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Sarah Palin And Jay Leno Bond Over Bad Press

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Sarah Palin was a two-segment guest last night on The Tonight Show (and was involved in the cold open, displaying her own version of “cue cards”).

Dressed down in jeans, she made several key political points before trying her hand at stand-up for the first time ever. But she and Jay Leno also bonded over something they share.

Leno asked Palin about the way the media “tries to get a rise out of you, they sort of poke you to try to get you to react,” and what she’s learned about the bad press. “Jay you’ve gone through this too, especially in the last few months,” says Palin, while the crowd applauds. Then she drops this anecdote/advice for Leno: “A lie can travel halfway around the world before truth even has a chance to get its pants on in the morning.” (We’re not the gotcha media, but no Google results on that one.)

Right before her stand-up routine (she was like the right-of-center-Leno), the Tonight Show host asked her about her future career plans. “Do you think you’d ever give up politics to do a talk show?” asked Leno. Palin, tapping on Leno’s desk: “I hear every once in a while this comes open.”

Here’s the full two segments:

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  • StewartIII

    My Queen!

  • Grammie

    Stew, you are not only a kick but you also are a grade A sh*t stirrer, a’int ya?

    You’re going have them howling at the moon in broad daylight tomorrow. :)

  • The Real Royal King

    The shtick is getting very old, isn’t it?

  • timzank

    This will make TRRK’s head explode. 12 minutes of Sarah Palin without a single mistake or controversial remark. Smooth, coherent conversation from a conservative woman….

  • The Real Royal King

    Why should my head explode? If “coherent conversation” is incessant, non-stop babbling, then I suppose your point is well-taken. We had a couple of coyote doing the dirty in the canyon behind my house last night. I don’t know about the female’s political ideology, but it struck me she was smooth and coherent. The Drop Out Governor of Alaska, not so much.

  • Cecelia

    Well, TRRK, it’s wonderful that you watched the entire video, pondered it in your usual careful manner…and then wrote an interesting, challenging, and thought provoking opinion, without generalizations or buzz words.

    Just as always…

    (not..)

  • The Real Royal King

    I should have added, Cecelia, I think it terrible the Drop Out Governor wore those jeans on the program. When we have female candidates for employment come in for their interviews and, if hired, we expect them to wear dresses or skirts (as we expect males to wear coats and ties). It is mind-boggling how often women show up in jeans and pants for the interviews. We always give them an “opportunity to make a more favorable first impression.” You’d think that observing the dress of the other women in the office might suggest something to them. About 35% of the time, they come back dressed the same way. With the male applicants, we do sometimes have someone dressed in a golf-style shirt an jacket, but seldom. So, I think the Drop Out Governor could have done a great service to America’s young women if she had dressed as if she weren’t going down to the gulch to roll stink bait.

  • Cecelia

    With any other person, I’d comment that Leno’s position is not so tenuous that everyone is covertly interviewing for it… but seeing that it’s YOU, and this is just your usual grasping for invective, nevermind…

    Whoever advised Palin was very savvy. She managed to simultaneously look hip and edgy AND like the pretty girl next door.

    Good call!

  • Cecelia

    Just looking at Palin again, I’m even more struck by the thought that went into her appearance.

    The jacket has a military bearing about it (Commander-in-Chief evoking?…) with the bar pin brooch placed far down on the lapel almost like insignia or a military stripe. The usual would have been to place it more centrally.

    The jeans show her legs, the belt shows her waist, the hair looks lady-like but sexy– strong, but feminine.

    The shoes just rock.

    Whoever the stylist/image-maker is here, they’re on the money.

  • hatehavingtodothis

    TRRK does not represent us liberals. That was a really stupid comment about the jeans there. Cecelia is totally right. She looks like your average joan, which is exactly what she was going for.

    I breathed a sigh of relief when this was over. Palin is good at political entertainment, but her career as a politician is so over. She’s actually quite a bit of fun in the light of entertainment.

    Also, it can’t take much longer for people to see that she IS the wedge driving partisanship. She is profiting from the confusion and anger at the left, and she perpetuates it. She joined Fox News because she is fed up with opinion-based news? You sly fox.

  • writer

    Mr. Blackwell, Sarah wasn’t interviewing for a job. She was doing a talk show. Watch ‘Leave it to Beaver’ reruns if you insist on seeing women dressed like June Cleaver.

  • felixw

    Didn’t this segment violate a law? I thought that there was a statute prohibiting Sarah Palin from expressing her views on NBC without a left-wing pundit on hand to edit the video clips and interpret the statements to the viewers. This could be dangerous to actually let people here what she has to say, and not just the official interpretation.

  • Cecelia

    writer, it’s a lot of fun to dress like June Cleaver, but I wouldn’t equate job savvy with this style. That’s probably not a priority for women, wherever TRRK works.

