History UsefulNotes / SarahPalin

* Music/SeanCombs attained newfound celebrity during the 2008 Presidential election by uploading more than 30 Vlogs - or "Diddy Blogs" - to his [[https://www.youtube.com/@seancombs BadBoyRecords]] [=YouTube=] channel, several of them reacting to John [=McCain's=] selection of Sarah Palin for his running mate ([[https://www.tmz.com/watch/0-7o095f12/ "[=McCain=] is Buggin' the F*** Out!"]]). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70wGnx_lZio Diddy Blog Post #24]]- in response to Palin's infamous Katie Couric interview - had the rapper crouched under a blanket in a dark room with a flashlight under his face (parodying Film/TheBlairWitchProject), whispering "She scares me..." into the camera ("Boys and girls -- Did you hear her? Did you hear?! John [=McCain=] is 72! Sarah Palin could be the President!"). The Vlogs went the 2000s version of viral, and even scored a mention in Magazine/TimeMagazine.

** This was directly parodied in an early video by [[https://www.youtube.com/sxephil SXEPhil (Philip DeFranco)]] called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64vYxdLceQ&list=LL&index=557&t=102s Sarah Palin Song! (I Picked a Girl!) BBK#3]] ("Yo Philly Obama Blog! Philly Obama Blog!") which also featured Colette Kati (of WebVideo/Shaytards fame) as a gun-toting Sarah Palin brandishing her own one year-old baby, Emmi Butler, on her hip. The video doubled as a parody of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/KatyPerry Katy Perry's]] "I Kissed a Girl" song.[[/folder]]

* Music/SeanCombs attained newfound celebrity during the 2008 Presidential election by uploading more than 30 Vlogs - or "Diddy Blogs" - to his [[https://www.youtube.com/@seancombs BadBoyRecords]] [=YouTube=] channel, several of them reacting to John [=McCain's=] selection of Sarah Palin for his running mate ([[https://www.tmz.com/watch/0-7o095f12/ "[=McCain=] is Buggin' the F*** Out!"]]). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70wGnx_lZio Diddy Blog Post #24]]- in response to Palin's infamous Katie Couric interview - had the rapper crouched under a blanket in a dark room with a flashlight under his face (parodying [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheBlairWitchProject The Blair Witch Project]]), whispering "She scares me..." into the camera ("Boys and girls -- Did you hear her? Did you hear?! John [=McCain=] is 72! Sarah Palin could be the President!"). The Vlogs went the 2000s version of viral, and even scored a mention in [[https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1854557_1854530_1854527,00.html Time Magazine.]]
** This was directly parodied in an early video by [[https://www.youtube.com/sxephil SXEPhil (Philip DeFranco)]] called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64vYxdLceQ&list=LL&index=557&t=102s Sarah Palin Song! (I Picked a Girl!) BBK#3]] ("Yo Philly Obama Blog! Philly Obama Blog!") which also featured Colette Kati (of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/Shaytards Shaytards]] fame) as a gun-toting Sarah Palin brandishing her own one year-old baby, Emmi Butler, on her hip. The video doubled as a parody of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/KatyPerry Katy Perry's]] "I Kissed a Girl" song.[[/folder]]

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/SeanCombs P. Diddy]] attained newfound celebrity during the 2008 Presidential election by uploading more than 30 Vlogs - or "Diddy Blogs" - to his [[https://www.youtube.com/@seancombs BadBoyRecords]] [=YouTube=] channel, several of them reacting to John [=McCain's=] selection of Sarah Palin for his running mate ([[https://www.tmz.com/watch/0-7o095f12/ "[=McCain=] is Buggin' the F*** Out!"]]). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70wGnx_lZio Diddy Blog Post #24]]- in response to Palin's infamous Katie Couric interview - had the rapper crouched under a blanket in a dark room with a flashlight under his face (parodying [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheBlairWitchProject The Blair Witch Project]]), whispering "She scares me..." into the camera ("Boys and girls -- Did you hear her? Did you hear?! John [=McCain=] is 72! Sarah Palin could be the President!"). The Vlogs went the 2000s version of viral, and even scored a mention in [[https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1854557_1854530_1854527,00.html Time Magazine.]]

