Tee hee: SNL goofs on McCain for supposedly racist ads

posted at 10:10 am on September 21, 2008 by Allahpundit

The perfect ending to a stretch in which The One not only ran more negative ads than McCain did, but demagogued him with a race-baiting spot aimed at Hispanics that went so far over the top even Obama mega-shill Joe Klein begged him to take it down. All of this, mind you, while his surrogates were out on the trail smearing Republicans as racists.

Exit question: Which lines specifically, do you suppose, did Al Franken contribute?

Update: The McCain camp’s circulating this editorial from a New Hampshire paper laying Obama out for his recent dishonesty. Oh, and look: Here’s another lie now.

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“I’m Barack Obama, and I approve of this SNL skit.”

aunursa on September 21, 2008 at 10:12 AM

Al Franken – doing the job that MSNBC won’t do?

Actually, I think Al is just keeping a hand in it, so he has somewhere to go on November 5th.

darkpixel on September 21, 2008 at 10:13 AM

That wasn’t even funny. In order to be humorous it needs some elements of truth in it.

They needed to put Oslime-a in that skit. That is more like what he does in his ads. Then it would be funny.

csdeven on September 21, 2008 at 10:20 AM

That was lame. I wonder when they’ll do another skit about the press fawning on Obama. Don’t worry, I won’t hold my breath.

aikidoka on September 21, 2008 at 10:20 AM

But wasn’t the goal to be funny?

anniekc on September 21, 2008 at 10:20 AM

Obama will take your money and your funny and never give it back.

bbz123 on September 21, 2008 at 10:23 AM

From that Union Leader piece:

This is not the Barack Obama so many voters in New Hampshire and elsewhere thought they knew.

Heh.

But it is the real Barack Obama.

Double heh.

For despite his rhetoric, he is in fact campaigning so dishonestly that even The Washington Post and The New York Times have called him on it.

Heavens! Even the WaPo and NYT! Who are completely in the tank for Obama, don’tcha know?

Purple Fury on September 21, 2008 at 10:23 AM

Wow. A newspaper doing what it’s supposed to do in a free society. Haven’t seen that for such a long time.

JiangxiDad on September 21, 2008 at 10:23 AM

You know I don’t really like McCain….but that was so far from funny, as to be…oh, wait…It’s SNL, of course it’s not funny.

DUH.

tickleddragon on September 21, 2008 at 10:27 AM

JiangxiDad on September 21, 2008 at 10:23 AM

Dogs and cats living together?

Oh the humanity!

csdeven on September 21, 2008 at 10:27 AM

Allah, is everything alright with Ed?

ManlyRash on September 21, 2008 at 10:28 AM

I thought it was pretty funny. Doesn’t change my mind about McCain. Partisan reactions from both sides is predictable; a. left: see they are hitting so close to the truth, dirty rotten racist GOP thuglicans, etc. b. right; what the hell is a comedy show doing having fun at the expense of my choice. He is not racist, I’m not racist, Robert Byrd, Kleagle, etc.

When the SNL crew was taking Hillary and Obama down a notch I don’t recall seeing too many HA denizens getting real upset.

Bradky on September 21, 2008 at 10:28 AM

Does anyone still watch SNL?

Kuffar on September 21, 2008 at 10:29 AM

I question the validity of NBC’s FCC license.

lorien1973 on September 21, 2008 at 10:30 AM

Lame lame lame.

Their earlier skit with Fey was funny. This is more hit piece than humor.

petefrt on September 21, 2008 at 10:30 AM

Off topic…..

BTW….Rasmussen shows no change in the presidential tracking poll this am. Oslime-a 48…McCain 47.

csdeven on September 21, 2008 at 10:31 AM

NBC is a slimy, left wing operation that will stop at nothing. This is not comedy . . . this is an insurgent war.

rplat on September 21, 2008 at 10:31 AM

Stupid. Breaking interesting news about the Democratic governor of Montana doing a routine for some lawyers. He’ just kidding of course.

