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SNL Cold Open: Harry Reid Reveals Himself To Be A Birther! (VIDEO)

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SNL opened last night with a sketch spoofing President Obama (Fred Armisen) making a campaign stop in Nevada to stump for a struggling Harry Reid (Paul Brittain). After a glowing introduction from Obama, Reid asks him if he’d mind if he distanced himself from the President. “Do what you have to do, Harry, I’ve got your back,” says Obama. Whereupon Reid reveals that he is actually a Birther.

“I don’t understand why, if you were born in this country, you won’t just show us your birth certificate. I mean is that too much to ask?”

“You’re right!” Says Obama to the crowd, “I probably should!.”

Watch below. Later Obama agrees that Reid is both “devious” and a “fairweather friend”…“I wouldn’t call us friends,” says Reid.

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  • Latin2

    Well Obama’s pastor is a 9/11 truther and believes our government created AIDS and gave it to African-Americans in the USA.

  • Latin2

    Also Reid has said many comments that would be considered racist if he wasn’t a leader in the Democratic Party.

  • Big Eddie

    There’s 4 minutes gone forever .

  • Latin2

    Remember when Reid said “Obama doesn’t speak with a NEGRO dialect”?

    uh…that IS racist.

    How actually was Obama supposed to speak? Obama is not from the same background as many African-Americans. The majority of African-Americans are descendants of slaves and their families suffered decades of racism…uh…OBAMA NEVER HAS and Obama does not even share the same struggle they went through. Obama was raised in multi-cultural Hawaii and by his white grandparents, so Reid was stupid to say that..and THAT WAS RACIST.

  • Latin2

    Sooo…what is new about the skit…that is what many Democrats are saying…in other words LYING.

  • NORBIT

    Wow!
    They did an actual Lampoon of the Once Revered!!

    They put up on the screen what most people assume about these two Characters- and did it very well! (You can probably add a little more enthusiasm for partisan fervor.)

    In reality though, it’s all TRUE!

    The President has been disingenuous, calculated and deceitful in imposing his Government-Control Vision of the World.
    HIS vision is diametrically opposed to the Personal Freedom country 70% of the people want.

    It’s an age-old conflict, but given the choice, people want to be free….so how does that Democratic Senate Look Now!?
    LOL!!

  • Not Your Typical New Yorker

    If Obama refuses to show his birth certificate and spends well over $1 million dollars to keep it concealed, the question then becomes WHY?

    All thinking people can agree on that. Does that make us birthers….? No, that makes Obama an afterbirther.

  • Latin2

    Not Your Typical New Yorker said:
    If Obama refuses to show his birth certificate and spends well over $1 million dollars to keep it concealed, the question then becomes WHY?

    All thinking people can agree on that. Does that make us birthers….? No, that makes Obama an afterbirther.

    I would be interested in seeing it…not because I believe he was born anywhere else, just to see what the old classification of race was back then. Did they have the term “Mixed”? Or would he have been classified as “Negro” or “Colored” which used to be the old classifications for African-Americans. They would not classify him as “white”, but I wonder what mixed children were classified in Hawaii in those times?

    In olden days they used to classify Latinos as whites or Indian, even if they were not white or American Indian

  • NORBIT

    Latin2 said:
    I would be interested in seeing it…not because I believe he was born anywhere else, just to see what the old classification of race was back then. Did they have the term “Mixed”? Or would he have been classified as “Negro” or “Colored” which used to be the old classifications for African-Americans. They would not classify him as “white”, but I wonder what mixed children were classified in Hawaii in those times? In olden days they used to classify Latinos as whites or Indian, even if they were not white or American Indian

    Is MARXIST a race? lol!

  • Latin2

    NORBIT said:
    Is MARXIST a race? lol!

    No…it is a mental disorder.

    ;)

  • shootfromthehip

    oh hello, teatards.

    Did you know even Ann Coulter thinks all you birthers are FUCKING NUTS?

    Here, I’ll even out on a link from a website you laughable fools read so you’ll watch it.

    http://www.breitbart.tv/ann-coulter-birthers-are-wrong/

  • NORBIT

    shootfromthehip said:
    oh hello, teatards. Did you know even Ann Coulter thinks all you birthers are FUCKING NUTS? Here, I’ll even out on a link from a website you laughable fools read so you’ll watch it. http://www.breitbart.tv/ann-coulter-birthers-are-wrong/

    Keep focused on those birthers, while the psunami continues to build!

