Video: Palin, like, totally pwn3d by Canadian comedian or something
posted at 2:47 pm on November 27, 2009 by Allahpundit
Via Think Progress, this one’s making the rounds on liberal blogs but even left-leaning Mediate can’t fathom why (“the video actually acquits Palin quite well”). The politics are elementary: She gets ambushed with a question about a boutique subject, i.e. Canadian health-care policy, and offers a boilerplate answer about carving out space for competition from the private sector (which is precisely what Canada’s been doing, when it’s not busy sending patients it can’t treat over the border for medical care). Ho hum. What makes it worth watching is the fact that the “comedian” actually got close enough to Palin to hit her with a gotcha question — and this is the best she could do. There are literally a million snotty/funny one-liners a talented comic could come up with for Sarahcuda — imagine what Robert Smigel would do with 30 seconds as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog — and these people, who are billed as Canada’s answer to The Daily Show if you can believe it, whiffed on all of them. Merely mentioning Levi Johnston’s bare ass in her presence would have earned an obligatory embarrassment chuckle, but they couldn’t even muster that. Never have I appreciated Jon Stewart more. And I don’t even like Jon Stewart.
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ernesto on November 27, 2009 at 1:26 PM
Palin states a conservative position of health care while she busy signing a book.
Big-time scandal there. Whoa!
technopeasant on November 27, 2009 at 1:26 PM
Huh.
Not funny. Biased and stupid, but not funny.
And nothing wrong or inconsistent with Sarah’s answer – let the private sector handle health care.
Man, they are really grasping at straws, eh?
RedNewEnglander on November 27, 2009 at 1:28 PM
the andrea mitchell clip is far more entertaining…
alexraye on November 27, 2009 at 1:28 PM
And we care because…?
tcn on November 27, 2009 at 1:29 PM
It would be nice if they repeat her so-called history of being punked by comedians that they would also point out that the campaign had already scheduled that bogus call from Sarcosky. It wasn’t vetted properly by the campaign.
aikidoka on November 27, 2009 at 1:30 PM
Painful to watch.
VegasRick on November 27, 2009 at 1:30 PM
Wow, the left really has nothing of substance to justify their wacko desires to take away freedom from others.
ray on November 27, 2009 at 1:33 PM
How’s that Canadian health care working out for ya chump?
Sharke on November 27, 2009 at 1:34 PM
Up here in Canada we have a name for funny Canadian comedians, they are called “American comedians”. All the real funny ones and some unfunny Canuck comedians are living in the US making a real living.
poxoma on November 27, 2009 at 1:34 PM
The show “this hour has 22 minutes” is 22 minutes too long. I avoid it every time I can, and so do most Canadians.
poxoma on November 27, 2009 at 1:36 PM
nyx on November 27, 2009 at 1:36 PM
As longtime commenters here know, I’m not a major fan of Palin. But I’m not quite sure what’s so scandalous or funny about this segment. She essentially said that parts of Canada’s health care system that have been socialized should be privatized.
Ha ha? Scandalous? It’s a mainstream position in the United States.
amerpundit on November 27, 2009 at 1:37 PM
CityFish on November 27, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Clearly the Left continues to let Palin live in their heads rent-free. I don’t think any minds were moved by that bit.
The ACORN gotcha videos at least had a purpose as a public service.
itzWicks on November 27, 2009 at 1:38 PM
But, but according to Huffington Post, Governor Palin was pranked by the comedian! The comedian made her look the fool! THEY SAY IT WAS SO!
/liberal
Enoxo on November 27, 2009 at 1:39 PM
darwin on November 27, 2009 at 1:40 PM
poxoma on November 27, 2009 at 1:36 PM
I was going to make a point about the power of ratings, but I don’t know if it applies to Canadian TV. If they are run like the BBC, the wishes of the viewing public may not matter very much.
