星期日以來，許多媒體都討論星期六晚間播出的Saturday Night Live，因為Tina Fey再次模仿共和黨副總統候選人Sarah Palin，連幾個嚴肅的政治論壇節目都播出討論。
Tina Fey模仿Palin是一絕，她演出的政治譏諷短劇（Political Parody）是本季最熱的搞笑政治節目，也讓SNL再現收視高點。
這是SNL節目一開始諷刺副總統候選人辯論的橋段。
上週VP政策辯論，我看了。共和黨副總統候選人Sarah Palin很喜歡對鏡頭擠眼睛(Winks)，我看到的就有四次。她那個嬌聲嬌氣的"Here you go again, Joe."，在競選阿拉斯加州長時用過（我看過Clips)，雷根在總統選舉的政策辯論時也用過同樣的句子(＂Here you go again，＂我也看過Clips)。不過聽起來不像Palin那麼嗲。我開玩笑的說，若是Palin順位繼承當了總統，她可以對伊朗總統Ahmadinejad (阿瑪迪那加德<德--輕聲，幾乎聽不到。>多念幾遍還蠻有韻的。）說："Here you go again, Ahmadinejad!" 看看有多少嚇阻力或說服力。
不言而明，我不是Palin的Fan。簡單說，我不覺得她俱備擔任美國總統職位的才能，也覺得她在阿拉斯加的某些保守政策和宗教治國的立場讓我心寒。例如，Palin向聯邦政府特別貸款興建＂哪裡都到不了之路＂（Road to nowhere)，錢領到手後，中飽阿拉斯加州之私囊，到Nowhere的路還是哪裡都沒到，錢又不歸還給聯邦政府，然後還公然反對這個特別貸款法案，好像聯邦政府的法案有多浪費，反對這種浪費的自己有多清高。
還有，Palin在當市長時和當地極端保守的宗教組織走的很近，她當選市長多源自這些保守派的大力支持。當時，這些保守勢力在市中各圖書館翻找「有道德問題」的書，如有關同性戀的書，鼓吹要求圖書館撤下這些書。與其說這些勢力影響Palin，還不如說他們是一丘之貉。Palin當市長沒多久，在開市議會(City Council Meeting)時曾問當時圖書館協會的會長：「如果我要妳把某些書下架，妳會怎麼說？」（按這裡看這段新聞報導，本文後補註有文章。）Palin的支持者說，她只是假設性的問問看 （"rhetorical question" ），沒有實際要禁書的意思。很抱歉，任何有關＂禁書＂的提議，對我來說都是非比尋常的重大，就算是隨便問問都會讓我提高警覺。美國這個國家，雖說是自由開放，近年來卻越趨保守，各種宗教保守派對許多社會議題越來越有蠻橫控制的趨向。如果Palin順位成總統，她若對圖書館提出禁書政策，我會對此痛惡欲絕但不會訝異！既然如此，就別選她，讓那一天沒有機會到來。
Palin為妹妹的婚姻問題，向妹夫的上級關說要開除她妹夫之案，這幾天正在開庭，也是瓜田李下不清不楚。
再加上McCain年老有癌，多數人認為副總統任內接任的機率很大，這＂與總統職位只有一個心跳之隔（One heartbeat away from the Presidency) 不是恐懼臆測，而是危機預防管理；如此考量，Palin的無能與保守，更是讓我拒絕投票支持。不過，看喜劇節目拿她來開刀搞笑，還真讓我開懷大笑。各中搞笑節目中，又以Tina Fey模仿的Sarah Palin為翹楚；可以說，Tina Fey的演技和造型簡直就是活脫脫Sarah Palin再現！
再簡貼幾個橋段分享。（用Firefox時好像有時看不到最後一個。用IE沒有問題。）
上面那個VP政策辯論的橋段裡，Tina Fey的Palin對鏡頭擠了幾次眼（實在不夠多啊！），還提了好幾次Maverick，顯示自己的與眾不同。最後，還拿出長笛以為有才藝表演－－Palin以前選過美，大概以為選總統和選美一樣。
當主持人問及Palin對婚姻的看法，她的回答簡直是經典！！
＂我相信婚姻是兩個不願結婚青少年間的神聖機制。（＂I believe marriage is meant to be a sacred institution between two unwilling teenagers!!＂）
Sarah Palin的政策保守，但家裡卻出了個未婚懷孕的青少年女兒。女兒的男友／孩子的爸爸Levi被某雜誌形容為：Boozing pot-smoker who doesn't want to get married." Bill Maher開玩笑的說Levi是本次選舉的政治人質，興起"Free Levi"的活動，對他喊話，要他快逃到加州去，那裡有很多Pot（大麻）和美麗的女人。
這段是Bill Maher的Real Time，不是SNL，但真的很精彩：
再回到SNL。 這是Tina Fey第一次扮演Sarah Palin。再看，還是很好笑，尤其是Palin對外交政策的回應是，「我可以從我家看到蘇俄。(I can see Russia from my house.)」
下面這是CBS主播Katie Couric採訪Palin的Parody。Palin第一次以副總統候選人身份被媒體採訪時，選擇了ABC晚間新聞。主播Charlie Gibson問她有關"Bush Doctrine"，她一時支支吾吾，不知其為何物。那是布希的外交政策，可見Palin對外交的一竅不通並非虛構。在此，Tina Fey也拿"Bush Doctrine"開了玩笑。Tina Fey的Palin又說，她第一次拜訪UN，看到那裡「好多外國人啊！」等她MaCain執政後，她一定會把那些工作機會爭取回美國人的手上！！她還提起，在紐約搭計程車時有15-20次假警報以為計程車司機是賓拉登。（因為紐約開計程車的中東人很多。） 對於＂從我家就可以看到蘇俄的外交政策＂，Tina Fey更是大放異彩。她說，＂每天早上我們都會看看街上有沒有行跡可疑的老毛子；如果有，我們會對他們說，你們在這裡幹什麼？去去去，快回去。＂
Palin有名的就是虛幌應付，答不出來就的時候就光冕堂皇的言不及義；公平一點，民主黨候選人Biden更是有名的沒完沒了落落長。這裡，Tina Fey也好幾次以問為答，展示Palin的特長。最好笑的是，當Palin實在不知如何回答Couric時，Palin說，「我想啟用我的生命線(life line），打電話給一個朋友。」彷彿是上遊戲節目「誰想當百萬富翁」(Who want to be a Millionaire".）當被告知這裡沒有Life line時，Tina Fey扮演的Palin說，"I'll have to get back to you." 這句話在實際新聞採訪裡確實出現過。據報導，共和黨總統競選總部裡私下都說，這是個極慘(Disaster)的採訪。＂極慘 (Disaster)＂，當然是對共和黨而言，對我們觀眾來說，多了看笑話的體材；對選民來說，多了認清評估候選人的機會。
