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(Politico) Amusing Canadian radio pranksters convinced Sarah Palin she was speaking to Pres. Sarkozy for six minutes. Update: audio link in comments   (politico.com) divider line 352
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RageAgainstTheMachine 2008-11-01 08:11:32 PM  
HOLY shiat THAT WAS HILARIOUS!

 
InternationalShoe 2008-11-01 08:11:51 PM  
You know I'm an Obama supporter but to everyone claiming she did not handle the prank call well, she does have an election coming up rather soon and I can imagine that her time is not necessarily as liberal as some of you farkers, that being said, she probably didn't have time to laugh it off. Her reaction was probably one of "well I just wasted a valuable six minutes of my time that I could have been reading up on the Bush doctrine" or something like that.

 
gilgigamesh 2008-11-01 08:16:48 PM  
InternationalShoe: You know I'm an Obama supporter but to everyone claiming she did not handle the prank call well, she does have an election coming up rather soon and I can imagine that her time is not necessarily as liberal as some of you farkers, that being said, she probably didn't have time to laugh it off. Her reaction was probably one of "well I just wasted a valuable six minutes of my time that I could have been reading up on the Bush doctrine" or something like that.

I think most of us are laughing at the fact that this was a blatantly obvious prank and she is so credulous she didn't see what was going on.

Yeah, that's a woman I want dealing with dangerous foreign powers. And she could be the president soon.

Huh. I guess that isn't really funny after all.

 
Lord Summerisle 2008-11-01 08:18:53 PM  
Nice work, America! The world laughs at you. Thank Christ you'll soon be insignificant.

 
iamdonovan 2008-11-01 08:19:03 PM  
AmazingRuss: Gosh...we're SO close to being able to start World War III with a prank phone call and a fake Russian accent.

This.

 
InternationalShoe 2008-11-01 08:21:51 PM  
gilgigamesh Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending her ignorance of foreign policy. I was defending her response after she realized how much of a clusterfark she is.

 
InternationalShoe 2008-11-01 08:22:51 PM  
Lord Summerisle: Nice work, America! The world laughs at you. Thank Christ you'll soon be insignificant like England.

FTFY

 
maddogdelta [TotalFark] 2008-11-01 08:23:22 PM  
I want to hear it when Rick Mercer gets his shot...

 
Mahatma Kane 2008-11-01 08:23:37 PM  
I_Love_Cheesecake: horonto: Best thing to come out of Quebec evar!


Begs to differ


Jebus, ...I'm trying to eat here...jebus, jebus...

 
Yeah_Right 2008-11-01 08:24:36 PM  
Lord Summerisle: Nice work, America! The world laughs at you. Thank Christ you'll soon be insignificant.

For a world that laughs at us... there sure are an awful lot of you who want to come live here...

 
Peter von Nostrand 2008-11-01 08:25:03 PM  
JackBauer48: Does anyone else find it odd or disturbing that even when she is supposedly talking to a foreign leader, she refuses to drop the talking points she has memorized?

I came here to say this. So I guess I just say this.

 
maxheck 2008-11-01 08:26:24 PM  
InternationalShoe:

You know I'm an Obama supporter but to everyone claiming she did not handle the prank call well, she does have an election coming up rather soon and I can imagine that her time is not necessarily as liberal as some of you farkers, that being said, she probably didn't have time to laugh it off. Her reaction was probably one of "well I just wasted a valuable six minutes of my time that I could have been reading up on the Bush doctrine" or something like that.

Good gracious... Are the other concern trolls embarassed to sit at the same table in your high-school cafeteria?

 
gilgigamesh 2008-11-01 08:26:28 PM  
Lord Summerisle: Nice work, America! The world laughs at you. Thank Christ you'll soon be insignificant.

Hey, how's that whole "the sun never sets on our empire" thing working out for yall these days?

Launch any more wars on seal-infested rocks lately in some futile effort to maintain a shadow of former relevance?

 
jmr61 2008-11-01 08:31:40 PM  
shotglasss: Good thing they didn't do this to Biraq Obama. They would be charged with a hate crime by the media.



Wow, you are SO smart with your special spelling of your next president's name.


/assume you are American
//sure you're an a*s

 
Bit'O'Gristle [TotalFark] 2008-11-01 08:33:00 PM  
LOL. Pwned!! Nail in the coffin

 
unit63 2008-11-01 08:34:41 PM  
How many nails do you think this coffin can hold?

 
doctor wu 2008-11-01 08:38:41 PM  
Nice work, America! The world laughs at you. Thank Christ you'll soon be insignificant.

Lighten up, Taffy! This dizzy broad won't get anywhere near the white house.

