The missing SNL bailout skit — and the Soros connection

Jolie Rouge · 10-07-2008, 12:13 PM

The missing SNL bailout skit
— and the Soros connection

Over the weekend, I watched a hilarious, dead-on, and surprisingly honest skit on Saturday Night Live about the craptastic bailout and its Democrat roots. The skit called out Fannie/Freddie and featured Nancy Pelosi dragging out various sob-story “victims” — who turned out to be a parade of deadbeats and schemers. I was going to post the video for you tonight, but I can’t.

The video has been pulled. Vanished into thin air.

Where did it go and why?

I have a theory.

One of the rapacious couples featured in the skit was Herbert and Marion Sandler (portrayed by Darrell Hammond and Casey Wilson). Unlike the other composite figures, the Sandlers are a real-life couple.

Also lampooned: Left-wing billionaire George Soros.

As Todd Thurman at Heritage notes, the Sandlers are left-wing moguls who built “a mortgage company whose major product was subprime mortgages and they sold it to Wachovia for $24.2 billion in 2006. And what do the Sandlers do when they are not peddling subprime garbage? They are busy writing checks to leftist groups like the Center for American Progress, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). Yes that ACORN.”

The Sandlers are seething over the skit. And George Soros must be livid as well. Anyone else smell a legal threat behind the disappearance of the vid?

Read : http://www.usatoday.com/money/indust...den-west_N.htm

Quote:

Sandler, 77, spoke to The Associated Press in the San Francisco office of his family’s charitable foundation the morning after NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” broadcast a skit deriding the Sandlers as predatory lenders who had duped unsophisticated borrowers and Wachovia, too. A caption shown on during the sketch skewered the Sandlers as “people who should be shot.”

Although the timing of the interview was coincidental, Sandler was seething after watching a replay of the skit on the Internet.

“I have been listening to this crap for two years,” Sandler said. “We are being unfairly tarred. People have been telling us to speak out for some time, but we didn’t think it was appropriate. That was clearly a mistake.”

Lasky recently reported on how the Sandlers — allies of left-wing billionaire George Soros — helped bring down Wachovia Bank: http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/...soros_hel.html

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Herbert and Marion Sandler, a New York lawyer and Wall Street analyst respectively, bought a small California thrift in 1963 and built it into GDW — one of the largest thrifts in the nation. The company’s business was built on adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs. These were mortgages offered at low “teaser” rates that ratcheted upward as interest rates increased. They were often sold aggressively to unsophisticated home buyers who did not comprehend the vast financial risks they were taking, or who assumed that housing prices would rise high enough to provide a profit to them when they sold their houses. They were targets for lenders peddling mortgages that should have been stamped with a skull and crossbones, for these were among the most seductive and dangerous types of mortgage.

This book of business is the core reason for Wachovia’s current difficulties

The Sandlers knew their business far better than any other person could. Not only were they the founders and major owners, they famously ran the company as a husband and wife team for all these years.

So why did they happen to cash out at precisely the right time? Did they see the handwriting on the wall, realizing the massive risks inherent in the mortgages they originated throughout one of the most overheated real estate markets in the nation’s history? They are not talking, but when smart people cash in some of their chips, it’s rarely a good time to bet against them. Nevertheless, Wachovia bet 24 billion dollars and lost big time.

The collapse was primarily caused by the GDW purchase, which became an albatross around Wachovia’s neck soon after the purchase. “Wachovia found itself in ARM’s Way” was the headline of a recent Wall Street Journal article. A huge percentage of these Wachovia ARMs were made to deep subprime borrowers with very poor credit scores. Most of these were “inherited from its ill-timed acquisition of Golden West” at the end of the housing boom in 2006.

The Sandlers have started to invest their billions of dollars politically, in the manner of George Soros, sugar daddy of many far-left wing groups and an early and prominent supporter of Presidential candidate Barack Obama. Soros has developed an empire of so-called 527 groups, putatively independent political activists groups that have influence within the Democratic Party. These 527 groups include the Center for American Progress, MoveOn.Org, Human Rights Watch, Media Matters and a slew of other like-minded groups…

Soros, Lewis, and the Sandlers form a core group of billionaire activists and Democrat partisans who have formed a group called The Democracy Alliance. They realized that they could magnify their power by working in unison and tapping other wealthy donors to further their agenda (the superb Boston Globe article “Follow the money” is a good primer on how money and 527 groups have come together to have a huge impact on politics in America).

