Alec Baldwin Returns to ‘SNL’ as Bret Baier to Spoof Fox News Interview With Kamala Harris

Hollywood Reporter ^ | October 19, 2024 | Carly Thomas

[MinorityRepublican]

Alec Baldwin returned to Saturday Night Live as Fox News anchor Bret Baier during the show’s cold open, which spoofed the testy interview with Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph).

“When I interviewed President Trump, my first question was, what do you think is the most important issue facing our nation? So my first question for you is, give me the exact number of murderers you let loose in this country?” Baier asks the vice president.

However, as Harris attempts to answer, the Special Report with Bret Baier host continues to interrupt her, similar to his real interview with the vice president earlier this week. He then proceeds to ask Harris if she was “here to answer questions or just looking for a viral moment?”

“Oh, please, I am not looking for a viral moment,” Rudolph’s Harris says before looking into the camera to actually join a popular social media trend, “See how I don’t let a man interrupt my answers, very demure, very mindful.”

When Baldwin’s Baier calls her out for just “throwing out memes,” Harris claps back, saying, “That is not true. I am here to reach across the aisle. Hundreds of Republicans have endorsed me because in the club, we all fam” — another viral trend.

“I’m not familiar with the club, but are we all fam?” Baier asks. “You’ve been pretty divisive. You called Donald Trump unfit, unstable, not able to lead, unchecked.”

[MinorityRepublican]

Funny we were talking trash about him before the interview. Everyone thought he was a lightweight.

[Political Junkie Too]

This was just parody.

I just watched the most biased interview I've seen so far of President Trump on Fox News by Howie Kurtz on his Sunday show Media Buzz. Kurtz is supposed to be the media watchdog reporting on how the media covers the news, but today it seems like he's medias biggest defender as he twists the news coverage of President Trump to make him look like a conspiracy nut.

1. Kurtz began by questioning President Trump's call for CBS News to lose their broadcast license over editing the 60 Minutes interview with Harris. Trump said they completely swapped her answer with an answer to another question to protect her instead of showing the American people her true level of competence. He said that when he appeared in 60 Minutes in the past, they would edit his words in a different way, to blunt the effect.

   Kurtz ended the segment by saying that the FCC said it would never pull a license over political disputes.

2. Kurtz asked President Trump about calling January 6 "a day of love." Trump said he was talking about speaking before his largest audience in the National Mall, but a small group broke off and went to the Capitol.

   Kurtz was saying that police were attacked, Trump said his people had no guns. Trump said that in some cases the Capitol Police ushered people into the Capitol building. Trump also said that he offered National Guard to Nancy Pelosi and she turned it down. Trump said that Pelosi admitted that it was her fault to her daughter during filming of a documentary.

   Kurtz closed the segment by declaring that no charges of election rigging were ever proven in court.

   Kurtz closed the segment with an editorial comment saying there were no police ushering people into the Capitol but there were isolated cases where they were "overwhelmed" by the crowd. He said that Pelosi denied that Trump offered her National Guard units, but that Trump was involved in National Guard discussions in the days prior to January 6.

3. Kurtz asked President Trump about the comments made by two of his Generals, Milley and Mattis. Trump said they were "woke" generals who gave him bad advice that he didn't listen to, and that he fired them but let them retire.

4. Kurtz asked President Trump about his comment that there were "enemies within" and what did he mean by that. Trump spoke about his campaign being spied upon, about people like "Shifty" Schiff threatening to jail his son over Russia, about Hillary Clinton and Adam Schiff organizing the Russia hoax and threatening his son when they knew the whole thing was fake, and that he even considers Pelosi an enemy.

   Kurtz closed that segment by declaring that there was no proof that the Trump campaign was spied upon. I was furious at that point. What about lying to the FISA court to get search warrants? What about unmasking Trump officials on international telephone calls? What about the CIA trying to entrap George Papadopoulos by assets offering him a speaking engagement in Israel, then giving him some money to hold, and then waiting for him at the airport when he returned to arrest him on bribery and money laundering charges? Fortunately, Papadopoulos saw through the scam and left the money with a lawyer in Israel, so the FBI found nothing to arrest him on when he returned.

