[gcruse]

My reluctance to accept DM goes back to his smarmy obnoxiousness doing Weekend Update on SNL. His attacks on the conservative agenda stick in my memory and I don't remember him doing the same to liberals back then. I hated him as a result up to and including his failed stint on MNF. The years on SNL weren't figments of my imagination. He is doing great now and I support him without altering what he did in the past, though.

[Warhead W-88]

"attacks on the conservative agenda stick in my memory and I don't remember him doing the same to liberals back then. "

Yeah, he was a lot tougher on conservatives than on liberals then. But that was they way they did comedy on SNL at that time-- as SNL's one conservative writer says, they would call Republicans racists and crooks and thieves and bastards and idiots and psychopaths, then accuse a Democrat of being "too intellectual" as "balance."

His HBO comedy specials, which started just around that time, were a LOT more balanced. He ripped into liberals quite a bit.

[billsux]

he was on SNL from 85-90 right? he was ripping on conservatives? or just the people who just happened to be in the White House at that time? it occurs to me that he ripped on Slick Willie fairly often when he took up residence there (tho no longer on SNL obviously)...