Tina Fey: Downright Mean
by Jason Killian MeathTina Fey recently won an Emmy for her uncanny resemblance and venomous impersonation of Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin. In accepting her award, Fey was her typical, obloquious self saying, “Mrs. Palin is an inspiration to working mothers everywhere because she bailed on her job right before Fourth of July weekend. You are living my dream. Thank you, Mrs. Palin!”
2008 marked a departure from the memorable, more cordial years of Chevy Chase as a clumsy Gerald Ford or Dana Carvey’s hilarious H.W. Bush: “wouldn’t be prudent.” Fey was downright mean.
For her part, Palin was an easy target — a conservative woman and mother. And seemingly abhorrent to Fey and friends, Palin had small town values, a small town family and — as Fey chafed on Palin’s world view — “I can see Alaska from my house.” The impersonations were sometimes funny, but more often foul. ”I believe marriage is meant to be a sacred institution between two unwilling teenagers…,” Fey roasted during one of the skits… an innuendo on Palin’s pregnant, unwed daughter. Her satire strayed from the issues into catty, sexist territory — intellect, pregnancy, family attacks and even sexual riffs.
Lucky for Fey, she runs with a highly elitist, bi-coastal posse — the NY-LA intellectuals who are free from the burdens of conservatism. They’re free thinkers who celebrate their contribution to the world as they scream at the doorman for not having their Town Car ready. Palin was an unknown from a far away place, she didn’t stand a chance with this crowd.
Conveniently, this cadre of smarty pants run NBC. When the Palin impersonation generated some water cooler buzz, NBC gave her a whole SNL special, and then another and another — right before the election. By then, Palin and Fey had become fused (at least on TV). She was good at playing Palin. Too good. If you turned down the volume, it was impossible to tell the two apart. The result was, at the very least, chinks in the Alaska governor’s armor.
Fey’s Emmy is just icing on the cake; Saturday Night Live ought to be crying “Thank You!” to Ms. Fey for making the expiring show relevant again. The irony has not been lost on most observers: it was another woman who utterly ripped apart one of the first women on a Presidential ticket. Can one imagine Eddie Murphy returning to SNL to lambast Obama night after night weeks before the campaign? And NBC clearing blocks in their prime time schedule in order to promote more time to bash Barack? Of course not.
Ironically, Fey’s years of appearances on SNL were never as remarkable as her return to play Palin. When Fey starred in the forgettable “Baby Mama,” some critics noticed a lack of big screen pizzazz. Funny how a feisty governor from Wasilla can move blockbuster-sized crowds, riveting American TV viewers overnight during the 2008 Convention, but Fey couldn’t turn years of training on SNL and stand up comedy into any great cinematic effect. Okay, now I’m being cruel — apologies.
This is one backbiting impersonation that has had its 15 minutes. In a nation that craves to sort its entertainers and politicians into nice, neat bins, please file Fey’s Sarah Palin ’satire’ in the heap of tiresome fads like Flash Mobs, Snoop Dogg Ring Tones and Napolean Dynamite. Are these things the world might have been better off without? You Betcha.






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"She was good at playing Palin. Too good. If you turned down the volume, it was impossible to tell the two apart."
I would respectfully disagree. Governor Palin was far more attractive–inside and out. Even Tina Fey admitted that Sarah Palin was better looking.
In the long run-no one will remember Fey and few will forget Palin!
I can't even count the number of non-politically involved people I've talked to who think Sarah Palin is an idiot for no really clear, explainable reason. That is, when I ask them why they think that, they draw a blank. It's just something they "know"…somehow. It's because of Tina Fey's charicature on SNL.
This has done insurmountable damage to Gov. Palin's image among casual (i.e. non-party aligned) voters.
It's a shame, really, but we need to cut our losses and find someone electable to support on the 2012 ticket.
Dear Ms. Fey,
Of all people you should understand how difficult it is being a professional woman and having a family. It is women like yourself who denigrate working women such as Mrs Palin that make it hard on the rest of us who are trying to be taken seriously in the work place. By making fun of one of the most visible working women in the US, Palin, you are helping to perpetuate the myth that it is alright to make fun of mothers in the work place, especially in places of power such as Palin.
As for her leaving her post, it is possible–like she has told us on numerous occasions–that Palin was unable to do her job due to the constant distraction from law suits and that she felt more comfortable leaving rather than taking a paycheck and not being able to devote 100 percent to her job. That is actually a possibility.
Perhaps you cannot understand the damage your tacky rants have had. Your words marginalize women not just Palin–got it?
Sarah Palin should be a source of inspiration for all women not the target of ridicule. You may not agree with her politics, but tearing her apart is not the answer. Honestly, I really do not know how you sleep at night. I couldn't be comfortable treating another human the way you and others have treated Sarah Palin. It is mean-spirited and cruel.
Good luck with your Emmy. I hopes it helps you feel better about yourself.
Sarah Palin – drop-dead gorgeous, both inside & out.
Tiny Fey – scars on her face and deeper scars on her pysche.
When Sarah Palin walked on SNL in while Tina Fey was walking off, you could see the difference. Sarah Palin is dynamic, energetic, and attractive, not to mention downright ballsy to go on when they are ripping her apart. That had to intimidate the meek little puppies at SNL, especially Fey, who comes off like a plain llbrarian who rails on you for a book 2 days late. Pain is an authentic person who would bury her fake ass in 2 minutes.
You betcha. It's amazing the number of people who think Palin really said "I can see Russia from my house."
So Fey gets an Emmy- just as Katie Couric got a Cronkite for her own hatchet job on Miz Sarah. Sad times.
"find someone electable to support on the 2012 ticket."
My optimistic side says that we could win in 2012 with a sack of laundry, as long as it said "I'm not Obama."
Tina Fey is still in high school. Mrs. Palin has her Doctorate.
Right there with ya, Tom. though sometimes it goes even further. I got a cousin who's the sweetest girl in the world — not a mean bone in her body — but the other day she casually mentions that Sarah Palin is crazy as if it's a well known fact. Has no idea why… just something she heard one time.
Our national debate now seems to exist primarily on the level of innuendo.
Don't wright-off Palin yet. Remember, America would never elect some "affable, but dumb B-movie actor."
Palin is just as "stupid" as Reagan. So I have high hopes.
Fey has a big stick up her ass. Totally dispensable 'celebrity' destined for footnotes.
You are right about Tina Fey saving SNL last season with her Palin shtick.
And whenever SNL has a "breakout" character, they milk it for all its worth. How many times did they run and rerun those political themed prime time specials?
Now, it's done. SNL, and the comedians who have roasted Bush, Chaney, Republicans, had one last hurrah with Palin, now they have to move on.
We'll see if SNL has the guts to start taking swipes at thier beloved new President this season.
I doubt it.
John: Excellent, very excellent. Another point: Tina Fey's constant slamming of Palin took attention away from the incontrivertible truth that Palin's economic ideas for the country were 180 degrees different, and superior, to Obama's socialist ideas. Our economy will suffer for at least 4 years due to this "hidden" truth. Our MSM, aided in '08 by SNL, has done our country a grave dis-service. Socialism and more govt spending/taxes, and less drilling, is a prescription for further disaster. But it's Obama's and Pelosi's prescription.
The world's Irony Quotient has been met for at least the next century. Good, enlightened liberals are mewling and spitting like alley cats because an intelligent, accomplished woman "has it all." Tina Fey and her sort seem to want uppity women like Sarah Palin to pipe down and get back to the kitchen.
I can understand why. Sarah Palin is not only a gorgeous beauty queen and a sports dynamo, but, in a short time, rose by her own talents and merit to the highest position in her state. To twist the knife in the hearts of withered shrews like Maureen Dowd, she also has a handsome, virile husband and, so far as we can tell, a happy and contented home life.
How that must sting, when those bitter, angry, dried-up, pinched, venomous witches slump back to their lonely condos with nothing to succor them but their rage. How's that working out, ladies?
Figures. In the news the following day they played the part of her speech where the thanks her "lifelong republican parents for their patience". I thought maybe I was too hard on her. Sometimes I hate being right all along.
I may be missing something, Who the hell is Tina Fey?
Tina Fey is a class clown. She will never achieve a fraction of what Sarah Palin has. I think she knows it, and is jealous of it.
I agree with everything except the part about Napoleon Dynamite. That, I'll never tire of
This blurring of the line between reality and make believe is what makes a dolt like Oliver Stone so dangerous. How many people believe his made up stories are historical fact?
The problem with your argument is that, singlehandedly, Sarah Palin, with her "death panel" facebook remarks and an op ed in the Wall Street Journal, completely and utterly changed the course of the healthcare debate. She exposed it, with just two little words and as no one previously was able to do, for the sham that it is and the fact that "healthcare" in reality means nothing less than government takeover of every aspect of our lives.