  • hatehavingtodothis

    Nope, felixw, that’s your own blind partisanship thinking. Keep on hatin’! The sooner you have a heart attack, the better!

  • The Real Royal King

    The jacket has a military bearing about it (Commander-in-Chief evoking?…) with the bar pin brooch placed far down on the lapel almost like insignia or a military stripe.

    Of course, the problem with your analysis is that in the US “Commander-in-Chief” is a civilian, even if he or she has a military background.

    I so apologize that I uphold high standards in dress, demeanor and composure. I have to say I do regret our laziness and sloppiness these days. I should note that while SOS Clinton and Speaker Pelosi buy expensive clothes, I find the constant pants and pants suits cheap, tacky and inappropriate. What I find so interesting about the Drop Out Governor, however, is that Republican women have such a tradition of dressing so very smartly. Pat Nixon (a bit dowdy, perhaps, but well-clothed), Nancy Reagan (a bit gaunt, except at the ankles, but exceptionally well-clothed) ….* I guess Laura Bush changed all of that with her unflattering Eisenhower length jackets and pants suits. Well, it’s a loss for all of us.

    I’m also surprised by the positive comments about the make-up and hair. So tacky. Small town band baton twirler gauche ….

    Well, no accounting for taste, I suppose. How else would we have ended up with men wearing khakis and polo shirts everyplace, including Mass?

    *In stark contrast to Raygun’s hideous brown suits.

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    I breathed a sigh of relief when this was over. Palin is good at political entertainment, but her career as a politician is so over. She’s actually quite a bit of fun in the light of entertainment.

    Also, it can’t take much longer for people to see that she IS the wedge driving partisanship. She is profiting from the confusion and anger at the left, and she perpetuates it. She joined Fox News because she is fed up with opinion-based news? You sly fox.

    While I do take exception to your taking exception to my remarks about the Drop Out Governor’s sloppiness, I will note that, while I breathed no particular sigh of relief as I always expected she would have a limited shelf life, the rest of your analysis is very good.

  • blueblogger

    I didn’t watch Leno because he is past my bed time. I watched all the clips this morning and I must say she makes for a good comedy act President not so much!!!

  • writer

    hatehavingtodothis accuses someone of ‘blind partisanship? Bwwaaaahhhhahhaaaahaaaahaaaa!!!

  • writer

    BTW, (White) Royal “K”ing, besides that wearing jeans thing, women are also allowed to vote.

  • Cecelia

    The Real Royal King a bit dense, but able to write a semi-coherent sentence…. TRRK, a bit not un-nuanced, but still king of the back-handed complimented… TRRK, a bit coy, but …. oh hell, he’s just coy…

    You’re being far too literal when it comes to subliminal messages.

  • Ted

    TRRK – You’re on a roll; laugh out loud funny, and incidentally, spot on.

  • Grammie

    The Real Royal King says:
    March 3, 2010 at 11:01 am

    I don’t usually respond to TRRK but this is just too good (bad?) to pass up!

    First, I must repeat my often used critique of Quick, Quick, a barf bag! In this case, though, perhaps I should call for two it is so cringe-inducing (H/T Colby Hall) and the line below definitely merits one all by itself:

    “I so apologize that I uphold high standards in dress, demeanor and composure. ”

    If he had just added internet behavior it might have even been worthy of three big ones!

    Only TRRK could write such a loooong boring smarmy piece of clap trap about such a tangential issue.

    Having known TRRK on the net for four years I can tell you all that if we were to believe everyone of his interminable self serving anecdotes about his life he would either have to be a couple of hundred years old, making things up or more than one person! Humh, maybe I’m on to something.

  • writer

    Yes, spot on. (White) Royal, why not extrapolate? Let’s go Taliban and make women wear those shrouds with only their eyes showing. That’ll teach Palin for appearing on TV.

  • Cecelia

    The real irony is that if Palin had appeared in a dress, TRRK would have questioned the cost of the ensemble.

  • writer

    And if only her eyes were showing, he’d have made fun of her glasses.

  • Cecelia

    “BTW, (White) Royal “K”ing, besides that wearing jeans thing, women are also allowed to vote.”

    Writer, TRRK would tell that were he works, they’re also allowed to get his coffee…

  • writer

    He’s a hell of a (White) guy.

  • timzank

    Suffice to say (?) The Racist Sexist Royal King?

  • MichelleF

    I thought she did great! I loved the stand up routine.

  • Cecelia

    The Racist Sexist Fake Royal King.

    He stole the “The Real Royal KIng” moniker from Olby Sucks when he called himself that at olbermannwatch.com.

