Posted on 09/25/2010 11:42:45 PM PDT by truthfreedom
DOVER, Del. — With the new season of "Saturday Night Live" comes a fresh batch of political satire — and Delaware Senate hopeful Christine O'Donnell is the first target.
The Republican candidate's past statements were fodder for the opening sketch on Saturday night's broadcast on NBC.
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SNL is very far from funny. In fact, I really don’t know what they are.
I have tried to watch it, only for nostalgic reasons, but it is so heavily politicized and completely unfunny, I couldn’t watch it. After a skit I’m normally left wondering, “What was that? What was that even supposed to be?”
They even have tape where the guest host in the middle of a supposed ‘skit’ will say, “This isn’t funny. This is just stupid. And then they walk off the stage.
The only purpose of SNL over the last few years has been to provide MSNBC with derisive anti-Conservative sound bites that they can play on the news as supposed ‘comedy’ and trash the Right wing.
SNL has had nothing to do with ‘comedy’(that is, actually being humorous) in decades. It is just stupid nonsense which, I guess, Liberals call comedy.
The old SNL used to joke on Jimmy Carter. Perhaps Obama will get some lumps from SNL after the November election.
I think this all helps Christine. Sarah and Christine might’ve discussed SNL. Maybe Christine goes on? Yeah it’s not good like in the 70s.
They were pretty tough on Clinton. Darrell Hammond made BC more likeable though.
Yes, people think that, Palin has always been an extraordinary politician and giant slayer, she was known as a uniter that brought her state together enough as Governor to reach 93% approval and be the most popular Governor in America.
The media efforts to destroy her, and reshape her image, and turn her into a devisive figure, is not what keeps her in the running.
NEWSBUSTERS: Saturday Night Live Slams Christine O'Donnell: 'I Masturbate Constantly'
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Two weeks ago most Americans had never heard of Christine O'Donnell.
Now, she's the brunt of a vulgar joke on the opening sketch of "Saturday Night Live's" first show of the new season.
MEDIAite:SNL Returns With Christine O’Donnell Masturbation Parody (VIDEO)
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Saturday Night Live returned tonight and from the multitude of topics they had to choose from (and really, the news cycle is an embarrassment of riches where SNL is concerned) they opted for Christine O’Donnell.Suffice to say SNL is not afraid to play dirty. After discussing the “media’s fixation” with silly things like “dabbling in witchcraft” O’Donnell reveals to the pair that back when she started her anti-masturbation campaign back in the day she didn’t even know what masturbation was…now that she does she masturbates multiple times a day!
They HATE Christian conservative women.
They won’t be victims, they won’t abort their babies, they are happy in life and not bitter and strident. It’s Christ. If they are pretty, that makes libs grit their teeth more.
Jesus is the common thread to people who get the absolutely nastiest, bitterest treatment. And the leftists know it, too. It’s their little joke, on how they hate “fundies”. And it’s the one bias that’s politically correct to have, so they can vent all their hate and there’s no price to pay. Except,of course, in themselves.
To me, it just shows how powerful God is - He’s the one thing, without exception, that evil cannot tolerate.
They helped save Clinton by turning his ugly sexual exploitation of non status females and his criminality, into an image of a lovable rogue that has an eye for the ladies, a kind of lovable national stud, pleasing, and amusing, to it’s hip young audience.
If he had been a Republican with the same exact presidency, they would have destroyed him as Chevy Chase admits (and thinks that he succeeded) that they were doing with Ford, and Palin.
O’Donnell may or may not win the Senatorial election. But win or lose, she won’t be forgotten. For the same reasons Palin did’t fade into obscurity: the constant attacks kept her on people’s minds.
I’m not saying “what keeps her in the running”. I’m saying that I don’t know whether she’s hurt or helped by these things. I’m also saying that she is the front runner now. She’s in the 1 spot. None higher than 1. And that’s with the media attacks.
With the attacks? 1
Without the attacks? 1? 2?
Based on that method of measurment, Palin did benefit. But there are other ways to measure. If it was a praisefest, maybe she’s at 60% favorable.
“Do they also go after Democrats?”
Did you forget the /sarc tag? Of course not.
