Comments on: Saturday Night Live Believes ABC’s Manipulated Interview W Palin

By: Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » He’s got a “track record of believing in this stuff”, folks

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:40:34 +0000

[...] the way, over the weekend, SNL bashes “old man” McCain…..again, because comedians can’t seem to find anything about Obama to laugh [...]

By: yonason

yonason — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:17:14 +0000

Bill C

good one!

Have you heard the one about the folks in a life-boat, surrounded by sharks, and they drew lots to see which one would be thrown in to appease them? The lawyer got the short straw, and was thrown overboard. A few seconds later the sharks threw him back into the boat. The others were astounded, and asked what that was all about. “Professional courtesy” he replied.

By: Bill C

Bill C — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:55:36 +0000

[i]Is that the problem? I’ve been wondering why we don’t go after them for at least some of the worst of their deceit. – yonason[/i]

I’m thinking it must be. You know the joke about how the devil sued god and god setteld out of court because he couldn’t find a lawyer in heaven?

Just look at the ticket, two lawyers (democrats) vs two non lawyers (Republicans).

By: yonason

yonason — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:35:04 +0000

Too bad there aren’t enough Republican lawyers.”" — Bill C

Is that the problem? I’ve been wondering why we don’t go after them for at least some of the worst of their deceit.

By: Bill C

Bill C — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:32:06 +0000

PS, would it do anygood to write the sponsors and threaten a boycott? Does anyone actually sponsor that program?

By: Bill C

Bill C — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:30:11 +0000

Isn’t that rich. Old Charlie got lost in the “blizzard of words” from Sara, but was fine with the full Arctic winters worth of words from Bububarak.

What we need is a class actions suit against ABC for campaign finance violations due to their manipulation of the content of the interview constituting a flat out contribution to the Obama campaign. Even if the suit failed, it could become enough of a story to force the issue into the rest of the media.

Too bad there aren’t enough Republican lawyers.

Oh, and wasn’t WWI technically a preemptive war? Not only is it true that Germany had not actually committed a act of war against the US (other than soliciting Mexico to start a war with us) but there was no threat of invasion by Germany.

By: addison

addison — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:58:19 +0000

The funniest thing about it is Charlie Gibson’s rendition of the Bush Doctrine is the least correct. By his definition, the Israelis, in 1967, used the Bush Doctrine to quash their Arab neighbors who were about to attack them. Pre-emptive strike has been around as long as man has been warring with himself.

Tina Fey had the accent perfect, though. It was a cute scene.

By: SNL Tonight! *Update - Now With Video! (For now…) « Because No One Asked

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:37:35 +0000

[...] to be fair, remember that it was Charles Gibson who didn’t understand the Bush Doctrine, not [...]

By: Curt

Curt — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:09:39 +0000

Put the video up from SNL webpage Scott since Youtube took down the other one

By: Wordsmith

Wordsmith — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:02:22 +0000

Still….Saturday Night Live writers chose to view the manipulated interview footage as if it were fact instead of visual OpEd.

They probably didn’t know any better. Looks like the YouTube clip has already been taken down.

I’d love to see the unedited Bush Doctrine questioning. The text of the unedit certainly leaves one with a different impression than the interview that aired.