Shock: SNL Takes On Obama in Earnest **Video Fixed**
by Big Hollywood“I am noticing that each of your plans to save money involves spending even more money.”
Remember this moment, folks. November 21, 2009 at 11:30pm. Over one year after Obama’s election and just more than ten months into his administration, “Saturday Night Live” takes its first crack at Obama for something other than not being left enough. Splash of ice-cold water here:
The sketch really isn’t pro-conservative as much as it’s anti-Obama. SNL mocks the stimulus, Cash for Clunkers, the debt Obama is increasing exponentially, and Obamacare’s bogus accounting, not to mention the fact that Fred Armisen’s too-cool-for-school Obama took the night off, but the writers are careful not argue for an alternative. SNL deftly takes a crack at one side without directly supporting the other side, a tactic “South Park” has down to a science. The sketch isn’t rock-solid from a policy standpoint, so we will post the clip of the CNN fact check once they air it.
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