Cindy Munford on September 21, 2008 at 10:32 AM

That was not funny at all. Even the audience thought it was lame.
The Palin/Clinton one was funny though.
It was hilarious when Clinton was talking and Palin was posing lol

And I love her and McCain!

ArmyAunt on September 21, 2008 at 10:33 AM

That sucked. Al Franken should give NBC a refund.

SoulGlo on September 21, 2008 at 10:34 AM

NBC usually runs DNC talking points unedited anyway, so why not let Franken write ‘em? In tough economic times companies need to look to their supply chain as a way to cut costs and by letting Franken write their skits, they cut out the middleman.

Do you think SNL will let former writer Dennis Miller do an anti-Obama skit for next week’s show? I’ll bet he could and it would be considerably more amusing than this was.

Mr. D on September 21, 2008 at 10:35 AM

That was lame. I wonder when they’ll do another skit about the press fawning on Obama. Don’t worry, I won’t hold my breath.

I was thinking the sdame thing. SNL was beside themselves at the fawning BHO was receiving from the media at HRC’s expense.

Their caricatures of BHO were that of a substance-less boob back then.

If I see anything on SNL that comes close to knocking Obama from here on out, it will be a shock.

thedarius on September 21, 2008 at 10:35 AM

It least they can’t steal his e-mail. : ))

Angry Dumbo on September 21, 2008 at 10:37 AM

That they allowed Al Franken who is running for Senate to write that skit is crazy. I could forgive the partisanship if it was funny, but it also sucked. Al Franken is not funny.

Mr. Joe on September 21, 2008 at 10:38 AM

What’s a “Saturday Night Live”? There used to be a show by that name decades ago. It was sorta funny but it long, long gone.

nocomme1 on September 21, 2008 at 10:39 AM

Only an dumb idiot could laugh at that skit. Just goes to show….liberals are miserably unhappy people with no sense of humor.

John Doe on September 21, 2008 at 10:39 AM

Broken
Under
Retrograde
Nonsense

Insurgent
Taxing

America
Leads
Lemmings

Drunken
Obstinate
Witless
Nincompoops

Beto Ochoa on September 21, 2008 at 10:39 AM

an = a

John Doe on September 21, 2008 at 10:39 AM

SNL has been unwatchable for for me for so long, I can no longer remember the last time I cared what went on there. More recently, cast changes has mad MAD TV a lost cause for me as well. But I’m curious as to where it stands in ratings. What is the average audience size for SNL these days? Anyone happen to know?

Nyog_of_the_Bog on September 21, 2008 at 10:41 AM

This is the only way I see any SNL.

And less, the more of this I see.

profitsbeard on September 21, 2008 at 10:42 AM

Franken by the way, was never too funny. He was always angry and got angrier as time went on. One failure after another will do that to you.

Franken is the poster child for his ilk.

Typical way-off-the scale far left elitist who’s had a hard time understanding why his “genius” has gone unrecognized.

Instead of attributing failure to his own deficiencies, he portrays anyone who is disagreement with him as part of some hayseed, under-intellectualized idiot majority…
(with swearing and pre-pubescent tantrum included).

thedarius on September 21, 2008 at 10:43 AM

When will the real Democrats retake their party from the Marxists?

grapeknutz on September 21, 2008 at 10:43 AM

Allah:

You MUST post a video of the sketch from later in the show, the one that trashed the NYT for going through Palin’s underwear drawer. It was a dead-on perfect parody of the arrogant nitwits who work for the slimes.

juliesa on September 21, 2008 at 10:43 AM

Only an dumb idiot could laugh at that skit. Just goes to show….liberals are miserably unhappy people with no sense of humor.

