Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took a spill at the White House and broke her elbow. I know a good personal injury lawyer she can call.
We wish her a speedy recovery and good health.
Good thing she is a Democrat. Were she a Republican, Saturday Night Live would pummel her and say she is so stupid she can't walk and be Secretary of State at the same time. They and David Lettermen would thrust the idea that she falls because she is a dope over and over until they could get as many lemmings as possible to believe it, and hope their fraudulent little meme becomes part of the public consciousness.
They have a history of that going back to the beginning of the show.
Looking back at Gerry Ford's life is to know he was an honest statesmen and a terrific fellow. He already had an established law practice, but when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor he left it to enlist in the Navy. He went on to serve honorably in Congress and as President.
What some might not know is that Ford had a very bad knee from playing college football - so bad that he did therapy on it into his old age. The injury made him have less than perfect balance, and he took some famous falls when it gave out.
Saturday Night Live turned a physical malady into a punch line, with endless scenes of Chevy Chase playing Ford as a mindless klutz, ridiculously falling and and acting foolishly.
Was it all in good fun? Biographers of Ford say he always took it with good humor, the gentleman that he was, but Chevy Chase saw it another way.
Watch the below video. Although Lorne Michaels protests that SNL does not go after Republicans as a partisan swipe, Chevy Chase spills the beans and says it is exactly that, from what they did to Gerry Ford right up to what they did last year to Sarah Palin:
The Republicans in SNL skits always come off as stupid. The jokes about Democrats? It's always about how hopelessly smart they are. We saw that repeatedly in the skits after Obama was elected. That Democrats are "so smart" is a position of SNL going way back. Take a look at this transcript of Dan Akroyd playing Jimmy Carter:
Announcer: And now, live from the White House, "Ask President Carter".
Walter Cronkite: Good evening, and welcome to #10 of the CBS radio series "Ask President Carter", continuing an experiment in presidential communication with the American people. Mr. President, our first call this week comes Mrs. Edward Hobrath, or maybe it's Horbraithe?
Mrs. Edward Horbath (on phone): [ echoing ] That's Horbath.
Walter Cronkite: Mrs. Edward Horbath - excuse me - of Maple Trace, Kansas!
President Jimmy Carter: Hello, Mrs. Horbath.
Mrs. Edward Horbath (on phone): [ echoing ] Hello, Mr. President, how are you today?
President Jimmy Carter: Very fine. Could you turn your radio down, please?
Mrs. Edward Horbath (on phone): [ echoing ] Oh my.. yes..
Walter Cronkite: Mrs. Horbath, do you have a question for the President?
Mrs. Edward Horbath (on phone): Yes, sir. I'm an employee of the U.S. Postal Service in Kansas. Last year they installed an automated letter sorting system called the Marvex-3000, here in our branch..
President Jimmy Carter: Yes.
Mrs. Edward Horbath (on phone): ..but the system doesn't work too good. Letters keep getting clogged in the first-level sorting grid. Is there anything that can be done about this?
President Jimmy Carter: Well, Mrs. Horbath, Vice-President Mondale and I were just talking about the Morvex-3000 this morning.. uh.. I do have a suggestion - you know the caliber poised on the first grid sliding armiture?
Mrs. Edward Horbath (on phone): Yes.
President Jimmy Carter: Okay, there's a three-digit setting there, where the post and the armiture meet. Now, when the system was installed, the angle of cross-slide was put at a maximum setting of 1.. if you reset it at the three-mark like it says in the assembly instructions, I think it will solve any clogging problems in the machine.
Mrs. Edward Horbath (on phone): Oh, thanks, Mr. President! Oh, by the way, I think you're doing a great job!
Walter Cronkite: Looks like you've been doing your homework, Mr. President. I'd like to take this opportunity to say that none of these calls are screened, that the people of America are talking directly with the President.
Can you believe how they slathered Carter with compliments in the skit? "You're doing a great job Mr. President!" I think I just threw up in my mouth a little having to read that.
I found a video of the rest of that skit, where SNL continues the effort to deliver the message that Carter is bright. Notice how the skit also deteriorates into a knock against Republican Richard Nixon:
So don't worry, Hillary Clinton. The partisan show "Saturday Night Lies" won't make fun of you, so long as you stay a Democrat.
Apologize for this statement, but you people are either stupid or crazy as hell!!!
Posted by: Repbblican | Thursday, 25 June 2009 at 12:24 AM