Europe Calling

Sarah Palin fell so hard for a prank call from Montreal, by a caller posing as the dashing Nicolas Sarkozy, that she swooned like a giddy teenager and threw her gutbucket small-town instincts right out the window and praised a) France, b) “Marcel the guy with bread under his armpit,” a kind of French Joe the Plumber, and c) Carla Bruni, who, in spite of a long rap sheet as a French pop star and celebrity model and homewrecker which must offend every non-elitist Republican family value on the market, is A-Okay with Sarah Palin:

And your beautiful wife, oh my goodness, you’ve added a lot of energy to your country with that, um — with that beautiful family of yours!

Oh no! Later she even suggested that Sarkozy’s tax policies were

a very good example for us here.

What was she thinking! Sarkozy may be a man of the right, but he is, after all, French, which means “socialist” if anything does. Quel désastre! Even worse, at the very end, you can just make out the Republican vice-presidential nominee in damage-control mode, in the background, complaining about “this radio station in France,” after the man made quite clear that he was from Montreal. The Palins can see Russia from their window; it seems Canada’s too far away.

Never mind. Sarah will dust herself off. She will make her triumphant return (“maybe in eight years”), and under a Palin administration such cruel and negative people will have no legal right to hamper a politician’s legal right to free unfettered political speech by muddling up her message to the real American people. Or something. Even if they’re from France Canada.

Thanks to B. and to Les Justiciers Masqués, who have struck below the waterline.

UPDATE: Just to be clear, it isn’t the simple fact of Palin’s gullibility that we found funny here at Radio Free Mike, but the things the star-struck Republican nominee chose to say to the supposed decadent Frenchman. She was not just punk’d, but hoist’d by her own petard.

So there.

     posted 2 November 2008 by Michael Scott Moore

  1. They also (early on) name Johnny Hallyday as their minister for something or other.

    — Bowleserised    Nov 2, 02:28 pm    #

  2. Very funny. – Good thing they didn’t pretend this was a 3am call…

    — Stop Smoking    Nov 3, 10:02 am    #

  3. Also, according to the interview they did with the Globe and Mail, Palin’s aides asked the “French aid” how to spell Sarkozy...

    — Bowleserised    Nov 4, 02:30 pm    #

  4. 1, — Lesya    Nov 10, 09:36 pm    #