John Doe on September 21, 2008 at 10:39 AM

As Robin Williams said in Good Morning Viet Nam “You are in more need of a *&*& than any white man in history”

Bradky on September 21, 2008 at 10:43 AM

Doesn’t it violate McCain-Feingold if the Democratic Party is collaborating with an outside organization (NBC) to send a political message?

indythinker on September 21, 2008 at 10:46 AM

Sorry I missed it. I was sorting my collection of navel lint. Gee, I’ll bet it was funny.

SKYFOX on September 21, 2008 at 10:46 AM

Bradky on September 21, 2008 at 10:28 AM

Oh please, it was just ho-hum. Franken was boring when he was on SNL and he is boring long distance also. I thought the skit last week was great. I would love to see the one about the media and decide if it was funny.

Cindy Munford on September 21, 2008 at 10:50 AM

When the SNL crew was taking Hillary and Obama down a notch I don’t recall seeing too many HA denizens getting real upset.

Bradky on September 21, 2008

Who’s upset bozo? The skit was stupid and lame.

John Doe on September 21, 2008 at 10:51 AM

Not really funny at all. Yawn!

Crux Australis on September 21, 2008 at 10:52 AM

I’m not sure I can pick out the exact lines that Al Franken wrote. But hit is nice to see him working on his resume, he will need a job real soon.

Tommy_G on September 21, 2008 at 10:54 AM

John Doe on September 21, 2008 at 10:51 AM

OMG I got called a name on the internet. WAH! Go ahead and make your way to ninth and vine to take care of yourself.

Cindy Munford on September 21, 2008 at 10:50 AM

You obviously don’t fall into category a or b as I described – in other words you have a sense of humor.

Bradky on September 21, 2008 at 10:54 AM

BTW….Rasmussen shows no change in the presidential tracking poll this am. Oslime-a 48…McCain 47. – csdeven on September 21, 2008 at 10:31 AM

Pray this election doesn’t become a repeat of 2000. If it is, and if McCain wins, think of the Rodney King Verdict riots and then augment by one order of magnitude.

ManlyRash on September 21, 2008 at 10:55 AM

Obama started all this crap with his “100 years of war” lie. That was a deliberate misrepresentation of what McCain was saying.

juliesa on September 21, 2008 at 10:55 AM

Let me see…. OBAMA has NBC,CNN, MSNBC CBS, ABC, the AP,Hollywood, SNL, most major newspapers, and likely around 80% of reporters in the tank for him and he is dead even with MCCAIN in the Polls. OBAMA lacks gravitas and America is not buying the medias BS as much as they wish.

Jamson64 on September 21, 2008 at 10:56 AM

SNL has not been funny for a long time.

Jamson64 on September 21, 2008 at 10:57 AM

I guess there was another skit making fun of the NYT for being clueless about Alaska, not to mention everywhere else in America? So of course it was toward the end of the show.

Jim Treacher on September 21, 2008 at 10:58 AM

Impressive editorial.

Spirit of 1776 on September 21, 2008 at 10:59 AM

Pray this election doesn’t become a repeat of 2000. If it is, and if McCain wins, think of the Rodney King Verdict riots and then augment by one order of magnitude.

ManlyRash on September 21, 2008 at 10:55 AM

Idiots will be idiots regardless of who wins.

As a matter of fact, I can see a crazed NBA Championship celebration in the streets if Obama wins, including burning tipped over cars, looting and wrecked storefronts.

Many college kids and inner city folk can’t control themselves over the idea of “sticking it to the man”.

It’ll be a lovely scene either way, but I for one won’t live in fear or intimidation. I have my family and my second amendment rights. What else do I need?

thedarius on September 21, 2008 at 11:02 AM

FNS vs. SNL

FNS Paulson’s package is designed to burden taxpayers with failed international investments. We’re being sold our own slavery! For GWBush to have brought this “bail-out” fascism FURTHER into our legislation and Fed treasury powers is the WORST abuse of our patriotism, as our great and marvelous military fights to preserve the Progressive Marxist Agenda that as we speak is delivering our Constitutional security DEATH. Bush is a twisted mind to allow, let alone spearhead, these juxtaposed efforts that EFFECTIVELY mute the citizen and defy the Rule of Law.

