Horatio Sanz warned us about #SNL's "conservative bullsh*t"

[MinM]

Re-posted so we never forget that Lorne Michaels played a significant role in launching the Trump campaign...

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@Salon: Long before Lorne Michaels invited Trump to host, Horatio Sanz warned us about #SNL's "conservative bullsh*t" http://slnm.us/pLmnIW3

Horatio Sanz’s brutal “SNL” takedown: The show has too much “conservative bullsh*t” — and might have helped George W. Bush win the presidency

The "SNL" comedian speaks candidly about how the show has lost its way politically

After parting ways with “SNL” in 2006, comedian Horatio Sanz is ready to speak candidly about some of the show’s deep political flaws. (This time, without the risk of showrunner Lorne Michaels sending him to time-out.)

In “SNL’s” unaffiliated tell-all book “Live From New York” from 2014, Sanz did just that. And again, in a recent interview with ESPN’s Bill Simmons, he opened up about how the show has lost its way in its quest to be “popular.” The comedian told Simmons that, “the message of the show has become less about these leftist politics and more about being popular.” ...

Sanz also singled out one particular “SNL” sketch — Kristen Wiig’s cold opening as Nancy Pelosi — which he felt epitomized the show’s weak political commentary. Referring to veteran writer Jim Downey’s (“the Karl Rove of SNL”) choice to include two men in S&M outfits (because — you know! — San Fran), Sanz said: “That’s what you get out of that story? That everyone in San Francisco is so weird that they’re wearing fucking leather and whipping each other.” ...

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[valerief]

1. SNL is shit and has been for decades. That's why I don't watch it. That, and it's not funny, because

conservatives aren't funny.

[GoneFishin]

2. Television is no longer a business in and of itself. The networks are cogs in much bigger machines

today. If it serves their greater evil they will choose to damage it in the process of spreading their preferred ideology.

MSNBC is known for shit-canning high ratings hosts, and sacrificing viewership, in order to spread their propaganda bullshit. The networks are almost expendable to mega-corporations. They can afford to damage their brand for ideological purposes the way a billionaire lights his cigar with a $100 bill just to make a statement.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

3. ^. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

4. So glad to see this from someone who worked there! That's damned refreshing.

That show lost its way so long ago.

The right-wing spin drove me made years ago, and I had to turn away.

Thank you, MinM.

[GreatGazoo]

5. Dennis Miller was pretty blatant about it eom