Palin PROVES she has no common sense and VERY POOR judgement

[Iago]

This was done to a dolt that wants to be one heartbeat from the US Presidency. Scary- VERY SCARY. Just imagine her finger on the nuclear weapons button.
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November 1, 2008, 4:53 pm
NY. Times
By Julie Bosman

OCALA, Fla. – Gov. Sarah Palin has been punk'd.

A pair of Canadian comedians, notorious for pranking politicians and heads of
state, reached Ms. Palin on Saturday and pretended to be French President
Nicolas Sarkozy.

According to an audio recording, a press aide handed the phone to Ms. Palin, who
enthusiastically greeted the fake Sarkozy, "It's so good to hear you, thank you
for calling us." She added, "We have such great respect for you, John McCain and
I. We love you!"

Speaking in an exaggerated French accent, the fake Sarkozy asked Ms. Palin about
the state of the race, dropped names of nonexistent Canadian officials,
frequently interrupted her mid-sentence and told her he saw her as president one
day.

"Maybe in eight years," Ms. Palin said.

The duo, Sebastien Trudel and Marc-Antoine Audette, have pulled similar pranks
on Mick Jagger, Bill Gates and French president Jacques Chirac.

At one point, he said that he shared her interest in hunting.

"Oh, very good, we should go hunting together," Ms. Palin said.

He replied: "I just love killing those animals. Taking away life, that is so
fun!"

She laughed politely.

He added: "As long as we don't bring Vice President Cheney."

More laughter from Ms. Palin. "No, I'll be a careful shot," she promised.

The call ended after about six minutes, when the host informed Ms. Palin that
she had been pranked.

"Oh, have we been pranked?" Ms. Palin said. "What radio station is this?"

Tracey Schmitt, Ms. Palin's spokeswoman, said in a statement: "Governor Palin
received a phone call on Saturday from a French Canadian talk show host claiming
to be French President Nicholas Sarkozy. Governor Palin was mildly amused to
learn that she had joined the ranks of heads of state, including President
Sarkozy, and other celebrities in being targeted by these pranksters. C'est la
vie."
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One other comment (not included in this article, but audible on the tape as played on MSNBC.) was spoken by the prankster as Sarkozy. He said "My wife is not only beautiful, but good in bed". Palin just continued on as if nothing untoward was said.

[mozartsneighbor]

There's a more complete transcript out on the net. This article misses the part where the fake Sarkozy said to Palin that they have a lot in common, because like Palin, who can see Russia from her house, he claims he can see Belgium from his -- and she replies that just shows how important it is to work with other countries. The part where the prankster talks about a Canadian singer as being the prime minister of Canada, leading Palin to say he is doing a wonderful job and has proven the pundits who underrated him wrong -- that is also pure comedic gold.
Not even a fictional writer of genius could come up with such a character as Palin: reality truly is much weirder than fiction.

[ezodisy]

I just listened to this on the BBC. Really can't believe she fell for it, the comedian sounds nothing like Sarkozy

[(poco) Sforzando]

One other comment (not included in this article, but audible on the tape as played on MSNBC.) was spoken by the prankster as Sarkozy. He said "My wife is not only beautiful, but good in bed". Palin just continued on as if nothing untoward was said.

From another source:
The Sarkozy impersonator tells Palin his wife is "so hot in bed" and then informs her that Bruni has written a song for her about Joe the Plumber entitled "Du rouge a levres sur une cochonne" — which translates as "Lipstick on a Pig." . . .

The caller asks Palin if Joe the Plumber is her husband and adds: "We have the equivalent of Joe the Plumber in France. It's called Marcel, the guy with bread under his armpit."

As for ezodisy's "Really can't believe she fell for it," I have no problem at all in so believing. But you have to give her credit: any time the slightest suspicion is raised that she might be a person of intelligence, she manages decisively to settle the issue.

More comments:
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archive?month=11&year=2008&base_name=palin_and_sarkozy

[LVB_opus.125]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwzgF0s3Dzg

Hear for yourselves.

[mozartsneighbor]

Thanks for the link to the audio -- it's one thing to read the transcript, but this is just priceless. She is even dumber than I imagined!

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Gee, uh, do you think she started to suspect something when "Sarkozy" started talking about Hustler's spread--"Nailin' Palin" 

[Xenophanes]

What she has is apparently unbounded confidence that she can do the job.  She sounds confident, she sounds like she knows what she is doing, even when the caller talked nonsense, and threw nonsense names at her--people she could not have met because they don't exist. But she just keeps on talking, unfazed.

But she knows little, has poor analytical skills, and poor judgment. Not a good combination in a President.

Can you imagine this ditz becoming POTUS if McCain dies in office? McCain showed very poor judgment in choosing her. 

[jwinter]

It's rather amusing that she fell for it, but honestly, someone on her staff needs to be fired, if not just taken out and shot.  There's no way these yahoos should have been able to get through to her -- it's got to be somebody's job to screen her calls (don't they even have frickin' caller ID?) and that somebody screwed up big time.  Talk about making your boss look bad (not that she needs that much help, mind you...)

[Mozart]

Hilarious!