Hillary Clinton Savaged By Saturday Night Live: Conventional Wisdom Shift
May 11th, 2008 | 10 responses
Back in February, Saturday Night did a peppery parody of a CNN televised debate in which it painted the press as fawning all over Democratic Senator Barack Obama and dismissing and being hard on Senator Hillary Clinton. Clinton’s campaign and Clinton herself pointed to that parody in their argument that the press was going easy on Obama and part of “Obamanamia” and hadn’t been vetting or challenging him.
Shortly after that, what many believe was Obama’s “free” ride indeed ended — and some pundits attributed it to the SNL sketch and the Clinton campaigns use of it as an example of how it wasn’t only them that had this perception of the press’ behavior.
Obama supporters charged SNL was repeatedly biased in its parodies in favor of Clinton and skewering their candidate — and Dan Abrams on MSNBC noted in a segment that political supporters were going haywire…and that SNL was a political candidate equal offender (click on the link since he includes various excerpts).
The Clinton campaign loved SNL — but it’s likely the love affair is over now with last night’s latest parody which at times seems downright brutal.
[Video is after the jump below]
The devastating spoof of a Clinton speech is likely to upset the campaign and even spark supporters’ letters and emails of protest to the show. This You Tube is now being quickly posted on various websites. WARNING: It will be offensive to Clinton supporters but parodies, satires and late night comedian jokes often reflect growing conventional wisdom — which may or may not be correct and which change gears quickly.
The danger to Clinton: political humor bombs if it doesn’t gets laughs from an audience that shares some assumptions. If this is getting big laughs out there, it means Superdelegates are picking up some of these perceptions as well.
P.S. We were going to post the famous February debate parody but it seems to have been pulled from You Tube.
UPDATE: Allahpundit: “If she’s lost SNL, she’s lost America.”
10 Responses to “Hillary Clinton Savaged By Saturday Night Live: Conventional Wisdom Shift”
That was pretty savage.
I'm a as much a critic of Hillary Clinton as anyone, but that SNL skit was painfully unfunny.
That is when first degree strikes. When I heard it first and for quite a few days, I simply gulped listning t it. Then I realize that it was not really planned, even a Clinton would not be that gross. She clearly was reading something , making a quote and as quotes go often, making a mull of it as most of us do. Pb It was dynamite stuff, the type of quote with brackets where everyone needs to either see you bracketting into space or saying “I quote” Or better simply mentionning blue collar, low education but not the colour ; please not the color in out colorblind society. That was the killer. She said it and it will linger and fester nowon.
SNL and most pundits have jumped on it and will tear her apart. Wright is a fool clearly we all see him on the nwes only as a ranting mad man , but Hillary ever so sober HRC who has it to bite the bullet always even if it will kill her; no one takes her for a buffoon and so if she says it, she means it. And even if a few of us and I am a Obama voter believe she did not mean it at all , just wanting to underline her strength in blue collar voters she made the boohbooh of a lifetime. She committed the social solecism any candidate who plans to be elected must not do. it is going to cost her the nomination and will leave her to campaign in Obama only in colorconscious america …racist…alas…back waters even she deserves beter , much better. Not only she lost the nomination, but if Obama is elceted in the GE, it actually cost her the Veep.
It is not savage , it is tragic. like a greek tragedy…
Comedy is supposed to be fun, and while this started out well the Wright bit and the “gender and race card” lines were offensive without being funny. As a result the Clinton fans will be justified in being a bit upset. That said, Joe is correct in pointing out that comedians generally have a good grasp on public sentiment, and just as SNL recognized that the media was fawning on Obama, in this case the Clinton supporters might want to look at the message SNL is broadcasting about the current state of the Clinton campaign.
[...] The Huffington Post News Editors wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptBack in February, Saturday Night did a peppery parody of a CNN televised debate in which it painted the press as fawning all over Democratic Senator Barack Obama and dismissing and being hard on Senator Hillary Clinton. … Read the rest of this great post here [...]
The video is now available at the the SNL website.
Everything about politics has become savage.
A pol expressing a difference of opinion is always said to attack, slam or bash, no matter how mildly the criticism is phrased.
Vicious satire is only a steo up from the way political figures are portrayed in common parlance.
[...] Way Greate wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptBack in February, Saturday Night did a peppery parody of a CNN televised debate in which it painted the press as fawning all over Democratic Senator Barack Obama and dismissing and being hard on Senator Hillary Clinton. … [...]
Where is the outrage? The skit was typical, mildly funny, SNL until they label Hillary Clinton and her supporters as racists. That is offense in the extreme and patently false. Sure, there are some who happen to be racist or misogynistic in both coalitions, but this is not due to the campaigns themselves and to suggest otherwise is divisive.
Imagine if SNL aired a skit during the Rev. Wright hub-bub with a faux-Obama speaking to the camera and saying, “I don't support Rev. Wright's words or actions” wink- wink “nor, do I believe in any of the Reverend's racist rhetoric” wink-wink… If they were to air such a skit SNL would have been skewered by every major liberal media outlet in the country, as well as all over the blogosphere.
I understand Clinton generates passionate opinions, positive and negative, but this type of television is poor form and offends a huge voting block by calling them racists, the utter lack of outrage from the mass media is indicative of their own bias towards this campaign.
Maybe, for some, having a read here – http://notesandasides.blogspot.com/ – will be interesting. After bending my wife's ears one too many times, I was encouraged to start a blog, which I did recently (May '08).
Cheers,
Curtis
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