This Saturday on the Canadian radio station, CKOI, Sarah Palin was "punk'd" as they say on MTV. The two radio show hosts, known as "The Masked Avengers" called Sarah Palin pretending to be the French President Nicholas Sarkozy and Palin surprisingly remained on the line for seven minutes. As they were talking, the Sarkozy impersonator spoke incorrectly on several important issues, but Palin did not stop to correct him. It seemed to me that she was simply trying to be polite, but as I read the comments attached to her radio clip, it was apparent that many people disagreed. For example, when the impersonator mentioned the Canadian Prime Minister and mentioned him using the wrong name, Palin did not correct him. In the many other comments made by the Sarkozy impersonator similar to this one, Palin did not provide the response people felt was "professional". Their comments were all very critical: "She revealed an incredible lack of insight, knowledge, and ability to read a situation" "not ready for prime-time" "bone-chillingly-arrogantly-breathtakingly ignorant".After hearing this radio clip I started to wonder why the United States does not have a system for voting for the vice-president. I am not trying to say that Palin should not have been allowed to run with McCain as vice-president. Reading everyone's comments just made me wonder. As of now, the President is allowed to chose his/her own vice president. In the Constitution, the only mention of the vice-president is that he/she is the president of the senate. Should there be an amendment for voting for the vice-president or is it unnecessary?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/11/palin-punkd-by.html
1 comment:
I have heard this, and it makes me really happy she is not my vice president. At various times the "masked avengers" dropped obvious hints that they were not Sarkosy, and yet she never got the hints. It was sad to listen too, it ranks right up there with all the SNL skits ripping on her.
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