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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This is Canada’s answer to The Daily Show because Canada is Canada’s answer to America.
Jim Treacher on November 27, 2009 at 3:00 PM
A Canadian asked Palin a question about Canada, she answered it, and now Canadians are enraged about an American sticking her ignorant Amurrican nose into Canada’s business.
Anyone trying to understand Canadians should start there.
Damian P. on November 27, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Thanks to South Park, I just can’t take Canadians seriously.
JCred on November 27, 2009 at 3:02 PM
As well you shouldn’t.
I was thinking it, but you beat me to it Treacher.
gryphon202 on November 27, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Weak. That comedian came off looking like the fool she is.
javamartini on November 27, 2009 at 3:05 PM
Wondering why this is worth a HA posting. Could this be a continution of APs negative(?) infatuation with Palin? Just asking…
docdave on November 27, 2009 at 3:06 PM
‘Real’ Canada are no different from America. They are hardworking sensible people. High Church Canada, the ones we hear, are something else entirely. HCC creates one of the more stultifying and least creative culture the Western world has ever seen. Every. single. one. is a mediocre f*ck that wouldn’t be given a cable access show if they were in America. Any one with talent, as we know, end up in America.
Apologetic California on November 27, 2009 at 3:07 PM
He always does that.
thomasaur on November 27, 2009 at 3:07 PM
To be “owned”, to be had.
Schadenfreude on November 27, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Lol
nyx on November 27, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Where were the questions for Obowma…?
Seven Percent Solution on November 27, 2009 at 3:09 PM
I was reading the comments at mediatate, and someone raised the point about Biden being arm in arm with reality tv stars in the white house.
rob verdi on November 27, 2009 at 3:09 PM
Sure would hate to see their answer for Obama!
WashJeff on November 27, 2009 at 3:10 PM
Yes. “Is this the best she could do.” Maybe AP should go on a book tour and try to be more concerned with that task and the people who did come to see him rather than some cheesy Canadian “reporter.”
rlwo2008 on November 27, 2009 at 3:10 PM
That would be Allahpundit.
ray on November 27, 2009 at 3:12 PM
Canada embarrasses itself?
jhffmn on November 27, 2009 at 3:13 PM
LOL!
AsianGirlInTights on November 27, 2009 at 3:13 PM
It is actually a reference to computer cracking, I believe. Back in the age of brute-force wardialing, the idea was that you could get so deeply into a computer system, it was as if you owned it.
“Pwn,” pronounced just like the English word “own,” comes from the idea that leetspeakers, or internet chatters, often hit the “p” button on their keyboards when they mean to push the “o,” right next to it.
gryphon202 on November 27, 2009 at 3:13 PM
That would be Pierre Trudeau
nyx on November 27, 2009 at 3:14 PM
Awww…I like Allah.
nyx on November 27, 2009 at 3:15 PM
Best.
Insult.
Ever.
thirteen28 on November 27, 2009 at 3:16 PM
What a maroon. I do like how Sarah just took it in stride and kept on keeping on.
jimmy2shoes on November 27, 2009 at 3:17 PM
What’s not clear about this segment is the funny. Everything about it is rather predictable, even the canned laughter throughout. What IS clear about the clip is the way that its been presented via many websites. The Huffington Post presents the clip with the headline “Palin Tricked By Comedian Again, Says Canada Should Drop Public Health Care.” Raw Story’s headline claims “Palin tells Canada to get rid of public health care.” Google News results on “Marg Delahunty” provide more examples.
Frankly, I agree with this blogger.
What’s funny about a comic asking a straight question? It’s a bit like the comic goes to the grocery store and asks the butcher for a steak. Upon reciving it, he says, “You’ve been punked!”
It’s way dumb.
AnninCA on November 27, 2009 at 3:17 PM
Wait, help me understand this, because I don’t. This Marge woman pretends to be a Canadian conservative, right? Then why doesn’t she stay in character, like Colbert? I mean, she can’t wait to proclaim that Palin isn’t a man of the people and that every word in Going Rogue is a “lie,” including “word.”
If that’s what the conservative character does, what do the liberal characters do?
That was not only lame but also incompetent.
Kensington on November 27, 2009 at 3:17 PM
This wasn’t even funny in the slightest.
