Tina Fey Returns to SNL to Play Sarah Palin, Will It Go Viral?

Tina Fey returned to SNL last night to fulfill the role she was destined to play as Republican Vice President candidate Saran Palin. Amy Poehler joined her in the season opener playing Hillary Clinton. The official video on the NBC web site has recieved 88,668 views within twelve hours of its premiere 247,294 views as of 6:35 PM PDT.

Liz Shannon Miller of NewTeevee brought back the feature, Will It Spread? Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on SNL « NewTeeVee, which rates the viral qualities of the video and the factors that play into its viral success. Read more here.



Stay tuned for the upcoming posts on Streaming Media West now just one week away.

UPDATE: There's a good chance this video will go viral. Micheal Learmonth wrote yesterday in his Silicon Alley Insider post, YouTube Thanks ABC For A Great Sarah Palin Interview, "Consider: Over the past week, videos mentioning Palin -- including her acceptance speech, pirated news clips and dozens of parodies, including this by Web comedienne Lisa Nova, have been getting more views than either Barack Obama or her running mate, according to Web analytics firm TubeMogul:

Palin: 38 million
Obama: 29 million
McCain: 25 million"

UPDATE 9/17/08: The answer is yes, this video went viral. Beet.TV reported today that the video has been streamed 5 million times between the NBC site which has 3,786,957 combined with the various video sharing sites.

Sarah Palin Interviewed by ABC, Video Bloggers Respond

ABC’s Charlie Gibson interviewed the Alaskan Governor and Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin this past week and the internet was not lacking in video responses to her appearance. @Queen of Spain tipped me to a video blogger I've added to my list, James Kotecki's Video Blog on Politico.com. He produces a daily video blog in a short form sarcastic style similar to The Soup and The Daily Show.



While over at NewTeeVee Liz Shannon Miller posted a round up of, Weekend Vid Picks: Ladies On Sarah Palin, which includes videos from supporters and critics including this one from the sketch troupe One Hot Mess, which Liz says "gets savage. “Finally, a candidate our vaginas can relate to” is just the beginning of this assault on the girl-power-for-the-sake-of-girl-power mentality."

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

It's also rumored that Tina Fey may return to SNL to play the Alaskan Governor on the season premiere tonight which features an appearance by Democratic Presidential candidate Barrack Obama. There's been a lot of discussions, like this one from Friendfeed, that Hollywood should stay out of the political discourse but American actors and entertainers have the right to free speech and also vote just like Matt Damon.

There's Truth is Jest, The Daily Show Serves the Political Pundit's Doublespeak - Sarah Palin Gender Card

You got to hand it to Jon Stewart. Whether you like him or not, The Daily Show serves up a daily lambasting of the hypocrisy spewed by the political pundits of the right wing. This excerpt, Sarah Palin Gender Card, was featured this past week as part of the RNC08 coverage and I'm featuring here as part of the political convention wrap up.



You can watch the full episode here. Enjoy!

From Wikipedia: Doublespeak (sometimes double talk) is language constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often resulting in a communication bypass. Doublespeak may take the form of bald euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs) or deliberate ambiguity. Doublespeak is a disparaging label for any euphemistic term perceived to be uttered in bad faith.^[1]