Saturday Night Live Influence
The Influence of Saturday Night Live
On August 29th, 2008 Senator John McCain announced his decision of electing Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential Candidate. This declaration provoked controversy amongst many of the United States citizens and while the majority of the people supported McCain, there were still a select few of both the republican and democratic parties that were bewildered by his decision. They view Sarah Palin as ignorant and someone who could not play any significant part in running the United States government, and their scrutiny of her soon reached the public via television. Although entwined with humor, the Saturday Night Live vice Presidential debate clip is an example of the doubts society has on Palin’s experience. …show more content…
In the beginning of the skit after introducing the candidates Queen Latifa said “and finally we would like to remind our audience due to historically low expectations for Governor Palin; were she simply to do an adequate job tonight, at no point cry, faint, run out of the building, or vomit, you should consider the debate a tie.” This quote is a particular example of how weak and unskilled NBC’s Saturday Night Live is trying to portray Sarah Palin. Although NBC’s Saturday Night Live seems to be picking on the republican candidates more than the democratic it is not necessarily because they favor the democratic candidates but because Sarah Palin and John McCain give them more to work with. Throughout the entity of the skit Queen Latifa makes cringing faces after each of Sarah Palin’s answers to the questions she is addressing her with. This once again goes back to the undecided viewers who only watch the late night comedy shows and have no knowledge of the actual debate as a whole. They are likely to make negative assumptions about Sarah Palin and not Barack Obama’s vice presidential candidate Joe Biden because Sarah Palin is more targeted than he and they make her seem more
On August 29th, 2008 Senator John McCain announced his decision of electing Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential Candidate. This declaration provoked controversy amongst many of the United States citizens and while the majority of the people supported McCain, there were still a select few of both the republican and democratic parties that were bewildered by his decision. They view Sarah Palin as ignorant and someone who could not play any significant part in running the United States government, and their scrutiny of her soon reached the public via television. Although entwined with humor, the Saturday Night Live vice Presidential debate clip is an example of the doubts society has on Palin’s experience. …show more content…
In the beginning of the skit after introducing the candidates Queen Latifa said “and finally we would like to remind our audience due to historically low expectations for Governor Palin; were she simply to do an adequate job tonight, at no point cry, faint, run out of the building, or vomit, you should consider the debate a tie.” This quote is a particular example of how weak and unskilled NBC’s Saturday Night Live is trying to portray Sarah Palin. Although NBC’s Saturday Night Live seems to be picking on the republican candidates more than the democratic it is not necessarily because they favor the democratic candidates but because Sarah Palin and John McCain give them more to work with. Throughout the entity of the skit Queen Latifa makes cringing faces after each of Sarah Palin’s answers to the questions she is addressing her with. This once again goes back to the undecided viewers who only watch the late night comedy shows and have no knowledge of the actual debate as a whole. They are likely to make negative assumptions about Sarah Palin and not Barack Obama’s vice presidential candidate Joe Biden because Sarah Palin is more targeted than he and they make her seem more