Ever since Sarah Palin burst onto the national scene with her speech at the Republican convention, cinephiles have noted a certain familiar quality to her folksy manner of speech. The sing-songy cadence, flat vowels and cheery-yet-hostile “you betchas” – we’ve heard all that before. It wasn’t from the mouth of an Alaskan hockey mom, but a pregnant police chief in Brainerd, Minnesota – Marge Gunderson (Oscar winner Frances McDormand) from Fargo. (Although Roger Ebert suggests there may be a more apt comparison from the same film: “But who did she resemble more? Marge Gunderson, whose peppy pleasantries masked a remorseless policewoman's logic? Or Jerry Lundegaard, who knew he didn't have the car on his lot, but smiled when he said, ‘M'am, I been cooperatin' with ya here.’”) For those of us who wouldn’t mind seeing Palin interrogated by the straight-shootin’ yet persistent Gunderson rather than Gwen Ifill, some enterprising YouTuber has given us our wish.
