A blog written by Manchester College students studying the 2008 presidential campaign.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Pranking Palin

On Saturday, Governor Palin took a prank call from two Canadian comedians. Using obviously overdone French accents, they pretended to be the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy. When referring to the Canadian Prime Minister, Palin says that she has worked with Canada a lot because of their geographic position, and that he is doing a great job. She did not catch the fact that the comedians called the Prime Minister by the name of a famous Canadian singer.

She complemented him on his beautiful wife and family, and told him how much she liked him and how excited she was to work with France. They even went as far as making plans to go hunting from a helicopter together. After Palin’s complement on his wife, the fake Sarkozy says that she is “so hot in bed,” too. The comedian then asks Palin if Joe the Plumber is her husband, and complements her on the video made about her, referring to a pornographic video made by a Sarah Palin look-a-like. When the comedians told her that she would make a good president someday, she replied with “maybe in eight years.”

The comedians gave her many clues, hinting that the call was not from the real President of France, yet she did not pick up on any of them. Its funny that she can say that she has worked with the Prime Minister of Canada, and she believes he is doing a good job, yet she is not familiar with his name.

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