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Never could stand Fey, particularly when she was on with that moronic no-talent Fallon. “Corpsing” constantly during their shtick. Pathetic. She’s always thought she’s way funnier than she is, and now, with media attention and a more expensive publicist, she’s starting to believer her own hype about being some kind of intellectual sex symbol — ridiculous. Way overrated, and when the desperate, fake 30 Rock bubble finally pops…hello oblivion.
Palin doesn’t just believe that dinosaurs walked with man, she believes that “The Flintstones” was a documentary!
Tina Fey was great. Too bad her show “30 rock” is just okay. It sucks in the ratings and at best is funny just some of the time, and those times are when Alec Baldwin is in the scene. I really wanted to like this show, too.
Jeff Zucker must have a secret crush on Tina to keep this show on.
Aaron,
What country have you been living in for the past 8 years? If you can say with any certainty that you believe that more Republican rule would be beneficial in light of the turdbowl we’ve been collectively eating from since a portion of America said “yes” to W, then godspeed, man, because if you hadn’t noticed, we’re in a lot of trouble.
In terms of executive experience, being a mayor or even governor of Alaska is really akin to being mayor of Washington D.C. in that you really have no actual power. That may sound like a specious argument, but I challenge you and other to think about who really wields power in such places, where oil is the #1 commodity.
My fear is that Republicans are going to once again hoodwink the nation because the people who are most apt to vote for them are truly the ones most disconnected from what the real sociopolitical landscape is really like.
When will you Americans talk about the issues? You know, instead of endlessly disparaging the character of your candidates until election day, at which point everyone wakes up and says “wait, I didn’t vote for that…”
This applies to both GOP and Dems.
I mean, all the partisans who froth at the mouth one way or the other are just selfish jerks venting their rage. I think they WANT more of the same so that they can keep the cable news commentator gigs and up the valuation of their Web sites.
Enough.
I actually don’t believe the name Barack Obama was spoken even once during that whole show — not even during Weekend Update.
That said, the show itself was painful. SNL is now challenging the Joe Piscopo-Anthony Michael Hall era as one of the worst in its history. Once Poehler exits, it’s going to be more unwatchable than it already is.
ha ha..
“i can see russia from my house”
I’m sick and tired of the right talking about how the Democratic candidate has no credentials.
Barack Obama is one of the most successful men in the history of Western civilization. He grew up a poor, bi-racial child who ascended to the top of the law review at Harvard, and now has the support of over 40 millon members of his country to be President of the United States of America. Countless millions abroad celebrate his standing as well. Tell me — what have you done with your life that even justifies you posting on a silly message board?
Kill yourself.
Forget Iraq — Bush and Cheney committed treason for leaking Valerie Plame’s name, and if a Democrat had done that, he would have been impeached. They are traitors who should be taken to the United States Military Academy at West Point and stoned by plebes.
While the skit itself was good, the producers of the show dropped the ball big time from a creative standpoint by having Tina as Palin on screen the very first second the show went on air! That robbed the audience of erupting into applause by not having her walk out on set to create much more of a dramatic effect. At least that’s my opinion!
AaronSch said:
“The backlash is gonna be huge and I can’t wait to see the shell-shocked expressions on election night as the Republicans take the White House and regain control in the House of Representatives.”
Nice spin there AaronSch….let’s all hope that not many people drink the same right wing kool-aid as you and see the vision of an all Republican government as a good thing or we’ll all be forced to sing the GOP Uber Alles blues.
The backlash has already begun and judging by your views you’re not gonna like which way it is backlashing.
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Thank- you Jim and AaronSch-
NOW Rupert and Des , let’s get down to the VERY BASICS – KIS ( Keep it Simple)- All we’re asking for “is she or he qualified”?
After all of this I am now looking in my small home town at the local sports- newcaster and wondering ” could this be our next Mayor and then Governor and who knows – VP and Yes — President? WOW!!!
Call me a liberal – all I am asking for are “QUALIFIED” politicians -prepared to LEAD the US of A to THRIVAL. I just thought we could possibly find someone who might have the necessary QUALIFICATIONS??
If we just keep it simple maybe we can cross the lines and ask ourselves what most matters to survive and thrive for ALL Americans ? (Hope it’s okay to include ALL –I hate to leave any American out)
I saw that earlier online. Really freaked me out how much of a ringer Fey is for Palin. With all this talk of North Korea using doubles for their Leader, I hope Palin doesn’t get such an idea. One is enough!
In a weak attempt by the media to balance partisan attacks, Hillary has clearly become the Democratic scapegoat for the liberal media, while Obama is off limits.
I really hope Palin comes out of her media cocoon and is asked about the fact that she believes dinosaurs walked the earth 4000 years ago. What about carbon dating Gov. Palin. You not believe in that as well?
Uhm Aaron…the Dems will add to their lead in both the the House (around 8-10)and Senate (probably by 4 or 5) in November. You saying otherwise is essentially makes you more flacid than you’ve ever been.
