SNL Runs a Mildly Critical Sketch About Obama, and the Washington Post Rushes In to <i>Fact-Check It</i>

SNL Runs a Mildly Critical Sketch About Obama, and the Washington Post Rushes In to Fact-Check It

The sketch itself is okay, but it is critical of Obama's lawlessness, which makes it absolutely remarkable for SNL.

The Washington Post has actually endeavored to "Fact Check" the sketch.

Demonstrating that serving as the Palace Guard for Dear Leader is a 24-7-365 enterprise, Zachary A. Goldfarb, policy editor at The Washington Post, somehow felt the need on Sunday morning to critique the Saturday Night Live opening skit which appeared the previous evening.
Twelve hours after the skit was first broadcast, Goldfarb, whose whose full archive going back to August indicates that he has not written a WaPo item for Sunday publication in the past four months, nitpicked a comedy skit for — oh the humanity! — failing to distinguish between an "Executive Order" and "executive action"....

The guess here is that the SNL skit -- and especially its three pushes [of "The Bill" down the Capitol Hill steps] -- really got under the White House's skin, perhaps even to the point where they felt like they had to lean on someone at the Post to play some defense on their behalf. Whether or not any communication actually occurred, it seems clear that the Post's apparently equally thin-skinned Goldfarb felt it necessary to get up on a Sunday morning to critique a fundamentally accurate ... (still having a hard time believing it) ... comedy skit.

Goldfarb's piece isn't particularly hacky. Oh, I think it's pretty ticky-tack in making a distinction between an "executive order" and an "executive action," but it doesn't zealously defend Obama from the charge of unconstitutional action the way that, say, Vox would.

So I wonder: Why publish this embarrassment at all?

All I can figure is that Tom Blumer's guess is right, and that the White House did indeed call them asking for a "Fact Check," so the Washington Post obliged.

If this scenario sounds familiar, your memory is not deceiving you: Back in 2010, Wolf Blitzer presumed to fact-check an SNL sketch that made the point that Obama had no real accomplishments to his name.

Why are only sketches critical of Obama subject to this ridiculous, partisan exercise of "fact" checking? Obviously neither the WaPo nor CNN has ever "fact" checked SNL's dozens of Republican-bashing sketches.

Why?

The exercise itself is partisan-- putting people on notice that there is one subject (Barack Hussein Obama) about which there can be no joking whatsoever.

Update: Holy F***ballz: Here's the hacktastic, zealous "fact" checking defense of Obama, courtesy of the Daily Beast.

Posted by: Ace at 04:32 PM

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1 Ahh better here than in the headlines

Posted by: State drone at November 24, 2014 04:33 PM (+zkc+)

2 I saw this earlier, and was amazed that they are still unrepentant....and public about it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2014 04:33 PM (Zu3d9)

3 Dat's rayciss!

Posted by: model_1066 at November 24, 2014 04:34 PM (+fl1p)

4 Dysfunction Junction

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 24, 2014 04:34 PM (fIv/H)

5 But Sarah Palin really did see Alaska from her house. Swearsies.

- WaPo

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 24, 2014 04:35 PM (0LHZx)

6 I'm just a bill...

Posted by: EC at November 24, 2014 04:35 PM (doBIb)

7 When President GOP'er cites the Obama "Executive Action" to justify changing the tax code on his lonesome I'm sure we will see a similar fact-check rush from the WaPo.

Hahaha. Sure we will.

Posted by: MTF at November 24, 2014 04:35 PM (LISuA)

8 If Obama's lost SNL . . .

Posted by: filbert at November 24, 2014 04:35 PM (h6Mpm)

9 So, if Ace accidentally put this in the headlines sidebar, is that an embarrelling? Or is my safari browser just effed up?

Posted by: State drone at November 24, 2014 04:36 PM (+zkc+)

10 Washington Post "fact checks" Saturday Night Live. Now that's funny!

Posted by: Caliban at November 24, 2014 04:36 PM (3GFMN)

11 Wolf Blitzer...isn't he the douche that managed to let the world know just how stupid he is when he had his ass handed to him on Jeopardy!?

Posted by: model_1066 at November 24, 2014 04:36 PM (+fl1p)

12 I thought the skit was pretty good. It's the kind of thing that nicely reaches out to LIVs and punches home the idea that Obama is doing something "not good".

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 24, 2014 04:36 PM (0LHZx)

13 Yeah, but see, it's a black bill.

Posted by: Pecan Scandi at November 24, 2014 04:36 PM (JVWwF)

14 Gee, Zach Goldfarb isn't defensive or anything.

Posted by: Phinn at November 24, 2014 04:36 PM (i5GO4)

15 It would have been funnier if they had thrown that fat unfunny racist guy down the stairs a few times

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2014 04:36 PM (N2tYd)

16 was it the funniest snl has been in a while?

maybe

Posted by: bibgbys cell at November 24, 2014 04:36 PM (qHAbx)

17 Fenelon posted a question on the last thread, bringing it here...

"I think Obama already commented before the decision didn't he-something about police officers needing to be better trained so that this kind of thing doesn't happen?.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"

Yes, and Holder cautioned the cops to behave if the rioters start killing people.

Posted by: Meremortal at November 24, 2014 04:36 PM (1Y+hH)

18 Enjoy your audit, Jay Pharoah.

Posted by: HR needs donuts at November 24, 2014 04:36 PM (ZKzrr)

19 11 Wolf Blitzer...isn't he the douche that managed to let the world know just how stupid he is when he had his ass handed to him on Jeopardy!?
Posted by: model_1066 at November 24, 2014 04:36 PM (+fl1p)

Yes. He got pwned by Andy Richter.

Posted by: EC at November 24, 2014 04:37 PM (doBIb)

20 I'm sure SNL is part of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy!

Posted by: model_1066 at November 24, 2014 04:37 PM (+fl1p)

21 he hasn't lost us. Our writing and our ratings have just been that bad.

Posted by: Still Numb leftists at November 24, 2014 04:37 PM (Spluw)

22 How totally pathetic of WaPo.

Maybe they should fact check Benghazi or the IRS scandal (or Fast and Furious). Or the tape the LA Times has held since 2008.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky haz no idea at November 24, 2014 04:37 PM (dMEBN)

23 Hey wait a minute...do you mean to tell me SNL skits don't exactly tell the truth?

So Hanz and Franz don't actually represent the typical Austrial bodybuilders? And Wayne's World isn't a real TV show?

FUCK ME!!

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 24, 2014 04:37 PM (0LHZx)

24 BREAKING:

Washington Post discovers that the Nazi party did not in fact stage a musical called "Springtime for Hitler."

Posted by: zombie at November 24, 2014 04:38 PM (K4YiS)

25 Yeah, but see, it's a black bill.
Posted by: Pecan Scandi

They used black ink. Whaddaya want?

Posted by: Still Numb leftists at November 24, 2014 04:38 PM (Spluw)

26 AustriaN

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 24, 2014 04:38 PM (0LHZx)

27 My Kindle Fire updated recently with a free WaPo app good for 6 months. I deleted it immediately.

Posted by: dantesed at November 24, 2014 04:39 PM (88xKn)

28 meh. Not that funny. Still long for the days of Ratner and Belushi.

Posted by: Talibill at November 24, 2014 04:39 PM (in9qW)

29 Just imagine the uproar if someone in the Bush WH had called Fox News to "fact check" The Daily Show

Posted by: kbdabear at November 24, 2014 04:39 PM (GrXXa)

30 Can't wait to see them fact check "Family Guy."

Posted by: Caliban at November 24, 2014 04:39 PM (3GFMN)

31 "I'm an executive order and I just happen."

*beat*

"That's it."

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 24, 2014 04:39 PM (dDUXP)

32 Fact Check!!!
WAPO!!!
Bwahahahahahah!!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at November 24, 2014 04:39 PM (08Znv)

33 I wonder if these guys know what continent Hong Kong is on?

Posted by: CNN at November 24, 2014 04:39 PM (N2tYd)

34 And Wayne's World isn't a real TV show?

I mean, we're looking down on Wayne's basement. Only that's not Wayne's basement. Isn't that weird?

Posted by: HR needs donuts at November 24, 2014 04:39 PM (ZKzrr)

35 I don't recall WaPo doing a fact check after Tina Fey played Sarah Palin...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at November 24, 2014 04:39 PM (fwARV)

36 I remember back in 2008 they were asking a young guy what made Obama qualified to be president as he responded "He's the only black U.S. Senator".

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at November 24, 2014 04:39 PM (HstNY)

37 Let's say WaPo was leaned on. So what? They should have volunteered to uphold the diggity of our dear leader, his Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Alhaji Dr. Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE.

Posted by: zombie Enver Hoxha at November 24, 2014 04:39 PM (fBW52)

38 this sketch is mindblowing because it does not entertain the admin's insane talking points.

In fact, instead of the bullshit "house didn't pass gang of 8 bill" talking point, the Kenan Bill character said, "the midterm elections showed the people..." before being pushed off stage by Pres. Stutterfuck.

That's a big deal. There was literally no anti-gop balancing. From what I've heard, NYC loved them some obama until they got ebola scares.

Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at November 24, 2014 04:39 PM (Gysa/)

39 Tonight is gonna be MY night!!!

Posted by: guy who yells "en fuego" all the time. at November 24, 2014 04:39 PM (1Y+hH)

40 Barry can't abide being ridiculed.

Like most dictators.

Posted by: --- at November 24, 2014 04:40 PM (MMC8r)

41 AustriaN

thats how obama pronounces it - like a native speaker!

Posted by: bibgbys cell at November 24, 2014 04:40 PM (qHAbx)

42 And how many SNL sketches have they ever fact checked in the past pray tell?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 24, 2014 04:40 PM (M0mf2)

43 It was right next to an article on Mitt Romney's War on Tampons.

Posted by: --- at November 24, 2014 04:40 PM (MMC8r)

44 This is one of the things that is so alienating and depressing, and ain't changing a bit due to GOP electoral success (which itself of course means essentially nothing until proven otherwise).

The degradation of the US is broad and deep. This Romania-under-Ceacescu, Iraq-Under-Saddam, North Korean style "press" sycophancy to a regime is as unAmerican as anything could theoretically be.

Not only do we have a group of unaccomplished, unfit, disastrously incompetent sub-mediocrities with bizarre, stupid, and alien concepts and values running the country - we have a pop culture and a public square that not only don't educate about their disastrous tenure, they distort and lie and glorify like the pet media of an authoritarian country.

And, logically, until and unless we see not just pushback but rebellion, we also have an electorate that is that this level.

That is what makes an intelligent observer inconsolable and pessimistic about our rapid, serious, and mystifying decline.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 24, 2014 04:40 PM (afQnV)

45 All I can figure is that Tom Blumer's guess is right, and that the White House did indeed call them asking for a "Fact Check," so the Washington Post obliged.

can you imagine being so beholden to the One, that they agree to fact check a comedy skit?

another one of those "I have no words" moments

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 24, 2014 04:40 PM (IXrOn)

46 I'm just a bill...

Earworm.

Posted by: eleven at November 24, 2014 04:40 PM (Ae7K+)

47 So it's ok for a black comedian to throw faux-TFG an "oh ya black assh..."

That's progress I guess.

Posted by: DaveA at November 24, 2014 04:41 PM (DL2i+)

48 And how many SNL sketches have they ever fact checked in the past pray tell?

Aparently Bass-O-Matic does not really make 'great bass.'

Posted by: --- at November 24, 2014 04:41 PM (MMC8r)

49 Good to see some self-respect left at SNL.

Posted by: Feh at November 24, 2014 04:41 PM (H8xrM)

50 FACT CHECK:

SNL hasn't been funny since Bill Murray left the show.

FACT CHECK:

The Washington Post has been coasting on Watergate for 40 years.

Posted by: zombie at November 24, 2014 04:41 PM (K4YiS)

51

Pinocchio has very thin skin.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 24, 2014 04:41 PM (IXrOn)

52
willow comes through again!

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 24, 2014 04:41 PM (1K6n1)

53 They don't even bother wiping the jizz off their chins at this point. It's like a dripping badge of honor to them.

Posted by: tdpwells at November 24, 2014 04:41 PM (V6jvb)

54 Figure eight when you skate.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2014 04:41 PM (N2tYd)

55 BREAKING WAPO FACT CHECK : Coneheads NOT from France.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 24, 2014 04:42 PM (Tu6N6)

56 You have to admit, though, it's amusing to think of the West Wing getting the vapors over a mildly critical SNL skit. If the Bush crowd had been this sensitive they all would have needed bypass surgery.

Posted by: Caliban at November 24, 2014 04:42 PM (3GFMN)

57 SNL should make this a series. That guy does a spot-on Obama impersonation.

*popcorn*

Posted by: Feh at November 24, 2014 04:42 PM (H8xrM)

58 The EO saying, "What?! Let me go read myself" was pretty amusing.

Posted by: toby928(C) at November 24, 2014 04:42 PM (rwI+c)

59 It was actually pretty harsh on the One by SNL standards. Uncharacteristic. Are they getting ready to push him down the stairs for Hillary! ?

Posted by: Jollyroger at November 24, 2014 04:42 PM (t06LC)

60 Fact-checking classic SNL:

Mr. Bill is not an actual person. He is a doll made of clay.

Posted by: torquewrench at November 24, 2014 04:42 PM (noWW6)

61 While not piss your pants funny I thought it was a pretty good skit. WaPo feeling the need to fact check a comedy show is pathetic.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2014 04:42 PM (g1DWB)

62 Sometimes you can almost smell the fear - even 1000 miles away.

The lefties are so close to getting over the hump and on the long slope downhill, but it could still go disastrously wrong for them .... so you get stuff like this.

If the general public starts laughing at Democrats and dear leader, it could all be over.
Well, having an opposition party would help, too.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 24, 2014 04:42 PM (go6ud)

63 Maybe they should fact check Benghazi or the IRS scandal (or Fast and Furious). Or the tape the LA Times has held since 2008.

Howzabout if they actually reported on who called them from the White House to do their little fact check on a comedy skit?

That could be funny. Or not.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at November 24, 2014 04:43 PM (0HooB)

64 Pretty soon the Washington Post will fact check the Sham Wow commercials,........

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President of the Sheena Easton Fan Club at November 24, 2014 04:43 PM (OWjjx)

65 Biggest threat to our Democracy:

A late-night sketch show and a Saturday morning cartoon, both from the 1970s.

Posted by: --- at November 24, 2014 04:43 PM (MMC8r)

66 usually when SNL pokes fun at donks, there's a counter balance. The only other pure anti-donk sketch I can recall is the George Soros "owner DNC" sketch.

But who knows, memory faded.

Sure, Colin Jost later made a quip about how your grandad will be talking about amnesty bc this sort of thing is the sort of thing that only old about to die, white men worry about. Why would a country worry about changing its character through massive legal and illegal immigration? amirite? The same group of smugs that get butthurt over gentrification of old neighborhoods.

Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at November 24, 2014 04:43 PM (Gysa/)

67 Mr. Bill is not an actual person. He is a doll made of clay.

Oh No!

Posted by: Mr Bill at November 24, 2014 04:43 PM (rwI+c)

68 You have to admit, though, it's amusing to think of the West Wing getting the vapors over a mildly critical SNL skit.

Has the FCC pulled NBC's license yet?

Posted by: HR needs donuts at November 24, 2014 04:43 PM (ZKzrr)

69 Tonight is gonna be MY night!!!
Posted by: guy who yells "en fuego" all the time.

And so it begins.....

Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2014 04:43 PM (5ETeA)

70 Celebrity Jeopardy is in fact nothing like the actual show Jeopardy.

Posted by: WaPo Fact Check at November 24, 2014 04:43 PM (/nR7C)

71 mr bill was a golem

Posted by: bibgbys cell at November 24, 2014 04:43 PM (qHAbx)

72 The guy playing King Barack is probably getting an audit too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2014 04:43 PM (RZlSA)

73 I think moreso than the actual content, the visual of Obama pushing a young black man down a flight of stairs repeatedly is a hell of a metaphor for what the Obama years have done to the job market.

That might be what alarmed the White House.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2014 04:43 PM (B/VB5)

74 BREAKING WAPO FACT CHECK : A bill being pushed down stairs is a local crime story

Posted by: Blue Hen at November 24, 2014 04:44 PM (Spluw)

75 INTER-JECTION!

...or by a comma if the feeling's not as strong.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at November 24, 2014 04:44 PM (16bOT)

76 This just in: Matt Foley is not a 35 year old, thrice-divorced motivational speaker who lives in a van down by the river.

Posted by: WaPo Fact Checkers at November 24, 2014 04:44 PM (EDWuJ)

77 For full disclosure I have not watched SNL in 20 years

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 24, 2014 04:44 PM (M0mf2)

78 WaPo gave SNL 4 Pinocchios for the Coneheads.

Turns out people with cone shaped heads don't really exist.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2014 04:44 PM (g1DWB)

79 Fact-checking classic SNL:
Mr. Bill is not an actual person. He is a doll made of clay.

Oh noooooooooo!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2014 04:44 PM (5ETeA)

80
Oh No!

Posted by: Mr Bill at November 24, 2014 04:43 PM (rwI+c)

And I still think about Toonses the cat and ummm whats his name Dave the daredevil? Now that guy was funny.

Posted by: Talibill at November 24, 2014 04:45 PM (in9qW)

81 I fact checked a cartoon at a drive in movie. Then I opened the trunk of the Impala, and snuck in some cheerleaders.

I miss politics. Better to have a cartoon before, and after.

Happy endings.

Posted by: concerned american at November 24, 2014 04:45 PM (LWi6+)

82 BREAKING WAPO FACT CHECK : The Ruttles were not a real band....Neither was Spinal Tap.

Posted by: Blue Hen at November 24, 2014 04:45 PM (Spluw)

83 Next weekend, SNL should parody the WaPo getting an outraged phone call about an SNL skit.

And so on, recursively, week after week, until the WH and the WaPo STFU's about the whole thing.

But this would probably require a finer sense of comedy than SNL writers actually have.

Posted by: filbert at November 24, 2014 04:45 PM (h6Mpm)

84 New WH position:

Czar of Comedy Sketches

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2014 04:45 PM (RZlSA)

85 BREAKING WAPO FACT CHECK : it really is a floor wax.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at November 24, 2014 04:45 PM (0HooB)

86

Turns out people with cone shaped heads don't really exist.
----------

But they used to!!!!

Posted by: Ancient Astronaut Enthusiast at November 24, 2014 04:45 PM (/nR7C)

87 Knock knock.

Posted by: Landshark at November 24, 2014 04:45 PM (N2tYd)

88 Biggest threat to our Democracy:

A late-night sketch show and a Saturday morning cartoon, both from the 1970s.

Posted by: --- at November 24, 2014 04:43 PM (MMC8r)

For Obama they are. Anyone who saw this or the original know what happened with the executive action isn't how things should work, and Obama's entire defense is basically nothing to see here.

Posted by: Jollyroger at November 24, 2014 04:45 PM (t06LC)

89 whats his name Dave the daredevil? Now that guy was funny.
Posted by: Talibill

SuperDave. He was my hero. Especially him cursig after he hurt himself.

Posted by: Blue Hen at November 24, 2014 04:46 PM (Spluw)

90
That was an actually funny SNL sketch. My stars and garters.

I am now going to fact check some bourbon for the ride home.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 24, 2014 04:46 PM (JtwS4)

91 WaPo feeling the need to fact check a comedy show is pathetic and funnier than SNL has been for a long time

Posted by: DaveA at November 24, 2014 04:46 PM (DL2i+)

92 Next weekend, SNL should parody the WaPo getting an outraged phone call about an SNL skit.

And so on, recursively, week after week, until the WH and the WaPo STFU's about the whole thing.

***

South Park did something similar when SPIN magazine creepily suggested, in its soviet way, that one shouldn't make fun of Lorde.

Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at November 24, 2014 04:46 PM (Gysa/)

93 Turns out people with cone shaped heads don't really exist.

You've never seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Posted by: eleven at November 24, 2014 04:46 PM (Ae7K+)

94 SNL should milk this for all they're worth. It's the only buzz they've had in years.

Posted by: --- at November 24, 2014 04:46 PM (MMC8r)

95 Even when SNL is critical of Mr. Obama, they are quite affectionate with it, and it is obvious they want to give him a pass, like while he may be doing something wrong, it is still Bush's fault. I am just now coming around to the fact that SNL has not been funny or truthful in years.

Posted by: denvertodd at November 24, 2014 04:46 PM (wFqk1)

96

the Message Machine must never be defied!

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 24, 2014 04:46 PM (1K6n1)

97 Knock knock.
Posted by: Landshark at November 24, 2014 04:45 PM (N2tYd)

(sing-songy) Who is it?

Posted by: filbert at November 24, 2014 04:46 PM (h6Mpm)

98 And I still think about Toonses the ~~cat~~ President

We saw him messing around with the wheel of the Ship of State and just assumed he could drive.

Posted by: toby928(C) at November 24, 2014 04:46 PM (rwI+c)

99 87 Knock knock.

Posted by: Landshark at November 24, 2014 04:45 PM (N2tYd)

ok, that one made me lol.

