not sure anyone else in the world would “get away with” abuse of power in trying to get Trooper Wooten fired; I am not sure anyone else would “get away with” the kind of idiocy she displayed in the Katie Couric interview; I am not sure anyone else would “get away with” so few press conferences and so many stump speeches that consist of one-liners full of patriotism but devoid of intelligent thought.
Look, I’m sure Palin is plenty nice. My grandmother is nice, too. But she is not ready to be a vice presidential candidate, and neither is Sarah Palin.
- Posted by fearlessDear Curious,
You’re being sarcastic, right? Your accusation that Obama will be sworn in with his hand “on the Quran” is certainly not funny, and it’s certainly not true, so I can only interpret this as sarcasm.
Hussein is an Arabic name with an Islamic history. Barack Hussein Obama Jr. is named after his father, and Barack Hussein Obama Sr. was from Kenya. In Kenya, this is a fairly typical name reflecting Kenya’s strong influx of Arab and Islamic influence. In the United States, this is an exotic name reflecting an individual with a multi-ethnic background.
The issue here is not that it is “wrong” to refer to Obama by his full name. The issue is that the name is being politicized — it is being used in circles where there is a great fear of Islam, in regions where a non-Christian American president would be unthinkable. There are many people who feel that Obama is not “American enough” and they use his middle name as a sign of their suspicion that he is an Arab.
There’s nothing wrong with being an Arab. But there are people in this country who are afraid of Arabs, and there are other people who are using this knowledge to create fear of Obama. McCain’s town hall meeting on Friday showcased this fear. There’s also nothing wrong with being a Muslim — but people are using the idea of being a Muslim, again, to stir up fear.
Obama is neither Arab not Muslim; he is African-American (in the sense of half African and half “white” American) and he is a Christian. The problem is that he is being accused of these things falsely, and the implication is that these are things to fear — so the problem is doubled, as lies are used to stir up fear of a legitimate candidate, AND used to stir up fear of our many Arab and Muslim neighbors who are just as American as anybody else, Native Americans aside.
Your invocation of the Koran is part of the bigger problem. If and when he is sworn in, he will use a Bible. You are lying about him using a Koran, and in your lies — whether they are deliberate or just based in ignorance, I don’t know — you are stirring up hatred and encouraging fellow Americans to look down on those who are not from a Christian tradition. I’m pretty sure this is not what the founding fathers wanted, it’s not what I want, and it’s not what most good Christian people want.
So no, I don’t have a problem with people using Barack Hussein Obama’s full name. I have a problem with people trying to turn his name into an insult, and I have a problem with the greater xenophobia and hatred that comes with it. This world has seen hatred of all kinds: white racism, black racism, Christian terrorism, Islamic terrorism…it’s all the same in the end, and it all needs to stop now.
- Posted by fearlessWRONG WRONG Barack Obama is NOT a Muslim, and will be sworn in with his hand on a bible.
- Posted by Meghttp://fightthesmears.com/articles/3/bar acksfaith
There, a listing of reputable news sources that report what I just said.
And what do you have against Muslims anyways? It’s ignorant people like you that give the U.S. a bad name. Go back to hicksville or whatever hole you crawled up from
thank god. Not soon enough for me.
- Posted by Black BarackThese are truly some of the most mindless comments I have read about an article in my life. Tina Fey has done an awesome job doing what she does, lampooning. The fact that she also has an opinion that some might disagree with like leaving the planet, again funny if her lampoonis wins. Get a grip, laugh a little and call it what it is humor. And yes unfortunately they didn’t need writers for this one all she had to do was deliver exactly what Palin said. I mean this is a comics wet dream!
- Posted by AceLet me be the first to donate to the space ship fund to help ms. fey to get off our planet !
- Posted by Kevin LynchBye Bye Educated…take your educated self and your dual citzenship elsewhere, you are not needed here in the U.S.A.
- Posted by Oh MyCurious: Please join us back in reality. Even your candidate McCain doesn’t believe the bs rumour that Obama is a Muslim or that he ever took an oath on the Quran. I suppose you think he is not even an American citizen and that as President he would take all the white people’s money and give it to the black folk too. Ignorance is not bliss my friend. There are multiple source of information that will show these rumors to be false–try something other than FOX News and Rush Limbaugh maybe
- Posted by mojoI would like to see Tina playing Palin as the “Two Face” villain from Batman. On one side the smiling, winking, scatter brain woman, and on the other a “fuhrer” type of woman inciting the crowds to violence…
Perhaps that is a true representation of governor Palin
- Posted by E. Goldenberg@Ben about your comment to @Maddy
I am so sorry to tell you, but it is YOU who are making the ignorant comments RE: the two presidential election being stolen.
It is VERY WELL DOCUMENTED, by numerous investigations, though not really published in the Corporate Media (which most Americans read or watch), that BOTH elections were, in fact, stolen. Between purging many hundreds of thousands of real voters from the rolls illegally, electronic voting theft, uncounted but valid Provisional ballots, uncounted but valid absentee ballots, GOP operatives in key positions within many states’ elections offices, Supreme Court ties to the Bush campaign in 2000, and much more, Bush lost both elections. In 2004 there were over 3 MILLION uncounted votes, most of whom were democrats voting for Kerry. It is corporate media spin that Kerry or Gore didn’t run good enough campaigns. They were robbed.
I guess I recommend you get yourself educated before attacking others. Here is a link to a voting guide about such issues. http://www.gregpalast.com/sbyv/
- Posted by Drew Deel