 
ZeroCorpse [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-11-01 08:38:46 PM  
Wow. That actually made me feel a little bad for her. She was blindsided, and obviously flattered to have been called, and, well, it was kind of like a football hero shoving a retarded kid who idolizes him out of the way, and laughing about it.

She's too easy a target, I guess. That takes the joy out of it and just makes it feel like cruelty.

Bear in mind I do not like her, but I wouldn't toy with her like that, either. I get the feeling she couldn't win a battle of wits, even if she came armed with an assistant loaded with the finest, organic home-grown wit one can find.

 
Shvetz 2008-11-01 08:39:07 PM  
Nice. I'm also friends with the Prime Minister of Quebec, as well as the King of London.

 
InternationalShoe 2008-11-01 08:39:13 PM  
maxheck: InternationalShoe:

You know I'm an Obama supporter but to everyone claiming she did not handle the prank call well, she does have an election coming up rather soon and I can imagine that her time is not necessarily as liberal as some of you farkers, that being said, she probably didn't have time to laugh it off. Her reaction was probably one of "well I just wasted a valuable six minutes of my time that I could have been reading up on the Bush doctrine" or something like that.

Good gracious... Are the other concern trolls embarassed to sit at the same table in your high-school cafeteria?


That's cute....I see what you did. You made a joke that implies I'm in high-school. It's like "oh look he's probably young" lets call him out on that. First of all, I'm entitled to my opinion as is everyone else here. I'm also allowed to express a contradictory opinion to the majority. I hate douchebags like you that claim every opposing position is a troll. If you don't agree with my stated opinion, then point out what you disagree with. Arbitrarily calling me a troll and in high school shows a low level of maturity that even a high schooler would find repulsive.

 
LincolnLogolas 2008-11-01 08:39:35 PM  
Anyone else notice that her folksy fake Wisconsin accent and folksy expressions simply vanished when she thought she was on the phone with a foreign president?

 
guesser 2008-11-01 08:39:59 PM  
The President of France calls and you say "Hi, this is Sarah". Not very presidential. How about "Good evening Sir, this is Governor Palin". And then she banters with her aid about screwing up the initial answering while the "President" of France comes on the line. She can't even answer the phone without sounding like a small town, redneck, right wing hick; I seriously can't stand idiots like her. Oh please! Obama you better win this thing.....

 
bub2000 2008-11-01 08:40:44 PM  
I think I heard him say from my ASS I can see Belgium

 
maxheck 2008-11-01 08:41:13 PM  
InternationalShoe:


That's cute....I see what you did. You made a joke that implies I'm in high-school. It's like "oh look he's probably young" lets call him out on that. First of all, I'm entitled to my opinion as is everyone else here. I'm also allowed to express a contradictory opinion to the majority. I hate douchebags like you that claim every opposing position is a troll. If you don't agree with my stated opinion, then point out what you disagree with. Arbitrarily calling me a troll and in high school shows a low level of maturity that even a high schooler would find repulsive.


Well, no, actually I was just pointing out that your post was lame even by Concern Troll standards.

 
Wizard Drongo 2008-11-01 08:42:06 PM  
Joan o' Fark: Yeah, I feel bad for the staffer that handled the call; at minimum she probably got a good ass reaming.

Then again, I'll bet Palin's staff are used that.


Ah, don't feel too bad. She'll be out of a job come Tuesday.
Not like the President or VP is gonna employ her. After all, she worked for the losing side :)

/ Don't hate on me, I'm from Scotland, have nothing invested in this at all.
// Just following the polls.

 
InternationalShoe 2008-11-01 08:43:38 PM  
maxheck: InternationalShoe:


That's cute....I see what you did. You made a joke that implies I'm in high-school. It's like "oh look he's probably young" lets call him out on that. First of all, I'm entitled to my opinion as is everyone else here. I'm also allowed to express a contradictory opinion to the majority. I hate douchebags like you that claim every opposing position is a troll. If you don't agree with my stated opinion, then point out what you disagree with. Arbitrarily calling me a troll and in high school shows a low level of maturity that even a high schooler would find repulsive.

Well, no, actually I was just pointing out that your post was lame even by Concern Troll standards.


Yeah I got that, and I'm pointing out that you are a douchebag even by Fark standards.

 
p'tite salope [TotalFark] 2008-11-01 08:46:18 PM  
bub2000: I think I heard him say from my ASS I can see Belgium

No, he just said house w/o the H being pronounced like the French would pronounce a word beginning w/ an H.

