Saturday Night Live opening skit: Palin/Couric interview - art imitates life
Notice that they use a portion of Palin’s exact words in the response to the bailout question in the skit to parody her.
Art imitates life… funny, scary, pathetic.
Palin’s actual response to Couric on the bailout question (7:25 in the video). Compare it with the skit. It’s almost verbatim.
Palin: That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, we’re ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh, it’s got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans,