Remember this? Pulled from SNL in 1998 and never shown again.

[mfcorey1]

It sums up everything today!

[Cleita]

1. This should be posted on social media everywhere as an "I told

you so."

[mfcorey1]

2. It's probably there on some pages. I found it on a facebook post.

[cantbeserious]

3. Know Thy Enemy - Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks - Their MIC Henchman, Media And Political Minions

eom

[napkinz]

4. K&R

[Initech]

5. Wow, it was true in 1998 and it's still true now!

Times haven't changed much.

[AlbertCat]

10. Wow, it was true in 1998

It was true in 1898...only in print.


Brilliant and succinct this video.... no?

[Initech]

16. Definitely, this one is going up on my Facebook page!

[mrdmk]

11. Times have changed, it has gotten worse!

[Initech]

15. True!

[underpants]

6. I remember that

[Spitfire of ATJ]

18. I remember it floating around again about ten years ago.

[A Little Weird]

7. Wow - I had never seen it

Thanks for posting

[Fred Sanders]

8. PAC's are now SuperPAC's, even SecretPAC's of one, and media-industrial-military collaboration is worse.

[AzDar]

9. Prophetic.

[ryan_cats]

12. Aren't PCBs inside old transformers?

Aren't PCBs inside old transformers?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. Actually, PCPs were in milk.

[reddread]

19. angel dust?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

21. Read it again. I was in Michigan in the late 70s when PCBs were found in milk.

[eggplant]

28. That was PBB, not PCB.

It came in bags that looked just like feed bags and were given to dairy cattle by mistake. Oops.

For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybrominated_biphenyl#Michigan_PBB_contamination_incident

[Ichigo Kurosaki]

31. Yup, I lived near

St. Louis at the time, and the entire area was contaminated with various chemicals.
The Tittabawassee River (East of St. Louis) was contaminated with dioxins from Dow Chemical in Midland and is part of the EPA clean up.

Dow Chemical home of Paraquat (Agent Orange) and other toxic items.

I remember in my younger days the slogan: “Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible”.
We used to joke about that while we were burning one.
It's not so funny anymore.

[eggplant]

35. I'm back in New England

They're still cleaning up the Housatonic River (PCBs) and the Hudson (mercury and PCBs). NY even produces a pamphlet on what and how much fish is safe to eat from the Hudson:

http://www.health.ny.gov/publications/6545.pdf

Plus, there is all the brownfield contamination from GE Plastics in Pittsfield, MA, and on and on.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

33. I knew it was something like that.....

Which brings up the question as to how a worker could dump that crap into the feed and not notice.

[eggplant]

34. As I said...

...the containers they used for feed and for PBB were very similar looking. It wasn't that PBB was mixed into the feed, it was that it was mislabeled as feed because it was put in the wrong containers.

They had to slaughter whole herds, as I recall. Nasty stuff. We used to joke about the fireproof cows.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

37. I remember the "better want it rare" jokes when you ordered steak.

[eppur_se_muova]

23. Both. Their presence in the transformers was by design ... in milk, not so much. nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. We can thank Monsanto for it.

[Enthusiast]

26. At one time the old transformers were disposed of in "any old way".

So the PCBs went everywhere. Down every creek into rivers, every lake and into ground water. Before the Clean Water Act (which almost every single Republican voted against) was passed there were few laws governing safe chemical disposal or use.

[pscot]

13. That's new to me

Great stuff.

[HomerRamone]

14. Always loved this--

they did put it on the official Best of Saturday TV Funhouse DVD I have (there's some other great stuff on it too)

[GoneFishin]

22. K & R

[Enthusiast]

25. K&R! This post should have hundreds of recommendations!

This issue has gotten worse. Much worse!

[Duval]

27. K&R eom

[SummerSnow]

29. PERFECT!! K&R

[closeupready]

30. lol - sad, scary, but funny, all at once.

[samsingh]

32. brilliant and truthful

[kcr]

36. I'm surprised that ever saw the light of day.

I'm sure Smigel was heavily censored often. What a shame.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

38. How the fuck did this even get passed that asshole Lorne Michaels? nt

[riderinthestorm]

39. Sad, depressing and who the hell wrote this piece?! They're prescient

and incredibly smart.

Who wrote this?



The SNL cast wrote most of their material but often had outside help. Who wrote this piece specifically. I'd love that name...