Sarah Palin Appearance May Be Cut From Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America?

The network intimated she could be left out

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Back in July, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin confessed she fell for Sacha Baron Cohen’s ruse on the show, Who Is America?, a new political satire on Showtime in which the comedian poses as a variety of asinine characters and entangles politicians in increasingly awkward situations.

“Yup—we were duped,” Palin wrote in a blog post on July 10. “Ya’ got me, Sacha. Feel better now?”

But yesterday at a Showtime executive session during the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour in L.A.,

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