I'm so glad Sci Fi Wire posted this so I could see it. Bit of brilliance. And it does go down a lot easier!

Priceless!

Seriously though, I think Palin must have some sort of brain disease, probably aphasia. Years from now people will still be speculating about her, just like we speculate about Michael Jackson. Palin, you're a freak!

This is a gratuitous post and does not serve the genre purpose we enjoy. Shatner's tenure as Kirk does not warrant posting his participation in patronizing political satire.

Can I not escape the politics here at least? Have some respect for the differing opinions out here please.

Spacechampion, you are an ASS!

Ordinarily, I'd agree with you UnRiel, but it is Shatner doing his poetry thing. It's brilliant! It's not necessarily political when it's just poking fun. As for this not being on topic, well... William Whatner IS James T. Kirk. There's no escaping that fact.

You're going to continue to alienate readers and viewers aren't you? First the ridiculous name change to Syfy. Now the politics, with of course, no regard to differing opinions. As UnRiel pointed out, this has nothing to do with science fiction. I come here for SCIFI. You know, like the name you have foresaken?

I guess this is what it takes to get an Emmy today. Hey, if it worked for Tina Fey, it might even work for Shatner.

Crozia--

Sure. Just poking fun. I bet it would be hilarious if he was making fun of Obama, too.

Crozia, if Shatner was Shatnerizing an Obama uhmm-filled speech, he'd be labeled a rascist. I reiterate, please keep the topics non-political.

Ah, I see Kevin beat me.

Thanks!

I foresee a day, in the foreseeable future, when many will foresee a cable network, website, and media entity that shuns politics entirely. Where the slightest hint of political agenda meets with a Manhattan Project of pink slips. Where the majority of us who disagree with the media elite, and even those that do succumb to, I mean, agree with the media elite, will be able to escape the media elite in peace.

Now the youtube video is removed.

Maybe She has the Mad cow!!

SOME of you people really need to get laid....

WOW!LOOK AT ALL THE "PALINACTS" DEFENDEING THEIR QUITER MESSIAH.GOD FORBID SOME ONE POINT OUT HER RAMBLING INSANITY.LOL!!!!!!

Some of you people need to stay on target with the discussion at hand instead of attacking people.

Video has been removed from YouTube... :((

We found the video on HULU, where we think it will live for a while.

It's funny alright...get over it UnRiel..geeeeeez

ty SciFi Wire. Great video! Absolutely loved it. Maybe that's what all of Palin's speeches have been... Poetry... We've just misunderstood it as incoherent unintelligent rambling. We're Sorry Palin...

For our non-American colleagues:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol6GxAYw2gM

Sci Fi's right; it does make a lot more sense this way. This woman is a disgusting hypocrite who never accepts responsibility as she cheaply attacks others.

you say
"Have to say it goes down a lot easier, wouldn't you agree?"

no actually I do not agree, I find sarah palin to be an intelligent woman who speaks her mind and is very understandable. shes a breath of fresh air compared to how obama goes "um" and "uh" after every other word.

please lose the political bias, i just found out about your blog today and i'm already about to leave. its bad enough that politics are everywhere I turn anymore. why bring them into something completely non-related?

"Maybe She has the Mad cow!!"
She IS Mad Cow!

"SOME of you people really need to get laid...."
Uh , OK, bring it on!

Differing opinions someone said? No there aren't. There's sanity, and there's the right-wing-looney-tunes full of evil greed and madness, that's all there is, it's just that simple. And Palin is one of the brain-dead looney-tunes.

You said it, M! It's like the birther movement. You've got to be kidding. There is just no way anyone rational could support such a ridiculous conspiracy theory.

I see that none of the fans of Palin here have addressed the FACT that her speech made no sense, which is why O'Brien and Shatner did their little poetry reinterpretation. IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. How can anyone defend that?

And, UnRiel, you cannot possibly be critizing Obama's way of speaking after the last guy couldn't construct a complex sentence to save his life.

Lamp, you're simply not being honest, which is what's so annoying about Palin supporters. She is not understandable in the least. It isn't a matter of opinion; it simply isn't true.

(I know this is probably going to get deleted by TPTB, but I wanted to get my say in for as long as it'll be up.)

AngryJonny, you assume I supported "the last guy"? Neither speak well, but I've never seen a SciFi Wire post go after Obama's many, many gaffs and nor should they. This is not a political blog, and thank Whomever for that.

The fact that many of you all are shallow, and easily humored doesn't justify appealing to the lowest common denominator as the idiot Wire staffer has done here.

Obama hasn't made any speaking gaffs. Saying "umm" isn't a gaffe. He might have said questionable things, but so has every president. Palin's comments make no sense, and the birthers remind me of those White Water conspiracy people. They just make stuff up or are willing to feign outrage when their real reasons are to stop liberal reforms, but as Bill Maher said (and I have a lot of problems with Bill Maher but...), "Obama isn't a socialist; he's not even a liberal!"