Posted by: Talibill at November 24, 2014 04:46 PM (in9qW)

100 BREAKING WAPO FACT CHECK : Landshark threat over-stated.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 24, 2014 04:46 PM (Tu6N6)

101 The various twitter responses were great, I am fond of FACT: Jane Curtin is actually monogamous and quite intelligent.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at November 24, 2014 04:46 PM (mf5HN)

102 Special Sunday Edition! Conjunction Junction: The Real Story.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 24, 2014 04:46 PM (2cS/G)

103 Now that we're safe from the threat of a political comeback, I guess I can acknowledge that Gerald Ford didn't really fall down all the time as portrayed by Chevy Chase. See, I'm non-partisan!

Posted by: Zachary Goldfarb at November 24, 2014 04:47 PM (nFdGS)

104 13 Yeah, but see, it's a black bill.
Posted by: Pecan Scandi at November 24, 2014 04:36 PM (JVWwF)

So?

Posted by: Bill Cosby at November 24, 2014 04:47 PM (c8Jim)

105 actually mr bill was a golem made by a liberal nyc rabbi.

i think sluggo was the hasidic one

Posted by: bibgbys cell at November 24, 2014 04:47 PM (qHAbx)

106 The WaPo has a Raiders of the Lost Ark size warehouse full of facts about Obie that they won't ever check, let alone publish.

Posted by: bergerbilder at November 24, 2014 04:47 PM (8MjqI)

107 Bag of Glass.

Posted by: toby928(C) at November 24, 2014 04:48 PM (rwI+c)

108 BREAKING WAPO FACT CHECK: Ed Grimley doesn't actually think Pat Sajak is so totally decent, I must say.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at November 24, 2014 04:48 PM (vgIRn)

109 bastards

Posted by: willow at November 24, 2014 04:48 PM (nqBYe)

110 bastards

Posted by: willow at November 24, 2014 04:48 PM (nqBYe)

111 Next weekend, SNL should parody the WaPo getting an outraged phone call about an SNL skit. And so on, recursively, week after week, until the WH and the WaPo STFU's about the whole thing. But this would probably require a finer sense of comedy than SNL writers actually have.
Posted by: filbert

After that, have Obama inserting the Constitution into the Bass-o-matic. Or Jon Gruber try to out lie Eddie Finagle (Jon Lovitz character).

Posted by: Blue Hen at November 24, 2014 04:48 PM (Spluw)

112 SuperDave. He was my hero. Especially him cursig after he hurt himself.

Posted by: Blue Hen at November 24, 2014 04:46 PM (Spluw)

YES. Super Dave Osburn right?

Posted by: Talibill at November 24, 2014 04:48 PM (in9qW)

113 BREAKING WAPO FACT CHECK : Jane Curtain NOT an ignorant slut.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 24, 2014 04:48 PM (Tu6N6)

114 Yes, they should do another sketch of Obama calling
WAPO for a fact check of SNL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2014 04:48 PM (RZlSA)

115
I've been "fact checking" Lisa Ann's Palin video for six plus years.

Posted by: Wolf "false but accurate"Blitzer at November 24, 2014 04:48 PM (1sVzz)

116 Just let Dennis Miller do Weekend Update one more time...

Posted by: --- at November 24, 2014 04:48 PM (MMC8r)

117 Next the Washington Post can fact check "reality" t.v.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President of the Sheena Easton Fan Club at November 24, 2014 04:48 PM (OWjjx)

118 Look, the totalitarian WH is right to "fact-check" SNL.

Breitbart had it right, politics is downstream from culture. Obama was always in over his head, has the soul of a dictator, and now he deserves all the ridicule he's getting. So yeah, they should try to stamp out this part of the culture and let their stalinista flag fly.

SNL should specialize in Obama jokes and turn this into a circus. Hello ratings.

Posted by: Feh at November 24, 2014 04:48 PM (H8xrM)

119 And a dessert topping.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at November 24, 2014 04:48 PM (0HooB)

120 For Obama they are. Anyone who saw this or the original know what happened with the executive action isn't how things should work, and Obama's entire defense is basically nothing to see here.
Posted by: Jollyroger at November 24, 2014 04:45 PM (t06LC)

It's a sign that the stranglehold that "they" have on the culture might not be as permanent as they want, or need.

For SNL, they should receive the sort of pat on the head reserved for puppies that, for once, do not shit on the living room carpet but instead actually make just out of the back door before unloading.

Posted by: filbert at November 24, 2014 04:48 PM (h6Mpm)

121 WaPo fact check: The guy playing the president in that skit is indeed black.

Posted by: Soona at November 24, 2014 04:48 PM (ojJMi)

122 FUCK ME!!
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 24, 2014 04:37 PM (0LHZx)

You dont need to tell me!

Posted by: Bill Cosby at November 24, 2014 04:48 PM (c8Jim)

123 GUMBY NOT ACTUALLY JEWISH

Posted by: --- at November 24, 2014 04:49 PM (MMC8r)

124 It's the new "how many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb"

"What kind of jokes can you tell about Obama"

"THATS NOT FUNNY!"

Posted by: Buzzion at November 24, 2014 04:49 PM (/zR/g)

125 Wait. Next you'll tell me that Janet Reno didn't really throw dance parties.

Posted by: Lauren at November 24, 2014 04:49 PM (BPMYx)

126 >>>So, if Ace accidentally put this in the headlines sidebar, is that an embarrelling? Or is my safari browser just effed up?

i do that all the time. surprised people are treating this like it's a New Mistake. I do this once a week or so.

Posted by: ace at November 24, 2014 04:49 PM (/FnUH)

127 Wait wait wait... did they ever Fact Check to see if Palin could see Russia from her house?

Posted by: Book at November 24, 2014 04:49 PM (AlkUj)

128

Yes, wilow, there is a ~~Santa Claus nood.~~

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 24, 2014 04:49 PM (1K6n1)

129 BREAKING WAPO FACT CHECK : Jane Curtain NOT an ignorant slut.
Posted by: Dr Spank

She been berry, berry good to me.

Posted by: Chico Esquale at November 24, 2014 04:49 PM (Spluw)

130
oh crap

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 24, 2014 04:49 PM (1K6n1)

131 WaPo Fact Check. Paper does NOT always beat rock!

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 24, 2014 04:50 PM (2cS/G)

132 mr bill was a golem

Posted by: bigbys cell

I get the distinct impression that you are something of a fan of Dungeons and Dragons....

Posted by: T. Jeff at November 24, 2014 04:50 PM (/Ho8c)

133 OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT ..

Posted by: Garrett Morris, President of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing at November 24, 2014 04:50 PM (rwI+c)

134 The WaPo fact check is just a preliminary step to a full IRS Louis Leaner Cincinnati audit

Posted by: Buffalobob at November 24, 2014 04:50 PM (w+5ie)

135 SuperDave. He was my hero. Especially him cursig after he hurt himself. Posted by: Blue Hen at November 24, 2014 04:46 PM (Spluw) YES. Super Dave Osburn right?
Posted by: Talibill

That or Osborne. Something like that.

Posted by: Chico Esquale at November 24, 2014 04:51 PM (Spluw)

136 Glenn Kessler at WashPo also fact checked the lie of George HW Bush did it too? It was in the dump. What is that law about judging a story on one page of a paper as discredited then turning the page and believing what you read.

It seems a lot of media these days are trying to recoup some measure of credibility, as if the last 6-8 years had not happened at all.

Posted by: flounder at November 24, 2014 04:51 PM (sDapq)

137 This is beyond belief - are you telling me SNL has grown some stones and made fun of teh Won? Its been six years and this is the best they can come up with on a weekly budget of $1M? I am appalled at what humor a million now buys.

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at November 24, 2014 04:51 PM (oDCMR)

138 Kill my landlord is actually spelled with a "K" and not a "C".

Posted by: Zachary Goldfarb at November 24, 2014 04:51 PM (nFdGS)

139 WaPo Fact Check: Bumblebees are actually quite coordinated!

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 24, 2014 04:51 PM (2cS/G)

140
Ace pulls posts outta the sidebar all the time, he means to say.

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 24, 2014 04:51 PM (1K6n1)

141 132

actually not really. ive played nearly all of it, like wfrp most in that genre

Posted by: bibgbys cell at November 24, 2014 04:51 PM (qHAbx)

142 We got shoe spammers back in the Ferguson thread comments.

Bastards.

Posted by: filbert at November 24, 2014 04:51 PM (h6Mpm)

143 Fact: Julia Child did not always save the liver.

Posted by: John P. Squibob at November 24, 2014 04:52 PM (iGa9v)

144 Turns out people with cone shaped heads don't really exist.

I can give you a name.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 24, 2014 04:52 PM (UVfht)

145
The MFM is now in full cover up and defense mode to protect the g*d who bleeds that they created.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 04:52 PM (CMkNk)

146
Barry can't abide being ridiculed.

Like most dictators.
Posted by: ---
..........................
Well he must not read the comments here, even though I see him posting here regularly under all sorts of aliases.

Posted by: wth at November 24, 2014 04:52 PM (wAQA5)

147 Do not mock me, my friend.

Posted by: The SideBar Muse at November 24, 2014 04:52 PM (rwI+c)

148 Gumby was not a black Jew.

Posted by: eleven at November 24, 2014 04:52 PM (Ae7K+)

149 More good news. Vox assures me that the EU isn't really going to break up Google.

That one had me losing sleep.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2014 04:52 PM (g1DWB)

150
Fact:

The Washington Post does not always tell the unvarnished truth.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 04:52 PM (CMkNk)

151 Do a fact check on cheeburger cheeburger pepsi chips.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 24, 2014 04:52 PM (W5DcG)

152
If SNL had done a sketch of Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin making out and then shooting puppies, kicking small children, and throwing grandma off a cliff, the WH/Post would be celebrating the sketch as actual fact.

You know things are beyond desperate and ridiculous when comedy sketches have to be defended or defeated.

Posted by: cheri at November 24, 2014 04:53 PM (oiNtH)

153 Boy howdy did Barak microagression the sh*t outa that bill or what?

now where are my swim trunks??

