Freeper reaction to SNL Palin skit?

[npincus]

I am not going there... too early. Are they apoplectic? :rofl:

[jberryhill]

1. Haven't looked either, but...

I would guess it's "librul media shows haven't been funny since 1956"

But we won't be getting TV show comments for them after February 2009, since their black and white analog tuner TVs are all connected to rabbit ear antennas.

Freeptown will think it's a plot, since they are the only ones who won't be able to watch TV.

[Nipper1959]

12. You nailed it!

See below for a freeper entry:

To: tomymind
I’m of an age to remember when SNL first burst on the scene (back when it was funny — at least occasionally). I tuned in Saturday night to see how the self-styled intelligentsia would try to wield humor as a weapon to slay the PalinMonster. And here’s my takeaway:

1. Tina Fey did a great job mimicking Gov. Palin’s voice and speech patterns. The look was pretty much spot-on as well. But, Tina Fey can’t help smirking and telling us that she’s in on the joke. This is a fatal flaw in any comic mimicry (the comic actor MUST play it straight and let the material deliver the laughs). Jon Stewart and others manifest this same flaw — that “chocolate” smile that always curls their lips.

2. The content of the skit fell flat (this is the thing that makes SNL unwatchable — their comic premise is sometimes good but their execution is often (always?) heavy handed and lame). The SNL writers (and producers and actors) sought to portray Gov. Palin as an airhead — and Her Highness Hillary as accomplished and entitled — albeit suffering from overweening ambition and a sense of entitlement. The members (an overwhelming majority, I expect) of the SNL audience probably found this skit funny — largely because they’re up-to-date with the desperate untruths the media has tried to float.

3, This SNL episode put everything in context a few minutes later when it presented a truly awful skit of a kind of college bowl game show pitting some high school dullards against what was supposed to be a “typical” Fundamentalist Christian Family — lifted right out of the Ozarks (and the set of Deliverance). Of course the SNL skit was unfunny. And of course it was crass. And of course it showed us all once again the ignorance of these writers and producers and actors who have this strange need to imagine that people of faith are stupid and narrow minded — and only them urban folks have any sense at all.

What I don’t get (and never will) is why these folks keep patting themselves on the back and telling each other how smart they are — and all the while they’re insulting folks who might otherwise be loyal viewers. And you wonder why network television (and the MSM) is failing?


What a predictable bunch at freeperville!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

17. "...the comic actor MUST play it straight ..."

:rofl:

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. "The SNL writers (and producers and actors) sought to portray Gov. Palin as an airhead"

Well, she IS an airhead.

:rofl:

[renie408]

27. I cannot IMAGINE how they managed something so unthinkable...n/t

[JuniperLea]

31. #2 is hilarious!

Sure, Bozo... that's why SNL has been on the air FORFREAKINGEVER!!!

[baldguy]

2. They don't do the humor thing.

If it doesn't involve people suffering & in pain w/lots of blood, they don't think its funny.

[ShortnFiery]

4. They'll probably remain *focused* on how HOT (sexy ... attractive) Palin is ...

and how it's TRUE that Palin is soooo close to Russia that she, as Govenor received "super secret probation" highly classified briefings on the Ruskies ... ERGO she's qualified (for what?) to be impeached?

[graywarrior]

5. Lots of time spent in the bathroom alone with supermarket tabloids.

[blondeatlast]

3. Freepers? Wit? The two are mutually exclusive. nt

[Curtland1015]

6. Well, Hannity's reaction was...

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!!!!!!

He went off on SNL, calling them the celebrity elite, claiming they did the skit with Obama's "blessing" (whatever the f*ck that means...), and that they should just "keep it up!" Because according to him, the more they make fun of Sarah Palin, the more the general public will turn on them and feel sorry for her.

He was crying like a little girl. No offense to little girls.

[polmaven]

20. Just a hint...

Little boys cry too. As a matter of fact, my neighbor's 6 year old son cries more often and more loudly than does his twin sister.

[renie408]

28. "Little" boys?? Honey, you should hear my husband...n/t

[polmaven]

29. LOL!

:hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

30. So Hannity actually believes that SNL gets Obama's approval before they film?

Like he would have the time for that? :rofl:

[OneGrassRoot]

7. Any videos of him going off behind the scenes on youtube...

a la Bill O'Leilly?

He goes off plenty ON camera, but I'd love to see his hypocritical ass being caught behind the scenes, dissing his dumbass followers or something.

He's repugnant, as is Alan Colmes. They are each a caricature of the left and right.

[CoffeeCat]

8. Yeah, but unfortunately,

Hannity looks like an innocent, cute teddy bear--and Colmes looks like
the deranged, cross-eyed, pervert who hangs out in the park.

I'm sure that's not by design. :sarcasm:

[OneGrassRoot]

9. LOL. Oh god, that's true. He DOES look like a perv...

WTF kind of contract could have convinced him to do that show?


Ughhhhh...........

[Ilsa]

10. I'm looking, but haven't found it. They do have a "Word For the Day"

though. The word is "simpleton."

There is also a brief thread about a Christian singer who has announced he's gay.

