SNL Gives It To Obama Over Unemployment And Debt To China
Sarah Palin wasn’t the only political figure to get satirically served by Saturday Night Live this week. In fact, Barack Obama got his turn first, sort of like being president, right Sarah? (Kidding. Sort of!) The show opened with a CSPAN segment depicting a joint press conference between President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao, played by Will Forte and speaking through an interpreter. Thus, your requisite foreign language jokes and conjugation issues. The homosexual jokes can not so easily be accounted for, but rest assured, they’re there too.
But though the skit seemed a bit short on laughs, the same can not be said for its political content. Did the show consciously sacrifice funniness in favor of make a political point? We report, you decide!
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Sunnyr says: Wow! The Liberals finally get it! There IS a God! The LSM and the liberal “elite” have to keep the pressure on Obama to stop the reckless spending and concentrate on the economy and jobs. They have as much to lose as anyone else if this administration keeps borrowing and printing money to spend on job killers like Cap and Trade and a 2 TRILLION dollar health care SCAM which is nothing more than Redistribution of Wealth and a PAYOFF TO OBAMA’S BIGGEST DONOR, THE UNIONS!
m says: Yet, Sunnyr doesn’t realize that Barack Obama is a moderate and not liberal. If conservatives go this batcrap crazy when someone’s who’s barely center-left is in office, I wonder how they’d react one day we’d have a real liberal in the White House.
TfT says: Pretty funny stuff. When will CNN fact check it?
hkyplayer says: Finally, Finally some one woke up on the left! and opened there eyes! Maybe the rest of the koolaid drinking followers will see what is happening to this country and stand up to the money that is being wasted.
rmbltmbl says: Just because PBO says he is a moderate does not make it so. You might make the argument that he is moderate because he has not accomplished anything however.
Since your definition of moderate puzzles me so much, m, please give me the ideals of your ‘liberal.’
mikesundown says: This Mediate piece is comical. Nobody in the media ever wonders whether SNL is putting political points before laughs when the show skewers George Bush, but Joe is shocked, just shocked, that it would deliver so many hard jabs to Obama’s chin. It’s one thing to zing Joe Biden, but The Anointed One? The reliably liberal SNL studio audience also was stunned, but even they had to laugh at the best lines, because the shots were so on the mark.
al777 says: m says: “Barack Obama is a moderate and not liberal”. And wait till a “real liberal (is) in the White House”. What may I ask is a real liberal?? Seriously, the president has assigned more communists and communist sympathizers to this White House to make McCarthy roll over in his grave. So who or what is a “real liberal,” the “conservatives are happy to spout off their list of commandments: lower taxes, less government, etc…blah… but “liberals never seem to really tell us what they believe other than a woman’s right to choose. So I ask, but wonder, if even those who call themselves “liberals,” could tells us (let alone agree) on what they believe, or what the word means. So…even though this has the drippings of sarcasm it is rooted in genuine sincerity in what is a “really liberal” is. Is it the Dalai Lama, Stalin, FDR, Ralph Nader, Harry Ried, Mussolini, or someone from New Zealand or Amsterdam?
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