* Jill-Michele Melean (of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/MadTV1995 MADtv]] fame) filmed a web comedy skit for the (now defunct) [[https://www.youtube.com/c/StopItShow Stop It Show]] with Shawn Pelofsky titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpLmNmQS7Ck&t=36s Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin Phone Sex]] (ActingForTwo as both Palin and Bachmann) - which is exactly what it sounds like ... with a much younger actor showing up at the end as Texas Governor (and then-Presidential candidate) Rick Perry to join in for good measure.

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/BruceWillis Bruce Willis]] appeared on ''Series/TheLateShowWithDavidLetterman'' in November 2008 dressed as Palin while plugging his new movie [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/WhatJustHappened What Just Happened]]. According to [[https://www.ddy.com/dl2008.html DDY's Late Show Fan Page,]] the skit "has the stagehands bring out his turkey cooker. It isn't long before he has the Salmonella-ridden turkey carcass on Dave's desk, pulling out an assortment of wacky items from where the guts were once located" (interestingly, no video of the sketch is available but is alluded to as having taken place by Letterman following the commercial break and before musical guest Sia sings [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upMuEJotl5w Soon We'll Be Found.]]).

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/BruceWillis Bruce Willis]] appeared on [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheLateShowWithDavidLetterman The Late Show with David Letterman]] in November 2008 dressed as Palin while plugging his new movie [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/WhatJustHappened What Just Happened]]. According to [[https://www.ddy.com/dl2008.html DDY's Late Show Fan Page,]] the skit "has the stagehands bring out his turkey cooker. It isn't long before he has the Salmonella-ridden turkey carcass on Dave's desk, pulling out an assortment of wacky items from where the guts were once located" (interestingly, no video of the sketch is available but is alluded to as having taken place by Letterman following the commercial break and before musical guest Sia sings [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upMuEJotl5w Soon We'll Be Found.]]).

* ''Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien'' did a skit as part of its ongoing [[https://conanobrien.fandom.com/wiki/NCAA_Football_Mascots NCAA Football Mascots]] characters gag with a young Ellie Kemper as Palin fighting an actor playing Biden ([[https://conanobrien.fandom.com/wiki/The_George_Washington_University_%22Sarah_Palin_vs._Joe_Biden_Drunken_Bar_Fight%22 The George Washington University Sarah Palin vs. Joe Biden Drunken Bar Fight]] aired on September 11, 2008).

-->'''Craig:''' Is it just me, or do you get a kind of [[HotLibrarian naughty librarian]] vibe from the Governor?

* Jill-Michele Melean (of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/MadTV1995 MADtv]] fame) filmed a web comedy skit with the - now defunct - [[https://www.youtube.com/@WatchLeaksTV LeaksTV]] channel on a video titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxbruT2XGW4&list=LL&index=621 Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin Phone Sex]] (ActingForTwo as both Palin and Bachmann) - which is exactly what it sounds like ... with a much younger actor showing up at the end as Texas Governor (and then-Presidential candidate) Rick Perry to join in for good measure.

In 2008, she was [[AscendedExtra abruptly thrust]] onto the pop culture radar after Republican presidential nominee John [=McCain=] chose her as his vice presidential running mate against Democrats UsefulNotes/BarackObama and UsefulNotes/JoeBiden. She was the second female vice presidential nominee of a major party in U.S. history (the first being Democrat Geraldine Ferraro in 1984), and the first of the Republican Party. In July 2009, Palin [[OptOut resigned her position as governor]] with 18 months remaining in her first term, one of the official reasons being saving the costs to the Alaskan budget of defending herself [[FrivolousLawsuit against detractors]]; said detractors have naturally offered a different explanation. Since then she has toured the country as a paid speaker and founded the conservative political action committee [=SarahPAC=]. She was for a while considered the likely frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, but ultimately declined to run, likely because polls showed that, while she was still popular among the Republican grassroots and would have stood a decent (though by no means certain) chance of clinching the nomination, she would have faired poorly against Obama in the general election.

* Palin appeared in bed with Music/{{Eminem}} in the music video of his 2009 song "We Made You", again played by Lisa Ann from the porn spoof ''Nailin' Palin''.