Last Saturday, "Saturday Night Live" opened with a scathing skit that portrayed Obama at a news conference with Chinese President Hu Jintao; it is not only hilarious but also politically dead-on. (Click here for the YouTube.)
This isn't the first SNL reaming of Obama, to be sure. The October 3rd show had an "Obama Does Nothing" skit that I thought was lame but which I applauded because it signalled a break in the comedic stonewall that surrounds Obama. Never before have I seen comedians (who are not Jon Stewart) so reluctant to skewer a President, especially when they show no remorse about drawing and quartering other politicians like Palin. (I'm not defending Sarah here; I'm pointing to the extreme discrepancy in how Obama has been treated.) Whether it is because he is black or liberal or XYZ, Obama got a free pass...and that ticket is now being torn in half by SNL. About damned time!
SNL skit is probably closer to what really happened in China than what was published in the newspapers.
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