2008 USP(G)ET pt. II: counting the days to 2012 primary thread 1

good way to weave your sub-obscurity level of fame into the I'm-a-maverick party line

guys we need to get back to what's real: hating her because she's a woman, who did it on her own.

I think this is my favorite handler/journalist exchange of the season so far:

Steve: I think what Brian, what Brian’s intent, I know what Brian’s intent to say was this: Is we won’t be intimidated by the Obama campaign or by a lot of the pro Obama media that disregards fact because they’re political inconvenient for Obama. Every ad that we put out, and I’m happy to set up a reading room and a table on any of these ads to go through his record. It’s factually accurate. For example, Barack Obama voted in the Senate for a tax increase budget resolution for people making 42,000 a year. That happened. In the space-time continuum that we all understand, all right, he made that vote. It happened. It’s real. On issue after issue we have represented his record in an accurate and a fair and in a fair way. Certainly, there is no symmetry between what the obama campaign is saying about john mccain particularly with this immigration ad, and you know many others with what we have said. We are talking about Senator Obama’s record. The ads are factual. And we will continue to talk about his record. And the fact that there is a lot of people in the media who when we criticize Obama rush forward with no hesitation at all to defend and protect him says something about the state of journalism in America, much more than it does about our campaign.

Question: The space time continuum?

It's not even October and Schmidt's losing it!

Luntz, who claimed credit for branding the "Contract With America" in 1994 and shifting debate over global warming to "climate change,"

hunh at that second bit

PALIN: I was dressing up like famous comediennes way before I got famous enough to be satirized by them.

Schmidt's trying to avoid losing the election before October

schmidt's a nerdy nerdy nerd nerd!! he was going off about dungeons and dragons a couple weeks ago

Roll saving throw against Mordenkainen's magic meltdown.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/18/132249/624/267/602824

really, God forbid Palin had to admit hearing Lorne Michaels-sanctioned toothless "good fun" at Palin's expense.

YESSSSSSS

I'm just going to do that after every time you pop up with your gutsy challenges to the status quo on these threads if that's okay

http://www.gallup.com/poll/110473/Gallup-Daily-Obama-48-McCain-44.aspx

I just miss the last time SNL did actual satire, TB (ie, Aykroyd as Nixon and Carter).

Morbs, I thought the Palin/Clinton thing was tolerably good satire. Poehler/Clinton was obviously the funnier part.

i was just talking earlier, morbs, about how that was a terribly unfunny skit and i didn't understand why everyone was jizzing themselves over this. you have got some supporters in bococa who are with you on this one, sir!

the skit was ok, not that whether it's good or not is close to the point

the skit was totally funny

i'm sorry that i think the point of a comedy program on television is to be funny and/or amusing and/or entertaining in some fashion, gabbneb. i am such a retard.

I think slimy pols being scared of TV that mocks them as amiable dunces rather than vicious shits who need to be disemboweled is very much the point

i am responding to morbs, not you, schef

vicious shits who need to be disemboweled

yeah but my point still stands!

xpost lol that is an unfortunate turn of phrase isn't it

(my Tomboto impression, ladies & ducks)

would watch morbstv

Clinton: Sarah, you're a vicious shit that needs to be disemboweled.

Palin: No Hilary you are a vicious shit that needs to be disembowled.

Excuse me, I'll be back in a few minutes. I have to go disembowel a shit.

it seemed a little more like an alex in nyc imitation but you didn't say infidels so i guess it works either way

disemboweling would probably lead to some vicious shits

Clinton: Sarah, you're a vicious shit that needs to be disemboweled.

Palin: No Hilary you are a vicious shit that needs to be disembowled.

and they'd both be edit to keep Secret Service off my ass

Hi, we're the Vicious Shits, this is the first song off our new album, Disembowelment

I thought the skit went for easy punchlines but that those easy punchlines were still funny. Tina Fey striking poses during Amy Poehler's rant had me in stitches.

ladies and ducks

ok i'll step off the point that Palin is a huge liar and note that, though i'm not much a fan of anyone who's been on snl for the last 15 years, the skit succeeded because it was a) true, and b) sufficiently of the moment.

also I liked this: http://www.hulu.com/watch/4174/saturday-night-live-president-reagan-mastermind

also, c) not acted by morons

Biden on 9/10/01

something something inside job

I just miss the last time SNL did actual satire, TB (ie, Aykroyd as Nixon and Carter).

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:01 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hey, a joke teaching us about satire

maybe Condi sneaked Joe a copy of "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside US"

Tina Fey striking poses during Amy Poehler's rant had me in stitches.

Dan OTM , this made the bit.

can someone code it so that post comes up every time morbius tries to complain about someone making an old man joke about him?

I just miss the last time SNL did actual satire, TB (ie, Aykroyd as Nixon and Carter).

lolz "did you take the brown acid?" = "actual satire"?

yeah whatevs

max, do you not find my vaudeville lingo funny?

Mo, Aykroyd's flashing of the Cheshire Carter grin as pure con-man snake oil was v perceptive. (And yeah, that sketch very nicely satirized liberal Dems' helpful-hippie projections upon a militarist prez.)

Thomas Jefferson: I'll join you.. presently. [ to Sally ] I'd like to take you out for corn cakes sometime.

Sally Hemings: Alright!

Thomas Jefferson: What time do you get off work?

Sally Hemings: Um.. never.

^^ my favorite snl president

the mime who was in The Aristocrats does a great Jefferson-Hemings scene.

maybe Condi sneaked Joe a copy of "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside US"

maybe Joe read the New York Times

Former publisher of National Review sez Obama's the better dude for the job.