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Sarah Palin Beat Poet?

By David Jenison | Wednesday, July 29, 2009 8:13 AM ET

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william_shatner-jerry_avenaim Leave it to Captain Kirk to go where no man has gone before.

Sarah Palin's farewell speech featured no small amount of venom for the media, so it's ironic that her speech got stung this week by "The Tonight Show." With a humorous lead up by host Conan O'Brien, "Star Trek" original William Shatner had the crowd in stitches as he reinterpreted Palin's resignation speech as beat poetry. The performance, backed by softly playing live musicians, shows that the former governor, if nothing else, could have a future as the head of the conservative beat poets movement.

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Palin photo by J. Delanoy and Shatner photo by Jerry Avenaim courtesy of Wikipedia.

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Covering entertainment since the early '90s, David Jenison has conducted over 1,000 interview features that range from roving through Havana with the Happy Mondays to upending the Mayor of Hermosa Beach's house with Pennywise.

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