The Democracy Alliance is a major avenue to help them achieve their goals. The roster of its growing membership consists of a list of billionaires and mere multi-millionaires who collectively hope to give upwards of 500 million dollars each year to further promote a left-wing agenda. A partial roster of the Democracy Alliance membership can be found here.

Half a billion dollars a year can purchase a great deal of influence.

The Sandlers certainly know quite a bit about leverage from their savings and loan days.

Among the beneficiaries of their largesse: Air America, ACORN (a group that has very close and long lasting ties to Barack Obama and has a long history of engaging in voter fraud. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (basically a private detective group focused on the private faults and foibles of Republicans), Media Matters, a media watchdog group that engages in harsh partisan attacks against media figures and articles it considers supportive of Republicans). The list goes on and on.

They are not merely out to elect Democrats, but to also permanently realign U.S. politics and shift our society and culture in a far-left wing direction…

Read much more from Ed Lasky here. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...hannels_a.html

If you suspect a few high-placed phone calls to NBC led to the bailout skit slipping down the memory hole, you’re not alone.

I just e-mailed NBC and SNL asking why the video was pulled.

You can ask, too. Click here. http://www.nbc.com/Footer/Contact_Us/

Hhhhhmmmmm Terry Ann at The Unfocused reports that NBC.com is deleting questions about the skit from message boards. http://theunfocused.blogspot.com/200...lout-skit.html

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Why pull a skit on the bailout? Because it was semi-critical of Democrats?

Please note that all their other videos work just fine. Also, they never posted the skit making fun of the New York Times from from a few weeks back. SNL had Al Franken, a Democrat running for the Senate, co-write a skit. So I'm not paranoid to think this has to do with politics. Our media is so in the tank, it's not even funny.

Years and years of comedy jokes about hearing how Bush is an idiot, every night, and NBC pulls ONE skit that shows that both Republicans and Democrats were responsible for the credit crisis mess from their Web site. It was quite bi-partisan. Oh and Bush was stilled portrayed as an idiot, anyway. So what are they so afraid of?

Also, a reminder that since they've been having Palin skits their ratings have gone up 49 percent, so people are paying attention to what they have to say about politics.

P.S. to people are thinking of having a career in comedy writing and performance: Don't even think of making fun of a Democrat! You've been warned!

Update: It has also been pulled from Hulu.com, while other SNL video are working just fine.

It also appears that NBC.com users have the same questions as me.
I left a comment under "funnystuff," asking why it was removed
I'll let you know if they respond.

whatever · 10-07-2008, 12:24 PM

NOpe their not biased! LOL

Jolie Rouge · 10-07-2008, 12:38 PM

The forbidden skit: Full transcript and screenshots of SNL’s Soros/Sandler bailout satire

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/07...ailout-satire/

NBC is furiously erasing its tracks. Any attempts to upload the forbidden SNL bailout skit skewering George Soros and his left-wing subprime schemer friends Herbert and Marion Sandler will likely be squashed. So, I transcribed the whole comedy sketch for you and provided screenshots for the 7-minute video that has disappeared from NBC and Hulu. (Pat Dollard’s blog has posted the full clip on its server. http://patdollard.com/2008/10/it-is-...de-from-louie/ Thanks to Ms. Underestimated for the .wmv file.)

The hits on the Sandlers ( “People who should be shot”) and Soros ( “Owner, Democratic Party”) occur near the end of the skit.

Quote:

Announcer: Next on C-SPAN, President Bush, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Congressman Barney Frank appeared earlier today at a joint press conference to comment on the financial bailout measure just passed by Congress.

Quote:

Bush: Good afternoon. On Friday, this Congress was able to put aside its differences and come together in the bipartisan spirit to pass legislation that was absolutely vital to ensure world confidence in our financial markets and prevent a collapse of credit which would have had a catastrophic effect on our economy. Approving this bill was the right thing to do and I commend our legislators for their actions. Speaker Pelosi.

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Pelosi: Thank you, Mr. President. I, too, applaud Congress for this vote and add that without your vote, this bill might well have failed. Even though this crisis was 100 percent the fault of your administration and it’s insane economic policies. And though I’m sure you’ll agree, you will go down in history as our worst president ever. This one time, you did manage to not screw things up and I wanna acknowledge that.

Bush: Thank you, Madame Speaker. I was glad to do it.