You are writing her off and telling us to move on much, much too soon.
I like Palin's foreign diplomacy in 'Who's Nalin' Palin?' Taking on thsoe Russians was a 'Big' deal and look that good after all those kids.
To me it is the intent. If a professional wants to be funny at the expense of a national figure that is OK. But Tina Fey, Chevy Chase and 99% of the people on Sat Night Live desire to hurt.
Chevy Chase took an all american football player and graceful athlete and made him into a clumsy dufus. Tina Fey attacked an entire family in even a worse manner but for the same purpose as Chase.
To me they are prostitutes. They sell their integrity, talent, professionalism for political value and money.
Is this article relevant to anything new or is it just more loser whining?
Umm…Fey is herself a working mother who's quite successful in her field. Whatever you think of her Palin impression, it's highly doubtful Fey wants to keep women out of the workplace. That's a ridiculous conclusion. By the way, Fey is happily married with a child of her own.
Pretty much just more whining…over old news as Fey won the Emmy over a week ago.
The emmy won't make Fey feel better about herself. Like the Head Narcissist In Chief (Obama) the only thing that will make Fey feel better about herself is when her adoring fans supplicate themselves at her feet. Think 'Ruby Rod' in the Bruce Willis movie, "The Fifth Element."
Actually, she's kind of an old fashioned success: started as an actress, worked for years as a writer, became head writer of SNL, then got her own show which has pretty much raked in awards & recognition since it began. You may not like her work, but she worked her way to the top the old fashioned way…with hard work. As one of the few women to achieve that, she'll get more than footnotes.
We’ll see, as far a Ms. Palin is concerned whether or not she can reclaim her caricature driven by Ms. Fey, I think she can. As far as 2012 is concerned if Barry continues with his leftist trajectory, the right runs someone with a pulse, and we win. The big focus for “conservatives” should be 2010, we must not look past the midterms, and like the left vote regular and often.
The notable thing about the Obama victory is that black female voter turnout was higher than white male turnout. That was competely new to American politics. Understandably, Obama motivated every black person who could to show up at the polling place and cast a vote. McCain did not excite anyone.
White male voter turnout was lower than normal. There is no question that in 2012, Obama will again benefit from Black racialist motivation, regardless of any programs, policies or effects. What he appears to be losing though are those white swing voters in Ohio, Pennsylvannia, Florida, et al.
The Democrats are obviously going to lose clout in the 2010 elections. Obama is going to play the Hispanic card next year over immigration. How that battle impacts Hispanic voters, and how the economy re-acts in 2011 will be the overriding elements in 2012 barring some unforseen national defense problems. What is that old jewish curse? "May you live in interesting times".
Tina Fey is a one-trick pony as far as star power. On a more important note, if the FEC prevails in its quest to assert the authority to suppress Hillary the Movie, one must ask why they did not land equally on Tina Fey's attacks on Palin?
Agreed. I would still vote for her in a heartbeat. D the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
Again who is Trina Fay?
Comics were just as mean to Clinton during the Lewinsky Affair. And they were just as funny. Palin QUIT for money! What a wimp. Even poor Mark Sanford, living with TONS more stress, hasn't quit. Good for him, but bad for Palin. I'd support Sanford over Palin just for perseverance alone.
I'm dying to see Tina Fey play the "prostitute" and sting ACORN offices on SNL. Now THAT would be hilarious but it isn't going to happen. Such rich comedy fodder and it will go untouched…..
Tina Fey winning an Emmy, or having a show on NBC, is nothing more than Mary Jane average winning funniest gal at the company Christmas, er, " Holiday" party. It's nothing more than a self-congratulatory ceremony for a small group of people who think, work, and hang out together.
It's meaningless and it's irrelevant. Nobody in the real world cares!
If Ronald Reagan can over come a movie where a monkey was his co-star than given enough time to refine her political game and gain more knowledge she can easily get her "monkey" off her back and Fey will be as much an after thought as Bozo was for Reagan.
Please clear something up for me. Not all Conservatives are cruel and insulting, only some of them. Is that correct?
Clever but not clever enough. You would support Sanford? Your remark suggests you lie. If you would support "perseverance alone," then you must have supported Bush over the attacks of eight years. But I suspect not.
Sarah Palin has the world in front of her while Tina Fey is stuck inside the myopic and provincial black box.
Hollywood gave it their all yet Palin has multiple speaking engagements, is authoring a book, is developing a following where ever she goes.
Lastly, anyone who has the guts to pawn the Democrat Party's playbook
knows exactly what they are doing.
It's actually her 6th Emmy…she's won the others for SNL and 30 Rock. So, yeah, I'd imagine she feels pretty good about it.
A bunch of pitiful liberal slugs sit around in a circle jerk cackling and squealing in delight over Tina Feys juvenile mockery of Sarah Palin, who they’re deeply jealous of, and predictably award this liberal airhead with a trophy that no one outside of West Hollywood cares about.
It isn't clear in your article that Sarah Palin said neither "I can see Russia from my house" nor "I can see Alaska from my house."
The original quote was "You can see Russia from Alaska," which was interesting, surprising and relevant to many until Fey rewrote the quote and repeated the rewrite endlessly to, successfully, make Palin look like a fool.
I don't know about that. It was a different time although not that long ago. I think the media in general still had a concept of what their job was. They still were aware of the principle of objectivity, even if they didn't employ it 100% of the time. This generation's media thinks their job is to enlighten the rest of us about the right way (as they see it), not to give us the facts and let us decide. The media 25 years ago would have told both sides of a story, although reluctantly, and they might have left out SOME good things about someone they disagreed with. THIS media will bury anything good, exploit anything bad, and straight up make things up.
So why are 40+ people here b*tching about it then?
Palin for President = Four more years of Obama. That is just the way it is.
I agree. Reagan was mocked constantly by the same kind of people. What, he never should have been elected?
No matter who is the nominee, the leftist entertainment-media complex will go after that person mercilessly.
The funny thing is most Americans can relate to Sarah Palin and not snobs like Tina Fey. How else can you describe the huge crowds she draws wherever she goes.
http://motorcitytimes.com/mct/businessman-donates...
The funny thing is most Americans can relate to Sarah Palin and not snobs like Tina Fey. How else can you describe the huge crowds she draws wherever she goes.
http://motorcitytimes.com/mct/businessman-donates...
The funny thing is most Americans can relate to Sarah Palin and not snobs like Tina Fey. How else can you describe the huge crowds she draws wherever she goes.
http://motorcitytimes.com/mct/businessman-donates...
Basically you are saying that 6 Emmys help her forget that she is setting back working moms with her mockery of Palin? Am I correct? Just trying to understand your comment.
I don't hate Fey. I think she is funny and she has made a name for herself. That's wonderful. However, it was after she mocked Palin on SNL that she became widely known. I thought we all knew that? As for 30 Rock…I have thought about watching it but can't be bothered. It's a fringe show with not very good ratings, isn't it?
But will this current form of media still be in existence by 2016? I don't think that Palin should run for 2012 but by 2016 she will have had almost a decade of time to learn and have banked years of political currency since she was treated like the media's red headed stepchild. The route that the media is taking right now is a nose dive into the Marianas Trench if they keep splitting the cultural divide the way they are now. When two kids expose one of the biggest stories of the decade and no one in the journalist community was brave enough, it's just another crack in their castle walls. But we shall see, perhaps you are right and I am to optimistic with society.
This woman (and all those involved with SNL) has no shame. Not only do they use and abuse Sarah Palin for the benefit of their careers, but then the indusry rewards it.
They are all beneath contempt. Every single person involved with it, and everyone in the audience who cheered it on.
"worked her way to the top"? The top of what? A couple of TV shows? She's no major talent or legend material. SNL? Buried alive years ago.
Stop 100 people in the street today and see how many know who see is.
Try it again in 10 – 50 years and then go check the footnote department 0f Wiki 2050. She be as well remembered as Bob Burns or Stoopnaglee and Bud or Kanye West..
The only legitimate criticism of Palin's..shall we say, "worldliness" I've run across was that interview with Couric regarding what she reads. Never mind that Couric could have given Fey a run for her money with regard to sheer nastiness and liberal snobbery; the large group of voters who think those publications are still relevant and that reading them is a sign of intelligence were not impressed. Other than that, no, there's really nothing anyone can lay their finger on. Even if she did say "I can see Russia from my house,"…so? We're supposed to forget every other time a politician has engaged in hyperbole now? How idiotic. I don't know, though, that Palin's a total loss in 2012. She gained a bit of credibility back this year, I think, especially with the Letterman fiasco, which may have mitigated the reaction to her resignation a bit. Even my college newspaper, which is generally left-of-center on most things, suggested that Palin may have just resigned so her family wouldn't get caught up in the media frenzy any longer, and if so, who could blame her? So I guess we'll see.
