Old (lame) joke.
It's not the school.
It's the principal of the thing.
Politics in America has become a lot like that these days.
Lampooning of, and satire aimed at, political figures is an art form as old as the first charcoal sketchings on the walls of Mr. and Mrs. Grok's cave sweet cave.
So, there's nothing new going on here, at least in so far as concept is concerned.
What has, almost radically, changed is the thinning of the line between ridicule and reality to a point where the separation is, arguably, gone.
A predictable number of Sarah detracting viewers of the Tina Fey take on the Palin presentation have made it clear in their social media comments that they find....
a) Fey to be a brilliant impressionist.
b) Palin to be, at best, an eccentric and, at worst, an embarrassment to the process.
Meanwhile, an equally predictable number of Sarah soldiers were, at best, annoyed and, at worst, ready to light the torches and storm the village where SNL is broadcast.
(NOTE: the term "equally predictable" in the previous paragraph refers to the equality of the predictability and not the number of Sarahsillys....the ratio of detractor to defender runs in the ballpark of 1000 to 1).
Here's a thing.
Tina Fey is not the problem.
Saturday Night Live is not the problem.
Donald Trump is not the problem.
Even Sarah Palin is not the problem.
The problem, dear Brutus, is that there are, literally, millions of people in this country who think that Sarah Palin is anything other than a pathetic footnote in the history of American politics.
Millions of people who, by both law and unfortunate circumstance, have the right to cast a vote in the coming presidential election.
Millions of people who, as opposed to finally and mercifully beginning to see Donald Trump as the caricature of a candidate he has always been, will only feel additionally validated in their passionate support of the guy because their previous favorite caricature of a candidate is now steering them in his direction.
Old (lame) joke.
It's not the school.
It's the principal of the thing.
New (lame) joke.
It's not the leader.
It's the followers of the guy.
Or gal.
Can I get a hallelujah?
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