Since its premiere in the 1970s, Saturday Night Live has always leaned liberal. The very earliest episodes featured Chevy Chase trying to make Republican President Gerald Ford look like an idiot.
In recent years however, it has reached levels of political bias that are more absurd than the skits on the show. In 2016, they basically did a funeral for Hillary Clinton’s campaign after she lost, and when Obama left office in 2017, cast members actually sang songs of praise to him.
They ignored Biden’s cognitive decline until Democrats and the media decided that they needed to force him out of the race, and they make fun of Trump and Republicans constantly.
Somehow, all of this escaped the media. Until now.
This is from the Daily Mail:
Saturday Night Live’s breathtaking bias against conservatives revealed by stunning new analysis that shows just how easy they go on liberals
A new analysis examining Saturday Night Live’s partisan jokes has revealed that the sketch comedy series overwhelmingly pokes fun at conservatives.
A study conducted by NewsBusters, a conservative media research center, provided to the New York Post concluded that 91 percent of jokes during the show’s ‘Weekend Update’ segment targeted conservatives.
Weekend Update is a mockumentary news show hosted by comedians Michael Che and Colin Jost, where they take jabs at the week’s significant news stories.
NewsBusters found that the season’s first 19 shows included 226 political jokes, with only 18 targeting Democrats and liberals, while three were nonpartisan. Of those political jokes, 101 of them were aimed at Donald Trump.
One of Che’s jokes appeared to make fun of assassination attempts on the president. ‘President Trump attended the opening night of ‘Chicago’ at the Kennedy Center, and I think that’s cool that the president is going to the theater. I mean, what’s the worst that could happen,’ he said, referring to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination at a theater.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr was the second-most targeted figure, with 14 jokes at his expense.
Former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was third with 12 jokes, conservative pundit Tucker Carlson was fourth with 11 jokes and disgraced Representative George Santos was fifth with 10 jokes, according to the study.
More from the New York Post:
During its April 4 broadcast, SNL notoriously mused about the possibility of Trump being assassinated.
Che sickly crowbarred the “joke” into a bit about the president attending a performance at the recently renamed Trump Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
“President Trump attended the opening night of ‘Chicago’ at the Kennedy Center, and I think that’s cool that the president is going to the theater. I mean, what’s the worst that could happen?” said Che, referring to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Che then flashed a grin as the audience responded with an over-the-top guffaw.
Saturday Night Live is no longer a comedy show. It’s a super PAC for the Democrat Party.
Their anti-Republican bias is on display during every single show and it has completely degraded the entertainment value. Like late night shows, they took something that used to be for the enjoyment of the whole country and turned it into a soapbox for the far left.
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