This is the kind of “comedy” you get when the TV stations are subsidized by the federal government with tax dollars, thereby insulated from the workings of the free market choices of viewers.
Oh, Canada indeed.
Brian1972 on November 27, 2009 at 3:18 PM
Sarah just keeps racking up points to support her own thesis. The media really is caught up in PDS. Big-time.
Fortunately, I can’t imagine anyone in real life being this far out of whack politically.
They are just silently racking up the REAL points, which is to avoid believing much about the news.
AnninCA on November 27, 2009 at 3:19 PM
And as to everyone who’s wondering why this would seem funny, im guessing that to a Canadian audience, having a politician say such things would seem off. A full 80% up there feel they have the superior model. It would seem to them that Palin’s comments were electoral suicide…in Canada, of course. For the American audience, I can’t find any humor.ernesto on November 27, 2009 at 1:58 PM
You should check out Steven Crowders PJTV documentary of Canadian health care to see the disaster.
the_nile on November 27, 2009 at 3:19 PM
Yeah, I guess the joke would be “I’M NOT REALLY A BUTCHER!!1! LOL!!1!”
Asstastic!
Kensington on November 27, 2009 at 3:20 PM
I hate to admit this…
I lived in Canada ~10 years ago, and this comedy show actually used to be quite funny. They were notorious for ambushing politicians. Even though this show was/is taxpayer funded, many times it was laugh-out loud hilarious.
But this?!? I agree with Allah. Whatever you think of Jon Stewart, he is head and shoulders above the rest.
badbrad on November 27, 2009 at 3:20 PM
You should check out Steven Crowders PJTV documentary of Canadian health care to see the disaster.
the_nile on November 27, 2009 at 3:20 PM
This is Canada’s answer to The Daily Show because Canada is Canada’s answer to America.
Jim Treacher on November 27, 2009 at 3:00 PM
——
Uh, no.
Our show started in ’93.
Daily Show in ’96.
The clip is really weak material, but This Hour has 22 minutes is a really great show.
Dave Rywall on November 27, 2009 at 3:21 PM
Canada’s warning to America. Truedough never met a dictator he didn’t like.
Caper29 on November 27, 2009 at 3:21 PM
Heh. That’s rare. A canuck who thinks America’s business is Canada’s.
What that Dave Rywall?
DarkCurrent on November 27, 2009 at 3:23 PM
EF Canada and Mexico and the horses they rode in on.
Mirimichi on November 27, 2009 at 3:23 PM
That endorsement coming from Hank Yarbo is a game changer.
thomasaur on November 27, 2009 at 3:23 PM
Guys, don’t insult all of Canada please. Especially over this. And especially you, Treacher, because you’re awesome and I don’t want to start dumping on you over this.
The show in question is really really not funny. And I know, because I tried watching it many times, but couldn’t take the non-funny. The producers/writers/actors are terrible. I’m surprised why this show’s still on the air. Anyway, its target audience, I feel, is the older generation who aren’t that sophisticated or up-to-date with current events and what’s ‘cool’, so their jokes are really blah.
Another thing about Canada, remember that many of the big name funnies in Hollywood are Canadians: Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Eugene Levy, Ryan Reynolds, Seth Rogen, and many many more.
AlexB on November 27, 2009 at 3:24 PM
As a Canadian I can attest that This Hour Has 22 Minutes is staler that bottom jar biscotti. I am sure that its audience of eight on state run CBC will find it amusing. Yes, believe it; Canadian taxpayers actually pay for this “entertainment”.
KG in Sask on November 27, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Perhaps she was just being polite…?
4shoes on November 27, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Read the Mediate article. They boil it down to: if you hate Plain this will make her look more of an intellectual lightweight. If you love Palin this will be one more attack by the media. I personally see it as a woman who trusts others in her dealings. Someone who believes in the inherent good of her fellow man and isn’t full of hate and paranoia. While she needs to get a better sense of the left’s capacity for lies and illegal dealings, this Canadian comedy bit really is a non-issue. She said what you’d expect her to say in the brief moments of a busy book tour. Nothing embarrassing. I think the truly amazing thing is that Canadians expect her – or anyone – to know what their comedy shows are. I don’t expect anyone outside Chicago to know who Svengoolie is.
chicagojedi on November 27, 2009 at 3:25 PM
I saw her at the Columbus book signing and somebody told me she was a Canadian. Since she seemed so quirky, I assumed she was with a Canadian entertainment show like our ET or something.
