It was remarkably easy for a Quebec comedy duo to get through to Palin three days before the election, convincing her she was speaking with French President Nicolas Sarkozy:
"SARKOZY": I must say Governor Palin, I loved the documentary they made on your life…you know, Hustler’s Nailin’ Pailin."
PALIN: Oh good, thank you. Yes
"SARKOZY": That was really edgy.
PALIN: Well good.
"SARKOZY": I really loved you, and I must say something also Governor….you’ve been pranked.
How will the Republican base react when they hear of her love for France?
(h/t Atrios)



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hysterical! Now, that’s my halloween candy!
Hi Jane,
This could be retitled Hockey Mom Meets French President
It is over at Kos too. I couldn’t stop laughing!!!!!
She wants to go hunting with him from a helicopter!! “snicker”
bon soir madame palin!
Adieu, Adieu, to you and you and you.
That’s not me…Ms. Rachel said it.
I can’t get over how Palin and her assistant sounded like something out of the hallway on the way to the locker in high school.
Oh yes. I’m just not lovin’ the reminder of the girls I hated in high school. Fer Sure!
Loo Hoo, would you please make her go away?
In fairness, these guys have punked a LOT of people – it’s too bad that Borat wasn’t in production this year instead of last – THAT would be priceless!
I think this is the way. Let’s see. *poof*
I’ll call you on Wednesday and we’ll know if that worked!
(((Loo Hoo)))
Girlfriend is da bomb.
This was too funny. I loved when she kept asking them to repeat the call letters of their station – watch out visit from the Secret Service.
These guys have already pranked Sarkozy himself, and that thin singer from the Rolling Stones. The banter before she answers reeks of a laissez-faire that is quite scary.
ok
Berry berry funny… I hope they do it again!!
Apparently living close enough to Russia to see it out her kitchen window didn’t give her enough knowledge of foreign affairs to tell a Quebec accent from that of a Parisian.
A small proofreading quibble. Should read, “convincing her SHE was speaking with French President Nicolas Sarkozy”
H E L L O This woman could be the next vice-president.
Well Heeee Hawwwwww.
What happened to the video ??
It seems to have been pulled! I get a message “This Video is no longer available”
It’s just a soundtrack and Huffingtron Post has it also.. You must listen to this.
Probably will send one of those drones up to Montreal to take out “terrorists”.
I wonder how long Bekksy will last.
Heckuva job, Bekksy…
Went to the lake and found it there and then to youtube so I could copy the link to send it out far and wide… They sure git her good… I love the end, I sure wish I was a fly in the wall in the room when she was told she had been “Pranked” I would love to have seen her face,,,,,, priceless as they say!
What a ditz.
I suppose that staffer got thrown off the bus right then and there. Queen Sarah did not sound amused being punked. Has anyone told St McCain, I wonder?
F*ckin’ Canucks…A McCain administration made up of normal Americans would have those funny talkers on a one way cattle car trip to useful deployment, you betcha!
;>)
Tip of the hat.
several under the radar funnies buried in there:
- he refers to his foreign policy adviser Johnny Halliday – who’s actually a washed up (but famous) wanna-be-American blond faux-Elvis
- talking about hunting, he slips in a “tuer des bebes foques” – kill bay seals
- my wife Carla wrote a song for you: it’s called “Mettre du rouge a levre sur un cochon” (putting lipstick on a pig), but he translates it as something about Joe the plumber
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Reports are that these guys took over a week to arrange the phone call and create the web of illusion needed to pull this off. I suspect that poor Bekksy is only the final puppy – but will be the one to get to see the transmission system of the Palin “Rouge Cou” Express (or is it “Rouge Cul”?) .
And I woulda guessed that Palin spoke La Langue Francais.
This should get a lot of exposure down in Louisiana…it might actually turn that State around!
Tuer des bebes foques dans le helicopteur avec moi, c’est soir?
;>)
Thanks, punaise, I was hoping you’d chime in with some translation!
Offense is somethin’ else.
Did Sarah not get a clue when he asked if Joe The Plumber was her husband?
