Posted on 10/08/2008 12:54:31 PM PDT by pissant
The popular NBC comedy show has been riding a ratings wave with Tina Fey’s dead-on impersonations of Sarah Palin, but SNL writers seem to draw the line with mocking Barney Frank, D-Mass, who chairs the powerful House Financial Services Committee that deals with banking and housing.
Conservative blogs have been fuming this week since a sketch referencing Frank’s role in the subprime mortgage mess was yanked from NBC’s Web site Monday and re-posted with one of the most biting segments removed.
In the sketch, a parody of a C-SPAN press conference, actors playing Frank, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President George W. Bush gather for a congratulatory press conference on the passage of the Wall Street bailout bill.
The Pelosi character introduces a series of victims of the subprime mortgage mess who range from criminal deadbeats to greedy speculators who flipped time-share condos.
Finally, a rich older couple, the Sandlers, appear and seem gleeful over the huge fortune they’ve made selling off their subprime mortgages to Wachovia Bank.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Why did Congress allow Fannie Mae to “relax lending standards so as to make it easier for poor and minority borrowers to get mortgages”? (WSJ, 10/08/08, P.A16 “Barney Breaks It Down”)
Barney Frank’s House Banking Committee in the 1990s had jurisdiction over Fannie Mae. Herb Moses, an Assistant Director for Fannie Mae at the time, reminded the Washington Post that, “Barney always introduces me as his lover.”
Congress’s relaxed standards for Fannie Mae could be due to Barney Frank’s blatant conflict of interest and failure to curb the reckless business his lover directed.
Good thing millions of us already downloaded the sketch.
The original is still out there and just needs to go viral.
Shutting down SNL, Fairness Doctrine redux?
Yep, I have it myself. Anyone wanting it can pm me with their email address and I’ll send it to them. It’s 19.2MB in .wmv format.
You don’t understand. To allow the skit to stand as it was would be homophobic. No, really. Just as criticism of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are proof of racism. No, really.
Have you seen the Uncle Jay explanation?
www.unclejayexplains.com
They needed to get rid of the “they need to be shot” caption. I just reviewed both versions and Newsmax is correct in their claim. NBC was definitely “overly zealous” in their cutting.
LLS
The MSM editing things. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Yea - it looks like they are. But - Herb Sandler is the guy who founded Golden West Financial Corporation, which became the second largest thrift institution in the US by lending billions and billions to illegal aliens and people who had no right receiving a mortgage. He then sold it to Wachovia - which is really what brought Wachovia down. Here's a pic of the two:
Frank replies: “Not at all. There's an important social contract here. When deceitful housing lenders play by the rules, and bribe members of Congress with campaign contributions, they have a right to expect that we will protect them from losing money. Now let me say something else here. Many of you are probably wondering, where did that $700 billion missing from our economy go? To help answer that, let me introduce our good friend, billionaire hedge fund manager, George Soros...”
Barney Frank’s Fannie Mae executive gay lover for 10 years is now apparently a gay porn film actor.
Honest to goodness. The evidence is pretty undeniable (this is not a joke):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2094109/posts?page=87#87
Nope, it's not. That's where I downloaded it from on Sunday. See my post above and notice the text in a red font. That's missing from even the Misunderestimated.com version.
Fixed.
There’s no edit at that point of the vid. I viewed the audio stream and there’s no break in continuity.
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