Montreal comedians prank-call Sarah Palin
The biggest hit on YouTube this week might not even be a video.
A couple of radio DJs from Montreal--Marc-Antoine Audette and Sebastien Trudel, who are known as the "Masked Avengers"--managed to get in a phone call to U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, claiming to be French president Nicolas Sarkozy. They then posted an audio clip of the five-minute stunt to video hub YouTube--and according to just about every major news outlet, this appears to be legitimate.
Does anything scandalous get said? Not really. Palin sticks to her usual talking points, but doesn't seem to pick up on the fact that "Sarkozy" comes across as quite the buffoon, even when he implies that a recent adult film depicting a Palin lookalike was a "documentary" and when he says (in French) that he would love to go hunting for baby seals with her.
The "Masked Avengers" have pranked heads of state before, including Sarkozy himself. But given all the fever about Tuesday's hotly contested election, in which Palin may or may not be elected as the country's first female vice president, this could be their biggest contribution to the history books of hilarious and head-slapping media hoaxes.
It'd be in good company: it comes almost exactly 70 years to the day after the legitimately freaky War of the Worlds radio stunt.
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1. She's got, what, 2-3 days before Election Day and she's got nothing better to do than to play along with a crank call?
2. She knows that she's on a crank call and let's the thing play out so that she appears foolish rather than turning it on her "attacker"?
No, she had absolutely no idea and perhaps if she knew a bit more about Nicolas then she'd have noticed. This said I think that the assistant to Palin is more to blame. I mean, if you get passed the phone from your assistant and told that it's the French President on the other end, you're going to believe her.
So, no, Palin had no clue that it was a prank call but I also don't think that she could have come out of this much better. But given that no real damage was done I think we can all move on.
haha
I guess gullibility (as displayed by the followers of Obama with his socialist and social engineering proposals) is not limited to the Democrats.
I guess gullibility (as displayed by the followers of Obama with his socialist and social engineering proposals) is not limited to the Democrats. They had her for a while but then she kept it going--you can hear her obvious snickering. But, no doubt it was considered a victory for these "comedians." I would have at least tried to be funny.
This is the twit your voting for. Listen carefully. She has no clue about geography, heads of state or someone with an armpit like Joe the plummer.
Elaine
Nothing special about a man who doesnt even know where his family is, nor if they are in need. Nothing.
When the kool-aid wears off, I hope you idiots who support this criminal-friend jackass are happy that you've put this nation in jeopardy.
Karma is entertaining as long as you only have to watch.
- by iBuzz November 3, 2008 11:53 AM PST
- Is this any way to interact with a foreign leader? By giggling like a school girl? And by agreeing with things being said that she doesn't understand? And why would you take a call from a foreign leader without first knowing what the reason for the call is and the agenda for the discussion?
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Showing 1 of 2 pages (35 Comments)They could have never done this to Obama or Biden. First of all, both are aware that the French President does not speak English. This is a total disaster. How sad is it that we have someone like this running for VP? Heaven help the U.S. if she gets elected.