One thing you have to grant about Barack Obama: he is consistent. He never wavers from his cherished principles. This is not, however, a case of authoritarian government censorship — he wasn’t President yet. It is a case of the entertainment industry’s willing submission to his perspectives, which we see on an ongoing basis in the mainstream media as well, which is effectively a one-party state in which only one point of view is allowed to be aired.
“The Saturday Night Live Sketch President Obama Put The Kibosh On,” by Jessica Rawden, CinemaBlend, October 16, 2014 (thanks to Kathy Shaidle):
…The bit in question was one of Smigel’s “TV Funhouse” sketches. It would have been a live action sketch following a video with colorful commentary on how the American populace often perceives race. Here’s what Smigel had to say, below.
“It wasn’t until my last season that the network refused to air a “TV Funhouse.” It was a live-action one that was meant to be about racism and profiling, an airline-safety video with multilingual narration, and whenever you heard a different language, they would cut to people of that nationality. First, typical white Americans, then a Latino family, then a Japanese family, all being instructed about seat belts, overhead compartments, et cetera. Then it cuts to an Arab man, and the narrator says, in Arabic, “During the flight, please do not blow up the airplane. The United States is actually a humanitarian nation that is rooted in the concept of freedom, and so on.”
According to the writer, the sketch did not go over well with “the standards people.” Smigel says Lorne Michaels had his back, though, eventually coming up with asking then-Presidential candidate Barack Obama whether or not the sketch worked.
“Lorne said, ‘I have a plan.’ Obama was doing a cameo in the cold open. Lorne told me he would show my sketch to Obama. ‘If Obama thinks it’s OK, they won’t be able to argue it.’…
As you may have guessed, Obama wasn’t exactly down with the basic premise of the sketch. Michaels says he called it “funny” but the “TV Funhouse” segment was ultimately cut for the very reason the standards department was worried about. It’s less of a shame that the sketch never made it to air than it is an amusing story with a terrific punchline….
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
As you may have guessed, Obama wasn’t exactly down with the basic premise of the sketch.
Yeah, he musta found the part about the Moslem not blowing up the airplane quite offensive. After all, Barack went through a stage in grade school where he got with his buds and joined in prayer to Allah. Ann Dunham, Barack’s porn dabbling mom did not like that and strongly discouraged it. Seems she was a bit of a cultural revert, if you know what I mean.
But I am shocked by this story. The writer proposed that it’d be funny to single out a Moslem and not the others. Why the Moslems, they’re always getting the short end of the PR stick. PR truncheon is more like it, cuz from Saturday Night Live to the Comedy Channel, the “narrative” is allowed to go just one direction, to the left. The globalist, the socialist, the environmentalist, the racist, the sexist. The G.S.E.R.S, five fictive reality bubbles that interoperate in such a way that nowadays we are steered into dhimmitude, among other things, by way of things not said. Thoughts not permitted.
voegelinian says
Notice Smigel described it as “an Arab man”, not a Muslim per se.
gravenimage says
Yes—but even this hovered too near the truth—if only by implication—for someone who would later proclaim that “the future does not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam”.
Larry A. Singleton says
Am I going out of my mind or does this website change from one day to the next? I was looking for the Facebook “Share” button. I could have sworn was once below the article.
I could go on but I won’t.
marc says
opps, sorry, I disabled while I was hunting a bug a couple of days ago and forgot to re-enable. Thanks for the heads up.
pumbar says
Todays “conviction politicians” are politicians who should be convicted.
Mo says
What do you mean, Obama nixed this or that?
Who in the BLAZES does this wicked, corrupt, racist, anti-American, Islam-excusing, TRAITOROUS man he think he is?!
DiMu says
Obama has done far more harm to this nation than ebola!
Ralph says
WHAT DO OBAMA AND SGT. SCHULTZ HAVE IN COMMON?
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@theoffaltruth says
… and when it comes to his value as a ‘ leader from behind ‘ – ” don’t you just wanna hurl your gastric cookies ” – he is inarguably less than nothing. His presidency deserves an asterisk that resembles a red scar on his forehead; so as not to be mistaken for any other White House denizens’ occupancy, since America became a nation. He’s almost made the wretched Jimmy Carters who ridiculously preceded him look inconsequential, and that is near impossible.
gravenimage says
Obama nixed SNL sketch about jihad hijacking and racial profiling
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Remember when SNL would make fun of every president and presidential candidate? Now they are allowing Obama to censor them. Good God…
Oliver says
Just curious:
How many OTHER presidents, presidential candidates; elected officials or people in the news, did SNL sk their opinions about–on a topic that might directly or tangelically have an effect on them?
Did it ask Gerald Ford about the skits showing him as bumbling and awkward–disregarding that he was offered by two NFL teams a position. (One was the Lions, I forgot the other) after he finished college. I think the answer is no. The same after the wacko woman in San Francisco tried to shoot him, and SNL had a skit about it. I (did not see it, i admit, my brother did) cannot see what is funny about a deranged person trying to shoot the President. (Lee Harvey Oswald at least had a political agenda).
Did it ask Reagan or Quayle or any of the Bushes about their ” funny” skits about them ?
i think not.
Hypocrisy.
Oh, by the way, if it would have been an Orthodox, Hasidic Jew who they said-in Hebrew- do not blow up the plane, would they have asked a Rabbi if he thought it appropriate?