Newspaper hires fake Sarah Palin

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 23, 2008 11:09 AM

The NY Daily News paid a Sarah Palin look-a-like to wander around the city and provoke reactions.

The Daily News must have been disappointed — because they loved the fake Sarah in The Big Apple as much as the real one.

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Commenter SpeakEasy recommends another experiment for the Daily News:

“Try the same tactic with a fake Sandra Bernhardt acting like she normally does and see what happens.”

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  1. #465055
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:11 am, letget said:

    I love Sarah and hope she will be the next VP.
    L

  2. #465062
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:14 am, ajmontana said:

    I am Sarah Palin!
    only thing diff is the plumbing. 8)

    It’s Killin em and
    I Love it!!!

    McCain/Palin 08′

  3. #465064
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:15 am, Paul Revere said:

    We’ll know she’s made it when drag queen start impersonating her. :-)

  4. #465066
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:15 am, 30 pcs of silver said:

    Bwaaaahaaaaaa!

  5. #465067
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:17 am, SpeakEasy said:

    Try the same tactic with a fake Sandra Bernhardt acting like she normally does and see what happens.

  6. #465078
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:23 am, DBNinKY said:

    The Daily News must have been disappointed — because they loved the fake Sarah in The Big Apple as much as the real one.

    Ha! Good one on the D-News!

    Go McCain/Palin ‘08!

  7. #465084
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:29 am, Marshall Russ said:

    They probably hoped she would get attacked by angry young blacks.

  8. #465087
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:31 am, BlameAmericaLast said:

    Hah! I saw one comment on the article page…Why no fake Obama? Oh, that’s right, he’s already fake!

  9. #465089
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:32 am, Goldwater Knight said:

    Ain’t nothin’ like the real thing baby.

  10. #465090
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:33 am, hunter said:

    Marty Levinson, 68, let fake-Palin take a picture with his granddaughter, but only after he pinned an Obama button to the tot’s shirt.

    “If her parents see her with anyone who even looks like Palin,” he said, “they’ll strangle me.”

    How long until the MSM and Kos start disseminating that this is real and Palin herself is actually for Obama!

  11. #465091
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:33 am, Southpaw said:

    Palin/That Old Amnesty Guy ‘08

  12. #465093
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:35 am, b-cat said:

    The verdict: Sorry, Sarah. New Yorkers can’t wait to meet you – but not too many of them are going to vote for you.

    How the heck do they know that? Are they a news organization or soothsayers?
    But they’re certainly not biased.

  13. #465101
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:38 am, Goldwater Knight said:

    The verdict: Sorry, Sarah. New Yorkers can’t wait to meet you – but not too many of them are going to vote for you.

    Try saying that in Upstate NY.

  14. #465102
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:38 am, MES401067 said:

    And for the fake for Obama would be well Obama.

  15. #465110
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:41 am, King of Fools said:

    Heh. I’m married to Sarah Palin…errr…well people keep telling my wife she looks exactly like her. I’m a lucky guy, huh?

  16. #465114
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:43 am, James Felix said:

    Try saying that in Upstate NY.

    I live an hour north of the city, there’s not an Obama yard sign in sight. I could, however, walk from my house to the post office on the McCain – Palin signs without my feet hitting pavement.

    Also, not for nothing, but I notice that to get a convincing Palin impersonator they had to hire someone 16 years younger than the genuine article. That’s gotta make Sarah feel pretty good :)

  17. #465115
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:44 am, John Ansell said:

    Yet another news outlet trying to create news. Reporting has officially died. RIP.

  18. #465118
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:45 am, Paul-Cincy said:

    Sarah Palin is the most revealing Rorschach test ever devised.

  19. #465130
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:49 am, Brian72 said:

    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:38 am, Goldwater Knight said:

    The verdict: Sorry, Sarah. New Yorkers can’t wait to meet you – but not too many of them are going to vote for you.

