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

The network intimated she could be left out

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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