Ha!! This is so full of win on so many levels!!
If you keep her; we’ll call it even. 
Oh please, Ms Palin, go on Newsnight with Jeremy Paxman. Oh please, God, I’m begging you here…
<sets video recorder, makes popcorn>
She was dragged out last week by the new Government to lend a sense of wartime sacrifice that they’re trying to invoke for the coming cuts and couldn’t even stand outside 10 Downing Street without hanging onto the railings for dear life.
She also has short-term memory loss and is generally losing her mind, but still they paint her face and roll her out . . . . it’s like trying to milk the last dregs out of a dead freak show act by displaying the coffin.
Thatcher’s for all intents and purposes demented. She likely doesn’t even know who Sarah Palin actually is. I know it’s not politic to defend Thatcher, but Jesus Christ, Palin and Thatcher have nothing in common other than being female. For all the hatred spewed at Thatcher, the woman did actually have a brain, and could at least string a coherent sentence together.
Yes, but what about Thatcher?
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Wow, that would be something to see. Like a little baby mouse being crushed beneath the foot of a rhinoceros.
It’s OK anyway, she’s not here because of the oil, she’s a trade for Piers Fucking Morgan. Sorry about that one.
You’ll have to do something else to get us back for the oil, like selling millions of crappy burgers to our chavs. Oh, hang on…
I’d also love to see Palin tackled by Paxman.
I see a convergence between a Thatcher with dementia and a top-of-her-game Palin.
For those of you who don’t know Paxman, he’s one of the UK’s most ferocious political intverviewers, whose attitude to all political interviews is, reportedly “why is this bastard lying to me?”
He’s very very intelligent and well-informed, and rarely lets a question lie. He came to fame when he asked Conservative minister Michael Howard “did you threaten to overrule him?” 12 times in a row because it was clear he was prevaricating. Here’s the best of his refusing to let politicians off the hook (although he gets pwned by Portillo in the early part of the clip).
He would shred Palin, and it would be a joy to watch.
I think HIGNFY would be good too. They’d rip the shit out of her and she wouldn’t even know it.
Well, none of that will happen so maybe get back to reality.
Oooooooooh, get you, Mr Killjoy.
Who did a wee wee in your sugar puffs this morning?!
But I would SO enjoy a surgical dissection of this fascinating specimen. Come on, please? With sugar on top? I’m begging here!
I’d almost rather see Paxman not ferociously attack, but instead treat Palin as a scared retarded person… (not that one should eviscerate scared retarded people, ever). Just think of the gentle, avuncular condescension and her warming to it and then… POUNCE!
Brings my heart joy, I tell you.
I’d love to be a fly on the wall at a Palin / Thatcher meeting …
Palin: Your Highness Mrs. Madame Thatcher, it’s such an honor in liberty and freedom to meet you and be free with the liberty of freedom and defenses of our great United Britain nations, which as you know for liberty that it’s all about job creation freedom. And liberty.
Thatcher: I like scones.
Palin: Oh, you betcha. We have many wonderful ice cream scones up there in Wasilla, by golly. … … … Liberty.
Thatcher: My botty itches.
Palin: Well. Good luck in the next Presidential election Your Excellency.
No fan of either, but I can’t see this as anything but massively sad (in the UK sense of “sad”). Thatcher can barely remember that she ever was PM, and that Palin even thinks trying to speak with someone in her condition is a good idea or a good PR move, well…we know what Einstein said about stupidity, but this tests even that.
What it really shows me is that there’s nobody in Palin’s camp who has the balls to take her aside, tell her what the situation is, and conclude that “for the sake of decency, no.”
Brilliant! Got a chuckle out of me even with a migraine this morning!
Palin is a provincial idiot but her handlers are not. They will make damn sure any meeting is private so Palin can interpret it any way she wants.
Given the odd capitalization there, I’m not sure if Palin thinks the US and UK were retarded or just fucking.
I thought maybe this would be about her offering to consult about the oil spill because she’s from Alaska and they have oil there and there was a big oil spill once so she’d be like an expert and stuff.