{"id":23578,"date":"2011-06-03T16:29:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T20:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=23578"},"modified":"2011-06-03T16:29:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T20:29:03","slug":"tgif-mean-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/06\/03\/tgif-mean-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"TGIF: &#8220;Mean Girls&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tJyyhNwdQz0\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tJyyhNwdQz0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I never need an excuse to post something from Tina Fey, but there is good reason this week as Sarah Palin pretends not to be gearing up to maybe announce that she might be running for the presidency she cannot win. Her cat-and-mouse is reminiscent of the manipulative passive-aggression of the Fey-scripted <em>Mean Girl<\/em>s.<\/p>\n<p>After the jump, in what looks like an instance of life imitating art, video of Palin&#8217;s mangled version yesterday of Paul Revere&#8217;s ride. It&#8217;s pure Tina Fey; Palin effortlessly captures the hollowed out goofiness of Fey&#8217;s impression of her:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He who warned, uh, the British that they weren\u2019t gonna be takin&#8217; away our arms, uh, by ringin&#8217; those bells and makin&#8217; sure as he\u2019s ridin&#8217; his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free and we were gonna\u00a0be armed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oS4C7bvHv2w\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oS4C7bvHv2w<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tJyyhNwdQz0 I never need an excuse to post something from Tina Fey, but there is good reason this week as Sarah Palin pretends not to be gearing up to maybe announce that she might be running for the presidency she cannot win. Her cat-and-mouse is reminiscent of the manipulative passive-aggression of the Fey-scripted Mean Girls. 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