Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

Oh, OK, never mind - it was trickle down economics. He says the idea of QE is to drive investors out of bonds and into riskier investments. Then the stock market will go up and the wealthy will have more money to spend and invest and it will trickle down.

xp

hammond's jesse impersonation was good but i can't recall anything memorable done w/ it. the only memorable jesse stuff w/ snl i can remember is eddie murphy singing 'hymietown' and obv this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPy2alWEZ-U

yeah hartman's reagan was great - that mixture of folksy and sinister. his barbara bush wasn't bad either. iirc brad hall in the shales book said that during the ebersol years political humor was pretty much off limits, they could maybe show a picture of the president wearing a funny hat and then make fun of the hat but that was it really.
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shoutout to gary kroeger's mondale

― balls, Sunday, September 16, 2012 5:04 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was gonna say, the Kroeger/Mondale bit (where he's crying while fishing after losing the election) is literally the only political sketch I can think of from that season, outside of when Jesse Jackson hosted.

That's it--Fey didn't really try to do the voice. (A bit, maybe.) Julianne Moore was more accurate in that TV movie. But Fey got at something I have a hard time explaining (I know, because I've tried before). There's something so heedless, so joyful almost, that just takes her Palin into the stratosphere for me. I start gushing whenever I talk about it. (xposts)

Start the poll, pplains, before we hijack the election thread.

yeah 'accuracy' of impression is helpful but hardly essential for me - i'm pretty sure every single reagan they had sounded more like him than ferrell did like dubya or obv chase did ford but those two are top five for me easy while none of the reagans comes close.

my shortlist: chase's ford, aykroyd's carter, carvey's bush, lovitz's dukakis, carvey's perot, hartman's clinton, hartman's stockdale, macdonald's dole, hammond's clinton, ferrell's bush, fey's palin

Pretty definitive (I don't remember Lovitz's Dukakis as well as the others). I'd add Sudeikis for either Biden or Romney (works-in-progress), although I'm a fan of his in general.

Lovitz' Dukakis was spot-on, and Lovitz isn't exactly known for his impressions.

Sticking with cast members only doing presidential impressions (and not before or after they were president), I'm already up to 30.

Biden as Theo Huxtable in that Cosby skit was hilarious I thought, can't remember whether ppl liked it overall / Armisen as BO in it.

Meanwhile on the dead-ender front:

Fox News contributor Liz Cheney on Sunday blasted President Barack Obama with the false claim that he had apologized to enemies of the United States and had abandoned Czechoslovakia, which has not existed since 1992.

During a panel on ABC’s This Week, host Jake Tapper asked the daughter of the former vice president if she agreed with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s assertion that Obama was “sympathizing” with the people who attacked the U.S. embassy in Libya and killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and other Americans.

“I think he did get it right,” Cheney insisted. “We’ve now had three and a half years of Obama policy and it looks an awful lot like — whether you’re talking about the Mexico City speech in 2009, the Cairo Speech in 2009, the extent to which he’s been apologizing for America, he’s abandoned some of our key allies like Israel, Poland, Czechoslovakia. He’s attempted to appease our enemies, the Iranians, for example, the Russians. … The president himself has got a terrible record on national security, and it’s clearly something that Gov. Romney ought rightly to be pushing.”

Raw Story (http://s.tt/1nvcx)

they'd get so much more mileage out of just becoming the anti-war party

and not before or after they were president

Does that alter the list much? I'm guessing that means you found a few auditions that never panned out during the run-up to elections.

I saw that This Week this morning and was waiting for someone to pounce on Cheney for the apologizing line, but no one really did.

Worst Portrayal of a U.S. President by an SNL Castmember

he's abandoned some of our key allies like Israel, Poland, Czechoslovakia.

rip czechoslovakia

you guys like a stupid show

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http://images.businessweek.com/cms/2012-09-11/0911_DavisAd_405inline.jpg

there's extended clips of that on youtube if you want to be depressed

It's actually literally "all of them look the same to me", isn't it?

oh yeah, that dude looks so much like Obama--spitting image

WaPo poll:

Nearly six in 10 (59 percent) registered voters in a Post-ABC poll in late August said they thought Obama would win while just 34 percent chose Romney, even as the head-to-head vote in that poll stood at 47 percent for Romney and 46 percent for Obama among registered voters.

Netanyahu: Iran ‘In The Red Zone’ And We ‘Can’t Let Them Score A Touchdown’
about 9 hours ago Appearing Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used a football metaphor to describe his concerns about the Iranian nuclear program. “They’re in the red zone … Read More →

heh

can anyone recall another time a foreign leader has campaigned this semi-openly for a candidate in a presidential election? esp against the incumbent?

I actually watched the Stockdale/Hartman Carvey/Perot skit a couple weeks ago and laughed out loud like it was still '92. They nailed it.

it seems like really not the best plan xp

or should i say not the best play

football play

guys

*makes throwy motion*

http://i.imgur.com/83PMg.jpg

r u ready 4 some football?

Bibi could so pass for a big ten coach

he's the leader of a bottom fifteen country

what would be holding iran to a field goal in this scenario? chemical weapons?

can anyone recall another time a foreign leader has campaigned this semi-openly for a candidate in a presidential election? esp against the incumbent?
--balls

actually his refusal to say he even knew Romney back in the day is sorta interesting. not sure it's clear what's going on really.

Bibi is high as a kite

http://crooksandliars.com/blue-texan/bibi-netanyahu-no-mitt-romney-isnt-clos

http://onceuponatimeinthewest1.wordpress.com mentioned above is a+

romney who yeah i think i kind of remember oh hey whats up tagg, what was yr question

apparently the governing coalition in the Knesset has been going crazy all summer; was this being discussed in the Israel to World thread?

should immigrate to israel just to make voting more fun tbh

http://i.imgur.com/mViKB.png

leave me alone, meet the press

i told you never to video interview me here

http://www.politico.com/blogs/charlie-mahtesian/2012/09/poll-warren-leads-brown-by-in-mass-135681.html

if warren doesnt win this thing i will be upset, get yr shit together mass

Politico story is kinda hilarious:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81280.html?hp=t1

This is the type of stuff I usually see after the embargos get lifted after Election Day.

ya however much i know those kind of things are bullshit i could read about failing republican campaigns all day

yeah if those guys are so worried in *september* about their jobs that they have to start blaming everybody else you figure that ship ain't holding water XP

seems like a p obvs attempt to get the one guy fired