Watching the fruit fly speech, I wasn't sure if I was seeing the real Sarah Palin, Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, or Sarah Palin as Tina Fey as Sarah Palin.
And so the steady jog of the last few months became a sharp-edge sprint heading out of the weekend, with barbs flying in speeches, in advertisements and in the final debate before Election Day here, which took place Sunday and included some of the most pointed exchanges of the campaign so far.
In a recent kite-flying speech, he contemplated withdrawing housing benefit from under 25s, on the basis that millions of ordinary youngsters are obliged to live with their parents, so why shouldn't benefit claimants?The ordinary man's appeal is powerful and obvious.
But flying out for a speech by a global political celebrity is usually still allowed.
And now the WikiLeaks supporters have responded in kind, flying the freedom of speech banner as the motivation for their actions.
But we try to stay positive about it and always remember Louis CK's amazing speech about flying (check it right now if you haven't seen yet!).
And the plan is to give [opportunities to] other people who can do what Radio 4 requires, which isn't difficult to define... It's not about class or accent – it's just about being able to make intelligent speech fly off into the living room, the home or car radio and make people feel stimulated by it.
"India is a democracy with civilised laws, but sadly this flouting of a basic right to freedom of speech … is flying in the face of civilised values".
With an analogy to flying, Frederick Jelinek, a pioneer in speech recognition, once explained, "Airplanes don't flap their wings".
Fakhruddin Ahmed, chief adviser to the country's caretaker government, announced the much anticipated date in a nationally broadcast speech shortly before flying to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly.
In the post, she met with governors and senators and spent a good part of her time flying around the country making speeches advocating standards.
