"I CAN SEE RUSSIA FROM MY HOUSE." Who made this statement?

NOT SARAH PALIN, AS MOST OF THE WORLD THINKS--THANKS ENTIRELY TO THE MEDIA. THE PERSON WHO MADE THE STATEMENT IS TINA FEY ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE:

• "But it was comedian Tina Fey -- portraying Sarah Palin -- who delivered the Most Memorable Quote of 2008. Fey's "I can see Russia from my house,"

• which is often erroneously attributed
  
• to Sarah Palin,

was given the top spot by 27 percent of the survey's participants. Fey was alluding to a moment during the famed interviews with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric when

• Palin said parts of Russia are visible from land in Alaska."