Between 6 a.m. and 12 noon on Monday, MSNBC featured six segments which replayed bits from Tina Fey's Saturday Night Live parody of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's performance in Thursday's debate. The SNL parody of Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden was only played twice, and both times were during Morning Joe.
This continues a trend that was also seen last Monday morning when MSNBC replayed Tina Fey's parody of Palin's interview with Katie Couric seven times while avoiding Saturday Night Live's parody of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
Along with the free airtime given to Fey's impersonation of Palin came some commentary by the various hosts of both Morning Joe and MSNBC News Live. First, Willie Geist commented that, "Sometimes you watch [Tina Fey] and forget what Sarah Palin actually looks like. She's so dead on."
Mika Brzezinski added, "And there were sometimes during the debate where I didn't know what she was saying and I think Tina Fey kind of zoned in on that."
News Live host Contessa Brewer did question whether the cast members of SNL "worry at all or wonder at all whether the voters are taking these parodies seriously and basing real decisions on their portrayal on a comedy stretch." It would certainly seem that Tina Fey doesn't considering she has been quoted as saying that she wants to be "done playing this lady on November 5."
But, MSNBC's pop culture correspondent Courtney Hazlett argued that the caricatures of the candidates featured on Saturday Night Live wouldn't have any effect on the votes of the viewers. But she later made sure to inform the audience that Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin is "so spot on" and that the writers "actually take material from things that Sarah Palin has actually said and then imbue it with their own joke and it's coming out just really, really perfectly."
In an attempt to avoid charges of bias, News Live host Tamron Hall said to Hazlett, "And we should point out this started in the primaries, I mean, when we were tuning in to see what [SNL] would say about the Democratic presidential debates and such. It didn't just start with Sarah Palin."
Hazlett replied by debunking criticisms that Saturday Night Live is left-leaning, claiming that "it is nonpartisan, too. That's something that a lot of critics are saying, that it's all about Sarah Palin and it's anti-John McCain and they're taking advantage of the McPalin ticket, if you will. And when I was speaking with the cast members and with Lorne Michaels, they said, 'you know what, there's material on both sides here.' It's just that sometimes there are things that get more attention than others. But everybody is working really hard to make sure that all the candidates get covered and they really are." Everybody but MSNBC, that is.



















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Did MSNBC also play back
October 6, 2008 - 18:00 ET by ThisnThatDid MSNBC also play back excerpts of the actual debate?
Oh wait -- this is a so-called news organization, isn't it? My mistake.... of course they would play SNL instead of the actual event.
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I'm pretty sure it was
October 6, 2008 - 18:06 ET by MidAmericaI'm pretty sure it was cnn headline news that I flipped on breifly not too long after the Vice-Presidential Debates and they were back to showing the SNL skits and discussing them. I guess they didn't like the real Sarah they saw that night so they went back to the person they want everybody to think she is.
You don't even have to tune
October 6, 2008 - 19:19 ET by kgYou don't even have to tune in SNL any more or even Letterman at times. I have seen more than enough comedy on the news this year and all at Republicans expense.
"Forget change, I want improvement!"
She should love Palin with all her heart.
October 6, 2008 - 18:01 ET by JWFIt is not a bad impression.
Remember how crushed Norm McDonald was when Bob Dole lost. Of course that was when we still watched SNL.
Sincerely,
a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.
The reason all these
October 6, 2008 - 18:03 ET by MidAmericaThe reason all these 'news' outlets are running these skits over and over is to hopefully confuse the public's memories as to what was SNL and what was actually Sarah. It's also so whenever we see Sarah it brings to mind the SNL skits.
Apology
October 6, 2008 - 18:12 ET by RHRobinsonMDI apologize for double posting this comment but here goes anyway (it seemed more appropriate here):
It is obvious that conservatives cannot "befriend" the traditional media and convince them to be impartial. They are not neutral and no longer pretend to be. Given that this truth is becoming more self-evident to more people as time progresses it is necessary to place them where they belong - in the enemy camp - and treat them as such.
