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‘No Rain, No Rainbow’

On Monday night Conan had William Shatner on the Tonight Show to conduct a dramatic reading of a particularly poetic prose passage from Sarah Palin’s resignation speech. Tonight Shatner returned to conduct another dramatic reading of Palin tweets.

Now, as anyone who has followed Sarah Palin’s Twitter can attest, any attempt to make sense of her brain droppings is an exercise in utter futility, so any attempt to go beyond that and recite any Palin 140-character word soup dramatically, as William Shatner did with the tweet below, is, well, quite admirable. Awe-inspiring really.

Behold, a master thespian at work ladies and gentlemen.

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  • Shariq Torres

    Needs more cowbell.

    Shariq Torres

  • aLostLady

    @Mediahohoho: Yeah. "What if the world were run by film crews?" is not exactly deep stuff you're quoting there, Sarah P.

  • MrsButterworth

    @Atilla the Bun: Ahh.. well, I may not be as up on it as I once was, but I do remember that he was a self-described life-long democrat at one point. Poking around the net a bit it looks like you're right, he then registered independent and voted for McCain.

    But he also would say in concert that he supported the war in Afghanistan but NOT the war in Iraq, which I thought showed that he at least had one or two brain cells rattling around in there.

  • Atilla the Bun

    @MrsButterworth: I won't admit why I know this, but Keith in fact voted for McCain and has proudly proclaimed he did so because of how much he liked Palin. So his stupidity is in fact genuine.

  • snugbug

    Hey, Sir William Shatner, Esq., love of my life: Whenever Sarita tweets "AK," it actually stands for "Automat Kalashnikov," not "Alaska." Mmkay?

    snugbug

  • MrsButterworth

    @Mediahohoho: Weird, but true: The guy who goes by "Big" in Big & Rich is a Democrat. He supported Obama. So, strangely, did Toby Keith, another of those flag-waving new country guys...

  • if_i_only_had_a_heart

    i hope he appears every nite

  • nozer

    @Mediahohoho: But you don't understand. All bankers and wealthy people are democrats, obviously. They're elitist and eat arugula, so of course they stand for liberal spending, taxing the wealthy, social programs like welfare, and everything else those damn demmycrats love.

    Poor people (like our good friends in Detroit), on the other hand, are republicans because... uh... they love America? All I know is there is no way those 8 million fat cats living in New York City represent any part of the real world.

    It's pretty obvious.

  • hilikusopus

    @Mediahohoho: Well, the most important success of the Republican party over the past half-century has been getting poor, rural, uneducated, working-class populists to passionately vote against their own interests. The fact that Dems have been spineless didn't hurt either.

  • Mediahohoho

    Also, nice work ripping off a phone commercial for the rain/rainbow line.

  • Mediahohoho

    I'll never understand this: do "Big & Rich" understand English well enough to comprehend the lyrics of their hit?

    Well that old man’s been workin’ in that plant most all of his life
    Now his pension plan’s been cut in half and he can’t afford to die
    And it’s a crying shame, ‘cause he ain’t the one to blame
    When I look down and see his calloused hands,
    Let me tell you friend it gets me fightin’ mad

    Cause in the real world they're shutting Detroit down
    While the boss man takes his bonus pay and jets out of town
    And DC’s bailing out the bankers at the farmers auction ground,
    Yeah while they’re living it up on Wall Street in that New York City town,
    Here in the real world they're shuttin’ Detroit down.
    They’re shuttin’ Detroit down."

    I mean, excuse me for saying so, boys, but that's a song for and by a Democrat union man if I ever heard one. Maybe they should either fire whoever buys them their songs or change political brands to match their lyrics.

    As for Sarah, well, she's Sarah. I wouldn't expect her to understand the lyrics.

  • Niko Bellic

    It's so refreshing to have a babbling moron who mangles the sentences, after all that screwing of the words that Bush did got old.

  • BxgrlJeri

    Yes, she makes Denny Crane look sane. Good lord.

  • Iwillnotauditionforastar

    @Iwillnotauditionforastar: There is no end, my friend.

    Iwillnotauditionforastar

  • Iwillnotauditionforastar

    Key word in that tweet. Fireweed. We're going to get legal weed. But not closing quotes

    Iwillnotauditionforastar

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