SNL opened a recent episode with a sketch featuring John McCain fumbling with technology (haha! he's old!) and approving ridiculous attack ads against Obama (OMG heresy). They even took a shot at Sarah Palin's lack of experience (haha! she's got less experience ... campaigning ... nationally...hrm...). If these things were simply SNL attempting to be funny instead of making some sort of ill-considered point, then....how do they have a comedy show and I don't?
This looks bad for a few reasons. First of all, this sketch could have come directly from the Obamessiah's recent talking points: 1) McCain can't use email (in fact, this is because of injuries sustained during his torture at the hands of the North Vietnamese Communists). 2) The idea that, somehow, McCain's campaign has taken a much lower road despite the Obamessiah camp's repeated sliming of critics, absurd and outright lies to scare the elderly, and his recent Spanish-language ad insinuating that John McCain is an anti-immigration zealot in league with Rush Limbaugh, who by the way is a racist if you take some things he said completely out of context. (This is particularly laughable to anyone who's lis tened to a single full episode of Rush.)
Of course, it isn't particularly surprising that SNL would stoop to becoming a Democratic campaign commercial. And it's especially unsurprising that flailing Democratic Senate candidate and noted sleazeball Al Franken probably came up with the idea, considering just how funny it is.
Just imagine how devastating it could potentially be if a good show started this kind of thing. I, for one, am looking forward to second seasons for NBC's Chuck and CBS's The Big Bang Theory, as well as NBC's The Office and 30 Rock and ABC's merciful mid-season pick-up of Scrubs for its eighth season.
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