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LIFE IMITATING ART IMITATING LIFE.
Chuck Hagel said something about Sarah Palin that caught my eye.
"She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials," Hagel said in an interview. "You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything."...Yeah except Palin didn't say that. Palin said "you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska -- from an island in Alaska." Tina Fey, doing her impression of Palin, said "I can see Russia from my house.""I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, 'I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,'" he said. "That kind of thing is insulting to the American people."
So I guess you could say Fey nailed it, since Hagel is now quoting Fey as Palin to explain why Palin lacks experience.
--A. Serwer
COMMENTS (4)
Of course, Palin's actual comments, if less amusing than the SNL sketch, are no less inane or insulting.
Posted by: Gee | September 19, 2008 9:47 AM
Actually, I think it was John McCain or his advisor that made a point that because of Alaska's proximity to Russia, Palin is qualified
Posted by: anon | September 19, 2008 10:37 AM
anon: Palin stated in the Gibson interview that there is an island in Alaska where you can see Russia, as part of her answer to why she is qualified.
I got the impression that at that point Gibson was appalled, but kept on mushing through the interview.
A good follow-up question might have been: Have you ever been to that island? Apparently it's very remote and rarely visited by anyone.
Posted by: Anonny | September 19, 2008 11:47 AM
It would also be interestingto see if Palin's pro-oil drilling policies have rendered that island uninhabitable.
But even less seriously - doublecheck the Hagel quote. Are we sure that it wasn't Robert Forster doing a Chuck Hagel impression quoting Tina Fey doing a Palin riff?
Posted by: Michael A.Shea | September 19, 2008 12:30 PM