Before an adoring crowd of religious conservatives, Sarah Palin mocked recent scandals swirling around the Obama administration, performing her own version of a Saturday Night Live parody.

They have this skit where they do this fake newscast, and they read this completely absurd news report and finish it with an incredulous Really? Palin told the audience Saturday afternoon at the JW Marriott in downtown Washington. As in, our government spied on every single one of your phone calls but it couldnt find two pot-smoking, deadbeat Bostonians with a hotline to Terrorist Central in Chechnya.

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"Now more than ever it just seems so Orwellian around here," said 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin at the 2013 Faith and Freedom Conference, telling the audience that the Obama administration is not being truthful with Americans about recent controversies, "but finally around here those scandals are being revealed."

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Sarah Palin lampoons D.C. at Faith and Freedom Coalition conference