September 12, 2008 4:24PM
Ray Boltz Comes Out


Mark Moring
Ray Boltz, who sold about 4.5 million records before retiring from Christian music a few years ago, came out of the closet Friday to announce that he's gay.

In an interview with the gay magazine The Washington Blade, Boltz said he came out to his family and some close friends in December 2004, but only now decided to go public with the news.

“I’d denied it ever since I was a kid," Boltz, 55, told the magazine. "I became a Christian, I thought that was the way to deal with this and I prayed hard and tried for 30-some years and then at the end, I was just going, ‘I’m still gay. I know I am.’ And I just got to the place where I couldn’t take it anymore … when I was going through all this darkness, I thought, ‘Just end this.’”

snip

“This is what it really comes down to,” he says. “If this is the way God made me, then this is the way I’m going to live. It’s not like God made me this way and he’ll send me to hell if I am who he created me to be … I really feel closer to God because I no longer hate myself.”

Earlier, Boltz had alluded to the issue on his official website, saying that if people “knew who I really was, I would never be accepted."

http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/archives/2008/09/ray_boltz_comes.html

[Ilsa]

11. Here you go:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2082574/posts

One freeper said something about not wanting Fey's career revived. Someone had to point out that she's been winning Emmys for the last two years from 30 Rock and SNL.

Overall, they agree that the portrayal was dead on, and that the overdone accent is typical for comedians as part of the craft.

One of them actually laughed at the line: “I can see Russia from my house.” LOL!

They are also hammering on Chevy Chase for his comments this morning on MSNBC.

[ShortnFiery]

13. Yes, it sort of reminds me of the initial right winger's reaction to "Archie Bunker's" character

in the 1970s TV SitCom series "All in the family." The right WING honestly don't care that Palin has NO DEPTH in the area of "foreign affairs." They think that because Tina Fey and "the real Palin" are HOT, then all is alright with the world and she will be elected. After all, Palin's got her husband, "the first dude of Alaska" to take over if her pretty little head gets confused.

Many right wingers ADORED Carroll O'Connor and thought that "Archie Bunker" was a real cool guy. They enjoyed it UNTIL they found out that O'Connor was a "dyed in the wool" liberal. Then ... somehow the jokes were not considered as funny.

Who knows? Just perhaps some of them think that Tina is Pro-Palin? Some right wingers enjoy "The Cobert Report" because it's NOT satire to them. :crazy:

[nxylas]

14. There was another thread too

Where one Freeper said that Fey failed to capture Palin's magnificent radiance, or something like that :puke:

But on the whole, the reaction seems to be positive, which suggests to me that Fey didn't hit Palin as hard as she could have.

[ShortnFiery]

15. No, I don't underestimate my opponent, but many folks who lean "Authoritarian" don't get SATIRE.

The above FACT, more than any other factor, is the reason that Chevy Chase was able to slip under the radar and Jon Stewart is (in hushed tones but profusive within alternative media sources) the most respected political thinker in America.

Face it fellow Americans, unless you are highly intelligent and can "pull off satire" the CORPORATE OWNED Media Conglomerate beastie will *shut your ass down* or move you to the back of the media's food-chain bus, i.e., see KO and Mathews recent DE-motion.

[AngryOldDem]

21. I liked the comment about Fey having a long career if McCain wins....

...and a short one if he loses.

Just how out of touch are they with pop culture over there?

[nxylas]

22. About as out of touch as they are with technology

People on DU often mention the fact that their software hasn't been upgraded since 1996, but apparently, they are planning a radical overhaul by migrating to...wait for it...Yahoo Groups! Yeah, that'll drag them kicking and screaming into the 21st century. The really, really early 21st century. I don't want to knock Yahoo Groups too much, since I moderate a couple of them, but it's hardly cutting edge.

[zbdent]

16. I didn't watch much of SNL (Haven't in a LOOOOOOOONG time), but I expected

serious backlash from the "Quiz Show" (whatever it was called) sketch, with the high school vs. the home-schooled ...

over the top and painful for me to watch ...

[ShortnFiery]

18. That's nothing, I'm more of a fan of Mad TV - they are no holds barred.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xP-6xhauf4

[Chloroplast]

19. I'm not sure the Freepers would have gotten the connection.

[anigbrowl]

24. I agree. I don't think SNL is all that funny, really.

Nothing to do with current politics...I just think they try way too hard and work thei (few) ideas to death. Like that 'McGruber' skit on 'McGyver'. That's funny once or twice, but they ran the joke into the ground the first episode where they did 3 of them. Actually, that's my general problem with SNL...they always overdo the joke. It's only funny as long as it's not predictable.

OK, I'm from Ireland, and we have a much different comedy tradition on the other side of the pond (including the UK).

[Johonny]

25. They died after 9/11

When the show decided not to do political humor as a show of solidarity. Basically they had the worst and funniest person in the white house in years and failed to do anything with it. By the time they restarted political humor shows like the Daily show had simply passed them cold.

[zbdent]

26. I was glad they ran the "Spartan" thing

to the point of them mocking it themselves ... the few times I watched any of it, as soon as I saw those cheerleaders, I was gone ...