Ledger Pop Journal - Celebrity News & Sports

Does NBC's Saturday Night Live treat Republicans and Democrats differently? A really funny SNL bailout sketch that slammed politicians from both sides of the aisle was actually quite good but perhaps a bit too controversial and NBC pulled a part of the skit that based Democrats. That led to all kinds of accusations of bias from political pundits, especially those on the right.

SNL Bailout Sketch Controversy, Is NBC in or Out?

NBC promotes Tina Fey as Sarah Palin over and over (and over again) so many believed that the Gotham liberals that run the show must have thought they went just a bit too far. For a time, the video was actually yanked from the World Wide Web. The network then claimed that NBC lawyers took down the unedited YouTube version of the skit.


Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood Daily has the video and a very detailed explanation here on exactly whet went wrong. DHD reports, "On the past weekend's Saturday Night Live, a brutal but hilarious Democrat-bashing skit aired about the $700 billion federal bailout and the insanity of those subprime mortgages, and it featured lookalikes for George W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, hedge fund billionaire and big Democratic donor George Soros, and a parade of sob-story “victims” who turn out to be deadbeats, greedy house-flippers, and schemers.

Finke explains, "NBC put the video online Sunday morning. But then it disappeared off the network's SNL website soon after. Needless to say, a lot of conspiracy theories were spun, real or imagined, especially by Republicans who wondered if the Democratic Congress, or perhaps Soros himself, were pulling NBC's puppet strings. "If you suspect a few high-placed phone calls to NBC led to the bailout skit slipping down the memory hole, you’re not alone," wrote right-wing commentator Michelle Malkin." Is NBC biased or did they just not want to face a lawsuit?