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SilentPatriot on Sunday, November 4th, 2007 at 6:02 PM - PST
Senator Obama made a guest appearance on SNL last night to take a swipe at Hillary Clinton (played by Amy Poehler) and her alleged phoniness.
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Obama: “I have nothing to hide. I enjoy being myself. I’m not going to change who I am just because it’s Halloween.”
From the C&L Vault: Al Gore’s Presidential Address from SNL last year.
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No — that is an odd interpretation of the skit.
We know already. Go Hillary?
snl hasnt had funny political skits since will farrell left…
if you have to tell the audience the character name….you arent doing a good impression
Thanks for posting this….I will show it to my students tomorrow! What a fun skit. And a nice surprise to see Obama. I hope he gains more traction…go Obama!!
oh, and south park did a better take on al gore…had him with his nobel and a cape
he was super al….it was pure genius
uncle joe mccarthy @ 5:
manbearpig
Iocky @ 1:
Yeah, I thought it was kind of self-depricating because its kind of a stupid thing to say on Halloween.
Kucinich couldn’t catch a break that’s for sure.
bashing
is this fox?
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Alleged phoniness? No, its not alleged, its there. It’s a part of her whether you like her or not. Don’t be so touchy about it silentpatriot.
They probably asked Hillary to do the sketch but she’s to touchy to make fun of herself. HMMM?
I liked the part about Bill, Hillary and Kucinich. It got better towards the end, that’s for sure. Also, funny thing, I also dug up the Gore SNL sketch as soon as I saw it (on another site). We definitely would have been better with a Gore presidency. Heck, my 2 dogs could do a better job, but I digress.
I say Dennis Kucinich there. Who were the rest of those people?
Keep making jokes. Our corporatist puppetmasters love that.
Oh….almost forgot…
You want poison with that toy?
Barack, You’re no Al Gore!
Obama is only running in order to qualify for millions of dollars in Federal Matching Funds which he is legally allowed to pocket. America will NEVER elect a President named HUSSEIN. Barack Obama is smart enough to know that.
You would think this headline is coming from NRO or Faux News.
Silent Patriot must have been bitten by Hannity. He caught the right-wing bug.
mrogi @ 15:
The only thing funny about SNL anymore is how pathetic and unfunny it is, and how hard it tries to be relevant. If SNL can’t make this presidential race funny, it doesn’t deserve to be on the air.
You know….I like Barack Obama……He does have a lot of charisma….He does have some good ideas.I’ve said I would never vote for him because he lacks experience. I definitely think he’s intelligent enough….He certainly would be better than HC….I guess it’s down to Edwards or Obama for me…..I like Obama for all his civil rights work…He’s got a sense of humor..and he comes off as being hip….I think I’m leaning more towards Obama at this point in time.
I didn’t see it as a swipe at Ms. Clinton, but it struck me as an odd thing for Mr. Obama to say. It makes him seem like a guy who’s not a lot of fun, like a wet blanket, so to speak. I don’t believe he would say something like that and actually mean it.
Hillary.
yuck.
I saw it as a swipe at everyone in the democratic race.
Dimples @ 21:
Rudy.
Yucker.
Hold your nose and pull the lever in 2008 just like I’m going to do.
AbbeyHoffmansGhost @ 12:
If only. If only.
Too funny. Really.
uncle joe mccarthy @ 3:
They are telling the audience the name of some politicans because their characteristics are not that defined for people to recognize them easily.
mo_dems @ 18:
You have anger issues. As a fan of SNL since 1976, of course they are not as good as they once were….but at least they try. There is alot worse garbage on TV these days.
I’m with all the other commenters who say “bash” is too strong a verb here. It was a dig at Hillary, perhaps. Bashing? Hell no.
It was so funny I thought that was an OJ mask and then Senator Obama appeared. It was nice of Brian Williams to invite the Senator on SNL. Now SNL makes fun of everybody and even Hillary. Brian got alot of emails about the debate and how everyone was Hillary bashing now she knows how to handle herself but it could have been handled better. Brian got a lot of people watching him I got calls from friends and relatives from the East Coast about the SNL. Now I know all the candidates had to laugh when they planned to kidnap her. Brian Williams thinks or maybe wants to be the 5th James Bond. I really hope the network lets him show the clip of him as James Bond on one of his evening shows. It was fun and people should take it as such and not look at his as serious.