I think she’ll win. I don’t think she’d be attacked if she didn’t win and didn’t get a high profile job. But if she didn’t win, she could get a job and be like Jerry Falwell or Ralph Reed. If that’s what she wanted to do. I’m not saying it would be but she’d be able to get that job. And then the media and her could be fighting all the time about the things she used to talk about on tv. But she should win. CT and NY Gilli seat as well. R’s are going to win in blue states.
Saturday Night Live was funny back when I was high...you had to be high to laugh at Steve martin’s goofy antics
Does Kirk or Krause get to sit in the lame duck session? That is when they plan on shoving Cap’N Trade down our throats. Who knows what else, card check , amnesty , some other horror?
They tried with all the Republicans. Dana Carvey as bush 1 will farrell as bush 2. I can’t really think of who did Reagan. Phil Hartman?
My post makes the point that it hurts her.
Palin has always been able to reach the people as a politician, but now the national media for the first time in her political life, has given her high negatives which she has to overcome, negatives which are not her own but a result of the fake image of the massive media onslaught.
In 2007, she was described by The Weekly Standard as probably the most popular elected official in America, at any level, with negatives of only 7%, that reflects her real self.
the winner of the IL election is in. IL, WV, DE and maybe one other one.
That has the ring of truth to it. What gets me is that Islam has everything they claim to hate on steroids, and yet they defend it. Proves to me the real motive is hatred of the good because its good.
Ford lost, Bush1 lost, Palin lost, Bush2 lost the popular vote.
They do this on purpose and they invest a lot of money into it if they need to, bringing Tina Fey back cannot be cheap.
CNN) — Chevy Chase didn’t look like Gerald Ford and didn’t sound like Gerald Ford. But in the mid-1970s, when “Saturday Night Live” first went on the air, Chase — then a writer and cast member of the show — made his impression of the president, rife with pratfalls and slapstick, the talk of the country.
He also made the president a butt of jokes, which was intentional, Chase told CNN in an interview.
“[Ford] was a sweet man, a terrific man — [we] became good friends after, but ... he just tripped over things a lot,” he said. “It’s not that I can imitate him so much that I can do a lot of physical comedy and I just made it, I just went after him. And ... obviously my leanings were Democratic and I wanted [Jimmy] Carter in and I wanted [Ford] out, and I figured look, we’re reaching millions of people every weekend, why not do it.”
Over the years, “Saturday Night Live’s” political satires have become a mainstay of the show, sometimes to startling effect.
Al Franken — now the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Minnesota — and his then writing partner, Tom Davis, wrote a wicked takeoff of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s book, “The Final Days,” which included Dan Aykroyd as a bitter Richard Nixon and John Belushi as a toadying Henry Kissinger. In the mid-’80s, a sketch starring Phil Hartman as Ronald Reagan showed the president, often lampooned as forgetful, with a razor-sharp command of the Iran-Contra situation, cutting deals in Arabic and barking orders at his staff.
More recently, Dana Carvey’s malaprop-laden impression of George H.W. Bush, Hartman’s puppy-dog Bill Clinton, Will Ferrell’s George W. Bush and Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin have embedded themselves in the culture.
Though Chase believes the show leans left, and Fey’s Palin is an attempt to hurt the Republicans, Marc Liepis, NBC Universal senior director of late night publicity, had no comment.
CNN: You mean to tell me in the back of your mind you were thinking, hey I want Carter ...
Chase: Oh, yeah.
CNN: And I’m going to make him look bad.
Chase: Oh yeah. What do you think they’re doing now, you think they’re just doing this because Sarah’s funny? No, I think that the show is very much more Democratic and liberal-oriented, that they are obviously more for Barack Obama. [In the ‘70s], out of the Nixon era, and it was not unlikely that I might go that direction.
CNN: I talked to one political pundit who said, I think Chevy Chase cost Ford the presidency.
Chase: When you have that kind of a venue and power where you can reach so many millions of people and you’ve become a show that people watch, you know, you can affect a lot of people, and humor does it beautifully, because humor is perspective and has a way of making judgment calls. ... So I think there was no question that it had major effect and in fact, in speaking with his family and then later him, and even reading some of his books ... he felt so, too.
She runs for President, people see her, directly, in debates, unfiltered. They like her or they don’t. When do the high negatives become a problem? November 2012? If Palin can’t get the message out as the nominee, lower her unfavorables by just being herself, I dunno.
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