  • writer

    timzank, don’t forget the (White) part. Royal seems to feel it’s very important to always mention it.

  • Grammie

    writer says:
    March 3, 2010 at 11:26 am

    As soon as I read this by TRRK I immediately thought back to my early days in the work force. Women were not allowed to wear pants/slacks and were required to wear stockings and except for a legitimate cause heels.

    “When we have female candidates for employment come in for their interviews and, if hired, we expect them to wear dresses or skirts”

    After some years we were granted the great privilege to wear pants suits ONLY if they were obviously a coordinated suit. The heels and stockings (I cheated, footies ya know) remained a requirement.

    Let me think. Oh yes, it was that liberal women rights’ movement that changed all that in the workplace.

    Who knew that TRRK is really a closet extreme right wing conservative so obsessed with controlling every aspect of women’s lives. This is a very special thread b/c he let us in on two of his buried political shames with this:

    “We had a couple of coyote doing the dirty in the canyon behind my house last night. I don’t know about the female’s political ideology, but it struck me she was smooth and coherent. The Drop Out Governor of Alaska, not so much.”

    What would his friends think if they knew that he publicly equated a woman with humping coyotes. Not only that but the animal came out far better in his estimation. BTW, TRRK, have you ever seen that snarling spitting bob cat on the side of the road again? You remember, the one you named Sharon b/c it reminded you so much of the young wife and mother of three who I thought was a lovely young woman?

  • marigrace

    The Real Royal King said;
    I think it terrible the Drop Out Governor wore those jeans on the program.

    Did you see some of Mrs. Obama’s outfits? I didn’t know one could purchase left overs from clown college.

  • Grammie

    marigrace says:
    March 3, 2010 at 11:55 am

    Marigrace, it was that epitome of good taste and fashion, Jackie O, who made jeans (both the pants and the material) acceptable for virtually any occasion short of black/white tie.

    The Tonight Show falls in that category for me.

  • writer

    This thread seems to be coming to the conclusion that (White) Royal “K”ing is, among other things, misogynist. I can’t believe this from someone who is otherwise so fair minded. I need a moment alone.

  • Cecelia

    Grammie, you’re being modest. TRRK surpassed himself in earthy gender-specific put-downs of women of his chronological whereabouts who happen to also be grandmothers.

  • tjl

    Ummm. I’m a big fan of the RRK. Not only does he make great points, but he was able to get you wing-nuts to comment about him for the past (hold on, let me check)… let’s call it 4 hours, give or take. Brilliant. It shows how insecure those on the “right” are.

    Hey, Palin, nice jeans! She’s so… regular.

  • Cecelia

    We’re more than glad to comply with what you think is TRRK’s game, tjl.

    You just go right on reading and asking yourself ‘who’s zooming who”….

  • tjl

    That comment was five degrees colder than the approval ratings of congress, Cecilia.

  • Cecelia

    Anyone who calls themselves a fan of TRRK, would know cold…

  • Olby Sucks

    The crowd really loved her. Kudos to Sarah!

  • The Real Royal King

    Cecelia, I suppose my question to you, since the women in my life, my wife, my daughter, my Mother, my sisters, my aunts, my secretary, are all of the well-coiffed, tailored, single strand pearl-bedecked, Coach Bag carrying-sort, is: How might a woman go about heaping such tresses upon her noggin? Dippity Doo? Aqua Net? Bobby Pins? Barettes? Other hardware (please specify)? Super Glue? It seems to me that if a woman with such hair, done in such a fashion, might encounter dangerous situations if she were in an area in which there was gravity.

  • Grammie

    Quick, quick, a barf bag!

    If TRRK keeps this up I think I might buy stock in barf bag companies.

  • tjl

    Simple answer RRK. When there is nothing occupying the space below her hair it’s much easier to keep it upright.

    (how can you not appreciate the state that RRK has the nutters in?)

  • Cecelia

    Sweety, I’d tell you to watch There’s Something About Mary, but you wouldn’t identify anyone holding the necessary equipment.

    So I’ll just settle for knowing you’re a troubled wanntabe hairdresser at heart.

    Shocker!…

  • Olby Sucks

    faux, you are one pathetic excuse for a human being. Old news, I know.

  • Cecelia

    It’s easy to see that tjl knows physics as well as he/she knows anything else…

  • Ted

    TRRK – Well done. You seem to pushing a few buttons here; it’s very funny and the responses are quite entertaining. SP is sacred ground you know.

  • Cecelia

    Oh, yeah, sacred ground… And if TRRK can’t put women up on pedestals (so his friends can look up their dresses), he compare them to coyotes and other animals.

  • tjl

    Cecilia, physics is my steez. I actually did pretty well in my physics courses in college. My GPA was… you ready for this?…. five points higher than congress’ approval rating! BOOM!

