NBC's "Saturday Night Live" last evening amazingly blamed Democrats for the current financial crisis, and accurately informed viewers that the Bush administration warned about the looming calamity many years ago.
This came roughly 24 hours after actor Alec Baldwin made the same claim on HBO's "Real Time."
In addition, much like a report Matthew Sheffield and I did for the Capital Research Center last month, "SNL" exposed the money behind far-leftwing causes and entities in a stunningly accurate fashion, including chiding hyper-partisan billionaire George Soros as being the owner of the Democratic Party.
Here are some of the highlights (video embedded right):
- After Nancy Pelosi (played by Kristen Wiig) blamed the Bush administration and Republicans for the current financial crisis, President Bush (played by Jason Sudeikis) interrupted: "Wait a minute. Wasn't it my administration that warned about the problem six years ago? And it was Democrats who refused to listen?" When Pelosi protested, Barney Frank (played by Fred Armisen) corrected her, "Actually, this time, this time he's sort of right."
- Two "regular Americans" were introduced to tell their story of how they got caught up in the housing crisis, and now face eviction. They both admitted to fitting "all the requirements for a subprime mortgage": no credit history, no job, minor criminal record, dishonorable discharge from the army, drug problem, alcohol problem, gambling addiction, and a pregnant girlfriend(s).
- Herbert and Marion Sandler (played by Darrell Hammond and Casey Wilson respectively), the former banking moguls now with clear financial ties to ultra-leftwing outlets such as the Center for American Progress and Media Matters for America, were exposed as major players in the subprime mortgage market before they sold their company, Golden West Financial, to Wachovia. Under their captioned names on screen, the words "People who should be shot" were displayed.
- George Soros (played by Will Forte) told viewers that all of the $700 billion coming from the recently passed bailout bill is going to him. Under his captioned name on the screen were the words "Multi-billionaire Hedge Fund Manager, Owner, Democratic Party."
How delicious.
In the end, NBC should be applauded for having the nerve to present this information that is clearly being withheld from the public by traditional mainstream media outlets.
We can only hope that much as what happened a few months ago when "SNL" shamed the Obama-loving press into doing a better job of fairly covering the Democrat presidential nomination race, this skit will encourage some honest examination into what caused the current financial crisis, and who is funding far-leftwing politicians in our nation.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.





















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We can only wish, education through SNL... sure maybe
October 5, 2008 - 12:49 ET by upcountrywaterAs if the minions of youtubbers are going to think it's true..
That the demorats are REALLY to blame...
after all it's a joke..
SNL is just making fun of the people who REALLY believe this..
wish and hope..
It was funny clip tho..
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IranianUranium
I don't know,
October 5, 2008 - 13:03 ET by NewsbusterbrownI don't know, upcountrywater. That looks like a clear attack on the Dem's policies, not on the people who believe it. Frankly, I'm shocked.
“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)
Remember the old adage that
October 5, 2008 - 19:14 ET by liberal_bug_zapperRemember the old adage that comedy must have some element of truth in it to be funny. What's more, if there is a subject that is obviously being ignored by the MSM, it is much more easily ridiculed. The fact that most of this information has not come out in the regular channels means it will be fodder for jokes and fringe news media trying to make a name for themselves.
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Delicious?
October 5, 2008 - 13:01 ET by Copperhead RidgeI'm not licking my chops.
If these people criticize Democrats, it's because they aren't far enough left.
The bailout really has them confused. It's a surprise to a lot of liberals that Wall Street isn't a monolith of conservatism. You know, when I receive prospectuses or proxy ballots from companies in which I own stock, I'm amazed at how many liberals sit on boards for large corporations.
I thought they were all Republicans. At least, that's what leftists tell me all the time.
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October 5, 2008 - 13:32 ET by dahliatraversExcellent skit. Kudos, SNL.
»→ I was amazed
October 5, 2008 - 13:44 ET by Cool ArrowI commented last night SNL seems to be playing fair.
Maybe they're realizing there's a whole 'nother half of the country starved for good parody and satire.
I am embarrassed to report, again, "An American Carol" was a severe disappointment. It was shallow, slow, and preachy.
"John McCain has not talked about my Muslim Faith" - Barack Hussein Obama
I saw American Carol
October 5, 2008 - 13:56 ET by Kingfish17I saw American Carol yesterday and liked it a lot. I don't want to hijack this thread and turn it into an American Carol discussion. I posted about this movie on the Open Thread message part and would prefer to discuss the movie there.
»→ OK
October 5, 2008 - 14:05 ET by Cool ArrowBeen there, done that.
I guess American Carol only loosely fits into the comedy category.
"John McCain has not talked about my Muslim Faith" - Barack Hussein Obama
Kingfish, I'm still planning on seeing it..
October 5, 2008 - 14:09 ET by upcountrywaterSomething to get me out of the house, other than work!
ya HIGHJACKER ! as if you're the only one! No worries King
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IranianUranium
Democrats are not all to blame for the financial attack
October 5, 2008 - 14:04 ET by Lame CherryCertainly Barney Frank, Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, Tim Johnson etc... are akin to the mafia team robbing the bank who leave the doors unlocked to the safe, but Alec Baldwin and SNL once again get it wrong.
