Sarah Palin Victorious

[SuperTrouper]

Sarah Palin lost the election, but she's a winner as a connoisseur of quotations.

The Republican vice-presidential candidate and her comedic doppelganger, Tina Fey, took the top two spots in this year's list of most memorable quotes compiled by Fred R. Shapiro.

First place was "I can see Russia from my house!" spoken in satire of Palin's foreign policy credentials by Fey on the TV comedy show Saturday Night Live.

Palin's actual quote was: "They're our next-door neighbours and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska."

Palin also made the third annual list for her inability to name newspapers she reads. When questioned by CBS anchor Katie Couric, Palin said she reads "all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years".

Palin's quotes were pivotal, said Shapiro, associate librarian and lecturer in legal research at the Yale Law School.

"This quote helped shape the election results," he said of the Russia quote. "As it sank in, the public realised this was someone really, really inexperienced and perhaps lacking in curiosity about the world."

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[BOSSHOG]

1. I think it was incredibly horrible and unprofessional

for the press to accurately quote a vice presidential candidate (over and over again.) Just horrible. Why do they hate America? Why do they not have conservative values?

[PatSeg]

2. McCain made the list TWICE as well

Palin's running mate, Senator John McCain, also made the list twice, once for his "the fundamentals of America's economy are strong" comment in April and again for saying "maybe 100" when asked last January how many years US troops could remain in Iraq.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10548424

[uponit7771]

3. Fundie nuts love her though, let them vote for her in 2012 GOP primaries

[racaulk]

6. Agreed.

The fundies loved Huckabee this year, and they voted for him in large numbers in the GOP primaries.

Look where it got them.

:evilgrin:

[sohndrsmith]

4. what an odd citation... and the point is - ?

[rurallib]

5. this was someone really, really inexperienced

nice way to say stupid.