SNL Skit On The U.S. Financial Crisis, Bailout
I don’t watch too much “Saturday Night Live” anymore, as my nostalgic tendencies make me yearn for the comedic genius of the writers and “Not Ready For Prime-Time Players” from the late seventies. However, I did manage to catch the following SNL skit from this past weekend, which pokes fun at those behind the financial crisis we now find ourselves in.
Too funny, but for how long?
Note: As of Monday night, the skit has disappeared from the NBC video page. Glitch? Or something more sinister, perhaps…
As of Tuesday morning, it looks like NBC did indeed pull the SNL Bailout skit from their website. From Ed Lasky over at the “American Thinker” blog this morning:
NBC has pulled the video of the Saturday Night Live skit satirizing the role of George Soros and the Sandlers in the collapse of Wachovia Bank off the internet and is deleting comments on its message boards asking about it. This skit reflected information first brought to light by me on AT’s pages.
Once again the media covers up information that proves harmful to Democrats. Were the party in question the GOP, there would be a major row right now over this suppression.
Update: a bootleg copy (apparently) lives on YouTube (for the moment) watch it while you can:
Oh well. Looks like the Nazi Broadcasting Corporation pulled the plug on the YouTube video a couple of minutes after I posted the Tuesday morning update.
Can’t start the morning without my daily fix of fascism you know…
As of Friday night, this is the explanation according to Brian Stelter of the New York Times on October 9:
NBC has taken the unusual step of editing the online version of a “Saturday Night Live” skit. In a sketch about the government’s financial bailout package that was broadcast Saturday night, two characters identified as Herbert and Marion Sandler were labeled with on-screen words that read, “People who should be shot.” Those two characters represented real-life business managers who had sold their savings-and-loan company (and its mortgage-backed securities) to Wachovia.
NBC removed the skit from its Web site, nbc.com, on Tuesday; the video reappeared on Wednesday with the label removed. Explaining the change, NBC said in a statement, “Upon review, we caught certain elements in the sketch that didn’t meet our standards.
Which leads me to ask, so whose attorney(s) crafted the above language?
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-Edward R. Murrow (American journalist. 1908-1965)
October 7th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
NBC will be aggressively chasing this video from the standard video sharing sites for the next few weeks, I’m sure. However, you can download (and share) the SNL C-SPAN Bailout sketch via bit torrent here: http://www.mininova.org/tor/1885620
Bit torrent isn’t for everyone, but it is a lot easier than you think. You’ll need a good client link uTorrent or Azureus, but it is real easy to set up. The torrent has a very healthy swarm of seeders right now, ready to distribute the file. Once widely distributed, it isn’t coming down.
Also, the file is small enough to fit throught most email gateways. I’m not suggesting you spam everyone in your address book with it (please, don’t do that)… but you can email it to your parents and a few close friends, probably.
October 8th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Thanks for the heads-up Robert Arthur.