Tina Fey's back and Sarah Palin never left

Earlier this fall Tina Fey, the actress who mimicked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin so brilliantly, said she couldn't wait for the hockey mom to go away, presumably by the Republican presidential ticket losing the Nov. 4 election.

Palin and John McCain did, in fact, come in second that day.

But Palin, the losing vice presidential candidate, hasn't gone away. In fact, she's all over the place.

And it's the winning vice presidential candidate, Democrat Joe Biden, who seems to have disappeared.

Palin was all over Georgia today earning future political owsies by wowing conservative crowds behind incumbent GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss' runoff reelection bid tomorrow against Democrat Jim Martin.

And now, it turns out, it's Fey who's come back. Though losing her Palin schtick on "Saturday Night Live," Fey is on the current cover of "Vanity Fair" magazine dressed as a, uh, red-white-and-blue Uncle Sam-antha. (For a trip down memory lane to watch some of Fey's Palin video performances, click here.)

For a revealing video of Fey talking with Conan O'Brien about the ordeal of portraying Palin, click on the "Read more" line below. (She actually has some nice things to say about the governor.)

Mark Silva, who cannot be mimicked, has more on the new Fey magazine story here in the Swamp.  And our own Elizabeth Snead has her own blogger's take on the Fey sexism charges on Dish Rag right here.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Cover photograph by Annie Leibovitz

Comments

[jacksmith]

WE HAVE MORE TO DO:

Democrat Jim Martin is in a runoff against Bush Republican Saxby Chambliss for the Senate seat from Georgia. Bush's Saxby Chambliss voted against spending a few measly dollars to provide health care coverage for Georgia, and Americas needy children. But he supported wasting hundreds of billions of your dollars, and the life BLOOD of Americas finest on an unnecessary war in Iraq.

At a time when 47 million of you have no health insurance coverage, and over 100 million of you with insurance are just one major illness away from complete financial destruction. Bush and Saxby Chambliss voted to make the heart break of bankruptcy relief even harder for all of you to use.

You see, Bush and Saxby Chambliss, and his family don't have to worry about their health care coverage. They have the finest health care coverage your tax money can buy for them. Courtesy of you. The American Tax payer. In fact, no one but the super rich can afford the health care coverage you the tax payer provide for Saxby Chambliss, and his family for FREE! with your tax dollars.

He supposedly works for you. But he doesn't think you and your family should have access to the type of taxpayer supported FREE health care that you provide for him, and his loved ones for FREE!. Doesn't that just make you BURRING MAD!

Vote for JIM MARTIN for US senator from Georgia. Vote for JIM Martin who will be on your side. Vote for JIM MARTIN who will work with President Obama and a majority congress for you. Vote for JIM MARTIN most of all for your-self, your family's, friends, and loved ones. Vote for JIM MARTIN for a better America, and a better World.

Don't let Saxby Chambliss make a chump out of you by tricking you into voting against your own best interest. Saxby chambliss is NOT! on your side. He's not one of you. He is on George Bush's side. And we all know what a catastrophe the Bush Chambliss administration has been the past 8 years.

Contact all your family and friends and do every thing you can to see to it that JIM MARTIN and GEORGIANS! take that senate seat back for Georgia, and America. No matter where you live in America. This is important to you. President Obama will need all the help, and power you can give him to try and fix this catastrophic mess that the Corrupt Bush Chambliss administration has created.

As I said before you will have to vote in overwhelming numbers to overcome the Bush Chambliss "Let Them Eat Cake" vote fraud machine. Vote early if you can. Then help everyone you can get to the polls and vote for JIM MARTIN. You and your loved ones don't have to be Saxby Chambliss's victims anymore.

I know you will get it done. Just like you did for President Obama.

God bless all of you

jacksmith - WORKING CLASS... :-)

[Bill]

Good to see Fey is still on fire from the Palin campaign. Has anyone else seen this article about how uninformed voters of both parties were?
http://www.greenfaucet.com/hanlons-pub/were-obama-voters-just-plain-ignorant/66041
It's actually pretty disheartening stuff..

The American public is so informed that the majority couldn't even get the right answers to questions about Palin and Obama that were true and false.

[JuliaH]

Please help Georgia put the final nail in the Bush-era coffin. Call your friends in GA and encourage them to be sure to vote today! The Jim Martin website: http://www.martinforsenate.com/volunteer.html

Yes We Will!

[RIP GOP 2008]

The greatest gift our country could receive would be for Sarah Palin to run and be selected as the GOP candidate in 2012. One must assume that the list of all viable GOP candidates have long since been depleted.
And God bless Alaska for allowing the handicapped to become so involved in public affairs. No other state has ever enabled such an intellectually challenged person to attain such a high office.

[Libby]

Years from today, Tina Fey will only be remembered as the woman who helped interfere in the democratic process in America. Reams will be written about the number of Obama supporters who believed that Fey's impersonation was the truth about Palin. The opinion, "Stupid Americans", will be reinforced all around the globe. History will be much kinder to Palin than it will be to the media which reported on and the media that mocked this election.

I don't expect any bloggers to understand this, because they have probably never read any of the hundreds of books which evaluate presidents and campaigns once the noise has died down and the real work begins.

[helen]

a satire about obama's life from birth to election day
if you do not like obama this is hilarious

the secret thai files - you can start where the bold paragragh is to shorten story
I have another one about michelle

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-157653