End of writer strike good for Clinton

clintonThey may not change the outcome of the Democratic presidential nomination race, but the end of the Hollywood writers’ strike and the return of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” certainly have affected primary coverage. Writer James Downey struck a chord with two skits in which debate moderators fall all over “Barack Obama” and hammer “Hillary Clinton” with tough questions and worse (actor Vincent D’Onofrio roughed her up Saturday). The real Clinton even cited the first skit during a debate, then appeared on Saturday’s show. Interestingly, Downey is an “SNL” veteran who also coined the Bushism “strategery” in the 2000 campaign, presciently depicted Walter Mondale plotting victory in Minnesota in 1984 and was once fired for being too rough on O.J. Simpson. If the real Obama disagrees with Downey’s take, the writer told the New York Times, “we have two more shows coming up in the next two weeks. And I’m sure we’d love to give him rebuttal time.”

4 Comments

  1. Political_mama
    Posted March 4, 2008 at 6:41 am | Permalink

    Hillary couldn’t have picked a better time for this to happen for her campaign. This will hit home with the 40 and under crowd at least. I remember how my entire outlook changed about Bob Dole after his defeat when he went on to make fun of himself on other programs. Voters need that side of them.

    However she was too stiff last night on The Daily Show, which has a huge Obamafan base. It’s great to see Hillary’s fun side shine through. She should have done Daily Show before it got to this piont though. Now Colbert is chomping to get back at Jon lol.

  2. Max
    Posted March 4, 2008 at 10:16 am | Permalink

    Bill Clinton was rushed to the hospital after seeing this SNL episode.

    Seeing TWO Hillarys was too much for his heart to take.

    He was heard mumbling prayers to God to “please make at least ONE of her go away!”

  3. JJ
    Posted March 4, 2008 at 12:16 pm | Permalink

    Maybe she should have done the skit too.

  4. ck
    Posted March 4, 2008 at 1:20 pm | Permalink

    I haven’t heard any “talking heads” mention this but considering that globally we are faced with nations who debase women, have “honor killings” of women, make them wear burkas, and in general seem to consider them less than human, how can Hillary expect them to even listen to her let alone respect any decisions she makes or speak to her on an equal footing? Compared to a biracial, intelligent, charismatic young man named OBAMA – who do we send into the fray?