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Saturday Night Live is a comedy show. It’s not Meet the Press. It doesn’t "ask the tough questions" or "set the agenda." It attempts, with varying degrees of success, to make people laugh. That’s it. . . .
If you think an appearance on Saturday Night Live would sway voters and actually affect the outcome of the election, you may have more contempt for the electorate of this country than the Republican National Committee does. And that’s a lot of contempt.
Most Americans don’t watch CNN, MSNBC, Fox. Nor do they watch the nightly news. Saturday Night Live, in addition to The Daily Show, Leno, and Letterman, do more to set the national conversation. Tina Fey’s portrial of Sarah Palin has done more to knock down her approval ratings than any news story.
Comedians are able to speak the truth is ways reporters can’t because they can hide reality behind humor. This often makes Weekend Update more accurate than NBC Nightly News. To ignore the political impact of SNL, is simply ignoring reality.
(I’m not suggesting you should have spit in her face - just don’t ignore the political impact of comedy.)
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Baldwin never looked at her sort of the way McCain treated Obama in was it the first or second debate or both? He also really socked it to her by talking about “how hot she is in person” instead of addressing issues.
He reaffirmed that we all feel smarter every time Sarah speaks. Palin really looked nervous.
I just hope the people who faced foreclosure due to the democrat’s (intentional) errors with Fannie and Freddie (By the way… who received the 1st and 2nd largest politcal “donations” from these two special interest groups??)….
Anyhow.. I just hope the people who had to sell their homes, land and/or cars just to beat foreclosure realize that Obama’s CAPITAL GAINS TAX is going to hit them hard…
Talk about adding insult to injury!!! You lose your home or car, sell it under the value to avoid foreclosure and now Obama wants you to PAY A HIGHER capital gains tax on it!!! Talk about total BS!!!
NObama!
You sell for under the value paid, there is no Capital Gains tax as there are no gains to be taxed.