SKYFOX on November 27, 2009 at 1:43 PM
darwin on November 27, 2009 at 1:45 PM
ddrintn on November 27, 2009 at 1:45 PM
The Sarzoky call where those Canadians asked that idiot woman about her movie, Nailin Paylin, was classic.
simplesimon on November 27, 2009 at 1:46 PM
lili on November 27, 2009 at 1:47 PM
So Palin was “fooled” because she answered a question for the “reporter”? What was she supposed to do? Was she supposed to demand press credentials and refuse to answer a question without them?
Oh no now I get it. She was supposed to know who this obscure Canadian “comedian” was and call her out by name. Yeah right!
joe_doufu on November 27, 2009 at 1:47 PM
“This Hour Has 22 Minutes” is a really not funny show. I tried to watch it many times to absorb myself in Canadian political humour, but it just keeps being not funny. It’s a big surprise, really, since most of the big comedians down in Hollywood are Canadians (Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Rick Moranis, and many others … Pam Anderson too, btw). The Canadian Daily Show it is not.
The producers, writers and actors for the show are out of touch with Canadian youth, and with humour itself. Maybe that’s why they keep embarrassing themselves instead of their targets.
AlexB on November 27, 2009 at 1:47 PM
I wasn’t asking whether you consider her one. I was wondering why one can’t consider her an intellectual lightweight AND the victim of largely unwarranted media attacks…
ernesto on November 27, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Oh yeah, race fan! That one’s really helping Teh One!
ddrintn on November 27, 2009 at 1:49 PM
ddrintn on November 27, 2009 at 1:50 PM
Obviously this kind of entertainment is the reason why we’re so overrun with Canadian TV here in the States.
Oh wait. It’s the other way around.
Ronnie on November 27, 2009 at 1:52 PM
Ditto what ‘poxoma’ said.
I’m sorry.
I didn’t even know this show was still on the air! Nobody I know watches it. It’s on CBC – only 9% of the population actually watches the channel, and only because of ‘Hockey Night in Canada’. They get $1 billion of taxpayers’ money, and yet they still compete with privately-owned TV stations for advertising dollars. It’s perverse.
You cannot say ‘private health care’ in Canada. We’ve been taught from birth that this is part of the Canadian identity, because it makes us different from the Americans. Thus, we must settle for mediocrity – as long as it makes us different from the Americans!
Once again, I apologize.
CanadianMelB on November 27, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Gov. Palin could ask for a glass of water and it would be portrayed as some kind of nuttery. While this tactic may work to classify her as an idiot to some, it will more likely boost the impression that she is being unfairly targeted. People who have serious questions about her qualifications should not be encouraging or promoting this type of silliness.
Cindy Munford on November 27, 2009 at 1:54 PM
The Idiot in Chief’s first/major state dinner was crashed, unprecedented. What a bunch of lightweights, and how risible for them and our country.
ernesto, no one was ever more “lightweight” than the kindergartens which are now running our country, exectutive and legislative altogether. On the one hand are the inexperienced idealistic young fools of the executive branch, and on the other are the incontinent/incompetent ‘ladies/gents’ of the legislative side.
Schadenfreude on November 27, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Up here in Canada we have a name for funny Canadian comedians, they are called
unseen on November 27, 2009 at 1:56 PM
We have discussed at length about using Rules for Radicals against the Liberals but haven’t yet. In her book, Sarah Palin discusses the similarity between the fraudulent Ethics complaints that forced her out of office and the ones that forced Newt out of office depriving the Party of a movement leader.
We need to start doing this. Start loding frivilous ethics complaints against every democrat member of Congress.
Holger on November 27, 2009 at 1:57 PM
ernesto’s just following the knee-jerk “cool” script: “I know it’s obvious that Palin’s a drooling idiot and all, but…” Always have to have a preface of that sort in polite society o be taken seriously.
ddrintn on November 27, 2009 at 1:57 PM
ernesto on November 27, 2009 at 1:58 PM
single stack on November 27, 2009 at 2:00 PM
ddrintn on November 27, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Forgive my paraphrase, do I really need to drum up the quote? And as for Romney’s lie, I wasn’t aware that hunting and reading were equal intellectual exercises…
ernesto on November 27, 2009 at 2:01 PM
C’mon … what do you expect them to say? We suck?
Plus, the majority of Canadians have only known the system they’re under so what can they gauge it against?
darwin on November 27, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Canadian comedian?
Drywall? Drywall?
Oh, he’s busy servicing on the Midway.
davidk on November 27, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Actually, Sarah Palin’s response corresponds quite closely to what is happening in Canada where the door is re-opening for some small return of private services in restricted areas.
What people do not seem to grasp in the U.S. debate is that once the government gets its hands on health care it will become an eternal debate among the political parties about tweaking the system, but true fundamental reform becomes virtually impossible.
The best U.S. example is Medicare which is way of control but anyone trying to touch its underpinnings with the fundamental reforms needed would never get elected, or stay long if already there.
Annar on November 27, 2009 at 2:03 PM
Seriously. Like nails on a chalkboard. Canada calls that lady “comedy”?
This is a perfect display of The Idiot’s Guide to Liberal Manners: They Have None.
conservative pilgrim on November 27, 2009 at 2:03 PM
Hmmmm no pos ton the fact that Palin broke the fund raising record for the RED Cross run yesterday. Her appearence helped raise $45,000 for them. Nope no post on the good she is doing. just a post to try to make her look stupid. I see.
unseen on November 27, 2009 at 2:03 PM
I won’t venture a guess as to what underlies that poll response. Either way, a Palin position on health care in Canada would be electoral suicide, hence the humor for the Canadian audience.
ernesto on November 27, 2009 at 2:04 PM
Having the superior model of Socialist Healthcare is something of which to be proud .
davidk on November 27, 2009 at 2:05 PM
There is no “agreed-upon” definition of smarts, and there never will be one, as so many objective/subjective factors would have to play…However, if there were such, you’d be surprised at the outcome, not in a good way.
I wish they’d put one of these together for IQ (alas, I know it’s an abstract, forever).
Schadenfreude on November 27, 2009 at 2:05 PM
Ronnie on November 27, 2009 at 2:05 PM
If you want something real funny, see how Obama got fooled by the people crashing his White House state dinner party. Guy can’t protect his own temporary government housing from con artists.
ray on November 27, 2009 at 2:06 PM
ernesto on November 27, 2009 at 2:07 PM
ddrintn on November 27, 2009 at 2:08 PM
ernesto on November 27, 2009 at 2:04 PM
With certainty, in the Canadian ‘health’ system catheters are taken out from one body, washed off with distilled water, and inserted into another, just like in Russia and other 3rd world countries…something to be very proud of…eh?
Quit arguing for ‘intelligence’ – your guy is a Teleprompter in Chief, a huge phony. If here weren’t he woldn’t hide all his grades, papers, and other items which might prove a little wit and intelligence, at least the book side ones. He has zero practical experience of any kind. Don’t name me ‘community organizing’, please.
Schadenfreude on November 27, 2009 at 2:09 PM
So morbid humor?
I would think that at least some Canadians watching that probably and quietly agree with her.
darwin on November 27, 2009 at 2:09 PM
ernesto on November 27, 2009 at 2:09 PM
Yeah, it would be helpful. That’s how oh-so-much-smarter (and honest!) people came up with “I can see Russia from my house!”
ddrintn on November 27, 2009 at 2:09 PM
darwin on November 27, 2009 at 2:10 PM
ddrintn on November 27, 2009 at 2:11 PM
Of course they do. It’s called “nationalism”.
ddrintn on November 27, 2009 at 2:13 PM
Again, why the Canadians feel the way they do has nothing to do with why they’d see this as humorous. It’d be like watching a Nepalese Maoist come to NY to tell us how state ownership of the means of production would help us out of our financial crisis.
