by Arielle Young
During the election, Sarah Palin was riddled with the bullets of criticism, from her misunderstood debate retorts to the painfully awkward, widely televised interviews with Katie Couric. Saturday Night Live regular Tina Fay even dedicated a personal pseudonym on the Alaskan governor's behalf, often argued as being an even better Sarah Palin than Sarah Palin herself. However, she proved in our hearts that the light spirit of comedy doesn't have to be within the context of an elaborately written, shot and produced sitcom, nor onstage at a comedy club on Sunset Boulevard. Palin showed the world that real life can be funnier than anything an SNL writer can come up with.
In recent Palin news, the Alaskan resignation speech and really tore at SocialVibe's heartstrings. The emotion of the occasion was only overcome by her delicate and ornate choice of words... it was like a beautiful poem. The playful mumbling and stumbling of vowels, the overly-strange images she painted in our minds, and the forehead lined in sweat really made an impact on us. Apparently, it also caught the artistic eye of the master monologue-deliverer, William Shatner. Accompanied by an upright bass and bongo set, Shatner paints the picture as it was originally intended:
I'd say that was the goodbye to end all goodbyes. At the same time, I wasn't really sure what she was trying to tell us for over half the speech.