Or are the French just “confused” in PalinWorld?
“tuer des bebes foques” – kill ba[b]y seals. Booboo!
“Mettre du rouge a levre sur un cochon” is also an idiom for “putting lipstick on a slut”.
You sure can’t just T it up for em like we did.
woo-hoo, voulez-vous?
(you find the weirdest stuff on youTube…)
Hahahahaha!
I think she figured he just need settin’ straight, dontchaknow?
Heh? HEEEAH?
;>)
orthographist’s challenge
Whoa time for da brain bleeech my friend!!
for a half-second she considered playing along with the joke, then thought better.
He doesn’t use the internets. He’ll believe it tomorrow when he reads it in the newspaper. I’m sure he’ll be delighted to read that he was endorsed by Cheney too!
I can’t see how she could not have figured out that she was being pranked from the first half minute. In fact, why would the campaign think that Sarkozy would break protocol and speak with Palin rather than McCain himself?
It’s probably a good thing that they didn’t imitate Putin…they may have started WWIII. Or maybe “Vlad” could have put on his “Good Friend Ahmadjinedad” to show you that “he isn’t really so evil”.
I almost thought that this was a prank on the listeners when I first heard about it…but the fact that the McCain Campaign has officially responded indicates that it really, really, happened.
Funny, but appalling, all at the same time!
Too funny, db!!
vive Jacques le Plombier!
viva Sarah la cretin fini
Yep. The dawgs didn’t help themselves very much.
Oui, et vive son frere Louis le Tuyauteur…D’accord, mon petit cœur en sucre!
she really foqued up
Xin loi
“early voting is evil because i can’t find a parking space”
That creepy laugh right out of the cutting room floor from “Heathers,” right after the radio guy talked about how much he liked to kill things – I’ve heard her do it before.
obviously she didn’t understand his diction on several occasions. who among us hasn’t smiled and nodded in conversation, utterly unsure of what was just pronounced?
I’m wondering how much longer Murdoch is going to continue to lose money on The Weekly Neocon. Fuck Fred Barnes.
The new edgy word is “punked” as in SHE GOT PUNKED…fabulous fun, I laughed til I cried, and then I cried til I laughed!
C’est magnifique!
Weirdly enough, I caught all of it, go figure!
And if the call had come at, say 3:00am?
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And as a proud Canuckistanian I also call your attention to the work of a bunch of other Quebecois pranksters that helped from falling into the clutches of a Conservatard majority a couple of weeks ago. Those French, they have a different word for everything, including ‘phoque’.
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Merci.
ca, alors!
thanks for the spelling correction
You all are most welcome….
I now call your attention to a more serious surprise prank attack that I ran into a few minutes ago when I went to check my Yahoo mail….
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(which I actually believe is very serious business)
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You are amazing, thanks.
I already posted this on Lindsey’s thread.
And right at the end, before she hangs up, does not someone, maybe the Empress?, take the name of the Lord’s Sonnny Boy Williamson in vain?
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These guys have pranked many many people, they know what to do. If the prank wasn’t caught up front by e.g. caller ID, Palin is by necessity working under the assumption she’s speaking to Sarkozy. She should have clued in when the song about Joe the Plumber was mentioned, but think of how your mind would work in a similar situation. Most politically aware Canadians would pick up the joke when Harper and Charest are misnamed, but the vast majority of Americans would be just as oblivious to the punking as was Palin. Still, good for the Masked Avengers.
Here’s the (sketchy) Wikipedia entry on the Masked Avengers. Their previous victims include Queen Elizabeth, Jacques Chirac, Bill Gates, and Bono.
I’m surprised nobody mentioned this;
Sarah demonstrates how depraved her mind really is, when the caller tells her he just loves killing animals, Sarah gets the genuine giggles, she is literally thrilled!
this is one sick person and it really shows on the tape, I think we need a snip of that exchange all by itself
as a matter of fact, I smell another Oxdown entry
The Canadian site I at which I first saw this was more tactful, referring to a “cochonne” as “an uninhibited girl.”