SNL Spoof Of Hillary 5-10-08

[mystieus]

Run time: 05:21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLFJTc3oExE   Posted on YouTube: May 11, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 11, 2008 By DU Member: mystieus Views on DU: 10779

 
SNL seem to hit all the points most in the media are afraid to touch.

Somehow I doubt she'll be so eager to quote this episode.

[jjr5]

1. That was pretty good.

SNL has been disappointing me for the past,um 5 years, but that was kind of funny. :)

[bjobotts]

58. No it wasn't. Pathetic attempt at being funny while just insulting.

[bjobotts]

59. About as funny as someone calling Obama a white nigger. SNL hates her

[bjobotts]

60. Very feeble attempt, not even a good impersonation. Just wasn't funny

[jjr5]

73. Ummm...

Okay . . . 1 response wasn't enough for you eh.

[tavalon]

75. Watch and learn

This is how many of your cohorts get to the magical 1000 posts. Never edit, just do another reply. Make them short, sweet and excessive.

Edited to add: and as well, when you get to 700 posts, go into the lounge and make a posting that says "I have 700 posts, ask me anything!". That alone brought many of us over the top.

[jjr5]

80. Okay -

I was wondering how some of these crazies got to 1000 posts here in DU, sheesh.

[Prophet 451]

97. Bullshit

You've convieniently forgotten the skit that portrayed Obama as an unqualified moron or the one that was flattering enough that Hillary herself appeared in it. They take potshots at both candidates, they're satirists, it's their job. You don't like this sketch, fair enough, humour is personal taste but let's not pretend that SNL have it in for Hillary.

[Junkdrawer]

90. You tube gone - NBC LINK HERE:

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/#cat=new&sec=1a&mea=250052

[habitual]

2. things are definitely not going her way right now.

it doesn't look like anyone is willing to let her think that she is really relevant anymore (as a candidate).

example:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/136440

the presumption is sinking in.

[ManilaRyce]

3. That was eerily truthful

I wonder how long it'll take before the Clinton camp forces YouTube to take down the video for copyright violation.

[minnesota_liberal]

49. I was thinking the same thing. n/t

[Ms. Toad]

76. Clinton doesn't own the copyright

SNL owns the copyright - so it would be the one with the right to have it taken down if they care. Clinton doesn't have any right to have it taken down.

[orleans]

84. well, nbc took it down

but here's the link for the snl video on their website
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/play.shtml?mea=250052

they did this with another skit recently. i remember having to go to their website and watch a commercial before i saw the video.

[Ms. Toad]

88. Doesn't surprise me.

It is their intellectual property.

[Hope And Change]

4. LOL.

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. This certainly goes to show that the media is a double edged sword...

cuts both ways. She's right about one thing though, Sen. Obama is much too ethical to use this to his advantage, unlike her. If I know his style, and I think I do, if he's asked to comment on this, he'll answer just as he did about the Bosnia lie. He may be too much of a gentleman, if that's possible.

[NM Independent]

6. SNL throws Hillary Campaign under the bus...

and then Hillary Campaign throws SNL under the bus.

Someone needs to get Keanu Reeves on that bus and get it stopped before the toll gets too high.

[RBInMaine]

34. It's called satire. Lighten up. But also, she WON'T be the nominee. Get over it.

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[NM Independent]

69. Huh?

:wtf: are you talking about?

I was making a joke, and I'm an Obama supporter. Reading comprehension issues?

[wundermaus]

7. if you have a way of saving it, I suggest you do so...

because it seems these little http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-YouTube-Download.htm">gems have a funny way of vanishing without a trace...

[krkaufman]

37. yes, but only because NBC doesn't want its material floating out there free

They want you to have to come to their website to get it. (Same as Comedy Central.)

[dennysp]

77. It's Gone From Youtube.....Find it Here!!!

I tried to find it on Youtube, and it's already gone. Huffington Post has a copy from NBC, though:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/11/saturday-night-lives-mess_n_101177.html

[stevenleser]

8. Ouch

That is all I can say... ouch.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

12. I agree with you

I'm no Hillary fan but that was an 'ouch'

[bowens43]

9. Wow. That was pretty much right on the money. They nailed her.

[CadenBlaker]

10. Well...

I don't want to rub it in, but that's exactly how we Obama supporters see it.