  • The Real Royal King

    tjl says:
    March 3, 2010 at 12:47 pm

    Simple answer RRK. When there is nothing occupying the space below her hair it’s much easier to keep it upright.

    (how can you not appreciate the state that RRK has the nutters in?)

    Certainly, room for one of those little blower fans used in those inflatable yard decorations [some] people seem to adore …. I did think the inflatable Nativity Scene I saw for the first time this year was a bit over the top.

  • Cecelia

    tlj, even with the curve that benefited you, that’s low…

  • Cecelia

    TRRK, you are not a epicurean, a connoisseur, a sensualist, a maven…

    You are merely a snob. And being a snob, you can enjoy nothing but that which brings esteem in the eyes of your fellow snobs.

    Enjoy those fruits. You work very hard to meant the stringent criteria of tlj, Patrick, and The Real John T.

  • Olby Sucks

    You (faux) work very hard to meant the stringent criteria of tlj, Patrick, and The Real John T.

    by Cecelia

    LOL!

  • The Real Royal King

    My, my, my, Cecelia certainly got herself into a snit, didn’t she? Which, of course, means little Jeff is in a snit, too. For, when Cecelia itches, Jeff scratches. Both of you need to go to your jobs over at the Klubhaus. It’s sort of a mortuary at the moment.

  • Grammie

    ” Cecelia says:
    March 3, 2010 at 1:10 pm

    Oh, yeah, sacred ground… And if TRRK can’t put women up on pedestals (so his friends can look up their dresses), he compare them to coyotes and other animals.”

    And how does he do his oh so entertaining little vignettes?

    Let’s see. Today he compared Sarah Palin to a humping bitch coyote in heat. Come, come. No complaints about my saying in a good anglo saxon way what TRRK implied in his phony way.

    And how does Sarah fare against the bitch in heat in TRRK’s opinion? Surely if you have been exposed to him at all you at least know part of the answer.

    The light of his eye, the bitch coyote, “was smooth and coherent. The Drop Out Governor of Alaska, not so much.”

    If I were truly a lib with everything that libs claim as their sole prerogative I would fiercely resent these comments from one who purports to be on my side.

    Tjl, you need to hone your perception skills. No one is speaking about TRRK and his ideas, my dear. We are snickering and laughing at a clown who pretends, desperately wants to be, an urbane sophisticate looking down upon the great unwashed masses of peons.

  • tjl

    And thus, Grammie, making my point. How one man can get your (grammie) panties in such a bunch is entertaining to me…. My perception skills are fine, dear.

  • Cecelia

    You just can’t “quit” johnnydollarsplace.us, can you, The Real Fake Royal King…

  • Cecelia

    Yes, we are just in a snit and our panties are in a bunch.

    No wonder these two are kindred spirits…

  • writer

    tjl, what’s funnier is how you far lefties get in such a snit over a woman who isn’t running for office and doesn’t hold an office. The (White) Royal “K”ing gets so upset, he’s even taken on a sort of Mr. Blackwell / Bruno role, critiquing her outfits and her hairstyle. You far lefties are a laugh riot.

  • The Real Royal King

    I’m sorry. I’ve laughed too hard for the day. I need to go do some crunches to relieve the muscle strain.

  • writer

    Could be from those spasms you go into when you hear the name Palin.

  • tjl

    We “lefties” are not in a “snit” over a woman who “isn’t running for office.” I enjoy the presence of Sarah Palin. She’s fantastic. I welcome more Palin. She’s just like every woman I know. Right? Isn’t that her schtick?

    And what does her holding/not holing office have to do with anything? I suppose Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter are off limits, right? Don’t let me catch you criticizing them, Writer.

  • Cecelia

    Yes, Mark (TRRK), your disingenuous muscle has gotten a work-out today.

  • same2u

    Has the queen Klucker come off her roost to defend the shallow and shameless Sarah Palin? Why am I not surprised.

  • Cecelia

    No, Clucker is dissing Palin.

  • writer

    tjl, the left is always saying how unimportant Palin is, then they attack her as if their lives depended on it. Doesn’t make much sense, but it does keep us amused. Your fellow left wing buddy (White) Royal “K”ing has even become like Bruno, offering critiques on her hair and clothes. Meow!! Priceless.

  • Cecelia

    Consider his description of the women he’s around. All “well-coiffed” with pearls and carrying the bougie conception of an expensive handbag.

    Even his daughter! How old is she to look like Hyacinth Bucket?

  • giussepina

    I find her statements about opinion and journalism baffling. Does she think Fox News is not opinion masquerading as journalism? Her rambling speaking style drives me crazy.

    Let’s face it, she wrote on her hand to cheat in high school.

    I am so loving Seth MacFarlane.

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