A co-worker of mine read a funny story on an Internet forum.  Check it out:

So I went down to GMU tonight with my girlfriend to watch a lecture by Mikhail Gorbachev. It was a good speech, he made some excellent points, etc. During the talk, every audience member was invited to write down an anonymous question for Gorbachev on an index card they had been given at the entrance. The ushers collected them as the speech was wrapping up, and then a Q&A session was held, using the audience’s questions.

They only had time for 5 or 6 questions, and out of an audience of about 500 people, mine was one of the ones picked. And that’s how it came to be that President Mikhail Gorbachev, last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, was asked:

“Can you see Sarah Palin from your house?”

He answered (through the translator, of course) something along the lines of “Oh, yes, I loved her performance, she’s a great actress”.

So either Gorbachev thinks that a) she could not possibly be that stupid or b) Tina Fey is the real Sarah Palin and really I am perfectly happy with either option.

Props to GMU actually, because they were screening the questions. The old moderator dude was chuckling his ass off when his assistant handed him that batch of cards while Gorbachev was replying to a previous one.