[smoogatz]

11. Just to recap: Sore Loser, Racist Supporters, No Ethical Standards.

Yep. That pretty much sums it up.

[notesdev]

13. Oh how true that is

In Hillary's mind, the calculation is "Do I arrange an 'accident' for Obama now, or wait to see if he's stupid enough to name me as his VP first?"

[MindMatter]

14. Truthful, but not very funny

I remember when SNL used to be funny. About 1980, I think, but I can't really remember, it has been so long ago.

[AngryOldDem]

17. Agreed.

It should make all of us uncomfortable because it comes just a little too close to the truth.

(And I stopped watching SNL after the glory days of the late '70s.)

[MindMatter]

24. I've tried to watch it

But it seems like whenever I turn it on, I have to keep reminding myself, "They just did a joke. You are supposed to laugh at this point."

Talk about forced, uncomfortable laughter, that Clinton bit was nothing but.

I know it must be challenging to come up with good material each week, but The Daily Show does it 5 times a week (for a 30-minute show). I'd say Lorne Michaels just doesn't have much of a sense of humor, which is ironic, considering that this is supposed to be a comedy program -- or maybe it isn't.

[electron_blue]

26. I agree. Good points, but not funny to me.

Jon Stewart had me laughing so hard last week at Clinton, so I know it can be done.

[krkaufman]

38. Yeah, seemed more of a personal attack than humorous.

And, as with almost all SNL bits, it didn't have an exit strategy and went on a bit too long.

[ekwhite]

15. Ouch

What a smackdown. That was hilarious.

[Junkdrawer]

16. LOL

:rofl:

[fascisthunter]

18. Ouch... They Nailed Hillary

[Nitrogenica]

19. Hillary's campaign ended with that skit.

[Heather MC]

21. It's one thing to say 4 more years of bush, it's a hell of lot more scary to see.

[Nitrogenica]

23. Explain that further, what do you mean?

[Heather MC]

43. To see the image of Bush and McCain Merged together really brings it into perspective of what..

will happen if McCain is president.
It will be like Bush and Cheney never left

[NJmaverick]

20. Brilliant! The sum up Hillary, her campaign and her message in a neat 5 minutes!

[DS1]

22. That was like a mercy suffocation ala Cuckoo's Nest

[shadowknows69]

27. And that was a beautiful, if twisted, analogy

You rock!

[CoffeeCat]

25. They used Hillary's own words....

...and showed the absurdity of her statements and her current campaign.

It would be one thing if she was continuing the race without making racist,
divisive statements. She's not. Some claim she just wants to go out on
a high note. She's proving that this is not true, as she continues to
tear her way through this country, making incendiary comments and continuing
with her vitriol.

This skit nails it. Anyone who doesn't like it, doesn't like Hillary's own
words.

It's tough to see your candidate turn into a living absurdity--but Hillary's
done it to herself. With her own words.

[Ronnie]

31. Would you like to quote those words, all of them?.

Remember when by using half truths and partial statements "they" turned Gore into a serial liar and exaggerator? Remember when "they" turned Kerry into a war criminal? And Max Cleland into a traitor? Remember those things? Now "they" have turned the Clintons into racists. If "you" are a real Democrat, you know none of those things are true, but you're willing to "borrow" the racist charges to bolster your own candidate. Apparently, Senator Obama can't be good unless Senator Clinton is bad.
I wonder what admirable attribute of Sen. Obama's is going to be turned inside out and used against him. It should be interesting.

[barack the house]

41. Possibly they are not racist but they certainly are using race to divide and conquer.

[Dinger]

52. The Clintons And Millions Of Democrats Too

Not smart or true. As I said in an earlier post, I am a Hillary supporter and not a racist. I think I remember reading somewhere that rove uses a technique where if you repeat a lie often enough, people believe it.

