Why did they let her do that??????

[Raven]

That's my question, I guess. And it seems to be the question of many here on DU. Why would the McCain Campaign allow Palin be to the subject of such rdicule?

[rainbow4321]

1. Nothing like having your running mate rocking to the music as Bullwinkle is shot dead

right in front of her.

[Bicoastal]

2. I think her handlers simply took it for granted that SNL has no obligation to be even-handed.

[TACstrat]

3. Janet Reno was funnier when she busted through the wall ...

Palin just sat there bobbin' her head while they assaulted her, her husband, Alaska, and bullwinkle.

I have just answered a question I thought was unanswerable .... What is worse than picking Sarah Palin as your runningmate?

[KewlKat]

7. What's worse? Watching your running mate

be hoisted on her own petard on SNL

[Fozzledick]

21. Hell, Nixon was funnier just saying "Sock it to ME?"

[KewlKat]

4. Yep, she's VP and P material...........eh? What a stupid F she is

[scheming daemons]

5. They'll make public statements to the contrary, but the McCain camp is probably seething right now

[KewlKat]

16. The old man was in bed longgggggg ago

[JimGinPA]

6. That's The $64,000 Question

:wow:

[KewlKat]

8. Bachmann will attest to that......Oh yeah, that's the 500K question!

[Nicole]

9. They are hoping for some pity votes

Get ready for the 24/7 "They were mean to poor Sarah" routine on Faux News.

[KewlKat]

11. R U Series!!!?

[KewlKat]

10. They're MAVERICKS! bwhahahahahahahaha

[Overseas]

59. And she's doing some statesmanny stuff now.

Ya kinda gotta go on the shows that laugh at you, to show you're a big character who can take some jokin.

[Raschel]

How embarrassing for our country. This is one of our VP candidates. n/t

[tigereye]

12. why would anyone allow McCain to pick her as VP in the first place?

:shrug:

[Stagecoach]

13. I think it's part of her "nothing to lose" angle

If they were ahead in the polls, or this was a month or so ago, she wouldn't have done this. But she probably faces reality (while trying to put on a good face to the contrary) that she and McCain aren't going to win....so again, she probably figures she has nothing to lose.

[scarletwoman]

14. Who pushed for having her on SNL? Was it SNL or the McCain campaign?

I can't figure out why the McCain campaign would agree to it, or want it. What did they hope to gain? Are they just that dense and tone-deaf that they thought it would make her look "hip" and "cool"?

It was just fucking weird...

sw

[Raschel]

23. Tina Fey said on Letterman that Palin's been calling them.

I seriously just think she wanted to be on a TV show. The nitwit.

[krkaufman]

36. Maybe they were trying to make Palin personal to the writers and cast ...

... hoping that they would back-off some with their satire.

[TACstrat]

15. It must be a contest to see how bad they can fuck up her career

[Tribetime]

17. They needed a game changer and they thought this was it ???

her 15 minutes are up. Go back to Alaska and get impeached now.

[gauguin57]

18. They let her do it because in today's political climate, you're nothing with out pop culture cred.

And going on SNL and allowing them to mock you ... which many pols have done before Sarah ... gives you political cred. Shows you can laugh at yourself.

Be prepared for the morning shows to pat her on the back for it. Just be prepared. Chris Matthews will be grinning and drooling on his show on Monday, too.

[soothsayer]

22. yup.

[EFerrari]

31. I think that's right. And they staged it so she wouldn't get any

response lines the audience could boo.

I'm still disgusted they'd give this woman time on their stage.

[krkaufman]

39. I was kinda surprised some New Yorker didn't shout-out during that first skit ...

... when Palin said, "I didn't think it was a realistic depiction of the way my press conferences woulda gone."

"So when are you gonna finally do a press conference, Palin!?!?!"

[WallStreetNobody]

41. Most of the audience at SNL are tourists

I've lived in or around Manhattan most of my life and you'd be surprised but most New Yorkers never go to the tapings of these shows, there is so much other stuff to do. I've gone to a few like the Daily Show and SNL and pretty much everyone else was a tourist. Also you have to remember these studios are pretty small and the audience is much smaller than it looks on TV, its a pretty small and quiet setting and they give you a lot of instructions before filming starts on what to do and what NOT to do. With someone as toxic as Palin on I'm sure they told the audience that anyone booing would be asked to leave.

[krkaufman]

43. My impression was pretty much as you stated ...

... but I still held some hope that a lone punman might fire off just one lucky shot.

[EFerrari]

44. I know. But even putting her in "the backstage area"

is a way to discourage catcalls. They didn't really take any chances, did they?

[krkaufman]

45. Good point. No, they didn't. Sure would love to hear more about this week's show prep. n/t

[EFerrari]

46. Oh me, too. To be a dirty coffee cup in that green room.

lol

[krkaufman]

47. In retrospect, I have to wonder how much SNL really could have developed for Palin ...

... if she wasn't going to be around during the week to work with the writers and cast. I'm finding it likely that they just gave her simple talking parts because they weren't going to risk whole skits on an unrehearsed performance.

[EFerrari]

49. She never got "onstage" which lets them off the hook for having her "on".

I imagine they got a lot of letters besides mine on that topic. :)

[krkaufman]

50. She was on the Weekend Update set, right? n/t

[EFerrari]

53. Was she? I didn't see that but, I only watched what was posted

to the net last night.

