Did the SNL crew go too far?
As usual I will leave it up to all of you to decide on your own opinions about this, whether you have seen the skit or not, but of course that won’t stop me from making sure everyone knows what I think about it! OK so anyway I guess the main problem that some people had with this skit, shown above with Fred Armisen as NY Governor David Paterson on Saturday Night Live, is that it portrays the governor as an idiot because of his blindness. Sure it sounds like an unfair thing to do… but that didn’t stop anyone making fun of John McCain because he was old, or Sarah Palin because she sounded like a goofy chipmunk half the time.
So… is there a pattern starting to form here? Is it OK to make fun Republicans but not Democrats? I mean come on… if SNL had done a skit making fun of Obama for being black there would’ve been a whole lot of hell breaking loose because of it. So I guess that’s why I think this latest skit isn’t so bad… because you can’t just target one side of the political fence and then claim your own side to be off-limits!
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