It’s A Trill: Sarah Palin Plays The Flute In 1984

October 1st, 2008 // 16 Comments

Writing your own punchline to this performance on flute by Sarah Palin at the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant ought to be a lot less queasy-making than it is here, but like artist like response, right? I don’t think Joe Biden has ever displayed his talents in quite such a fashion, but if he has, lord help us all. Although at least–and I say this as a native of Minnesota, mind you–we don’t have to suffer through that goddamn accent this time around. [via Gawker]


  1. Maura Johnston

    so, which is better:

  2. Maura Johnston

    (and yes i’ve been waiting to make that joke)

  3. Anonymous

    I just wish this video had broke before Elisabeth Hasslebeck sounded off on Palin’s presidential qualifications this morning. This would’ve totally shut that Barbara Walters right up!

  4. Audif Jackson Winters III

    I was expecting something funnier.

  5. Ned Raggett

    @Audif Jackson Winters III: I take you were thinking about this:

    I admit I was.

  6. Audif Jackson Winters III

    Well a little bit of that. Also, it was just video of someone playing the flute. This has all the yuks of watching footage of a young Barry Obama brick a free throw in a high school hoops game.

  7. Anonymous

    She’s pretty far out of tune, and man, does that backing track do a lot of her work for her.

  8. Anonymous

    So, with a McCain-Palin administration, we’re going to all be listening to Mantovani?
    [blog.newsok.com]

  9. doctaj

    that’s junior high level band literature that she’s playing there, folks. so, after (as the video says) 10 years of playing, she’s no better than your average eighth grade band student. …and she thought this was her *best* talent? she couldn’t do anything else above an eighth-grade level?

  10. Anonymous

    This one time at band camp…

  11. Anonymous

    skin flute…what??

  12. Barry White Stripes, Office LW

    More to come…?!?!?!

  13. ObtuseIntolerant

    @Maura Johnston: Really…how does civilization manage to survive?

  14. cheesebubble

    Someone give McCain an autoharp!

  15. Anonymous

    Bloody hell! Absolutely unmusical. Totally out of tune. No evidence she can even give good head.

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