Pushback against the MSM is essential and effective, as Newt Gingrich can attest. They want and need things from the McCain/Palin campaign as well as the RNC. Can't have it - access, preferential treatment, respect, help with travel arrangements - gone.
More importantly the push back needs to be PUBLIC. Attack them consistently and forcefully at any opportunity, expect public (voter) support. We have no choice, they ARE part of the opposition and must be treated as such.
"Mrs. Palin may not know as much about the world as Mr. Biden does, but at least most of what she knows is true." - WSJ
It must be working,
October 6, 2008 - 18:17 ET by eucherbecause at the bus stop this morning, a neighbor said "I just think she is a dodo." I said "No, she's not." She said, "But she's just run Alaska, this tiny state, if something happens to McCain, I don't think that makes her eligible to be the President." I said, "But she's run something - Obama hasn't ever run anything." To which she said, "Oh, I know ... but he's just so smart."
MSM mission accomplished.
This past weekend, my
October 6, 2008 - 18:27 ET by CoolShadesThis past weekend, my girlfriend's friend stated that Gov. Palin was stupid. My girlfriend asked her why she thought Gov. Palin was stupid. She responded, "I read the newspaper!"
Stupid is
October 6, 2008 - 21:18 ET by MOONSTRUCKas stupid does sir.
get out the vote
October 6, 2008 - 18:32 ET by wdhorningThe more they insult women, the more they will vote the McCain-Palin ticket.
Hey Lyndsi with an i.....
October 6, 2008 - 19:05 ET by,,,, You might want to correct your headline: "MSNBC Again Replays Palin SNL Skit Six Times". The "again" is redundant and misleads readers to think they played it 12X's. NB's only "played" it twice. Not very competitive are you/they?
Uh, no
October 6, 2008 - 19:30 ET by AFCloneLyndsi was referring to the fact that MSNBC has done this before. In fact, if you look back you would notice that Lyndsi wrote an article on Sep 29 on how MSNBC replayed the SNL skit 7 times.
..And she did point that out and I missed it.
October 6, 2008 - 19:55 ET by"Never mind." - Emily Litella
"Sometimes you watch [Tina
October 6, 2008 - 19:07 ET by Chris Norman"Sometimes you watch [Tina Fey] and forget what Sarah Palin actually looks like..."
Uh-huh. That's exactly what NBC/MSNBC is counting on.
McNotObama '08
Chris... Bulls-Eye....and
October 6, 2008 - 19:15 ET by bigtimerChris...
Bulls-Eye....and backfire!
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
I don't forget who Sarah Palin is
October 6, 2008 - 19:39 ET by Lame CherryEven though media types confuse a Tina Fey smear with the real deal in Sarah Palin, like a political prostitute compared to a Child of God, I don't forget who Gov. Palin is.
I would ask though who Barack Obama is really.
It is a challenge for the Obama supporters to actually come out of their messiah fantasy of "what if Obama was leader in how wonderful it would be" to actually come up with the solutions not only America requires, but the world.
This
blog predicted yesterday that the Stock Markets would be tanked in
spurts for profit taking. Why not should this be occurring as the
financiers of Europe blackmailed $700 billion out of American taxpayers
and now they have the money they can like all kidnappers kill the
victim and demand more money for the body.
They must keep up the fear to keep Obama's
numbers up so he can become elected to as I have pointed out plunder
the 3rd world of 5 trillion dollars just like his benefactors have just
accomplished in the west.
So what is Obama's
solution in this? Not one word beyond taking a two trillion more out of
the economy in more explosive debt. I ask people to see what George
Bush has spent in debt and Barack Obama
in his trillion dollar welfare handout to poor in Africa along with his
trillion dollar medical care "solution" is 2 trillion more in borrowed
debt each year.
America does not have the money and Obama's solution is to spend trillions more.
Do do you really think Obama has he answers as it is his Soros and Buffett,
the hedge market rapists who are backing him, who engineered this
current collapse to profit from are going to allow him to solve the
market catastrophe as they are profiting from it?
The answers in this current collapse long term are simple. Warren Buffett told Charlie Rose on PBS that he wants people not to be sitting on their money, but to spend it.