SNL is the moshpit for eldely comics
On the other hand, the sum total of Tina Fey's career will always be her Sarah Palin impression. No matter what Fey does from here on, no matter where she goes, everything she does from now on will be judged against the Sarah Palin standard. So while Fey may have impacted the election, she'll never get the Sarah Palin monkey off her back.
So imagine with me now: Tiny Fey gets up in the morning, looks in the mirror—sees Sarah Palin. In the shower, when she talks to herself, she hears Sarah Palin's voice. Fey goes out to eat, and 17 people all shout "Fabulous Sarah Palin." For the rest of her life, all she'll hear is Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin … .
Then I must be beneath contempt because I thought it was funny.
(Though, to be fair, I do think they went to the Palin well a couple times too many once they realized they were back in the cultural spotlight again and that it was only a matter of time before people stopped talking about it.)
As for Fey, I'm a fan and I enjoy 30 Rock but I admit SNL still wasn't that funny when she was head writer (and it's a shame since some of the performers are really good but they lack material). Baby Mama was forgettable (it wasn't a project she originated) but I thought Mean Girls was much better than it should've been (Fey co-starred and adapted the screenplay).
As for me, I've done improv training (like Fey and the rest of the SNL cast) and I tentatively plan on continuing improv training in NY. I don't know what will happen but I would hate to be called shameless because of my associations. When it comes to the political humor, I can only try to be even-handed.
I do agree with the poster that summed it by saying, it really is an attack on your average conservative working mom. When I think of the Governor, and all her instant media exposure, all I remember is the grace and honesty in her answers and communication.
It's too bad the media was hell bent on twisting and editing her to make her appear in a different less flatering light…. but slowly they are getting theres, just look at Charlie Gibson, I guess he is so busy getting his Ph D. in 'Bush Doctrine' studies that he missed the biggest media story of the year, how two novice journalist went undercover and EXPOSED ACORN for fraud and abuse…and how these two novists forced both the SENATE and the HOUSE to defund this corrupt political arm of the Democratic party. WOW! Has Charlie ever had that kind of impact with his 'journalism'
yes, revenge is a dish best served cold!!
Think that is a Chinese curse…
The problem here is that Palin has been relegated to Quayle-esque branding. Because of Fey's moronic portrayals of Palin, far too many people will not listen to Palin or consider her ideas and vision in the future.
While Palin may continue to have some sway in conservative circles, there can be no doubt that as long as the fringe media perceives success in savaging her, we can only expect their efforts to become even MORE savage (Letterman, who should have been horse-whipped) and much more despicable… sort of the 2008 election cycle increased geometrically.
Fey and NBC will be responsible for removing any chance for Palin to become president. And they will point to that with pride.
And that is a damned shame. Palin could certainly hold her own on a level playing field; after all, that empty-suited, anti-American racist bigot in the White House is like the Platte River: a mile wide, but an inch deep.
If Tina Fey wanted to kiss Sarah Palin's ass, she'd need a trampoline.
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Bullcrap. The arrogance of Sarah Pain for even accepting the nomination for vice president, is what made her an excellent target for the SNL skits. The only ones who are responsible for the Republican party being bankrupt in the area of having top grade national leaders…….are the Republicans. It was a joke that Mrs. Palin was ever even considered to be intelligent enough to possibly be our president, if something happened to the old guy. When someone came along and did such a great job of pointing out that joke, you blame her.
Next time, nominate Rush Limbaugh. That would be a lot of fun (and another great failure for you guys).
I agree. Palin proved that she still has quite a bit of influence even with the lefty attacks. I haven't seen another Republican that has moved the discussion as much as she has.
Your memory is highly selective.
Comics were VERY careful to portray Clinton as a Naughty Boy, meticulously avoiding any hints about his abuses of power (use of Secret Service agents as panders, getting Lewinsky a cushy job above her resume in the Pentagon, punitive suppression of "bimbo eruptions", not to mention perjury). They played into the MSM template that "it was just about sex."
Palin's decision to resign, in the face of numerous petty lawsuits which interfered with her ability to govern the state, and which was costing her hundreds of thousands in legal fees, not to mention the stress on her family, was both the right and strategically sensible action to take.
Small wonder you prefer Sanford. In failing to act in the interests of his state and his family, he's acting just like a Democrat.
Naturally your guy, B.O., is probably considered by you to be eminently qualified for the office with a resume a mile long.
Who is b*tching; Just pointing out a fact. At 3:00 am this truth must eat away at Fey, as she realizes that her acceptance by the left is based entirely on HATE and her meanness of spirit.
Deep down, regardless of her money, I would think it kind of sucks to be her!
ANYONE who criticizes the selection of Gov. Palin and mentions NOT Øbama's selection of that bird-brained, idiot Biden, he of the plugs, chiclet capped teethed and flimsy grasp of U.S. history (Roosevelt went on TV when the stockmarket crashed in '29) is of the same mental capacity (that is to say, LOW) as said Biden.
I'm for the Saracuda!
Entirely too many.
I'm saying Fey is hardly slamming working moms when she is one herself. (in fact she has widely said that it was her toddler daughter's seeing Palin on tv and exclaiming "mommy!" was the final bit of convincing she needed to do the parody.) She has also said that the best thing about the writer's strike was her being able to spend more time with her daughter. Her acceptance comment reflects the fact that it's hard to do both, and she probably has wanted to quit several times herself, especially before a holiday weekend. Re: ratings– "30 Rock" is certainly no 'Seinfeld' or 'Friends, but it's doing quite well…in fact, the SNL parody has helped it immensely.
Right on Kit about ugly Liberal women, I can name a few more, Maxine Waters, Patty Murray, Debbie Wasserman Shultz, Rachael Maddow( not sure about gender) Patrica Schroder, Whoopie Goldberg,Barbara mackowski, Rosie O Donnell, and many many more. What stands out with those women is they have no soul, their ugly within and vicious. Sarah Palin has outword beauty and inward beauty Her intelligence would wipe the floor with those Liberal hags.
What results from the "political satire" of SNL, Stewart, etc. is that their audiences are almost wholly incapable of differentiating between fantasy and reality. I recently had a debate with a leftie I know is reasonably intelligent and the topic turned to President Bush's sometimes unclear statements. To support his position that Bush was unintelligent he made the claim that after 9-11 Bush made the statement "the future ain't what it used to be." I googled that phrase and it was originally said by Yogi Berra. I could find no instances where Bush repeated that sentiment only that he was a big fan of Berra and his inventive use of the English language. I proposed to my friend that he had probably heard some half-wit comedian attribute that to Bush or if Bush did say it, take it wholly out of context. My friend admitted he never heard Bush make that statement.
The moral of the story is for the most part we are dealing with an opposition that receives its opinions from the likes of SNL and Stewart and it is up to us to expose the false premises upon which those opinions are based. Otherwise, true policy debates will never occur and no real progress will ever be made on any of the problems facing this country.
The top of her chosen profession, one that it's very difficult to make a living in, let alone succeed. And I'm going to say that if you stopped 100 people on the street, 85 would know who she was, whether they like her or not. Heck–67 people have responded here and only 2 or 3 archly claim to not know who she is.
I wonder how Tina Fey got that prominent facial scar. A dueling society?
If it were not for Sarah Palin, I would never have known who Tina Fey was.
This is why the liberals are terrified of Mrs. Palin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaLPEoAoV2g
When was the last time you saw a politician be open and honest about this sort of personal trial?
From the aforementioned Vanity Fair article:
–Liz Lemon favors her right side. That’s because a faint scar runs across Tina Fey’s left cheek, the result of a violent cutting attack by a stranger when Fey was five. Her husband says, “It was in, like, the front yard of her house, and somebody who just came up, and she just thought somebody marked her with a pen.” You can hardly see the scar in person.–
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2009/01/tina_f...
If Fey did in Palin, how come Sarah, with the simple bottom-line summary "There will be Death Panels" on her Facebook account, wrecked the All Powerful Obaama's socialist train?
"The problem with your argument is that, singlehandedly, Sarah Palin, with her 'death panel' facebook remarks and an op ed in the Wall Street Journal, completely and utterly changed the course of the healthcare debate."
That's overstating the case. The hulabaloo at the townhall meetings began before Palin weighed in. Obama never really had momentum on his side, and he seemed to know it; that's why he pushed Congress to ram it through before August. Nobody bought the idea that reform would save money, and none of his magical speeches helped the cause.
