To my surprise, I found one SNL skit that is both funny and accurate
Click the screen cap for video
Some highlights
After Nancy Pelosi (played by Kristen Wiig) blamed the Bush administration and Republicans for the current financial crisis, President Bush (played by Jason Sudeikis) interrupted: “Wait a minute. Wasn’t it my administration that warned about the problem six years ago? And it was Democrats who refused to listen?” When Pelosi protested, Barney Frank (played by Fred Armisen) corrected her, “Actually, this time, this time he’s sort of right.”
and also
George Soros (played by Will Forte) told viewers that all of the $700 billion coming from the recently passed bailout bill is going to him. Under his captioned name on the screen were the words “Multi-billionaire Hedge Fund Manager, Owner, Democratic Party.”
Update
Interestingly enough, NBC pulled the video from their website.
And they just took down the one on you tube. Luckily, I saved a copy. You tube took it down as soon as I uploaded it so you can now see it here
Update
The Vachovia debacle and missing SNL skit
Herb and Marion Sandler were co-chief executives for Golden West Financial Corp., and were once hailed as “voices of reason” as they guided their company and it’s subsidiary, World Savings, safely through the 1980’s and 1990’s, when thousands of other savings-and-loan failed.
In October 2006, after 40 years of running what was once referred to as an “endearing mom-and-pop shop” they sold their business to Wachovia in a $24.3 billion deal as USA Today reports.
It also contains a link to the full transcript with screen caps
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October 6, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Linda
You know this may be the only way people will actually learn about what happened.
October 6, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Woman Voter
Soros supports Obama all the way…
I want Hillary back…I don’t trust the DNC anymore.
October 6, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Mountain Sage
It’s a well done skit. I saw it Saturday night.
MountainSage
October 6, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Woman Voter
The best line is ‘SHHHHH, he doesn’t know that’, more accurately is the VOTERS don’t know that!
Can we have Hillary back…this is a nightmare.
October 6, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Scott Ferrarello
Wow… that wasn’t too bad for a change. Too bad the writers weren’t better.
October 6, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Judy R
It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so close to the truth…
October 6, 2008 at 8:40 pm
angrynana
Pelosi wasn’t ugly or brassy enough.
October 6, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Carolyn
Do you know that it has been pulled? I saw reference to this skit on another site and that NBC had taken it down. Is it possible that anyone downloaded the video? The above comments were exactly right…it was too close to the truth, and NBC has apparently taken steps to make sure the public DOESN’T learn of it. Must have made Obammy mad.
October 7, 2008 at 1:49 am
Woman Voter
SNL skit on CSPAN coverage of bailout
October 7, 2008 at 3:40 am
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October 7, 2008 at 8:04 am
edgeoforever
Thanks, Woman Voter. Speaks volumes that NBC chose to remove the video from their website. I’ll try to capture it from you tube before they strike.
October 7, 2008 at 11:15 am
angrynana
The skit is off again. Of course any skit which demeans Palin is always left on. MSNBC is an arm of marxist America. We will soon be Obamilvania with Barry as the dictator, and MSNBC et.al. as the SS troops.
October 7, 2008 at 11:43 am
edgeoforever
I posted a new link
October 7, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Marg
Well, well, well…you all act surprised that NBC took this down.. Hell, I am surprised that SNL actually did the skit….. we can’t let the truth be told cause The One will not permit it….now lets here how we are all racist cause we won’t vote for him. If McCain does not win, this notion called democracy , the founding principles of our country, yeah, that; it is done for.
DO WHATEVER YOU CAN TO GET MCCAIN ELECTED!
October 7, 2008 at 1:05 pm
edgeoforever
The videos ridiculing Palin are all over the place. This one however…I tried uploading it on you tube – it was yanked the moment it went up!
October 7, 2008 at 3:23 pm
iusbvision
Awesome post here I was happy to link to it.
October 7, 2008 at 3:48 pm
iusbvision
Did you all see this from MM?
One of the rapacious couples featured in the skit was Herbert and Marion Sandler (portrayed by Darrell Hammond and Casey Wilson). Unlike the other composite figures, the Sandlers are a real-life couple.
Also lampooned: Left-wing billionaire George Soros.
As Todd Thurman at Heritage notes, the Sandlers are left-wing moguls who built “a mortgage company whose major product was subprime mortgages and they sold it to Wachovia for $24.2 billion in 2006. And what do the Sandlers do when they are not peddling subprime garbage? They are busy writing checks to leftist groups like the Center for American Progress, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). Yes that ACORN.”
The Sandlers are seething over the skit. And George Soros must be livid as well. Anyone else smell a legal threat behind the disappearance of the vid?