on Barack. And last night Saturday Night Live fired the opening salvo. If you missed it…
Now then, to be fair the folks at SNL have, over the years, taken some pot shots at both Dems and Reps. I’m not going to even try to discuss whether or not the distribution of those shots were equitable or anything along that line because at this point it wouldn’t matter anyway. What is notable is that the program has (based on what I’ve read about it because I don’t stay up late enough to watch it) been 150% in the tank for Barack & Company.
So, they open the show with a skit that openly mocks Him™, pointing out – and quite accurately at that – his record of accomplishment. Or non-accomplishment. And they’re really quite withering about it.
In my memory, such as it is, most of their political skits have focused more on personal foibles of the politicos rather than actual policy jabs, with the possible exception of their whack at Gov. Palin being able to see Russia. I would say that this poke in the eye of TheOne™ far surpasses the Palin jabs because they’ve been so in the tank for Himtrade;.
Now the big questions are:
1. Will the White House Mafia go after the SNL folks?
2. Will the Republicans capitalize on this fantastic video footage?
3. Will this open the door to the comedy folks in general to openly mock our pathetic POTUS?
Steve Maley
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
One thing to take away. SNL notices
redneck_hippie (Diary) Sunday, October 4th at 1:21PM EST (link)ratings. Maybe they still want to keep their jobs.
Within two weeks...
Erick Brockway (Diary) Sunday, October 4th at 2:30PM EST (link)Obama will be on SNL. Just a hunch.
Then again, they may be reading this and I just ruined it.
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I think this is pro-Obama
whoframedrudy (Diary) Tuesday, October 6th at 12:51AM EST (link)It’s funny and its accurate but its still sneaky. Remember the kultists at Daily Kommunist don’t really care about Guantanamo, torture or health care. They’re just a herd of cows. They’re amazingly easy to manipulate.
Read hillaryis44.org, he’s got these guys nailed. They scream about the Blue Dogs, then turn around and donate a million dollars to put a Blue Dog in Joe Wilson’s seat so he can vote just like Joe Wilson. Because Joe Wilson accused the President of being pro-immigrant, which was a racist lie because Obamacare is anti-immigrant! And now the blue-haired astroturfers wearing Brooks Brothers are going to start an armed rebellion so we have to suspend the First Amendment. Does that sound like a coherent set of convictions? They think like dope addicts and they mainline Obama’s drivel by way of streetdealers Avarosis and Kos.
So the only takeaway here is to calm down the protests on the Right: Go back to work, take your kids to the park, visit Granny in the home. Nothing happening here. ‘Nada’ means ‘centrist.’
This is still pro-Obama propaganda.
You’re gonna need more than one lesson. And you’re gonna get more than one lesson.
Indeed that may have been intended
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Tuesday, October 6th at 1:05PM EST (link)I’m not convinced either way. But the result of this in the larger public view is that a corner has been turned. And the media talking heads are hopping mad about it, doing “fact checks” and expressing dismay out how the Exalted One could be the butt of such raw, derisive mockery. The *actual* comedy is watching the MSM response.
If they intended it as some weird backward-is-frontward political ju-jitsu, I think they missed.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
Why would anybody fact-check an entertainment comedy show?
David123 (Diary) Tuesday, October 6th at 7:58PM EST (link)Are these “fact-checkers” desparate?
David123
Perhaps it was, but you have to look at how it was taken
billyd (Diary) Tuesday, October 6th at 3:01PM EST (link)You may be right Who. An i thought the same thing while watching it. While it was funny that the loyal lefties at SNL put together a skit that mocked Obama’s lack of accomplishments, and his seeming inability to accomplish anything that he promised to do during the election cycle, they also added in that due to his inabilities to do anything, we “Wacho’s” on the right shouldn’t call him a socialist. And we’re all just unhinged in our views of his policies simply because he hasn’t been able to accomplish any of them. The skit definitely started out as a jab at Obama, and ended as a slap at the right for criticizing his policies by calling him a socialist, and depicting him as the joker.
Now with that said…. CNN doing a “Fact Check” on the SNL skit shows just how it was taken. A blatant jab at “The One” in which his 2nd network of choice felt the need to defend him. I can’t recall the same “Fact Check” being afforded to the Fey clip on Palin saying “I can see Russia from my house” which actually was never said by Palin.
From Hotair.com
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/05/video-cnn-helps-obama-out-by-fact-checking-snls-skit/
November 2nd 2010. What are you doing today to improve your tomorrow?
Hmm..
marshmom (Diary) Tuesday, October 6th at 10:20AM EST (link)I can’t seem to watch the video. The one on this website says the embedded video has been removed by request and the YouTube site says……”This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions. ”
Amazing!!
Try this link.
The_Gadfly (Diary) Tuesday, October 6th at 5:21PM EST (link)http://www.thefoxnation.com/obama/2009/10/05/snl-skit-scorches-obama
You Tube is too unreliable for hot political stuff that criticizes the left. One complaint about fair use from some astroturfer is all it takes to kill the video.
Answers, in order:
The_Gadfly (Diary) Tuesday, October 6th at 5:18PM EST (link)1. Probably. Mafia types don’t usually take getting hit lightly. That this is an inside job makes it even worse as far as the guys who were hit are concerned. Their problem is that it IS an inside job, so they can’t be sure who is loyal and who isn’t anymore. As for the rest of us, the only thing we can really count on is the same thing that non-mafia types are probably going to be hurt the worst.
2. What? You did watch the last election didn’t you? Of course not. At least not the DC types. I mean seriously, when was the last time they failed to snatch defeat from the jaws of vicotry? Now whether or not we at the grassroots can capitalize on this to either knock some sense into the DC types or knock them off is another question.
3. Absolutely. Just remember the mocking will be from the hard left because he went to DC and sold them out, not because their politics aren’t politic.
Two days ago, . . .
BlueStateSaint Wednesday, October 7th at 5:25AM EST (link)Glenn Beck had a piece on the SNL skit. He terms it “a shot across Obama’s bow, from the Left.” He went on to say that the Tea Partiers and 9/12 moms had been peaceful and orderly, while the G-20 anarchists hadn’t. The first two groups cleaned up their garbage, even making the places they had protested in look better than before the protests; the G-20 anarchists, well–not. Then he posed this question, or one similarly worded–which group would be more likely to go violent: the Tea Partiers/9-12 Moms, or the G-20 anarchists?
‘Course, the MSM and the Oministration will blame any violence on thos eof the Right.
The bad part is that the closest thing to news and political commentary
Achance (Diary) Thursday, October 8th at 8:25AM EST (link)that a huge percentage of the US res publica gets are SNL, Stewart, and Colbert. The young ones think that Stewart IS the news. I normally refuse to watch SNL since it became all about being young and stupid after the original cast departed, or maybe I was just young and stupid back then too. Anyway, SWMBO likes it so she rewound and called me in to watch the notable event of SNL seemingly criticizing Comrade Obama. I took it as a slap at the Right and our paranoid fantasies that he’s a communist. But, it is possible that it was intended as a shot across the bow.
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