    Try saying that in Upstate NY.

    That McCain/Palin rally in Pennsylvania had some suprise guests from NY state, Orange County Choppers. The boys brought that awesome POW-MIA custom bike they built last year.

    After Sarah introduced them they rode that chopper right up on the stage and showed it to McCain up close. The crowd went NUTS. Sarah was her usual beautiful, cheerful patriotic self.

    Pretty darn cool. :cool:

  20. #465139
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:51 am, The Master said:

    Did Bill Clinton try to hit on her?

  21. #465147
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:54 am, BrianNY said:

    #16 James Felix said:

    I live an hour north of the city, there’s not an Obama yard sign in sight.

    That’s comforting, James. I was born and raised over your way in the Bedford Central School District, and when my family moved out 10 years ago, it seemed that every Clinton/lib from NYC had moved north to our region. It was very disappointing to see the neighborhood turn like that.

  22. #465182
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:03 pm, DesertLover said:

    Despite stories of its demise Yellow Journalism and its history of falsification is alive and well in NYC and other liberal bastions of this nation … Tammany Hall reincarnation anyone?:sad:

  23. #465184
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:04 pm, Paul-Cincy said:

    The left’s problem with Palin is, she disproves their hypothesis of the nature of reality. To them, because of their belief system, she’s the equivalent of a person levitating. Of course no one can do that. There must be wires, or some other optical illusion. By the very example of her life, she challenges their own ingrained attitudes and beliefs. They squeal because they can’t stand to be wrong. It’s remarkable to watch.

  24. #465187
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:05 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    I’d love to see Sarah in Colorado, but couldn’t find anything on the McCain-Palin website showing their schedule–what am I not seeing? Anybody know?

  25. #465208
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:11 pm, RabbidSquirrel said:

    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:05 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    I never hear of anything in advance either. I drop the kids off at school, then when I get back to the house, I turn on the news and the rallys are already about to start. By that time its too late to get there.

  26. #465227
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:16 pm, wckelly60 said:

    What do you call it when a news organization has to make their own news?

    “Fabrication.”

  27. #465233
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:19 pm, rlwo2008 said:

    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:31 am, BlameAmericaLast said:
    Hah! I saw one comment on the article page…Why no fake Obama? Oh, that’s right, he’s already fake!

    Hope this works. That was a nice one. And funny.

  28. #465239
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:20 pm, tanksoldier said:

    I’d love to see Sarah in Colorado, but couldn’t find anything on the McCain-Palin website showing their schedule–what am I not seeing? Anybody know?

    She was just in Golden. Sept 8th? Sometime earlier this month. Pancake breakfast was scheduled, I couldn’t go due to work conflict.

  29. #465241
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:21 pm, Paul-Cincy said:

    Excuse me, but on any Palin thread I have to post this. It’s one of the funniest Palin-related videos I’ve seen:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4mKWceq0vY

  30. #465242
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:22 pm, an-artist said:

    FirstSkirt:

    i saw in the rocky that she was supposed to be in centennial on october 4. i don’t know if that’s a public event or not but i’m keeping my eyes peeled. i went to the rally in colorado springs (and met sarah!) and i want to go see her again! if i see anything i’ll post it here.

  31. #465248
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:24 pm, bella said:

    Love the security guys. Very realistic.
    We love you in Florida, Sarah.

  32. #465256
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:26 pm, greenfairie said:

    Ah, another fine example of Borat Journalism. Glad to see it backfired ;) .

  33. #465276
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:31 pm, sambo said:

    FirstSkirt said:
    I’d love to see Sarah in Colorado, but couldn’t find anything on the McCain-Palin website showing their schedule–what am I not seeing? Anybody know?

    I’ve been to the McCain site trying to find this also. Maybe they just don’t schedule in advance. I missed the Obama speech in Charlotte last week bc I knew nothing about it.