I saw this on Daily Kos earlier today and LMAO'ed. How is she really this farking stupid? She has no clue who the farking PM of Canada is and she's running for VP? I also liked that Sarkozy's Special American Asst. is Johnny Holiday (famous French singer). Bwaahahaa! Their comments in French were priceless!

 
maxheck 2008-11-01 08:46:20 PM  
InternationalShoe:

Yeah I got that, and I'm pointing out that you are a douchebag even by Fark standards.

I'll be sure to lose sleep over your opinion.

/ I'll pray for you as well.

 
krelborne 2008-11-01 08:47:45 PM  
bub2000: I think I heard him say from my ASS I can see Belgium

Yeah, I had to go over the transcript on that one.

 
Macinfarker 2008-11-01 08:47:57 PM  
Perhaps Trig would have done better.

// Yeah I SAID IT! It needed to be said, someone had ta SAY IT!

 
InternationalShoe 2008-11-01 08:50:30 PM  
maxheck: InternationalShoe:

Yeah I got that, and I'm pointing out that you are a douchebag even by Fark standards.

I'll be sure to lose sleep over your opinion.

/ I'll pray for you as well.


Good god, I just checked out your profile. I don't even know why I cared in the first place. You are clearly the expert on what is cool versus what is lame. Have fun playing WoW in your parents basement, its going out time.

 
Jument 2008-11-01 08:50:47 PM  
Gifted Many Few: She is running for the second highest office in the US and she doesn't even have caller ID.

Perhaps. Or maybe she should have spent some of her wardrobe budget hiring someone who knows what caller ID is.

 
Yeah_Right 2008-11-01 08:51:28 PM  
MrHacks: HOW TO DESTROY MANKIND IN A NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST:

1. Vote for John McCain

2. Watch John McCain win

3. Wait for the breaking news that John McCain has died of a stroke from one of his angry outbursts. The John we see on TV may be cool-headed, but that is because he says "Foooo-baaaar" a lot. But this time, it won't work."

4. Swear in Sarah Palin as President of the United States.

5. PRANK CALL THE WHITE HOUSE! (202) 456-1414 (Switchboard). If no one answers, call the Presidential Bomb Shelter (possibly (804) 840-8040 or (804) 840-1234, supposedly. But don't tell anyone I told you that...oh shi-.)
PROTIP: Find a pay phone, far, far away from your house somewhere in the country. Unless you want the Secret Service to be knocking on your door, you probably should not use ANY phone in your house, in your community, at anyone you know's house, your work, your ex's (although you wish you could) or at your favorite bar.

6. POSE AS AN IMPORTANT GENERAL WORKING AT CHEYENE MOUNTAIN! Protip: DO YOUR HOMEWORK! In preparation for this step, you MUST KNOW the following information!
a. Someone who works in United States Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado who is a general, who has access to nuclear weapons. Goal is to make friends with the guy. Earn his trust. Then when he is not looking, "borrow" his wallet and write down all the important numbers, such as social security, date of birth, military ID number. In the computer hacking business, this is known as SOCIAL ENGINEERING.
b. What state Cheyene Mountain is in. (Hint: IT IS NOT WYOMING!)
c. Realize that no matter how many times you have seen Wargames starring Matthew Broderick, you are NOT Matthew Broderick and this is not a movie.
d. Make friends with someone at Cavalier Air Force Station in Pembina County, North Dakota and try step 6a.
7. Now that you have the REAL information you need, PRANK CALL THE WHITE HOUSE, DEMAND THAT YOU SPEAK WITH PRESIDENT PALIN (*ha ha ha!* sorry, I had to laugh.)
8. Tell them you are looking at the radar and you see THOUSANDS of RUSSIAN ICBMS headed toward the United States and that Al Qaeda set them off! Remember, you have to remind her that you are a legitmate General from the United State Air Force Space Command. Do your best Orson Welles War of the Worlds impersonation. It's all in the nose, bud. (Nose bud.)
9. If you did everything right: the following Mrs. Palin should be gullable enough to ignore her security advisor just like President Bush did, only with more dramatic results.
If you fail, be sure to rub your ass with alot of vasoline before the Secret Service, FBI, or who ever comes to pick your ass up.

HOW NOT TO DESTROY MANKIND:
1. Vote Obama.
2. Watch Obama win.
3. Watch every nut in the country try to get him only to fail MISERABLY! Trying to take down Obama is like the Coyote trying to catch the damn Road Runner.
4. Watch Obama kick ass for the next four years.
5. Reelect for a second term if things are OK.


Paranoid much?

 
maxheck 2008-11-01 08:52:25 PM  
MrHacks:

"Ok, but if you don't get the president on the line you're going to have to answer to the Coca Cola company."

 
kpaxoid 2008-11-01 08:52:51 PM  
Not enough bandwidth on the site. It's melting down. Thanks to Donald_McRonald for the mp3 link.