[Mimosa]

81. Most Hillary supporters aren't racist...

Of course Hillary's real supporters aren't racists. But what the Clinton campaign has been doing as their last ditch strategy is to play into the racial resentments and fears of the average 'low information' voters. They know exactly what they are doing. Hillary herself detailed the strategy in the USA Today 'hardworking white people' interview.

The trouble with the strategy is that it does have some power. Obama needs to be able to show potential voters he's extraordinary and assuage racial fears. But the Clintons won't let him. Hillary has shown us she will do anything to win, sink to any level. I'm not comfortable with THAT.

[BlooInBloo]

28. "Sore loser, racist supporters, no ethical standards" - BWHAHAHAA!!!

Classic!

:rofl:

[sasquatch]

30. That's what she's been telling us for the past month

[dogday]

93. Classic Obama supporter response..... eom

[cbayer]

29. That was no Hillary pillory.

It was a parody of the ridiculous exaggerations of Hillary Haters.

The only thing funnier than the actual piece is the reaction of said haters on DU.

:rofl:

[progdonkey]

40. so, when Will Ferrel was playing a dumbass, coked-up Dubya...

including taking off his shirt, sniffing the air, being generally hyper, and even doing a line off his book... that was all a pro-Bush/anti-Bush-critic sketch, since they were playing on the impression of him as a, well, dumbass and cocaine addict?

You Hillary people really do need help. The denial is so great that criticisms are actually praises!

[cbayer]

42. First off, I am not "you Hillary people"

Secondly, I don't need help.

I am removed enough to see the irony. Hillary haters see ammunition everywhere they look but do not see when they themselves are being mocked. Certainly Clinton was being caricatured as well - that is the nature of parody. However, the really funny part to me is how the Hillary Hate Club sees this as a hit piece and completely misses the real parody.

[Prophet 451]

98. Don't look now

but some of HRC's more lunatic supporters upthread are proclaiming it a hit piece too.

I actually agree with you for the most part. It was wildly OTT because that's the nature of satire.

[dogday]

94. You Hillary people sounds very racist in my book

Anytime you use the phrase, you people or those people, the racist remark is soon to follow...

[progdonkey]

95. Then your book was written by someone who never learned what "racist" means.

:eyes:

[dogday]

96. Please enlighten me.....

[MirrorAshes]

56. well, lets just see if the general public sees it your way.

fat chance, lol.

[dogday]

92. General Public will see it that way, Obama supporters like

yourself, not so sure they will see it that way...

[beezlebum]

79. ...

:spray:

i-wish i-thought twas sa-ty-re...

[dogday]

91. Most people don't get that, or they don't want to see that

is what they are acting like... Think it will ever sink it? I don't.....

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

32. that was not funny at all

and i like snl and amy p.

[RBInMaine]

33. HillFANS, it's called satire. Laugh at it. She can finish, but she WON'T win.

[bjobotts]

63. Hurling insults under the guise of satire is not humorous. like polish jokes?

[YDogg]

35. Too true to be too funny

[Eric Condon]

36. It's nice to see SNL's political satire have a little edge again.

Too often I find that they tend to handle their targets with kid gloves, the kind of satire that the person being satired could enjoy. That's all well and good sometimes, but sometimes, you need to not be so polite. That's why The Onion and Whitehouse.org have been so great - they're downright vicious where too many others are just cute.

[bjobotts]

64. :ike Obama eating fried chicken with his wife in a Burka, or OKaying a white aids virus etc.

[NightOwwl]

39. SNL is dead to me!

:rofl:

[bjobotts]

65. They are so seldom anything but boring. Saturday Night Dead!

[McCamy Taylor]

44. LOL! Funny!

[Marnieworld]

45. They'll eventually pull it from youtube so here's the NBC link

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/play.shtml?mea=250052

[FatDave]

54. Is it just me or is their media player unusable?

I mean, I understand you want to sell advertising with your content, but could you at least make your embedded player work?

[Norrin Radd]

85. Are you using Firefox? NBC's media player isn't compatible, yet.

[Ian_rd]

86. I can view it in Firefox, but it won't work with the Java-blocker

[Cathryn]

46. They nailed it!

You'd think this is a spoof but there's real truth in there that so much of the MSM doesn't even talk about. We'll see if she tries to use SNL again as a way to play "victim".

