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There’s something strange going on in the City by the Bay after yesterday’s municipal elections, but I suspect that it’s far too early to get very excited about it. San Francisco voters went to the polls and rejected their sheriff who had become something of the face of the so called “sanctuary city” and they did so by a wide margin. (Fox News) Embattled San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi convincingly lost his bid for re-election Tuesday after spending months in the national spotlight as the face of his city’s controversial “sanctuary city” policy on illegal immigration.Mirkarimi, 54, was defeated...

Miley Cyrus may have hosted the SNL Season 41 premiere, but the show was all about applauding Hillary Clinton—and not just when she appeared. Live From New York…it’s a Hillary Clinton campaign ad. On Saturday night, Studio 8H was briefly remodeled into a pop-up Ready For Hillary campaign headquarters for the 41st season premiere of Saturday Night Live. The guest of honor herself even showed up for a heavily teased set, one that was tailor-made to lampoon the two biggest critiques of her persona—that her presidential ambition can at times read as deranged entitlement and desperation, and that she lacks...

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SNL wasted no time in its season premiere tonight getting to the comedic goldmine that is Donald Trump‘s candidacy for the presidency. “Trump” and his wife spent the entire cold open bragging about how well-off they are but also assuring the American people they’re just average Joes “but better.” Link to Mediaite video SNL Kicks Off Season Premiere by Lampooning Trump: ‘I’m Just Like You But Better’ by Josh Feldman | 11:49 pm, October 3rd, 2015 SNL wasted no time in its season premiere tonight getting to the comedic goldmine that is Donald Trump‘s candidacy for the presidency. “Trump” and...

RUSH: Hillary Clinton, by the way, speaking of which, folks, try to imagine that you're in politics or you have some national identity. You're in a business that part of it you have a national identity, you're a known national figure. Your reputation's in tatters, where are you gonna go to fix it? What would you do? Just think of things off the top of your head? What would you do to try to fix it, if it were required that you do it? In order for you to succeed in this particular business you've got to somehow turn around...

WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton’s desperate attempt to soften her image is taking her back to the stage of “Saturday Night Live,” where she hopes to reverse her falling poll numbers with self-deprecating jokes about pantsuits. Her sketch this week is another in a string of recent lighthearted appearances on such programs as “The Tonight Show” and “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” that Clinton has used to try to counter the endless drumbeat of negative stories about her private email server and polls questioning her trustworthiness.

Hmmm, it sure sounds like Donald Trump is in talks with "Saturday Night Live" about a surprise appearance. Ahead of the show's October 3 season premiere, Trump is being uncharacteristically coy about the possibility. When asked by CNN host Alisyn Camerota, "has 'SNL' asked you to go on this season? Would you consider it?" Trump answered cryptically: "I'm not allowed to say that." Camerota responded: "Oh really, why is that?" "Because I'm not allowed to say that." She pressed: "Because... you're in negotiations with them?" "I'm just not allowed to say it. I mean, I have-- uh-- silencio. I can't...

The Saturday Night Live (SNL) “Guns” skit was actually pretty funny, according to 83% of viewers who voted on it in an online poll.  It is not hard to see why it received an 83% rating.   Its message is completely ambiguous and will be taken different ways by different people.  This is good comedy but bad politics for disarmists…It aired on 11 October, 2015.   The skit is being advertised as a way to promote Comedienne Amy Schumer’s (yes, she is related to the infamous disarmist Charles Schumer) disarmist campaign.   She obviously thinks that what the skit shows is so...

While the Donald tries to overcome his reputation as an over-the-top television entertainer so he might support his ambition to become president, Hillary Clinton is running for comedienne-in-chief. She went on "Saturday Night Live" to trade her high seriousness for laughs. Neither candidate will seal the deal the way they're trying to do it. The Donald, who's used to dishing it out, exposes a thin skin when mocked by other candidates, and his shifting numbers suggest that the jump from reality TV to the White House, even in the age of the outsider, is not an easy one. "The Trump...

Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to have figured out how best to neutralize, at least for a night, a potential public image problem. Just pour her a stiff drink.On the season premiere of “Saturday Night Live,” Mrs. Clinton played “Val,”a kindly bartender opposite Kate McKinnon, the cast member who portrays her. It was a nice encounter — surprisingly nice, given Ms. McKinnon’s work to date.Ms. Mckinnon's impression has been the toughest “S.N.L.” has done of Mrs. Clinton in her long political career. In 2008, Amy Poehler played her sharply but admiringly admiringly, as a well-prepared aspirant whose fault was mainly being...

