Sunday, November 2, 2008

Sarah Palin gets pranked

I can't believe that Sarah Palin fell for this:



For those who didn't get the jokes, here are some of them:

1. The French saying that 'Sarkozy' cites about hunting translated to: 'Maybe we can kill some baby seals, too'

2. The name of the song that 'Sarkozy' says Carla Bruni composed for Sarah Palin translates to: 'Lipstick on a Pig'

3. Here's the exchange between 'Sarkozy' and Palin on the Prime Minister of Canada:

Sarkozy: Some people said in the last days and I thought that was mean that you weren't experienced enough in foreign relations and you know that's completely false. That's the thing that I said to my great friend, the prime minister of Canada Stef Carse.

Palin: Well, he's doing fine, too, and yeah, when you come into a position underestimated it gives you an opportunity to prove the pundits and the critics wrong. You work that much harder.
Palin pretends to know the Canadian Prime Minister. The problem is that the Canadian Prime Minister's name is Stephen Harper.

4. Here's the exchange between 'Sarkozy' and Palin on the Prime Minister of Quebec

Sarkozy: I was wondering because you are so next to him, one of my good friends, the prime minister of Quebec, Mr. Richard Z. Sirois, have you met him recently? Did he come to one of your rallies?

Palin: I haven't seen him at one of the rallies but it's been great working with the Canadian officials. I know as governor we have a great co-operative effort there as we work on all of our resource-development projects. You know, I look forward to working with you and getting to meet you personally and your beautiful wife. Oh my goodness, you've added a lot of energy to your country with that beautiful family of yours.

The problem: Quebec is not a country its a province of Canada. It doesn't have a Prime Minister. It does have a chief minister whose name in French translates roughly to first premier. His name is not Mr. Richard Z. Sirois but Jean Charest. Again, note, Palin claims to know him.

5. At one stage 'Sarkozy' says: 'Yes, you know we have a lot in common also, because except from my house I can see Belgium. That's kind of less interesting than you.' The problem is that to the best of my knowledge Sarkozy does not have a house on the Belgian border.

6. Finally, if you pay close attention to the very soft background conversation at the very end, Palin seems to say to her administrative assistant that its a prank call from France. She doesn't seem to know that Montreal is in Canada.

I realize that most of us would be hard pressed to know all these. However, Palin is the Governor of a state that neighbors Canada and Palin is supposed to have dealt with officials from Canada, so her lack of knowledge of the Canadian Prime Minister is galling.

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