12 Replies to “SNL — a skit that could never be done today [Darleen Click]”

1. newrouter says:

   February 21, 2015 at 9:19 pm

   >Thanks, Obama, for making America even more divided and racist than 1975.<

   same feces different venue. race shakedown

2. LBascom says:

   February 21, 2015 at 10:28 pm

   I’m kinda with newrouter on this one.

3. dicentra says:

   February 21, 2015 at 11:41 pm

   I asked the other day “to what end” the specious and transparent lie-telling about “ISIS is not Muslim.” Via Steyn, Dalrymple offers the answer:

   n my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.

   Wearing us down, wearing us down, wearing us down…

   Where these mofos get the energy to be so relentless I’ll never know.

4. Ernst Schreiber says:

   February 21, 2015 at 11:51 pm

   source of the Dalrymple quote near as I can tell.

5. epador says:

   February 22, 2015 at 10:01 am

   We watched that rerun last night, the WHOLE SNL episode from 1975, and this was really the most and only real funny part of the show. Emily Litella was so so, and the rest was just painful to watch. But they all were just kids then.

6. epador says:

   February 22, 2015 at 10:07 am

   Ernst – thanks for the link, an interesting read.

7. McGehee says:

   February 22, 2015 at 11:04 am

   It is sad to realize that “When SNL was funny” turns out to be such a low bar.

8. LBascom says:

   February 22, 2015 at 11:04 am

   That quote was profound. I always assumed propaganda was to indoctrinate, but that explanation fits better. Take SSM for example, an obvious effort to force everyone into accepting the perversion of society itself and corrupting the probity of everyone in it.

   There are many such examples in todays America, and it is humiliating…

9. LBascom says:

   February 22, 2015 at 11:13 am

   McGehee, I believe the humor is greatly enhanced if you watch the show in Colorado or Washington state.

10. McGehee says:

    February 22, 2015 at 11:44 am

    I’m sure being in the right state makes a big difference.

11. epador says:

    February 22, 2015 at 5:24 pm

    Well, theres a lot of folks from WA and CO in AZ right now… and at least the Western portion of AZ is right.

12. Ouroboros says:

    February 23, 2015 at 12:33 pm

    LBascom – Oh it is.. It is.. As are Richard Pryor’s comedy albums… and pretty much everything else from Xena Warrior Princess to Girls..Here in Seattle everything’s just funnier.

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