Tina Fey calls Sarah Palin 'sexism' charges baloney!
Think for a moment about the unbelievable coincidence that Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin happened to look eerily like the funniest woman on TV, "Saturday Night Live's" Tina Fey.
Seriously, what are the chances?
Adam McKay, Will Ferrell's writing partner in Hollywood who wrote the SNL sketch in which Ferrell's fumbling W. gives Fey's flirty Palin an endorsement, tells Vanity Fair: "It is the most ridiculous, borderline-dangerous thing that the Republican vice-presidential nominee happened to look like the funniest woman working in America. What if the next Republican presidential nominee looks exactly like Seth Rogen?"
For the record, Tina Fey doesn't think her Palin impersonations were sexist. She thinks the accusations of the skits being sexist are what's sexist.
Wait, let her explain. After she saw a TV entertainment reporter say that Palin had been gracious toward Fey, but Fey hadn't been gracious toward Palin, she told Maureen Dowd in the Vanity Fair article:
"What made me super-mad about it was that it seemed very sexist toward me and her. The implication was that she's so fragile, which she is not. She's a strong woman. And then, also, it was sexist because, like, who would ever go on the news and say, 'Well, I thought it was sort of mean to Richard Nixon when Dan Aykroyd played him,' and 'That seemed awful mean to George Bush when Will Ferrell did it.' And it's like, No, that's not the thing. This is a comedy sketch on a comedy show." "Mean," we agreed, was a word that tends to get used on women who do satirical humor and, as she says, "gay guys."
"I feel clean about it," she says. "All these jokes were fair hits."
What do you think? Did Fey's skits play fair? Were they too mean? Was it sexist?
And was "30 Rock" star Tina Fey in some way responsible for the outcome of the election?
If so, where do we send flowers?
Photo credits: Getty Images, WireImage
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Satire ought to be part of the political process.
It might represent the only truth in it!
And yes, I agree. To the same extent that the Bush administration's remarks have been honest, Tina Fey's have been sexist.
Nuff said.
Tina Fey in her efforts to gain popularity and money probably ruined a good women's career as a politician. I hope she remembers: What goes around, comes around.
Why does Tina Fey like Barack Obama?
Because he has bigger ears than she does.
I am not a supporter of Palin. But to deny the sexism in Fey's portrayal of her is ignorant. Had Sarah been a man the whole "bimbo" routine would not have worked.....
I DON'T THINK SARAH NOR TINA IS RUFFLED MUCH OVER ALL THIS. THEY BOTH ARE SMART, STRONG LADIES. WORKING HARD WITH TOTS. FOR MOST OF US IT IS A PLEASURE TO YUK IT UP AS THEY PRESENT THE HUMOR IN THIS LIFE EXPERIENCE WE ALL ENJOYED. ONLY THE FISH WHO GO FOR THE BAIT ARE DISTURBED AND ALL RUFFLED.
Everyone has an agenda, even Tina Fey.
Her career was elevated to a whole new level from the Palin impersonations.
Of course Fey will deny sexism. Of course the Palin bits were horribly sexist. Duh.
We have lost tremendous respect for Fey, but she probably gained more fans than lost them. Sadly.
Women preying on women for personal gain is a terrible spectacle.
We are Democrats, btw.
In Gov. Palin's interviews with Katie Couric, she came off as dumber than anything Fey did in her SNL skits.
Sorry Fey-haters, but as Bill Murray once said, "That's the facts, Jack!"
How can anyone blame Fey for the "bimbo" routine? I think that's actually not an accurate description. "Dumbo" routine would descibe it better...Palin, just like Bush, gave these comics all the material they needed.
Tina Fey's Sarah Palin sketches were dead on -- some of the funniest TV in years.
And quit boo-hooing, SNL is 10x harder on Hillary -- and no one seems to mind.
Never noticed it before. Tina Fey looks old and haggard compared to Sarah Palin.