Posted by: Joe Biden, War Chief at November 24, 2014 04:53 PM (q+zA9)

154 Maybe Goldfarb should fact check this:

http://youtu.be/EGFrrKAFfSk

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 24, 2014 04:53 PM (4+IgA)

155 EPA TO PROBE HAPPY FUN BALL

Posted by: --- at November 24, 2014 04:53 PM (MMC8r)

156 146 Well he must not read the comments here, even though I see him posting here regularly under all sorts of aliases.
Posted by: wth at November 24, 2014 04:52 PM (wAQA5)

Mostly, he uses Gabe Malomar.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 04:53 PM (CMkNk)

157 Fact: There was Coke available, just not as a fountain drink.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2014 04:53 PM (knoK7)

158 WPFC: Pepsi!

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 24, 2014 04:53 PM (2cS/G)

159 WaPo Fact Check: "Most Greek Diners DID in fact serve Coke, not Pepsi"

Posted by: JoeF. at November 24, 2014 04:54 PM (ZGzLp)

160 Do not probe Happy Fun Ball.

Posted by: Happy Fun Ball at November 24, 2014 04:54 PM (rwI+c)

161 BREAKING WAPO FACT CHECK : Cheeseburgers aren't always served with Pepsi.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at November 24, 2014 04:54 PM (0HooB)

162 WaPo: "Samurai Tailor" NOT a real tailor

Posted by: filbert at November 24, 2014 04:54 PM (h6Mpm)

163
Alternate post title:

Washington Post Treats obama As If He's Kim Jong Il

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 24, 2014 04:54 PM (1K6n1)

164 Fox has sent their War Whore, Steve Harrigan, to Fergadishu

trouble's comin....

Posted by: hank the crank at November 24, 2014 04:54 PM (8CdUx)

165

The intimidation team from this administration is why Jon Stewart has spent the last 6+ years with his tail between his legs.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 24, 2014 04:54 PM (IXrOn)

166 you guys beat me to it....

Posted by: JoeF. at November 24, 2014 04:54 PM (ZGzLp)

167 WPFC: A Van Down By The River Could Be the Right Choice For You!

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 24, 2014 04:55 PM (2cS/G)

168 WaPo fact check: SNL landshark improbable.

Posted by: Soona at November 24, 2014 04:55 PM (ojJMi)

169 The intimidation team from this administration is why Jon Stewart has spent the last 6+ years with his tail between his legs.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 24, 2014 04:54 PM (IXrOn)

Why? He's part of the Intimidation Team, Pop-Culture Division.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at November 24, 2014 04:56 PM (nFdGS)

170 I cannot believe that SNL would be so disrespectful to any President, especially His Royal Choomness.

Posted by: Minuteman at November 24, 2014 04:56 PM (7ClUK)

171

Malomars?

or Mallo Cups?

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 24, 2014 04:56 PM (1K6n1)

172 Wapo Fact Check:

Spudz McKenzie NOT original party dog.

Posted by: Jollyroger at November 24, 2014 04:56 PM (t06LC)

173 Amazing how much more powerful the cultural war is compared to everything else in this White House.

The "I'm Just a Bill" cartoon was embedded in the psyche of impressionable youths decades ago. Those kids are now the movers and shakers and have that social engineering nugget affecting their thought processes. The cartoon PSAs were part of the culture of the 70's and they are bearing fruit.

That these now adults see the danger of political abuse because of what they learned as children - and that political peers see the same abuse being interpreted as abuse by those non-political - is a threat to Team Obama and the Progressives.

The cartoon resonates. The WH and the MFM know it. They have to react to it to halt the guttural response they know exists because they feel it themselves.

SNL's take might seem rather benign in its assault. I don't think it is. I think it's probably pretty harsh especially given the Left's rapid response team's action.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at November 24, 2014 04:56 PM (1CroS)

174 Oh hell they don't have to joke about Obamalama. He IS a joke.

Posted by: Viv Savage at November 24, 2014 04:56 PM (HRo7B)

175 WaPo needed no push- lean- shove - phone call - text.

They were as pissed as Oblamer.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at November 24, 2014 04:57 PM (wVWRM)

176 WASHPO FACT CHECK: The Bass-O-Matic is NOT available from your local retailer.

Posted by: cheri at November 24, 2014 04:57 PM (oiNtH)

177

What was the candy bar that had four small sections, each being a different type of candy bar?

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 24, 2014 04:57 PM (1K6n1)

178 Wapo Fact Check:

Spudz McKenzie NOT original party dog.
Posted by: Jollyroger at November 24, 2014 04:56 PM (t06LC)

. . . "however, sources in the White House report that Spudz "tasted like chicken.""

Posted by: filbert at November 24, 2014 04:57 PM (h6Mpm)

179 165, if Jon Stewart is really under pressure to not joke about the President, he really is a douche who has no integrity, or fealty to his chosen craft.
Either that, or politics comes first with him...

Posted by: JoeF. at November 24, 2014 04:57 PM (ZGzLp)

180 If they want those old timey skits to reach more people and be relevant again, they need to be updated to Schoolhouse Rap! with droopy trousers, backwards hats, and 14k plated bling.

Posted by: Fritz at November 24, 2014 04:57 PM (UzPAd)

181 Wapo finds that 50% of people do not in fact sometimes feel like a nut while other times they don't.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2014 04:58 PM (g1DWB)

182 WaPo comes in it's own mouth, after it swearsies it won't.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at November 24, 2014 04:58 PM (ojfYH)

183 We have fact checked the wingnut bumper sticker that says "they will take my gun from me when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers." We give it five pinocchios.

Posted by: The Washington Post at November 24, 2014 04:58 PM (8ZskC)

184 The cartoon resonates. The WH and the MFM know it. They have to react to it to halt the ~~guttural response~~ earworm they know exists because they
feel it themselves.

FIFY.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2014 04:59 PM (5ETeA)

185 School House Rock didn't do a song on Czars either.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2014 04:59 PM (N2tYd)

186 What was the candy bar that had four small sections, each being a different type of candy bar?
Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 24, 2014 04:57 PM (1K6n1)

A Sky bar. Thanks, now I want one.

Posted by: Jen the original at November 24, 2014 04:59 PM (hjTr7)

187 FNC saying Ferguson decision expected at any moment. They even have a pic of the courthouse up.

Posted by: Soona at November 24, 2014 05:00 PM (ojJMi)

188 Wapo finds that 50% of people do not in fact sometimes feel like a nut while other times they don't.

Less filling! Tastes great!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2014 05:00 PM (5ETeA)

189 183 We have fact checked the wingnut bumper sticker that says "they will take my gun from me when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers." We give it five pinocchios.

Posted by: The Washington Post at November 24, 2014 04:58 PM (8ZskC)

I have your pinocchio right here and by pinocchio I mean...

Posted by: The COS at November 24, 2014 05:01 PM (HRo7B)

190 Michael Brown Family Vows To Sue Ferguson Cop If No Criminal Indictment

The vultures continue to circle Browns corpse.

Weasel Zippers

Justice? I don't think so

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 24, 2014 05:01 PM (M0mf2)

191 Is Gerry Rivers there yet?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2014 05:01 PM (N2tYd)

192 WaPo: operators are not always standing by.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at November 24, 2014 05:01 PM (oKE6c)

193 I miss Jack Shelton.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at November 24, 2014 05:01 PM (0HooB)

194 155 EPA TO PROBE HAPPY FUN BALL
Posted by: --- at November 24, 2014 04:53 PM (MMC8r)

Thread winner.

Posted by: rickl at November 24, 2014 05:01 PM (zoehZ)

195 FACT CHECK: The sale of anvils, bombs, roller skates and cases of dynamite to coyotes would violate a large number of state and federal laws.

Posted by: The Washington Post at November 24, 2014 05:01 PM (8ZskC)

196 We interrupt the jokefest for a tidbit of real NFL news:

KC Chiefs starting safety Eric Berry is reported to have lymphoma. Chiefs news conference ongoing right now.

Posted by: filbert at November 24, 2014 05:02 PM (h6Mpm)

197 Drinking Schmitt Gay will not cause your swimming pool to miraculously clean itself. In fact, in our research we could find no beer named Schmitt Gay. The closest we could find was Corona Light.

Posted by: WaPo at November 24, 2014 05:02 PM (nFdGS)

198
WaPo Fact Check: Ancient Rome actually didn't have vomitoriums.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 24, 2014 05:02 PM (TIIx5)

199 The Brown family has reaped money from their son's death yet they have not yet put a headstone on his grave. Plastic flowers is all.

Posted by: cheri at November 24, 2014 05:02 PM (oiNtH)

200 162 WaPo: "Samurai Tailor" NOT a real tailor
Posted by: filbert at November 24, 2014 04:54 PM (h6Mpm)

But he was an actual samurai, so half right.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:02 PM (CMkNk)

201 Michael Brown Family Vows To Sue Ferguson Cop If No Criminal Indictment

Wilson should have the defamation lawsuits already filed.

Posted by: toby928(C) at November 24, 2014 05:02 PM (rwI+c)

202
thanks, Jen

Sky Bar!

they are 2nd tier candy bars

Mallo Cups were 3rd tier

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 24, 2014 05:02 PM (1K6n1)

203 WaPo fact check: Lisa will not be serving your wireless needs at the AT/T store.

Posted by: Soona at November 24, 2014 05:02 PM (ojJMi)

204 I could make that skit funny. I'd have Big Mooch (played by Venus Williams) come in and chase him around the stage waving a frying pan.

Posted by: wth at November 24, 2014 05:03 PM (wAQA5)

205 199 The Brown family has reaped money from their son's death yet they have not yet put a headstone on his grave. Plastic flowers is all.
Posted by: cheri at November 24, 2014 05:02 PM (oiNtH)

The meme that black life is cheap/disposable is sadly true. Only not quite they way they think.

