Countdown - SNL effect
I was talking with my car dealer today. (Yes, I’m up there so often that they know me by name.) Anyway, we were talking about politics. He said that someone on the Sunday talk shows was going on and on about the Saturday Night Live effect. One of the main reasons that Hillary Clinton won Texas and Ohio was Saturday Night Live. He said that the pundit was 100% wrong. No one really watches Saturday Night Live any more.
He is right. At least I think that he is. I know that I haven’t watched Saturday Night Live seriously since Eddie Murphy left. I know that back then, folks would plan a date around SNL. “Why don’t we eat dinner then come back to my house and watch SNL then go see a late movie.” SNL was blamed for painting Gerald Ford in a bad light since every time the actor that played President Ford was seen on stage he was tripping over something. I know that Saturday Night Live isn’t generating that kind of interest, now. So, to conclude that people made up their minds on voting for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama based on a SNL appearance is kinda crazy. I guess it isn’t any crazier than Hillary floating the idea that Obama could be her running mate with her at the top of the ticket.
I guess to quiet the media SNL did their own version of the 3 am commercial. Keith Olbermann and Eugene Robinson from the Washington Post discuss Hillary Clinton and Saturday Night Live. It is a good interview.
I notice you havent posted any video on bill clinton speaking on hillary teaming up with barack.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080310/pl_nm/usa_politics_democrats_dc
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/09/747377.aspx
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0940302520080310?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews