'Saturday Night Live' mocks Obamacare

Washington Examiner ^ | 9/29/2013 | CHARLIE SPIERING

[yldstrk]

You mean the guy that croaked unexpectedly

[DoughtyOne]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Armisen

[markomalley]

It wasn’t funny and it certainly didn’t mock Obamacare.

I got a chuckle about it because I interpreted it as the attitude of the people...free stuff.

The first woman, for example, I took as being the equivalent to the "obamaphone" woman. And yes, I can see people making up fake injuries/disease because she all of a sudden has "obamacare."

But, whatever.

[DJ MacWoW]

What I saw was making fun of people that didn’t like or understand Obamacare. The bit with “Cruz” was over the top. It made Cruz out to be a buffoon.

[markomalley]

Understand your position. See Herman Cain's take on the show.

[DJ MacWoW]

I read it but still don’t agree. The doctor puffing on a cigarette...what was the point? Just weird stuff.

[Liberty Wins]

SNL can never get better than Gilda Radner and Madeline Kahn playing Baba Wawa unable to understand Marlene Dietrich. Priceless!

[daler]

Not related to the subject at hand, but this is my favorite SNL memory (introduced by none other than Meat-head):

http://www.veoh.com/iphone/#_Watch/v16039034KRFprghT

[Sir_Ed]

Fred Arminson was terrible as Dear Leader, Jay Pharoah is much better.

And they didn’t mock Maobama, they mocked people who don’t like Obamacare.

Ed

[DoughtyOne]

Ed, you may be right. I saw some skit of Fred’s that I liked because he got the cadence down. It was good. Could only find a couple of videos today, and like you say, they were terrible.

I too think they avoided dissing ‘the one’.

[TBP]

NBC allowed this?