I'm looking at you, Margaret Sanger, LBJ and the left.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:03 PM (CMkNk)

206 Hey WaPo, that's a pretty nice newspaper you got there. It'd be a shame should something happen to it.

Posted by: ValJar at November 24, 2014 05:03 PM (sDapq)

207 196 He's really young. Drafted a few years ago.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2014 05:03 PM (N2tYd)

208 WPFC - Chevy Chase is not, in fact, really named Chevy Chase.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 24, 2014 05:03 PM (dDUXP)

209 SCHMITT'S GAY BEER WILL NOT BRING HOT GAY GUYS TO YOUR POOL
WaPo Editors Hardest Hit

Posted by: --- at November 24, 2014 05:03 PM (MMC8r)

210 Mike Rowe stomps...STOMPS a troll via Hollywood Reporter. I could convert the link, but I'm not gonna.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 24, 2014 05:04 PM (5buP8)

211 WaPo fact check: Lisa will not be serving your wireless needs at the AT/T store.

Damn!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2014 05:04 PM (5ETeA)

212 I'm just a Bill.

Posted by: Clinton That Is, Serial Philanderer at November 24, 2014 05:04 PM (nbGZj)

213 Timeout!

Posted by: Mike Smith at November 24, 2014 05:04 PM (Y7ieA)

214 FACT CHECK: It's DUCK season.

Posted by: The Washington Post at November 24, 2014 05:04 PM (8ZskC)

215 201 Michael Brown Family Vows To Sue Ferguson Cop If No Criminal Indictment

Wilson should have the defamation lawsuits already filed.
Posted by: toby928(C) at November 24, 2014 05:02 PM (rwI+c)

I'd like to see Levin/Landmark Legal name Sharpton's NAN as a co-defendant.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:04 PM (CMkNk)

216 BREAKING WAPO FACT CHECK : Don't Fear The Ripper DID NOT need more cowbell.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 24, 2014 05:04 PM (Tu6N6)

217 Ace,
Clean up on #834 in last thread.
I have been out all day & wanted to see Ferguson comments.
Thank you,

Posted by: Carol at November 24, 2014 05:04 PM (sj3Ax)

218

3,415 New Regulation Dump (taking away our freedom and property rights)

Iran talks fail (possible nuke - US - in the future)

and CNN is talking to radicals on the street in Ferguson - wall to wall

nothing else

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 24, 2014 05:04 PM (IXrOn)

219 Wapo Fact Check: Yeah, that Santa Claus guy?

Posted by: flounder at November 24, 2014 05:04 PM (sDapq)

220 Git yer commemorative First Annual Michael Brown Riot T-Shirts Heah!!!!!

Posted by: --- at November 24, 2014 05:04 PM (MMC8r)

221 210 Mike Rowe stomps...STOMPS a troll via Hollywood Reporter. I could convert the link, but I'm not gonna.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 24, 2014 05:04 PM (5buP

It was an elegant thing of beauty.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:05 PM (CMkNk)

222 WaPo Factcheck: Shards of Glass do not make for a safe children's toy.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at November 24, 2014 05:05 PM (1CroS)

223 Maybe SNL will come out with an apology. The Indy Star apologized for a cartoon critical of Obama's order.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 24, 2014 05:05 PM (W5DcG)

224 In the 1930s, some German comedians dared to poke fun at that guy with a mustache who was proclaiming himself "Der Fuhrer." Most, IIRC, were doing their acts in Berlin nightclubs.

Brown-shirted thugs were sent around to explain to them, in forceful terms, that the Savior of Germany was not to be made fun of. Most of the comedians survived the explanations, but damn near all stopped poking fun at Herr Schicklgruber.

Sounds too damn familiar.

Posted by: MrScribbler at November 24, 2014 05:05 PM (yAC3X)

225 The Brown family has reaped money from their son's death yet they have not yet put a headstone on his grave. Plastic flowers is all.
Posted by: cheri at November 24, 2014 05:02 PM (oiNtH)

-------------------------------------

We didn't put up my parent's headstone up until a few months after burial. Funeral director says it takes time sometimes for the earth to settle in the grave.

Posted by: Soona at November 24, 2014 05:05 PM (ojJMi)

226
Is Gerry Rivers there yet?
...................
I don't know, but I saw Gerdildo Retardo.

Posted by: wth at November 24, 2014 05:05 PM (wAQA5)

227 216 BREAKING WAPO FACT CHECK : Don't Fear The Ripper DID NOT need more cowbell.
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 24, 2014 05:04 PM (Tu6N6)

But "Don't Fear the REAPER" did.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:05 PM (CMkNk)

228

WaPo Fact Check: The man from Nantucket didn't actually make a comment about what he would do to his ear.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 24, 2014 05:05 PM (TIIx5)

229 Git yer commemorative First Annual Michael Brown Riot T-Shirts Heah!!!!!

"My baby daddy looted a Best Buy and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 24, 2014 05:06 PM (8ZskC)

230

Van Jones, now NAACP marched out on CNN

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 24, 2014 05:06 PM (IXrOn)

231 FACTCHECK: Coneheads not real people.

FACTCHECK: Original SNL was very funny.

FACTCHECK: WaPo is another word for WH policy.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky haz no idea at November 24, 2014 05:06 PM (dMEBN)

232 Isn't that 'Reaper' or am I ETOH deficient again?

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at November 24, 2014 05:06 PM (ojfYH)

233
did WaPo fact check when Jimmy Carter mutated to 50 feet tall and then fell in love with a 50 foot tall Garret Morris in a maid's costume after being exposed to nuclear radiation from Three Mile Island?

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 24, 2014 05:06 PM (1K6n1)

234 WaPo fact check: Lisa will not be serving your wireless needs at the AT/T store.

*ahem*

Her name is "Lily Adams."

And I'll do the servicing for her, thankyouverymuch.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at November 24, 2014 05:07 PM (0HooB)

235 229 "My baby daddy looted a Best Buy and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 24, 2014 05:06 PM (8ZskC)

Thread Winner nominee.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:07 PM (CMkNk)

236 Wapo Fact Check: ATT will not literally help you "reach out and touch someone."

Posted by: flounder at November 24, 2014 05:07 PM (sDapq)

237 Ripper/reaper

Meh......good enough for moron work.

Posted by: eleven at November 24, 2014 05:07 PM (Ae7K+)

238 That skit was turrible.

I didn't crack a smile or anything.

Posted by: thathalfrican at November 24, 2014 05:08 PM (R5HRU)

239 WAPO FACT CHECK: Young lady, you do, in fact, have a choice. You are not necessarily sleeping with Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at November 24, 2014 05:08 PM (vgIRn)

240
WaPo Fact Check: There is no Chocolate in your Peanut Butter.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 24, 2014 05:08 PM (TIIx5)

241 237 Ripper/reaper

Meh......good enough for moron work.
Posted by: eleven at November 24, 2014 05:07 PM (Ae7K+)

General Jack D. Ripper begs to differ.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:08 PM (CMkNk)

242 Don't even get us started on George Carlin's hippy dippy weather reports.

Posted by: Wa Po fact checkers at November 24, 2014 05:08 PM (PF5o6)

243 215 201 Michael Brown Family Vows To Sue Ferguson Cop If No Criminal Indictment

***

How that's gravestone and cemetery plot coming along for The Gentle Giant there, Mom and Pop Brown? Last I heard you still need a short crazy female midget to find out where he's buried because you folks were too sorry ass to at least put a marker up for your own damn son.

Posted by: B at November 24, 2014 05:08 PM (oHWN4)

244 That pumpkin dip is addictive.

Posted by: Mama AJ at November 24, 2014 05:08 PM (0xTsz)

245 If they're fact checking parody, WaPo will no doubt be fact-checking Joe Biden speeches next. He's a parody of a politician.

Posted by: MTF at November 24, 2014 05:08 PM (LISuA)

246 Wapo Fact Check: ATT will not literally help you "reach out and touch someone."

Remington will.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2014 05:09 PM (5ETeA)

247 12 I thought the skit was pretty good. It's the kind of thing that nicely reaches out to LIVs and punches home the idea that Obama is doing something "not good".

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 24, 2014 04:36 PM (0LHZx)

And this is how they need to be reached. As Rush Limbaugh said about Republican arguments, "When the green eyeshade guys come out and start talking, people fall asleep." (And that is a paraphrase.)

This is why Liberals win. They present their arguments in the form of entertainment, and not just comedies either. "Dirty Dancing" was an effective Pro-Abortion propaganda tool.

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 24, 2014 05:09 PM (txvbW)

248 THESE PRETZELS ARE MAKING ME THIRSTY.

Posted by: toby928(C) at November 24, 2014 05:09 PM (rwI+c)

249 Gonna get me a shotgun and kill me all the whiteys I see . . . .

Posted by: Peaceloving Black Protesters of Ferguson MO at November 24, 2014 05:09 PM (nbGZj)

250
WaPo Fact Check: Dessert topping makes for a less than acceptable floor wax

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 24, 2014 05:10 PM (TIIx5)

251 248
THESE PRETZELS ARE MAKING ME THIRSTY.

Posted by: toby928(C) at November 24, 2014 05:09 PM (rwI+c)

It wasn't the pretzels. It was the joos.

Posted by: Mel Gibson at November 24, 2014 05:10 PM (sDapq)

252 off topic, saw this on weaselzippers. this season's pajama boy (take out spaces):

http:// www .thehoya. com/i-was-mugged- and-i-understand-why/

Posted by: mallfly at November 24, 2014 05:10 PM (bJm7W)

253

That image floating around with a bagel for Chuck's head, hehe.

Chuck Bagel, he's called.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 24, 2014 05:10 PM (IXrOn)

254 THESE PRETZELS ARE MAKING ME THIRSTY.
Posted by: toby928(C) at November 24, 2014 05:09 PM (rwI+c)
*************
THESE PRETZELS ARE MAKING ME THIRSTY?

Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 24, 2014 05:10 PM (32Ze2)

255

The reason why it was important for obama's WaPo to "correct" the record was because they know that most LIVs get their "news" from SNL and Daily Show.

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 24, 2014 05:10 PM (1K6n1)

256 Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.”

Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 24, 2014 05:10 PM (zwdxl)

257 WaPo Factcheck: Samuari swords are actually sub-optimal cutlery for delicatessens.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at November 24, 2014 05:10 PM (1CroS)

258 Drudge says it's 5:30. No particular Time Zone.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2014 05:11 PM (N2tYd)

259 Special Sunday Edition! Conjunction Junction: The Real Story.

Hookin' up words and phrases and clauses. Like Ashley Madison 'cause grammar needs a booty call.

Posted by: The Hobo's Sex And Candy Stare Decicis at November 24, 2014 05:11 PM (XeGAx)

260 FACT CHECK: You can have the Mango!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2014 05:11 PM (knoK7)

261
WaPo Fact Check: The Spanish Inquisition is not unexpected.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 24, 2014 05:11 PM (TIIx5)

262 whoa, see the update for a truly hacktastic "fact check" of the sketch.

Posted by: ace at November 24, 2014 05:11 PM (/FnUH)

263 THESE PRETZELS ARE MAKING ME THIRSTY.
Posted by: toby928(C) at November 24, 2014 05:09 PM (rwI+c)

THESE PRETZELS ARE MAKING ME THIRSTY?

Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 24, 2014 05:11 PM (ojJMi)

264 Can you imagine the conversation?

Aide: "This is the White House. We think you need to write a rebuttal to that SNL skit last night that was critical of the president.

WaPo: "Whaaa___??"

Aide: "You heard me. Get somebody on it, chop chop."

WaPo: "Seriously? I mean, dude, it's just a comedy skit."

Aide: "So I'm to tell the president that you're being uncooperative?"

WaPo: "Nah, we'll write it, but that's some majorly thinskined dude you have living at 1600."

Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at November 24, 2014 05:11 PM (HBAcW)

265 Drudge says it's 5:30. No particular Time Zone.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2014 05:11 PM (N2tYd)

5:30 is the Gov Nixon presser. What that dope will say is anyone's guess

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 24, 2014 05:12 PM (M0mf2)

266 whoa, see the update for a truly hacktastic "fact check" of the sketch.

THREAD WINNER!