As for arguing for intellect, it was not my intent to get into a discussion of whether or not Palin is an intellectual lightweight; ddrintn made it about that rather than address my original comment. Having now brought it up, it seems hard to imagine a definition of ‘intellectual lightweight’ that wouldn’t include someone who all but admitted to pursuing little to no intellectual exercise.
ernesto on November 27, 2009 at 2:14 PM
Our founding fathers didn’t have Einsteinian pinheads in mind to lead our country. This is just an elitist absurd idea. Also, ‘intelligent’ is only what lefties deem to be so.
ernesto, I consider intelligent those who have read most, and attempt to read as many as possible of the literary classics in all of history, by the time they die. So what? They wouldn’t necessarily make good presidents.
Schadenfreude on November 27, 2009 at 2:14 PM
ddrintn on November 27, 2009 at 2:15 PM
I know Canada and Canadians well. This has always come from a sense of inferiority. They have, and will have, always, a love-hate relationship with the U.S.
Schadenfreude on November 27, 2009 at 2:16 PM
I’ll bet they’re also glad there’s a safety valve south of the border.
ddrintn on November 27, 2009 at 2:17 PM
Ronnie on November 27, 2009 at 2:18 PM
ernesto on November 27, 2009 at 2:18 PM
True. We love to hate the States, even irrationally. (well not me, but most people I know!)
But it’s more than just that: I’ve never been seriously ill and I love just walking into the doctor’s office or hospital whenever I want and not paying a penny (and that’s not sarcasm). And the health care costs are hidden in our taxes so nobody is aware of what they’re paying and it does give the impression of being ‘free’.
But God forbid you have a serious illness and have to go to the States. It happens often enough that if you guys got universal health care down there, we’d be screwed over as well.
CityFish on November 27, 2009 at 2:19 PM
I never said he was. In fact, he seems to be someone who prefers a surface knowledge of many topics, rather than real understanding of any, save maybe community organizing.
ernesto on November 27, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Oh, of course the abstract notion of single-payer is all that is taken into consideration. Give me a break. It’s nationalism, to which we’re all prone.
ddrintn on November 27, 2009 at 2:26 PM
Haven’t you figured out that we just don’t care about your opinion, yet?
tcn on November 27, 2009 at 2:26 PM
BPD on November 27, 2009 at 2:26 PM
CityFish on November 27, 2009 at 2:19 PM
The IQ bs aside, strictly on healthcare…when our doctors go gulching, the U.S. will begin to vie for doctors from Bangladesh, along with Canada, Europe and Australia.
The lefties don’t know what they wish for. Live teeth drilling, nerve extractions, heart-condition waiting list when death most likely occurs before appointments, and etc.
In a very strange way I ‘wish’ it upon them because they know not what they speak of. Unfortunately then it could not be reversed. More important to fight its opposition now.
Schadenfreude on November 27, 2009 at 2:27 PM
ddrintn on November 27, 2009 at 2:27 PM
There are hardly bigger bookworms than the older Mrs. Bush, and also the young one. I never heard the left deeming them to be “intelligent”.
Schadenfreude on November 27, 2009 at 2:30 PM
One thing’s left out in the report from mediaite, it wasn’t Palin that was duped, it was the campaign. The campaign scheduled the interview for her and handed her the phone saying it was President Sarkozy.
Palin knew about halfway through that it was a scam, and hang up the phone.
joshleguern on November 27, 2009 at 2:30 PM
ok What Palin said was 100% correct and in line with her views. What is “funny here” If liberals think this is funny they have no mind. Palin was asked a question and responded with her beliefs on healthcare. and the problem is?
unseen on November 27, 2009 at 2:36 PM
Does anyone give a crap about Canada?
