The Anita Bryant Spectacular (TV Special, 1980) A Florida Oranges to Alaskan Oil comparison. Hmm
Beauty queen, Christian evangelist, anti-gay civil unions. It’s tough to be so wholesome.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) – There’s a flash back where Sarah visits Washington as governor for the first time. In it, we see her doing the White House tour with a group of regular tourists. “Golly Gee,” she says to one of them, “we can’t grow these cherry blossoms in Alaska, but I’ll tell you what, we Alaskans grow our ancient forests for a purpose—you know, logging, target practice….”
Earlier in the movie, on her way to governor, Palin single-handedly fights political corruption in her own state, just like Eliot Spitzer did on his path to the NY Governorship. On the Campaign trailAnnie Get Your Gun (1950) O’Reilly publicly warns Ann Coulter not to say anything nasty about McCain and Palin for the good of the party, saying Sarah is the voluptuous, more Reaganesque voice of Republican female sensuality. And Ann should just settle down, stop being an anorexic and raise a bunch of kids with some good Republican family values.
In the nest scene, Palin challenges Cheney to a friendly duck hunting competition and a big oil show down—
Palin: Anything you can do, I can do betterCheney: No, you can't.
Palin: Yes, I can.
Obama: Hey, hold on minute/ Yes, We Can/ And Caesar Chavez said it first, anyway
Palin Netrooter: You took / Sarah’s “New Energy for America” slogan/ from our blog.
Greek Chorus: The Apollo Project used it first/ in 2004 (finishing in crescendo)
Erin Brokovitch (2000) In her first campaign crisis, Sarah holds a press conference angrily denying the rumor that she gave “Six hundred and thirty-four blow jobs in five days” to the signers of the online draft that launched her VP run, stating simply that she is not a licensed hairdresser.
The Deer Hunter (1978 ) Four year’s after Fahrenheit 911 ‘s search for politicians with family members choosing to join the military, Palin, along with McCain and Biden have sons who will be stationed in Iraq. No satire on this one, but a leveling reality with political and very personal consequence.
Cheech and Chong: Light Up America (2008 tour) Weeds (TV series, 2005- )
In a attempt to reach out to single mothers, youth and aging-hippies, an uninvited Palin jumps on stage the Light Up America tour. Palin “admits” for the 1000th time that she smoked pot while it was still completely legal in Alaska.. She boasts that she is even more capable a leader than Clinton because she knows how to inhale— only stopping because she just didn’t like it, and that it was her voluntary choice (not construed to mean that she’s pro-choice). She’ll tell single moms that while the business of marijuana growing demonstrates agricultural know-how, savvy business skills and the art of navigating the legal system, they should do something more honorable for income, like be a politician. Martha Stewart delights everyone by dropping by and showing the audience how to make those special cookies, should they ever become legal.The Ten Commandments Palin plays the first female Moses, with the blessing of God, played by Charlton Heston in the after-life (who stole the role during one of George Burns cigar breaks). Confused by the definition of life as applied between her Feminists For Life membership with her lifelong membership in the NRA, she bombs the Red Sea, claiming it as a victory for womanhood. This would also account for the extent of her intended international policy.
Xena, Warrior Princess (1995-200 ), Wonder Woman (1976-1979)By day she’s an Amazon VP candidate, by night when she removes those Clark Kent glasses—
she’s the sultry Lucy Lawless and finds dead bodies in the Potomac