Posted by: toby928(C) at November 24, 2014 05:12 PM (rwI+c)

267 I remember where I was when the Zimmerman verdict was handed down: at a gig in downtown Sanford.

It was pretty uneventful. I hope for the same in Ferguson.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at November 24, 2014 05:12 PM (0HooB)

268 204 I could make that skit funny. I'd have Big Mooch (played by Venus Williams) come in and chase him around the stage waving a frying pan.

Posted by: wth at November 24, 2014 05:03 PM (wAQA5)

*spits cawfee*...yes, much funnier.

Posted by: The COS at November 24, 2014 05:12 PM (HRo7B)

269 The Post has fact checked the Muppets. They are not real. They are puppets.

Posted by: Washington Post Fact Checkers at November 24, 2014 05:12 PM (32Ze2)

270 Forgot the Heinlein sock.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 24, 2014 05:12 PM (zwdxl)

271 This is known as "bad luck".

Is that a Larry Nivenism?

Posted by: eleven at November 24, 2014 05:13 PM (Ae7K+)

272 270
Forgot the Heinlein sock.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 24, 2014 05:12 PM (zwdxl)
FORGOT THE HEINLEIN SOCK?

Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 24, 2014 05:13 PM (EDWuJ)

273
Great - The Marxist goons will be at Union Square in NYC at 6PM.

Why is such a nice park a magnet for bacteria and cancer?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:13 PM (CMkNk)

274 179 165, if Jon Stewart is really under pressure to not joke about the President, he really is a douche who has no integrity, or fealty to his chosen craft.
Either that, or politics comes first with him...

Posted by: JoeF. at November 24, 2014 04:57 PM (ZGzLp)

I believe the Glitterati regard it as their solemn duty to mock, ridicule and defeat social ideas with which they disagree.

These self anointed Aristocrats have to demonstrate their contempt for the ideas and morality of the bourgeois

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 24, 2014 05:13 PM (txvbW)

275 THESE PRETZELS ARE MAKING ME THIRSTY?
Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 24, 2014 05:10 PM (32Ze2)

IMPOSTER!

Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 24, 2014 05:13 PM (ojJMi)

276 " Drudge says it's 5:30."

Everybody got their dumpster fire and tire iron ready?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 24, 2014 05:14 PM (LA7Cm)

277 BREAKING WAPO FACT CHECK : A lot of dicks hanging out in AoS comment section = TRUE.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 24, 2014 05:14 PM (Tu6N6)

278 >>Drudge says it's 5:30. No particular Time Zone.

EST is the only real time zone. Everything else is just flyover time zone.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2014 05:14 PM (g1DWB)

279 "I am now going to fact check some bourbon for the ride home. "

Great idea !
I'm already home, and -
Yes ! My bourbon is a fact ! Woot !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 24, 2014 05:14 PM (go6ud)

280
IMPOSTER!

Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 24, 2014 05:13 PM (ojJMi)
IMPOSTER?

Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 24, 2014 05:14 PM (EDWuJ)

281 WPFC - There has never been a Lord Douchebag in parliament nor will there ever will be.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 24, 2014 05:15 PM (dDUXP)

282 THESE PRETZELS ARE MAKING ME
THIRSTY?
Posted by: Al Sharpton

IMPOSTER!
Posted by: Al Sharpton

IMPOSTER?
Posted by: Al Sharpton

Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2014 05:15 PM (5ETeA)

283 Now i feel bad. A guy on another forum I use to post on died. He couldnt have been more than 40 at the most. I snapped at him once about 2 years ago and never got to apologize.

RIP, tpg!

Posted by: The Progs at November 24, 2014 05:15 PM (iQIUe)

284 Ace-you have clearly forgotten about the lese majeste codicil of the 1st Amendment. You should get your law school money back.

Posted by: pep at November 24, 2014 05:16 PM (4nR9/)

285 Most of the media aren't pressured into going light on Obama -- they are eager to defend him and attack the Repubs. THey are on the same team.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 24, 2014 05:16 PM (zwdxl)

286 236 Wapo Fact Check: ATT will not literally help you "reach out and touch someone."

Posted by: flounder at November 24, 2014 05:07 PM (sDapq)

yeah, tried. if it did I'd be in jail for a loooong time.

Posted by: Viv Savage at November 24, 2014 05:16 PM (HRo7B)

287 EST is the only real time zone. Everything else is just flyover time zone.

Whoa.....that gives me an idea for a book.

Posted by: Stephen King at November 24, 2014 05:16 PM (Ae7K+)

288 IMPOSTER!
Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 24, 2014 05:13 PM (ojJMi)
**********
IMPOSTER?

Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 24, 2014 05:16 PM (32Ze2)

289 Impost we must!

Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 24, 2014 05:16 PM (rwI+c)

290 White House We Dont Know Anything About Sharptons $4.5 Million In Unpaid Taxes

Weasel Zippers

We dont konw, I just read about that in the Papers, First time I have hear that.

See a pattern here?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 24, 2014 05:17 PM (M0mf2)

291 When Jon Stewart was younger he described himself as a socialist. Cause he is one.

He's a hard-left guy. He supports other hard-left guys.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 24, 2014 05:17 PM (zwdxl)

292 283 Now i feel bad. A guy on another forum I use to post on died. He couldnt have been more than 40 at the most. I snapped at him once about 2 years ago and never got to apologize.

RIP, tpg!
Posted by: The Progs at November 24, 2014 05:15 PM (iQIUe)

Contrition through prayer. Light a candle and make peace as best you can.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:17 PM (CMkNk)

293
Great idea !

I'm already home, and -

Yes ! My bourbon is a fact ! Woot !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez

RINOs drink bourbon.

Posted by: pep, drinking his Jameson's at November 24, 2014 05:17 PM (4nR9/)

294 288 IMPOSTER!
Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 24, 2014 05:13 PM (ojJMi)
**********
IMPOSTER?

Al Sharpton?

Posted by: The Hobo's Sex And Candy Stare Decicis at November 24, 2014 05:17 PM (XeGAx)

295 THESE PRETZELS ARE MAKING ME
THIRSTY?
Posted by: Al Sharpton

IMPOSTER!
Posted by: Al Sharpton

IMPOSTER?
Posted by: Al Sharpton
Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2014 05:15 PM (5ETeA)
********
IMPOSTER?

Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 24, 2014 05:17 PM (32Ze2)

296 249 Gonna get me a shotgun and kill me all the whiteys I see . . . .

Man, I have not thought about that skit in YEARS!

Well played, golf clap!

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at November 24, 2014 05:17 PM (ojfYH)

297

this is hopeful news

Potential New Flu Treatment Would Starve the Virus, Limiting Resistance

instapundit to Popular Mechanics piece

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 24, 2014 05:18 PM (IXrOn)

298 The High Life is coldish.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2014 05:18 PM (N2tYd)

299 "many of SNL's criticisms are misleading"

How dare you suggest something unkind about my boyfriend Barry?!!!!!!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2014 05:18 PM (RZlSA)

300 WaPo Factcheck: Colon Blow actually will provide your daily requirement of fiber. In fact you'll probably crap paper.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at November 24, 2014 05:18 PM (1CroS)

301 A Syrian moderate is going to behead a radical now. Yah, this is going to work out well.

http://tinyurl.com/osfwo47

Posted by: The Great White Snark at November 24, 2014 05:18 PM (XUKZU)

302
Alternate post title:

WaPo and Daily Beast Prove That The Only Time The Left Laughs Is When The Joke Is On The Right And It's Vicious

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 24, 2014 05:18 PM (1K6n1)

303 277 BREAKING WAPO FACT CHECK : A lot of dicks hanging out in AoS comment section = TRUE.
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 24, 2014 05:14 PM (Tu6N6)

Los pingas mas grande!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:18 PM (CMkNk)

304 Animals are going to riot either way the verdict goes. "Indictment" means the cop murdered a guy. "No indictment" means he got away with it.

Posted by: Dang at November 24, 2014 05:19 PM (MNq6o)

305 A lot of dicks hanging out in AoS comment section = TRUE

If we were an ice cream flavor, we'd be pralines and dick.

Posted by: HR needs donuts at November 24, 2014 05:19 PM (ZKzrr)

306 295 THESE PRETZELS ARE MAKING ME
THIRSTY?
Posted by: Al Sharpton

IMPOSTER!
Posted by: Al Sharpton

IMPOSTER?
Posted by: Al Sharpton
Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2014 05:15 PM (5ETeA)
********
IMPOSTER?
Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 24, 2014 05:17 PM (32Ze2)

FUCKIT?

Posted by: The Hobo's Sex And Candy Stare Decicis at November 24, 2014 05:19 PM (XeGAx)

307 Fact Check: OK this is really true you guys...squid CAN fly.

Posted by: Viv Savage at November 24, 2014 05:19 PM (HRo7B)

308 290
White House We Dont Know Anything About Sharptons $4.5 Million In Unpaid Taxes

Or birthin' no babies.

Posted by: Butterfly McQueen at November 24, 2014 05:19 PM (4nR9/)

309 297

this is hopeful news

Potential New Flu Treatment Would Starve the Virus, Limiting Resistance

instapundit to Popular Mechanics piece
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 24, 2014 05:18 PM (IXrOn)

Can we get a WaPo fact check on that?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:19 PM (CMkNk)

310 308 290
White House We Dont Know Anything About Sharptons $4.5 Million In Unpaid Taxes

Or birthin' no babies.
Posted by: Butterfly McQueen at November 24, 2014 05:19 PM (4nR9/)

Fact: Butterfly is not Steve's mother.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:20 PM (CMkNk)

311 I will not be baited on this historic evening.
Jameson's is good too.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez's better angel is winning today at November 24, 2014 05:20 PM (go6ud)

312 296 249 Gonna get me a shotgun and kill me all the whiteys I see . . . .

Man, I have not thought about that skit in YEARS!

Well played, golf clap!

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at November 24, 2014 05:17 PM (ojfYH)

Right? lol!

Posted by: Viv Savage at November 24, 2014 05:20 PM (HRo7B)

313 Turkeys can actually fly.

Posted by: WaPo Fact Checker at November 24, 2014 05:20 PM (N2tYd)

314 305 A lot of dicks hanging out in AoS comment section = TRUE

If we were an ice cream flavor, we'd be pralines and dick.

Posted by: HR needs donuts at November 24, 2014 05:19 PM (ZKzrr)

Pudding and banana?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:20 PM (CMkNk)

315 The High Life is coldish.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Wapo fact check: The High Life is NOT champagne, nor really beer.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2014 05:20 PM (5ETeA)

316 Aww shit.

It's back again.