Barack Obama can get bent! He’s a bigot!
God, if you can’t get that joke (hint: its all about the Obama mask) and think its a slam on Hillary…
…you got a big sense of humor problem. Get one quick.
The way they treated Bill Richardson in the sketch smacked of racism. SNL sneaks little racists jokes in since forever in almost all their skits. You can’t take their crap seriously.
Why can Obama talk tough when in a skit or in an interview, but during an actual debate, not day say a word about what she has done that disqualifies her from being President.
Bill dressed up as the pickup artist guy Mystery was pretty funny ;-)
A.Citizen @ 13:
Good heavens! We’re not being ultra-serious all the time! We’re horrible peopel who have no business taking anything seriously!
Just like how that horrible Cindy Sheehan didn’t continually cry after her son died! How dare she be angry about the occupation of Iraq? She wasn’t drowning in her own tears! She can’t be taken seriously!
Indigowatcher @ 30:
why on earth would you say such a thing.?…would you mind providing some proof to that accusation…like maybe a link or two.
I don’t like Hillary but i am begining to despise Obama.
I’m guessing you know how I feel about their insidious portrayal of Mike. Totally disgusts me. He’s portrayed as the crazy one when Hes the only one thats showed any passion or offered any REAL solutions to the crisis we’re in. But yet he’s not an agent of the military and drug industry so well he’s just not electable. You’re all being pawned. again.
mudshark @ 36:
probably referring to “obama +mcclurkin” (google it).
Iocky @ 1:
I agree. It seemed to me that he was being self-deprecating, if anything.
Secondly, as much as I love South Park, their interpretation of Al Gore during the original episode with “Manbearpig” was a disgrace. Usually, they’re spot-on with their exaggerations of real faults, but with Gore they simply altered his personality altogether so that instead of being a published academic with a rich history of scientific research, he was a bumbling idiot who could not even say the word ’serious’ properly. Weak sauce, if you ask me. And I am sure you do.
In other news, it would seem as though the talking-points about Hillary have paid off. I appreciate that there are many radical left-wingers who would love to see someone like Kucinich elected, but that doesn’t make him the best choice. I respect the man, but the leader of the U.S. needs to be a little more impartial and aloof than most of those in the race thus far. Hillary has been called every name in the book, mostly for the audacity of being a woman (it’s not as though the men are getting in trouble for being ‘catty’ or ‘ice queens’) and for being a moderate (or, as liberals like to point out, a ‘fence sitter’). I’m as liberal as they come, but even I can appreciate that my views aren’t representative of the U.S. as a whole. The nation needs someone who can restore a little bipartisanship to the office. After all, Bill was accused of the same things while running for office.
Just some food for thought.
A fence sitter is a “Mugwump.”
A Mugwump is someone who sits on the fence with his Mug on one side and his Wump on the other waiting to see which way the wind blows and they can all go to hell.
Ruthless People @ 23:
No! I won’t and neither will others. The Democratic Primary is not about Hillary versus Guliani, it is about Edwards, Obama, Dodd, Kucinich, Biden, and Hillary. And it is decietful and a con to keep spamming the, “HA! But you are trapped! You HAVE to vote for Hillary because Guiliani is worse! HA-HA!!” Bullshit.
I won’t vote for her in the primary, I won’t vote for her in the general. Myself, along with AT LEAST 33% of the country. Some estimates are over 40%. Take a damn hint. I’m tired of these jackbooted, “You! Get in line!” comments. The idea that she is a “favorite” is a manufactured farce, and people are tired of manipulation. Nominate her at your own (and all of our) peril. Who here, really, is refusing to compromise? Those who will vote their conscience as is their duty? Or those who KNOWINGLY stand and nominate a candidate that is so divisive, even their own party has a historic percentage of negative voters on her.
Anyway, on topic:
Oh. My. God.
So… the writer strike it NBC earlier that everyone else?! That was just TERRIBLE writing. Man. Really, really bad.