SOMETHING SO COSTLY and so permanently destructive as this latest (and every) bail-out should be taken to the people for a direct referendum vote. Allowing our elected officials to further their entrenched lobbying against citizens’ security via bail-out votes STINKS.

Congress pronounces their vote for the bail-out within the week. THIS WAS NOT the issue Congress vacationed to gleen constituent critique.

I do not submit to being forced through this FED BLACK HOLE into utter destruction as an entity in order to feed the international gluttons who already abused us into our difficult circumstance, always at OUR citizen-rights and taxpayer expense–now at the expense of our existence. This is the tipping point. I will not submit to Marx no matter who represents PROGRESSIVE SOCIALIST COMMUNIST FASCISM. I will not be Morlocks’ fodder.

maverick muse on September 21, 2008 at 11:05 AM

Think the MSM is in the tank for our street thug Marxist?
Wait til the “debates” get going- remember the MSM controls the questions and “audience”.
Carol Simpsons disgusting slimeing of Bush 41 will seem like the hieght of objectivity.

jjshaka on September 21, 2008 at 11:06 AM

Romney supporters, sound off as to Romney’s current advice. If he’s making economic speeches now, they’re not making headlines.

maverick muse on September 21, 2008 at 11:08 AM

I am not even going to look at the skit..not going to give SNL the pleasure..thanks for the critique guys….figures it would suck!

Static21 on September 21, 2008 at 11:08 AM

pure propaganda, with little relevant humor

Dr. Manhattan on September 21, 2008 at 11:09 AM

maverick muse on September 21, 2008 at 11:05 AM

You act like this hasn’t happened before. And yet, we are still here.

Cindy Munford on September 21, 2008 at 11:10 AM

Re the update: I’d take credit for predicting the Social Security scare tactics in the “another lie” ad, except that Democrats trying to scare the elderly about Social Security is more predictable than the sunrise (weather occasionally intrudes on the latter, albeit out of many more chances). Given greater reluctance to support Obama among seniors, and greater reflexive identification between seniors and McCain, any probability that Obama could resist employing this tactic was reduced from minuscule to fantastical.

Living very far from anything remotely resembling a battleground state, I don’t get exposed directly to many campaign ads. Occasionally, they turn up on cable news. So this morning I caught a new Obama ad – a crappy attack ad focusing on McCain’s “$4 billion” break for the (evil) oil companies. As most here probably know, this claim is based entirely on computing how a blanket cut in all corporate taxes would break down for oil companies.

I suspect the oil ad isn’t very effective – partly because $4 billion sounds like chump change these days – but along with the Limbaugh ad, the social security scare, and many others, I get the sense that the Obama campaign is executing a two- or three-prong strategy here, possibly decided upon a week or so ago when they were fearing meltdown, possibly always in the cards: 1) launch a coordinated effort to paint the McCain campaign as dishonest, negative, and “dishonorable”; 2) spread a welter of negative and dishonest, relatively low-profile attack ads making too many claims to be combatted; 3) depend on point 1 to limit the effectiveness of any responses, and paint those responses as negative and hysterical, with any McCain reaction to be painted as senile, crazy, dishonest, and “dishonorable” temper tantrum.

CK MacLeod on September 21, 2008 at 11:10 AM

I’m settling into reading now.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,423929,00.html

maverick muse on September 21, 2008 at 11:11 AM

Its amazing how this guy, who literally is saying the same vacant talking points with absolutely no beef. He wont comment about a solution to the financial crisis..WTF?? Palins speech has officially pissed the media off to a point where they dont even attempt to mask their agenda. I rememeber my newspaper, the St Pete Times, on a daily basis, Obama this, Obama that..BUT after the convention when McCains numbers took off, so help me there was no mention of politics for 3 days…i mean NONE. No mention of polls, nothing. Now that Obama weaseled his way back, well, its cover to cover coverage again. I go to an Assisted Living place to visit my mother-in-law, and theres always this 90′ish guy who never says anything. He overheard me talking about the election and he leaned over and said “this country needs another 4 years of democrats to finally do them in”. I cant stop thinking of that, the old geezer nailed it.

