Instead Palin stood around looking lovely, and trying to appear the good sport, capable of laughing at herself despite failed attempts to rip the electorate in half plus one with her bare intellect. Deep into the show, she appeared at the "Weekend Update" desk as Amy Poehler did an Alaska rap. It was sort of funny, but there was something also disconcerting about seeing Palin bopping her head (and looking good again) to rap music, amd with the knowledge that she has used every negative theme in the book to portray the black candidate as someone to fear.
She did no heavy lifting, and was pleasant, and how can one really lose when using the white people rapping theme as a way to trivialize oneself into a likeable person? But still, she loses walking this path, bobbing and weaving and making her "groovy face" to the rythm.
Read more at the N.Y. Times, Huffington Post and L.A. Times:
Later in the show, Palin made an appearance on "Weekend Update," telling(LA Times)
co-anchors Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler that she wasn't going to do the piece they had rehearsed because she was afraid it was a bad idea for the campaign.
Instead, Poehler got up and rapped the song that Palin supposedly was going to perform, chanting: "McCain got experience, McCain got style, but don't let him freak you out when he tries to smile. Because that smile be creepy, but when I'm VP, all the leaders of the world gonna finally meet me."
Smiling, the governor nodded and swayed to the beat.
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