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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. The "black Jesus" portrait Ben owns says it all about all the RW Christian crazies driving the
Sun Nov 15, 2015, 11:08 AM
Nov 2015

GOP over a cliff.

I think this is probably not the one that has been pulled from the Internet, but close:

valerief

(53,235 posts)
3. You always know when the Republican Party doesn't like one of its Republicans.
Sun Nov 15, 2015, 01:25 PM
Nov 2015

SNL ridicules them. Otherwise, they play softball, just like mainstream news.

valerief

(53,235 posts)
5. They made fun of her and didn't like her. I'm talking about the Party officials, not the
Sun Nov 15, 2015, 01:50 PM
Nov 2015

voters. The Republicans didn't want to win. They wanted to dump the crash on the Democrats. That's why they picked Palin. I'm sure they did a much better vetting of her than they claim they did. They're evil but not stupid, no matter how stupid their presidential candidates are.

mucifer

(23,572 posts)
8. Sure seemed to me like they wanted to win.
Sun Nov 15, 2015, 02:11 PM
Nov 2015

Couldn't get more mainstream than the front runners running for president and Tina Fey did a great job convincing people to vote for Barack Obama.

SNL has always made fun of republicans and democrats since the days of ronald reagan and Jimmy Carter. That's what they do.

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)
11. Absolutely true,
Sun Nov 15, 2015, 08:30 PM
Nov 2015

The few times they dare pierce the GOP hide, it can be amusing. But most of it just sucks.

wordpix

(18,652 posts)
7. this is hysterical - looking forward to more"Ben" from Jay Pharoah
Sun Nov 15, 2015, 02:08 PM
Nov 2015
Leslie Jones and Kenan Thompson are also fabulous in every sketch they're in
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