Quote:

Frank: Let me add, Mr. President, I was also pleased to see that for the first time during your eight years in office and possibly your entire life, you were able to demonstrate leadership, not to mention simple human decency.

Bush: You bet, you bet.

Pelosi: Let’s not forget, Mr. President, that it was the Democrats that first sounded the alarm about the risky mortgage loans that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were encouraging and that your party resisted all our efforts to rein them in.

Bush: W-w-w-w-ait. Wasn’t it my administration that warned about the problem six years ago? And it was the Democrats that refused to listen?!

Pelosi: What? Who told you that? That’s crazy. It was completely the other way around.

Frank: Actually. This time, he’s sort of right.

Quote:

Pelosi: Shhh! Don’t say anything. He doesn’t know. Now, there was another point we wanted to make here and you are welcome to stay.

Bush: Thank you. I’d like that.

Pelosi: Back there would be better.

Bush: No problem.

Pelosi: In the past few weeks, this debate has focused on the wisdom of government intervention in the housing markets. What hasn’t been talked about is that behind every home foreclosure, there is a story of real suffering by real Americans. People who, but for the grace of God, could be you or your neighbors. And today, we’d like to introduce you to some of them.

Michael McCune and Jerome Gant, two ordinary Americans whose only crime was to play by the rules and who now find themselves facing eviction from their homes.

Please tell us your story....

Quote:

Michael: Uh, well, to start. I still don’t understand how this happened to me. I mean, I fit all the requirements for a subprime mortgage. Uh, no credit history.

Jerome: Same here.

Michael: No job.

Jerome: Me neither.

Michael: Minor criminal record.

Jerome: Ditto.

Michael: Dishonorable discharge from the Army.

Jerome: Yeah, I got mine right here.

Michael: Uh, drug problems.

Jerome: Me, too.

Michael: Uh, alcohol problems.

Jerome: Guilty as charged.

Michael: Gambling addiction.

Jerome: Yeah.

Michael: Pregnant girlfriend — actually, two pregnant girlfriends.

Jerome: Just the one.

Well, I was talked into a balloon mortgage. Where you move into the house. And then you get to live in it. And you don’t have to, like, pay money or anything to the bank. But then later, you do.

Jerome: Yeah, what up with dat?

Michael: I mean, you could say I’m a double victim, since I never had a job and now I don’t have a home!

Jerome: Well, I’m a triple victim, because now I’ve been charged with arson for allegedly setting fire to the house they evicted me from.

Quote:

Pelosi: You are both in our thoughts. (Hugs Michael. Won’t hug Jerome.)

( continues )

Jolie Rouge · 10-07-2008, 12:40 PM

Quote:

This is Greg Phillips and his wife, Judy. How did the housing collapse affect you?

My wife and I bought two dozen time-share condos which we heavily mortgaged in order to flip them 6 months later for triple the purchase price and then the real estate market tanked.

Pelosi: And you were doing this through…

Judy: Misrepresentation.

Pelosi: No, I meant, did you do this out of your home…

Judy: Out of greed.

Greg: Yes, out of greed.

Pelosi: And now, with the real estate market down, you’re stuck with two dozen time-share condos that you can’t sell…

Judy: Unless we can sell them for, like, 10 percent more than we paid.

Pelosi: So, you can’t make your mortgage payments.

Greg: Not without selling the boat. Or putting off essential cosmetic surgery.

Quote:

Pelosi: And who is this? This is Crystal, our surrogate mother.

Crystal: Waaaazup?

Judy: You see, I can’t have children…without getting bad stretch marks.

Pelosi: You are also in our thoughts and prayers.

Quote:

This is Herbert and Marion Sandler. Tell us your story.

Quote:

Herbert Sandler: My wife and I had a company which aggressively marketed subprime mortgages, and then bundled them into securities to sell to banks such as Wachovia. Today, our portfolio is worth almost nothing — though at one point, it was worth close to $19 billion.

Pelosi: My God. I am so sorry. Were you able to sell it for anything.

Herbert Sandler: Yes, for $24 billion.

Pelosi: I see. So in that sense, you’re not so to speak, actual victims.

Quote:

Herbert Sandler (chuckling): Oh, no. That would be Wachovia Bank.

Marion Sandler: Actually, we’ve done quite well. We’re very happy.

Herbert Sandler: We were sort of wondering why you asked us to come today.