Nice answer Sarah gave.
Sapwolf on November 27, 2009 at 3:28 PM
Where does this idiot think that Canadians will go for healthcare if we implement a system like theirs?
farright on November 27, 2009 at 3:30 PM
President Sarah H. Palin, 2015.
I have signed legislation that will outlaw Canada forever. Bombing begins in 5 minutes. All your oilsandz and timberz belong to me.
That is much funnier.
Brian1972 on November 27, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Why would Canadians call your mom Sarzoky? What’s a Sarzoky? Is it something you’d buy from Rick’s Toy Box? Is your mom a Sarzoky?
jimmy2shoes on November 27, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Nah she’s just so easy.
thomasaur on November 27, 2009 at 3:32 PM
I do too, but this isn’t even post-worthy. Why give the moonbats at Think Progress or the PuffHo links or the attention they so desperately crave?
It has to come down to his basic dislike for Sarah Palin and thus a chance to bash her and let the moonbats he links to get some more cheap shots in.
Think Progress, the PuffHo, the Kos Kiddie Day Care Center, the DUmmies and the rest of them all ride the Short Bus of Life. Their sense of humor is so retarded as to be sub-puerile.
pdigaudio on November 27, 2009 at 3:33 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
To be “owned”, to be had.
Schadenfreude on November 27, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Specifically, “You’ve been pwn3d” would pop up on the screen when you were defeated due to a programming glitch in the on-line game “World of Warcraft“, from there it was picked up spread through the virtual world. It just kinda shows the bizarre ways the internet-age influences our culture and language.
Archimedes on November 27, 2009 at 3:33 PM
I am a Canadian, I do not watch ANY Canadian programming though because it is mandatory state imposed garbage. Canadian news and programming is all left wing and I will NEVER watch it. I watch Beck, Hannity, O’Reily, Greta and I have sattelite radio for Gibson and Levine. I pay NO attention to Canadian politics either. I LOVE the USA and Americans. Be free.
royzer on November 27, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Jeez, what a bunch of tools some of you people are…
AlexB on November 27, 2009 at 3:33 PM
This is what happens when you let the government pay for your comedy…
ninjapirate on November 27, 2009 at 3:34 PM
Come on, give the guy a break. Allah is still bandaging from the Uncle Jimbo beatdown, and he said this:
He’s not so bad. David Brooks/Frum he ain’t.
Brian1972 on November 27, 2009 at 3:36 PM
Yep, SLEDGEHAMMERS!
jimmy2shoes on November 27, 2009 at 3:37 PM
You must have been elsewhere when God handed out a sense of humor. Tool.
Brian1972 on November 27, 2009 at 3:37 PM
That’s true. I just he’d lay off her. It’s like he wants to help turn Sarah into Dan Quayle (which I am afraid has already happened).
pdigaudio on November 27, 2009 at 3:38 PM
By the way, this was not a worthy post for HA.
If AP was really doing his job, this is the post he should have made.
Sapwolf on November 27, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Yep, imagine how bad they’ll screw up heart surgery.
jimmy2shoes on November 27, 2009 at 3:38 PM
I’d bet you’re consuming a lot more of AP’s work than he is of yours.
DarkCurrent on November 27, 2009 at 3:40 PM
Tell the truth… did you edit out the funny bits?
painfulTruthDisciple on November 27, 2009 at 3:40 PM
I am a Canadian, I do not watch ANY Canadian programming though because it is mandatory state imposed garbage. Canadian news and programming is all left wing and I will NEVER watch it. I watch Beck, Hannity, O’Reily, Greta and I have sattelite radio for Gibson and Levine. I pay NO attention to Canadian politics either. I LOVE the USA and Americans. Be free.
royzer on November 27, 2009 at 3:33 PM
——
You can leave any time. We won’t miss you.
Dave Rywall on November 27, 2009 at 3:40 PM
Precisely why I couldn’t give two flying frigs about that country, who lives there, or if they have health care, or not.
Virus-X on November 27, 2009 at 3:40 PM
Not to forget Rich Little, when he was younger and really good.
You, on the other hand, are not welcome here. Yet, I grant you the freedom to move here, because not doing so w/b illiberal and unprogressive, two words which are not befitting of the left at all. They are hijacked terms by you, the weasels who don’t live by them.
