On Saturday, two prankster DJs from Quebec got their hands on Sarah Palin’s phone number and managed to convince her that she was talking to Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France. The phone call, full audio of which is below, went on for nearly six minutes. (Note: this is longer than the campaign allows her to talk to the press.) It’s actually very difficult for me to listen to; if I was watching it, it would be through my fingers, cringing. I kind of… feel… bad for her.
Warning, in case you play this out loud, he managed to slip a joke about “fucking” (in a reference to the porno, “Whos Nailin’ Paylin”) that went over her head; it’s all very thickly accented and fast when he says it.
I can kind of see how she would be confused. Kind of.
The best (worst?) part was that her campaign didn’t lie their assess off about it; they confirmed it.
If the woman who, in two days, has a decent shot at being one 72-year-old cancer survivor’s heart beat away from having the most important job on the planet gets punk’d for nearly 6-minutes by two yahoos from Quebec, don’t you think it should have been, I dunno, COVERED UP? Is this part of some master scheme? It seems too far out. Or is the internet really still a “wild west” of information, and these sorts of things will never really be able to be swept under the rug, with people trading information so fast that The Man can’t keep up?
Viva la internet.