[ciking724]

47. Hillary - "Republican in Democrat Dress"

I started out as a Clinton supporter and have switched to Obama, as I have been utterly repulsed by the Clintons.

For instance, when Hillary makes a point of doing well among white middle-class females, is she suggesting that white middle-class females have interests that are different from everyone else - gas prices, healthcare, jobs, security? Do white women have needs that are different from every other American? The needs of this nation are so beyond race and gender. The same applies to her boasting about doing well among Catholic voters, with a note that Barack is doing very well among Jewish voters, the olive tree into which the wild olive branches (Christians) are grafted (Romans 11:17-24).

Concerning Hillary's comment that she would not have sat in Pastor Wright's church for all those years, consider the following: I am an AA female who has attended a predominantly white church with an all-white pastoral staff for the past 7 years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During this time, I have heard over and over again the praises of GWB and other right-wing politicians and the bashing of leaders, political and otherwise (including Bill and Hillary), whom I love and support. While it has occurred to me to walk out in protest to some of these comments, I have chosen not to do so out of respect for God, the Church at large, the local church community, and the pastor of my congregation, whom I regard as a wonderful teacher of the biblical text, full of wisdom in many areas, and whom I believe loves God sincerely but is merely deceived when it comes to politics. Besides, if I walked out of every church where I heard something that I disagree with, I could never be planted, and would never, therefore, grow.

Because I still maintain a relationship with the AA church, through financial support and community service, I better understand another important position that likely influenced Barack’s decision in remaining planted—the AA religious experience, something Hillary should become familiar with, especially if she plans to remain in politics. AAs living in this country can ill afford to neglect and totally distance ourselves from the AA church that has boldly championed our causes since before Reconstruction. And the AA church is more than a pastor; it is the center of the community, especially after AA schools were dismantled and assimilated in the 1960’s and 70's.

A final note is that had she been planted in a church like Barack's for 20 years, maybe Hillary would have been better prepared (in character) for such a time as this. Her tactics and behavior have been shameful, and she should be reminded that it was the AA vote that helped to put her and her husband in the White House for two terms. I am just utterly disappointed in the Clintons after having defended them so vehemently over the past several years.

I always thought Hillary should have ran in 2000 or 2004; she probably would have won then. She’s been so busy cozying up to the Republicans in the Senate that she didn’t notice that she was losing the trust of the Democratic Party, most of whom now view her as merely a “Republican in Democrat Dress.”

BLESSINGS TO OBAMA AND MICHELLE, ALL THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND THROUGH TWO TERMS! OR MAYBE EVEN MORE!

[Utopian Leftist]

48. Tina Fey must have had a change of heart.

Too funny!

[nxylas]

50. Tina Fey left SNL to do 30 Rock

She was just back as a guest star for that one week. Somehow, I doubt that sketch would have been approved for broadcast had she still been script editor.

[dogday]

51. Funny how 2 months changes everything

Take a look at the same supporters who were slamming SNL a couple of months ago...


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4992590&mesg_id=4992590

[quoddy woman]

53. answer to #24

I think it's spot on. It almost hurts too much to laugh. I'm a disillusioned old feminist. I thought we would do better than that, that women would use their power in a better way; instead we get to see Hillary strapping on her dildo and getting down. If you were a real satire fan you would know that Stewart is on 4 nights not 5...so it may e that you don't care for the genre.

[jeff30997]

55. K&R

Thanks for posting this.The last time I watched SNL Mike Myers was doing Wayne's World.Lol.

[krispos42]

57. Ooch

Truth hurts!

[Limelight]

62. Daaaaaaaaaaamn....

That was barely even parody. That was Amy Poehler straight up calling Clinton out. Pretty interesting considering she and Tina Fey made such waves when they came out and basically endorsed her a couple of months back on the show. Now I don't know about Tina but Amy has OBVIOUSLY changed her mind in the wake of Clintonian tactics. She called a couple hard, pipe hitting cats and went to work on Hillary with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. As far as comedy goes that was straight up medieval.