[krkaufman]

62. Yes, her Weekend Update part was just to introduce the rap song ...

... claiming she'd decided it wouldn't be in the interest of her campaign, and to end the Weekend Update segment with their traditional closing line. (I thought having her close WU in that fashion was also a subtle slam on Palin, highlighting that she's really just a TV anchor.)

[EFerrari]

57. CatWoman posted the link and I saw that.

Again, notice how they put her mostly off camera.

Hilarious.

[krkaufman]

60. Yeah, she may have appeared on SNL, but was hardly there ...

... and her lines were weak and poorly delivered.

[rebel with a cause]

32. When Barack was going to be on there a month or so ago

they criticized him for wanting to be a celebrity. I expect them this coming week to criticize him for not having the nerve to go on and letting them make fun of him the way palin did. You know the way they said he hadn't been to Iraq and then threw a fit because he got so much attention when he did go there.

[1Hippiechick]

37. Exactly. Shows that she is a good sport about all the comedy routines. n/t

[Lisa0825]

19. "Charm Offensive."

Rachel Maddow talked about it. With all the negativity, meanness, and just plain insanity surrounding the campaign, they think showing their "fun side" on entertainment shows will get people behind them again.

[vaberella]

26. That's what I heard too. n/t

[emilyg]

29. Yep.

[krkaufman]

40. But it's also to provide cover for their ultra-negattive under-the-radar campaign

[Whisp]

20. so they can cry about how unfair the media is to them.

[TexasObserver]

24. Why? Because MSM talking heads will effuse over it the next two days.

[pnwmom]

33. I hope SNL will hire her.

Then she can leave politics and get all the attention she wants, late at night, when no one needs to see her if they don't want to.

[TexasObserver]

35. She'll become a Fox News Contributor after she beats the criminal charges.

After she faces and beats criminal charges in Alaska, she'll become a Fox News contributor, like that other criminal, Ollie North.

[merh]

25. the sympathy vote?

:shrug:

why's everyone so mean to her, she is so brave and true :puke:
x(

[RagAss]

27. because the internal polls tell them they don't have a shits chance....n/m

[political_Dem]

28. I am kind of glad Sarah's ambitions led her to this step.

Her appearance plays a close correlation to the story, "The Monkey's Paw". She got her wish, but then, she also ended up with the blow back that comes with it, lol.

[CreekDog]

30. because the alternative is keeping her in the undisclosed location

:eyes:

(and where have you been? she's been the object of ridicule for weeks)

[Hellataz]

34. I bet she did it thinking she would be perceived as a "good sport" and then get more votes.

Yet another last ditch effort that blew up in their faces.

[1Hippiechick]

38. Exposure. Captive audience in studio & at home - ppl watch SNL who don't support her - AMBITION. nt

[CakeGrrl]

42. So she can play victim at her rallies

P: "So, some of you might have seen that I went on Saturday Night Live and it didn't go quite as well as I'd hoped..."

Hate Crowd: "BOOOOOOOOOO!"

Instant sympathy, renewed resentment for the librul media and those lefty comedians and New Yorkers.

Divide and conquer.

[grantcart]

48. Why would McCain subject his family to such scruitiny that his wife

would become known across the nation as a homewrecker, drug addict, thief?

Why would they go into a national campaign and hide one of their children?


They are strange beings who lust for power.

[mamalone]

54. Nutshell.

I completed a survey about McCain a couple of years ago and at the end they asked me if I had anything else I'd like to add. I said that I had no respect for the man because of the way he allowed his family to be treated, and how he himself treated those who had mistreated his family. I don't think McCain is an evil man, but his aberrant need for power has caused him to throw aside the very things in life that are most valuable... IMO he just might be starting to realize that these days.

[Phx_Dem]

51. For the same reason they chose her as the VP candidate.

They think she's so charming that she'll win everyone over, if the just have a chance to see her. They couldn't be more wrong. The only people who like her are the ones who are as devisive and hateful as she is. You'd think they would have realized the error of their ways from all the polls telling them that people fucking HATE her.

They thought she would be positively received, like Hillary was when she went on after SNL bashed her. Hillary did good and people liked it. Sarah Palin is no Hillary Clinton. They can't seem to get that thru their heads.

John McCain and his campaign staff are STUPID. STUPID. STUPID.

:banghead:

[Myrina]

52. ... because SHE's what we're talking about -- not the ISSUES ...

... her primary purpose at this point, IMHO, is to chew up media time and allow the GOP to run out the clock ... to keep the GOP's complete lack of any policy substance out of the public eye, in hopes that they can pull close enough to be able to run some dirty tricks on (or leading up to) election day and sneak the old buzzard into the White House while we aren't paying attention.

[DailyGrind51]

55. McCain went on Lettermen, Palin on SNL. It's free airtime!

[Leeny]

56. Was worse for SNL

I don't think it was as awful for her as it was to see that SNL isn't nearly as funny as they used to be. Of course I'm old and remember the original prime time players; that's a hard standard to live up to. I found the skits dumb and/or boring. But I am glad that Palin looked like a real boob!!!

[Overseas]

58. Golly gee, look at our tough little Moose Hunter. Isn't she all presidential now

since she's going on a show that even laughs at her herself?

Isn't that the kinda statesmanny stuff she's gotta do to make her appeal to the Georgetown cocktail party circuit?

[Shine]

61. It's just another example of how poorly their campaign has been run.

They're complete idiots. :crazy: