Palin impression tops ’08 quote list
Remarks about the financial crisis, gaffes uttered by Republicans and even parodies of politicians top Fred Shapiro’s list of the 10 most notable quotations of 2008.
This year’s top quote was from Tina Fey’s satirical impersonation of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live: “I can see Russia from my house!"
“When [Palin] made her remark about Russia, I think she was trying to use that as some sort of foreign policy credential,” Shapiro said of Palin. “When Tina Fey seized on that, a lot of voters concluded she was too inexperienced to be...
Of course, Fred Shapiro fails to note or perhaps simply doesn't realize that Sarah Palin never said she could see Russia from her house.
What she said was that there is a place in Alaska from which you can see Russia.
And inconveniently for Shapiro and others, she is right.