malkinmania on September 21, 2008 at 11:13 AM

Franken has to pay those back taxes (in how many states?) and workers’ compensation somehow. Maybe he can get some budgeting tips from Cholly Rangel.

onlineanalyst on September 21, 2008 at 11:14 AM

I think the fact that Stuart phoned the skit in speaks volumes to how pathetic the writing has become at SNL. They opened the season last week, doing a recreation of the skit first done by Payton Manning in the spring of 2007. It’s old and tiresome.

Pam on September 21, 2008 at 11:14 AM

What else do I need? – thedarius on September 21, 2008 at 11:02 AM

Extra ammo? I keed, I keed…I’m with you on this one.

ManlyRash on September 21, 2008 at 11:15 AM

Shouldn’t Al be working on another attack smear ad against Norm Coleman?? Maybe he is still using cocaine to burn the candle at both ends?? If Minnesotans are dumb enough to vote for that “man,” the state deserves all the derision it will recieve.

cyclown on September 21, 2008 at 11:16 AM

I guess there was another skit making fun of the NYT for being clueless about Alaska, not to mention everywhere else in America? So of course it was toward the end of the show.

Jim Treacher on September 21, 2008 at 10:58 AM

Fitting. That’s its near the end for the NYT, too.

lorien1973 on September 21, 2008 at 11:16 AM

malkinmania on September 21, 2008 at 11:13 AM

Lots of floridians in this blog. I love it!

lorien1973 on September 21, 2008 at 11:17 AM

That line about the 2 black kids is NOT original. A liberal friend of mine said he saw it last week on MSNBC…some hair model said it.

SouthernGent on September 21, 2008 at 11:19 AM

“Smear.”

And a Frankensmear, no less.

Dusty on September 21, 2008 at 11:22 AM

Cindy Munford on September 21, 2008 at 11:10 AM

Brick by brick Horatio. Rome wasn’t felled in a day.

Beto Ochoa on September 21, 2008 at 11:23 AM

This is why I stopped watching this stupid show years ago.

Terrye on September 21, 2008 at 11:24 AM

I’m looking forward to the mud slinging in this election. BHO will be the big loser at that game. He’ll look mean and arrogant whereas McCain will look tough and scrappy.

Mojave Mark on September 21, 2008 at 11:26 AM

This show stopped being funny years ago.

KBird on September 21, 2008 at 11:27 AM

Compare it to the skit where John McCain was actually playing himself singing Streisand. Much funnier than this stifff routine.

Editor on September 21, 2008 at 11:35 AM

I rememeber my newspaper, the St Pete Times, on a daily basis, Obama this, Obama that..BUT after the convention when McCains numbers took off, so help me there was no mention of politics for 3 days…i mean NONE. No mention of polls, nothing. Now that Obama weaseled his way back, well, its cover to cover coverage again.

You’ve seen this, right?

Jim Treacher on September 21, 2008 at 11:39 AM

Lame.

albill on September 21, 2008 at 11:40 AM

But wasn’t the goal to be funny?

anniekc on September 21, 2008 at 10:20 AM

It seems more likely that the goal was to be pathetically lame.

m064404 on September 21, 2008 at 11:41 AM

As the former POTUS candidate touting his economic superiority, as the born-again conservative, Romney’s insight is of interest, and I would HOPE his insight would design an immediate course for conservatives to rally now. I fear though he’s a tease, though I welcome his advice.

ROMNEY ON THE ECONOMY THIS WEEK

Well, the free enterprise system and capitalism is one of the things that propelled our economy to be the powerhouse that it is globally, despite the enormous troubles it’s going through right now.

