SNL's Weekend Update took on President Obama's decision to exclude Fox News from his Sunday media tour last night. Despite granting interviews to ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and Univision he left Fox off his roster prompting Chris Wallace to call his White House "crybabies." During a long (and generally funny) opening sketch, SNL touched on one of the many reasons the president may have chosen to skip Fox on his media tour: Glenn Beck.
Not only did Beck call Obama a racist, but since then has been on a tour of insanity, upping his already nutty game.
Weekend Update took on specific aspects of Glenn's character: His propensity to misspell things, to use that muppet-like voice, and, of course, invoke Hitler.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/25/snl-mocks-glenn-beck-for_n_299568.htmlStewart Mocks Media For Calling Obama 'Overexposed' (VIDEO)
The "Daily Show" took on Obama's critics this week after the president appeared on all five major Sunday talk shows to discuss his health care plan and the state of the country. Jon Stewart noted that "the press bitterly complained about lack of access to President Bush" and posited that they must have been excited to hear that this would not be an issue with our new commander-in-chief. Cut to clips of every newscaster in America calling Obama overexposed and the like, prompting Stewart to call the media "professional yentas with time to kill" and "thin-skinned superficial jackasses."
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