Wade on November 27, 2009 at 2:37 PM
Will somebody please explain to me where the comedy was?
unclesmrgol on November 27, 2009 at 2:38 PM
She’s an “intellectual lightweight”. She doesn’t live in the right place, doesn’t speak with the proper accent and didn’t go to the proper schools. And didn’t have a good interview with Katie Couric, oh my.
ddrintn on November 27, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Just sayin…Obviously Barack didn’t (to my knowledge) actually say the above, but he did reference the 57 states of the United States….so what does that say about his intellect?
john1schn on November 27, 2009 at 2:38 PM
I do. As long as there’s a Canada, my idiot relatives won’t come back to Texas.
john1schn on November 27, 2009 at 2:39 PM
Being Canadian, I would like to chime in on this thing.
“This Hour has 22 minutes” was funny – 10 years ago- when I was in University. It has LOOONNNGGG overstayed its welcome. Much like “Royal Canadian Air Farce.” Then again, they’re both produced by the asshats at the CBC. So we really shouldn’t be surprised by the “quality” of show.
mjk on November 27, 2009 at 2:42 PM
She
unseen on November 27, 2009 at 2:44 PM
I hate bashing Canada but come on. Their system only works because of their proximity to the US.
Go to wikipedia and compare Nobel prizes for Medicine between Canada and US. Canada has 1. The US has almost 60.
Then search modern medical innovations. You’ll see an even bigger margin.
Chuck Schick on November 27, 2009 at 2:45 PM
+1, or +.984 Canadian.
The same WHO survey that places US in #37 in healthcare quality puts Canada in #30. Yay. We should aim for #30.
Apologetic California on November 27, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Just sayin
unseen on November 27, 2009 at 2:47 PM
I think you are absolutely correct in this take on our incompetent president.
JAM on November 27, 2009 at 2:48 PM
as a poxoma in the original thread said:
Good comedians in Canada are called American.
rob verdi on November 27, 2009 at 2:52 PM
I would say the only joke in this is Canada’s big government health care system, and their big government tax subsidized media companies.
Enjoy our second hand F-18 Hornets, Canucks.
Brian1972 on November 27, 2009 at 2:52 PM
Absolutely a dumb, dumb post.
mobydutch on November 27, 2009 at 2:53 PM
Now she creates and saves jobs in Canada too. Amazing.
the_nile on November 27, 2009 at 2:54 PM
by the way this convinces me more the ever that the left is only happy attacking and mocking, and that being responsible for things drives them even crazier. I recommend we all do our part to relieve them of this duty in 2010. Everyone, include the netroots will be happier.
rob verdi on November 27, 2009 at 2:54 PM
AP, please consider copying comments fromt he headlines thread…thanks ahead.
On Obama’s ‘intelligence’ – once devirginized, there’s no way that toothpaste goes back in the tupe. Peggy, as enamored as she is/was, has written a great article.
Schadenfreude on November 27, 2009 at 2:54 PM
Thanks for your input!
Allahpundit on November 27, 2009 at 2:55 PM
tupe = tube
Schadenfreude on November 27, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Absolutely a dumb, dumb commenter…
Schadenfreude on November 27, 2009 at 2:56 PM
A female version of Boris Badenoff.
When do I laugh?
Kini on November 27, 2009 at 2:57 PM
This passes as witty satire on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as long as it’s directed against anybody to the right of Canada’s socialist party, the New Democrats.
Drained Brain on November 27, 2009 at 2:57 PM
Nobody was “pwned” here. Some idiot fake reporter asked Sarah Palin something and she responded…..not much of a story. To the liberals saying she was had…ummm…this would’ve been like going up to her and asking her about the size of government in another country. “OMG, she actually said that we should have a limited government!” Yeah, that’s kind of what she stands for…
Narutoboy on November 27, 2009 at 2:59 PM
You are very welcome, Allahpundit.
mobydutch on November 27, 2009 at 2:59 PM
Ditto that. Too bad we can’t avoid subsidizing it too.
landshark on November 27, 2009 at 2:59 PM
Sorry to have to ask this, but for months I have wondered what the heck ‘pwn3d’ means? I see if everwhere and would love to find out what it means. Thanks.
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letget on November 27, 2009 at 2:59 PM
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