Sarah Palin還算有風度，對於Tina Fey模仿自己說，這是為SNL創造Job Security.
聽說因為Tina Fey的模仿大受歡迎，SNL將繼續播出幾個長達半小時的Tina Fey/Sarah Palin節目。真是令人興奮的好消息。拭目以待吧。
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Did Sarah Palin Try to Ban Library Books?
Alaska Librarian Can't Recall Palin Asking to Ban Books
By BRIAN ROSS, RHONDA SCHWARTZ and ANNA SCHECTER
September 10, 2008—
The librarian at the center of a 1996 controversy with then-Wasilla mayor Sarah Palin says she can't recall any effort by Palin to ban specific books from the town library.
In her first public statement since Palin was named the GOP vice-presidential candidate, Mary Ellen Baker said today, "I simply do not recall a conversation with specific titles," Baker told ABCNews.com.
Palin has acknowledged she twice raised the issue in 1996 of how books could be removed from the shelves, but said it was only a "rhetorical question" and that she did not ask for any books to be banned.
Palin's church at the time, the Assembly of God, had been pushing for the removal a book called "Pastor I Am Gay" from local bookstores, according to the book's author Pastor Howard Bess, of the Church of the Covenant in nearby Palmer, Alaska.
"And she was one of them," said Bess, "this whole thing of controlling information, censorship, that's part of the scene," said Bess.
According to coverage in the local newspaper, the Frontiersman, Palin asked the librarian at a meeting "if she would object to censorship even if people were circling the library in protest about a book."
The report quotes the librarian as responding, "I told her clearly I will fight anyone who tries to indicate what books can go on the library shelves."
The same week that Palin raised the issue she fired Baker (then using her married name Emmons) as librarian, claiming she was not "loyal" to the new administration and had supported Palin's opponent in the election. She said the dismissal was not connected to questions of censorship, and that she had dismissed all city department heads and told them they could re-apply for their jobs.
After a public outcry, Palin rescinded the dismissal of the librarian.
The local newspaper reporter who covered the controversy, Paul Stuart, claims he was later told by the librarian that Palin wanted three specific books removed from the library.
In her statement to ABC News, the librarian said, "I am unable to dispute or substantiate the information Paul Stuart provided to you."
Stuart said he was confident of his memory. "She may have said that but that's not how it was."
After she got her job back, Baker spent two more years in Wasilla before leaving for a library job in Fairbanks.
