Well, well, well.
Peter Viles at L.A. Land reports that Saturday Night Live is rewriting its forbidden Soros/Sandler-bashing bailout skit because it “didn’t meet their standards.”
Translation: It didn’t meet George Soros’s and the Sandlers’ standards!
Censorship by any other name is still Censorship
The scoop:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lala...rtgage-me.html
Quote:
A “Saturday Night Live” skit that skewered President Bush, Democrats, homebuyers and subprime lenders for their roles in the mortgage meltdown was removed from the program’s website because it “didn’t meet out standards,” a spokesman for the show said Tuesday. An edited version of the skit will be re-posted online soon, the spokesman said.
The skit, a parody of a C-SPAN news conference, ridiculed subprime borrowers, housing speculators and Herbert and Marion Sandler, the real-life couple who built Golden West Financial into a subprime lending powerhouse and sold it to Wachovia before the subprime collapse. At one point in the skit, the Herb Sandler character says he made $24 billion off the subprime boom. Graphics then appear labeling the Sandlers as “People who should be shot.”
“Upon review, we caught certain elements in the sketch that didn’t meet our standards,” a spokesman for the program said in an E-mail message Tuesday. “We took it down and made some minor changes and it will be back online soon.”
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I’m told the rewrite will remove the “People who should be shot” chyron below the Sandlers.
As for standards… Oh, the show that brought us “Dice Man’s Employment Agency”, “Colon Blow” and “Massive Headwound Harry” is supposed to have standards?
I am thinking the writers and artists will not appreciate this decision and will find creative ways to ridicule NBC for throwing them under the bus.
Could get very interesting.
Commenter madmonk: “Standard[s]? What standards? They ‘joked’ about incest in the Palin family. So again… what standards?”
Sometimes you have to be thankful when your opponents are stupid. This is one such time, as they cannot help drawing attention to the original skit, while their backtracking via rewrite will only reinforce the message of the original.
Thanks NBC for helping our cause. Never thought we’d see the MSM help get the message out that Democrats, Soros, and predators like the Sanders bear responsibility for the current financial crisis.