Not to take away what was for Palin a surprisingly effective flanking maneuver. But I think Obamacare was going to tank anyway.
Yes James – you are correct, Palin never had the intelligence to work for ACORN and help in opening neighbored brothels staffed with underage illegal alien girls from El Salvador with the American taxpayers dollar. You have a real winner in the White House this time.
In fact I think the impersonation was wholly, fundamentally bad. Fey is not only the wrong body-type (sharp and vulpine to Palin's softer, rounder feminine) but wrong in her sense of Palin's spirit. The entire thing was a malicious liberal comic conceit working with good costume design.
Wow. You really do need to listen to Sarah's speech at Tarnsman's link above. Sarah is absolutely wonderful. Talk about "transparency."
Yeah, the same way they "remember" J. Danford Quayle (referring to the latter)…
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"No matter who is the nominee, the leftist entertainment-media complex will go after that person mercilessly."
Ever notice how Republicans are always dumb and Democrats brilliant (even while failing), according to the MSM? Bush II, Reagan, Ford: dumb, dumb, dumb. Bush I: the "thin-lipped C-student"; Eisenhower: like your uncle, when he's not an empty suit.
Meanwhile, Obama is a Constitutional expert and wrote the greatest political memoir in U.S. history. Gore was a consumate Man of Science, endlessly waring against philistines. Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar. Jimmuh Carter was a nuclear technician. Kennedy was at home with the "Whiz Kids"; FDR surrounded by the Brain Trust. Adlai Stevenson, if history books mention him at all, is always found alongside the word "egghead".
Well if (he) can not manage to win a second term, with the entire yellow-stream media in his front pocket and unlimited funding from both Hypocritwood and 'one world' Soreass, not to mention all the (paid) volunteers from community action groups…..he will have been outed for the dim minded, race-baiting, America hating, libelous liberal statist that is behind the mask.
FeyFan-
Save your breath. and try and get some reality going in your life. '85 out of 100 would know who she is'? Haha. Like the guy below, I never heard of her until she did her SP imitations.
Totally to be forgotten entity except in Parade or Entertainment Tonight.
The reason that SNL went so hard after her is that she dared to run against "the chosen one". They felt that Obama was far ahead the better candidate (they were wrong). So to them, it was right to do anything fair or unfair to destroy her. For this Ms. Fey got a Emmy, and tomorrow she will get another Emmy, not for performance on 30 Rock (which I don't get, guess that's just me. Give me Barney Miller anytime), but for her work to have THE ONE named president by destroying a good woman.
And this shows the incompatance of the McCain outfit. Instead of putting Palin on friendlier shows like Rush and Hannity. He put her on with Couric and Gibson.
This is why certain people in our party (namely Michael Mevded and Sean Hannity) need to end the hero worship of this man. Thank him for his service to his country and party and just let him sit on the sidelines.
Well he is really well qualified to work in the front office, of the California office of Acorn.
I remember SNLs "lampooning" of a newly elected President Clinton. Clinton on his morning jog with Secret Service agents runs into a McDonald's, dispenses "smartest guy in the room" policy wonk intel while he scarfs down food left and right. Good natured ribbing with Clinton as Wonkus Extremus Intelligentius. That seems to be always the formula. Build up lib dems while ridiculing conservatives with their "out of date" values. That won't change. Period. (Well that's the impetus behind Big Hollywood, to inject some of our side into the culture)
I'd advise Tina Fey to polish up her Sarah Palin impression for after the 2013 inauguration address.
No way is Fey better looking then Sarah. When they stand side by side it's pretty easy to see the difference.
Funny that Jason doesn't mention her very successful show 30 Rock when he's talking about her supposed post SNL slide into obscurity.
If you don't want Sarah Palin, you must bring back honest Abe…
I disagree, Tina Fey is the class bully that spreads mean gossip and torments new kids and outcasts. A class clown would have more class.
I would not be surprise if Tina Fey pull a Bill Maher gutter and over the top "I hate America monologue."
If you want to bring in some underage girls from El Salvador to be prostitutes, as Community Organizer Barack is your "go to" guy!!!
And yet another of my posts goes to the dreaded "site admin". I've got to learn to stop using the word "an@lysis".
And she has a sense of humor – in addition to lots of character
To be fair, it's entirely too early to see where Fey's career goes. I'm sure 30 Rock will continue for several years but after that… who knows? Will she headline another series? Will she star in films (I personally don't see that happening)?
Or will she end up like SNL's Laraine Newman or Nora Dunn and do voiceover work and the occasional guest appearance on TV?
Hey Tina,
You couldn't walk 10 feet in Sarah Palin's shoes.
You are a forgettable parasite.
I had a good conversation with my 18-year-old daughter about this. Even she thought it was mean. SNL is now old people's stuff. I look forward to high quality new-people stuff.
For anyone who has watched SNL from its inception, you have to say,
SNL has been unviewable for the last several years.
But at least the SNL actors think they are funny.
There isn't and therin lies the problem. To restate the obvious, someone has to begin to emerge as a force that can corral the energy that has been sparked without co-opting it. The current anti-Obama surge (popular term these days), won't accept your typical poilitican very easily, I don't blame them. Difficult task, to say the least, and I don't see anyone there.
what we have here is a real woman vs a faux woman…
And that, really is the essence of the debate. Palin is not only hot but walks the walk of a real woman. These other pretenders may have female genitalia but that doesn't make them women. Pampered poodles, perhaps. She appeals to real men.
Not Fey…
Yeah, like Romney's gonna be dumb enough to pick HER as his running mate…
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
You conservatives live in a dreamland. What a bunch of pathetic babies.
You had a weak 2008 ticket, led by a cantankerous old man and a close-minded, delusional late-addition bimbo.
It's not Tina Fey's or SNL's fault there was so much to exploit for comedy.
You want some cheese with that whine?
Yeah, Tina Fey hasn't quit 30 Rock yet.
Column B, of course…
Somebody turn on a fan–the trolls are making a stink that redefines "juvenile".
Baby Mama (which came out before the Palin "ascent") grossed over $60M on a $30M budget (which makes it profitable, unlike American Carol); as for critics (most of whom have a liberal agenda) saying Fey "lacks big-screen pizzazz" (who the F still uses the word "pizzazz", anyway?), how about naming ONE of them, genius? And if Sarah Failin is such a difference-maker, how come the Repubs LOST by over 8 million votes? In conclusion, to quote a certain congressional lout: YOU LIE!!
I like that!
I have said it a million times: Palin was an unnacceptable human being for the Left. The reason? She was the sole reason that John McCain's campaign had any life in it. Because of her presence on the GOP ticket, there was a moment when it looked like St. Barry of the Holy Teleprompter would be denied his ascension.
The fever-swamp Obama cult could not let that happen. For liberal media douchedrinkers like Tina Fey, Sarah Palin had to be destroyed. That meant using her talents-such as they are-to obliterate Palin's viability as a political figure. Couple that with the all-thumbs handling she received from John McLame's campaign staff and the myth of 'Palin-as-Quayle-type-Idiot' came into being.
The problem is, idiots don't usually get to derail massive legislative efforts from a social networking website. The fact that she was able to throw a wrench into Obambi's agenda from far outside the beltway tells me that Sarah Palin is going to get the last laugh.
Dear Ms. Fey,
I would like to see if you are truly a great commedianne, or just got lucky due to your incredible physical resemblance to Sarah Palin.
You could prove your comedic greatness by coming up with some good comic routines about Michelle 0bama and her family, as you did with Ms. Palin.
I eagerly await that comedy routine.
Jason, it was nine million votes. So what? Still only amounted to 53% of the vote. Not exactly landslide territory. What is forgotten is the missing six million conservative voters that sat out the 2008 election. (difference between what Bush got in 2004). That is how despised McCain was/is by conservative voters. Many had the attitude that it was time to teach the Republicans a lesson. They won't do that next time. And Sarah prevented McCain losing in a 1964 style rout. I, and many, many others like me, voted for Sarah; not John I-stab-my-party-in-the-back-every-chance-I-get McCain. The way Obambi is screwing the pooch, you Dems are staring at the loss of the House in 2010. Even Harry "The Land Swindler" Reed looks like a sure loser next year. As does Chris "Sweetheart Deal" Dodd. So maybe even the Senate could be lost. Heck, Dems are starting to sweat that they could lose Ted Kennedy's seat come January's special election. Twelve Senate seats flipping in an election is the record. And with sixteen Democratic seats up in 2010…… And 2012? Sarah will be the least of your problems. Enjoy the long spiraling sense of impending utter defeat. You have three years of it ahead of your. Muhahaha!