5. Kurtz asked Trump about his comments about Haitian immigrants eating pets, which was later proven to be false? Trump said he was just repeating what was being said on social media. Kurtz asked him why hasn't he corrected himself since the story has been debunked? Trump said I don't know that it's been debunked? What about the ducks, what about the geese? Trump said why don't you go after the local newspapers who reported it? Kurtz said the story has been debunked. Trump said "I don't think it's been debunked? Why are you going after me, why don't you go after the local officials?"

6. Kurtz asked President Trump about fact-checkers and why did he say he wouldn't do interviews if live fact-checking was going to take place? Trump said I don't have deals with my interviews, I don't have a deal with you. He then said they don't have real fact-checking like they used to. Trump said he used to get calls after an interview by a real fact-checker checking what the writer wrote, asking "did you really do this, or are the dates correct about that?" He said that was fact-checking, checking the facts that the writer put into the story before going to press. He said they don't do that anymore. Now, people write whatever they want whether it's true or not. They will write the opposite of what he tells them.

   Trump then went back to the 60 Minutes interview where they completely changed an answer from Harris to say something she didn't say, while they remove comments that Trump said to make it less effective.

7. Kurtz closed the whole show by saying that President Trump is traveling to Arnold Palmer's home town where he described Harris with a curse word, and that Harris is having the mother of the woman who died because she didn't get proper medical care after an abortion due to excessive regulations. [Fact check: that woman took an abortion pill, the doctors waited too long to perform a D&C to clean out her uterus, and she died due to malpractice by her doctors and not excessive abortion regulations.]

I have lost all respect for Howie Kurtz. He pretends to be on the side of the people watching media abuses, but he's an anti-Trump defender of the press's most egregious abuses.

-PJ

[martin_fierro]

SNL could've affirmed its commitment to Comedy by lambasting Baldwin, a la O.J. Simpson. No sacred cows. Comedy without fear.

Of course, they didn't, which is why they're predictably unfunny. But they could have.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[dforest]

Exactly. He still is a lightweight, but he may just sense the change and want to be relevant.

Alex will unknowingly help him just like he did Trump because Alex is a true knucklehead. 😏😏

[OrangeHoof]

If I were in that audience, I would start chanting “Killer! Killer! Killer!”...

[Scott from the Left Coast]

“ It was a serious effort to rehabilitate Harris’s image in the wake of her sinking poll numbers.”

If they wanted to make a serious effort, they’d need a bigger audience than the 150 people that still watch that show.

[Leaning Right]

> He should be in jail but the dumb prosecutors in New Mexico blew the case by withholding evidence from the defense. <

Maybe I’m just being overly suspicious. But I wonder if the fix was in. Maybe the prosecutors mucked up on purpose, for “future consideration”.

🤔

[Skywise]

Gee… I’m so old I remember when conservative commentators (so-called) were telling me that Kamala had lost SNL and returning to their old anti-establishment ways.

Oh wait that was last week…

[wardaddy]

He’s a company man

[MinorityRepublican]

They know she is losing, so she’s a failure and can be made fun of now. Rats don’t want to stay on board with a loser and go down with the ship.

Gamblers are betting on Trump to win the election.

[dinodino]

Alec Baldwin should properly be in prison.

[Verginius Rufus]

Teddy Kennedy killed a woman, got away with it, and kept getting re-elected to the Senate for the rest of his life.

[fella]

So SNL has already run back to the Plantation.

[Vision]

Why is he not in jail for involuntary manslaughter?

[Trump_Triumphant]

How can they have this creep on the air and people just laugh? It’s sickening.

[minnesota_bound]

SNL is ok with a killer.
Yet they call conservatives the most vicious things and without any evidence.

[mbrfl]

>>I just watched the most biased interview I’ve seen so far of President Trump on Fox News by Howie Kurtz on his Sunday show Media Buzz. Kurtz is supposed to be the media watchdog reporting on how the media covers the news, but today it seems like he’s medias biggest defender as he twists the news coverage of President Trump to make him look like a conspiracy nut.

That’s been Kurtz’s schtick from the day that FOX gave him that “Media Watchdog” gig. He demonstrates media bias rather than exposing it like he’s supposed to. He’s a talentless, hack which is why I change the channel on sight when I see him.