If [Tina Fey] has any brains, she will be very careful in her portrayal of Sarah. There is an opportunity for her to be scorchingly funny without being achingly partisan.
ManlyRash on September 12, 2008 at 10:42 AM

During the Primaries, SNL had a running gag about how Hillary Clinton couldn’t get anyone to pay any attention to her because Obama was sucking up all the attention.

They could just reverse that now, with Obama sidelined while Bill and Hillary pretend to console him, but really loving every minute of it.

Also, it’d be really tough to do, but if they could pull off a live version of Iowahawk’s Bugs Bunny/Wile E. Coyote parody of the press, that would be awesome.

Obama’s response, “I didn’t call her good looking, I called her a Pig! Err ummm… I mean… i said.. She’s smells like an Old Fish!”

Chakra Hammer on September 12, 2008 at 2:48 PM

Zing!

Dismissed her as “good looking.”

Obama’s response, “I didn’t call her good looking, I called her a Pig! Err ummm… I mean… i said.. She’s smells like an Old Fish!”

While I share the concerns expressed in the column (and by many of the commentators) I imagine that this ad was aimed at a very specific community – the people to whom dissing, or “disrespecting”, someone is a declaration that he or she is of personally greater status and value than whoever is being spoken to or of.

On the street, disrespecting someone often leads to a violent response – and it’s the people who know that who form, I think, the target audience for this ad.

I’m a woman and LOVED the ad. Not everyone knows about Obama’s “sweetie” incident (VERY revealing IMO: off the cuff and that’s what popped out of a Senator’s mouth addressing an adult professional?!?!) and what these clowns have said themselves since Gov. Palin was chosen. Otherwise many think the two of them are clean of the slams when they aren’t. The governor should cheerfully bring up the “good looking” line when she and Biden debate, as a throwaway joke. Smash his arrogant face in it!

I agree that we shouldn’t whine. I think the ad avoided exactly that, by using “disrespectful” instead of “sexist” and emphasizing GOVERNOR Palin immediately after. It looks like “hey, they’re dissing the governor of a state!” but believe me, most women and many men are also thinking “yah, disrespectful, AND SEXIST TOO!”

No whining required. Everyone gets it.

It’s Friday. Hopefully, this will be the last day of Victim Week.

Actually I am hoping Michelle will clean house and hire some real conservatives

and you just know Tina Fey is going to playing Sarah Palin as some sort of cross between Ellie Mae Clampett and David Koresch in a skit that the writers and the studio audience may find shatteringly funny, but will probably come off as condescending and/or patronizing to the people watching at home). – jon1979 on September 12, 2008 at 10:33 AM

If she has any brains, she will be very careful in her portrayal of Sarah. There is an opportunity for her to be scorchingly funny without being achingly partisan. The line is a very fine one, and if she crosses it, she’ll end up doing what the Drive-By media did shortly after Sarah first appeared on TV a couple of Fridays ago. If thathappens, it’ll blow up in her face.

I can see what they’re desperately trying to do. They’re trying to make this a dis against Palin, and by extention all women. But it comes off as desperate. It’s trying to play the victom card without actually laying the card on the table, and it’s not working.

It may very well keep the Obama team focused on Palin, but it also makes her look weak- and she’s not weak.

Time to get back on the message of Reform, Energy, and Eductaion…

These are the things the voters need to hear about now…

Up side- it keep Palin at the top of the news cycle.
Down side- it comes from a position of weakness instead of strength. That could have been mitigated by simply contrasting their votes for the Bridge to Nowhere and her rejection of it, etc.

Waterboy on September 12, 2008 at 9:44 AM
Dave rarely responds to me. I like to think it’s because he knows I’m intellectually superior.

BadgerHawk on September 12, 2008 at 9:58 AM

Oh, he’ll be back, with a bucket-load of crazyass

Waterboy on September 12, 2008 at 9:44 AM

Dave rarely responds to me. I like to think it’s because he knows I’m intellectually superior.

And while we’re at it, let’s get Democrat governors like Kathleen Sebelius (who was on BO’s short list for VP) to comment on “Pontius Pilate”.

I think Dave’s become frustrated by recent events, and you can see it in his posts.

If Dave Rywall’s still following this (or other threads), BadgerHawk’s comment should hit home.

This is a stupid comment thread on US politics, largely a waste of everyone’s time (unless some are killing time, etc). But it’s FUN. You know, not work or not mowing the lawn. Folks come here to discuss, have fun, and above all, make sarcastic comments to each other.

Dave, come back and make funny or sarcastic comments (triple points for encorporating both), burn us on Republican scandals, etc., but leave the “Chimpy McHitler Bush” or whatever the KOS chant is, at the door.

ManlyRash on September 12, 2008 at 9:22 AM

I spent about a year and a half posting over at dkos. I did what Dave used to do: Polite, respectful sarcasm. The point was to change people’s opinions on issues, and that wasn’t going to happen by being belligerant. I think Dave’s become frustrated by recent events, and you can see it in his posts.

I stopped posting when the General BetrayUs ad came out. Everyone over there was so happy about it, they couldn’t see how it was actually counterproductive to their goals. I decided it was better to just let them be.