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I'm with Meghan here. I also thought the skit was quite brilliant. The audience SNL was targeting is not made up of Palin voters but of people like us. They didn't demean her; they colluded with her to make fun of us and all our "I'm moving to Canada" blather. And Baldwin's about-face was perfect, too, because even when faced with the real her he couldn't think of anything respectful to say, but reverted to the other form of Palin mockery—the how-hot-is-she variety. They were deeply mocking the Palin mockers, which I thought was quite brave.

I even thought the rap was—dare I say it—great. "I say Obama. You say Ayers." Come on, that's funny. Even the moose part—a stroke of genius to parallel the gang banger with the moose hunter. But then, as my husband said, we are of a generation that considers rap satire to be a form of high art. It beat those pretentious Obama celebrity ads.