Marion Sandler: Anyway, it’s delightful to see you, Nancy. (Kisses Pelosi.)

Quote:

Herbert Sandler: And thank you, Congressman Frank, as well as many Republicans for helping block Congressional oversight of our corrupt activities.

Frank: Not at all. Let me say something else here. You know, many of you are probably wondering, “Where will that $700 billion missing from our economy go?” To help answer that, let me introduce our good friend, billionaire hedge fund manager, George Soros.

Soros: So what became of zat $700 beellion dollars? Well, basically it belongs to me, now. Actually, it’s not even dollars anymore, but Swiss franks, since I have taken a short position against the dollar.

Quote:

Bush: Oh, really. That’s not good.

Soros: You’re not to speak. I don’t like you.

Yes, uh, zee U.S. dollar will have to be devalued sometime next week. Either Tuesday or Wednesday. I haven’t decided wheech yet. It will depend on how I feel.

Quote:

Frank: Thank you very much, Mr. Soros. You’re a great man.

Soros: Could I just add that even though you know what’s coming, you won’t be able to do anything about it.

Pelosi: You’re a wise man, Mr. Soros. And a powerful one.

Frank: You are better than us.

Quote:

Soros (pointing to Anne Hathaway character): Your wife is physically attractive. Sell her to me, please.

Greg and Judy: Sure. Ok.

Quote:

Announcer: We’ll now leave this press conference and join a discussion of Sen. McCain’s foreign policy positions already in progress. Gov. Palin is about to say something embarrassing.

##End##

LuvBigRip · 10-07-2008, 01:17 PM

I have it on DVR, it is hysterical.

Jolie Rouge · 10-07-2008, 01:21 PM

Campaign Comedy: Monday's late-night TV wrap-up
By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer
Tue Oct 7, 8:56 AM ET

NEW YORK - You'd hardly know the Democrats have even chosen a presidential candidate, judging from late-night comedy monologues. It was Republican John McCain and — oh, by the way — his vice presidential running mate, Sarah Palin, who claimed most of the jokesters' attention.

"John McCain's campaign has closed their offices in Michigan and they say they won't try to compete for votes there," noted NBC "Late Night" host Conan O'Brien on Monday. "Apparently this is part of McCain's strategy to try to win votes only in the original 13 colonies."

"John McCain blew off Michigan! Well, I know how they feel," said CBS "Late Show" host David Letterman. McCain canceled an appearance on Letterman's show two weeks ago.

"Maybe you've noticed that all of John McCain's problems began when he bailed out on this show. Are you aware of that? Well, the road to the White House runs right through here!"

Craig Ferguson, host of CBS' "Late Late Show," said that "at this point, it's a race to see what drops faster: the stock market or John McCain's poll numbers."

Of course, the stock market's plunge was a popular topic among the comics, with Letterman devoting his Top Ten list to "Ways to Make the Financial Crisis More Fun." Ranked in second place: "Enjoy the blank stare when Katie Couric asks Sarah Palin what the FDIC stands for."

He also poked fun at Palin's gaffe when, addressing a group Sunday, she referred to Afghanistan as "our neighboring country."

"Apparently," cracked Letterman, "she can see bin Laden's cave from her house."

On Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," host Stephen Colbert took an approving look back at Thursday's vice presidential debate.

"Both candidates surpassed expectations," he said. "Sarah Palin proved she could speak. And Joe Biden proved he could STOP speaking."

And NBC "Tonight" show host Jay Leno called attention to a candidate for governor of Bangkok who assaulted a TV reporter for asking him tough questions on the air. "Today Sarah Palin said, 'You can do THAT? Where's Katie Couric?'"

___

Comedy Central is owned by Viacom Inc. CBS is a division of CBS Corp. NBC is owned by General Electric Co.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081007/...kbkRC1.Ke2GL8C

On the Net:

http://www.colbertnation.com/home

http://lateshow.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/

http://lateshow.cbs.com/latenight/latelate/

http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/

http://www.nbc.com/Late_Night_with_Conan_O'Brien/index.shtml

janelle · 10-07-2008, 02:23 PM

LOL, I posted the skit a few days ago. They took it off the SNL web site?

Now lets see if SNL caves to them even more and not focus on Obama, just McCain and Palin.

We all should post at SNL and ask them where the skit went. Our posts will probably be taken off as well.

DrHolliday · 10-07-2008, 03:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by janelle

LOL, I posted the skit a few days ago. They took it off the SNL web site?

