All About McCain

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I was also wondering how assistants to the candidates or any politician really know if a phone call like this is authentic.

So I was watching CNN or something when they were talking about this incident. I haven't heard the whole thing, but I did hear the snippet about going 'unting on an 'elicopter.

Two things:

- Her staff is, at least according to the analyst on TV, *HORRIBLE*. Team Palin was basically the B-team out of McCain's staff, plus some Bush people. Sarah Palin would NEVER take a call directly from anyone purporting to be a high-ranking politician, which means that her staff did not properly vet the call before handing it to her. They may have been so excited that Sarkozy was calling for Palin that they just totally fell for it.

- Second, the caller's French accent is just terrible. It's extremely exaggerated and it sounds like an English speaker using a mock French accent... which I think is what was going on. It speaks volumes that Sarah Palin (or her staff) neither recognized the accent was fishy. Sarkozy isn't a fluent English speaker but I believe (as a rabid fan of the U.S.) he's been studying a lot since he took office.