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SNL producer Lorne Michaels says Dems get a pass because they 'take it personally' if they're mocked



Anyone who's watched Saturday Night Live for the last ten or fifteen years knows that they rarely make fun of Democrats. They spend hours mocking conservatives as out-of-touch, stupid, or downright malevolent, but Dems always seem to get a pass. In fact, until the disastrous ObamaCare launch it's hard to remember a single sketch that made fun of President Obama.
Now, in an interview with New York Magazine's Vulture.com, show producer Lorne Michaels admits that Dems get treated with kid gloves:
Are there any basic rules for what works and what doesn’t politically? Republicans are easier for us than Democrats. Democrats tend to take it personally; Republicans think it’s funny. But we’re not sitting here every week going, “We’ve really got to do the First Family.”

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Sorry, but no. “We’ve really got to do the First Family” is pretty much what kept the show afloat through the presidencies of Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush. Scattered throughout those decades are literally hundreds of SNL's most memorable moments - and they targeted both ends of the political spectrum. It's only with the arrival of Obama that they've decided that they're incapable of bringing the heat. So, you'll forgive me if I say that most of Lorne Michaels' rationalization is just out and out B.S. Saturday Night Live's recently departed head writer, Seth Meyers, is a staunch liberal, a large-scale Obama donor, and is the man primarily responsible for writing the meat of Tina Fey's Sarah Palin impression. Before he was head writer, the job belonged to Fey, who's another big time progressive and was a fervent Hillary Clinton supporter. With those two at the helm, do you really expect the Dems to take it on the chin? However, let's take Michaels at his word. Democrats take the jokes personally, while Republicans actually have a sense of humor. This means two things are true: The first is that "taking it personally" must include some pretty serious blowback. Perhaps this takes the form of carping from their left-wing friends and allies, or maybe it's about being fearful of a little visit from the IRS. Either way, the left has succeeded in shutting them up before they go to air, because the cast and crew would rather not deal with a bunch of whiny, outraged, liberals. That's called prior restraint, and it's the politically correct hallmark of liberal fascism. The second point is that it confirms what we already know about the left. They can't take the jokes, because their lives are based on politics. For them it's political ideology first, everything else second. Conservatives live lives that are most enjoyable when they are free from federal intrusion. Liberals live lives that worship at the government altar, and require a consistent bureaucratic presence in virtually every facet of their daily existence. Government is their religion, so if you make fun of it, you're treading on the only thing they hold sacred. Michaels went on to claim that America just isn't paying attention to the bigger picture:
This week, our cold open is about three big stories. We have Piers Morgan interviewing A-Rod, Chris Christie, and Justin Bieber. We’re doing more of that kind of thing than stuff about Benghazi or the new budget agreement. The country has lost interest in it. I can’t tell you why. It’s no less important, but in some way you can’t do health care more than twice, at which point there’s just nothing left. But Jay Pharoah does a really good Obama.
While it's nice to know that Michaels thinks the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi is "no less important" than Justin Beiber, this is -again -absolute hogwash. Were Obama a Republican,we'd be enjoying a relentless parade of sketches about the handling of Benghazi, dog eating, IRS targeting, the non-closure of Gitmo, Obama's opulent vacations, his dictatorial executive orders, his revolving door of insane cabinet members, and his constantly scowling wife. The fact that Michaels claims "there's just nothing left" means he's either scared to make the jokes, or disinterested due to his own agenda. Whatever the real reason, it’s shameful for a cultural institution built on equal-opportunity mockery. The comedy gods will not be happy.


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