Schadenfreude on November 27, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Hey, I’m an AP fan. You don’t see me ripping his throat out.
But we all make mistakes, and that AT column just may be column of the week.
Sapwolf on November 27, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Same goes for you.
Brian1972 on November 27, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Who is this “we” you speak of?
jimmy2shoes on November 27, 2009 at 3:44 PM
…because dessent is soooo unpatriotic, unless you claim it, hypocrite.
Schadenfreude on November 27, 2009 at 3:44 PM
Dave uses the royal “I”, as does his Messiah, Obama.
Schadenfreude on November 27, 2009 at 3:46 PM
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spmat on November 27, 2009 at 3:46 PM
Specifically, “You’ve been pwn3d” would pop up on the screen when you were defeated due to a programming glitch in the on-line game “World of Warcraft“, from there it was picked up spread through the virtual world. It just kinda shows the bizarre ways the internet-age influences our culture and language.
Archimedes on November 27, 2009 at 3:33 PM
—-
Uh, no. The WOW thing was an homage to the true origin of the term.
It originated in a multi user game of Quake where a player, who had just killed another player, tried to mock him by typing in the chat: OWNED! but he committed a typo, and it appeared as PWNED!, and he himself was mocked for it. It spread slowly and then like wildfire and became the standard mockery of someone you had just handily defeated.
Dave Rywall on November 27, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Then send in a tip. There’s a mechanism for that.
DarkCurrent on November 27, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Seriously, I look for perspective only. This was such a story that backed Palin.
Can you picture any other “comic” trying to pass this off as funny?
Yet, this blog tries to do so?
Even I see this as a “slam” Palin again thread.
AnninCA on November 27, 2009 at 3:48 PM
You know, Allah, I don’t know how you cope with the stupidity and jump-to-conclusion-ism of some of your readers.
AlexB on November 27, 2009 at 3:49 PM
No, simonsimple calls the younger Mrs. Bush a “murderer”, because she got in a car crash over a decade before she met and married Chimpy.
As for bookworms, Chimpy’s Air National Guard buddies all say that while they were off-duty, they were the ones watching “Hee Haw” on teevee, but Dubyah was the one off to the side reading history books.
But we all know Bush is even stupider than simon is.
Del Dolemonte on November 27, 2009 at 3:49 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
American nationalism is not allowed..Every other countries nationalism within our borders A, O. K.
American nationalism is verboten. You will learn, you will be reeducated, or you will be soylent..
huckelberry on November 27, 2009 at 3:50 PM
This perspective is almost identical to Huffington Post.
Amazing,eh?
I like to blog both right and left.
But I find it fascinating when the left agrees with the right.
Hmmmmm*
AnninCA on November 27, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Way to make friends and win influence there, champ.
Brian1972 on November 27, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Now, a TRUE funny one was when Palin was accused of thinking Africa was a country, not a continent. And CNN jumped on the story, from a blog, which actually was a spoof, and had even been identified as such before the story broke.
Today, there are still people walking around who think that she’s that dumb.
Funny spoof, by some noname blogger.
This one?
Not remotely funny. It’s like they went to the Mall and bought a shirt and then said, “Hey, that idiot didn’t know us! We’re spoofing!”
*blink*
AnninCA on November 27, 2009 at 3:53 PM
Wow, that was an embarassing little clip.
It’s like a nerdy dork in high school telling his fellow dorks to “Watch this!”, then doing something brilliant like bumping a pretty girl in the hallway- he then urkles his way back to his co-nerds, and they snort riotously together over the hilarity of it all.
justltl on November 27, 2009 at 3:54 PM
So what’s the real deal with this blog?
I’m curious. What’s the hidden agenda here?
AnninCA on November 27, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Spoken like a true, second-rater Canadian. Believe me, your leftist country would truly miss you, because misery loves company. They couldn’t afford to lose a single leftist, free-speech hating drone, like yourself. However, if Canada didn’t export ass clowns like this ‘woman’ to meddle in political affairs that aren’t the business of your backwarsds, leftist paradise (kind’ve like you whining on an American political blog), they wouldn’t have to worry about being exposed as a nation of liberal, British/French wannabe hacks. Canadians hate freedom and free speech (just ask Mark Steyn), and you typify that. Your ‘fellow countryman’ (and who knows how longer that’ll be true) is here to speak freely, and can do so. Don’t like. It? Keep your pinko ass on lefty Canadian blogs, and leave everybody that doesn’t toe your groupthink line alone.