  34. #465283
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:33 pm, RabbidSquirrel said:

    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:22 pm, an-artist said:

    i saw in the rocky that she was supposed to be in centennial

    Centennial on a Saturday. Noted!
    =================

    As far as the fake Sarah.. She’s obviously a non-Republican (go a couple of links down and look at the photo series captions of her walking around NYC.)

    Even though she is a fake, I would still take the comedian with her experience level over Obama/Biden.

  35. #465299
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:38 pm, emjem24 said:

    Please, Sarh, come to the black community where I live. It would absolutely cause a scandal in their eyes. Oh, the wailing! :smile:

  36. #465311
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:44 pm, emjem24 said:

    Goldwater Knight said:
    Try saying that in Upstate NY.

    I don’t know if many “downstaters” even know that much about Upstate New York. Many New York City dwellers think that they and they alone represent the state of New York.

    Between New York City and Albany, the Upstate region has been forgotten. It’s an economic dead zone that liberals pretend doesn’t exist when they’re asked what exactly they’ve done for Upstaters.

    There’s not only a cultural gulf in the US but in New York as well.

  37. #465331
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:53 pm, mtngrandpa said:

    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:05 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    I’d love to see Sarah in Colorado, but couldn’t find anything on the McCain-Palin website showing their schedule–what am I not seeing? Anybody know?

    FirstSkirt, try this link:
    http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Calendar/
    On the right side of the page, you can put in your zip code. Also, you can sign up and they send out emails when events are going to be in your area. I received notice of the Colorado Springs Rally on 9/6 several weeks ahead of the event.

  38. #465334
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:54 pm, Goldwater Knight said:

    It’s an economic dead zone that liberals pretend doesn’t exist

    When’s the last time you were between Albany and NYC? 1983?

  39. #465339
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:56 pm, Goldwater Knight said:

    That McCain/Palin rally in Pennsylvania had some suprise guests from NY state, Orange County Choppers. The boys brought that awesome POW-MIA custom bike they built last year.

    OCC had their show room in the old Pharmacy my Grandmother used to go to when I was a young kid.

  40. #465411
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 1:27 pm, cheapseat said:

    the pds group keeps slandering mrs palin, and she keeps shrugging it off with a smile and patriotism. no wonder the left hates her. first, she’s attractive unlike liberals. second, she’s married for 20 years to the same guy, unlike liberals. third, her vocabulary has other adjectives than f#%*ing and other nouns than b@*%#h, unlike liberals. besides, her youngest girl is too cute for words.

  41. #465436
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 1:38 pm, d1carter said:

    Fake newspaper using a fake Palin…yes, they can.

  42. #465456
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 1:48 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    MtnGranpa #37: Thank you so much–I missed this link! I will keep my eye on it, right up to the elections. You are most kind to post this.
    RabbidSquirrel #25: Please look at the post #37 for the link–very helpful.

  43. #465460
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 1:49 pm, Silkyinfamous said:

    On September 23rd, 2008 at 12:54 pm, Goldwater Knight said:

    It’s an economic dead zone that liberals pretend doesn’t exist

    When’s the last time you were between Albany and NYC? 1983?

    I grew up in the Hudson Valley. Economic Dead Zone? Really. I would have never guessed. I guess all those multi millon dollar homes and tech related companies moving in , that yes it must be a dead zone.

  44. #465461
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 1:50 pm, RabbidSquirrel said:

    On September 23rd, 2008 at 1:38 pm, d1carter said:

    …yes, they can

    sí, pueden

  45. #465465
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 1:53 pm, Goldwater Knight said:

    I grew up in the Hudson Valley. Economic Dead Zone? Really. I would have never guessed. I guess all those multi millon dollar homes and tech related companies moving in , that yes it must be a dead zone.

    Jennifer Aniston’s mother lives in my neighborhood and Dick Cheney hunts in the area too. It has changed a lot since “those days.”

