An Open Letter to Tina Fey
Dear Ms. Fey,
We, the people, need you.
We need you to be Sarah Palin each and every Saturday night, live from New York.
How else to explain the sudden about face of Governor Palin's popularity in the polls just days after your brilliant spot-on impersonation on one of the highest rated Saturday Night Live's in the show's history? The hair, the glasses, all perfect, but truly it was the flat mid-western accent, the lip-lick, and the insipid comments which did seem like they came directly out of Palin's mouth ("I can see Russia from my house!") made you question whether it was real or was it Memorex.
Frighteningly, it was too real.
From the Friday before the skit on SNL aired to the following Tuesday, Palin's approval rating dropped ten points. Coincidence? I think not. After all, people in this country are tending to be more influenced by who or what they see on entertainment television, more so than on broadcast news or in print. Americans tune into Jon Stewart for their political appetites more than ever ( and why not). So when you, Ms. Fey, don your Palin wig, you influence millions of voters more than Charles ("Charlie") Gibson or Brian Williams, Paul Begala or that anorexic blond McCain spokeswoman ever could.
And I think its your responsibility to do so, or else we face the consequence of a woman in the White House who would strive to take away your daughter Alice's right to choose along with every other woman's in this country.
Most of us who read the Post are already scared out of our wits of what this woman could "accomplish," should she reach the Vice Presidency or beyond. Abortion outlawed even in the case of incest or rape. Global warming research dismissed. Polar bears left unprotected, not to mention moose murder celebrated. But you, Ms. Fey, have the ability, with just a wink and a smirk, to change the minds of millions of casual viewers and even more casual voters, to educate them as to what this woman stands or doesn't stand for. These viewers don't react to a radical move like Republican Senator Chuck Hagel coming forth to question Palin's credentials or credibility, or really care about what political pundits prognosticate on cable news shows. Whether you like it or not, whether you believe it or not, many swing-state voters get their information and cue from you, Ms. Fey, and you need to provide as much of it as one woman possibly can, before the election is upon us and it is too late.
Comedy can cure and comedy can enlighten, but it must be a constant to reach enough ears to change the hearts and minds of this country, Ms. Fey, and not a minute more can afford to be wasted. So smear on your lipstick, get that slightly crazy look on your face, sharpen your No. 2 shotgun and get to work.
When you won your three Emmy awards the other night (congrats on that, by the way) you wondered aloud:
"I want to be done playing this lady Nov. 5. So if anybody can help me be done playing this lady Nov. 5, that would be good for me."
Well, I think it's obvious. That person is you.
Save us, Tina Fey. You may be our only hope.
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I've been a Tina Fey fan for awhile. I've become an even bigger one after watching her channel Palin.
2 things Fey could do to pump up her Palin - 1. Palin smiles (sparkles!) every time she's about to make a personal attack. I was very struck by this as I watched the VP debate and now recognize it in her campaign stumping. I was having flashbacks to the South, where a true lady smiles and simpers at you as she sinks the knife in your back. And she might use the word "also" just a bit more. The wordle of Palin VP debate shows also as a word she used very often, much more than maverick even...
Indeed thanks, Tina. We love ya' Who'd have guessed you'd be such an influential star and save our country almost single handedly from this wacky wingnut who has a great deal of trouble figuring out what day it is. KEEP IT UP!
Tina Fey is brilliant, Sarah Palin isn't, and the word of choice, Suzy, is 'sketch' not skit.
Tina Fey is very scary as Palin. Palin is more scary than Tina Fey playing Palin. Palin must not be allowed into the White House, for the sake of this country, the world, and our tomorrow. I agree, we need a Tina/Palin skit every week (or more often!) until the elections.
I find I can't stop thinking about the movie, "Dave"...
It gives me hope...
Let me preface this by saying "HELL NO" to Palin as VP. That having been said, I have to disagree with Ms. Shuster vehemently. It is not up to Tina Fey or any other celebrity to ensure that Sarah Palin does not become Our next VP. And invoking the name of Tina's daughter was, frankly, low class.
The responsibility to prevent Palin from reaching the nation's second highest office lies not with Tina; that responsibility is OURS.
I thought the skits were spot-on and absolutely hysterical, but comedy is comedy; this is real life. The devastation to our democratic process by the McCain-Palin ticket would be horrific, and should be addressed by those who stand to lose the most: America. I don't expect Tina to shoulder that kind of burden. It should be distributed among everyone that believes in the concept of a better country. Enjoy Saturday night, but make your mark on November 4th.
Comedy can say things that straight news or editorials cannot. That's the point.
The responsibility to prevent Paling from becoming our VP is OURS.
So it was in 2004, when it was OUR responsibility to prevent President Bush from being reelected.
So girl, keep going. We the people can't be trusted and we can use a little help.
Obama-Biden 08: For the world, and for America if possible.
