I didn’t cover Sarah Palin’s whackadoodle appearance at an Iowa Summit last month, mostly because it was pure politics. Palin’s Iowa speech was so crazy and nonsensical, even die-hard conservatives were like “Whoa.” You can see the whole speech here. Sample quote: “GOP leaders, by the way, y’know the man can only ride ya when your back is bent. So strengthen it. Then the man can’t ride ya, America won’t be taken for a ride.”

Why bring this up? Because it’s like Palin is a malfunctioning fembot these days. Someone spilled water on her motherboard or something. While at the Saturday Night Live event, Palin spoke to People Magazine and I think I know what she was trying to say – that Tina Fey’s impression was great AND a political disaster – but Palin just went with a word salad jumble.

Tina Fey, Sarah Palin has a bone to pick with you. While on the carpet ahead of Saturday Night Live’s 40th anniversary special, the former Republican VP candidate called out Fey for not sharing the wealth.

“Well, have I helped her career or has she helped mine? I’m like come on Tina, you should be paying my kids’ braces or something,” Palin told reporters when asked whether being impersonated by Fey on the series had helped her career. “She’s so good, though. I really respect her and her work ethic and her capitalization, you know, on the opportunity.

In fact, Palin, 51, said Fey’s uncanny impersonation is so good that the Alaskan finds her own self being fooled by it.

“You know, I’ll do a double take every time I see her on a rerun or a picture of her,” the mother of five said.

And there are no hard feelings? “I think she’s great,” Palin confirmed. “I just talked to her again today and I brought her girls some Alaskan grown sweatshirts and hoodies. I really respect her.”

[From People]

“I really respect her and her work ethic and her capitalization, you know, on the opportunity…” Her capitalization on the opportunity? As in, Tina Fey capitalized on the fact that she looked like Palin? To hear Fey tell it, Lorne Michaels pretty much begged her to come back to SNL and play Palin and it really threw a wrench into Fey’s schedule at the time. Fey was already a well-established comedic talent too, so it’s weird that Palin makes it sound like Tina Fey built her career on impersonating Palin. Like, if there was no Sarah Palin, Tina Fey wouldn’t exist as a well-known comedienne? Which is utter crap.

Also: “You should be paying FOR my kids’ braces or something.” Not “paying my kids’ braces.”

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