Fox News uses picture of Tina Fey in Sarah Palin story
How good is comedian Tina Fey’s impersonation of Republican Sarah Palin?
This just in, Tina Fey is not running for president.
Good enough to fool the former Alaska governor’s network of choice, according to media watchdog Mediaite.com.
Sunday, Fox aired a clip about Palin’s potential entry into the 2012 presidential race but used a picture of Fey from a Saturday Night Live skit.
Fox News released the following statement: “This past Sunday during ‘America’s News Headquarters,’ a graphics error was made during a segment on former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The producer has since been disciplined and an explanation and apology will be made in the same hour next Sunday. Fox News regrets the error.”
TheWeek.com lists the goof as its best video of the week.
Heads may roll if something similar happens again, Mediaite reports.
A Fox News memo states: “Effective immediately, there is zero tolerance for on-screen errors. Mistakes by any member of the show team that end up on air may result in immediate disciplinary action against those who played significant roles in the “mistake chain,” and those who supervise them. That may include warning letters to personnel files, suspensions, and other possible actions up to and including termination, and this will all obviously play a role in performance reviews.”
Humans make mistakes, fortunately mine aren’t televised.
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The Truth
June 8th, 2011
3:15 pm
Hey Jason, I just re-read by post from which you quoted me as saying Fox news “tells it like it is” -You quoted me there; but, I just don’t see it in my post, please explain?? Sounds like your taking liberties with my post and maybe inserting your own meanings to fit your world view-just like a left wing nut. (I don’t like right wing-nuts either) Like I said independent, it’s pretty scary if your locked into one view of the world whether that be “right” or “left”, doesn’t give you much room to develop your own opinion.
John
June 8th, 2011
3:15 pm
You know Palin is qualified to be President AND a great American because the Democrats (lewd Twitter photo-loving Socialists) hate her!
Joe
June 8th, 2011
3:15 pm
Here’s a slam-dunk against the leftist haters:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/269035
bamabelle2000
June 8th, 2011
3:18 pm
I don’t know what’s the bigger joke Sarah Palin or her Kool-Aid drinkers like Joe, the Truth and the Observer. Someone needs to come to your doors and strip you of your voter registration cards before you get us all killed.
king of mean
June 8th, 2011
3:22 pm
look, they both have a great set of legs so i could care less…
RedNeck Rick
June 8th, 2011
3:23 pm
Why did Sarah Palin buy a house in Mexico? So she could build up her foreign policy experience. Now she’ll be able to see Mexico from her front porch too.
Barack Obama was born on August 4th and he will turn fifty years old on his upcoming August 4, 2011 birthday. Sarah Palin’s birthday is on February 11. When she was asked what year, she replied, “Every year.”
Q: What would you get if you crossed Sarah Palin with a parrot?
A: Sarah Palin
Q. What is Sarah Palin’s advice for the jobless on how to double their money?
A. Fold it in half.
Top Ten Reasons Why Sarah Palin is Running For President of the United States
1. Alaska isn’t about to take her back as Governor.
2. The Tea Party seems to be sobering up real fast.
3. Donald Trump won’t let her appear on The Apprentice.
4. The White House silverware could fit in her purse.
5. India turned out to be just too hot and icky.
6. The Secret Service would keep an eye on Todd.
7. The White House staff doesn’t have a union.
8. Free government health care for HER family.
9. Airforce One is bigger than her Gulfstream G650.
10. So that she can send Katie Couric to Gitmo.
Q. Why does Sarah Palin admire Abraham Lincoln?
A. For inventing the Town Car.
Joe
June 8th, 2011
3:23 pm
LOL, yes, bamabelle, take away the voter cards of anyone who won’t vote the way the leftist haters tell us to!
Don’tcha just love liberal “tolerance”?
Simple Jack
June 8th, 2011
3:25 pm
Comments are great!!! Drink that Hateraide!!! Good stuff!
It is quite funny that Fox made the error, too! Kudos to Tina Fey!! She does a great job!! Loved Alec Baldwin on SNL the time they had Palin guesting….He was a riot as well!!
And on a more serious note, neither Palin, nor Obama are qualified to run for President, Obama just got lucky and was a relative unknown (still is, actually)…….but that will CHANGE in 2012.
bamabelle2000
June 8th, 2011
3:25 pm
This country is in trouble not because of Obama it’s because of people like this who love Sarah Palin are the same one’s who probably thought Bush was a great president too. You people need to be stopped seriously. Maybe like Palin making you read a book or two will slow you down lol.
Joe
June 8th, 2011
3:27 pm
Hey leftist haters… how come we don’t hear about your almighty American military casualty count every day front page like you did for your “evil” Bush? More Americans have died in Hussein’s Afghanistan than W’s Afghanistan! Where’s the body count every day? What’s the matter, would it make your fraud president with an illegal social security number look bad?