Sarah Palin Parodies Flourish Online

It's not just "Saturday Night Live" that's preoccupied with Gov. Sarah Palin. Since Sen. John McCain named the Alaskan governor as his running mate, Palin has been the subject of countless videos on YouTube and other video sharing sites. Some praise the governor, while others are critical, but an overall fascination is obvious. The explosion of Palin parodies on the Web is perhaps unlike anything ever seen in politics. Seldom has any politician so quickly and so extensively become a muse for online lampooning. For starters, the "Saturday Night Live" sketch featuring Tina Fey as Palin and Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton has been an enormous viral hit. It has been streamed millions of times on NBC's official site, and on YouTube, more than five million have watched clips from TV news broadcasts on the sketch. (NBC Universal, which owns the network, has famously kept its shows -- including "SNL" -- off YouTube, and instead co-created the video site Hulu.com. Only second hand clips discussing ... (link)