It's clear that Saturday Night Live is very confident that Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States.
The opening skit lampooned Joe Biden and John Murtha campaigning in western Pennsylvania.
Murtha, played by Darrell Hammond, and Biden, played by Jason Sudeikis, were depicted as utter buffoons. In other words, the portrayals were quite realistic.
Murtha would make a comment and then revise his previous statement. He called his constituents racist and backward and ignorant. He brought up the movie Deliverance in connection with the people he represents.
Biden was playing the role of the prophet, telling the crowd about the coming international crisis that he guarantees will occur if/when Obama is elected.
Sure, the writers embellished, but the script wasn't too far off the mark from what Biden and Murtha actually said.
Video.
I would be very surprised if Biden found this skit as funny as SNL's take on the vice presidential debate.
Watch this clip.
Biden couldn't stop laughing. Even Diane Sawyer seemed to think Biden was acting weird. It was so unnatural, but then that's Biden.
Anyway, I doubt that Biden enjoyed being mocked.
Although Biden has given SNL so much material since Obama chose him to be his running mate, and he's made so many idiotic statements, Biden has been given a pass -- until now.
Why would SNL decide to show Biden as the loon he so often is?
It could be that the sketch was meant to offer at least a little balance after the 90 minutes of reruns of SNL's Weekend Update Thursdays ran in prime time earlier in the evening. NBC literally gave 90 minutes of free network ad time to the Obama campaign.
I don't think that explains the Biden and Murtha skit, not entirely anyway.
I think it shows that the Obama propagandists at SNL are so convinced that Obama will win the election that they feel safe now in taking some swipes at Biden. They must see Obama winning in a landslide or they wouldn't have risked it.
A sketch later in the program made their certainty of Obama's victory even clearer. It was about the half-hour of prime time TV that Obama has purchased on NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX for this coming Wednesday.
Fred Armisen, as Obama, and Maya Rudolph, as Michelle, said that it wasn't necessary for them to use the time to talk about issues. Obama has such a commanding lead in the race that they would use the time to entertain the American people instead.
I don't think there's any question that SNL is predicting a big win for Obama.
The Biden skit would never have aired if that weren't the case.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
SNL: Biden and Murtha
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Why would SNL decide to do the Biden skit? you ask. I think it was meant to poke fun at the conservatives as much as it was at Biden. But that may have been lost on some. What the real Joe Biden had actually said was clearly something that could be said about whomever is in office: they will be tested, especially in this climate, just as George Bush was tested in his early days and others before him. Republicans have tried to spin it into Joe Biden warning us that Barrack Obama isn't ready to lead and terrorists know it. So SNL spoofed Biden saying it like the Republicans were trying, largely inn vain, to make it sound. What made this obvious to me was when the comedian morphed into evangelical preacher mode. Clearly a joke at the expense of the Christian right. Unfortunately (or fotunately?) I think the joke went over their heads.
When al Qaeda bombed the WTC in 1993 and when al Qaeda carried out the series of attacks during Clinton's terms, he was being tested.
However, Biden did not just say that every president faces challenges. That spin is pathetic. Biden went goofy, guaranteeing an international "crisis" and predicting specifics about how it would play out, such as people thinking they were making the wrong decisions, etc. That goes well beyond stating the obvious, that every president is tested on the world stage.
Actually, I think Biden's ramblings in the skit may have been lost on the secular Left. Biden was speaking about Obama as if he were a messiah, not to mention that he was speaking like a babbling idiot. Yes, I think it could be taken as a joke at the expense of Biden and the anointed one's cult-like following -- clearly a jab at the foot-in-mouth Biden and Obama worshippers, if not Obama himself.
Granted, the SNL writers may not have intended that, given that the show is Obama TV; but that interpretation is undeniable.
Fortunately or unfortunately for SNL, the skit my have delivered some unintended consequences. It's not that the joke goes over the heads of those on the Right. I think it's more that the Left doesn't perceive how utterly foolish it can be. Clueless.
Yeah, sure, right... that's probably it Mary. You go with that.
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