SNL Slams Arianna Huffington for Stealing From the New York Times
People familiar with the Huffington Post are quite aware of numerous complaints against the online publication regarding content theft.
NBC's Saturday Night Live surprisingly referenced this issue in a Weekend Update sketch mocking editor Arianna Huffington (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
After introducing Huffington (played by Nasim Pedrad), Seth Meyers asked her about the "big week for gay rights."
"Oh, absolutely, Seth cutey pie," replied Pedrad. "Prop 8 was overturned in California, Washington state is going to allow gay marriage, and Smash premiered on NBC. It is like ten gay weddings in one hour."
After some applaused, Pedrad continued, "The New York Times has great coverage of this, Seth, and you can read all of it on the Huffington Post because we copied it and we pasted it."
Nice.
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SNL is still on?
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 8:41pm.
I guess I don't watch enough TV.
If you watch any TV these
Submitted by poseA on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 9:09pm.
If you watch any TV these days, you watch too much.
Nonsense. There's a lot of
Submitted by balboa on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 9:11pm.
Nonsense. There's a lot of really good TV out there.
~That depends
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 9:14pm.
on what your definition of 'good' is.
I suppose. But seems cliched
Submitted by balboa on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 9:21pm.
I suppose. But seems cliched to just dismiss the whole medium out of hand.
~Really?
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 10:03pm.
How about dismissing Christianity out of hand?
How about dismissing the traditional definition of marriage out of hand?
How about dismissing Judeo-Christian morality out of hand?
How about dismissing humanity's entire history of regarding homosexuality as a perversion out of hand?
Liberals do all those things; are they "cliched" in doing so?
...so this isn't about TV
Submitted by balboa on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 10:43pm.
...so this isn't about TV anymore?
~What's that?
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 10:48pm.
I couldn't hear you over the sound of scurrying feet and thudding goalposts.
Yyyeah, I was talking about
Submitted by balboa on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 11:01pm.
Yyyeah, I was talking about TV, and then you took a "right" turn onto your soapbox. How's the view from up there?
~Liberals are so dense
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 10:04am.
that they make a neutron star look light in the loafers.
Liberals cavalierly dismiss the overarching mores of all of human history over many millenia, out of hand, as Balboa put it, but if a conservative is flippant regarding the importance of television it merits a raised eyebrow and disdainful sniff.
That's okay Balboa, pretend you can't see the point as it nails you to the wall. That means we can't see it, either.
Please overreact more.
Submitted by balboa on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 12:18pm.
Please overreact more.
~I know your 'thing' is playing Mr. Cool and Cryptic
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 12:25pm.
while you avoid all real discussion in preference for commenting on TV fluff, but you know you've become a little clichéd, right?
poseA made the comment that
Submitted by balboa on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 12:48pm.
poseA made the comment that if you watch anything on TV, you've probably watched too much. I responded to that notion. Then you went all crazy pants. If you'd like to have a separate discussion on how gosh-darn awful liberals are, I'm more than willing to do so. But your response seemed a little out of place for the line of thought in that thread.
~Crazypants
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 1:00pm.
Oh come now, you've seen crazypants.
Look. When liberals argue for their favorite things, like 'gay rights/marriage' they do so by dismissing the fact that homosexuality has been regarded as an aberration/perversion since the dawn of human civilization. Now, dismissing thousands of years of human history with a shrug, or dismissing television.......which is more of a leap?
You, and other liberals, make that leap every time you dismiss traditional Judeo-Christian moral values in order to make a case for abortion/homosexuality/sex ed in school, etc., but you raised an eyebrow over the casual dismissal of such a trivial thing as television content.
Contradictions collapse, as Uns would say.
Fair enough. (And you're
Submitted by balboa on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 1:14pm.
Fair enough. (And you're right, I have seen crazy pants.)
I do like to champion TV. There is a lot of garbage, but there's a lot of good.
As for similar leaps by the left, I think there's more to the arguments than simply disregarding history. Not too mention that human history is littered with plenty of changes in perception / beliefs and doesn't always represent the last word in good judgment.
~See? You just did it!
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 1:29pm.
And you rationalized it. Here's an example you can't explain away.
Marriages have always been between members of the opposite sex. Period. Liberals want to change that, and they do so by dismissing that fact.
All of human history in every society is dismissed out of hand, and we're supposed to go along with it and act like it's no big deal.
So, when you act like just dismissing television as a whole is, in effect, throwing out the baby with the bathwater, my point is that liberals do it all the time on a much grander and more important scale, and if anyone makes a fuss about it they're treated with scorn and called a homophobe.
What can I say, the incongruity of it struck me.
I get what you're saying.
Submitted by balboa on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 2:00pm.
I get what you're saying.
Wow W.B. - I had no idea!
Submitted by Benzin Bruder on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 12:04am.
I will need to watch out for those things when I'm watching:
Build it Bigger - or
Chopped - or
How It's Made - or
American Restoration - or
Pawn Stars - or
Myth Busters - or
Various science and nature programs (although evolution is usually tossed in there at least once per show)
etc., etc., etc.
I am pleased we have someone like you telling us about all of the heaps of filth that none of knew was in so many programs. I am confident that many will now change their viewing habits. Thanks for the heads up. /s
[sniff]
Submitted by bkeyser on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 12:39am.
Ted?
Now THAT was---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 1:00am.
funny.
MD
~I'm sorry
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 10:13am.
Your voice is muffled when you're sitting down, perhaps you should get up off the Barcalounger so your dulcet tones aren't lost in the seat.
Then you can press the 'mute' button and pay closer attention to what you're reading on the screen, and perhaps, this time, you will grasp the gist of it. When you do, shoo your mother out of the room so you can think straight enough to form a coherent reply, as I'm sure all that barking must be terribly distracting.
Isn't the statute of
Submitted by balboa on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 9:10pm.
Isn't the statute of limitations up on that phrase?
BTW, solid Huffington impression by Pedrad. Good stuff.
⇒ I think so, balboa
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 9:46pm.
But the phrase that I'm sick of hearing is that incessant "At the end of the day . . ."
Plagiarism is nothing new to
Submitted by poseA on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 9:09pm.
Plagiarism is nothing new to Arianna.
SNL - even a stopped clock is
Submitted by TruthMonger on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 9:37pm.
SNL - even a stopped clock is right twice a day...
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
Rumored?
Submitted by CJohnson on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 10:26pm.
I recall some saying about a lie making it's way through the LSM while the truth is still loading her shot gun.
All I gathered from that "sketch"
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 10:50pm.
Was Myers reading off liberal wishes that O'Bozo is making true and then happy that the libs are having a great week-his words-and ripping into Republicans, without any voice from our side, as they do in all their "sketches". Typical, usual SNL!
Well Done, Gas Brother
Submitted by DemsRFascists on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 12:10pm.
You just proved W B's point...
That noise that you prolly didnt hear was the point whizzing over your head.
~I love how liberals whine
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 12:30pm.
about how you don't have to take things so seriously, and you're over-reacting when you've just given them a wedgie with their own fallacy.