  46. #465468
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 1:55 pm, RabbidSquirrel said:

    On September 23rd, 2008 at 1:48 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    RabbidSquirrel #25: Please look at the post #37 for the link–very helpful.

    Thanks and already looked up a Debate Watching Party for my neighborhood. Hopefully they are not a cult that is going to suck me in ;)

  47. #465600
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 3:04 pm, rightisright said:

    “Try the same tactic with a fake Sandra Bernhardt acting like she normally does and see what happens.”
    She’d need a 50 man security force just to keep her alive…even in a left wing paradise like NYC.

  48. #465603
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 3:05 pm, rightisright said:

    ok, that was a little over stated…maybe to keep her from being stoned.

  49. #465635
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 3:20 pm, pgtips said:

    ok, that was a little over stated…maybe to keep her from being stoned.

    I don’t know what kind of half a$$ed stoning people in your place do, but in most parts of the world people who get stoned die.

  50. #465643
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 3:25 pm, mattymatt10 said:

    I thought the media was supposed to report news, not create it.

  51. #465656
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 3:33 pm, bayou22 said:

    There’d be no reaction because no one notices Sandra “Who?” Bernhardt anyways.

  52. #465899
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 5:51 pm, TanyaB said:

    I would be happy if it were the Palin/McCain ticket. Makes more sense.

  53. #465962
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 6:57 pm, almeehan said:

    McCain doesn’t have what it takes to put her out front the way she ought to be.

  54. #466197
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 10:03 pm, supersean said:

    I love Sarah Palin and wish she was #1 on the ticket. I just cannot stand McCain.

  55. #466296
    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:34 pm, vatodio said:

    Where are Sandra Bernhardt’s black brothers?

    Both real and fake Sarah were in NYC today and Sandra’s brothers did not gang-rape!

    I guess Palin was telling the truth. She is a pitbull, with lipstick!

  56. #466376
    On September 24th, 2008 at 1:48 am, RetFireman said:

    So they have decided to make GOVERNOR Palin look bad by using a double so that people will get a bad impression of her, eh?

    There really is no limit to the depths of sewage they will swim through and pump out.

    They can’t win on Odhimmi’s policies and ideas…whatever the hell they are…so they stoop lower and lower and now will be using fakes.

    And did you read the comments? People saying it is the Republicans who have come up with this whole bail out issue. Someone really needs to tell these idiots in this country that the Republicans have not run the Congress for two years and everything that has driven this country into the port-a-potty since the Dems took over is directly tied back to what the Dems have done or failed to do. It isn’t us anymore.

    This is really showing just how few people actually read or keep up to date on politics and what is going on in this country, and instead will believe any snippet or soundbite uttered to them from any low life willing to tell the lies. It is the age of Kos and DU, and they have these Liberals and “Independents” dancing so well with their lies and distortions.

    If you believe in nothing, you will believe anything, and they are living proof.

  57. #466435
    On September 24th, 2008 at 7:30 am, AFBen said:

    Did anyone else notice the connection the newspaper is trying to make between “Sarah Palin” and the recent economic problems?

    In Times Square, tourists craned their necks and aimed their cameras from tour buses. Lehman Brothers employee Leslee Gelber, 39, stopped for a handshake and well wishes.

    Am I to believe that of all the people in Times Square, the only one who wished her well and shook her hand just happened to be a Lehman Brothers employee? Clearly the idea here is to make the reader think that such companies as Lehman Brothers are in the tank for McCain.

  58. #467194
    On September 24th, 2008 at 2:51 pm, Dimsdale said:

    On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:45 am, Paul-Cincy said:

    Sarah Palin is the most revealing Rorschach test ever devised.

    LOL!! Good one! It really does reveal the core of the Democrat party, and the lip service they employ with women to garner their votes. They do the same with blacks, hispanics and any other group they need to use to dupe people into voting for them. That’s why nothing ever gets “fixed” with respect to the social issues the Dems are always carping about.

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