Should these Democrats face criminal charges. Obama certainly for his part as this derivative mess was tanked by the Europeans deliberately to install his world order for a bigger economic rape of the 3rd world in the microfinance market, which Obama's mother Stanley Ann Dunham set up as my blog broke last week.
But the economic rapists who are to blame are Warren Buffett and George Soros who were the financiers bag men in leveraging funds. Their combined cut is around 60 billion dollars the past year alone which came out of small investors losses.
It is why I state the DOJ in Teddy Roosevelt style should bust these trusts and give this loot back to American families in $500,000 checks which would in Soros and Buffett groups make almost 300,000 American families wealthy enough to pay off their debt and put into retirement and medical accounts to care for themselves.
The real bust in this was engineered in France, meaning it came out of central Europe in the housing bust which was a looting of the US dollar market all to put Obama into the White House.
As that did not assist Obama enough, they tanked the derivatives market.
This is why Nancy Pelosi destroyed the bill a week ago to assist Obama's numbers. Mrs. Pelosi is guilty of economic terrorism and should be arrested in market manipulation.
I'm not for taking money nor banks away from the Rockefellers or Rothschild crooks, because they tend to get nasty and shoot JFK in Dallas. I instead advocate their being told in a new bank charter they fix this mess, run it for a profit for Americans and key allies like Japan and England, and then they can keep their cut.
They are brilliant financiers and must be made to work for America in producing an economy instead of inflating it.
So that is the deal I advocate for America in using the upper crooks and having their lower crooks thrown into prison.
America you had better get this figured out as Buffett when he gets Obama in there, already in his Chinese finance ties has Americans bailing out Chinese banks in America. Buffett wants to ration out $1000 checks to poor people in America.
OK before you cheer that Obama, Biden,Buffet plan here is what happens just like Bush's rebate.
Poor people buy Walmart. Walmart gets it's products from China. All that money flows into China...........and who is up to his Nebraska keester in China? Warren Buffet.
Buffett gets Obama to hand out 1000 dollar checks to 100 million people is a trillion dollars. (Sort of like Obama's trillion to 3rd world dictators who then will deposit the money into European banks.)
That trillion will flow to Warren Buffett via China.
That is criminal embezzlement and until Buffett's loot is seized, returned to America and he is jailed, there is coming a bigger rape of the world economy by these Obama backers.
So Mr. Baldwin, God bless you sir for stumbling onto the facts, but get the entire problem as I do believe you mean the best this time in concern for all poor Americans, but your Obama by his mother has set up a 3rd world rape which I broke and is coming worth 5 1/2 trillion dollars when Obama gets into office.
We can stop this, but it is going to take you joining McCain Palin, keeping with the Conservatives to keep the GOP in line to make America a production economy, get our banking system into an American system and protect the 3rd world from what is coming as it already has happened in America again.
God bless
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That's fascinating. But
October 5, 2008 - 14:13 ET by Kingfish17That's fascinating. But you left out the part about the number 19 and how that number ties into Jefferson and Lincoln.
Probably just an oversight.
»→ Number 19
October 5, 2008 - 14:20 ET by Cool ArrowAnd Lance Rentzel, briefly married to Joey Heatherton until getting caught "hanging out" in a local park.
Bad things, man Bad things.
"John McCain has not talked about my Muslim Faith" - Barack Hussein Obama
Amazing! Truth comes from SNL, not main stream media.
October 5, 2008 - 14:30 ET by john5750OBAMA'S GREED AND CORRUPTION CREATED THIS CRISIS. OBAMA TOOK MORE LOBBYIST MONEY THAN ANYONE. HE WAS PAID MORE THAN ANYONE BECAUSE HE DID WHAT HE WAS TOLD, WHICH WAS TO BLOCK McCAIN'S REFORM BILL WHICH WOULD HAVE PREVENTED THIS MESS.
OBAMA IS A GREEDY, LYING, PIG WHO IS TRYING TO BLAME THIS ON THE REPUBLICANS. I AM A DEMOCRAT, BUT I CAN OPEN MY EYES AND SEE THE TRUTH.
It all stems from the questionable practices of Penny Pritzker and the Superior Bank of Chicago. Prtizker, by the way, is a major bundler for the Obama campaign. Indeed, the scion of one of Chicago’s wealthiest families has raised between $200,000 and $500,000 for Barack Obama’s Presidential bid. Her family also donated over $40,000 to Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign. Now wonder why Obama is opposed to interest rate freezes and a moratorium on sub prime mortgages: most of his campaign cash is from those who have shamelessly profited from our current economic collapse.
Democrats are aware of this problem, and a few are not very pleased. One Democratic member of the House uttered the following when interviewed by a reporter for the conservative American Spectator on 8 Sept 2008:
"How can Obama go out with a straight face and say it was Republicans who made this mess, when it is his key advisers who ran the agencies that made the big mess what it is?" says a Democrat House member who supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. "It’s his people who are responsible for what may well be the single largest government bailout in history. And every single one of them made millions off the collapse that are lining Obama’s campaign coffers. If the McCain campaign lets this one go, they deserve to lose."
