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BY ALYSSA CARTEE

ANCHOR MEGAN MURPHY


Katie Couric and Sarah Palin are facing off, again. But this time it isn’t in an interview. They’re guest hosting competing morning shows.


The former Alaska governor started off her appearance on the Today Show by poking fun at the famous interview and the impressions that followed.

“Oh man she’s doing her homework. Oh geez, Matt. Nicest lady in the world stopped me and asked where I was headed. I said 30 Rock and she said ‘Oh, honey come here! I told you Tina Fey is here!’”

Couric is co-hosting her former rival show, Good Morning America, all week. The morning show face-off has been highly anticipated. An analyst for CNN chalks the casting choices up to competition.

“They’re both trying to get  some publicity because Good Morning America has been closing in on the Today Show. Today Show has been number one for 16 consecutive years but Good Morning America has always been nipping at its heels and they’ve gotten really close.”

So... who won the co-host battle royale? A blogger for Politico said it’s hard to judge when one party didn’t really participate.

“...Sarah Palin played it for laughs – at her own expense – while Katie Couric didn’t play at all. … Palin showed off a strikingly different personality than her usual serious self on Fox News.”

While the New York Daily News criticized Palin’s performance differently, saying “too much lipstick, not enough pitbull.”

The former Vice Presidential candidate has been a Fox News contributor and has a reality show on TLC. A writer for Forbes wonders if this move has always been part of her plan.

“What once seemed like a canny way to sidestep the carnival now seems like part of a reasonably straightforward plan to use partisanship as a ladder to a public career that has little to do with political activity.”

At the end of her time on the show, Palin was asked what it was like to be a part of what she has called, the lamestream media.  She said it was “organized chaos.”