Cheavy Choad was NEVER funny- he was just in the right place at the right time over 30 years ago; ENOUGH w/all you old foegs who try to rewrite history to suit their own lying purposes!
What's successful about it? It won Emmys. Oh well, any old show can do that. Especially one that is brain dead and completely irrelevant.
It's like the Colbert Report. It's only famous because !#@$ing idiots watch it. Of which the two people above me are adherents.
Obviously, spellcheck (nore rational thinking) is NOT your strong suit!
Well it's successful because people watch it so NBC keeps putting it on. Whether you think it's for idiots or not doesn't matter. My point was that Jason was saying that she was a one trick pony and that she'd be forgotten soon. Well, she was the headwriter on SNL for a few years and now I think she's the exectuve producer of a big prime time show that she alsow stars in. Pretty impressive resume for someone who's a flash in the pan.
She is a "one note" actress, that has added her name to the list, of HAS BEEN SATURDAY NITE LIVE veterans.
That she exploited, TO THE MAX, this one note, is too bad for her !
I have no "optimistic side".
My slightly less pessimistic side says 2012 will be a very, very close election; to be followed, if Obama is removed from office by a legal vote according to the principles of the Rule of Law and the orderly transition of government, by spontaneous rioting in most of our inner cities.
But my other, more realistic, side, says Obama wins re-election in a walk. On the plus side, we Evil Republicans won't be burning anything down in protest over it, if for no reason other than we still own most of the stuff. Well, for now, anyway.
Obviously, you prefer "intellectual" fare like Jon & Kate, Rock of Love Herpes, and Glenn Beck Crying Like a Pansy…
You'd think that Fey, having written screenplay "Mean Girls," would have a bit more empathy.
The problem with that is this.
Choose any other conservative candidate and tell me how SNL won't be able to run smirky skits trying to embarass that person time after time. Obviously if the non-politically aligned person you are talking about gets all his political insight from SNL then it would not matter who you pick as a candidate.
It's not just Tina Fey who is imitating Palin. Should we concede this power to Larry Flint of Hustler as well. Every time you abandon a conservative because the press slanders them then you encourage this from happening. My response it to not watch SNL.
Go watch Vicboria Jackson whining about something then (if you can find her anywhere but on Fox)!
Exactly.
If all that has to happen for us (whatever subcategory of "us" applies here) to abandon a candidate is for some comedian on SNL to run a smirky skit… well that's that.
You might as well just vote for Obama again.
tina fey doesn't even come close to Sara Palin's beauty. You can stick glasses and a brown wig on anyone and you'd get a "resemblance" but that's about it. Liberal women are usually ugly inside and out. Just look at pelosi, boxer, feinstein, streisand, et al. They're also VERY hateful to everyone around them, they don't know how to be happy, it's beyond them.
Who knows even less about U.S. history! And she's proud of it!
She is such a horrible woman. Ugh.
Some of it was funny. More of it if her skits were viewed as a commentary on Palin criticism and not just Palin.
In any case I really don't think this hurt her in the long run. I think that those ready to bail on her are… plainly put… stupid. Because a couple of things are happening whenever anyone attacks Sarah Palin in a mean way… First, everyone knows who Sarah Palin is and she is kept in the public eye and even negative things, particularly if they are obviously exaggerated and spoken from a mean motivation, is better than being out of the public eye. It's not perfectly true but to some extent any publicity *is* good publicity. Second, people will become inured to criticism of Palin. It will become noise over time, just more of the same, and it will lose its power to persuade. Everyone will have heard it all before, over and over and over. For a two month blitz it was devastating. Four years of it will just make it old. Third, more and more people recognize that so many of the attacks are simply mean, because they are mean, and that carries a whole lot of weight with the valued "center" with older people and those who reliably vote every single election but otherwise don't have politics for a hobby. And fourth, Sarah Palin really is not those supposed substantial criticisms of her… she's not inarticulate, she's not stupid, she's not incurious and she is not uninformed. She has, as Bill Clinton said, a very good political instinct and shouldn't be taken lightly. The outrageous criticisms combined with midterm election exposure campaigning for others will make it easier to dismiss the less outrageous criticisms with the outrageous ones.
She may have no plans to run for national office. But if she does, the biggest hurdle she has isn't Tina Fey, it's people supposedly on her side who see a little rough water and abandon the person they think best for the job and start looking for someone bland and "electable."
And the Republicans will end up with another McCain… like THAT will work. Sure it will.
I stopped watching Network TV altogether after an MSM outlet tabled the Juanita Broderick interview until after the vote on Clinton's impeachment. They admitted they obtained exclusive broadcast rights and chose to wait to not affect the impeachment process despite admitting her charges of rape could not be disproven.
So again whi is Tina Fey. i only knew who she was because of the complaints about her Palin impression. Even if you make it to the top of a trash heap, your still standing in a pile of trash.
I stopped watching Network TV altogether after an MSM outlet tabled the Juanita Broderick interview until after the vote on Clinton's impeachment. They admitted they obtained exclusive broadcast rights and chose to wait to not affect the impeachment process despite admitting her charges of rape could not be disproven.
So again whi is Tina Fey. i only knew who she was because of the complaints about her Palin impression. Even if you make it to the top of a trash heap, your still standing in a pile of trash.
"It's because of Tina Fey's charicature on SNL."
No way. Fey doesn't have that kind of reach. Even granting all the publicity she got from the MSM, it was the MSM itself and its toadies in the opinion journals and on newspaper editorial pages who were most responsible for the "Sarah Gump" narrative's success.
Everything else aside, I thought Baby Mama was hysterical.
well then they should give an emmy to all the horses in America. any one of their asses could play the PRESIDENT.
Baldwin carries that show.
Yeah, you're right-the left did a good job on him as well and idiots remember what little they've been taught! I'd compare Dan's spelling to Obama's knowledge of how many states there are any day-but the press never will.
Tell you what. You seem to have answers. What should I have toldl my eleven year old daughter when she asked me "why is everyone making fun of Sarah Palin?" –FYI, she was talking about Fey mocking Palin on SNL.
I'd love your response.
Poor, poor Tina Fey. First a stranger comes up to her when she's five and slashes her face. Now, 40 years later she's still trying to get over the trauma, by making fun of others.
Tina Fey is exactly the kind of person she thought she was making fun of in Mean Girls.
It's time to let go of Palin. It wasn't Tina Fey that did her in, it was her interview with Couric, which to be fair was entirely her fault. She is a great lady, and stands for everything that I believe in, but she just doesn't have the goods to be President or Vice President.
"Satire is a mirror wherein beholders generally discover every face but their own."
–Jonathan Swift.
In this corner we have Sarah Palin whom has small town common sense values with a proven agenada.
In the other corner we have Barrack Obama who has Ivy league elitist values with an unproven agenda.
Who wins in 2012?
It ain't McCain! The fight is on for what direction this country will go. Get your ring side seats, it is going to be an interesting 3 years ahead. You may even have to get in the ring yourself this time.
oh so now Palin as Governor was a real job? Before it was a joke to Fey and everyone else….Fey is a sham…She better hope that emmy vibrates because thats about all its worth.
I think whoever ok'd the early interviews was politically suicidal.
Or homicidal. Remember, a lot of the McCain camp hated her.
Yep, that is McCain for you. Always trying to be everybody's friend.
I concur!
It's interesting that the title of the post includes the words "downright mean." I read an article about Fey not too long ago, I want to say it was in Vanity Fair, and she was described by people who liked her as
"bitingly mean." I guess she's always been that way. She has a bitter streak a mile wide.
I've been boycotting Fey for a year now. She is not on my radar anymore. Thanks, but just not interested in what she peddles. She should have stayed behind the camera.
To be fair, it's entirely too early to see where Fey's career goes. I'm sure 30 Rock will continue for several years but after that… who knows? Will she headline another series? Will she star in films (I personally don't see that happening)?
Or will she end up like SNL's Laraine Newman or Nora Dunn and do voiceover work and the occasional guest appearance on TV?
Like her or hate her, she has achieved success in a business that is very difficult to break into.
Too bad Mz. Fey couldn't come with some original material so she'll just be another third-rate wannabe playing to the already-bored crowd.
Tell her there are mean people in the world, and sometimes you get made fun of whether you deserve to or not. I'm sure you already discussed the election with her last year and she has a grasp of who you liked, who you didn't and why. Eleven year olds are pretty smart–she could probably follow this thread easily. In all seriousness, I wouldn't presume to tell you what to tell your child. Just read her your first post here.
With all due respect, a lot of people saw "Mean Girls" and "Baby Mama," and somehow SNL stayed on–a lot of people knew who she was. Get some reality going yourself–just because you're ignorant of something doesn't mean the rest of us are. And I wouldn't mock Parade magazine too much: it has the widest circulation of any magazine in the U.S.
