Capitalizt
Banned
What a bimbo! She honestly couldn't figure it out after a minute?? lololol
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French Canadian comedian prank calls Palin
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sammyunltd
Senior member
The funny part is, all the names he mentioned are all fake or nonsensical.
This means she doesn't know shit about Canada and about Sarkozy's aide (LOL JOHNNY HALLIDAY, the singer 😉)
This means she doesn't know shit about Canada and about Sarkozy's aide (LOL JOHNNY HALLIDAY, the singer 😉)
dennilfloss
Past Lifer 1957-2014 In Memoriam
I can see Quebec from my backyard (but she can't). 😛
nobodyknows
Diamond Member
Sounds good to me!!
nobodyknows
Diamond Member
Rush didn't use to sound like such a total gas bag either, but here it is something like 20 years later and he is still spouting the same tired schtick.
I think the same will be true of Olberman.
No American outside of the State Department knows the name of one aide to the presidents of other governments. Few know the names of the presidents.
I'm usually the one ranting against the harmfulness and irresponsibility of the 'shock jocks', but while I haven't listened to this clip, the gist of it sounds like a good prank.
If nothing else, people love to get glimpses behind the public facade of politicians who are very careful what they say publically, and a little'inside glimpse' of what they might say more privately to another leader is of interest to people. You can debate the fairness of it, but it's not as if they pretended to be a family member to get her to really say something inappropriately personal or something. It all sounds like it's a good prank.
Bad shock programs are when they more actually violate people personally, to humiliate them or worse, like when they try to convince someone their partner is cheating. I've listened to people go hysterical in pain from the information - and the call I'm thinking of, I think the person's partner was behind the prank, sharing in bad judgement. I think I recall even worse ones where they tell them a family member was killed. That's where you get into really wrong abuse for the amusement of the idiot class who like the schadenfreude.
For a political stunt like this, I think there's a line, but some latitude as well. As long as it's harmless fun, even if it honestly exposes Palin's views unflatteringly like getting her reaction to the bloodthirsty 'Sarkozy', it seems ok, but there is a line. Trying to really set the person up to say something that can affect the election in an unfair way, to expose legitimately confidential information, can cross a line. Done to expose a lie, well, I have a bias for the truth.
What if he'd complimented her handling of the abuse of power issue, to get her to admit she had to do a real coverup? What if the prank had been on Obama, saying how difficult it was to have to defend a line like a tax plan when the economic problems may well lead you to have to change it after the election, to get him to admit he knows his plan will need more taxes (if that is his opinion; if that's not his view, he wouldn't say it is)?
For centuries, humor at the expense of leaders has been part of the public culture, with parody and caricature. This seems another variation on the same.
SoundTheSurrender
Diamond Member
She reminds me of the mother from Bobby's World. Except the mother from Bobby's World was smarter.
dennilfloss
Past Lifer 1957-2014 In Memoriam
RocksteadyDotNet
Diamond Member
W. T. F.
No matter what your opinion is of the left or their policies, if you vote for this idiot you're too stupid for words.
No matter what your opinion is of the left or their policies, if you vote for this idiot you're too stupid for words.
sammyunltd
Senior member
No, you don't understand. It's not about knowing Sarkozy's aide. It's about knowing that the name of the ''fake aide'' is the name of a singer that has sold over 100 million records....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Halliday
sammyunltd
Senior member
Weird, because he went to the USA a lot of times and sang in English in a couple albums. Anyway, don't try to cover for her lack of smarts. She got owned pretty badly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbEwKcs-7Hc
Already 125,000 views!!
crisscross
Golden Member
ROTFL
And Canada.
I remember going up to Canada as a kid and he was all over the jukeboxes, and I remember subsequently seeing him singing on American TV and either referenced, singing in or playing a part in more than one American movie or French movie with an American release.
But for whatever reason he was never high enough on the billboard charts here to have been played regularly on commercial AM radio outlets, which was all there was at that time in the US before underground FM stations took off in the later '60's. Those stations had a pretty damn tight and limited song rotation, which is what led to the big payola scandals with promo guys going from town to town bribing DJ's to play their label's records.
Still, you could find his albums at the bigger record stores, like Sam Goody's in New York or the one's down at 3rd & Market or around 17th and Walnut in Philly.
You really can't be that much of "a pretty big music buff" at all and never have even heard of him, though. It's just not possible.
You'd have to be more of a provincial suburban American teenage white boy with a hilariously inflated opinion of the scope of his own general musical knowledge.
Sorry.
HAHAHHAAHHAHHA , this is so funny. She is so stupid. What a manipulative idiot, I mean at some point yes it is reasonable pro-bush Sarko could contact her to discuss the campaign, but at the point where he is like "Let's go take animal life from the helicopter, Hah Hah Hah" You need to say "??? Is this real, is this a prank? "
Imagine what a Cheney could do with this woman if she is prez
Imagine what a Cheney could do with this woman if she is prez
seemingly random
Diamond Member
There is so much wrong with this. She is such a flake. This was very revealing. It seems that she is participating as a contestant on a game show instead of in an election for the highest office in the u.s. Repugs should be deeply embarrassed but are probably too stubborn to admit it.
Capitalizt
Banned
This isn't funny...It is downright SAD. This woman is incredibly dense...and she could one day be the most powerful person on the planet. Mccain lost all my respect when he picked her.
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