Saturday Night Live parodies of Sarah Palin to joke that "[she] was just trying to give Tina Fey more material." She also joked that it was to provide "job security for "SNL" characters." Palin later remarked that she should appear on "SNL" to spoof a series of American Express commercials which featured Tina Fey. Due to the popularity of the sketch and Fey's impression of Palin, Fey reprised her role during the September 27, 2008 episode. That sketch featured Palin being interviewed by Katie Couric (Amy Poehler), and parodied an interview which took place between Palin and Couric which aired days before the sketch's broadcast. In the
Vice presidential candidacy of Sarah Palin see Russia from my house."" It also drew attention to Palin's apparent lack of knowledge about foreign policy: On September 16, the Yahoo! personal email account of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was subjected to unauthorized access. The hacker had obtained access to Palin's account by looking up biographical details such as her high school and birthdate and using Yahoo!'s account recovery for forgotten passwords. After McCain announced Palin as his running mate, "Newsweek" and "Time" put Palin on their magazine covers, as some of the media alleged that McCain's campaign was restricting press access to Palin by allowing only