Awww, SNL too mean to Obama. CNN to the rescue.

[ashbeeigh]

SNL has mentioned healthcare at least once a week in several sketches. They did a few things on it in last week's Thursday Weekend Update show. It's very clear that the writer's are getting upset with him.

And if you're going to watch SNL at least watch it for the good ..aka the shorts and andy dressing up in bubble wrap. geez.

[EVAY]

Best way to get over the manifested paranoid angst is to just quit caring.

Well, yes, there is that. I don't see it happening, though, do you?

Your suggestion assumes a level of moderation that is not evident from reading the posts on this forum.

[hope4dopes]

Actually, Crookshanks sounds less and less crazy the more you post. And if you really want to get the most out of the metaphor, I would call it "manufacturing mystique." Little more poetic.

noam chomsky

[Cry Havoc]

SNL has mentioned healthcare at least once a week in several sketches. They did a few things on it in last week's Thursday Weekend Update show. It's very clear that the writer's are getting upset with him.

And if you're going to watch SNL at least watch it for the good ..aka the shorts and andy dressing up in bubble wrap. geez.

I love it.

When they say something negative toward conservatives, it's "they're liberal s who are so slanted that you can't listen to anything they say" or at the very least, "well it's a parody show so it doesn't matter".

Now all of a sudden because they're taking small shots at the current administration (which they had a FIELD day with while Clinton, a democrat in case you have forgotten, was in office, and that was even before Monica & Co.) "conservatives" rush to legitimize such sketches as evidence that people don't like Obama as much.

Amazing. If the media disagrees with you, they're unfairly biased. If they side with your viewpoint, suddenly it's because they've "seen the light". The exact same thing applies to Stewart and Colbert.

Nice little Partridge family house you've got there.

[mogrovejo]

I commend that. However, believing the POTUS calls a cable news station to ensure they fact-check late night comedy isn't so much conservatism as it is being a crazy person.

Well, of course it won't be the POTUS making the call, but I'd be extremely surprised if there aren't people in the Administration - and particularly in this one, the first to engage in a "permanent campaign" philosophy - taking care of that.

I'd recommend Alastair Campbell's book The Blair Years. Extremely interesting.

[DarrinS]

I love it.

When they say something negative toward conservatives, it's "they're liberal s who are so slanted that you can't listen to anything they say" or at the very least, "well it's a parody show so it doesn't matter".

Now all of a sudden because they're taking small shots at the current administration (which they had a FIELD day with while Clinton, a democrat in case you have forgotten, was in office, and that was even before Monica & Co.) "conservatives" rush to legitimize such sketches as evidence that people don't like Obama as much.

Actually, you missed the point completely. It's not that they satirize the left or right (that's what they're supposed to do -- to BOTH sides), it's that it was done to Obama and CNN felt they had to come out and refute a SKIT, point by point.

[iggypop123]

Hmmm - I don't recall anyone doing a "fact check" on the Tina Fey Sarah Palin skits. In fact, there are still many, many people who think Sarah Palin actually said "I can see Russia from my house".

This just goes back to the fact that Obama is very thin-skinned and can't take criticism from anyone. I mean - how utterly stupid is it that CNN is "fact-checking" a SNL skit?

wasnt tina fey basically quoting palin word for word?

[Cry Havoc]

wasnt tina fey basically quoting palin word for word?

Yeah, they even did comparisons on youtube. Palin's speeches were so bad the SNL directors famously didn't even have to change it to make it funny.

[Cry Havoc]

Actually, you missed the point completely. It's not that they satirize the left or right (that's what they're supposed to do -- to BOTH sides), it's that it was done to Obama and CNN felt they had to come out and refute a SKIT, point by point.

And it's a ridiculous move by CNN. But I think blaming the Obama administration or attempting to attribute CNN's take on SNL to the White House is a massive reach.

[Crookshanks]

wasnt tina fey basically quoting palin word for word?

You just made my point...

[Shastafarian]

That's why I say I, like every American I'm speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in. Where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh, it's got to be about job creation, too. Shoring up our economy, and getting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade -- we have got to see trade as opportunity, not as, uh, compe ive, um, scary thing, but one in five jobs created in the trade sector today. We've got to look at that as more opportunity. All of those things under the umbrella of job creation.

We're sayin "hey, why bailout Fannie and Freddie and not me?" But ultimately what the bailout does is help those that are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy to help, um, it's gotta all be about job creation too. Also too, shoring up our economy and putting Fannie and Freddie back on the right track and so health care reform and reducing taxes and reigning in spending cuz Barack Obama, heh, ya know *licks finger and sticks up*. You know we've got to accompany tax reduction and tax relief for Americans also so having a dollar value meal at restaurants. That's gonna help. But 1 in 5 jobs being created today under the umbrella of job creation, that, ya know, also.