    Once again, THANK YOU NPR!!! – special shout-out to Soros & C.A.I.R.
    When you go to vote on 11-02-10: Think FREE JUAN!!

    LOL!!!

  • shootfromthehip

    New rule: grown men cannot use “LOL” (unless they are really 14-year-old girls)

    Also, interesting spelling of “tsunami.”

    Is there a tsunami of stupid coming? I think you underestimate the American voting public. Most are not stupid fringe teabaggers and most are terrified of the wave of stupidity coming from the right. It’s more of a stream of stupid as opposed to a “tsunami,” but you watch Fox so you think differently, naturally.

    But I have news for you: Americans are sick and tired of stupid and will never vote in the likes of Angle and Christine O’Donnel.

    Sarah Palin’s popularity is strong with her base, but every single poll ever taken shows she will never get 30% of the vote.

    She is fringe. You are fringe.

    Get used to it.

    TRUTH.

  • shootfromthehip

    NORBIT said:
    Keep focused on those birthers, while the psunami continues to build!

    Once again, THANK YOU NPR!!! – special shout-out to Soros & C.A.I.R.
    When you go to vote on 11-02-10: Think FREE JUAN!!

    LOL!!!

    Also, if you think more than 1% of Americans know who Soros is or what C.A.I.R is you are fucking dreaming.

    Norbit = hero of the teatards.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Latin2 said:
    Remember when Reid said “Obama doesn’t speak with a NEGRO dialect”?

    uh…that IS racist.

    African-Americans tend to have wider nostrils than Anglo-Americans. Recognizing that isn’t racism. Deciding one is better than the other and acting on it is discrimination. People who discriminate are bigots. “Negro” and “colored” were considered polite terms just three decades ago, which for old-timer Harry Reid, was yesterday. His comments were in the context of political analysis, not policy analysis, and “negro” is a term Reid and his colleagues used on the floor of the Senate regularly in the not-too-distant past. So Harry was given the pass for that because 1) his liberal positions on race issues is well known, 2) he’s been around long enough to have some old-fashioned words in his vocabulary, and 3) he wasn’t talking about Obama’s race with any respect to policy. By contrast, conservatives raise the issue of race with respect to POLICY almost every day – like blaming “welfare queens” (code for black, single mothers on crack) for all of America’s economic problems, or suggesting that a private business owner SHOULD be allowed to segregate blacks from whites. THAT’S racism. Not what Harry Reid said.

    Latin2 doesn’t give a shit about the facts. I just post this to have it on the same page with his solipsistic bullshit. ;-)

  • Alric_IV

    Latin2 said:
    Also Reid has said many comments that would be considered racist if he wasn’t a leader in the Democratic Party.

    Oh, bullshit. He said stuff YOU like to construe as racist for your own partisan-stupid purposes. But it’s not true. Don’t you wish changing reality was really that simple.

  • juan

    What is Obama hiding and why?

    Also,

    Sunday, October 24, 2010

    So This Means We Get To See Obama’s College And Law School Records, Right?

    Right? I mean, all we now have to do is to run to this Judge in Alaska and point out that if Joe Miller’s confidential personnel file from a prior employer needs to be made public because running for Senate is so important, certainly we are entitled to more information about Obama than he tells us in his books, right?

    From the Anchorage Daily News, Judge orders Miller documents released:

    http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/10/so-this-means-we-get-to-see-obamas.html

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    juan said:
    What is Obama hiding and why?

    Also,

    Sunday, October 24, 2010

    So This Means We Get To See Obama’s College And Law School Records, Right?

    Right? I mean, all we now have to do is to run to this Judge in Alaska and point out that if Joe Miller’s confidential personnel file from a prior employer needs to be made public because running for Senate is so important, certainly we are entitled to more information about Obama than he tells us in his books, right?

    From the Anchorage Daily News, Judge orders Miller documents released:

    http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/10/so-this-means-we-get-to-see-obamas.html

    Obama is American. That’s a fact. So nothing will change on that front. But let’s imagine all his records are released and it turns out he lied about everything and Harvard even helped him by creating a false paper trail of his role as President of the Harvard Law Review. Then what? Will he be impeached and convicted and removed from office? No. But even if he did, that would make Biden the President, not McCain. And even if you got Biden, too, Pelosi becomes President. And if you manage to oust her, too, then Harry Reid. How many impeachments do you think it would take to get to a Republican President? Hmm? Since that’s obviously not going to happen, what is the point of constantly harping on Obama’s past? What, exactly, would victory on that front mean to the right wing? Nothing. Nada. Zilch. This is one of the stupidest memes the right is pushing and that’s saying a lot, given the level of stupidity on the right these days. Talk about a jumbo waste o’ time.

    LOL

  • lazzzlo

    shootfromthehip said:
    New rule: grown men cannot use “LOL” (unless they are really 14-year-old girls)

    Please include the word “teh”.

  • lazzzlo

    Grammar rules are always important. It would also be cool if no personal insults and obscenities were posted.

  • lazzzlo

    Speaking as a man; not a 14 year old girl.

  • NORBIT

    With all the NPR Censorship going around, we forgot all about Obama’s “Summer of Recovery”!

    Was that as successful as the Health Care Takeover & the Stimulus Extortion?

    9 Days!!!

    Turn Back the Democrat’s GOVERNMENT MACHINE!!

  • NORBIT

    shootfromthehip said:
    New rule: grown men cannot use “LOL” (unless they are really 14-year-old girls) Also, interesting spelling of “tsunami.” Is there a tsunami of stupid coming? I think you underestimate the American voting public. Most are not stupid fringe teabaggers and most are terrified of the wave of stupidity coming from the right. It’s more of a stream of stupid as opposed to a “tsunami,” but you watch Fox so you think differently, naturally. But I have news for you: Americans are sick and tired of stupid and will never vote in the likes of Angle and Christine O’Donnel. Sarah Palin’s popularity is strong with her base, but every single poll ever taken shows she will never get 30% of the vote. She is fringe. You are fringe. Get used to it. TRUTH.

    …and you keep hanging on those spelling errors!

    Once again, THANK YOU NPR!
    THANK YOU!

  • shootfromthehip

    Sigh. Norbit just doesn’t get it. 90% of voters are not paying attention to the Fox “news” cycle of the day and the NPR “controversy.”

  • C.Moore

    Not Your Typical New Yorker said:
    If Obama refuses to show his birth certificate and spends well over $1 million dollars to keep it concealed, the question then becomes WHY? All thinking people can agree on that. Does that make us birthers….? No, that makes Obama an afterbirther.

    This is why racists can’t keep their story straight. first it was $950,000, now it’s $1,000,000?
    He hasn’t even spent millions on his legal fees in total. What the birthers are referring to started out as about half a million, which was what he paid his law firm, for all legal services. Somehow this became, in their heads, the amount he was paying to fight the cases rather than give them what they wanted (which is something the defendant in a frivolous suit should never do). And, of course, along the way, the figure they used just kept growing and growing. But facts are hardly relevant to birther and racists arguments!

  • A man without a Country

    NORBIT says: HIS vision is diametrically opposed to the Personal Freedom country 70% of the people want.

    This is a imaginary statistic.
    Made up, not real, Hyperbole, false.
    Much like the entire Birth certificate issue.

    ———————————————————————————————————————————
    Go to your mosques and synagogues, tell everyone you know to vote Democratic!
    Join the fight against Christin Fascism and vote!

  • NORBIT

    …and then there were NINE!!

    FOX should blare “Eye Of The Tiger” all day as the masses go to the polls to Purge Democratic Intolerance from the political system!!

    THANK YOU NPR!!

    ps) Would it be asking too much to fire Mara Liasson before next Tuesday?
    LMAO!!!
    LMFAO!!!

    THANK YOU NPR!!!!!

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Nobody should be forced to tolerate so much stupidity in one human being. But we allow Norbit to go on living. Go figure.

  • shootfromthehip

    HA. Norbit likes “Eye of the Tiger” which alone tells you a lot about the kind of loser we are dealing with here.

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