Fey has already far surpassed Newman and Dunn, IMHO. Neither ever had a breakout starring role in a movie, or headlined their own series. I doubt 30 Rock has more than a couple of years in it–once Alec Baldwin decides he wants to make features again full time it's over. But if they can squeak out enough episodes for syndication, add that to the bushels of awards she's one and the fact that she can write–Fey's going to be fine for years to come.
That's good.
I'd say the last 10. And yet, there it sits, every Sunday, in my dvr, taunting me. I knew it was over when I went an entire season and didn't recognize any of the musical guests. But I gotta say–Justin Timberlake is funny as hell on it.
. . .Because they stick "Parade" in every damn newspaper in America.
*MissQuinn*
So given Huckabee winning the straw poll at the Values Voter summit today, I'm curious if Palin supporters think she has the ability to raise the money necessary to get the Republican machine behind her? I cringe at the thought of the financial cost of the next election cycle. Do the party kingmakers even like her the way the rank and file public does? I don't think she has the backing to form a viable 3rd party challenge.
LOL.
I would never put words into anyone's mouth but it could be an opportunity to talk about people who are "public figures" and when you're a public figure, you open yourself up to possible ridicule. Some people will be better than others, some will be terribly cruel… such is life for a politician (or an actor, athlete, business leader, etc.).
I would never put words into anyone's mouth but it could be an opportunity to talk about people who are "public figures" and when you're a public figure, you open yourself up to possible ridicule. Some of that ridicule will be relatively harmless, some will be terribly cruel… such is life for a politician (or an actor, athlete, business leader, etc.).
I would never put words into anyone's mouth but it could be an opportunity to talk about people who are "public figures" and when you're a public figure, you open yourself up to possible ridicule*. Some of that ridicule will be relatively harmless, some will be terribly cruel… such is life for a politician (or an actor, athlete, business leader, etc.).
*Of course, another topic of discussion could be why some public figures are ridiculed more or less than others.
"The reason that SNL . . . "____ . . . and they knew she was a real threat.
Where else would I learn how to make Super Bowl Supercheesy Nachos?? Or sheet cakes that look like the flag?? Or who America's top high school football players are? It serves a purpose! ;-D
Ok, I use it to clean up my cat's hairballs.
Keep on dreamin'. It's hers if she wants it.
"Tiny Fey – scars on her face and deeper scars on her pysche."
Good lord… seriously?
Um regardless of who Tina Fey is 90% of what she said came right out of Sarah Palin's mouth. All Fey had to do was just stand there, look like Gov. Palin and repeat it. Palin should have received writing credits for all those lines on SNL. If people were tuning in an watching that's because they thought it was funny long before Tina Fey began impersonating.
That's just kind of cruel.
I think that's kind of cruel.
Let me re-phrase it for you here.
"America will never, EVER elect some dumb@$$ who went to a podunk school beyond the boondocks…
Wha?!? What the heck is "Eureka College"?!?!? Where the heck is the "University of Idaho"??!?
Wassilla?!? Whazzup?!? Nothing good ever came from some frozen hole in Alaska… That place is for people to fish Alaskan King Crab and my salmon for MY dinner, not for training Presidents…"
;-
This is the exact thinking of those Northeast/CA elites.
Don't worry. She – and YOU – will get your comeuppance someday.
But that's the thing – she hasn't done that. She did an impression… she did not talk trash about Palin's husband or kids, she didn't refer to Palin's "sl-ty flight attendant" look, she hasn't gone on Bill Maher's show to babble about Americans being idiots. Fey might be many things but I wouldn't put her in Maher's category.
And not liking Palin doesn't automatically equal hating America.
Palin is just the sort who will always be hated by the left. They will brand her with every "Scarlet R" in their tired little playbook: Reactionary, Right-wing, Religious, and…of course…Racist.
*yawn*
The gig is finally up for this tired old act, I think. Everyone is on to their insane little game, as in "Everybody Expects…the Liberal Inquisition!" at http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/...
Let's get this lame comedy act off the stage once and for all…
It's a shame, really, but we need to cut our losses and find someone electable to support on the 2012 ticket
old tom….with all do respect…your pounding a VERY familiar drum I've heard before. From the left, powel, nyt, the ENTIRE state run media, a few repubelicans, half the Mc Cain campaign advisers. Let me see….who am I missing?? OH!!!! saturday night live…daaaaah.. but anyway, you get the idea old fella. The REAL shame, is that you have lost your way from the daily kos or the huffin and puffington post. I can only hope that people will read between the lines. Cause you may fool some people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. In other words…you a SEMINAR WRITER!!!! haaaaaahaaaaaa Get lost pal…..PALIN is gonna KICK A$$ in 2012. She will destroy your hopeless and changeless. nobama is going down. And my girl is gonna take him OUT!!!! PALIN2012!!!!
While I hear your points, I thought Ms. Fey was funny in lampooning Ms. Palin. The skits I saw made me laugh, and I am a Conservative, a Christian, and a Palin supporter. It is the style of the show to use ridicule and satire, and Sarah came out unscathed as far as I could tell. My reading of the situation is that Tina basically retired that act after meeting Sarah Palin. So My take is that the skits were harmless.
Trey
Sarah Palin 2012 !
Not a dime to any party only $$$$ to Sarahpac.
Tina Fey is just another left wing no talent actress who found a gig attacking a women she couldn't stand in her shadow. The game is rigged here in Hollywood, TV where the left own and run everything. They can't even handle FOX network they lose their minds. You have a half of dozen networks, all the national newspapers, the brain-dead Hollywood malcontents out there attacking this gal and all she has to do is say anything and they blow head gaskets. Then they put this no talent good for nothing nothing on SNL as if she is this comedic genius. There was a time with the leftist nitwits would try to hide the fact that the standards were lowered now you just don't care. You guys are slipping…. big time. We are seeking your nakedness and it isn't pretty.
EXCLUSIVE: PALIN'S HONG KONG SPEECH LEAKED IN ADVANCE – BY TINA FEY!
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As much as I love and respect Sarah Palin, I don't have any problem with Tina Fey's impersonation of the former governor.
I have to give credit where it is due, it is a good impersonation (if a bit biting) that conjures memories of Dana Carvey's impersonation of Bush.
No, the real issue here is bias. Pure and simple. If they had someone hitting McCain, Obama, and Biden equally as hard as they had Fey hitting Palin, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Like Billie Jean Davy says: fair is fair.
Sarah Palin is a bimbo. Everyone here knows it, whether thy admit it or not.
I was horrified by the catty and vicious behavior of liberal women toward Sarah Palin. I understood them not agreeing with her position on issues, but was stunned by the level of viceral anger toward her. Not only by women on TV and in the media, but by women in my neighborhood, at work and even in stores where I overheard catty remarks. I had no doubt that we would elect a black president, but I have serious doubts that we will ever elect a woman president because of the way many women treat other women.
"I can see Russia from my house."
Yeah, and now thanks to Barack Obama, we can ALL see Russia from our house.
You know it's funny.
You liberals have these fantasies that you are going to rape conservative women and teach them a thing or too when the fact of the matter is that even a short little filipino girl like Michelle Malkin would kick your pansy @$$ all over. The fact that libs have to use a porn movie to prove a political point is only evidence of what ignorant high school rejects they all are. If it were not for high school rejects living on welfare because they are too stupid or too strung out on dope to get their GED then the democrat party would not be able to elect anyone to dog catcher let alone higher office.
Tell me what is it like to be in a party of useless criminals and deadbeats anyways.
Yea well
when yougrow up start bathing and get a job and keep it longer than two weeks you'll be able to go out with a real girl and can leave those videos and that blowup doll alone.
is that you michelle obama
still trying to defend corrupt obama liar
I see that you are still not proud of America as your liberal America hatred continues to shine thru
Have you seen NBC's ratings lately
Trust me no one is watching that channel anyways. These two must be Fey's publicists or something. Those awards are like the Oscars they go to the ones the libs in la la land think are relevant that no once ever watches.
I liked Will Smith's line. I make action movies because I like movies that have an audience.
Tina Fey looks like a boney drug addict with a heartless soul (see: http://www.hollyscoop.com/tina-fey-pictures/740.a... to view Fey without makeup reading an Oprah mag w/a bag that says 'Do One Thing A Day That Scares You'–like helping Obama?). Palin looks great for a mother of five. Wonder how Fey will feel as Obama–whom she helped elect–brings the country to near ruin & takes away her (drug?) money for socialist reasons? SNL, like most comedy shows & comedians, still has a hard time making fun of the black worldly messiah.
