Canada’s famous pranksters, the Masked Avengers of CKOI radio in Montreal, reached Sarah Palin by phone today, pretending French President Nikolas Sarkozy was calling. She was oblivious and fell for it hook, line and sinker — for six minutes — despite clues she was being pranked, such as “Sarkozy” saying singer Johnny Hallyday is his special adviser to the US.
Even before the campaign confirmed it, saying Palin was “mildly amused,” there were many hints it was indeed Palin, aside from the voice and vowels being exactly like hers. Aside from her mention of eight years from now. She expected Sarkozy, not an aide, to be on the line already, still not understanding the rules of the telephone power game of who has to wait for whom. She can even be heard saying, as she waits, “I always do that.” Her “Hel-LO” is cringe-worthy. She quickly begins calling “Sarkozy” by his first name, much as she refers to Senator Obama as “Barack” and I don’t think she’s met either one. She relishes talking about Joe the Plumber (does she really think the president of France would…well, I guess she does) and calls him “a normal American,” implying again that…
Near the end, after hearing the words “Nailin’ Palin” and trying too hard, like the new girl at school who will laugh at anything if only people will like her, she is told she was pranked and she does not seem to know call letters in Canada begin with C.
The Canadian Press has more, including what the Quebec duo went through to get her on the phone, and this video is the call in its entirety.
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It’s a really telling insight into the woman, isn’t it? The vanity – oh my, it’s the President of France calling! You can almost see her slumping in the sickening realisation at the end that she’s been totally had. Brilliant!
You might also add that anyone who has been watching the news would be able to tell that the voice on the line is not Sarkozy – his voice and cadence are so different. And of course the accent is Quebecois, not French, but then again, how would you expect someone like Palin to pick up on that?
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Hi, Ian. Telling insight indeed, especially when the whole thing is heard. Allow me to exercise some fairness, or try to, before I rip into her. She’d probably have to watch BBC America to have heard his voice; he doesn’t get much play here. But since she can’t even name one freakin’ newspaper that she reads, do we really think she hunkers down with the Beeb and are we surprised that all the former beauty pageant runner-up knows is that Sarkozy’s wife is a looker? No.
I wish I could say she has as many Quebecois neighbors as I do and thought nothing of the accent, but I doubt it and she sure as hell has never been to Paris. Now that she’s had a taste of stylish clothes, that might change.
Another strong hint she missed – he mentioned the Canadian prime minister but used the wrong name. Whoosh! Over her head. And she wants to hold high office? I realize she can’t see Canada from Alaska but it’s almost walking distance. Or as she once put it, “Our next-door neighbors are foreign countries.”
I am thoroughly disgusted with that woman and everything she represents.
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“Maybe in eight years.”
Oh, my.
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I can’t decide if she thinks Obama will win two terms or if she’s so delusional she thinks McCain will. Whichever, I’m not convinced she can count past 10, so…
” . . . . implying again that…”
roflmao! Stop!
No, don’t ever stop.
Thanks, sage! Wink, wink…
“Hello Sara….this is Valery Putin. Hi Valery! We have so much in common. We’re nighbors, and I just love vodka!
Sara, we just launched a nuclear attack on (insert middle east country name here)….. and we hope you will do the same before they retaliate against you!!! Hurry up, send your nukes at once!
Oh geeez! Ok. You betcha!”
Yeah, scary to say the least!
OK. I have to keep going…. how about when he started talking to her about “nalin palin?” Or just the ridiculousness of “let’s go kill some animals together from a helicopter”…. or something like that.
This twit just didn’t get it…. all the flags were there, but she just didn’t get it.
Wow… this was funny; and to be honest with you, I started feeling kinda nervous as if I was pranking her… I know… it’s silly I felt like that
Awesome!
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Violet – She’s unbelievable, isn’t she? I almost feel sorry for her.
Juan Hi, hi! I know what you mean. I sort of felt like a voyeur after a few minutes. She’s so out of her depth.
I do feel sorry for her.
She was thrust into this position by McCain, and although she is ambitious, she doesn’t know enough to know how she is coming off. And ambition isn’t a bad thing, but she lacks more than a lot, and shouldn’t have been put on the ticket, period. There were at least two or three female Republican governors with executive experience, and I don’t think it was just the “energy experience” that drove McCain’s decision.
McCain should be ashamed for becoming smitten with his trophy veep and putting her through this; his Barbie doll wife with the bank account apparently isn’t quite enough to keep him happy.
Just my opinion, of course. But she is getting way to much flack for a poor decision made by someone who should have known better–she is the one who will pay the long term prices, while he goes back to the Senate and its comforts.
Kathleen Parker wrote on the “Maverick’s Tragic Flaw” recently.
I posted on it. I agree.
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Hi, Word. I get your point 100% and I agree somewhat. I know I’m a tough audience, let me say that up front. Even so, I’m unwilling to let her (or him) off the hook.
By her own admission she didn’t hesitate when asked, leading me to think I give more consideration to what to wear to the dentist. While she is politically naive in the big leagues, she’s not a political naif and is, in fact, a standard-issue politiican with all the negatives that implies. She was pushing for this and in fact hired a PR firm earlier in the year to gain notice and placement with the Eastern “media elites.” She might not know what a VP does, but she knows what a politician does. She might not know how much she does not know, and there is where I fault McCain and his staff.
For all his nauseating talk of Country First, as if only his party is patriotic, he put politics first. He put the Republican base first. He put his ambition first and her ambitions match his. I can’t wait for the leaks after Thursday’s meeting.
Thanks for another angle to my thinking!
DITTO! No breaks for those who spread hate and fear. Sorry. No feelings of sorrow here.
@violet: Well, at the risk of being pedantic, those who spread hate and fear are the most in need of understanding; “hate is not overcome by hate, but by love,” Martin Luther King, Jr., when he appropriated Gandhi’s doctrine of ahimsa. Well worth looking up via Google, if you’re not familiar with it.
The best leaders, including our new President elect, know this and live this as best as they are able, which is all we can ever do.
Hence, his very conciliatory acceptance speech.
Instead of merely talking about change, we need to live it.
Glad we have a leader at the helm willing to do that, one who rarely points fingers on the rhetorical stage, the very means of his ascendency to the top.
“Be careful you don’t become like that which you hate.”
@ella: She’s not a sympathetic character on the surface; but the Buddhists, as you may know, say there is no real sin, only ignorance.
Hopefully, one of the first items on the new administration’s agenda will be education, so we can combat the real evil fueling hatred and fear, ignorance.
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Violet – I agree. Her ignorance of the world, her lax standards of ethics and her greed are the problems of the GOP and her Alaskan constituents. Her willingness to inflame and tolerate hate speech is obscene and is a problem of us all. I’d like never to hear from her again, but I’m not that naive.
Word – I’m not optimistic about those who remain ignorant (by choice) or who are bigoted changing their minds no matter what. If past efforts by government, schools, houses of worship and in the home haven’t reached them, then perhaps they don’t want to be reached.
You all are so clever and smart maybe someday one of you will get elected Govenor of Alaska.
Why is it Palin’s angry supporters never offer a single word stating why she was ever qualified to be VP but instead deflect and attack?