Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey used to do a great job spoofing Sarah Palin, although she realised that the best way of doing it was simply to use Palin's own words, unaltered and undoctored.
Well Sarah Palin, the extraordinary choice of John McCain as his running mate in 2008, is at it again. She has hinted that she might be interested in running for president in 2016, so here she is at a Republican conference in Iowa setting out her stall as one of the star speakers. Apparently her teleprompter froze, so she had to talk from memory and her own intuitive political grasp. It's a gem, particularly the bit about "a man can only ride you if your back is bent". Wise words for everyone there I think. *
Oh, and the Democratic National Committee Chairman has issued a one word statement - "Thanks".
* - a kind tweeter brought to my attention the fact that Palin's phrase is actually taken from a Martin Luther King speech. In her expert hands it has simply become a comedic mess. She's mangled it a bit, and I think it's fair to say that her oratory falls short of King's, who was of course referring to the need for black Americans to stand tall, whereas Palin is referring to....well, anyone's guess really.
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