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1. Jim Pauwels 07/28/2009 - 5:01 pm  subscriber

   I’m enjoying Shatner’s second career much more than the first.

2. Joe Pettit 07/28/2009 - 5:12 pm

   Shatner was really the perfect pick for this. In everything he does these days from commercials to sitcoms has decided to leave the viewer wondering when his insanity is merely play-acting and when he is just being himself.

3. Eric Bugyis 07/28/2009 - 6:37 pm  subscriber  contributor

   I hope Sarah Palin is smoking peyote or something while writing these speeches, then all would still be right with the world.

4. Jimmy Mac 07/28/2009 - 7:50 pm  subscriber

   Shatner …. it’s the mad cow, you know.

   Re the poem: Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

5. Frances Rossi 07/28/2009 - 10:20 pm  subscriber

   Hil-freaking-arious. A comment that I never thought I would leave on this blog!

6. Nancy Danielson 07/29/2009 - 11:25 am

   For some reason this reminds me of Mad Libs (pun intended) with a spin. In fact, by doing a little editing on this page, one could come up with this:

   Hulu

   The viewer wondering

   Insanity or

   Simply smoking peyote

   It’s the mad cow, you know-

   ommmmmmmmmmmm….

   I suppose that, too, would be considered nonsense. :-)

7. Barbara 07/29/2009 - 11:38 am

   Well, I don’t know if I would like to be told that a speech I drafted made no more sense than stringing together a random series of comments that were made more or less independently of each other.

   “North to the future” has the same kind fo ring as “Beam me up Scotty” or even, different context, “Book’m Dano!”

8. Kathy 07/30/2009 - 7:17 am

   Isn’t it great when we can elevate the level of discourse, with a substantive critique of a politician’s arguments?

9. Mollie Wilson O'Reilly 07/30/2009 - 10:19 am  contributor

   Which arguments?

10. Kathy 07/30/2009 - 1:56 pm

    Exactly.

11. Grant Gallicho 07/30/2009 - 2:15 pm  contributor

    Sorry, Kathy. I tried to find the follow-up segment in which William Shatner dismantled Palin’s complex anti-government-handout argument, but NBC hasn’t made it available.

12. Kathy 07/30/2009 - 2:23 pm

    That’s okay, Grant. Forgive me, I’m just sad and disillusioned by the apparent cultural difference between East coasters and Alaskans, the obvious intended audience of the speech.

    And, I think Captain Kirk was underappreciated.

13. Grant Gallicho 07/30/2009 - 2:35 pm  contributor

    Perhaps the difference is not so much cultural then, but linguistic.

14. Kathy 07/30/2009 - 7:29 pm

    Now this is what I call poetry: http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/3809/shatnercopy3dj.jpg

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