And when Obama flies in with no preparation and acts 20 times better than the regular cast, you’ve got a big problem. The Bill Clinton actor was trying but man… NOTHING to work with there. Wow. I haven’t seen SNL in many years, but I didn’t think it’d sunk this far. I suppose MADtv probably stinks these days too. All sad.
Props to Obama for doing it. Who wouldn’t want to do the “Live! From New York!…” bit? Too bad the cast and writing staff let him down.
Barack - the hope for the young as well as the mature! At age 66 I have been a leader of men and a follower of women most of my adult life. I have served honorably in the US military, never having to press #1 for English or #2 for alternatives, even though having arrived in this great nation at the tender age of 16 with just a few months short of 2 years of the Queens English. No, I’m not a native of our greatest ally.
What does Hilary Rodham Clinton and the Grand Canyon have in common???
The Grand Canyon is a very busy ditch!!!
Invest in youth, especially in educated and hopefully none corrupt youth!!!
Thank you for your attention!
miss_kitty @ 6:
like i said…pure genius
TruthTeller @ 26:
oh please
hello joe biden
hello john edward
hello bad impersonator
it wasnt funny
the imperonations sucked
why not do joe biden with a really bad hair implant….make his head look like a dolls head?
and the funniest stuff they did on kucinich was make him look like a little elf with a hot wife….hahahahaha…..not funny
why not have kucinich look like mr spock….im sure he is half vulcan
snl is just not funny
and horatio sanz is the worst comedic actor in the world….gotta wonder who he is blowing to keep his job
Not Hillary bashing. I got a sense that Obama was making his pronouncement about not changing his persona (as Johnny2Bad points out, he had been wearing an Obama Mask — get it?) but about candidates’ tendency to take every opportunity to be overly serious and harp on their talking points. (For what it’s worth, he was the only one in the skit who didn’t suggest she was wearing a witch costume. Maybe it was a comment on the perception that Obama didn’t attack her as directly as other candidates did in the last debate?) It was a Halloween party, on Saturday Night Live, for crying out loud. Do you really think he thought he was scoring points *against* anyone? Come on. Not even Hillary is that calculating.
“Sock it to me.” — Richard Milhous Nixon
WTF?!!!!
This is so much shit!
I am a Kucinich voter and I find this skit so typical of the MSM bullcrap that it makes me sick!
I know that my candidate has no chance against the “machine” but for SNL to endorse the clown Obama outright and to malign Hillary Clinton so obviously it makes me think of doing something I thought unimaginable — I would vote for Clinton over Obama in the primaries. It’s obvious that Obama is the darling of the MSM — they know that he doesn’t stand a chance of winning the general so they’re propping him up as the Democratic choice — thus ensuring a Republican win.
And Obama laughs all the way to…what? The “bank?” I’m a mid-westerner and I know how Chicago “mobsters” work (in politics as well as anything else.)
I know there’s no real choice between the mainstream Democrats and the mainstream Republicans, but does Obama have to sell himself so shamelessly? At least Clinton has the self-respect to at least try to pretend that there is a difference.
Obama makes me sick — political opportunist who offers the world to Republican dunces just to get a laugh — and meanwhile the Democratic chances of “victory” and “change” diminish by the moment.
Congratulations SNL, you’ve done your boss’s job of defaming and ridiculing the Democrats — and endorsing the candidate that will never beat a Republican — the helpful stooge, Obama.
A minority number of self appointed intellectuals out there are attemting to dazzle unsuspecting readers with their regurgitated brilliance when in fact they are merely baffeling them with their bull—-!
Be somebody! Be original!
Obama seems as self-satisfied and unquestioningly sure of himself as………………..
G.W.Bush?
Limbaugh?
O’Reilly?
Oh, I know he seems the opposite of these folks in most ways. But does that make him an un-compassionate conservative?
Obama’s support of bigotry in the McLurkin fiasco lost my support and SNL is irrelevant - except for the occasional gem, like “Dick in a Box”, they’re just not funny anymore and this skit is proof positive.
A supposedly controlled survey has revealed that if womens right to vote were to be repealed, the Democratic Party as we know it would go down like a punctured helium baloon. (By the way, if my wife ev