How
do these robber barons make Americans do that? Whey they tank the
market to drive money out of there into their coffers buying up things
like gold (which they hold in the billions of dollars worth) to relieve
investors of their dollars which Buffett wants, because cash value is going to double in a year when they raise the price of the dollar.
So Obama is implementing a policy to take American's money and put it into Buffett's financiers, so they get rich by impoverishing you again.
Do you really think Obama has the solutions in seeing this?
How about does Obama
have the ability to deal with nuclear Syria. Yes Syria is rebuilding
it's nuclear program, has nuclear Russia now in it's ports, has nuclear
Iran which I fully expect has slipped Syria a few nuclear warheads of
Dr. Khan's design all to give the Israeli's a dual nuclear front.
Hey it only takes 3 nukes to cleanse the Israeli state. Syria and Iran both were exclaimed by Zbigniew Brzezinski who is Barack Obama's chief policy adviser could both be bribed to join America against Russia.
The
end result is Russia is in Syrian ports, Syria is building nuclear
weapons and Syria just told the nuclear inspectors they could not look
at Syrian military bases now for nuclear weapon's traces.
So Brzezinski policy which the Bush Administration was forced into just failed in spades, besides Bubbles Mika Brzezinski going deer hunting claiming she is a backwoods girl too, so the Obama policy just netted a nuclear reaction.
I
want people to get this point this is no longer a nuclear
confrontation, but it will be a nuclear strike and counterstrike in the
Middle East as all intend this to occur now to cleanse the world of
their enemies.
I will remind those children who do not remember
nuclear dust clouds out of China and children being warned in those not
so long ago years not to play outside on those days as Chinese nuclear
test clouds were raining down on America.
I hope that got some
people's attention as most of the people with the biggest voices now
telling the world which end is up have no idea what the real world is
like in theater. America has had nuclear dust clouds settle on it
before which was unfun
and has been no doubt killing your parents and other older relatives
with cancer tumors which people just don't seem to connect.
So Obama supporters, do you really think when Obama has his little nuclear exchange and it is not 1 Chicom nuke cloud falling on America, but the dust of Damascus, Basan,
Tehran in a dozen clouds falling on the United States, with some hot
zone from rain or snow that is going to pollute that area you live in
for years, pollute all the food coming out of that area in milk,
veggies and meat.......just what is going to be Obama's solution?
Obama
has already advocated nuking Pakistan which is such a wonderful
strategy until it is pointed out that China lays next to Pakistan with
the same dust clouds covering it.
What is Barack Obama going to do with a billion and half Chinese refugees as his nuclear policy implodes the entire Chinese economy meaning no cheap goodies for you Obama buyers and an angry Chinese military marching out looking for land.
Think they just might like Australia? Oh I suppose the Obama people think this is ok as it is only "those people".
Well what about Alaska and Canada being Chicom invaded for land. Think you want to fight in your Obama's drafted army fighting for your life with no turning back as Obama said he is going to draft all of you lovely Obama people?
Come on Obama people answer the questions your beloved leader is not answering and has been exposed as an absolute looser in Brezinski policy.
I haven't even touched on the Bolshevik Russians and those cute Europeans backing Obama who set up this economic mess to profit off of and rise the empire of Europe from the ashes of time.
Do you really think Obama can deal with Putin? You think Obama
can deal with a Hitler who will arise from Europe as one always arises
in Europe to meet the challenges of the outside world when empire rises
again.
Has any Obama supporter thought one question over in what Obama can do?
I can inform the Obama
people in the way Bill and Hillary Clinton have thought it over long
and hard. It is why Bill has been warning the world in his way about Obama and why Hillary Clinton last week noted that Sarah Palin was the choice for her supporters.
The
people who have thought this all over fully understand the disaster
which awaits America on economic and military terms in an Obama policy.
No smart Obama remarks and twisted words are going to pull America out of the nuclear fire when Obama is starting the fires with his David Letterman lighter.
America faces absolutes as certain as it did in European manipulations against her in 1776, 1860, 1915, 1940 and 1980. Is Barack Obama a Washington, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt or Reagan?
