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Sarah Palin’s celebrity is less fame and more notoriety. Her appalling interviews with Katie Couric, her inexperience in foreign affairs, her lack of travel, her deficient diplomacy, her inability to provide concrete solutions, specific answers, her lack of knowledge on such topics as the Bush doctrine- all of these aspects have made Sarah Palin the talk of the town, as she single-handedly pushed voters away from McCain and towards the Obama-Biden duo.
Tina Fey’s remarkable impersonation of Alaska’s Governor may have, ironically, raised her popularity, mostly because you cry when Sarah Palin says dinosaurs were here only 4,000 years ago, but you laugh when Tina Fey says it and you forget it’s a true statement from the Republican candidate for Vice President. Together with Amy Poehler, Fey had a small, yet important part in the hit movie “Mean Girls”. On SNL, they make a wonderful team, especially when Tina Fey plays Sarah Palin and Poehler does Katie Couric or Hillary Clinton.
Tina Fey’s performance when interpreting Sarah Palin has raised ratings for NBC, especially for the show Saturday Night Live. What makes her impression successful and hilarious is not only the striking physical similarities and the wonderfully mastered accent, but the fact that Fey merely repeats some of Palin’s actual statements, with a few exaggerations here and there.
After watching the real Vice Presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Bidden, it seems that Palin is borrowing some popularity tips from Tina Fey, such as asking Joe Biden if she can call him Joe (and then talking about hockey moms and Joe-Six-Pack), winking at the camera, smiling, ignoring questions and inserting folksy idioms in her formal speeches and answers. Whether this is a smart move on her part remains to be seen.
Just remember: if you vote for McCain, you’re going to get Sarah Palin, not Tina Fey.
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