International Affairs: Sarah Palin Gets Personal (Almost) with President Sarkozy

Two Quebecois disk jockeys pay tribute to the Vice Presidential candidate's global expertise, putting her in touch with the French President. Among the bonus features of the prank call: Sarkozy's advisor on American American affairs, Johnny Halliday (who doubles in real life as a legendary French singer), the quick insert in French --- in Sarkozy's request to go hunting with Palin --- "I like to kill baby seals", and the reference to French pop classic "Joe the Plumber" (actually, "Joe le Taxi" by 15-year-old Vanessa Paradis in 1988):

[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CcEiR01QK7o[/youtube]

Post-Modern Election Talk: When Does a Campaign Go Beyond a Joke?

Seventy-two hours after Barack McCain dropped a 30-minute political "info-merical" on the US public, John McCain responded in the fashion appropriate to this 2008 Presidential election: he appeared on Saturday Night Live, the comedy programme that converted his campaign into a running joke.

Gotta hand it to Big John, who never winced as he appeared along the comic masterpiece Fey-Palin, the one that he inadvertently created with his Hockey Mom gamble in August. But, as a reader notes, "OK, this is just surreal... Lucky this campaign is over in three days or I seriously struggle to imagine what comes next."

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