Now that Governor Sarah Palin has actually shown up on Saturday Night Live -- and did a scene with 30 Rock's lefty bloviator Alec Baldwin, even! -- where the hell else can either NBC or the GOP take this thing? Oh, we don't know, maybe having Palin and Tina Fey actually exchange anything more than a frosty glance? Jeez, people, not since Heat has there been a meetup more underwhelming. Don't believe us? Click on through for the video clips and a special news roundup...
-- Ah well, NBC sure ain't complaining, since Saturday marked SNL's highest ratings since the mid '90's.
-- Obviously this is a win for SNL, but what about Palin? Did this do anything for her this year or, maybe in a future election year? The answer is probably no, unless you count the possibility of her getting her own show down the road.
-- Guess Gov. Palin thought it would be important to get serious after all that goofing off and schmoozing with New York media elites. Her next stop was Roswell, NM, which never had anything funny happen there.
-- BTW, only one-third of people who've seen any of these Palin bits are watching them during broadcasts. The rest are checking them out online.
-- Who here actually buys the notion that Gov. Palin was supposed to deliver that rap herself? The Guardian, for one, but we're not so sure. We have a feeling that even if she hadn't been 14.5 months pregnant, Amy Poehler'd just managed to deliver it with the appropriate amounts of gusto and diction, and she does crap like this for a living.