It may sound silly to say so as if they decide elections or something (cuz they obviously don't), but SNL parodies have had a long tradition of at least nudging public opinions for years and years. If she's lost the girls of SNL she's done.

[northernlights]

66. to the Hillary-haters...

I'm an independent turned democrat in '04. I never loved the Clintons (Bill came across to me as a used car salesman back in '92) and I never hated them.

But I am, and will always be, grateful for what they accomplished during Bill's presidency. Always remember: peace and prosperity for 8 years. For all their flaws and mistakes, I know I was lifted out of poverty into the middle class during their years. And so were many people around me.

Unfortunately, most of my friends and I have fallen or are fighting to keep from being kicked through, the "trapdoor economy" that W stuck us with. If Kerry had been less a "gentleman" and more a street fighter, then maybe W's nightmare reign would have lasted only 4 years. Iraq would be a bad memory with a huge bill, but only half the size of the current bill.

The Clinton tactics may seem ugly to you, but sadly for all of us, that is what it took to break the republican stranglehold and failed policies. And Hillary's campaign has been nothing, NOTHING, compared to the muck that the republicans plan to throw at Obama. Already McCain is trying to make hay out of Hamas.

I truly hope that the country as a whole is fed up with the personal-attack, half-truth, all lies politics.

But if you are, and if you *truly* support Obama, then I suggest you try to emulate his message. If you hate Hillary so much, stop sinking into the muck you claim she is mired in. If the time for character-assassination politics is over -- prove it by living it.

The best way to unite against McCain is to stop attacking your fellow democrats -- especially Hillary and her supporters. The process is over, Obama won, you don't need to pound Hillary into a pulp to prove anything. In doing so, you sink to the level of Rovian take-no-prisoners style and will drive away many independents, like me.

Instead, prove yourselves worthy of victory by being gracious winners. To do less is to sink to the level of the Bushies.

[stillcool]

67. It isn't over though, is it?

The latest "Hard Working Blue Collar Uneducated White Voter" makes it apparent that more of the same divisive, hurtful and harmful rhetoric is coming until she stops. Her choice of words, and the anger they provoke, has nothing to do with Senator Obama.

[IndianaGreen]

68. Those that live by SNL, shall die by SNL

Remember when SNL made it look like the MSM was favoring Obama over Hillary?

Here comes the flip side of that!

[progressoid]

70. Yawn.

Sorry but that wasn't really funny. And other than looking kinda like a young Hillary, Amy's impressions is rather weak.

[mcollier]

72. So much for the Clinton Legacy

OUCH!!! that was harsh... We all could have done without that.... But just as the sicking distortion of Obama's "Bitter" comment, this too is a foul... At least me as an Obama supporter will admit it. I don't see Obama jumping all over Hillary's comments. Here we go with another week of Pundits going for Hillary's throat.


We need to stay above the attempts to divide us. We need to win at every level of government in November.

[katerinasmommy]

71. she has to stop

I don't think it's good to have Clinton destroyed. but she's trying to destroy the nominee of this party. This smarmy and slimy pretense of talking about "working class whites" when she really means racists is going to disillusion a lot of idealistic people out there. She has no one to blame but her own arrogance for losing this nomination. She thought she was going to be annointed. She didn't have to really work to get it, and to be fair the media encouraged her in that. They declared her the front runner before she even announced she was running.

Now she's just a sad spectacle that makes most people uncomfortable. Unfortunately She seems determined to take the party down with her. It's either that or she's delusional. Take your pick. I just know it has to stop.

[tavalon]

74. Ouch!

That one had to hurt!

[Muttocracy]

78. new link on YouTube

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZvnRtjTTZJg

[alittlelark]

82. Thanks for that!

[Pawel K]

83. These guys need to go back to doing jokes, that was not funny at all

just my personal opinion.

[DainBramaged]

87. Completely gone from YouTube

So sad, no humor at the Hillary campaign.

[Junkdrawer]

89. NBC LINK TO VIDEO HERE:

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/#cat=new&sec=1a&mea=250052