MoveOn.org pressuring NBC to un-invite Trump from SNL appearance

As I was reading this, the question that came to my head was this: How many liberal activist groups these days are anything more than nuisance groups - people who basically just # very loudly when someone says something they think they can portray as outrageous, or even just when someone on the other side of the spectrum shows up somewhere, and that gives them something to yelp about? It seems to me that MoveOn.org crossed that line long ago, if they were ever on the other side of it in the first place. This is classic. Donald Trump hosting Saturday Night Live? We can't have that! Oh, and why not? SNL certainly tends to lean left but it has never been the official and exclusive domain of liberal politics, nor has it ever shied away from personalities that aren't universally loved. Having Andrew Dice Clay as host in 1990 cost the show Nora Dunn, which was no great loss if you ask me, but producers didn't back down from Dunn's protest because SNL has never been and can never be about sanitizing the cast and the content so as not to offend. Once that happens, you've lost your edge and you're no longer Saturday Night Live.

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Then again, if you're not shrieking about something that doesn't need to be shrieked about, I suppose you're no longer MoveOn.org:

According to the report, MoveOn.org’s petition, No Room For Hate On Saturday Night Live, has grown from only 15,000 signatures Friday evening to more than 117,000 and counting as of Sunday night. The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda said in an open letter to SNL Executive Producer Lorne Michaels and NBC Universal CEO Stephen Burke that the group was “appalled” at the decision to allow the presidential hopeful to host the show, since Trump has not apologized for his “racist” rhetoric, which called for mass deportations and incorrectly labeled immigrants as little more than criminals and rapists.

Of course, this story incorrectly describes Trump's comments. He did not say immigrants are little more than criminals and rapists. He said the Mexican government takes its criminals and rapists and sends them across the border with the rest of the immigrants. But it hardly matters. A liberal nuisance group like this is going to run with the mischaracterization that's already passed muster in the mainstream media. It's much easier to get 117,000 signatures on a petition that way, and that allows you to follow up with one of those sniveling little fundraising e-mails that I suppose are the only thing keeping this outfit going these days. By the way, are they still signed by Wes Boyd? It's been a long time since I was on their mailing list, and believe me I don't want back on. I was just wondering if the post-Monica era that saw the group grasping for a reason to still exist might have metastasized into a long-term way of doing business. Another question: Does anyone actually still stay up and watch SNL? You just watch the clips online the next day or two, right? Then again, maybe I'm projecting in thinking it's impossible for any human being to stay up much past 10 p.m. - even to watch Donald Trump and happily imagine the precious ones at MoveOn.org having conniption fits.