You need to understand that a large part of America doesn't give a rouge fart about your dingy little pop culture 'movies' of the moment. When I look at the cast of something like MEAN GIRLS and I realize I would prefer to have sex with some of the female cast members rather than watch them in a movie, you can bet the film is a 'dog'. And the fact that Teena Faye is in it does not increase it's 'bone factor'.
Sorry – but I can't take you seriously.
Next floor – juveniles, Tiger Beats, iPods, 3-D animated movies, please exit the car.
Real questions from her–an 11 year girl who has her whole life ahead of her:
"Mom, why does everyone think she is stupid?"
"Why are they making fun of her clothes?"
So I'm just supposed to pass it off as "oh well some people are mean"? That's what I tell her about bullies.
By the way, we objectively looked at the candidates with me and my husband not favoring any of the candidates. But I will say, I thought it was a low blow to go after Palin's pregnant daughter and was shocked that that became part of the national discourse.
Since when do Americans think it is funny to ridicule a family who's daughter gets pregnant out of marriage? I thought that crap ended in the 1980s? And I said so on several occaasions this is true.
And while we were busy watching Fey we were ignoring Obama. Now look where we are.
She grabbed at money while she could… cause no talent is done. Tina Fey, is a laughing matter, as tina fey. Done, no talent.
The only reason Tina Fey developed the gig in the first place was that she looked so much like Palin, not her acting talent. And I agree about "Baby Momma", which was only funny due to her co-stars, especially Amy Pohler, who is extremely versatile by comparison. Even on Fey's television show the funny people are the co-stars not Fey herself.
In my humble opinion, this is all a Hollywood lib love fest. Who really cares about Tina Fey?
I think what Republicans have to start doing is marginalyzing SNL. Instead of Palin and McCain going on this show and giving it legitimacy when they know that every minute will be spent mocking them they should refuse to go on the show. If the O goes on so much the better. We use the fauning of SNL in our commercials and mock SNL.
If they are our enemies then we need to put the message out that we give them no credence. By trying to play pretend with the MSM we only damage ourselves. The problem with Old Tom philosophy is that we will only be allowed wishy washy moderates that if elected the liberals think they can circumvent. Don't play their game.
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Yeah sounds like a winner for sure. White Chick home schooled in Africa learns to be deceitful by befriending the rich girls who call themselves the Plastics.
What a joke! I grant you it was probably unintentionally funny you know kinda like Obama's budget.
Don't be fooled, folks. Tina Fey is struggling. She can't figure out how to put the batteries in that Emmy. What else would she do with it after the "ooooh, shiny" wears off?
Given that the Dem modus operandi is to play Whack-a-Mole with any conservative who raises his or her head above the parapet, I think it's just as well that the movement doesn't put forward any visible leaders yet, even a Toledo plumber, to be savaged by the left-wing smear machine. It's only the first quarter, people.
Fey isn't funny. This is funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfKk5zE8e08
Has Glen Beck be crying again?
Oh my god. Insurmountable damage??? How about the damage Palin did to herself by acting like a moron in full public view? By actually *quitting* in the middle of her elected term as Governor.
A politician who can't handle being criticized or lampooned needs to find a new career. I don't have to go dig up the transcripts of thousands of hours of conservative talk radio during the 1990's spewing garbage and lies that had America fixated on a semen-stained blue dress for two solid years . . . while Al Queda planned the 9/11 attacks.
Take your faked-up poutrage and cram it.
Exactly what is cruel and insulting here.
Tina Fey has obviously had plastic surgery and given the nasty and completely vitriolic performances she has made in protraying Palin how could one even wonder the scars on her psyche. Anyways isn't emotional scars some kind of right of passage with you libs. After all can you even be a liberal if you are not abused by someone else. Hey it's not like ulie called Fey's daughter a whore or anything.
How much does media matters pay you guys anyways? I am curious because the last thing I'd ever do is spend my time trolling the HUFFPO.
Well NBC renewed it for another season so someone must be watching but that's not my point. Jason lies by omission in his article, saying she's a flash in the pan and her post SNL career is a flop when, in fact, it's not.
Then why is she such a jealous shrew. Fey is an actor who probably had to get where she is on the casting couch – wink wink! Hey you know what, what proof do you have that, that child is Fey's daughter.
Maybe it was another teenage relative of Fey and she just quietly took the child home and said it was her daughter just to save her family embarassment. Spin again please!
I'm sorry angry Troll agent watching their career go away say what?
NBC is a joke network. If it were not for GE and OBAMA bailouts they would be out of business already.
Man you libs are a laugh
Did she comment on Van Jones quitting…….I don't know, I refuse to watch Fey…gonna guess she didn't.
I remember the Dixie Chicks getting their 6, or arm load, of Grammy awards and watching their faces as it slowly dawned on them the accolades were not for talent or work but their ability to denigrate Americans. The full impact of their inflated egos must have been felt when Toby Keith campaigned for Obama and his fan base accepted without reservation his right to do so. Tina Fey is still apologizing for America.
The attacks on Sarah Palin revealed several things about liberals that most Americans didn't know. First, they aren't tolerant and accepting of those who are different. In fact, as Fey's comments make clear, they are petty and mean-spirited and insensitive to the feelings of others, including young children. Second, pro-choice is liberal speak for pro-abortion. And, finally, liberals who for many years have championed women's rights in this country never intended those rights to apply to all women.
In WHAT, pray tell (and from WHERE- Idaho U?)???
Oh so this is cruel….. hmmmm……..
Seems to me that Fey has had plastic surgery and that is what Julie references here……..
As for scars in the psyche, I am not a psychiatrist but I have seen several liberals who are also not a psychiatrist go o TV and give in depth psychiatric analysis of conservatives for everything they can think of and it seems to me this insight has as much validity. So how is it cruel.
I mean its not like we are calling Fey's daughter a lady of the evening or something. Chill out! By the way to give you fair warning, any arguments with me on this will devolve into a long tired debate on the meaning of the word "is". It's a confusing word as you liberals well know.
Some shrew who stars on a liberal TV network that no one watches…………….
Wow, angry much?
It's interesting to me that you can't write a simple two paragraph rebuttal to a thought that wasn't even addressed to you in the first place, without ending it by saying "cram it".
Talk about "faked up poutrage" a little more, why dont you?
Whoah! What's with the Napoleon Dynamite slam?
Wow, pathetic much? Blaming everyone but your failed leadership for their failures much?
Palin failed as a leader because she lied and said stupid things, because the ideas she espoused were discredited, and because she demonstrated her inability to understand what her job was going to be. She was a lousy candidate and she lost fair and square. Whining about it and blaming everyone else shows that the Republican party has failed to understand the political situation in the United States. This entire whiny comment thread is easily-dismissed nonsense and will serve no purpose. You're sitting here bitching that a comedienne's impersonation of Sarah Palin cost you the election. Clearly you don't understand what the election was about and think that the only problem was that Americans didn't clap harder for the corporate-approved candidate.
And yes, I am angry. I have watched thousands of lives of MY countrymen and trillions of dollars of MY taxes go to the pet projects of a bunch of incompetent fools. I have no tolerance and patience for them, and I include you among their number. Deal with it.
Just remember Liutenant God takes care of those who do His work. He also takes care of those who don't. What comes around goes around.
James, you are a complete moron. Enough said.
I loved it when Tina Fey got hit with a pie. May she get hit with many more of them.
Tina Frey is another example that in America where there is opportunity, one can rise much higher than their talent or ability would normally allow. Tina Frey has taken her look-alike gift, not a talent and parlayed that into winning an award. As we say in America, "what a country".
Are you always this mentally unhinged or did you forget your meds today? Liberals are deranged.
Yet another deranged Liberal. You need to go & take your happy pills Jason.
Don't hold your breath waiting. Your request doesn't fit Hollyweird's political agenda
That's because you're a clueless bim that mindlessly follows the orders of the Republican Reich!
She was always a class act and deserved a lot better than what she got.. The Lefty Loons couldn't allow her to succeed because she is the exact opposite of everything they hold dear. i.e abortion
Very well written post. Kevin & Jason could learn something from you & possibly cure their acute cases of Palin Derangement Syndrome. Your last paragraph & last sentence say it all about the GOP.
"I'm sorry angry Troll agent watching their career go away say what?"? What is that? Is that English?
Still missing my original point in your efforts to run down NBC and my point is that Jason Meath is a liar.
