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Even thought they DON'T support her.
I watch SNL all the time. I love the show. I'm a die-hard. I love this cast, each and every one of them. Even Keenan. ;)
The simple reason they appear pro-Hillary is because they simply DO NOT HAVE ANYONE WHO CAN PLAY OBAMA FOR FOUR OR EIGHT YEARS.
It's that simple.
Look, I love Fred Armisen, but he can't do Obama. He hardly looks like him. He doesn't sound like him. And it's fairly obvious there's not much there to parody. All Fred's done is say one word lines and "thank you" while robotically waiving his arm in the air like.
That's not Obama. That's not even close to being Obama.
Obama is a guy who is smooth, eloquent, generates excitement. And what do they parody him with? A dull, boring, lifeless non-talking robot who hardly does anything but sit there.
It's obvious they have nothing to do with his character other than sit there and be the window dressing while they build their entire sketches around Hillary.
Because they actually have someone who can play Hillary. Amy Poehler is a great cast member. She's very versitile and her Hillary, while not nearly as good as Darrell Hammond's Bill Clinton or Al Gore, is light years ahead of where Armisen's Obama is now.
You can't build a sketch around a cast member who can't play their part. So since they have to parody the election, and Obama MUST be represented, at least on screen, they toss his character out there with nothing to do while Poehler does all the heavy lifting.
She's carried the last two episodes. Carried them.
It's just stating the obvious that right now you have a better cast member - Poehler - playing a better character - Hillary (and face it, Hillary is much easier to parody than Obama) - and the result is a Hillary-centric first two episodes.
On top of that, it's obvious if you've been reading between the lines that the material is not exactly flattering to Hillary at all.
The first episode portrayed her as whining - which actually lead her to BE whining in the next debate.
The second episode portrayed her as an annoying nag who would pester people until she got her way.
Those aren't exactly glowing endorsements.
What has Obama been portrayed as? A guy who the media love in the first sketch. And a guy who the media love in the second sketch.
That's it. That's all they got.
They weren't portraying Obama as dumb because they were giving him the answers. They were portraying the media as tough on Hillary by asking her the first question, then giving the answer, then being easy on Obama and letting him follow it up as he already knew the answer.
That's not being harsh on Obama at all. If anything, that's being harsh on the media.
But so far, from what I've seen, SNL has gone after the media in the first two episodes a lot. Gone after Hillary a little, and stayed away from Obama almost entirely. Partly because they struggle to find anything to hit him with, and partly because his character is so poorly conceived by the SNL writers and the cast member assuming the role.
(Now, as for the Robert Smeigel cartoon, that wasn't a knock on Obama. If anything, it portrayed him as being smart enough to know to stay away from Sharpton and Jackson, two guys who just want to leech attention off of Obama. Smeigle gets it, and he got it in that cartoon.)
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