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If Saturday Night Live isn't going to take down Trump, what's the point of Saturday Night Live?
The Verge ^ | 10/04/2016 | Kaitlyn Tiffany

Posted on 10/05/2016 1:08:55 PM PDT by adorno

In a recent interview on the Politico podcast "Off Message," SNL's Weekend Update co-hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost defended Donald Trump, saying he's "super smart" and "super hardworking," and implying he doesn't deserve all the negative attention he gets. Che also said, "Let's not pretend that this guy is a mutant, you know, and he's the most evil, racist, mutant piece of crap that ever walked. Listen, there's probably somebody in your building way worse than Donald Trump, and you buy bagels from him, and it's fine."

The argument that there are "worse" racists is blatantly stupid. None of those worse racists have a shot at becoming president in the next month. (I can't believe we even have to say these things!) Che is a successful comedy writer / performer who presumably has some training in writing and performing satire. He's probably received some amount of education on the history of political satire, which has been used as a subversive counterweight to power since the beginning of governments.

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I'm left speechless by the insanity of the article. Unbelievable. People like her should be banned from writing such nonsense, even if it's in a radical liberal site.
1 posted on 10/05/2016 1:08:55 PM PDT by adorno
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To: adorno

Kaitlyn Tiffany?....... well there’s your answer, right there............


2 posted on 10/05/2016 1:12:38 PM PDT by Red Badger (YES, I'm Deplorable! I Deplore the entire Democrat Party!....................)
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If leftists reaaaaally believed their own rhetoric, then SNL should promote Trump. If he is reaaaaally so absurd, so unstable, so unfit...well, he’d be feeding them material for 8 years.

They don’t believe their own propaganda, though.


3 posted on 10/05/2016 1:14:09 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: adorno

We found one person in the media who’s not all-out attacking Trump! Lynch him!!!!


4 posted on 10/05/2016 1:14:34 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Red Badger

There is no point. Get rid of it.


5 posted on 10/05/2016 1:14:52 PM PDT by NathanR
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To: adorno

The butt-hurt is only just beginning as it dawns on certain folk that we are going to have President Trump.


6 posted on 10/05/2016 1:15:38 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (It is a wise man who rules by the polls but it is a fool who is ruled by them)
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To: Red Badger

Wymyn with two first names are likely worse than similarly named males.


7 posted on 10/05/2016 1:15:48 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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40 years ago when I first started watching SNL, they would take shots at both sides, and while they clearly leaned left, even I could laugh when they lampooned the right.

I haven’t watched them in decades, though. For me, at least, they stopped being funny a long long time ago.

It sounds funny to think, I started watching them 40 years ago. Wow. And stopped probably 30 years ago.


8 posted on 10/05/2016 1:16:03 PM PDT by marron
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To: NathanR

I haven’t watched SNL since the original cast left...............


9 posted on 10/05/2016 1:16:07 PM PDT by Red Badger (YES, I'm Deplorable! I Deplore the entire Democrat Party!....................)
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To: adorno
I was hoping this article was arguing, "If you've lost SNL, you've lost the election."

Sadly, it's an indictment of SNL for failing to perform its constitutionally mandated duty to take down the Republican candidate.

Pathetic.

10 posted on 10/05/2016 1:17:29 PM PDT by Oratam
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Yes, Republicans are all racists!!
They HATE black people!!

...never mind
_________________________________________

Robert KKK Byrd

The Democrats made him leader of the Senate!
They referred to him as the 'conscience of the Senate'

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

In 1942, 24-year-old Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), whose parades in Matoaka, West Virginia, he had witnessed in his childhood. He was unanimously elected Exalted Cyclops, or leader, of his local chapter.[8]

Byrd, in his autobiography, attributed the beginnings of his political career to this incident, although he lamented that they involved the Klan.

According to Byrd, a KKK official told him "You have a talent for leadership, Bob... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd recalls that "suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."[4]

He participated in the KKK during World War II, holding the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops [the top officer in the local Klan unit]. He did not serve in the military during the war, working instead as a welder in a Baltimore, Maryland shipyard, where he helped build warships.[citation needed]

Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy about racially integrating the military. Byrd, when he was 28 years old, wrote to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi, vowing never to serve in such a military:

"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.[5]"

He had earlier written "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side".[6][7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Participation_in_the_Ku_Klux_Klan
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From the Washington Post:

"Byrd said in the Dec. 11, 1945, letter -- which would not become public for 42 more years with the publication of a book on blacks in the military during World War II by author Graham Smith -- that he would never fight in the armed forces "with a Negro by my side." Byrd added that, "Rather I should die a thousand times, and see old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.."..."

