Here’s SNL’s screamingly funny (and perhaps accurate) take on Wednesday’s debate in Denver between President Barack Obama and Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney. When a perception spreads to comedy — which is an audience laughing at shared assumptions — it is not a good thing for the politician on the receiving end.
h/T Political Wire
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.