Is "Saturday Night" Clinton's Favorite Time Of The Week?
The legend of the "3 a.m. phone call" lived on over the weekend, as "Saturday Night Live" began its newest episode with a parody featuring an in-over-his-head President Obama soliciting late-night advice from Hillary Clinton on how to handle a simmering international crisis.
The skit is raising questions about whether the venerable institution that has produced decades of sharp political parody has become a cheerleader for the Clinton campaign. In the three episodes that have aired since the end of the television writers' strike, "SNL" has run a string of apparently pro-Clinton segments, including an endorsement from Tina Fey, a parody on perceived pro-Obama media bias and a self-deprecating appearance by Clinton herself, which may have given her a bump going into Ohio and Texas.
Political reporters were among those who most lamented the writers' strike, which continued through the early stages of the campaign. Without the poignant jabs of late-night comedians, the daily political discourse seemed to be lacking an important element.
How would Letterman have reacted to the now famous tears Hillary Clinton shed while opening up about the pressures of the campaign. What would Jon Stewart have said about Mike Huckabee's bizarre pre-Iowa caucus press conference, in which he announced with great fanfare that he would backtrack on his decision to air a negative advertisement against Mitt Romney before proceeding to show it to the assembled press anyway?
Time and again, parody has inspired what becomes conventional wisdom, and what happens on "Saturday Night" can help set the tone for the week ahead.
© 2008 CBS Interactive Inc.. All Rights Reserved. The skit is raising questions about whether the venerable institution that has produced decades of sharp political parody has become a cheerleader for the Clinton campaign. In the three episodes that have aired since the end of the television writers' strike, "SNL" has run a string of apparently pro-Clinton segments, including an endorsement from Tina Fey, a parody on perceived pro-Obama media bias and a self-deprecating appearance by Clinton herself, which may have given her a bump going into Ohio and Texas.
Political reporters were among those who most lamented the writers' strike, which continued through the early stages of the campaign. Without the poignant jabs of late-night comedians, the daily political discourse seemed to be lacking an important element.
How would Letterman have reacted to the now famous tears Hillary Clinton shed while opening up about the pressures of the campaign. What would Jon Stewart have said about Mike Huckabee's bizarre pre-Iowa caucus press conference, in which he announced with great fanfare that he would backtrack on his decision to air a negative advertisement against Mitt Romney before proceeding to show it to the assembled press anyway?
Time and again, parody has inspired what becomes conventional wisdom, and what happens on "Saturday Night" can help set the tone for the week ahead.
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Posted by ccjenkins3 at 10:01 PM : Mar 10, 2008
we still have to wonder...if the jokes and skits would tickle you as much if they made fun of Hilary and made her look incompetent. Like, say the 3 am call comes in but she does not hear it--cause she''s too busy trying to break up a knock down drag out fight between 5 or 6 of her campaign staff.....
At what point does SNL go from entertainment to Hilary camp shill status? We suspect the skin would be quite thin if the shoe was on the other foot.
As an Illinois lawmaker, Barack Obama was one of eight state officials consulted on appointments to a state board which later became involved in what prosecutors describe as a fraud scheme, the Associated Press reports today.That information was contained in a June 2003 memo from a national Democratic official introduced this morning as evidence at the trial of Antoin "Tony" Rezko, a Chicago-area developer and political operative facing corruption charges Obama stated at the debate in South Carolina that he only ever at any contact with Rezko when he worked 4-5 hours for a church in a dispute with Rezko. Rezko is under inditement for extorsion and political favor selling now we find out that Obama was on the very board that Rezko was selling favors for.Obama recieved money from people who had to pay money to Obamas campaign for US senate to get contracts and loans
Posted by MsPiff
Sometimes people see similarities among two persons.
I think Hillary is brain-dead. Why? Because she can''t tell the difference between a dictator (e.g. Kim Jong-il of North Korea) and a president of United States.
Kim Jong-il is as clever as Hillary, is experienced (if not more than Hillary) in handling domestic and foreign affairs, and has %u201Caudacity of audacity%u201D like Hillary. In fact, Hillary portraits herself exactly a Jong-il (if not more ill). So, Hillary, what''s the ill in you is exactly what''s the ill in Jong-ill.
What a dictator (Jong-ill or Hillary-ill) lacks to become the president of United States is not experience, capability, or "audacity of audacity"; it is virtue, the moral courage!
It is man who makes experience great, not experience that makes man great.
"To lead people, walk beside them...
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear;
and the next, the people hate..."
A dictator is he who people fear; Hillary is she who people "hate".
"Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests."