{"id":2377,"date":"2008-11-06T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/11\/who-really-won-the-election-th.html"},"modified":"2008-11-06T14:00:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T14:00:05","slug":"who-really-won-the-election-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/11\/who-really-won-the-election-th.html","title":{"rendered":"Who Really Won the Election? The Pop Culture Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tinafeysarahpalin.jpg\"<\/span>Bar none, the #1 non-political winner from this year’s election process is Tina Fey. You’d be hard pressed to find another cultural figure who entered the election maelstrom a superstar and emerged a megastar. She was already having a good year, with “30 Rock” winning both Emmys and critical acclaim, but the Palin impression, and the prominence of being identified with a woman whose politics were clearly so opposite to her own, transformed her into a household name and multi-million-dollar-author-to-be<\/a>. (I know I should have asked her for a job back in NYC when I saw her in our supermarket. Now she’s too big to give me the time of day, you betcha.)<\/p>\n


\nBeyond the fetching Fey, we have SNL’s Fred Armisen, who’s just been elected into a gig of four years at least (should he choose to remain on the show that long) playing Barack Obama. But as USA Today points out<\/a>, Armisen is not an African-American, and the lack of diversity at SNL means there’s no one to play Michelle Obama as time goes on. But more challenging is that Obama’s not as easy a target as Palin would have been (or as Bush was). Comedians will be challenged to find the comedy hook in an Obama presidency (which might be a refreshing change for America).
\nOther winners in this election year according to USA Today<\/a>: Letterman, for handling McCain’s appearance cancellation; Joy Behar, for her challenge to McCain over his campaign ads; and of course, Katie Couric, whose probes of Palin revealed that the vice-presidential candidate read “all the magazines” but couldn’t seem to name one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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