Fake Sarah Palin shows up at CPAC and confuses the Teabaggers. Update.

From First Read:

A woman, who looked and dressed like the famous Republican, started walking around and doing interviews. In fact, she began drawing a crowd. People requested pictures, asked questions, and expressed their support for her.

Mumbles of mixed reactions buzzed through the crowd about her legitimacy. One person said, "That's not the real Palin," while another said, "You bet. That is real, legitimate Palin." Another mentioned checking her latest Twitter status to verify whether or not it was her.

But a staff member escorting the woman around confirmed that, despite her similarity, this was not the real former governor.

Seriously?

This woman has become such a caricature of herself that pretty much ANYBODY can put on a wig and glasses, say few ignorant things, and pass themselves off as her. Well just so long as they pick the lowest functioning crowd of people imaginable that is.

You know, like the ones attending the CPAC convention.

Here is some video courtesy of Gawker.



They were actually putting a microphone on her for and preparing for an interview.

Okay, now THAT is just pathetic!

Update: Here is the full interview.  Did the interviewer Tony Katz know he was being fooled? I am not so sure he did.

Update 2: The impostor has her own website. Her name is Patti Lyons.  Boy I sure hope the economy recovers soon so that this poor lady can get a REAL job.

Update 3: It looks like this story is REALLY irritating the P-Bots.  From the comments:

You know the imposter has her own site now, so how can you be such a phony cocksucker to let people go on thinking it might have been the real Palin and was done to make CPAC people think it was?

Fucking asshole, tell them now that it was a prank and not a serious attempt to make people think that Palin was there.

You are becoming the left's worst enemy with your media whoring.

Well it may have been planned as nothing more than a prank, (Who knows?) but it seems that some of the CPAC folk were taken in pretty easily:

But people can believe all kinds of things. A big enough crowd formed around "Palin" that hotel security started telling people not to stand on the stairs, which made it look like security was protecting a celebrity. The PJTV interview was conducted deadpan, as if "Palin" was Palin. That convinced onlookers, who have far too much trust in the media, that they were seeing Palin made flesh. William Temple, the omnipresent "Tea Party patriot" who dresses in revolutionary garb, rushed over to encourage "Palin" to run for president. She gave him a thumbs up.

People who couldn't hear Palin simply assumed that she was real, because there were so many cameras around her, and because people were actually interviewing her on policy, and she was answering. (More than one small camera crew ran over to the scrum, which is really not a bad idea -- how do you know if you're getting a hoax or an exclusive.) One activist followed her as she walked to general registration and tried to talk her way into a pass; he held his cell phone and told multiple people on his call list that "I'm standing, like, five feet away from Sarah Palin."

Alas, it was a hoax, and she disappeared. Some people kept passing word that "she's here!" through the halls, unaware of the interesting lesson about the psychology of fame and crowds that was being demonstrated. Some were disappointed, for a number of reasons.

Whether a planned hoax, or a pathetic attempt to cover up an embarrassing situation after the fact, it doesn't really matter.  What is abundantly clear is that the CPAC crowd are not exactly the cream of the intellectual crop.  Which essentially was my point all along.

You know being "the left's worst enemy" and all.

Thanks for playing.