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SNL, The GOP, And The Conservative Spin

Saturday Night Live's abillty to tap into a topic and really take satire to a whole other level comes and goes as the years pass.

One can almost still sense the period of almost 10 years where SNL just wasn't that funny anymore.

Then came the Presidential campaigns.

It was as if the cast somehow embodied the spirit of those they were "taking the piss out off".

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*as an aside, it should be noted that lunatic-fringe conservatives - and those that pretend not to be - don't seem to understand what "satire it".*

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Something happened during the opening segment of SNL this past weekend.

Dan Aykroyd was back - which is always nice to see. This time, though, there opening skit was a bit surreal, almost dadaist in forumlation - a bit true, and somewhat lackluster all at once.


Take a look for yourself.



HotAir takes on the subject matter of this skit.

Here's Allahpundits response:

Starts off as a goof on inaction as a political strategy during a crisis — which isn’t a fair characterization of the GOP’s alternative stimulus plans, but good luck convincing public opinion of that — before veering off into painfully broad satire of obstructionism and general conservative out-of-touch-ness. A target this big, with help from Aykroyd and Darrell Hammond no less, and they still couldn’t hit it?

And the commentors go off from there.

So, Allah, what is the GOP's alternative stimulus plans? They don't seem to have one - unless you count voting "no" and talking about earmarks that don't exists or attempting to provide supplication to their lunatic-fringe constituancy because the 2010 elections are so close.

Even the talk-radio prattle-heads who stand behind these clueless politicians can't even articulate an alternative plan.

The truth is, they don't have one.

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The fact of the matter is that SNL seems to have nailed-it with this skit. It's just as out-of-sync, and pointless as the GOP ( and their fanbase ) are at this point in history.

I guess it kind of stings when a mirror is held up to you and you have to face how pathetic you really are.

The Rationale Of O'Reilly

As I watched this segment last night, I got the overwhelming sense that Courtney Martin of the Women's Media Center wasn't buying into Bill's excuse that it was just "a joke", that it was somehow satire on par with Tina Fey's portayal of Sarah Palin on SNL.

Good for Courtney.

However, Bill no likey.

When he finally caught on that his guest, that he was hoping he could dominate, wasn't about to play his game, he let loose.

Click the pic below to play the video.



Pardon my "body language segment", but notice the raised upper lip, the head cocked-back, the index finger ready to fire. Yeah, O'Reilly mad. O'Reilly smash woman that make him look bad. GRRRRR!!!!

I'm not sure what's more insulting - he fact that he is so condicending to her or the fact that he is attempting to pass-off his verbal lashing of Helen Thomas as satire.

He continally invokes Tina Fey and SNL.

The problem is that Saturday Night Live has been a show based on comedy and satire, principles that they have held dear for as long as I have been alive. O'Reilly's program on Fox"News" has been based on Bill O'Reilly telling us that he is "looking out" for us, that he tolerates "no spin" and never delivers such.

For those of us able to think for ourselves, as well as those that realize how O'Reilly treats women, we can easily see through this pathetic excuse.

More from one of my favories, David Neiwert at Crooks & Liars

Kanye Sucks - Vol. 2654

Courtesy of Gawker, we have further proof that Kanye West's "talent" seems to disappear when he isn't digitally enhanced.



Be on the look-out for Kanye to blame SNL for not only their lack of space for his digital-voice-enhancer set-up, but the massive rig that it takes to prop-up his ego as well.

Affleck Does Olbermann

SNL the past few weeks has been much funnier than I could have imagined.

Although McCain and Tina Fey's opening sketch was rather funny, I nearly pissed myself when Affleck did his Keith Olbermann bit.



It will be interesting to see how Olbermann plays off this tonight. Considering he was there to watch Affleck practice and thought the performance was going to be fantastic, I'm sure we're in for a great episode of Countdown.

Strange that people like O'Reilly and Hannity don't have a sense of humor like this. I suppose when you sign-away your soul to Fox"News" that take that a collateral.

Crazy McCain / Palin Supporter SNL Skit

SNL is actually funny again?

Well, when you have completely insane people practically writing your material for you, I guess it comes easy.

Saturday Night Live : Disrespectful And Sexist

You'll have to excuse Carly Fiorina, she's just trying to get all the Republican-Conservatives to cry foul at a show that has been poking fun at political figures since before I was born.



The interview with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC goes in-part:

MITCHELL: You are the first person from the McCain campaign I can ask, what did you think of Tina Fey as Sarah Palin?

FIORINA: Well, I think that she looked a bit like her. I think that, of course, the portrait was very dismissive of the substance of Sarah Palin, and so in that sense, they were defining Hillary Clinton as very substantive, and Sarah Palin as totally superficial. I think that continues the line of argument that is disrespectful in the extreme, and yes, I would say, sexist in the sense that just because Sarah Palin has different views than Hillary Clinton does not mean that she lacks substance. She has a lot of substance.

It's called a caricature.


Most people with even a half-functioning brainstem can tell satire from a blatantly sexist remark.

The Huffington Post has video and more.

But, let's get back to Fiorina's handling of what even Sarah Palin allegedly thought was quite humorous.

Here is a woman who is a representative of a party that has done far worse things to Hillary Clinton, and she is screaming "sexism"?!?!

It was obvious at points that the Obama camp came dangerously close to - and on a couple of occassions could have been accused of - stepping over that same line and crying "racism" when it clearly wasn't.

Granted, there have also been times that Obama has rightfully pointed out that he will be targeted because of his heritage, his name, and his personal history. That, in-and-of-itself, is NOT playing the so-called "race-card" but pointing out the obvious within certain segments of the American public.

But, in terms of what Fiorina is doing, this is a classic tactic of the Right: make issue where there isn't one.