It’s been commented about here lightly by others that SNL when it first came out had a major impact on this generation. Major music, acting, and comedy careers were sprung from this show. People who had an influence on the type of music, programs, and movies you watched. It also made somethings that weren’t acceptable in mainstream primetime television slowly but surely more and more acceptable. It made crass and rude behavior more acceptable. Decorum and respectability being considered dishonest.

When I was in middle school, every Monday morning at lunch time people would run through the memorable SNL lines from the night before. You know a majority did it. It made you think you were in the loop and cool, even if you were conservative.

These ‘kids’ of yester-year that think that this stuff makes them “better than”, in the loop, more high minded by being able to take serious subjects and spoof them, but at its rawest position taking ‘Joe American’ and show him for the ‘Stupid American’ the world sees him. It is done by making fun of him in such a way ‘Joe American’ really has no idea how horribly he is being ridiculed. SNL fans get to feel better about themselves because they think they “get” the joke.

For those commentators who state that we are all ‘all over the map’, I say, ‘Of course we are! Like the YouTube debates, she’s damned if she does and she’s damned if she doesn’t. Our generation has seen to that fact.’ And once again, politics is a game instead of something serious. But come the beginning of next year, these elitists of my generation who think they get the joke will realize that the joke is on them.

Deviation is the bell curve and it doesn’t change, what’s normal is normal what isn’t is deviate. No matter how you intellectualize it, life is simple and these things will never change. It is gravity no matter how you decipher it. You’ve pulled the rubber band as far as it will go so now prepare for the rubber band of the universe to snap back hard. It always does.

Hee hee – good one Juliette. So glad you showed up to save the thread. HA is a great site, but some of the prolific commenters? Not so much.

rhodeymark on October 19, 2008 at 6:25 PM

You’re welcome! We need some giggles these days.

It was absolutely astounding to me that she actually agreed to go on SNL. To willingly play along with people who are trying to damage her just makes her look like a bufoon at worst and desperate at best. She lowered herself to appear on a show that ceased to be humorous years ago and to what advantage?

under on October 19, 2008 at 9:20 PM

Under:

There’s a reason the GOP ticket is trailing in this race in the polls. That attitude is a big part of it. Young people in particular (those people who tend to watch that show) are being influenced by the leftists. If the MSM won’t give her a fair shake — and they won’t — she has to go to that public dirctly. She gets exposure, NBC gets ratings.

She came off great last night. The opening bit where Baldwin “mistook” her for Fey was tremendous. She delivered the “You’re my favorite Baldwin’s brother” line well. Note, too, that in the Rap song, she was responding “Ayers” to the word “Obama.”

And at the end, she was out front, with Fey cowering in the background. Only when Palin cheered Fey’s recognition did Fey start over to Palin, after the other cast member practically tackled her. Make no mistake, ground was gained via this appearance. It’s still 4th and long.

Cute but not funny. Just odd and awkward.

She’s a beautiful lady and too classy for that show.

Mo2Do on October 19, 2008 at 4:26 PM

Glad to see that Palin ran the gauntlet so well, but I wish that she would have had more lines.

But I thought the first segment was totally lame. And the second segment – the rap – was possibly one of the dumbest things I have ever seen.

gxpgxp on October 19, 2008 at 9:07 PM

That’s what I saw. Somebody with quality. The names on the other ticket…I have already forgotten. The dustbin of history – (D)’08.

But I thought the first segment was totally lame. And the second segment – the rap – was possibly one of the dumbest things I have ever seen.

Palin did just fine.

mwsivt on October 19, 2008 at 7:45 PM

I’m sure it goes in cycles. Hollywood throws us a conservative bone every once in a while. They will never change from just boycotting their shows and products. We need to have conservatives on the inside.

I’m so proud of her.

Maybe, because the left knew, the right was
watching!

Is Palin the only candidate that has rhythm? Awesome!

Truth

And get an education, americaslaststand, to improve your reading and comprehension skills. My statement said THE HUMANE MANAGEMENT of wildlife, not that wildlife may not need managing.

Another example of how you know nothing of what you speak. I have had an education and it continues and will until I die. Unlike close minded miopic folks such as yourself.

You need to educate yourself, you see this issue of hunting from a plane as un-needed or in humane. Please prove me wrong and go hunting in a frozen tundra on foot, and track a wolf, please do.

Pudits who are not worth the keyboard they are typing on expose their detachment and shallowness.

Female elitists like Hand-me-(another)-glass-of-cabernet-while-I-pontificate-for-your-little-minds-Kathleen Parker and Peggy Noonan the self-intoxicated, self-worshipping “wordsmith” expose their innate jealousy of a woman who is genuine and down to earth, and succeeds without a northeastern pedigree, and hasn’t presented herself for tutelage on the DC cocktail party circuit.

They may very well lose, but it will be for the same reason Dole lost. Because McCain has two raisins between his legs when it comes to standing on a stage in a debate and exposing each and every flaw of your opponent and tripping him up incessantly when he starts dancing. Keep hitting him until he drops, just like any other fight.

Obama is an empty suit, McCain is a wet paper towel.

Gov. Palin was over handled, over-programmed, over-coached, over freaking everything instead of letting her natural talents shine. Let her answer the questions however she wants to, not sculpt them around McCain’s painfully awkward election year parsing.

Let’s not forget what a despicable menace Mr. Immigration, High Priest of the First Church of Global Warming, Anti-Tax cut, Iraq/Jamie Gorelic Study Group has been the last eight years. Try dancing through those hoops in a prime time interview with a only few weeks of preparation.

McCain deserves to lose. He also deserves to be thrown off a cliff for his Bob Dole “cordial”, “respectful” and “gentlemanly” campaign that’s getting strapped by a Chicago Marxist punk who eats a $350 lobster tail hors d’oeuvre for a snack in between speeches about ordinary Americans.

I think an unfettered Gov. Palin will be a good rallying point after the travesty that we will all be experiencing the next four years.

She’s going places. America needs Palin!