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"Tina writes many of the anti-liberal pieces"

Are you sure? I thought it was Jim Downey who was the real conservative Republican on the SNL staff. It's Downey who writes the debate-sketches and such.

The libs on the show can't block Downey's sketches because they're acknowledged by everyone as being the best.

Downey had this cool quote in the Live From New York book. He said that often times the show was horribly unbalanced against Republicans. What many writers would do is achieve "balance" by gently ribbing the liberal politicians about being "too intellectual" or "too aloof from the common man." But he noted that that was hardly "balanced" when you were calling the other guys (the Republicans) insane, corrupt, dangerous racist criminals. Hw kind of laughed at the bias there.

And when people were surprised that he hit Gore so hard in the debate sketches, they said that the show was now "tilting to the right." Downey responds by saying NO, there's no real tilt to the right; but that his sketches are actually fair in that they hit both candidates hard, rather than always just hitting the Republican hard and gently ribbing the liberal. And that many people, therefore, take that as "bias" -- just because they've never seen an actual fairly-written sketch.

Which is pretty much what goes on with Fox News.

[Warhead W-88]

Walken also had that amazing dialogue with Dennis Hopper in True Romance.

[Warhead W-88]

Oh, and I should say that while the Live from New York book doesn't say if Tina is a lib or not, it sure didn't say that she was a conservative. Jim Downey is the only prominently-mentioned conservative writer.

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Interesting points warhead I know Downey was the conservative and penned many of the hillarious 2000 Bush/Gore stuff but from what I know the last two years or so everything is run through Faye she is Lorne Michaels thumbs up or down to sketches I know she penned the anti-war protest skit with Mathew forgive me Mcconaughey last week. While Downey did the UN stuff. But you have to admit since Tina and Jim took over the writing duties that shows stuff has been so much better, God forbid Franken talk show doesn't work out and demands to be head writer again oh the dark days.