Tina can go on as many times as she wants. But if people don't get off of their couches and go vote then it isn't going to matter. I keep seeing these ads asking for money for Obama or McCain. But I don't hear very much about actually going out and voting. If you really want to make a difference then make sure you vote. Also volunteer to take a friend or two to vote with you. Ask your neighbor if they need a ride. If you know any first time voters make sure they get there. Find older people who may have difficulty getting there and help them. Sitting here at the computer is the easy part. And deconstructing Paling and McCain is to easy. But getting out of the house and actually voting is a little more difficult. So help others do it.
Tina - please highlight Sarah every night and save the country.
we have never had an alaskan gov who before who so fully realizes the strategic importance he/she plays in keeping their eye on Russia. I don't think we can afford to let Sarah abandon her post up there on the frontier of freedom. I think she will realize this soon.
OK - this was an interesting post, then I got to the part about the dire consequences of a Palin vice presidency and there was listed, and this wasn't a joke: "Polar Bears left unprotected, and moose murder celebrated" - Really? It could be THAT bad?
I don't want this woman to be VP either, but come on, polar bears? that's hilarious!
Why is the fact that global warming is causing polar bears to lose their natural habitat and dying because they are stranded on a small barge of ice, starving to death amusing to you? Do you find it funny that polar bears are turning to cannibaliam because they can't find any due wolves and moose being killed all over via aerial hunting? Do you find all that funny as well?
Polar bears are on the endangered list and Sarah Palin wants them taken off that list. She doesn't want them to be protected. She wants to protect the rights of the "hunters" who are too cowardly to do a face to face fight with an animal, so they shoot them from the sky. How do you feel about the 13 wolf cubs that were in their den shot point blank in the head?
If you still find all of that funny, I think that you need some help.
The polar bears and their plight aren't particularly amusing, but the listing of it as a dire consequence of Palin being VP seems quite funny to me...
Whether or not polar bears should be on the endangered species list is a topic of debate and I see some merit to the idea, but I just think it's funny how that is a HUGE issue to some people not Iraq, not the economy, which weren't listed, but polar bears! - plus, the whole moose murder line, sorry, it is as funny to me as Palin's rants...
And if you don't think it's funny, well then that's fine, I am not of the intellectual smallness to assume that anyone who sees things differently than me "needs help" - actually, your post was pretty funny too!
I LOVE Tina Fey, she was awesome. It was a great skit, and I loved the Hillary comparison, it was substance (Hillary) over air head. (Palin) I also LOVED Gina Gershon's impression on www.funnyordie.com under previously featured videos, that was awesome, too! Check it out, if you haven't already. Also, check out what Alaskans REALLY think about Sarah, at www.themudflats.net (previously www.mudflats.wordpress.com) Obam Biden 08'
The fact is, the millions of salt-of-the-earth folks who like Sarah don't watch SNL. So Tina's playing to the choir. SNL had its heyday in the 70's. It's been insipid since.
I beg to differ, SNL was anticipated and very widely watched because people knew Tina would do a GREAT job of Sarah, and it was very well promoted. Sarah's poll numbers went down 10% after that skit! Millions of people have become not so happy with Sarah Palin after that PATHETIC Katie Couric interview which was, unfortunately for your side, watched by Independents who your side needed to try to CONvince people that Sarah was worthy of the VP job. It appears that she is NOT too bright without a canned speech and a teleprompter, and her lies about her bridge to nowhere that she was against after she was all for it. Ironically, (and thankully, with her no abortion even in cases of rape or incest extremism, and making women who were raped pay hundreds and even thousands for their own rape kits!!) nowhere is where she is headed after that disgraceful Couric interview that even her right wing handlers can't spin successfully! No wonder McSame keeps her locked up like his concubine (which is in itself, SEXIST!)
Obama Biden 08'
A Tina Fey sketch as Palin ensures repeat viewing on the cable shows, news networks and youtube. Not long before last nights sketch does the rounds.v
Very funny, but I'm starting a petition asking folks to leave Ms. Fey alone.
I would certainly vote for Tina Fey on either ticket.
Here's a question for the debates (or the next Tina Fey skit): "Sarah, if you could go back to the time of Adam and Eve, which of the dinosaurs do you think would be the most fun to hunt and why?"
It would of course be the one that offered Eve the apple
"Good question, Hypocrisy4u, and I'm glad you asked that. It's really, really hard to shoot anything while riding on the back of a diving Pterodactyl. Magnificent creatures, Pterodactyls. And they taste just like chicken!"
She'd be right at home with that question.
Not to mention the fact that Tina Fey was funny as hell in that skit. I think that what would be even funnier would be to have Julia Louis Dreyfus and Tina Fey both playing Palin in the same skit. Maybe one where she debates herself or something like that. In any case keep the laughs coming and keep pointing out the inconsistencies and hypocrisies that the so-called journalists are afraid to highlight.
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