Hopefully the McCain campaign will not ignore this egregious conflict of interest of Barack Obama. And hopefully the Obama campaign will fire and denounce Penny Pritzker for creating the current economic crisis on Wall Street. But I doubt Obama will, for Obama is the recipient of cash from many who are the beneficiaries of the sub prime mortgage scandal: he accepted $1,180,103 from the top issuers of subprime loans during the primaries. And here are the names of a few of Obama’s bundlers who earn their profits in the unscrupulous sub prime loaning industry:
Louis Susman, Michael Froman and J. Michael Schell of Citigroup; Steve Koch of Credit Suisse; Bruce Hayman, David Heller, Eric Schwartz, and Todd Williams of Goldman Sachs; Mark Gilbert, Christine Forester, John Rhea, Nadja Fidelia, and Theodore Janulis of Lehman; and Robert Wolf of UBS Americas.
Beholden to the interests responsible for creating the sub prime mortgage crisis that has rippled across our country and across the world, Obama cannot eliminate those who created the "toxic instruments" Democrat Chris Dodd decries, for he is too dependent on their largesse.
Will Obama return the donations and bundled cash he received from the subprime industry? Will he fire and denounce Penny Pritzker? Or will he simply ignore his complicity with the unscrupulous sub prime mortgage industry and simply give us more "okie doke," "bamboozling" and "hoodwinking?" Even if he does denounce the industry that has financially sustained his campaign, it will be too little, too late: the economy has already collapsed; the foreclosure crisis has already destroyed communities; and families are on the streets.
Barack "Sub Prime" Obama: unable to reform the industries responsible for our current economic crisis, he is anything but ready for prime time. Indeed, Obama is and will remain "sub prime."
McCAIN-PALIN 2008 and HILLARY-ANYBODY 2012
Amazing-Truth from SNL
October 6, 2008 - 02:00 ET by JudithOo-rah to you for being able to lay this out on the table here at Newsbusters. You should have total respect and you are right on target. Your info is what I have seen in many places but not in the MSM. This is where it needs to go, before the voters of the USA and QUICK. How can we get this out? Any ideas?
From the lack of applause
October 5, 2008 - 14:34 ET by Roger the ShrubberFrom the lack of applause and laughter, I assume the majority of the people in the audience have no clue who George Soros is.
Wow. I missed it. Frankly,
October 5, 2008 - 15:26 ET by mattmWow. I missed it. Frankly, all I've seen while flipping channels this weekend is Palin bashing, McCain bashing and Obama worship.
New Poll
October 5, 2008 - 15:28 ET by RHRobinsonMDInteresting new poll from Rasmussen today:
59% Would Vote to Replace Entire Congress
http://www.rasmussen...
First, what is it you want us to pay taxes for? Tell me what I get and perhaps I'll buy it. - Robert Heinlein
Skit
October 5, 2008 - 15:34 ET by VinncyGIt was funny, but that's part of the problem using humour masks the truth, I seriously doubt any liberal would try to educate themselves over a comedy skit.
Skit
October 5, 2008 - 15:46 ET by Cranky GordonYou've heard of the "Daily Show", right?
Man, that skit made my day.
Is this show still on the
October 5, 2008 - 16:44 ET by balboaIs this show still on the air? I stopped watching in [insert year] when [insert name] was carrying the whole show.
Oh, wait...are we not doing that this time?
Just for you balboa
October 5, 2008 - 20:39 ET by well99Is this show still on the air? I stopped watching [many years ago] when [John Belushi] was carrying the whole show.Boring!Once in a great while I will turn it to SNL but not for long.Same stuff different year.Same with Daily show.Channel surfing is legal in my state.
»→ Do we deserve this?
October 5, 2008 - 20:12 ET by Cool ArrowObama wins, and Franklin Raines takes over Paulson's $700 billion slush fund.
"John McCain has not talked about my Muslim Faith" - Barack Hussein Obama
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October 5, 2008 - 21:35 ET by dahliatraversCOOL ARROW!! Did you have to?? What a disgusting thought!!
Somebody p.m. me some dramamine. I'm completely nauseated.
He's trying to scare people
October 6, 2008 - 22:25 ET by Free StinkerHe's trying to scare people into voting for McCain.
And if I wasn't already voting McCain to give Sarah Palin an advantage for 2012/2016 presidential nomination, CA's comment would make me vote McCain.
Governor Palin - She is the Real Deal !
LOL!!
October 6, 2008 - 03:16 ET by GOPG8RThat was too funny. Wish the MSM would now pick up on it ...
The Do Nothing Democrats!
October 6, 2008 - 14:22 ET by XfreeXIt clearly was the fault of the democratic party. This was more of their same "DO NOTHING" policy. This is why democrats should not have control in the governing of our country.
Hmnnnn. It's gone now.
October 6, 2008 - 22:11 ET by tazzdown the memory hole.
If we must rely on SNL
November 3, 2008 - 10:59 ET by theduck6as the TV outlet for balanced reporting...
WE ARE SCREWED!