CNN Has No Sense of Humor — Fact-Checks SNL’s Obama Comedy Skit (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on October 7, 2009
Who said Democrats have no sense of humor? Uh, it could have been me.
Hilarious Saturday Night Live about Pres. Barack Obama’s lack of accomplishments to date last weekend drew the grim ire of CNN, who then FACT-CHECKED the comedy routine. Tooo funny… CNN, get a grip.
How many investigative fact checks did CNN perform when SNL poked fun at any of our other presidents, most particularly Pres. George W. Bush? You’re right if you said none.
Some leftists DO have a sense of humor, but obviously none of those who work at the “prim and proper,” “must not ever laugh at Dear Leader” CNN, who are amusingly displeased that Obama would be the butt of a comedy routine. Who knew that prudish old ladies worked at the news station and don’t understand the word “spoof”?
Priceless…
NOTE, October 9, 2009: The following YouTube embed of the SNL skit has been replaced with a lesser quality one… the high quality one I posted on October 7 was yanked by “the powers that be” yada yada.
UPDATE, October 11, 2009: Found a HD version of the skit… fingers crossed that this one won’t be pulled.
UPDATE, January 13, 2010: Video has again been removed from YouTube, I have no idea when.
Saturday Night Live: President Obama’s Checklist
This replacement video below, broadcast by FOX, covers the highlights of the video that NBC had demanded be removed…
FOX News, Greta van Susteren: Airs the Controversial SNL “Obama’s Checklist” Skit from October 2009
Bizarre… and a bit troubling that CNN (and now, I’ve learned, Yahoo has, too) would actually take the time and expensive man-hours of its “journalist” staff to discredit a comedy show. And CNN wonders why their viewership numbers are in the commode… I’m hoping that SNL runs like the wind with this golden opportunity and does a spoof next week on CNN and its silly pantywaist behavior.
Maybe I’d tune in then.
CNN Fact-Checks SNL’s Spoof on Pres. Obama
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James Hudnall, Big Hollywood: Comics In Servitude to Obama
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