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Who Took Down the SNL Bailout Skit?
Posted by Kristina Rasmussen - October 06, 2008The
Saturday Night Live skit lampooning the bailout package has been removed from the SNL website without explanation (the screen reads: Video Not Found!).
Reader comments give possible explanations:
OK, what is going on here? Why is this video no longer available all of a sudden?
Jimharsh
This skit was one of a handful of truly funny skits amidst a sea of unfunny in this episode. What happened to freedom of speech? This is the kind of speech that the constitution was intended to protect. I am sad to see this down with no explanation.
tracy1314
I watched this video in it's entirety earlier this afternoon!! I can't believe it's being censored, either!!! It's been chopped so much on youtube, not even half of it is left! I guess this is a precursor to what media would be like under a democrat government - are you ready to say goodbye to free speech?
rjckeg
This skit seems to have been censored EVERYWHERE on the internet. I heard part of the skit on the radio today and wanted to see the whole skit. It seems the the democrats have been successful at getting it removed from the internet.
mugwumpwelch
Okay, SNL. What's the deal?
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Jeff said on Oct 07 2008 at 7:21am
It's posted here -- for right now anyway --
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=189963
Demian said on Oct 07 2008 at 12:53pm
That copy is gone now, too.
Probably has something to with the chyron declaring that the leftist, mortgage-flipping couple who were satirized in the skit are: "People who should be shot."
Jeff said on Oct 07 2008 at 2:41pm
This is the surprisingly short thread for this issue on NBC's community discussion board
http://boards.nbc.com/nbc/index.php?s=0af3df94c489a145cba3a1f34b1a9da3&showtopic=805284
Jeff said on Oct 07 2008 at 2:55pm
You can see a couple of snippets here as the B Cast talks about NBC removing the piece, http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=68524.
And they (the B Cast) reference a post at Advertising Age, which suggests a possible reason for pulling the clip. You can read it here, http://adage.com/adages/post?article_id=131535
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