Posted on 11/18/2006 8:09:59 AM PST by Dane
In the days before YouTube and Comedy Central, a politician’s debut on “Saturday Night Live” was The Breakthrough Moment: a pol worth spoofing was a pol worth paying attention to. While the appearance of a prim, wide-eyed Nancy Pelosi look-alike on last week’s SNL didn’t get as much attention as it once might have, a few cultural truths did emerge.
First, the nation’s first female Speaker is relentlessly, maddeningly poised. Whether embracing her one-time rival Steny Hoyer with a pained smile—as she was forced to Thursday on Capitol Hill after fellow Democrats elected him majority leader over her candidate, Rep. Jack Murtha—or, as her look-alike did on SNL, shooing away a male couple in leather bondage gear who kept stumbling into her congressional office, Pelosi is becoming known to the public as the woman who smiles through it all, as if posing for her family’s Christmas card photo while the kids pinch each other and the dog chases the cat around the tree.
Secondly, San Francisco, home of the congressional district Pelosi has represented since 1987, is as ripe for satire as the new Speaker-elect. While GOP attack ads in the final days of the campaign warned darkly that a Pelosi speakership would mean the imposition of “San Francisco values” on the rest of America, there is little evidence voters took the bait. (NEWSWEEK polls several weeks before the election showed that most Americans didn’t even know who she was.) But Pelosi’s ascension to Speaker means a whole new level of scrutiny for her, and the city she has lived in for the past 40 years.
The latest round of San Francisco-bashing started on Election Day, when San Francisco voters—80% of whom re-elected Pelosi—also got a chance to approve Proposition J, a measure calling for the impeachment of President
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Typical liberal media thinking about themselves and their ratings and circulation, instead of providing information to inform the electoral populace.
I am amazed that anyone still watches Saturday Night Live
Their skits are about as funny as watching a Cancer operation and that music is for the Birds. Even their guests suck. I tune in maybe twice a year to see if it gets any better and tune out about 5 minutes later. What ever happened to humor in America?
The SNL short called LAzy Sunday on youtube still makes me laugh when I need a good one.
True, but there's a part of me that wants to sit back, have some popcorn and enjoy this.
Ah, yes, that madcap Nancy, clowning around while the country crumbles. Laffaminnit. (/sarcasm)
The SNL one I liked was Toonces the Driving Cat.
Pelosi's San Fran values.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hqKCbtO9erQ
This video was removed from youtube once. I was surprised that a quick search located it again.
That was funny, I sent it to about 30 people.
Thankfully, our subscription to Newsweak ran out. Not to be renewed.
"Ripe" that's another word for"spoiled or "almost rotten" is it not?
I just happened to notice her "smile" the other day. It's more a baring of the teeth - rather than a natural smile where the corners of the mouth turn up.
Yep...Frijoles Negros (Black Bean or Beebalicious)
I agree Dane. Nancy isn't the only one either. Note the left throwing Murtha overboard this week. The Washington Post and the NY Times are now printing a few articles saying it would be bad to pull out of Iraq immediately too.
Of course none of this (and a whole lot more) was fact before the election...
The leftist media whores are so transparent. They don't even care if folks know it anymore.
The interesting thing was the reaction os the NYC audience, especially when al-zwahiri's picture was shown. That was gutsy by the SNL writers.
You blame the media for trying to maximize their revenue in a capitalist, free-market society?
well why yes, especially since the media, promoted a basic proxy lie in the first place(i.e, being silent about nancy pelosi's San Francisco values)
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