{"id":3084,"date":"2008-09-17T07:51:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T14:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/09\/17\/i-dont-believe-her\/"},"modified":"2008-09-17T07:52:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T14:52:12","slug":"i-dont-believe-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/09\/17\/i-dont-believe-her\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Believe Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Palin spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt told CBS News: &#8220;She thought it was quite funny, <\/em>[SNL appearance by Tina Fey.] <em>particularly because she once dressed up as Tina Fey for Halloween.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I, um, don&#8217;t believe her.\u00c2\u00a0 There was a reason that the initial pop cultural psyche pulse to the Sarah Palin introduction onto the national political scene was, &#8220;OH MY GOD!\u00c2\u00a0 Saturday Night Live HAS to bring back Tina Fey!&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Which was probably the first thought that popped into the mind of Lorne Michaels and Tina Fey.\u00c2\u00a0 The basic problem is that Tina Fey an amp up a couple of traits to better cariacture Sarah Palin enough to evoke her, while I fail to see how Sarah Palin can do the same thing for Tina Fey, and make a\u00c2\u00a0clear evocation of someone who is at, any rate, not\u00c2\u00a0at top of mind awareness.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, take a note of the\u00c2\u00a0first post-articleblip sentence\u00c2\u00a0from the Weekly Standard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/weblogs\/TWSFP\/2008\/09\/sarah_palin_went_as_tina_fey_f.asp\">found over here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palin spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt told CBS News: &#8220;She thought it was quite funny, [SNL appearance by Tina Fey.] particularly because she once dressed up as Tina Fey for Halloween.&#8221; I, um, don&#8217;t believe her.\u00c2\u00a0 There was a reason that the initial pop cultural psyche pulse to the Sarah Palin introduction onto the national political scene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}