--SNIP-- Gutiérrez highlighted Trump’s early, controversial statements about illegal immigrants which lead to some businesses dropping their affiliations with Trump, including NBC. “The reaction in July from NBC was swift and clear: ‘Due to the recent derogatory statements by Donald Trump regarding immigrants, NBCUniversal is ending its business relationship with Mr. Trump.’ And NBC said, ‘Respect and dignity for all people are cornerstones of our values.’ Serta, Macy’s, NASCAR, Univision, and ESPN were among the others that also acted to dump Trump” he wrote.

While it may not sound like it, this story might wind up being good news for future campaigns. As you will recall, Saturday Night Live tossed Hillary Clinton a huge favor a few weeks ago when they had her appear on the show as a friendly bartender talking to her SNL doppelganger. Shortly after that we learned that Donald Trump had been invited to host the show, no doubt including multiple skits for him to star in. For both of these campaigns that’s potentially good news because it’s hits a young audience that probably doesn’t spend their entire day...

Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) says he “would love” to pull a Donald Trump and host “Saturday Night Live.” “Absolutely. I would love to do it. I grew up watching ‘SNL’ as a kid,” the GOP presidential candidate told C-SPAN’s Steve Scully during a Friday call-in program on the network.“I think their political satire is hysterical,” Cruz, 44, said of NBC’s late-night sketch comedy show.Cruz also gave kudos to cast member Kate McKinnon, who plays a power-hungry version of Democratic White House hopeful Hillary Clinton on the show. “By the way, the actress they have playing Hillary has her dead-on,” Cruz...

Just a few months ago, NBC fired Donald Trump. Now it's giving him a coveted hosting slot on "Saturday Night Live" — to a growing chorus of criticism. Latino advocacy groups, joined by Hollywood celebrities and others, are calling on NBC to disinvite Trump from his Nov. 7 appearance, citing inflammatory remarks Trump made about Mexican immigrants in the speech announcing his White House run in June. "We are appalled that you would enable Trump's hateful speech for nothing [more] than a ratings ploy," the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, a coalition of 40 civil rights and policy organizations, said in...

RUSH: Trump is getting it from all sides now as Luis Gutierrez, our old buddy from Illinois, a Democrat member of Congress that was desperately hoping we'd have amnesty by now. He had already set up procedures for it; Obama let him down. But he's really been paving the way for it, and he's really, really, really upset that Saturday Night Live is gonna host Trump. Luis Gutierrez is leading an effort to get Saturday Night Live to rescind their invitation. He went to the floor of the House of Representatives to rail against Trump appearing on Saturday Night Live....

Over the last two presidential debates, both Democratic and Republican candidates have asserted that the television news media is biased and has done a poor job informing voters of the most pressing issues in the election. And while their focus is on things like the type of questions asked by debate moderators, they are overlooking much clearer signs of potential conflicts of interest. Fundraising disclosures released this month and in July reveal that lobbyists for media companies are raising big money for establishment presidential candidates, particularly Hillary Clinton. The giant media companies that shape much of the coverage of the...

SNL is live TV. Most forget that, including NBC. Where Trump could break it open and essentially break it off in his opponents is to go on SNL and give the monologue of his life. Something to the effect of: "Good evening!" Applause "Thank you!" Applause "I'm happy to be here on SNL. I'm a New Yorker, and SNL is a New York institution. SNL came up big after the 9/11 attacks. I love it because its the last bastion of dangerous TV there is. It's live. Now, I'm not going to Charles Rocket my way to glory here, but...

<p>Despite the network’s best efforts to 'fire' the GOP presidential frontrunner, he is poised to have his biggest media night in months this week when he hosts Saturday Night Live.</p> <p>More than a decade ago, Donald Trump stood on the stage of Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Center to host the April 3, 2004, episode of Saturday Night Live. The real estate mogul was nearing the end of his impressively-rated first season as host of The Apprentice on NBC, and this was his victory lap.</p>

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Why is Donald Trump hosting “Saturday Night Live” next weekend after NBC canceled the Miss Universe pageant? “It’s called ratings,” Trump told The Post. “I go on Jimmy Fallon, he got his best ratings. One of the best nights he’s had in years. Then I did Colbert’s show. That got fantastic ratings. He beat Fallon by a lot. Since then, NBC and I get along great.” “The Tonight Show” drew 4.46 million viewers when Trump appeared on Sept. 11, its biggest Friday audience in 18 months. Trump’s Sept. 22 sit-down on “The Late Show” on CBS averaged 4.56 million viewers,...