I gotta ask- who are the other five? The four candidates themselves and maybe one of the remaining moderators like Tom Brokaw?

Agreed. It will be very hard for McCain/Palin to use "maverick" now without evoking Fey and college drinking games -- something McCain/Palin won't be eager to do.

That effectively neutralizes and quarantines the term.

Thank heavens.

The first sign that you are not a maverick is when you apply the label to yourself.

The first sign that you are not a maverick is when you apply the label to yourself.

Nicknames are bestowed, not asserted (H/T to slacktivist.)

If the candidates are the four most influential people, that gives Tina Fey quite a bit of power. Who else would rank highly?

Rev. Wright would if he came out and had another Press Club meltdown. I think Branchflower up in Alaska is about to become quite important. And of course Drudge rules the world, so put him in the top ten.

But yet, Tina Fey is doing quite a number on Sarah Palin.

The New York Times had a piece today on how the Maverick family feel about McCain/Palin's use of their name.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/weekinreview/05schwartz.html

The first sign that you are not a maverick is when you apply the label to yourself.
Just like you're not putting country first when you're always using that as a campaign slogan.

Tina Fey? What the hell are you yapping about, Ezra?

How about actually doing your job as a journalist?

I'd like to know more about the community that Mr. Barack 'Community Organizer' Obama supposedly organized. The last time I drove through there the only thing organized about the place was the drug trade, or as some call it, organized crime. I need to see results, not rhetoric. What has Obama accomplished for others? We already know what he has accomplished for himself, with his Harvard degree and all. If Obama gets the presidency, then that is another great thing he can put down on his resume. But I need to know what do I get out of it. Selfish me, huh?

Fey has Palin down to a tee, including the way she treated the debate as yet another beauty contest. While her debate performance may have ended Palin's free fall, she's still a national joke and that doesn't bode well for McCain's campaign.

One of the strange things is that I couldn't tell which statements were comedy which and which were directly lifted from the debate.

And if Ringo Meza's post is clear, it looks like things are going to get a little uglier from here on out.

It's really astonishing how good an impersonation of Palin Fey does. It's the best impersonation I've seen since Dana Carvey did George HW Bush. Hopefully Palin runs for the GOP nomination in 2012 so we get more.

And if Ringo Meza's post is clear, it looks like things are going to get a little uglier from here on out.

And we'll hang their behavior during the month of October around their necks for the length of the Obama administration, and we'll never let them forget had they resorted to dishonesty and character assassination of the worst kind in defense of a unqualified, immoral Republican ticket. Their other option is to lose with dignity and be gracious in defeat during this past month. It's their choice.

So let Ringo et al. rant for now. It just gives us a record of what McCain supporters are really like, deep down.

Obama's Master Health Plan for the Peoples of the United States of America, explained:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUEQz5dltmI

Is this the sort of 'community organizing' he was talking about? Looks more like a 'commune' organization to me...

Obama does not have a record of achieving anything for others. It isn't meager, it isn't mediocre: it just doesn't exist.

OMG, Meza is right, Obama failed to completely undo hundreds of years of poverty and racism in Chicago's South Side when he was 24! How did I not see this?!

By the time McCain was 24 he had already crashed two planes. And Palin, wow, by the time she was 24 she had just finished her BA (it took her 5 schools to get one degree) and had just started as a TV sports anchor in Alaska. Obama's modest successes with job training and college counseling cannot compare to such humbling records! If only Obama been entering beauty pageants instead of helping poor kids get into college, then he'd truly be a leader.

OK. I know I just fed the troll. Shame on me.

doesn't look like the Original Maverick likes your take, Ezra.

sorry, wrong link above. here's the right one.

Obama does not have a record of achieving anything for others.

You know what? Even if that were true, it would have long since ceased being relevant. McCain has been exposed as a dangerous, ignorant lunatic. His running mate is ... well, you know.

Almost anybody in either party would be preferable to these two. That includes Bush and Cheney.

how would we have managed through this without tina fey's genius and humor?
she has made this campaign season bearable.

i think that alaska's tourism is going to suffer because of sarah palin.
(maybe that is a good thing.)
thoughts of denali and dall sheep are now replaced with unnerving images of sarah palin, the new, maverick face of alaska.
alaska will never be the same.

You'll note, Ezra, that during the Palin-Biden debate every time Palin said "maverick" the dial-twist-monkeys went sour. Biden and Fey were just turning a screw that had already been stripped by McCain and Palin themselves.

"OK. I know I just fed the troll."

If you don't feed 'em. you can't fatten 'em up. And if you can't fatten 'em up, they don't make good eatin' later on.

(Just a modest proposal.)

Speakin of eatin', it looks like Palin ate all my terminal G's. Damn her!

Ringo = paid troll, soon to be unemployed and unemployable.

Tina Fey = someone who really doesn't want to have to do Palin for the next four years.

Frankly, if this is what passes for witty social commentary, then satire in America is about as broken as Washington. SNL's writers are as bad as they've ever been, and to call this stuff smart comedy is to grade on a serious curve.

Which is not to say that Tina Fey's Palin isn't excellent, it is, and she deserves a better sketch than this.

That was funny. Bi-partisan, and very funny. I love Fey's Palin.

If they weren't so politically incompatible, I'd for for a Palin/Fey ticket in a heartbeat. Or a Palin/"Fey as Palin" ticket. And Queen Latifah makes a bette moderator than Gwen Ifill.

Did you all hear Palin's Tina Fey line today?

Oh man, that was good and sharp. Betcha didin see tha' one comin'!

Ringo is what happens when fanboys get into right-wing politics.

Also, when the McCain-Palin campaign puts out banner ads that say "The Original Mavericks" when no one had heard of Palin three months ago and she's not even fifty - and they are commending her on being like a normal person (which is not what a maverick does) - they have conceded defeat. It is just so mind-numbingly stupid. You don't connect with Joe Six-pack by calling him Joe Six-Pack. She might as well said "all those illiterate white trash rednecks are going to love me cuz I blatantly pander to them and Florida." Commending people for being a stereotype of stupid mediocrity isn't going to get their votes. As my grade school English teachers used to say, show, don't tell.

Ringo pasted the same comment on Matt Yglesias, in a different context. That's why it didn't quite fit the topic. My first thought is that he's getting paid many times for the same prose, but then maybe he has a syndication deal.

I keep thinking of the episode of Seinfeld where George tried to give himself the nickname T-Bone.

"But yet, Tina Fey is doing quite a number on Sarah Palin."

You'd think that Fey would be praying for Palin to win. Man, she'd be golden for at least four years.

You'd think that Fey would be praying for Palin to win. Man, she'd be golden for at least four years.

But didn't Tina Fey already leave SNL? Isn't she just freelancing until the election?

Plus if McPain wins, I don't think many people will be in the mood for humor.

I actually think Tina Fey's Palin is overrated. I mean, it's actually pretty easy to do a Sarah Palin impersonation. Everyone does it. We didn't need Tina Fey to show us that Palin speaks in an exaggerated high nasal tone and uses faux-folksy expressions.

Don't get me wrong. She's doing fine and I'm glad she's helping turn Palin into the national laughingstock she deserves to be. But really, as impressions go, this one is pretty easy.

On the other hand, the guy who did Biden had something much more difficult to do. Everyone around the country isn't talking like Joe Biden to crack up their buddies around the office. Biden has a lot of more complex mannerisms and this guy really nailed them. I actually thought he was much funnier than Tina Fey.

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