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A pair of comedians from Montreal, Canada placed a prank call to Sarah Palin. The ensuing conversation strongly suggests that Palin doesn’t know who the Prime Minister of Canada is.
Palin thought she was talking to French president Nicholas Sarkosy.
"Some people said in the last days, and I thought that was mean, that you weren’t experienced enough in foreign relations. That’s completely false That’s the thing I said to my great friend the Prime Minister of Canada, Stef Carse," the prankster said.
"Well, he’s doing fine too," Palin answered.
Stef Carse is a Quebec pop singer best known for his French-language cover of "Achy, Breaky Heart."
Palin has made much of the fact that her state abuts Canada and shares a "narrow maritime" border with Russia.
Faux Sarkozy asked if Palin met his good friend the "prime minister" of Quebec Mr. Richard Z. Sirois, seeing as she was "so next to him."
Had he been to any of her rallies?
Palin replied, "I haven’t seen him at one of the rallies."
For the record the province of Quebec is nowhere near Alaska and its chief executive is known in English as a premier, not a prime minister. Sirois is a Quebec radio personality and comedian.
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Dugg right here
Hi lindsey,
This is big on these québécois airwaves. Contrary to your belief, Québec has a prime minister, his name is Charest, and low and behold, he’s a fascist, like our canadian PM, Harper.
Quebec has a premier. His title in French is “premier ministre”, but the English translation of that is “premier”–even on Quebec’s official website.
It would be an international incident if the real Sarkozy referred to Charest was the “prime minister of Quebec” in English!
Premier Ministre is what I use. Often, french speakers will say prime minister of Québec, and no international incident has ever occured.
Dugg, thanks for the link.
I think Sarah is headed for reality teevee, where she belongs. In the future, I think her own party will primary her out of politics with all this.
Lindsey, thanks for explaining this so quickly. I first heard about it on Ian’s thread. I watched the youtube, but your post helps flesh out the context.
IMHO, what really demonstrates Palin’s unfitness is how two radio guys got the GOP V.P. candidate on the phone. Evidently Sarah has surrounded herself with people even less qualified than she.
Perhaps this also reveals the complete disconnect with McCain’s campaign. Sarah appears to be just hanging out, enjoying her celebrity status. She’s waiting for Eric Bana (one of Jane’s favorites) and the President of France calls. As much as Sarah would like it to be otherwise, the President of France does not just pick up the phone and call a V.P. candidate. There are tightly negotiated protocalls, agendas, and above all talking points about any public disclosure that may or may not happen. She has no effing clue.
If anything those guys did her a favor by taping it. Getting on the phone with anyone exposes a political leader to many forms of blackmail.
Sarah apparently had no idea when she took the call, whether she was speaking over a secure phone line. If she had been talking to the President of France, a NATO member, she had no expectation that national security would not be discussed.
Bullshit. She’s a candidate, not the VP.
No incident? WTF????
Quebec DOES NOT have a PM, they tried to get one by seceding from Canada, but failed and would have failed miserably if they actually left Canada.
You don’t have a PM–Canada does. [Edited by moderator to remove personal comment]