From Instapundit:
SNL SCRAPS SKIT MOCKING OBAMA FOR TAKING CREDIT FOR OBL KILLING, according to the Daily Caller, which purports to have a copy of the script in question:
The full text of the skit, which was authored by comedian Jim Downey, is viewable below. It is not clear why the skit, which also pokes fun at the president’s handling of the economy, was scrapped.
The real President Obama has faced harsh criticism in recent weeks for allegedly politicizing bin Laden’s death by taking too much credit for the operation that killed him.
Instead of the skit, NBC opted instead to air a parody of Fox News Channel’s “Fox and Friends.” That skit, which also featured Armisen, mocked Fox News personalities by portraying them as clueless partisans.
Funny how they don’t want to make a Democratic president “cringe and squirm,” only Republicans. But then, as one of the show’s first writers once quipped in an interview shortly after SNL debuted, foreshadowing its bland corporatist future, “you can only be avant-garde so long before you become garde.” SNL’s the definition of garde these days.
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