My thoughts exactly, Dan. Much as I wanted to, one can't scream "YOU HAVEN'T GIVEN ANY PRESS CONFERENCES!" at 11:35pm when you live in an apartment building.

When Alec Baldwin walked in, I was so hoping he was going to turn to her and ask "so, Governor Palin, is it okay if we broadcast tonight to the 'anti-American' parts of the country as well, or only the 'pro-American' ones?"

But alas...

I thought for sure Lorne was going to deliver some wooden but still funny line about, "well, we had to give it our best guess," or something. One of many missed opportunities. Disappointing.

I missed it. How many times did she say Maverick?

Stop writing about Sarah Palin's appearance on SNL and post the link to Colin Powell talking on Meet the Press and outside the studio after his interview.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/powell-outside.html

Now that you mention this, it feels like a sneaky piece of undermining. Which Palin blithely read off the 'prompter. Or so I'd like to believe.

i totally agree, dan. the entire time i kept thinking of wasted opportunities to snag her on her lack of, well, everything.

At least Colin Powell stepped up today and showed us what a Maverick does.

Umm...she didn't do anything! I might have grudingly respected her a little bit if she had actually sung the song. It would have been pretty funny, and at least honest of her. But instead, she sat at a desk, declined to sing the song, and bobbed along with everyone else.

Where did she poke fun at herself again? Because I completely missed it...

She was pathetic to watch. She wa completely out of her league. Why did she agree to go on? Or did she?

*was

This is the moment to remember that NBC is owned by the General Electric Company, the third largest company in the world, the only surviving member of the original Dow Jones Average, founded by Thomas Edison in 1878. SNL is good for laffs when corporate sponsors are willing to pay up, but there is no way GE (oops--I mean, the "liberal mainstream media") is going to let SNL embarrass in any serious way the politicians that most directly advance GE corporate interests.

In January 1944 Charles E. Wilson, president of General Electric and executive vice chairman of the War Production Board, delivered a speech to the Army Ordnance Association advocating a permanent war economy. According to the plan Wilson proposed on that occasion, every major corporation should have a “liaison” representative with the military, who would be given a commission as a colonel in the Reserve. This would form the basis of a program, to be initiated by the president as commander in chief in cooperation with the War and Navy departments, designed to bind corporations and military together into a single unified armed forces-industrial complex. “What is more natural and logical,” he asked, “than that we should henceforth mount our national policy upon the solid fact of an industrial capacity for war, and a research capacity for warthat is already ‘in being’? It seems to me anything less is foolhardy.”

#11 is a great example of why political economy should never be the only tool in anyone's rhetorical arsenal. There are other forces at work here, like the fact that mocking Palin is just good TV, and that Dems aren't that different from the GOP on corporate-friendliness (but fortunately they do differ on some issues).