Not even close people. Obama is the ineptitude of Jimmy Carter laced with a Bill Clinton buzz.
As noted, it is the Obama
voters packed into their refuse of big cities who are going to be the
ones feeling the effects of his policy in literally dying from fallout,
bombs and no running away.
When it hits the fan, the red states you
people so loathe are going to have their governors shutting the borders
down to keep all you refugees out. You create this Obama problem and you are going to die with it on your own terms as the remaining states put into measures to save themselves.
Who knows in those next years ahead it might just be John McCain as their chosen leader with Sarah Palin.
It
just would be so much easier for the security and prosperity of the
United States if this nation elected real leaders in McCain and Palin, so America doesn't get the short end of the Obama stick.
Most do not comprehend the gravity of the situation. Gov. Palin does not yet either, but she will comprehend it soon enough and then America will be glad to the fools in the media that she is there in the days she masters then.
agtG
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October 6, 2008 - 22:36 ET by LRK27I'd love to jump on board with the idea that this is just MSM trying to impose their views, but the truth is that NBC has a primetime SNL show airing every Thursday through the election, and the chick does a hell of an impression. You may not like the material, but many people, left and right, do. So they keep showing it, because it's going to drive people to NBC and SNL. Sadly, there is no other reason on this one, in my opinion.
It looks like SNL pulled the bailout skit from it's site
October 6, 2008 - 22:41 ET by Dee Bunkthe angry liberals must have got on them
Yeah, Dee
October 6, 2008 - 22:53 ET by BlondeThey can dish it out, but they surely can't take it.
Did you see Sarah Palin today (here in Florida....she had an event up the road that was $500 a plate, a little to rich for my blood, but sold out!)?
She did a perfect Tina Fey impersonation of herself..."well, I just want to give Tina more material". It was perfect. The best way to deflect this SNL satirization is for Gov. Palin to continue to do little snippets of Tina Fey doing her. In fact, if she pulled out a flute at her next campaign stop, I bet she'd garner an extra 100,000 votes. People love someone with a sense of humor.
Remember President Bush (1) with "it wouldn't be prudent"? Invited Dana Carvey to spend the night at the WH?
Kick it all back in their faces, in spades!
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
Blonde
October 6, 2008 - 23:12 ET by Dee BunkI heard about that impression on Fox but never saw it - is there a video of it?
I think that is a great idea to bring out the flute
Dee...don't know if there's a vid or not
October 6, 2008 - 23:16 ET by BlondeIt was just part of the regular campaign coverage....with Sarah Palin really getting into it with the crowd, just being herself...it was great!
I think she ought to whip out the lipstick, too!
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
Miki reveals all: "Mika
October 7, 2008 - 05:13 ET by HockeyKidMiki reveals all:
"Mika Brzezinski added, 'And there were sometimes during the debate
where I didn't know what she was saying and I think Tina Fey kind of
zoned in on that.'"
They're just mad that simple convictions go right over their heads.
In an aside, I put my own mother in a quandary this election cycle. She's an Obamaphile, and about a week after the Palin pick, I called Mom and told her I'd been reading all about Palin, 'cause I hadn't heard about her before. I couldn't figure out why I liked her so much. Then it dawned on me: personable, hockey mom, smart, competent, gets stuff done--she reminds me of you, Mom!
I wonder if Mom's trying to figure out how to vote against herself... ;)
And if you missed the replay on MSNBC.........
October 7, 2008 - 06:09 ET by northoneJust watch CNN. Between "Larry King (Almost) Live", "Anderson Cooper 360", "America in the Morning", to name but a few, almost every CNN show is replaying the SNL skit ad nauseum. Interestingly, rarely is the Joe Biden portion of the skit shown. Anderson even mentioned Monday evening they weren't going to show the Biden satire - only the Palin portion was worth watching. They seem convinced that if they show Tina Fey's satire enough times, that the average voter will believe that Fey's portrayal is the real Palin and hopefully scare voters to the Obama camp. CNN - non-partial and objective as usual!