He always does a good Cheney, but that Iraq troop bit was more than a little obnoxious. Even if that isn’t a fictional Lance Corporal they used the name of, it is still not fair to put their politics in the mouths of the troops. That pisses me off. Particularly given what Pat Dollard, who has spent 6 months in Iraq hot spots and riding around getting blown up with the troops has had to say:
http://patdollard.com/press/maxim-interview/

The average marine was proud to be there doing his job. I have tape after tape of marines telling their liberal “rescuers” to go fuck themselves. They knew what they were doing there, that they were keeping Iraq from turning into a terrorist state that would have made Afghanistan under the Taliban look like Disneyland.

Anyway, I suspect they used a fictional Lance Corporal, but either way that was f**ked up. The media makes up their own stories, and even those stationed in Iraq report from their hotel rooms, and almost never report the troops blasting the biased coverage. The media can’t get troops to side with their agenda, so SNL just decided they would make it up, by pretending Cheney would get an angry reception from troops in Iraq (note that after the likely bogus Lance Corporal part, they went through a stack of negative cards supposed to be from other troops). The crowd loved it.

RightWinged on February 11, 2007 at 1:32 AM

januarius wrote: “They go after the policies of Republicans but not of Democrats.”

I’m not entirely sure you are right on this. Can you give me some examples?

The fact is they made lots of fun at both Jummuh’s and Bubba’s expense when they were in office, and not just against Republicans. In face, just a few weeks ago, they made Hellary look both stupid and venial. Didn’t they just take a shot at Pelosi two shows ago?

So, I’m not sure I agree with your characterization of “liberal humor.” The essence of the humor in these sketches IS the “character flaws” of their targets, and that is “legitimate” in humor, especially when the targets are elected officials.

I guess the test of your hypothesis (or mine) will be how (not if) they go after Osama, er, Obama. I can’t wait….

georgej on February 11, 2007 at 12:03 PM

birkel on February 11, 2007 at 2:53 PM – Does a pretty good job of making the point I’d like to make, but I’ll quickly elaborate.

If you’re a Republican, they attack your policies, if you’re a Democrat they attack personality flaws. Sure, there are countless Clinton/Lewinsky jokes, just as there are countless Bush is an idiot jokes. But there are also countless Bush Katrina and Iraq jokes, and plenty of others. But where there blackhawk down jokes? Where there jokes about Clinton’s failures that lead to 9/11? Where there jokes about Clinton passing on a recession to Bush?

The Hillary dig was the same dig the far left has been taking at her, because that’s what the show is all about. They (the left, SNL, the media) are in Obamamania right now, but they’d be all Hillary (because Obama doesn’t stand a chance) if she’s just come out agressively against the war and call Bush a liar. She hasn’t been vicious enough for them yet so they are trying to make her.

The Pelosi thing is an even worse example. It was actually intended to mock the right, and exaggerate on screen our fears of what her leadership will mean (S&M in the House, etc., abortions, etc.) This was very obvious.

RightWinged on February 11, 2007 at 4:34 PM