And our long-term outlook can be positive, but, certainly, we’re going to rely on the entrepreneurship of the American people, the risk-taking and capitalism to — to work its magic, and to employ people, and to make things the way we would like them to be for our kids and our grandkids.

Well, I think what’s happening is, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury, they’re making a very careful assessment of what kind of systemic action might occur or consequences might occur based upon the failure of a company like Lehman.

And where they see massive consequences, they’re going to step in and try and protect the American public with shareholder support — or — excuse me — with taxpayer support. But where they see limited consequence or limited systemic effect, they’re probably not going to step in. And that’s — that kind of a measured approach, I think, is being well received by people who are making a — an informed assessment of what the future should look like.

Well, if people are acting out of the interest of the economy and the American people, I think you’re going to find that Wall Street generally recognizes and appreciates that. [Caputo: Obviously, when you came in to fix up a company, some of the medicine might be tough. And — and many on Wall Street would look unfavorably at that tough medicine, but they would look favorably if it turned out OK.]

But, if you see, instead, people bailing companies out to try and help shareholders, they’re going to find that negative, even if they’re in the marketplace, because they want to make sure that the — that the people leading our country economically are doing what’s right for the economy long term.

Fox, Wed. Sept.17, 2008

That final paragraph is not concrete or clear as spoken; too many “they’re” cross referencing w/o specifying the people, taxpayers, shareholders, or international corporate interests. I never appreciate a definition leaving so many loose ends for political expediency vs. clarity. And I apologize, but Romney supporters playing Romney does not Romney make.

There is so much happening at this tipping point. The vortex is sucking EVERYTHING through a Marxist black hole. I want to hear Romney rebuke the bail-out vortex with the magic he referenced. I would like to think better of him, and would be disappointed though not disillusioned to find Romney skulking behind the curtains “waiting” to take the reins to reign without doing his immediate duty as a patriot and statesman rather than the politically expedient backstage pass towards his next run. Time will tell. And I do hope that Romney works the good medicine vs. bad with his affect now.

What have Phil Gramm and Mitt Romney to say now to McCain; and who is advising the GOP and RNC besides Bush’s Progressive cronies?

This coming Friday bodes a decision from Congress to pass the bail-out. Waiting until Friday night to hear McCain’s arguments is not acceptable.

maverick muse on September 21, 2008 at 11:41 AM

Swing and a miss for SNL on this one. Over 4 minutes long and I didn’t laugh once.

Hog Wild on September 21, 2008 at 11:42 AM

Funny.

Did Frankenstein also write the incest skit?

drjohn on September 21, 2008 at 11:44 AM

About that fairness doctrine….

drjohn on September 21, 2008 at 11:45 AM

Meanwhile, over on FNC last night, Red Eye produced actual humor by equal opportunity offenders.

Somebody should be using Greg Gutfeld’s sidekick Mike Baker as a Mitt Romney impersonator.

Terrie on September 21, 2008 at 11:46 AM

SNL hasn’t been funny since Dennis Miller and Dana Carvey left the show.

ErinF on September 21, 2008 at 11:48 AM

SNL trying WAAAAY too hard and tripping over itself.

baxtrice on September 21, 2008 at 11:55 AM

SNL=still not laughing

saved on September 21, 2008 at 11:55 AM

What happened to the real writers after the strike last fall? I guess they never came back.

rich801 on September 21, 2008 at 11:58 AM

Partisanship aside – that was just plain weak really.

Candy Slice on September 21, 2008 at 11:59 AM

Cindy Munford on September 21, 2008 at 11:10 AM

There were no “bail-outs” before, during or ending the Great Depression because bail-outs don’t cure but further the painful consequences.

America, including conservatives, have become desensitized to Fascism, a point that Jonah Goldberg explicates.

Each legislative act is not limited to extending what is happening, but opens wider the rape loophole by crumbling firewalls.

