A study says that Tina Fey’s Saturday Night Live impersonation of Sarah Palin cost Palin some favorability points. The study by HCD Research and the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion says Palin’s favorability numbers dropped to 43 percent from 47 percent after viewers watched the skit.
To view believability curves and detailed results go to: www.mediacurves.com.
You Betcha, Darn Right 1 I can’t wait for tonight!
Tina Fey is funny an does a great job of imitating Sarah Palin, but there is a mean edge to her partisan politics. The difference between her and some pieces of “jounalism” out there, is that she is more direct and less sophomoric.
“Sarah’s out
By Jamie Riley
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Last night, Sarah lost.
Sarah, a pot-bellied pig and family pet, is not welcome in St. Charles. Tuesday night, the St. Charles City Council failed to repeal a prohibition on pigs in the city. Sarah’s humans, the Jones family, previously have said they would move rather than give her up. Read the latest story here.
The Joneses had owned Sarah for some time before the outlaw pig was brought to the attention of the city by the family’s neighbors, who filed a complaint. The neighbors, who were happy with the results from last night’s council meeting, said they were concerned about property values.
The story made me wonder for what infractions would people turn in their neighbors? Where I live, trash bins are supposed to be kept out of sight from the street. My neighbors keep theirs in their driveway. But I wouldn’t call the city over it. Another neighbor called the city when she saw a snake on the roof of an adjacent house.
Have you ever turned your neighbors in for a minor — or major — infraction? For what sort of infraction would you? What sorts of things would you overlook to maintain good relations with your neighbors?”
Funny how the PD never picked up on this story from SNL:
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One of the funniest and most politically searing comedy sketches in years has vanished from the Web site of NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Visitor comments asking about its disappearance are also being scrubbed from the Web site. The sketch — a harsh indictment of the housing meltdown that led to last week’s bailout bill — was clearly too much truth for someone to handle.
The seven-minute sketch featured a mock news conference of Democratic Congressional leaders on the bailout bill, during which Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank inadvertently acknowledge that it was Congress that blocked reform and effective oversight of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Then SNL comic Kristen Wiig, playing Speaker Pelosi, introduces a parade of “victims” of the housing crisis. These “real Americans” include two jobless deadbeats who bought houses with no down-payment and a preppy couple who can’t flip the dozen time-share condos they bought as a speculative investment.
They were followed by actors portraying the real-life couple of Herbert and Marion Sandler. They explained how they built a mortgage company that specialized in subprime mortgages, which they sold to Wachovia Bank for $24.2 billion in 2006 — one of the worst acquisitions by any company ever. It helped precipitate the collapse of Wachovia last week.
The Sandlers were hustled off the stage by “Speaker Pelosi” after they said they couldn’t understand why they were invited to a news conference of “victims” since they had done so well out of the housing crisis.
They were followed by financier George Soros, identified as “Owner, Democratic Party.” The actor portraying Mr. Soros informs the group that the $700 billion bailout package “basically belongs to me” and that he has decided to short the U.S. dollar. That will trigger a devaluation “either Tuesday or Wednesday. I haven’t decided which yet. It will depend on how I feel.”
The brutally wicked sketch must have caused tremors in left-wing circles. The Sandlers and Mr. Soros have all been prime financial backers of independent political groups that have secured huge influence in the Democratic Party and helped fuel the rise of Barack Obama.
The Sandlers, for example, were major donors to the left-wing radio network Air America as well as the liberal housing lobby ACORN, a major player in pressuring banks into making more subprime mortgages. They also donated $2.5 million to MoveOn.org, the liberal group that insulted General David Petraeus as “General Betray Us” last year. Mr. Soros contributed a like amount. In turn, Eli Pariser, the head of MoveOn.org, was quite candid after the 2004 election about the influence this left-wing cabal hoped to exercise: “Now it’s our party: we bought it, we own it, and we are going to take it back.”
No doubt the Sandlers and Mr. Soros were displeased with the Saturday Night Live sketch. Herbert Sandler told the Associated Press that its portrayal of him as a predatory lender was “crap.” “We are being unfairly tarred. People have been telling us to speak out for some time, but we didn’t think it was appropriate. That was clearly a mistake.”
Jund Fund - WSJ
Centrist,
I’m sure the crack PD investigative staff is working on the article right now. After all, it is their policy to be “unbiased.”
Steve Parker is the deputy managing editor for news, and oversees the Post-Dispatch's front page. STLtoday's online news editors are on his newsroom team. Parker has been at the paper since September 1980.
‘…Palin’s favorability numbers dropped to 43 percent from 47 percent after viewers watched the skit.’
Is ANYBODY surprised by this? Isn’t this a ‘firm grasp of the obvious?’
‘Saturday Night Live,’ and Tiny Fey, have indicated that they will CONTINUE the Sarah Palin impression until the election where (in the words of Ms. Fey), “I want to be done playing this lady Nov. 5, so if anyone could help me be done playing her on Nov. 5, that would be good for me.”
Eric Mink wrote a column last week featuring side-by-side highlighted comparisons of Governor Palin’s interview with Katie Couric along with satirical quotations in an SNL skit with Ms. Fey and fellow comedienne Amy Poehler.
The VERY REASON that allowed Mr. Mink to write the article in the first place is because SNL HAS satirized Governor Palin three weeks in a row…and the VERY REASON why Mr. Mink couldn’t have written a similar article on Barack Obama is because SNL has chosen NOT to garishly lampoon the man.
Over the course of the twenty months Senator Obama has been running for President, he has been IMITATED very few times on the program - and, when imitated, has NEVER been lampooned - and there’s a HUGE difference. Articles have been written over this period on how the late-night comedians, and SNL, have either treated Senator Obama with kid gloves or have avoided him altogether.
Common sense knows the political leniencies of the writers and cast members of a television show like ‘Saturday Night Live.’
It’s because of those leniencies, and the awareness by the media of the power of the medium cited in the above article, that you will NOT - I repeat, NOT - see a satirical sketch impugning the personal appearance, worldview, beliefs, or ‘gaffes’ - of Senator Barack Obama.