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Just Deserts: A Case Study

By Wlady Pleszczynski on 1.18.13 @ 5:56PM

It couldn’t happen to a nicer gal. Long after most everyone else did — though tell that to the Golden Globes crowd, whom she entertained as co-host last Sunday night and joined in honoring the HBO anti-Palinesque Game Change movie, amid other anti-Palin echoes — Tina Fey has tired of being connected to Sarah Palin. Or so Rolling Stone reports. Seems the role will haunt her to the end of her days, like a buzzing in the ears that won’t ever stop. Confusing smug superiority with humor has its costs, apparently.

(Hat tip, Best of the Web Today)

About the Author

Wlady Pleszczynski is editorial director of The American Spectator and the editor of AmSpec Online.

http://spectator.org/blog/2013/01/18/just-deserts-a-case-study

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