"during the general election campaign, Byrd's GOP opponent uncovered a letter Byrd had handwritten to Green, the KKK Imperial Wizard, recommending a friend as a Kleagle and urging promotion of the Klan throughout the country. The letter was dated 1946 -- long after the time Byrd claimed he had lost interest in the Klan. "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia," Byrd wrote, according to newspaper accounts of that period. Byrd makes no mention of the letter in his new book."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html
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"They [his fellow democrats] refer to the Senate's senior Democrat [Robert Byrd] as the 'conscience of the Senate.' ..."

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin030801.asp
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 photo Hillary Clinton  Robert KKK Byrd 02_zpsux49qsvd.jpg

 photo Hillary Clinton  Robert KKK Byrd 01_zpsiboz1bpy.jpg

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 photo Bill Clinton  Robert KKK Byrd 01_zpsaesq6xqt.jpg

"Rather I [Robert C. Byrd] should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.[5]"

He had earlier written "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side".[6][7]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html

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Clinton says in the video that Senator Byrd was her ‘mentor’ and that he was the heart and soul of the Senate

https://grandmageri422.me/2016/04/26/hillary-clinton-and-the-kkk-this-may-be-her-undoing/

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Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, Ex-Klansman

by Michelle Malkin (March 8, 2001)

Ex-Klansman Robert Byrd, the senior senator from West Virginia, casually used the phrase "white nigger" twice on national TV this weekend. Enraged civil rights groups organized a protest campaign against Sen. Byrd and demanded that he undergo sensitivity training ... not.

The ex-Klansman, you see, is a Democrat. Democrats can join hate groups and utter the ugliest racial slurs and get away with it because they are Democrats. They belong to the party of racial tolerance and understanding. They're paragons of virtue, and the rest of us are bigoted rubes.

The ex-Klansman showed his true colors when asked by Fox News Sunday morning talk show host Tony Snow about the state of race relations in America. Sen. Byrd warned: "There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much."

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=383
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 photo Bill Clinton  Robert KKK Byrd 01_zpsaesq6xqt.jpg

"There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time."

11 posted on 10/05/2016 1:18:08 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: adorno

The core of Kaitlyn Tiffany seems to be an iron rod of bleak, bitter hatred, doesn’t it? She doesn’t paint a very pretty picture of her mental landscape. But, then, that applies to most progressives, doesn’t it?


12 posted on 10/05/2016 1:18:13 PM PDT by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: adorno
what's the point of Saturday Night Live?

We've all been asking that for three decades now.

13 posted on 10/05/2016 1:18:37 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
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To: adorno

I stopped watch SNL 15 years ago. Nobody I know watching it either.


14 posted on 10/05/2016 1:19:09 PM PDT by Rebel2016
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I feel that Che is very weak. I never laugh at his jokes. He’s one of those
people who is black before he is human. And he isn’t funny.

And Alec Baldwin plays a mean nasty Trump. Bring back the other guy.


15 posted on 10/05/2016 1:21:32 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Rebel2016

I stopped 30 ya, if not earlier.


16 posted on 10/05/2016 1:21:36 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: Paladin2

“Wymyn with two first names are likely worse than similarly named males.”
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Does that mean you don’t take Ms.Tiffany seriously? How about her editor - Ms.Buffy?
:D


17 posted on 10/05/2016 1:26:30 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: adorno

Someone needs a six-pack of butt hurt cream.


18 posted on 10/05/2016 1:28:39 PM PDT by sparklite2 (When they play the race card, play the Trump card.)
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To: adorno

I stopped watching SNL in the early80’s.

In the 70’s I stopped watching: Captain Kangaroo, Hobo Kelley and Romper Room.

‘Nuff said.


19 posted on 10/05/2016 1:29:23 PM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: adorno
Here's the problem for the Saturday Night Live cast: Donald Trump knows most--if not all--of the cast on almost a first-name basis. As such, if SNL wants to blast Trump, don't be surprised if Trump himself shows up and does a bit of self-deprecating humor on a live show within the next few weeks--which will drive the Left off the proverbial cliff (though I'm not sure about that!).
20 posted on 10/05/2016 1:29:53 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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