Who would have thought that Tina Fey (a white woman) and SNL (a old low-rated comedy show before the Palin skits) would have done more to help Obama than all the power of Oprah, Hollywood and the mainstream media combined.
I (Tina Fey) crown you King Obama
I consider the SNL skits the tipping point in the election. They negated the Palin factor and were REQUIRED to reverse the momentum McCain/Palin had.
I did a brief analysis on the first one which was brilliant satire but as we are hitting SNL Palin skit 4 with Palin’s appearance, and we are sure to have more before the election, it is becoming clear that the SNL factor is something that Obama “required” to win this election. The SNL skits are a nice focal point of the media blitz against Palin which is vast and unprecedented in its bias. The original first skit even gives a shout-out to the media to “grow a pair” and attack Palin which all newspapers by a margin of 4-1 nationally have done.
There is relatively little satire of Biden and Obama and when they do appear, they are rich with Palin commentary or juxtaposed with Fey playing Palin.
First, lets establish one fact, McCain would have no chance whatsoever without Palin. Media red herrings that suggest McCain should have picked someone else is simply a way of distracting the public from the media smear job on Palin. The media is trying to cover its own tracks at this point because of the absolute intense bias and unprecedented attacks on Palin as the VP candidate. Never before in history has the main stream media revealed its bias in such an extreme manner on a VP candidate. They have succeeded but now they need to cover their tracks or their ass as they back away from the car wreck they created by running Palin off the road in dramatic fashion.
“Oh a different driver would have had a different result etc”, Actually no elected politician in this day and age can survive a media blitzkrieg like the one Palin has been subjected to, it would end most political careers. (But I have a feeling she will be back because the bias is just too blatant, with time I think this woman will be back to “meet the press” in an era of the internet and citizen journalists) It is hard for the average person not to see the smear factor on Palin when compared to Biden’s free pass.
Palin was by far the best choice for McCain not only because she energizied the Republican base but also for her ability to connect with people if given a chance to speak directly to them through television or on the stump without the media filter. For a brief few weeks she elevated McCain ahead of Obama in the polls, that is an amazing accomplishment against Obama who has 5 times as much money and 4-1 mainstream media endorsement. How is the election even close at all with that massive war chest for Obama and the media doing most of his dirty work by undermining and attacking Palin ?
Biden with all of his 30 plus years of experience has actually made FAR more speaking misteps in the election than Palin. Imagine the SNL skit if Palin had asked a paralyzed man to stand up at a stump speech ? Imagine the SNL skit if Palin had said Romney or Huckabee would have been a better pick for VP as Biden did in saying Clinton would have been a better pick for VP than him ? Imagine the skit if Palin said McCain will be tested by an international crisis and implied doubt about his ability to handle it ? And that is only what we know about, I assure you given a little experience in politics, that Biden has likely said much more but only friendly ears have heard it and they have chosen to ignore it.
It is a simple fact and no matter what your politics are, you have to admit the media has pretty much given Biden a free pass in this election. The media bias for Obama has been consistently in place since he won the Primary against Clinton. The election should “always” have been a landslide but it wasn’t and it won’t be because of Palin. Obama will win but that will be due to Fey and the media bias, the election very easily could have flipped if the media and SNL had gone after Biden and ignored Palin or even just ignored the both of them and let them deliver their own message without spin.
Hmmmm, imagine an election where the media is not allowed to report it and only to present direct interviews and the debates ? Imagine an election where the voter is expected to research themselves the platforms of the candidate instead of having it spun for them by CNN or the media…
Bush is one of the least popular Republican presidents in history but STILL Obama needed a historical stock market collapse AND media bias for him AND unrelenting character attacks on Palin to win. Think about that for a moment, the real question in this election is WHY could Obama not seal the deal long ago and WHY is it even close at all ? A change candidate and different party, it should have a been a reflex election and a landslide, why wasn’t it ?
The Obama bots and blind supporters aside, Obama is not being passionately endorsed by the American people. Despite his victory it will be won on millions who will vote for him while they hold their nose or sigh sadly.
The media and SNL got those votes for him because now to vote for McCain/Palin means you are dumb, it means you aren’t with the cool kids, it means you don’t get the joke of Palin and it means that everyone should laugh at you, just like they laugh at Sarah Palin. That is the bottom line and that is what millions of voters will vote on when voting for Obama.
Why was Fey and SNL required to win the election for Obama and act as the tipping point?
Well, even with the widespread media bias of the NY Times, CBS, ABC etc they were largely speaking to the converted. The media has been for Obama since he beat Clinton so nothing really changed on that front. What is amazing is that Obama failed in the pre-Palin time frame to build support against a GOP candidate that lacked support within his own party, was 72 years old and should hardly have given him any kind of fight for the white house. The fact that McCain did is really what is amazing.
Now without Palin and the SNL skits, Obama might still have won but I am confident that it would have been much closer. The SNL cheery was needed on top of the media cake to bake this election for Obama and to counter the Palin factor…
Congratulations President Obama but doesn’t it feel a little hollow to beat a 72 year old war vet and a woman this way ? Its kind of like you paid off the ref in the football game, it just doesn’t strike me as fair and I think you could have won without the paid off ref or press and if you couldn’t, well you didn’t deserve to win, that’s democracy…
