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[fajrdrako]

I link not because the Sarah Palin prank amuses me but because it's hard to believe, but true.

Comments

[boji.livejournal.com]

I read about this in the Telegraph. (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2008/11/02/sarah_palin_gets_pranked_by_canadian_radio_station) Even more surprising is the paragraph where Tony Harden writes:

It's incredible that two comedians could get through to a vice-presidential candidate, though Sarkozy himself is a previous victim. Way back in 1995 I remember writing about the Queen getting tricked in the same way by a Canadian prankster.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I had no idea that Canadians had a habit of doing this sort of thing.

Mind you, there's always Rick Mercer (http://www.rickmercer.com/) who has a TV show about doing things like telling Americans bizarre things about Canada and making them believe them.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Would the Appropriate Authorities not be keeping tabs on this sort of thing by now, given Mercer's history?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Well, Mercer doesn't target celebrities, as far as I know. These guys must have known what buttons to push.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

I love this. That HAD to take persistence, although once they got her on the line it sounds like they could've chatted for hours! XD

If (I HOPE NOT) they win, the one consolation will be four years of comedy gold.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Hmm, good point.

Scary, though.

[louiex.livejournal.com]

Oh hah! It's always reassuring to know my country is filled with such geniuses :D *wills her to go back to her cold state and to stay there, QUIETLY*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

The whole world is strange - you can't escape it.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

it is hard to believe. I love the last part where they say 'this is why we don't let Obama answer the phone.'

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yeah!

[gypsylady.livejournal.com]

What frightens me is that stunts like this one, and the Tina Fey parodies, might be making Palin more popular with the voters. She becomes a celebrity, and I've noticed that a lot of my country(wo)men care more about celebrities AS celebrities than they do about reality.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Looks to me like ridicule, but who knows?

[gypsylady.livejournal.com]

Oh, it is ridicule, make no mistake. But Palin was well-advised on this front and she rolls with it better than anyone I've ever seen. And that's endearing her to the American public. No one I know has changed their vote based on it, but they've all gotten to like her a little more because of it.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Eck, not me!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Not me either. I think it makes her look gullible.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm endeared to intelligence and a diverse perspective, and she's shown neither.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It would be nice if she did. What worries me is how uninformed she seems.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

I was at school yesterday and kept saying "I can see Canada from my school!" which I can, straight over the Ambassador bridge. So I am obviously a foreign policy maverick. :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Of course you are. I never doubted it!

[raissad.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. I hadn't read the story. Oi.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

oh

dear

tarim.

What a total sap she is. But, hey, her spokesperson knows some French!

I commend them on a prank well done. No kidding: I am vastly impressed. I've done some stuff in my day, and appreciate a good stunt, and this was one. Yow. But, still...

...oh dear god.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yeah. At least... attempts are being made.