Note how she asks for the "call letters" so she can prosecute.

Ooops. They start with a "C" instead of a "K" or "W".

Good thing they didn't start with a "U".

 
Mimikittie 2008-11-01 08:53:08 PM  
I hate Palin as much as most liberals...but after listening to the call, I got the feeling that she definitely thought something was up...her laughter seemed really nervous and uncomfortable...but she wasn't going to take the risk of calling him out and finding out, oops, it really was Sarkozy!

But she still sounds like a moron...she seems unable to drop the talking points, as if she actually believes them...wtf.

 
FeatheredSun 2008-11-01 08:56:07 PM  
Ever see pictures of moose?

They're almost always hanging around a swimming pool, in the middle of some street, by a parked car.

Gee, Moose don't seem too scared of being around people. Hunting them must be REEEAAALLY hard!

Anyway, about TFA, did anybody notice that the supposed "proof" comes from the same website that did the article on the crank in the first place. Not that politico.com would ever lie. right before an election. when disproving stuff is a lot harder since every asshole liar is out to smear candidate X.

Nah, it's as real and authentic as hunting moose. Right?


/Obama supporter.
//Almost hopes this would knock Palin/McCain out
///If I would do/believe/support ANYTHING to win, might as well join the GOP.
////You people are a bit too gullible even if this IS true.

 
Macinfarker 2008-11-01 08:56:22 PM  
Mimikittie
I hate Palin as much as most liberals...but after listening to the call, I got the feeling that she definitely thought something was up...her laughter seemed really nervous and uncomfortable...but she wasn't going to take the risk of calling him out and finding out, oops, it really was Sarkozy!


I think she started to figure things out when 'Sarkozy' said "I just love killing animals" or whatever he said...that's when she started getting a little uncomfortable.

But holy crap did she fall for it before that..

 
dodecahedron [TotalFark] 2008-11-01 08:57:01 PM  
This just keeps getting better and better.

 
kpaxoid 2008-11-01 09:00:27 PM  
Lincoln LoGolas:

I noticed.

 
Tegro 2008-11-01 09:01:14 PM  
Preston Preston: Mordant: Figures all you libs would stand by and laugh as her first amendment rights are trampled like this.

Some people just aren't cut out for logic. You are clearly one of them. Read this, then explain exactly how her first amendment rights were violated. By a couple of Canadians.

You've got a real case of industrial strength stupid going on there, son. I can see why you're so defensive. Birds of a feather, and all that.


And another one takes the bait.

 
DrForrester 2008-11-01 09:01:56 PM  
InternationalShoe: and I can imagine that her time is not necessarily as liberal as some of you farkers

lolwut?

 
Lagaidh 2008-11-01 09:03:23 PM  
After Palin's rallies today scaring the absolute crap out of me, this is so therapeutic. Thank you submitter.

 
I_Love_Verdi [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-11-01 09:03:34 PM  
Oh man. I couldn't keep listening, I feel so embarrassed for her.

 
mkrygeri 2008-11-01 09:11:31 PM  
Everytime... I think it's the final nail... along comes a bigger nail.
She stayed on the phone afer the nailin' palin comment. epic win.

 
Master of the Flying Guillotine 2008-11-01 09:12:27 PM  
I wonder what she'd say if I told her the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary.

 
Highroller48 [TotalFark] 2008-11-01 09:19:54 PM  
Atypical Person Reading Fark: How are her rights trampled? And, um, these were Canadian pranksters

Bill Frist: hahaha... wait... what exactly do you think "First amendment rights" are?

Epsilon: She fell for it - hook, line, and sinker - and willingly participated like the dumbass she is. Deal with it.

Gordo: Looks like Mordant knows almost as much about the first amendment as Palin does

Preston Preston: Read this, then explain exactly how her first amendment rights were violated. By a couple of Canadians. You've got a real case of industrial strength stupid going on there, son.

RevMercutio: Read the first amendment again.

Welcome to my Favorites list, Mordant.

 
voodoochild 2008-11-01 09:19:54 PM  
It seems Sarah Palin can't tell the difference between a pop star and a prime minister. What happened to her foreign policy credentials? I mean, her house is closer to Canada than it is Russian, right? This woman is a joke.

 
sjbiars 2008-11-01 09:22:49 PM  
PALIN is a MORON.

 
combatkarl 2008-11-01 09:23:36 PM  
Comedy GOLD! I knew we kept our Frenchies around for a reason! Vive le Québec comédie!

/love my fellow peppers
//they're the only thing keeping Canada interesting

 
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