Talk:The Masked Avengers' prank on Sarah Palin

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What's the downside of leaving this in? an extra page in wikipedia. What's the downside of taking this out? ??

Palin is interested in running to be be elected U.S. President in 2012. We need to err on the side of maintaining information about the faults of national leaders (as long as it is based on facts) and not censor important information.

The pranksters specifically said it was "frightening" that she did not figure out it was a prank, and said the only other prank victim who never figured it out is Britney Spears. This is important information, and will continue to be, as long as Palin is a major political figure.

There article now does have more details and better sourcing (Nov. 10th) unless those are removed by someone. It cites an article in which the pranksters refer to Palin as "gullible" and say that it was "frightening" she never caught on. They say the only other person who never caught on is Britney Spears, but Britney Spears is not a potential President of the United States. There is an article that refers to the many clues, such as the prankster saying killing is "so much fun" and that the French President's wife is "hot in bed." These articles establish the tremendous importance of this article, since the Republican Party is still working through whether Palin is going to be the frontrunner or one of the main contenders to be U.S. President in 2012.

Better sourcing

There's probably more informative and more reliable sourcing among the absurd number of links within the version below (reproduced from this). Time permitting, I'll go through it a bit later. -- Hoary (talk) 04:57, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

On November 1, Palin fell prey to the Quebec comedy duo Les Justiciers Masqués (The Masked Avengers), accepting a call from a Montreal radio program in which one of the men impersonated French President Nicolas Sarkozy. During the broadcast, Palin accepted an invitation to hunt baby seals from a helicopter, promising to be a more careful hunter than Dick Cheney, and seemed to accept the fake Sarkozy's descriptions of French singer Johnny Hallyday as his "special American adviser" and Canadian country singer Stef Carse as Prime Minister of Canada.

The false Sarkozy also told Palin that his wife, pop singer Carla Bruni, had written a song about her. While giving the song's French title as "Du rouge à lèvre sur une cochonne" (meaning "Lipstick on a Pig") he falsely translated it for Palin as It is life, Joe the Plumber.

He also complimented Palin on the "documentary"(in reality a porn film) Who's Nailin' Paylin?.

At the end of the interview, after the comedians reveal that they're calling from CKOI-FM in Montreal, Palin can be heard in the background saying "It's a radio station in France" before her campaign aide hangs up the phone.

Photograph

Why the photo of Palin? (How does it help this article?) -- Hoary (talk) 14:45, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Why not? :) –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 01:18, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

It shows us nothing about the prank. -- Hoary (talk) 14:14, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Article probation

This is a notification that articles related to Sarah Palin (broadly construed) have been placed by the community on article probation. See Talk:Sarah Palin/Article probation‎ for details. Thanks - Kelly ^hi! 18:00, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Removed extensive quote

The article contained an extensive quote of the conversation. But there is no reason to believe this quoted material is available under a free license, or in the public domain. I removed the text; there were some useful annotations in that version of the article which should probably be reincorporated somehow. -Pete (talk) 04:20, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

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