NBC Edits Sketch Making Fun of Barney Frank

NewsMax ^ | 10/8/08 | Tim Collie

[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.

[PeterFinn]

I just sent the vid to the five people who’ve requested from me so far. Should be in your mailboxes right now.

[RatSlayer]

“But NBC says it edited the piece to remove an inflammatory graphic. The graphic appeared under the Sandlers and said “People who should be shot.”

That sent alarms through NBC because the Sandlers are, in fact, real.....

They sort of have a point there.”

Yeah, except that it didn’t bother NBC at all to air the Conan segment where Alec -the bloviator- Baldwin threatened to stone Henry Hyde and his family to death. All their “sensitivity” only cuts one way.

[library user]

There’s no edit at that point of the vid. I viewed the audio stream and there’s no break in continuity.

There are two shows: the Friday night dress rehearsal, with audience, and the Saturday night televised version, also with audience, of course.

What we have might be the Friday night dress rehearsal version then.

BTW, the only month of the year SNL takes any requests for tickets to their show is August. If they receive any letters postmarked any other month than August, they go straight into the garbage.

Used to be a huge fan of the show and all of these things are explained in a book the show released in 1994.

[PeterFinn]

I will say, just what I have is pretty cool on its own!

[pburgh01]

Awwww if satire is’nt coming from the pithy little metrosexual mouths of John Liebowitz(Stewart) or Colbert, it hurts their little liberal feelings. I mean making fun of right wingers is just flat out hillarious and high art but making fun of “progressives” is hate speech.

[Notwithstanding]

Is Barney Franks’s Former Gay “Husband” and Fannie Mae Executive Now a Gay Porn Actor? Web investigation indicates he likely is:

Barney Frank’s former so-called “spouse” was a man named Herb Moses.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/frank121898.htm

At the time, Herb Moses was a director for housing initiatives at Fannie Mae.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_/ai_n10104224.

Herb Moses helped develop many of Fannie Mae’s affordable housing and home improvement lending programs.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1277/pub_detail.asp

Herb Moses was reportedly a mortgage expert who left Fannie Mae in 1998 to start a pottery business.
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080924145932.aspx

But not before his lover Barney Frank lobbied hard to widen Fannie Mae’s ability to give mortgages to high-risk borrowers.
http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1994/b33985.arc.htm

A “Herbert M. Moses” from Washington D.C. and employed by Fannie Mae gave $1500 to Democrats in the 1990s.
http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.php?name=moses%2C+herb&state=&zip=&employ=&cand=&all=Y&sort=N&capcode=jb97b&submit=Submit

A “Herbert M. Moses” in D.C. is listed at whitepages.com
http://www.whitepages.com/search/FindPerson?extra_listing=mixed&form_mode=opt_b&post_back=1&firstname_begins_with=1&firstname=herbert&name=moses&street=&city_zip=&state_id=DC&localtime=survey.

At this whitepages page, you will find a “background records” link that allows you to buy a detailed report on that name from a list of several links.
http://preview.ussearch.com/preview/ala/newsearch?&searchState=DC&searchFName=herbert&searchLName=moses&adID=6194003754&adsource=9&TID=1&cid=background&searchtab=background

Several of those links will give a teaser list of cities where the named person presumedly has lived or lives.
http://www.ussearch.com/consumer/ala/category.do?cid=5105&did=0&adID=10002101&&searchtab=people&&searchFName=Herbert&searchMName=M&searchLName=Moses&searchCity=Washington&searchState=DC&searchApproxAge=&searchStateJurisdiction=DC&searchGender=&searchZip=20009-1106&vid=cfc&searchAgentNotes=Name_ViewAll&searchPerson=001786905501

Fact check: you can type in the name of someone you know and see that the list of teaser cities is an actual list of the actual cities where the named person has lived.

For “Herbert M. Moses” of D.C., Huntington Beach, CA, is one of 6 cities listed as a current or former residence.
http://www.ussearch.com/consumer/ala/category.do?cid=5105&did=0&adID=10002101&&searchtab=people&&searchFName=Herbert&searchMName=M&searchLName=Moses&searchCity=Washington&searchState=DC&searchApproxAge=&searchStateJurisdiction=DC&searchGender=&searchZip=20009-1106&vid=cfc&searchAgentNotes=Name_ViewAll&searchPerson=001786905501

Newport Beach is 6 miles from Huntington Beach
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=newport+beach,+ca&daddr=Huntington+Beach,+CA&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=33.829785,-117.27787&sspn=1.204664,2.460938&ie=UTF8&z=13

A google search of “Herbert Moses”
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Herbert+Moses%22

brings you to a photo and contact page of “Herb Moses” working at Wells Fargo in the mortgage department in Newport Beach
https://www.wfhm.com/wfhm/herbert-moses/index.page

and Herb Moses of Wells Fargo mortgage is also listed at this website
http://workmanrealestategroup.com/lenders.html

A brand new FReeper, Stevie1958, has posted an interesting note at FR claiming that this same pictured Herb Moses has made porn films with his current long-term gay sex partner.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2094109/posts?page=85#85

A google search using key terms revealed by this new FReeper, Stevie1958, does lead to webpages with photos of the same pictured man (identified above as Herb Moses) engaged in explicit homosexual sex acts.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22jessie+foxx%22+%22real+couples%22

So, it seems that Barney Frank’s former homosexual “spouse” who was a Fannie Mae executive, is now a third rate loan salesman and gay pron star. It makes Frank’s old housemate, Steve Gobie, who Frank met when he hired him as a male escort, and who ran a gay “escort” service from Frank’s D.C. home, seem pretty tame in comparison (Representative Barney Frank received a formal reprimand from the House for his relationship with a male prostitute - Gobie).

And one more thing: Is Stevie1958 really Stephen L. Gobie?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2094109/posts?page=87#87

[Tanniker Smith]

When I first saw it, I didn't know that the Sandlers were real people. (Hell, I thought they were poking fun at Adam Sandler or something by using his last name.)

Knowing that they are real, it makes sense to remove that line. Wasn't a smart thing to put there. (Even if they should be ... locked away for a long period of time.)

Was that the only change they made?

[piytar]

No surpise here. Wonder if this censorship will be a wakeup call for the SNL crew or offend their professional integrity? What am I saying? They are clueless moonbats who have no professional integrity. Nevermind.

[Unam Sanctam]

Of course homosexual activists are sacrosanct and cannot be made fun of or criticized for any reason nowadays (even if it has nothing to do with their sexuality).