You sure about that? Seems to me that the countries the US pays the most attention to, tend to be ones that we’re about to invade. 
I’m pretty sure that’s the idea: if someone who’s centrist by American standards can be elected in France, a hardcore righty should be able to get elected in the US.
I don’t think that’s necessarily true. She came off like someone without a whole lot of brainpower or intellectual curiosity who has been admiring the RNC’s heroes from a distance.
ETA: I could very well be wrong on both points. My last job was with the DNC, and we’re not the ones who do all the spying in this country, so I know shit-all about what goes on in RNC circles.
Different prankster.
What’s with all the giggling? Sounded like she’s never spoken with a head of state before. Quite undignified.
You mean like in this clip ?
Yes, that may just be what I had in mind. Though I don’t think I ever saw that he’d gotten Engler at the same event.
I believe this was Pierre Brassard, then of the Bleu Poudre comedian group (and Mighty_Girl’s link seems to concur). But as far as I know, he wasn’t trying to humiliate the Queen, he was just trying to see if he could talk to her by pretending to be Canada’s then-Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. He succeeded, and was impressed by her. Nothing “backfired”: he knew she spoke French and was aware of political issues, and she impressed him by how “approachable” she was.
The Bleu Poudre were also able to talk with Pope John Paul II, also while pretending to be Jean Chrétien. I guess Chrétien’s a good choice, since with his over-the-top populist manner and weird accent, both in French and in English, he’s easy to imitate. Que voulez-vous!.. 
For these reasons, I disagree with Tuckerfan that world leaders don’t just call each other: apparently they do, and it’s possible for committed pranksters to get them on the phone. I haven’t listened to the Palin call, and I probably won’t since it’s not at all my kind of humour, but I don’t blame her for having been caught. Better and more experienced people than her have been pranked before by similar comedians. The Justiciers masqués themselves have quite a history; in the past they’ve actually caught Nicolas Sarkozy and his predecessor Jacques Chirac. I’m not even convinced they’re “Obama supporters”. Well, if they’re like 90% of people in Quebec (and Canada, presumably), they probably are, and wonder why anyone would vote for a creationist like Palin, but most likely they’ve tried to prank Palin just because she’s in the news and pranking important people is what they do.
But she can see Canada from her porch!
What gets me is that the woman is apparently too stupid or egotistical to realise that a foreign Head of State is simply not going to call any candidate in any country to personally wish them well before an election: it would be rightly seen as meddling in that nation’s internal politics, and would be a colossal diplomatic scandal.
There was a prank call from a Miami radio station to Fidel Castro pretending to be Hugo Chavez. It took them forever to get through as they passed layers of security and aides but they finally got through. Something about Chavez having forgot a suitcase with compromising documents last time they met. It ended with Castro calling them names and them laughing at him. It’s on the Internet.
It seems to me you are being unfair, it is easy to forget a name during a telephone call, or even to simply agree rather than correct because it may be impolite to do so.
Of all the critiques made, this to me is the most heavy, since she does not seem to ahve the right comportement to be speaking in such situations. Not catching or correcting “mistakes” or faux personalities may be only politeness, or even forgetting since you are on the phone in live time. But her comportement was very weak.
At least she didn’t tell him she loves their toast.
I loved how she seemed to be positively orgasmic about Sarkozy’s hot wife, and giggled like a school girl every time Sarkozy gave her a compliment. The thing that’s most worrisome, however, is that she had nothing of substance to say to or ask of someone she claims to have great respect and admiration for.
I wouldn’t mind seeing the three-some that seemed to be in the making, though…
Hey, I remember now–in first grade I excitedly told everyone that my parents had taken me to “George Washington’s house”, a building whose contemporary importance was apparently lost on me.
And it wouldn’t seem a little suspicious that the President of France conflated a singer with the Prime Minister of Canada?
One has to wonder what Sarkozy himself thinks about the incident? Any reactions from the Élysée?
OTOH, she has a bright future ahead of her working a phone sex line.
Not to hijack, but does anyone know if the prank call to the Queen is available online? My Google-fu isn’t working.
Though the Fidel Castro call was fking great.
Although I still think this prank was kind of an unfair con job, I did bring myself to read the transcript, and this is the point that’s raising my eyebrows:
Um, excuse me? Now, I’m as appreciative of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy’s good looks as a heterosexual female can reasonably be, and I think that her steamy personal history happens to be none of my business:
Note that Bruni also posed nude for photographers in her modeling career.
So what, who cares, whatever, sez I. But I’m one of those notorious godless permissive liberals whose lax morality and tolerance for perversion are in the process of destroying our society, right? Where the fucking hell does “traditional-marriage”, “family-values”, Christian-Right-pinup-girl Sarah Palin get off gushing about how wonderful Carla Bruni is?
Er, I’ve searched this thread–I can’t find where Karyn posted about George Washington’s funeral…is it in here?
I couldn’t find it either. I did hear it live back then, though. The conversation was almost completely in French, and most of the jokes were buried in the fake Jean Chrétien’s thick accent, so it’s unlikely anyone familiar with Québec language and culture would be able to pick many out.