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SNL Mocks Obama With Just A Soupcon Of Anti-Semitism

April 11, 2010 - 3:18 pm - by Ed Driscoll

L:At Newsbusters, Noel Sheppard has the video and a transcript of Fred Armisen’s impersonation of President Obama reading mock census questions on Saturday Night Live last night (logically enough). It ends with this rather lame joke, apparently designed to epater les bourgeoisie but falling limp, as Saturday Night Live has done since about the time Michael O’Donoghue left the show around 1878 1978:

Question seven: Do you feel that Jews have too much influence on Wall Street and the media? Again all answers are confidential.

I think I know how President Obama’s former spiritual advisor would answer that one.

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Update: Related thoughts from the Life of the Mind blog. Definitely read the whole thing.™

Filed under: Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal, Hollywood, Interrupted, Liberal Fascism, Muggeridge's Law, The Return of the Primitive

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4 Comments, 2 Threads

  1. 1. Lifeofthemind

    It is a twofer. It both demeans the Jews and offers a controlled shot at Obama. As an anchor to windward there is not to much risk now in offering a criticism of Obama who is sinking from lightworker into the status of just another greasy politician from Chicago…

    April 11, 2010 - 7:36 pm   Link to this Comment
  2. 2. Lifeofthemind

    Why was my comment truncated here? Fortunately I saved a copy onto my blog but still to do this, to potentially destroy a contribution that is not offensive or a violation of the terms given above is both arbitrary and a little frightening. What is the point behind this Mr Driscoll? Words matter when they are heard or read. If you solicit comments there should be a reason for truncating, editing or deleting them.

    April 12, 2010 - 6:24 am   Link to this Comment
    • Ed Driscoll

      Occasionally, the software quotes a trackback as showing all or virtually of the blog post’s text; I thought that’s what happened here, and edited it. I’ve posted an update going back to your blog post, so that readers can “read the whole thing”, as they say in Blogosphere.

      April 12, 2010 - 10:49 am   Link to this Comment