{edit}.. I {edit}.. am {edit}.. stupid {edit}..

Boy that was hard

PT

Well Muldfeld, I'd prove you wrong and start listing Obama's gaffes, but this is not the venue for it. See you on the Huffington post.

Regardless of politics, that was freakin' hilarious. I'd love to see Shatner doing Obama's inaugural speech.

Some of you need to get a sense of humor and a life. There wasn't anything political there, just a repeat of Ex-Governor Palin's speech. No need for outrage.

If you can't handle someone making good natured fun of your favored politician, you probably should find someone to support who doesn't make herself such an easy target.

Proof once more Syfy is going into the toilet. Oh and Muldfeld Obama has had plenty of verbal gaffes but I wouldn't expect someone cut of the same cloth to recognize that. Case in point, his most recent one concerning a police incident that admitted to not being a part of but yet he regards as the police acted "stupidly" on face value. That is the latest, but you could look up the many times his teleprompter failed and he sat there looking sheepish until the backup was made available.

Actually Kevin, I voted for McCain/Palin. Shatner has been doing this for years. Just because it's been pointed at a Republican doesn't mean it's not funny.

Ah, the Right. Eight years of hearing how making light of our President and his daily butchering of the English language was an attack on American itself. Now with a Democrat in the White House, the same rules don't count? Absurd. I for one am thankful that Sarah has resigned - it will give her far more time to sit on her back porch and keep an eye on Russia for us. Thank God for you Sarah!!

And yes, the video is quite humorous and Shatner will always be equated with Sci Fi (or SyFy if you prefer). Perhaps those who take it personally and as an attack from the liberal media should just watch it for what it's worth - those people need to laugh more than anyone!

UnRiel, I'm a card carrying Republican, and you're just a moron.

All of you that say keep the politics out of scifi OBVIOUSLY do not know your scifi history. Many of the best, brightest, admired, etc. scifi authors and movie makers have use this medium for making social commentary and showing their political views. IE Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, Babylon 5, 2001: a Space odyssey, Asimov, Gattaca, Soylent Green, Arthur C. Clark.... the list will just go on and on.
So for those of you that want to keep politics out of scifi, well I just have two words for you: Dream On.
I would agree that if this was done by someone else like say John Stewart, then it would not be scifi worthy. Funny, yes probably, but still not scifi worthy. But by Mr. Shatner, well, he is just too big of a scifi icon for it not to be a little news worthy. AND, I am sure that if it was Mr. Shatner doing the same thing with an Obama speech then we'd have still seen it on the 'Wire.
You people take things far too seriously.
Also, for those of you saying Scfi did this simply cannot read as it states that this was done on the Conan O’Brien Show. Neither did what the staff writer wrote for this piece take any real political sides.
Personally, I think Palin is a quitter and a whiner. If you choose to be in politics, especially national politics, then you need to make sure your house is in order and DEVELOP THICKER SKIN cause you are going to take some shots like it or not. Make you wonder if she would have quit has a Vice President.

I'm all for keeping politics off of SciFi Wire, but that was great!

Gee--It makes a lot more sense the way Bill does it.

I dont think it was meant as poetry. It was meant as a tribute but his teleprompter fell over. Hence, the mindless stuttering and complete lack of coherence. I'm going over to CNN for some real syfy news. They tell better fantasy over there anyway.

Thanks for your very well thought out and argued point Crozia. You're a credit to your Party. You prove my point again that politics, at least current ones (ack to misteredj's post on scifi history) don't belong on the Wire. You also prove that reducing the posts to casting personal insults isn't limited to the zealous left. Good job.

Hey, guys. Leave the politics out.

This is an example of Shatner showing how good he can be at dramatic interpretation, and how much he has improved over the years. I'm glad to have been able to see this clip.

I've read a posts about the need for a sense of humor as if funny is auto-justification, and posts that this was not in fact a politically motivated post by a Wire staffer or that if it was it was too brilliant and justifies the exception. Many different opinions and dialogue is a good thing that I usually enjoy.

But nobody has posted anything to convince me that this was not politically motivated and that SciFiWire should not be challenged to resist gratuitous, non-topic post. The 'net is already gratuitous enough.

It's very easy to chose the topics you want to look at or not. I like making the choice whether to do that, if it's "On Topic", not have others do it for me.

All this ugly bitterness has made me long for the simpler days of Shatner's "Rocket Man"!

Poor UnRiel. I will always laugh at you more than you could ever imagine. Although my dear sweet mum always told me not laugh at the senseless.

Thanks for confirming you still live with your Mom, Crozia. It explains your lack of focus and continued tendency to make this personal rather than try to defend whether partisan politics belong on SciFiWire.

Ooohhh, you got me so bad, UnRiel! I just don't know how I'm going to recover from that burn. Oh well... life goes on.

Oh yeah, I'm still laughing at you.

Crozia. You're right. I let you draw me in and lower myself to casting a personal insult. A teachable moment for me. Here's another, we're both morons for coming back to this post. Go in peace, sincerely.