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'SNL' Criticized After Airing Tiger Woods Domestic Violence Skit While Rihanna On Show
Access Hollywood ^ | 12-6-09

Posted on 12/06/2009 7:20:10 PM PST by Justaham

"Saturday Night Live" is making headlines for featuring a skit over the weekend, which parodied domestic violence.

On Saturday night's episode, the NBC sketch comedy show made light of Tiger Woods' scandalous week, satirizing reports - denied by the golfer - that his wife, Elin Nordegren, attacked him prior to his early-morning car accident on November 27 with a sketch featuring Keenan Thomson and host Blake Lively.

However, the show's musical guest was Rihanna - a victim of domestic violence earlier this year from then-boyfriend Chris Brown -- prompting concerns from several media outlets that the show's humor was insensitive from some corners.

"It was another sketch that gave us pause," noted PopEater in an article titled "'SNL' Lampoons Alleged Violence in Tiger Woods' Marriage," on Sunday. "We think, had the genders been reversed, 'SNL' wouldn't make light of the potentially violent situation."

(Excerpt) Read more at tv.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: comedy; domesticviolence; snl; tigerwoods
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1 posted on 12/06/2009 7:20:10 PM PST by Justaham
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To: Justaham

The first victim of Groupthink is humor.


2 posted on 12/06/2009 7:28:40 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Justaham

What a crazy complaint.

They should have done something with Tiger going out drunk. That’s probably what happened.


3 posted on 12/06/2009 7:29:00 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: Justaham

or to see one of his whores


4 posted on 12/06/2009 7:29:18 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: Justaham

Strange you never heard those complaints when it was about Sarah palin or her kids /sarc>


5 posted on 12/06/2009 7:33:17 PM PST by valkyry1
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To: Justaham

This article is quoting someone with the name “PopEater”?

Surreal...I think this is why I don’t own a TV.


6 posted on 12/06/2009 7:33:49 PM PST by placerville
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To: valkyry1

THANK U! Was just about to post the same thing. Funny how those in the media never protested the crap that SNL said about Sarah Palin and her family, but when its Tiger Woods its OMG how dare they. Liberals are such hypocrites


7 posted on 12/06/2009 7:34:56 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Justaham

It's all cool now.

8 posted on 12/06/2009 7:35:14 PM PST by Harley (Life is Tough, But It's a Lot Tougher When You're a Liberal. Stop Global Whining Now.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Now its Six Under for Tiger

SEXY Cori Rist last night became the sixth woman to be named as a mistress of golf star Tiger Woods.

Cori, 31, is said to have met Tiger, 33, in a New York club last year.

They allegedly had regular romps and he would secretly fly her around the world.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2760424/Tiger-Woods-women-cash-in-with-big-money-deals.html#ixzz0YyFfajO4

9 posted on 12/06/2009 7:41:14 PM PST by Orange1998
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To: freedumb2003
The first victim of Groupthink is humor.

Bingo.

10 posted on 12/06/2009 7:49:18 PM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: rwfromkansas
There's a picture on Yahoo showing a Tiger look alike with a golf club wrapped around his head and a blond standing next to him. I thought it looked funny.
11 posted on 12/06/2009 7:50:08 PM PST by peeps36 (Democrats Don't Need No Stinking Input From You Little People)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Or if the wife with the golf club were black, they probably wouldn’t say a peep.


12 posted on 12/06/2009 7:50:32 PM PST by GnuHere
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To: Justaham
The same Rihanna who said recently she thinks every woman should send their boyfriend naked pictures of themselves? Nice message to her young fans.

Maybe she does deserve a good smack in the kisser.
13 posted on 12/06/2009 7:52:37 PM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: Justaham
"We think, had the genders been reversed, 'SNL' wouldn't make light of the potentially violent situation."

Look, if Tiger's wife Elin caused his injuries, I'm sure that the cops would have arrested her and tossed her in jail. Before her release, a protection order would have been issued to keep her away from Tiger's house. It wouldn't really be her house anymore. She might have moved into an apartment. After a hearing or two, Tiger would have been awarded sole custody of the kids, and Elin would have been ordered to pay Tiger child support. Of course she would be permitted no unsupervised visits with Tiger's kids, because you just can't trust a violent spouse around kids. So they wouldn't really be her kids anymore.

Right? Because in America, justice is blind.

14 posted on 12/06/2009 7:55:26 PM PST by TChad
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To: Justaham

Apparantly he doesn’t like black or Asian girls.


15 posted on 12/06/2009 8:02:25 PM PST by albie
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To: Justaham

Poor Tiger...a woman in every state a wrecked SUV, a bump on the head from an 8 iron and now he’s gonna loose a couple of hundred million and his mean, bad wife. My tears fall like rain.


16 posted on 12/06/2009 8:06:25 PM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: albie

I am sure that if he didn’t have all those millions, he would settle for any black girl.


17 posted on 12/06/2009 8:12:16 PM PST by Justaham
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To: albie

Thats understandable


18 posted on 12/06/2009 8:13:00 PM PST by When do we get liberated? (STATE CONTROLLED ECONOMIES SUCK ! LONG LIVE AMERICA.)
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To: peeps36

>>here’s a picture on Yahoo showing a Tiger look alike with a golf club wrapped around his head and a blond standing next to him. I thought it looked funny.<<

It was from an SNL skit that was freaking hilarious. Go to YouTube and look for Tiger Woods...


19 posted on 12/06/2009 8:16:39 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: TChad

LOL! A true alternate universe scenario.


20 posted on 12/06/2009 8:22:45 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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