Progressives like Bush enable Marx and pervert our national economy most insidiously. To turn a blind eye is revolting. To pronounce defiance to Marxism in America is what I assert. To passively accept another bail-out is unacceptable. To do so under the guise of the GOP is the worst move conceivable. When the Feds refused to bail-out, the market rose. When the Feds re-announced its bail-out, the markets plunged.

NO MORE BAIL-OUTS!
McCain, do you hear?

I know, the elder Bush promised no new taxes and then lost re-election. That was then. That was taxes. This is now. This is bail-out to steal taxes from Americans to pad international interests. This is the ball buster that will break America. Permissively allowing rape not only condones rape, but actively promotes rap amongst ALL mindsets to accept as participants. What this bail-out rapes is our very existence. I will not submit to this bail-out as a prostitute to a pimp.

maverick muse on September 21, 2008 at 12:01 PM

And someone stole my McCain Palin yardsign last night….

KZnextzone on September 21, 2008 at 12:01 PM

maverick muse on September 21, 2008 at 12:01 PM

I am pretty sure we bailed out Chrysler and I think there was monumental bail outs during the Saving and Loan mess. So we are not in virgin territory here. Normally I would agree with you on this but this mess is closing down markets all over the world. Is it perfect, probably not, and there will still be companies that don’t make it. As for Gov. Romney, I haven’t heard him on the current fix. I understand that he didn’t like the selective bail out but I will wait to see what he says about this.

Cindy Munford on September 21, 2008 at 12:13 PM

I watched this last night. The most notable thing was the nervous titters from the audience. Partisan. Obnoxious. But not funny at all.

John on September 21, 2008 at 12:20 PM

Repub’s demand equal time. Rove needs to help write the next one.

d1carter on September 21, 2008 at 12:27 PM

Repub’s demand equal time. Rove needs to help write the next one.

d1carter on September 21, 2008 at 12:27 PM

Who ever wrote Rudy’s speech at the convention could probably write a better SNL skit than these “professional” comedy writers.

terryannonline on September 21, 2008 at 12:29 PM

New Hampshire’s Union-Leader calling Obama out for being a typical lying dirtbag politician, despite all his “I’m above that kind of thing” posturing?

Sweet.

AZCoyote on September 21, 2008 at 12:32 PM

“Thank goodness we’ll soon have the Fairness Doctrine to protect us all from this type of media bias”, she said in her most sarcastic voice.

sheesh on September 21, 2008 at 12:39 PM

notice the moral equivalance in the skit, with the Barkley part on economy. Franken is trying to say Rev. Wright has no relevance to Obama’s worldview and candidacy. making fun of supposed “guilt by association”

jp on September 21, 2008 at 12:52 PM

i actually thought that was funny

Defector01 on September 21, 2008 at 12:54 PM

While the SNL with Palin and Clinton was spoofy and comical, mostly because of the interplay between the two women, it’s easy to see Al Franken’s nasty fingerprints all over the vacuous McCain spot. It’s bitterness is so in-your-face, head-on and pervasive that, listening to the laugh track, even the audience doesn’t seem to think it’s all that funny. Snnnnooooze.

marybel on September 21, 2008 at 12:55 PM

Sunday afternoon, and I’m still waiting for the funny part SNL. And waiting…And..

Franken and the SNL douchebag writers thought this was HYSTERICAL in the read through – in their libtard, inside baseball kind of way.

So of course, America was gonna be in stitches too!

And then it was gonna be, ooh, More Franken-addled sketches please SNL! We can’t get enough of that parasite POS.

Teddy on September 21, 2008 at 1:15 PM

What part of BOYCOTT do you not understand?

Hit these anti-Christian bigots where it hurts..in their man purses.

SaintOlaf on September 21, 2008 at 1:27 PM

Kristen Wiig is great. The rest of the cast of SNL needs to be replaced. I rarely watch it anymore.

B26354 on September 21, 2008 at 1:28 PM

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