Sunday, September 21, 2008

Senate Candidate and Former (Current) SNL Writer


The usually reliable Politico website is reporting that Al Franken had a role in writing the opening sketch on last night's episode of Saturday Night Live, a ham-handed bit satirizing John McCain's political ads. What do we make of this?



  • In tough economic times, most business look at their supply chain as a place to cut costs.Is anyone really surprised that NBC would let a liberal Democrat currently involved in a political campaign participate in writing something for them? As a practical matter, NBC typically runs DNC talking points unedited on their newscasts, so at least this way they've cut out the middleman.

  • It's good to see that Franken is taking steps to find something to do with his life after he gets his butt handed to him in November.

  • As I watched the skit last night, I was wondering why it wasn't very funny. Franken's hand in the sketch explains why.

Bottom line - just about everyone in the media and entertainment industries are completely committed to pulling Barack Obama's butt across the finish line. The only person NBC employs as an on-air talent who isn't in the tank for Obama is Al Michaels, who has been known to let slip his conservative opinions during football games. (John Madden's candidate, from what I can tell, is Brett Favre.) Conservatives just have to accept it and move on.



Cross-posted at True North.


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