Now lets see if SNL caves to them even more and not focus on Obama, just McCain and Palin.

We all should post at SNL and ask them where the skit went. Our posts will probably be taken off as well.

Yeah, SNL must have angered some of the Democrats...mainly George Soros.

janelle · 10-07-2008, 03:26 PM

I just went there and it IS gone. Censorship is all that is but I guess it is ok if you are a liberal doing it.

SurferGirl · 10-07-2008, 03:55 PM

The missing skit. This takes a really long to load so be patient.

http://patdollard.com/2008/10/it-is-...de-from-louie/

janelle · 10-07-2008, 04:10 PM

The tape stopped before it got to the Soros connection. Geesh, do they own the airwaves? Scarey.

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Jolie Rouge C & P Queen Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Missin' Mesue ... Posts: 33,955 iTrader: (2) Thanks: 737 Thanked 1,401 Times in 761 Posts	Campaign Comedy: Monday's late-night TV wrap-up By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer Tue Oct 7, 8:56 AM ET NEW YORK - You'd hardly know the Democrats have even chosen a presidential candidate, judging from late-night comedy monologues. It was Republican John McCain and — oh, by the way — his vice presidential running mate, Sarah Palin, who claimed most of the jokesters' attention. "John McCain's campaign has closed their offices in Michigan and they say they won't try to compete for votes there," noted NBC "Late Night" host Conan O'Brien on Monday. "Apparently this is part of McCain's strategy to try to win votes only in the original 13 colonies." "John McCain blew off Michigan! Well, I know how they feel," said CBS "Late Show" host David Letterman. McCain canceled an appearance on Letterman's show two weeks ago. "Maybe you've noticed that all of John McCain's problems began when he bailed out on this show. Are you aware of that? Well, the road to the White House runs right through here!" Craig Ferguson, host of CBS' "Late Late Show," said that "at this point, it's a race to see what drops faster: the stock market or John McCain's poll numbers." Of course, the stock market's plunge was a popular topic among the comics, with Letterman devoting his Top Ten list to "Ways to Make the Financial Crisis More Fun." Ranked in second place: "Enjoy the blank stare when Katie Couric asks Sarah Palin what the FDIC stands for." He also poked fun at Palin's gaffe when, addressing a group Sunday, she referred to Afghanistan as "our neighboring country." "Apparently," cracked Letterman, "she can see bin Laden's cave from her house." On Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," host Stephen Colbert took an approving look back at Thursday's vice presidential debate. "Both candidates surpassed expectations," he said. "Sarah Palin proved she could speak. And Joe Biden proved he could STOP speaking." And NBC "Tonight" show host Jay Leno called attention to a candidate for governor of Bangkok who assaulted a TV reporter for asking him tough questions on the air. "Today Sarah Palin said, 'You can do THAT? Where's Katie Couric?'" ___ Comedy Central is owned by Viacom Inc. CBS is a division of CBS Corp. NBC is owned by General Electric Co. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081007/...kbkRC1.Ke2GL8C On the Net: http://www.colbertnation.com/home http://lateshow.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/ http://lateshow.cbs.com/latenight/latelate/ http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/ http://www.nbc.com/Late_Night_with_Conan_O'Brien/index.shtml __________________ Laissez les bon temps rouler! Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. a 4 day work week & sex slaves ~ I say Tyt for PRESIDENT!** Not to be taken internally, literally or seriously ....Suki ebaynni IS THAT BETTER ?

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janelle Registered User Join Date: Oct 2000 Posts: 20,468 iTrader: (1) Thanks: 466 Thanked 1,174 Times in 763 Posts	LOL, I posted the skit a few days ago. They took it off the SNL web site? Now lets see if SNL caves to them even more and not focus on Obama, just McCain and Palin. We all should post at SNL and ask them where the skit went. Our posts will probably be taken off as well.

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janelle Registered User Join Date: Oct 2000 Posts: 20,468 iTrader: (1) Thanks: 466 Thanked 1,174 Times in 763 Posts	I just went there and it IS gone. Censorship is all that is but I guess it is ok if you are a liberal doing it.

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janelle Registered User Join Date: Oct 2000 Posts: 20,468 iTrader: (1) Thanks: 466 Thanked 1,174 Times in 763 Posts	The tape stopped before it got to the Soros connection. Geesh, do they own the airwaves? Scarey.