FOX News unplugged: SNL's 'End of era'

Genius. As far as I'm concerned, the White House Press secretary killed the King of Pop. Thanks, I needed the laugh. Here's another take on Geln the Beckham of poltical commentary,
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-5-2009/the-11-3-project

So what if Fox is rated number 1? It's a sensationalist tabloid of a "news" organization, that either is busy trying to further it's own agenda, or covering stories that are steeped in sensationalism or designed to support Fox's political leaning. Sure a lot of people watch. We also stop to stare at bloody auto accidents alongside the road. When what you're selling is really for shock value, you're not really a news organization, you're a demented satire of what a news organization should be,
SNL's skit was right on target.

Wow, shocker, SNL picking on the political right. We get it, you are a bunch of liberals, good for you. Too bad you have not been funny since 1994...

Agree with other posters. How is SNL being critical of the right newsworthy? Even if it were funny I would not watch because of their blatant politcal agenda.

I find it hilarious that so many put so weight on the idea that Faux Nooz is the number one rated cable news channel. Aside from the fact that their numbers would get regular shows cancelled, it's like taking 100 people into a home and asking them to pick a room. Thirty people pick the bathroom, 15 pick the den, 15 pick the family room, another 20 pick the kitchen and another 20 pick the dining room. We can say the bathroom is the most popular room, yet 70 other people didn't choose it. The one real lesson to learn from this is that a lot of people like being near a toilet--and there you have the typical Faux Nooz viewer summed up in a nutshell.

Zach - except when satirizing Obama/Dems, yes??

Guy - But you're actually kind of funny...bringing up blatant political agendas ... ha ha ha ha.....

Waaaaahhh.... the liberal media is a making fun of us rightwingnutters....

Waaaaahhhhh.... *sniff*

In reference to Guy's post: How is Fox News being critical of the left newsworthy? It is not real news because of their blatant political agenda.

That cracked me up! It so hit the nail on the head,,, no politics, just reality.

Funny how conservatives were all trumpeting that SNL took on Obama a couple weeks ago, this was a sign of the failure of the administration. But discuss the sacred network of the right and its unfair bashing. I'd say I was shocked, but....

Even if it were funny I would not watch because of their blatant politcal agenda.

Posted by: Guy | November 8, 2009 2:25 PM
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Right. Guy only watches organizations that have a political agenda that agree with her's.

Ah, yes, red meat for the liberal masses. The GOP wins a couple elections (or did they actually lose? I'm so spun around I can't tell anymore) and SNL feels justified in taking off after the critics of the administration. Funny, funny stuff. Anybody recall SNL making fun of any of the insane critics of the Bush administration? You remember, the ones who brought us such terms as "Bushitler" and "The Village Idiot," or my personal favorite "Chimpy." How about Code Pink? Anybody remember the skit ripping on them? Or can anybody recall the SNL skit in which Keith Olbermann is lambasted for blaming everything on Bush? Oh, wait, that's right: Everything actually was Bush's fault, from 9/11 to bad weather in Schenectady. See, it's the double standard that just makes me roll my eyes. SNL produces one skit (count it: Exactly. One. Skit.) that ridicules Obama, and CNN and other groups "fact check" the skit (which, if it had been done by Fox News during the Bush years, likely would have only invited scores of skits concerning the fact check. But in this case, it worked: Not another skit mildly critical of Obama has followed.) But conservatives are apparently the actual crybabies for not laughing out loud at yet another in a countless series of parodies of our side. Funny, funny stuff.

Of course Fox News is the #1 cable "news" network station I remember as a child, the National Inquirer was an extremely popular newspaper - with stories like "2-Headed Babyborn to dead Mother" or "Man raised by Monkeys & Lives to Tell the Story". What do you expect from people - common sense to know blatant lies to scare people?

The impersonation of Greta was pretty good, but otherwise the skit just wasn't funny. Funny is Will Farrell's "strategery" -- a little true to character, a little silly, and not mean-spirited.

Rob - good try but epic fail on your part, I voted for Obama. I just hate shows that are blatantly bias. I hate Fox News, I hate CNN, I hate MSNBC, I hate SNL and I hate The Daily Show. I just don't find entertainment in ripping one side while leaving another alone.

Next time, lets not put words in my mouth, ok?

Fox "news" is proof that people only believe what they are told. I am waiting for them to tell us that the world is flat. After all, their claim is "fair and balanced" when their coverage is so obviously unfair and unbalanced. It's actually sickening to watch because it is bent so far to the right. Give me honest news and honest reporting, which you can get a lot of places but certainly not on Fox.

Stop already, this will only drive more viewers to Fox. Just ignore them...PLEASE!

I thought this SNL skit was the funniest one I've seen in YEARS - actually laughed out loud a few times. Great stuff. I guess Fox does make it easy for them to find material, but even given that, this was just really clever.

This sketch was just plain stupid.

Brilliant. They didn't make Kristen Wiig UGLY enough....Greta is easily the scariest lookin' woman on TV--why she has a job is beyond me. She can't speak, and she looks like she should be scaring kids in a haunted house.

Brilliant. They didn't make Greta is easily the scariest lookin' woman on TV--why she has a job is beyond me. She can't speak, and she looks like she should be scaring kids in a haunted house.

Posted by: etiquette bitch | November 8, 2009 8:00 PM

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MSNBC has tried to counter Greta with a creature with similar atributes. It's show follows the failed sportscaster's every night.
Very similar, it can't speak, nobody knows how it got its job. And pretty sure it has scared small children.

At least FOX was the originator of this trend.

Democrats - the party of handouts and the uneducated/undereducated.

The only people I know who think Fox is "fair and balanced" ONLY get their news from Fox. They're afraid to look around because their tiny brains can't handle anything that might conflict with their preconcieved notions.

Relying on one source (of any kind) for your news is insane. You need a variety.

Right wingnuts have absolutely no sense of humor. SNL lampoons everyone and everything regardless of poltical ideology. But I guess it should be illegal to make fun of anything that right wingnuts approve of.

"phox" is an entertainment channel, like the Game Show one. They even have MC's like that channel. Their shows are "lifestyle" ones, similar to G4 or some of the other channels. Its funny, the reich wing get so upset when people have fun with it or them, but when they do it.

Thank goodness somebody is holding Fox News accountable. Because I love this country and there's a culture war going on...and there's nothing less at stake here than the future of America. God bless SNL and Jon Stewart and the other patriots fighting the front lines of this culture war against the right wing's homophobic, xenophobic, scienceophobic, environophobic, logicophobic, socialistophobic agenda. Clearly an era is ending. It is the end of the Fox's reign of fear. Hope is indeed a powerful weapon.

Thanks for this post. I have finally found the time to comment, because you raise a very good point for the open and transparent community you and may of us, your readers, aspire to adopt and be a part of. It is hard to feel hopeful at times

the skit was funny (Conservatives are so upset when confronted with the truth, poor things)...but that end, when Kristen Wiig/Susteren said the country was moving "from the left...to the right" and her mouth moved, I spit my drink out...

but Faux Gnu' is my favorite flavor of Kool Aid!

Hope...hope...hope...Nice Agenda.

fair and balanced.....hmmmmmm...I am tired of the Liberal Media they control the majority of the networks out there, make sense why FOX is doing so well. The majority of the country is center right. Nothing good ever comes from the left, unless you consider taxes and social programs good. Government positions were meant to be a part time gig and their powers was to protect people from foreign threats, that’s all the powers of congress and the president should have.