The GOP will not get behind her no matter how much the public likes her. The GOP are cowards & will not fight for their own. We'll get another RINO like McCain & he/she will go down in flames like McCain. The GOP does not get it that their voters (those left, anyway) DO NOT want RINO (Liberal) candidates & they will have to have their butts kicked a few more times before they get it. RINOs are the political kiss of death. If Democrats won't openly run as Liberals what makes the GOP think their voters can't see through RINOs like McCain?! The GOP have earned the monicker of "The Stupid Party".
I would like to see if you are truly a great commedianne, or just got lucky due to your incredible physical resemblance to Sarah Palin.
You may wish to know that Tina Fey was doing quite well for herself before anyone had heard of Sarah Palin.
You are a troll. The fact that you work for Fey not withstanding. No one else buter agent would care I think. But that's anolther issue. Meath lied about what the fact that the hacks who run Hollywood gave her an emmy for being a nasty faced political tool. That is really rich.
And I make no attempt to run down NBC, they've already done that on their own. No one is watching their stupid shows. You liberals are a complete joke. You little meme about Meath is telling though. You are a liberal Fascist who cannot stand anyone disagreeing with their viewpoint so yoiu come here to bully everyone esle. Do you see me over at I Huff and I Puff post. No you don/t because I don't care what you libs think. Thanks for confirming why you are here TROLL!
Ugly is as ugly does Michelle. Go away!
i don't see what people are talking about when they say the resemblance between faye and palin is uncanny…..it's easy to tell them apart-fey is the ugly one
Very well put Jenna.
Ms Fey has had her 15 minutes of fame…at the expense of misrepresenting someone else…now she should wonder when the Karma from her autrocious smear job will catch up with her.
I agree with anom on the choice role that would suit her…but now that she is "America's Sweetheart" (not) she will do nothing to alienate her leftwing based fanclub…she will probably become a lefty spokesperson ala Susan Sarandon, Jane Fonda.
Wow. What a woman. Great video.
Fey pretty much obliterated Palin by her impersonations, by going after Palin's weak spots: her unpopularity with women under 45. If you look at all the cross-tabs of polling, Palin is popular with men (more than 11% difference between men and women), older women (45+), and of course Conservatives.
Younger women don't like: Palin not aborting her Down's Syndrome baby, having five kids (one or two is viewed as ideal unless the rest are adopted by celebrities from places like Africa). Also deeply unpopular with younger women are Todd Palin (too much a blue collar guy instead of a Big Shot rain-maker), Palin's accent (too much Middle America), lack of Ivy League status validation, and being from Alaska (instead of cool place like Chicago or NYC). VERY unpopular with younger women was Palin's rise by help from her middle class family, blue collar husband (who took off from work to care for the kids) and ability to connect with ordinary people instead of famous celebrities and the press. Fey mocked ALL of this and as a result, younger women despise Palin. While worshipping for example, Angelina Jolie, or Madeline Albright. Who are "correct" female celebrities. [Watch Gilmore Girls repeats for the Albright-worship, or CW's "Gossip Girl" for the preferred younger woman fantasy of female role models -- wealthy debutantes with "fashion emergencies" as their main crisis.]
Palin's positions are no different than say, Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, but because Hutchinson has the "correct" (read: JD from University of Texas) educational/class background, she arouses nothing like the ire Palin does to this day as a private citizen. No group is more class-focused and obsessed than younger women, as a casual watching of CW Network will show. All the dings on Palin by Fey were class-focused.
Which makes Fey the reverse, mirror image of Palin. Fey IS popular among women under 45, but really among no other group. As much as Palin cannot break-out because young women hate her (and they do), Fey cannot do much beyond her core audience that loves her because that's all that loves her.
Put it next to her other 5…and go back to working on her sitcom?
I'm saying he lied because he implied that she had no career anymore and that she was flash in the pan. I don't know how I can make it any clearer to you. And oh, yeah, Jason also conveniently forgot the movie Mean Girls which she wrote the screenplay and starred in. It scores a 7 out of 10 on the imdb.
And you can't stand having anyone disagree with you. You just want to talk to like minded people
By the way, I've never seen 30 Rock, not even once.
As the your Troll comment, sticks and stones and all that.
Sanford was already rich.
For those undereducated trolls…look up the Dew Line NORAD And figure out why so many Alaskans needed to know just where Russia is…relevant today as we now have Russians in Venezuela arming Chavez…or is this too esoteric for small minds trained by marxists teachers…
Well
Since GE has taken bailout money I am sure this will be a terriblky angst filled decision for the Czar in charge of entertainment, whoever that is……
As an acquaintance of mine once said, "women don't need to worry about men trying to keep them down. They do a damn good job all by themselves."
bwahahaha!!! i dont care who you do or dont like… nalin palin is greatness…
I agree Jake.
I took two things away from "Mean Girls" (which I was forced to watch against my will while snowed in at someone's home, otherwise I would NEVER have even known what it was)
1. Hollywood is DESPERATE if that script was accepted and financed
2. Tina Fey was a member of the "Plastics" is high school, is a member of the "Plastics" in her "profession" and will be filled with plastic, a la San Fran Nan Botoxi, in a few short years.
Oh, and one more thing: Lindsey Lohan is a tramp.
Progg math: if their side wins an election it's automatically a landslide and they can do what they want. If their opponents win then said opponents don't have a mandate and have to do what the proggs want.
Where as you 'Inhaled that too often' , would not know who Sarah Palin was if not for Tina Fey.
Why, because you get all your 'News and History' from the late night Boob tube.
Yeah, and it was created by Fey.
At least the Ford parody was inspired by Ford's real-life tendency to have mishaps on stairs and other places. When SNL started the US had a President that was something of a cipher to most due to a prior lack of national prominence and no discernible personality. He was a blank to be filled and they went with that.. Remember, these were people who detested Nixon and had to decide if Ford was more of the same or a patsy set up to hold the chair until they regrouped. Ford's blandness made them go with the latter.
When it came to Fey and Plain, it was nothing but pure venom. It becomes clear from the undercurrent of self-loathing that runs through Fey's autobiographical work, that she has an underlying fear of women who have their lives so much more under control and yet still accomplish much.
Tina Fey and her ilk are vile dishonest people, you give her too much credit.
Brava. Thank you for this. Fey is an idiot and hypocrite.
Fabucat is lying…it's a shifty little rat troll with the comp of Blow Job Clinton to Palin and Sanfored…This Rat troll probably has never voted but is ahso conversent in LibTurd speak…go away shiftless Rat!
I watched the beginning of the phony hollywood show and turned it off as soon as the Hollywood Faggots attacked Gov. Palin. Between the host "floating" around the stage and his lyrics plus the other comments it was typical fruit salad. Wht waste my time. All of those Anti-American gays are not worth supporting.
just think what he could do with good material.
He seems to be doing quite well right where he is.
Again I love articles that just call it like it is and let the chips fall where they may.Thanks Andrew and Staff.This site is a breath of fresh air yet the truths about this administration makes me shutter.
Tina as said before is a tool.Sarah is smarter,prettier,a better role model,more honest,and more American that Fey.
I truly wonder if she realizes her award was for a hatchet job on Sarah.
Not paying taxes is illegal.Hollywood and the White House are in bed together so go for Hollywood..with your wallets.Money is the only thing this idiots understand.Hopefully barry will not save them with grants or bailouts.
Oh Mean Girls…real classic there. Followed by…..Baby Mama!!!… What a disappointment.
Individualist makes a point…go read material you support instead of spending your time bashing good writers. You are obviously on the other side of the political spectrum, so go to a site that supports your views. Again, like individualist said…you don't see us going to liberal sites and bashing writers. It's because you need to show some more class than that. You can make a point without coming across rude, and calling Meath a liar is rude. I don't think you are a troll and of course we could all show more class at times…but please don't say he "lied because he implied she had no career anymore", you cannot prove he lied because he was implying something.
Wow once again right wing people cant take a joke. Your right of course people should get a free ride if they are breaking some kind of barrier, um unless their black of course…..
A little like the fact that Jimmy Carter never said Malaise in his famous "Malaise speech" but the conservatist media establishments made that up because he was saying America shouldn't be so dependant on Middle Eastern oil, an unforgivable sin in those days, and now it would seem
Average age of the cast 26. Damn thos eldery comics!
When is you exposure of the false premise about "Death Panels" I'll make sure I tune in:)
http://www.examiner.com/x-12837-US-Headlines-Exam...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204...
Let's see: Public option "voluntary" end of life counselling by doctors, the resurrected VA "death books," and Obama health advisor Ezekial Emanuel's philosophical support for withholding health care from some deemed not worth saving. This gives some people reason to regard with suspicion the motives of self-admitted progressives, whose historic predilection for government eugenics programs is well-known, as regards believing they have the right to dictate the value of our lives.
funny. very, very funny. Palin is a great looking moron. I can't see you, but I know that you're a moron.
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