Virus-X on November 27, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Thanks for the insight on Americas feelings for her neighbor. And you wonder why we hold you at arms length?
BL@KBIRD on November 27, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Easy. It is the button that keeps his shirt from popping, on most days.
Why some claim to be the editors of this site, even some of the great ones, is hardly ever understood.
Send in your tips. If they get used, be happy; don’t ever ask for hat tips (no one cares about them anyway); if they don’t, so what? Post your links and an excerpt, when/where they apply. No one ever stopped you from it…
Schadenfreude on November 27, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Why? She doesn’t turn out to be the butt of the joke … the so-called comedian is.
darwin on November 27, 2009 at 3:55 PM
What’s interesting to me?
Obama’s book sold 67,000 copies in the first week. Palin’s sold over 400,000, minus all bulk buying.
She seriously whipped his butt on book sales. Now, why are no “bloggers” pointing this out?
It was a pretty simple question I had. It took 10 seconds to find the answer.
Why is this not seriously being discussed.
And, btw, why aren’t real people who actually read being validated? Obamafans clearly aren’t book readers.
Palin fans are.
come on.
AnninCA on November 27, 2009 at 3:57 PM
This is a blog. It’s all about slant here.
Yet, this is presented differently?
Why?
AnninCA on November 27, 2009 at 3:59 PM
But is there an app for that?
jimmy2shoes on November 27, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Must be the joke of the day :)
Schadenfreude on November 27, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Has anyone tested the water in NYC? I mean are they dumping medical waste, that could I don’t know get someone confused or high? Maureen Dowd remember writing something critical about Barack H Obama during the campaign? Really, I thought the only thing the New York Times missed during the primary was giving him a warm tongue bath…not because they didn’t want to – he wouldn’t let them :)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/opinion/25dowd.html
Dr Evil on November 27, 2009 at 3:59 PM
I think that AP is secretly in love with Sarah Palin and uses negative post about Sarah to hide his infatuation with her.
Johan Klaus on November 27, 2009 at 4:00 PM
I’m not following you. The post title is sarcasm.
darwin on November 27, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Here’s my real response.
This “silly” story racked up 9,000 posts on a liberal blog.
Whatever is preventing this blog from really discussing what people obviously want to discuss is up to the editorial direction, of course.
But, I’m sensing that the “boss” needs more attention?
I can only speculate, of course.
But it’s way off the radar today, anyway.
AnninCA on November 27, 2009 at 4:01 PM
Dave comes across as frequently constipated. He needs to use the “royal throne”.
jimmy2shoes on November 27, 2009 at 4:01 PM
Kind of like an elementary school boy hitting a girl because he really likes her?
jimmy2shoes on November 27, 2009 at 4:03 PM
*giggle*
You do? I’ve never noticed.
(I have nothing against Canada but can’t say I give a rat’s butt about whether or not they’d hold us at arm’s length).
Kensington on November 27, 2009 at 4:03 PM
I am diametrically opposite.
I think it’s a business decision. I think Michelle imagines she’s in competition with Palin.
She’s not. But that doesn’t change the direction of the blog to recognize that.
AnninCA on November 27, 2009 at 4:04 PM
You’re right. I’m too annoyed here.
I cannot believe my eyes on conservative blogs. The liberals are eating them up alive.
but, you’re right.
AnninCA on November 27, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Jim Treacher:
Don’t blame all Canadians. Some of us are very conservative, married to an American and worship at the alter of Mark Steyn.
kim roy on November 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Oh, let’s all quickly move to Tiger.
*haha
AnninCA on November 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM
I’m just wondering why you think we care what Canadians think? Want to stay away from America? Maybe you should stay off American socio-political blogs, genius. And tell the Front de libération du Québec I said “hi”.
Virus-X on November 27, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Liberals are in a feeding frenzy over something non-existant … a supposed punk on Palin that never materialized.
darwin on November 27, 2009 at 4:10 PM
The HA business plan is intact.
Americannodash on November 27, 2009 at 4:10 PM
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