She would not address her reasons for leaving Wasilla, but friends say she felt badly treated by Mayor Palin.
"I don't care to revisit that time in my life," Baker told ABC News.
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Palin Also Supported The "Road To Nowhere" (And May Still)
While a debate rages over how honest Sarah Palin has been in stating her opposition to the infamous Bridge To Nowhere, another massive, widely-criticized transportation project is lingering in Alaska.
The "Road To Nowhere" is a $375 million "mega-project" designed to connect Juneau to the towns of Haines and Skagway via 50 miles of new road along the steep slopes of an avalanche-battered canal, ending at a ferry terminal at the Haines river.
As of 2005, Haines had a population of 2,400, while Skagway had 870 residents.
According to the Alaska Transportation Priorities Project, a group promoting "sensible transportation systems in the state," the Road to Nowhere is an irresponsible waste. The project has received more than $100 million in federal and state funding. This includes a $15 million dollar federal earmark and approximately $24 million in federal dollars passed through to the state. But it remains far from completion - hampered by opposition, environmental and safety concerns, and general wariness over its utility.
Palin has been anything but a steady fiscal hawk on the matter. The Governor came into office saying she supported the road, which was started under her predecessor Frank Murkowski. In an October 2006 questionnaire by Anchorage Daily News, she simply wrote "Yes" when asked "Do you support building a road from Juneau to Skagway?"
But even Palin's own transition team recognized, in its report, that the Bridge and Road to Nowhere were "seen as a severe drain on resources that would otherwise be assigned to heavily used commercial and passenger routes." And yet, Palin has not definitely ruled out the construction of the road. She canceled plans for an 11-mile gravel road that could have been part of the Juneau Road project. And after conservation and public interest groups filed a lawsuit in August 2006 to halt the roads construction, Palin's office decided not to move forward while the litigation was pending.
"It doesn't make sense to piecemeal the project when it's in litigation and the outcome could change the whole scope of the project," said the governor's spokeswoman, Sharon Leighow, at the time. "She feels the most fiscally conservative thing to do is wait."
However, Palin appears to continue to support the project. In October 2007, the Alaska Daily News wrote that the governor "retains an administrative commitment for a Road to Nowhere." Half a year later the paper published an editorial that read:
"[In canceling the 11-mile strip Palin] wasn't aiming to kill this dubious project, which doesn't even connect Juneau to the rest of Alaska's road system. (It is essentially a 50-mile driveway to a new ferry terminal on Lynn Canal). Her administration has been moving forward with the project, estimated to cost $374 million. That is almost as much as the nationally infamous $398 million Ketchikan bridge to Gravina Island, which Palin did kill."
(Another thing that ties the Bridge to Nowhere with its Road counterpart: the first $15 million for the Juneau road was included in the same bloated transportation bill that had Sen. Ted Steven's most notorious pork project.)
In fairness, Palin could, ultimately, come out against the Road to Nowhere. Certainly, as the running mate on an anti-wasteful spending Republic ticket, it would seem like the most electorally expedient move to make. But until then, the project could prove politically problematic for both her and Sen. John McCain. Opponents say it is wrongheaded for safety and budgetary reasons. The highway runs through several major avalanche zones, which would make the road all but inoperable during the winter. There are environmental concerns that come with the construction. Already, a ferry system allows for passage to most of the sparsely populated areas.
"The plan makes no sense. Instead, Alaska's politicians should do something they don't do very often: they should put the money for the road in the bank," wrote Heather Lende, a columnist for the Anchorage Daily News, in a fierce New York Times op-ed. "The interest alone could go toward operating and maintaining the current Lynn Canal ferry system. A few rules would probably need to change, but I'm confident Alaska's politicians have enough clout when it comes to dealing with federal transportation money to bring this about."
These critiques aside, there are those in Alaska pining for the completion of the road, viewing it as an effective way of connecting the state's capital to surrounding communities. Where Palin stands currently remains undetermined. Certainly, her selection as McCain's vice president puts her in a bit of a bind. There is already a bounty of evidence that clouds her claim to be consistently against the Bridge to Nowhere. An opposition to the Road to Nowhere at this point may also seem driven by political expediency.
"She hasn't been in office that long and she hasn't made a lot of tough decisions," said Lois Epstein, director of the Alaska Transportation Priorities Project. "On the Juneau road project she has said different things. During he campaign she said she was supportive and we have presented her info since the election about what a bad idea it is and how big a black hole and fiscally irresponsible it is for the state. And why the money should be spent elsewhere. We have been really pushing her to cancel the road. But she hasn't made a decision on it. It is up in the air."
胡扯八道 (3)
September 4, 2008 03:58 PM