Thank God this woman isn’t our VP.  When questioned about her geographical skills, she called the media “jerks” and stuck her tongue out at the reporter.  The tongue part is a lie; I have a rich fantasy life.  Regardless, this is truly the most finessed and polished wordage she could come up with?  How about something like “I dispute the facts as they were reported.”?  Gah!  Can you even imagine?  I can almost picture her at a briefing and being like “We have to get Osama Bin Laden.  He’s such a poopy pants!”  

I think of other high-profile women in politics.  Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Corazon Aquino, Hillary Clinton.  Can you ever imagine one of them, while speaking to the media, calling the media jerks?  And how about that Miss Jackson if you’re nasty head snap at the end of the video?  She’s as fun as a peep show to watch but thank God she isn’t a heartbeat away from the presidency.

Sarah Palin didn’t know that Africa was a continent.  So what?  Who knows that kind of stuff?  And is that really necessary knowledge to be VP?

Ahhhhh ha ha ha ha ha!

This clip is totally safe for work.

But I’m definitely going to have to watch the whole thing once it’s out.

Justin Timberlake may have brought sexy back, but Sarah Palin is bringing PORN back!!!!

Saturday Night Live is a comedy show. It’s not Meet the Press. It doesn’t “ask the tough questions” or “set the agenda.” It attempts, with varying degrees of success, to make people laugh. That’s it. Whether they skewer and savage people in order to do so, they don’t care. When you come on a show like that, you are prepared in advance to get worked over. Palin knew that. Palin came on to be a good sport. And she was. She was polite, gracious. (More so than some of the famous actors who come through there, believe me.)

However, I assume that, like Meet the Press, SNL feels an obligation to offer their special forum to any and all public figures and officials who are current. Headline making. And in SNL’s case, would make for a hit show. Several people decried SNL for giving her a spot on the show. You’re kidding, right? The woman is the Vice Presidential nominee of one of the two major parties in this country. Don’t put her on SNL? With all of her exposure and the Tina Fey performance? What reality are you in?

If you think an appearance on Saturday Night Live would sway voters and actually affect the outcome of the election, you may have more contempt for the electorate of this country than the Republican National Committee does. And that’s a lot of contempt.

Alec Baldwin, writing for the Huffington Post, about Palin’s appearance on SNL this past weekend.

Honestly, people, why are you taking this Palin-on-SNL-thing so seriously? Alec Baldwin didn’t even take it seriously enough to memorize both his lines.

The show averaged around 14M viewers on Saturday night — and 17M in its first half-hour — making it the most-watched episode of SNL in fourteen years. The last time the show performed that well was in March 1994, when Nancy Kerrigan hosted.

And I’m by no means suggesting that anyone should beat Sarah Palin with a lead pipe, but, honestly, Tonya, where are you when we need you?

If you missed Sarah on the show, we’ve got the clips here.

What did you think?

Tina Fey visited Late Show with David Letterman last night and talked about (what else?) Sarah Palin and her ability to kill really big things.  Palin will be on Saturday Night Live tonight.  I cannot wait! I think a lot of people are predicting that she will be really bad but I don’t know…my money is on her being quite entertaining.

The McCain camp has confirmed that the VP candidate will be making her much-hyped SNL appearance this weekend.

What will she be doing on SNL?

Playing herself?

Playing Tina Fey?

Being a maverick?