Posted by: eleven at November 24, 2014 05:21 PM (Ae7K+)

317 Like a stopped clock, once in a while SNL IS funny.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at November 24, 2014 05:21 PM (V70Uh)

318 Fact check this--WaPo--

ObamaCare.

Oh wait.....

That might be too serious.

Posted by: Your Friendly Danube River Guide at November 24, 2014 05:21 PM (RJMhd)

319 MUMR --

take yer gotdamn pills.

Posted by: eleven at November 24, 2014 05:21 PM (Ae7K+)

320 307 Fact Check: OK this is really true you guys...squid CAN fly.
Posted by: Viv Savage at November 24, 2014 05:19 PM (HRo7B)

I seen a horse fly, I even seen a house fly. But I ain't never seen no squid fly!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:22 PM (CMkNk)

321 I OWE $4.5 MILLION IN BACK TAXES?

Posted by: Al 'The Echo' Sharpton at November 24, 2014 05:22 PM (MMC8r)

322 WaPo fact check: Penguins really aren't cold-blooded murderers.

Posted by: Soona at November 24, 2014 05:22 PM (ojJMi)

323 Aww shit.

It's back again.

IT'S BACK AGAIN?
--Al Sharpton

Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2014 05:22 PM (5ETeA)

324 Shock: The next sequel to Sharknado is Squidnado. Just leaked. Fact.

Posted by: Viv Savage at November 24, 2014 05:22 PM (HRo7B)

325 Turkeys can actually fly.

Chickens too.

Nothing weirder than seeing a tree full of chickens.

Posted by: eleven at November 24, 2014 05:22 PM (Ae7K+)

326 321 The Top Men aren't on this one?

Posted by: WaPo Fact Checker at November 24, 2014 05:22 PM (N2tYd)

327 313 Turkeys can actually fly.
Posted by: WaPo Fact Checker at November 24, 2014 05:20 PM (N2tYd)

And TV sets, but mostly off the back of a truck.

- - - Tuddy Vario.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:22 PM (CMkNk)

328 WaPo Factcheck: There's nothing funny about the Obama Administration. No, seriously. C'mon, there just isn't. Why are you all looking at me like that?

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at November 24, 2014 05:23 PM (1CroS)

329 ''Dancing With the Stars'' may be preempted at 8:00 pm this evening for "Riotin' and Lootin' With the Brothers".

Posted by: TV Guide at November 24, 2014 05:23 PM (zxQ4h)

330 Shock: The next sequel to Sharknado is Squidnado. Just leaked. Fact.

That's it. I'm rioting.

Posted by: --- at November 24, 2014 05:23 PM (MMC8r)

331 317
Like a stopped clock, once in a while SNL IS funny.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo

Apparently your clocks have much bigger units than the usual. I'm thinking about a clock marked in decades.

Posted by: pep at November 24, 2014 05:23 PM (4nR9/)

332 321 I OWE $4.5 MILLION IN BACK TAXES?
Posted by: Al 'The Echo' Sharpton at November 24, 2014 05:22 PM (MMC8r)

Rush and Levin should hook him up with Tax Defense Partners.

Imagine the commercial.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:23 PM (CMkNk)

333 **stares menacingly**

Posted by: that penguin that stares menacingly at November 24, 2014 05:24 PM (rwI+c)

334 So when are Goldfarb and Holmes going to "fact-check" all the lies in Obama's immigration speech?

Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at November 24, 2014 05:24 PM (HBAcW)

335 Never mind.

Posted by: WaPo fact checker at November 24, 2014 05:24 PM (8MjqI)

336 I seen a horse fly, I even seen a house fly. But I ain't never seen no squid fly!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:22 PM (CMkNk)

New mutant species. Global Warming doncha' know.

Posted by: Viv Savage at November 24, 2014 05:24 PM (HRo7B)

337 FACTCHECK: Emily Litella is not really stupider than Joe Biden.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at November 24, 2014 05:24 PM (XUKZU)

338 MUMR likes to spank boys? MUMR is Harry Reid?

Posted by: Kenway at November 24, 2014 05:24 PM (QB1cV)

339 I seen a horse fly, I even seen a house fly. But I ain't never seen no squid fly!

How about an elephant?

Posted by: pep at November 24, 2014 05:24 PM (4nR9/)

340 333 **stares menacingly**

Posted by: that penguin that stares menacingly at November 24, 2014 05:24 PM (rwI+c)

That's creeping me out.

Posted by: eleven at November 24, 2014 05:24 PM (Ae7K+)

341 This just in: Spanish dictator Franco and John Belushi still dead. Washington Post Fact Check to follow.

Posted by: I'm Chevy Chase and you're not at November 24, 2014 05:24 PM (7ClUK)

342 SNL was a hell of a lot funnier when everyone was knee deep in hookers and blow.

So how's everyone doing this fine evening? I'm listening to Meat Beat Manifesto's "Helter Skelter" and fondling my Baretta like a Bond villainess.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 24, 2014 05:25 PM (QBm1P)

343 266 whoa, see the update for a truly hacktastic "fact check" of the sketch.

THREAD WINNER!
Posted by: toby928(C) at November 24, 2014 05:12 PM (rwI+c)

THREAD WINNER?

Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 24, 2014 05:25 PM (mx5oN)

344 WPFC - Tommy Flanagan was not a member of Pathological Liars Anonymous, nor president of that organization, nor married to Morgan Fairchild.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 24, 2014 05:25 PM (dDUXP)

345 334 So when are Goldfarb and Holmes going to "fact-check" all the lies in Obama's immigration speech?
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at November 24, 2014 05:24 PM (HBAcW)

The last 6 years have been one big friggin' lie. In your mouth. (and anus)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:25 PM (CMkNk)

346 Turkeys can actually fly.

Pro tip: Use live, unfrozen birds.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2014 05:25 PM (5ETeA)

347 Show me a giant trebuchet and I'll show you an elephant fly.

Posted by: eleven at November 24, 2014 05:25 PM (Ae7K+)

348 **stares menacingly**
Posted by: that penguin that stares menacingly at November 24, 2014 05:24 PM (rwI+c)
**********
STARES MENACINGLY?

Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 24, 2014 05:25 PM (32Ze2)

349 respond to the grand jury decision
***
respond to the grand jury decision???

Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at November 24, 2014 05:26 PM (Gysa/)

350 Picture next week's skit - a large room of reporters, shouting, researching, on phones and computers. Obviously it is an international crises. Does Iran have the bomb? Has Putin invaded Latvia? Is there another Ebola outbreak? No.SNL may be planning a skit mildly critical of the president. They have to GET RIGHT ON THAT!

Posted by: Dr. McCoy at November 24, 2014 05:26 PM (F192H)

351 hey, Sefton, any chance you remember the self-appointed community spokesman during the 1977 black-out whose on cameraresponse to the looting was "it was like Christman in July for my people"?

Posted by: mallfly at November 24, 2014 05:27 PM (bJm7W)

352 342 SNL was a hell of a lot funnier when everyone was knee deep in hookers and blow.

Everything is better with hookers and blow. And Van Winkle Bourbon.

Posted by: The Hobo's Sex And Candy Stare Decicis at November 24, 2014 05:27 PM (XeGAx)

353 For the record, Sarah Palin never said she could see Russia from her window.

A mediocre comedienne on an unfunny sketch comedy show parlayed that particular lie into fame and a 50 million dollar fortune.

I wonder if she at least sent Palin a thank you?

Posted by: Kreplach at November 24, 2014 05:27 PM (nVFrY)

354 Looks like I'm gonna have a busy night in Ferguson. Sigh. Why do I enjoy this so much?

Posted by: Death at November 24, 2014 05:27 PM (qW442)

355 339 I seen a horse fly, I even seen a house fly. But I ain't never seen no squid fly!

How about an elephant?
Posted by: pep at November 24, 2014 05:24 PM (4nR9/)

About that much, as the crow flies.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:27 PM (CMkNk)

356 A lot of dicks hanging out in AoS comment section = TRUE

If we were an ice cream flavor, we'd be pralines and dick.

Posted by: HR needs donuts at November 24, 2014 05:19 PM (ZKzrr)

Which, oddly enough is the same flavor of Jello Pudding Bill Cosby liked to share with his guests.

Posted by: Jollyroger at November 24, 2014 05:27 PM (t06LC)

357 I retire and the next thing I know Kathy Bates is exposing herself in a hot tub.

Sheesh.

Posted by: Schmidt at November 24, 2014 05:27 PM (V70Uh)

358

ot Darren Wilson married during this time -- easiest way/time to change your name. Wonder if he did.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 24, 2014 05:27 PM (IXrOn)

359 MSNBC's Morning Joke says Trayvon Martin was "chased around the neighborhood and shot because he was black." That's not exactly how I remember it. See WZ.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at November 24, 2014 05:27 PM (XUKZU)

360 I seen a horse fly, I even seen a house fly. But I ain't never seen no squid fly.

But what about shoo fly pie?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2014 05:27 PM (5ETeA)

361

hahaha @ "guests"

you mean prey

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 24, 2014 05:28 PM (1K6n1)

362 358 I retire and the next thing I know Kathy Bates is exposing herself in a hot tub.

Sheesh.
Posted by: Schmidt at November 24, 2014 05:27 PM (V70Uh)

It's not all about you.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 24, 2014 05:28 PM (mx5oN)

363 356 Which, oddly enough is the same flavor of Jello Pudding Bill Cosby liked to share with his guests.
Posted by: Jollyroger at November 24, 2014 05:27 PM (t06LC)

Mickey Rourke with the popcorn bucket in the movie theater.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:28 PM (CMkNk)

364 >>Everything is better with hookers and blow.

WaPo rates this as True.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2014 05:28 PM (g1DWB)

365
i love pistachios

and I like ice cream

but I hate pistachio ice cream

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 24, 2014 05:29 PM (1K6n1)

366 Dissent against the Messiah King, however weak, shall be fact checked. Punishment will include, but not be limited to, removal from WH party guest list, and enrollment in ObamaCare.

Posted by: WAPO, your gay Pravda at November 24, 2014 05:29 PM (wAQA5)

367
Barky needs to hie his ass onto AF1 with Gary Goldman and a gaggle of Russian separatists in board and then proceed to give them an ass wuppin' along the lines of Harrison Ford in AF1...

..."I'm still Cap'n Kickass, beeyotches!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at November 24, 2014 05:29 PM (97I0d)

368 "Beautiful Coconut Grove! 1400 miles from NY by train, 1300 miles as the crow files, 1200 miles as the horse flies." (Groucho, 1929)

Posted by: mallfly at November 24, 2014 05:29 PM (bJm7W)

369 Johnny Carson was funny when everyone was knee-deep in hookers and blow.

Posted by: Schmidt at November 24, 2014 05:29 PM (V70Uh)

370 Waitin to see if Somaliappolis burns tonight. Kind of hope so, thats some prime real estate right there, with a bit of urban renewal...

doubt they will make it my current AO in the burbs north of St. Paul though, ;( ... just as well, 'relatively' short on precious metals at the moment...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American, with a tesseract in your pocket at November 24, 2014 05:29 PM (ojfYH)

371 364 >>Everything is better with hookers and blow.