Aaron, I totally agree with you. The press has made a fool of themselves and revealed how much of a propaganda machine they are by fawning over Obama (“boxers or briefs”) while mocking Palin for having a religion (as in the recent ABC interview). Meanwhile, this stupid behavior from the media plus the idiotic statements made by the likes of Roseanne Barr (who ranted on her website that Palin ought to stay at home with her kids and not work! – funny coming from a woman who gave up her own children in order to make a fortune in showbiz) and Pamela Anderson (“I can’t stand her. She can suck it!”)and Matt Damon waffling on in some incoherent rant about dinosaurs just riles the Republicans (or anyone else with a brain and isn’t drinking the Obama kool-aid) up and ensures McCain and Palin will be in the White House and their boy Obama will be back in Chicago doing nothing.
I do wish there had been a line of something like “I support the right of all women to choose on the issue of abortion” vs. “I support my right to choose for myself, my family, and the rest of you.”
Aaron, what you don’t seem to understand (um, aside from the fact that Pelosi will still be Speaker come next year) is that its the personality-based attack that really hurts a candidate. And, as you note, the media confines itself to questioning Republican policies, not making personality-based attacks as it does with Democrats.
For example, during the 2000 campaign the media repeatedly painted Al Gore as a sort of serial exaggerator, largely based on one misquote. In contrast, the McCain team has told multiple out-and-out lies this week, specifically the lie that Obama funded sex education for kindergartners, the lie that Sarah Palin initially opposed the Bridge To Nowhere, the lie that she never requested earmarks for Alaska as governor, the lie that Palin visited the battlefield in Iraq, the lie that she didn’t use her public office to persecute a former relative, and on and on. Yet there is no broader narrative for McCain. Each of these stories is reported briefly (if at all), usually only in print media, and there is no linking to a broader narrative.
As for your attacks on Sen. Obama, they are without basis in fact. As a very brief rebuttal, Sen. Obama wrote a bill with Sen. Lugar that expanded the Nunn-Lugar framework to include certain conventional weapons (including shoulder-fired missiles), he worked with Sen. Coburn to write bills that became parts of the ethics reform. There are a lot of others (google “wiki list of bills sponsored by Barack Obama”), but allow me to mention one from back in his Illinois legislative days. He wrote and the legislature passed the only racial profiling legislation that was actually supported by the state police, because he worked extensively with the police to take their concerns into account. Compare this to McCain, who when his fellow Senator took issue with his immigration reform, screamed at him “F–k you!”
For even more information, there is a long post from October 2006 which discusses Obama’s record and hopes he runs for President based on his record:
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2006/10/barack_obama.html
I like how AaronSch completely ignores Obama’s four years in the U.S. Senate and refers to him only as a “community organizer”. Oh well, it’s only fair, since Dems like to focus on GWB’s past only as a failed businessman and party animal. Whatever one can dig up!
As for the statement about Obama winning his Illinois state senate seat unopposed, this is true but AaronSch overlooks the facts in his spin: incumbent Alice Palmer’s campaign had collected signatures from voters outside her district, and that’s why she was removed from the ballot. Gha-is Askia, who was also removed from the ballot because of suspicious signatures, later said himself that he believed some of them were forged. Obama may have sailed into the IL state senate because of these technicalities, but in the end, he was in the right and his opponents’ supporters and/or campaigns weren’t playing fairly.
It can be argued that Obama sailed into the U.S. Senate too, because of opponent Jack Ryan’s embarrassing sex scandal involving his TV star wife Jeri Ryan (see? it all comes back to Hollywood here), which caused him to drop out, and the, shall we say, “thoroughly offbeat” Alan Keyes being chosen to replace him at the last minute. There was no contest. But just because Obama won these elections easily doesn’t mean he won them unfairly.
Obama cancelled his appearance on SNL because of this little thing called Hurricane Ike. Geez! You people in L.A. have absolutely no clue what’s going on in the world boyond TV and movies.
Err, most of Obama’s time in the senate has consisted of him running for president. Which means he hasn’t been getting senate experience. He’s been using that as a three day pitstop to get to better things. Duh.
Nikki…you gotta stop letting Drudge or whoever it is post links to your site. What could’ve been an interesting discussion about SNL’s handling of the sketch has turned into yet another partisan e-battle. Some of us come here for insider analysis of our industry. We can get Republican and Democrat talking points on Fox News and MSNBC on an endless loop.
Realize that these people are not using your site for actual discussion, they’re using it for propaganda.
Sarah Palin has led a state where everyone looks like her and thinks like her. Besides her state trip to Iraq/Germany, she had only ever been to Mexico and Canada on her own. She is only four years older than I am, and yet she comes across as someone from Hillary Clinton’s generation. There is no modern bone in this woman’s body. She is completely out of touch with the world contemporary women live in. She was asked if being gay is a choice or genetic and her very telling response was “I won’t judge.” Who asked her to judge? How wonderful it would have been for a woman to either be president or Vice President this go-around, but this is our choice? This is a VERY VERY limited human being we are talking about. She loves to use the term “world view” but what kind of world view can she possibly have when she has seen nothing of the world? America, we can definitely do better than this. There are some kick-ass women out there who would make us all proud. Sarah Palin is a joke.
Laughs all around!!!!!!! Best SNL skit for years
Seriously, thanks for posting this bipartisan appeal to end sexism. Hilarious.
That was funny, but more for the Hillary stuff than the Palin stuff. There’s so much potential there, what with the with the whole ridiculousness of her candidacy. The funnier stuff is happening outside of TV. Like the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator I just found. http://www.persona-space.com/palin