Yesterday, I came across an article posted by The Daily Currant which described an interview for Fox News, where Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, spoke openly about how the US should invade Czech Republic, which is, according to her, a Muslim country and also a part of Russia.
She was repeatedly corrected by the hosts of the show:
"Yes there were Muslim and they were ethnic Chechens," Doocy started, "but they grew up mostly
in Kyrgyzstan and the United States. And more
importantly, Chechens don't come from the Czech Republic, they come
from Chechnya, which is part of Russia. "
...but she kept on going...
"What's the difference?" Palin responded. "Isn't Russia part of the Czech Republic?"
... But then I realized it is FAKE! But I believed it for a while, and I was not alone because a lot of people shared it on Facebook etc. Well who can blame us, due to the events of the past few days, right? It was pretty believable :)
You can find the whole article here. What do you think about the Daily Currant? Their articles are pretty inventive... :)
http://www.novinky.cz/zahranicni/amerika/299995-palinova-zada-nalet-na-prahu-svet-skocil-na-americkou-satiru.html - this Czech article describes how some world media (e.g. Slovak or German) took the article seriously and posted in on their websites. And it also explains why The Daily Currant chose Sarah Palin - it was probably due to her conservative approach and previous geographical confusions... Me and my friends on facebook were laughing on our account, how we took the bait:)
ReplyDeleteI must say after all these misunderstandings published on various websites I believed it...(nad many of my friends on facebook as well). Fortunately it was a fake and I am so glad for it:) (enough of Czech/Chechen confusions!) I also like the comments following the article. Especially this one:
ReplyDelete"There is a difference between believing that she 'might have said these things' and believing that she 'did say these things.' Few people believe that she said them, but those who have followed her career fully believe that she is capable of saying them. The ridiculousness isn't any worse than some of the things she has said in the past. In other words, it is libel because it is reasonable that she would have said this if she were still affiliated with Fox TV." (texasaggie)
When Palin was running for Vice President in 2008, she gave a couple of TV interviews that were widely mocked for their incoherence -- it was pretty clear that she was not very experienced or well informed about national policy. One particularly notable parody was Tina Fey's impression of Palin on "Saturday Night Live." You can see an example at http://youtu.be/IE-OCDexYrU, comparing Fey as Palin with the real Palin. In one case, the "Saturday Night Live" writers just had Fey repeat word-for-word what Palin had actually said in the interview, because I guess they figured it was funny enough without any further embellishing. Anyway, this is all part of the background to this latest spoof (which a Bulgarian friend of mine also thought might be real until she checked on it with me).
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