WaPo rates this as True.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2014 05:28 PM (g1DWB)

Or butter.

Paula Deen sez "true." Slather her up and Big Daddy'll come running. (or run coming)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:29 PM (CMkNk)

372 Everything is better with hookers and blow?

Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 24, 2014 05:29 PM (mx5oN)

373 Schmidt sock off.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at November 24, 2014 05:30 PM (V70Uh)

374 Mickey Rourke with the popcorn bucket in the movie theater.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:28 PM (CMkNk)

Pee Wee Herman in the library with a lead pipe.

Posted by: The Hobo's Sex And Candy Stare Decicis at November 24, 2014 05:30 PM (XeGAx)

375 Waitin to see if Somaliappolis burns tonight.

My understanding is the jihadis and the thugs are rivals, not allies.

Posted by: HR needs donuts at November 24, 2014 05:30 PM (ZKzrr)

376 360 But what about shoo fly pie?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2014 05:27 PM (5ETeA)

Mmm. Molasses crumb. Snydersville Diner, Route 209, Snydersville PA.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:30 PM (CMkNk)

377

ot

'60 Minutes': Disaster Looms, U.S. Must Raise Taxes by 'Hundreds of Billions'

no mention of cutting spending, ever

newsbusters.org

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 24, 2014 05:30 PM (IXrOn)

378 re 358: the guy on "Bewitched"..?

Posted by: mallfly at November 24, 2014 05:30 PM (bJm7W)

379 ''Dancing With the Stars'' may be preempted at 8:00 pm this evening for "Riotin' and Lootin' With the Brothers".

Posted by: TV Guide

I'm watching "Sneaker Shopping with the Disgruntled."

Posted by: Dang at November 24, 2014 05:31 PM (MNq6o)

380 358,

I've actually thought about the scenario where someone would change their name.

In a case like Wilson or Zimmerman, I would throw them off the trail by getting it changes from my real name to a new one in one state and from a new one to a different new one in another state. Sure makes it hard to look through court filings to find it if someone "accidentally" releases it like a Jack Ryan divorce file.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 24, 2014 05:31 PM (dDUXP)

381 365 i love pistachios

and I like ice cream

but I hate pistachio ice cream

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 24, 2014 05:29 PM (1K6n1)

Ya' know, I'm gonna think on that, I'm sensing an epiphany here somewhere.

*Changes into diaper and gets in lotus position*

Posted by: Viv Savage at November 24, 2014 05:31 PM (HRo7B)

382 As God is my witness, I thought that turkeys could fly.

Posted by: Arthur Carlson at November 24, 2014 05:31 PM (V70Uh)

383 Everything is better with hookers and blow?
Posted by: Al Sharpton

Like you didn't know that.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2014 05:32 PM (5ETeA)

384

you know why pistachios are so delicious?

because when you de-shell and eat one, you deserved it

it's the effort that makes the pistachio so satisfying

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 24, 2014 05:32 PM (1K6n1)

385 My understanding is the jihadis and the thugs are rivals, not allies.

They need to settle things. Really. To the death.

Posted by: pep at November 24, 2014 05:32 PM (4nR9/)

386 If we were an ice cream flavor, we'd be pralines and dick.

Aged in a barrel.

Posted by: CM at November 24, 2014 05:32 PM (0NdlF)

387 382 As God is my witness, I thought that turkeys could fly.

Posted by: Arthur Carlson at November 24, 2014 05:31 PM (V70Uh)

A classic!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:32 PM (CMkNk)

388
356 A lot of dicks hanging out in AoS comment section = TRUE

If we were an ice cream flavor, we'd be pralines and dick.

Posted by: HR needs donuts at November 24, 2014 05:19 PM (ZKzrr)

But not spotted dick, thanks to visits to our local free clinics!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at November 24, 2014 05:32 PM (97I0d)

389 jihadhis and SJWs

some people just like to watch the world burn

Posted by: ThunderB at November 24, 2014 05:32 PM (zOTsN)

390
382 As God is my witness, I thought that turkeys could fly.

Posted by: Arthur Carlson at November 24, 2014 05:31 PM (V70Uh)

PS: I'll be with Bailey in my quarters . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2014 05:33 PM (CMkNk)

391 it's the effort that makes the pistachio so satisfying

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer

Yep. I wouldn't buy them shelled. Boring.

Posted by: Dang at November 24, 2014 05:33 PM (MNq6o)

392 Like you didn't know that.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2014 05:32 PM (5ETeA)

Marion Barry never invited him to any ho smackin' parties.

Posted by: The Hobo's Sex And Candy Stare Decicis at November 24, 2014 05:33 PM (XeGAx)

393 385 My understanding is the jihadis and the thugs are rivals, not allies.

They need to settle things. Really. To the death.

Posted by: pep at November 24, 2014 05:32 PM (4nR9/)

Monday Night Rehabilitation!

Posted by: Insomniac at November 24, 2014 05:33 PM (mx5oN)

394 Footsball nood.

Posted by: filbert at November 24, 2014 05:33 PM (h6Mpm)

395 I'm watching "Sneaker Shopping with the Disgruntled."

Posted by: Dang

Pffffffft. I'm going with Looking for Large Screens with the Perpetually Enraged.

Posted by: pep at November 24, 2014 05:34 PM (4nR9/)

396 Aide: "This is the White House. We think you need to write a rebuttal to that SNL skit last night that was critical of the president.

WaPo: "Whaaa___??"

Aide: "You heard me. Get somebody on it, chop chop."

WaPo: "Seriously? I mean, dude, it's just a comedy skit."

Aide: "So I'm to tell the president that you're being uncooperative?"

WaPo: "Nah, we'll write it, but that's some majorly thinskined dude you have living at 1600."

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Bill Bennett read an email between the White House and the DOJ in which they mentioned getting in touch with Bob Schieffer to block Sheryl Atkinson.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at November 24, 2014 05:34 PM (XUKZU)

397

you literally have to work to enjoy a pistachio

that's nature at its best right there

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 24, 2014 05:34 PM (1K6n1)

398 New Ace- NFL post

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at November 24, 2014 05:34 PM (NeFrd)

399 Heather, they have cross-over gangs. Also cross-dresser gangs. I am hoping the black moose-limbs become so confused they shoot themselves... the cross-dresser gangs, meh, they aren't so bad, as long as they avoid bikinis...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American, with a tesseract in your pocket at November 24, 2014 05:34 PM (ojfYH)

400 sometimes a thug goes to prison and comes out a jihadi

Posted by: ThunderB at November 24, 2014 05:34 PM (zOTsN)

401 There is no NFL, there is only Zuhl, burning down your mini-marts.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American, with a tesseract in your pocket at November 24, 2014 05:35 PM (ojfYH)

402 Off to a mug of Harley's Bristol Cream and riot.

Toodles...

Posted by: The Hobo's Sex And Candy Stare Decicis at November 24, 2014 05:35 PM (XeGAx)

403 How many guys wearing brand new sneakers does it take to carry a 60" flat screen 4 blocks?

I'm asking for a friend.

Posted by: Dang at November 24, 2014 05:36 PM (MNq6o)

404 I'm watching "Sneaker Shopping with the Disgruntled."

-
I have vague recollection of a game show from my youth in the '60s where they would allow contestants to go into a store and get as much free stuff as possible in a short period of time.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at November 24, 2014 05:36 PM (XUKZU)

405 I have vague recollection of a game show from my youth in the '60s where they would allow contestants to go into a store and get as much free stuff as possible in a short period of time.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at November 24, 2014 05:36 PM (XUKZU)

I think it was called "North East Power Outage"

Posted by: The Hobo's Sex And Candy Stare Decicis at November 24, 2014 05:37 PM (XeGAx)

406 365
i love pistachios

and I like ice cream

but I hate pistachio ice cream
Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 24, 2014 05:29 PM (1K6n1)

I feel the same wy about spaghetti and ice cream.

Posted by: bergerbilder at November 24, 2014 05:38 PM (8MjqI)

407 330 Shock: The next sequel to Sharknado is Squidnado. Just leaked. Fact.

What? Those writers are stealing OUR material!!!

Release the flying squids!

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at November 24, 2014 05:39 PM (uSAVP)

408 I have vague recollection of a game show from my
youth in the '60s where they would allow contestants to go into a store
and get as much free stuff as possible in a short period of time.

Posted by: The Great White Snark

I remember seeing shopping sprees like that. They'd do them in grocery stores with adults and toy stores with kids. I remember my brother and I screaming at the TV where some dork went straight for the board game section. What a phag.

Posted by: Dang at November 24, 2014 05:39 PM (MNq6o)

409 Release the flying squids!

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at November 24, 2014 05:39 PM (uSAVP)

Whoa CKK,,,lets think about this for a second...

Posted by: Viv Savage at November 24, 2014 05:55 PM (HRo7B)

410 wow, srsly, that lad's just not right in the head, izzee ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez's better angel is winning today at November 24, 2014 05:57 PM (go6ud)

411 SuperDave. He was my hero. Especially him cursig after he hurt himself.
Posted by: Blue Hen at November 24, 2014 04:46 PM (Spluw)

Yep. The announcer/sidekick always chimed in with "Oooooh, you know he's going to feel *that* in the morning!" every time Osborne crunched up.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at November 24, 2014 06:22 PM (PMGbu)

412 Squidnado! Stealing material from AOSHq? J! J!

Had to go there of course. Just sayin...

Posted by: Fewenuff at November 24, 2014 06:31 PM (zPNX5)

413 Testing

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 24, 2014 06:38 PM (GDulk)

414 Yep, way back in 2010 CNN did some comedy skit fact checking:

Here was my take at the time:

http://naturalfake.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/top-

five-cnn-fact-checks-of-comedy-routines/

Some fellow morons jumped in on the fun as wellin the comments.

Yeah, it's on my crapblog and its old...yet strangely relevant once again!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2014 06:49 PM (0cMkb)

415 Hollywood is run by racist Zionist agitators who do not hold our President in the respect He is due.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at November 24, 2014 07:01 PM (YaiCw)

416 If Choom habitually told the truth, there wouldn't be a need for fact checking.

Posted by: Titanium at November 24, 2014 07:13 PM (DbzEE)

417 I hope they do a sketch next week, with WP fact checking every skit in the show!!

Posted by: garghhh at November 24, 2014 09:17 PM (Z77mb)

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