Barack Obama cancelled his appearance on Saturday Night Live, instead calling for prayers and donations for storm victims during a campaign appearance in which he said that McCain "is out of touch with the American people."
McCain’s spokesperson Tucker Bounds commented that the speech was a "new low" and implied it was not Obama’s personal decision to cancel his SNL apearance: "It says a lot about Barack Obama’s judgment that while his campaign canceled his appearance on Saturday Night Live and his running mate stayed home, Mr. Obama went ahead and delivered a series of scathing personal attacks."
McCain took Saturday off from campaigning and will be attending a NASCAR race today, Sunday, in New Hampshire, while Palin held a rally in Anchorage before setting off for her first campaign swing without Mr. McCain in Carson City NV.
So let’s see: it’s okay for McCain to spend a day at the races where NASCAR autos burn gas at 4.5 mpg when gas prices leaped 6 cents a gallon overnight, and for Palin to rally and fundraise during Ike. But when Obama cancels his television appearance, calls for prayers and donations, and points out that a man who can’t remember how many houses he has is out of touch with the American people he’s accused of hitting a new low?
Meamwhile, Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on SNL (above) — so good you hate to pray that the character’s run will be blissfully short.
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Welcome Lisa!
Tina is a Natl treasure
snark rules
oh
that old man goes where he is told to go
and sez,what he is told to say
that is all
Putin knows this,he said so the other day
The real Palin grates on me like fingernails on a blackboard….. but Tina makes it so much more tolerable…
Sarah doesnt even know she IS the characature
caricature…
EEK atrocious spelling
Snark does rule, and Tina Fey’s take, with her moues and preening, was spot on. So was the voice. But while the McCain/Palin ticket presents a far better target for satire than Obama/Biden, the Republicans offer a much grimmer future for our country and the world.
Thanks for the comments!
Brave Courage, tactically Brilliant! No one except people age 18-34 watches Saturday Night Live anyway, and they are probably all under black shrouds, mourning the loss of Galveston party beaches.
How can Adam McKay say “We’re Gonna Frickin’ Lose this Thing” when Obama is doing everything right, especially his pick of attack dog Joe Biden as VP?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..24772.html
i think of Molly Ivins…but most of all Katie Dean Stanton and Susan B.Anthony
FAILURE IS NO OPTION
not this go round
I do worry some that all the writers for the nighttime comedy shows are secretly supporting the Palin/McCain ticket. It would make their job unbelievably easy for the next four years.
If Obama wins, it’ll be a lot tougher making fun of an administration that actually accomplishes positive changes.
Remember, SNL started with President Ford’s ineptitude as a key thread throughout their first season. All they had to do was have Chevy Chase say he’s President Ford and then fall down. Easy. Those guys in the writer’s lounge had a lot more time to party and chase groupies.
and your welcome ….
you are COMMENT provoking…………….”g” good stuff!
not really…..he is funny…subtly
Truer words…
Welcome, Lisa!
Hi Lisa,
That was a really well written sketch. It portrayed the shallowness of Palin’s qualifications (and perhaps the shallowness of the electorate) without being overly condescending. In addition, it broached the subject of the rightful indignation we all know Hillary must feel but isn’t allowed to vent publicly.
Damn – the video’s not available in Canada.
“not really…..he is funny…subtly”
Of course; I’m not saying Barack can’t be funny, it’s just that the comedy writers on shows like TDS and Colbert will have it a lot easier mocking a Palin/McCain administration. They’ll make Dan Quayle look like a Mensa member (as our nation spirals down endlessly).
My 85 yr old mom-in-law saw the clip this am & loved it. Pretty sharp woman, my 2nd mom.
Alaska Women Reject Palin Rally in Anchorage – 1,400 show (with photos)
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/…..y-is-huge/
I like the Amy Poehler line, you glide in on your snowmobile with … “your Tina Fey eyeglasses”
Tina Fey is SO good in this, Obama ought to have her do some “fake” commercials where she says what she really thinks. Y’know, some “caught on tape” “backstage” snarking between her & Darrel Hammond as McCain about how they’ve really pulled one over on the public & the media.
There’s SO much material there!!!
So McCain spents A Day At The Races while Ike drove millions out of the Gulf Coast?
Bet the millions in gridlock on Texas’ highways didn’t think they were in a NASCAR race?
McCain just doesn’t get it, does he?
Cake anyone?
The night Palin ws elected AK Gov, I was here at TRex’s late night. Somebody asked me to describe Palin. I think I described her as “Tina Fey’s wannabe evil twin…”
Gas jumped 20 cents per gallon here in Sarasota, FL. You can report gas price gouging at http://gaswatch.energy.gov/
Tina Fey was good last night but I have to say that if you really want to laugh you should check of the Vlog that I’ve been following of Sarah Palin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEW12XLUM7A
I have to laugh about her being chosen as the Republican VP candidate because if I did not I might start to cry.
Hopefully Obama and Biden will respond to the Palin nomination by upping the ante…pointing out that she comes from a State that essentially taxes the wazoo out of corporations. That Palin’s Alaska raises 95% of their revenue from taxes on oil and gas companies. That Palin’s Alaskan economy is in direct opposition to the “McCain” program…and then say “we’re gonna take that plan of a REAL Republican Maverick, the late Alaska Governor Jay Hammond…who taxed oil and gas companies for extracting the States natural resources.
It’s time we made these companies pay their fair share…and stop “drilling” US while making billions in profits.
Then he needs to attack the GOP for their efforts to disenfranchise millions of voters who face eviction due to the foreclosure crisis that THEY created! They need to stop using foreclosure lists to determine who has been forced from their homes. That t is morally wrong to challenge the vote of someone who was legally registered, and because of being forced from their home haven’t had enough time to reregister in time to vote.
Tell them that the Obama-Biden campaign would try to re-register as many of these people as possible and go through neighborhoods to determine where this was an issue.
Foreclosure Hot Spots
But he needs to challenge McCain to say that he will stop the immoral GOP practice of challenging people who were legally registered but have recently changed residence. That the Republicans need to pull their “challengers” out!
I loved the sketch–it was well written and accurate and I am still laughing over “And I can see Russia from my house.”
@cinnamonape> Exactly.
Not to mention Ike’s effects on oil production and supplies, and NASCAR’s depletion of said.
And your point about Alaska’s economy running contrary to McCain’s ideas on copr taxes needs to be brought to light. Didnt Alaskans receive a nice $1200 heck each thanks to plucky hocky mom negotiating with Big Oil when she stepped into office.
I am deeply opposed to offshore and Alaskan drilling, and there needs to be checks and balances in place to handle displaced voters both from Ike and from foreclosures.
Can we please keep NASCAR out of this? I consider myself to be a liberal, but the eco-nerds attempting to legislate the fun out of driving consistently annoys me.
And Tina Fey isn’t funny. At all.
John McCain crashed 4 airplanes BEFORE getting to Vietnam.
I hope they don’t let him drive any NASCARs.
People are dying because of an enormous hurricane and John McCain goes to a car race.
John McCain isn’t the person we need to be President in 2009.
A**holes will do what they do.
Tina Fey got the accent dead on. Man, I would hate to have to hear that for the next four years. Sarah will not be in the background running things like Cheney…she will be propped up wherever and whenever they can.
And…she says NUCULAR as well. Do not want.