Sarah Palin lost the election but she's a winner to a connoisseur of quotations.
The Republican vice presidential candidate and her comedic doppelganger, Tina Fey, took the top two spots in this year's list of most memorable quotes compiled by Fred R. Shapiro.
First place was "I can see Russia from my house!" spoken in satire of Palin's foreign policy credentials by Fey on the TV comedy show "Saturday Night Live."
Palin's actual quote was: "They're our next-door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska."
Palin also made the third annual list for her inability to name newspapers she reads. When questioned by CBS anchor Katie Couric, Palin said she reads "all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years."
Palin's quotes were pivotal, said Shapiro, associate librarian and lecturer in legal research at the Yale Law School, who compiles the list.
"This quote helped shape the election results," he said of the Russia quote. "As it sank in, the public realized this was someone really, really inexperienced and perhaps lacking in curiosity about the world."
Wow! Our Governor's quotes are featured twice in the Yale quotes of the year! Well actually once, but Tina Fey's parody of her got the top spot and that has to mean something right? Of course it is not something good.
If you are one of the six people in the country who did not see this brilliant performance I have embedded it below just for you. And if you are one of the millions who have watched it repeatedly, well watch it again. It is still hilarious!
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