The elite starving for sympathy…ain’t this some Oliver Twisting in the wind?
Last night’s season premiere of Saturday Night Live on NBC opened with host and musical guest Miley Cyrus wearing a full body wig and an appearance by Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton (who is either out of breath or on her last legs in the polls). After watching SNL, it was clear that the show provides more than comedic relief for its guests.
Some much needed therapy is also involved.
Celebrity and Politics… a cold, dark, and hairy skituation.
The show seemed to give Miley Cyrus a good cry, pat on the bony back, and the platonic hugs of actual devoted mother and father figures . . . at last. In the words of Hillary Clinton, “It takes a village . . . (side bar: as long as they are not red necks and or idiots).”
“For Hillary Clinton, who could use all the ‘Olivia Pope-ing’ she can get, her portrayal by the hilarious Kate McKinnon was an attempt to inject a stone with warmth.” –Blackbiter.com
While it is not clear just yet if the SNL shot in the arm took, it is always nice to see Hillary Clinton smiling from some place cold but genuine and not answering questions like a defensive tight end with reinforced shoulder pads.
In the sketch, Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton finds herself chilling at a bar after a “hard couple of 22 years” and “Val,” played by The Rock herself, appears like a guardian angel out of nowhere to lend a sympathetic ear.
Clinton and McKinnon skipped back and forth about how long it took the former U.S. Secretary of State, running from that post, to stumble upon a position on the Keystone XL Pipeline and gay marriage.
“Nothing wrong with taking your time,” said Clinton. “What’s important is getting it right.”
“Girl, don’t worry. SNL got you like nobody got you.”
In another tale of American pop culture and hypocrisy, the disgust at the moral compromises one must make as a politician desperate to get a mob of well-meaning but likely sub-intelligent voters behind her was written all over Clinton’s face, a face that read: “Remember Hillary, just go with the flow or wind up as limp and powerless as a bit of seaweed.”
Clinton, who is known to do a mean Donald Trump impression, then conjured up the narcissist from the shallows, asking: “Donald Trump? Isn’t he the one that’s like ‘Ugh,’ she says, using a deep voice, ‘You’re all losers.’”
“I will destroy him and I will mount his hair in the Oval Office,” McKinnon as Clinton sort of joked.
When McKinnon confided in Clinton that she was “really easy to talk to” and Clinton responded, “That’s the first time I’ve ever heard that,” it was fleeting but honesty, humility, and perhaps a little blood oozed from The Rock.
When McKinnon dared to say, “I wish you could be president,” and Hillary Clinton replied, “Me too!” no one knows for sure if they experienced that either but something like sympathy stirred in the belly of the audience.
The sketch ended with Clinton and McKinnon singing “Lean on Me,” which we have no doubt, Hillary Clinton will do—especially if sucking up to SNL will help soften her shoulder pads and return her to the White House which she, elitist that she is, believes is her rightful home.
Sadly, however, what this appearance on SNL proves once again is that the Clintons will do anything to return to “the big house,” even if it means Hillary must portray a lowly barkeep and apologize over and over again for what she truly believes which, even a sub-intelligent voter with just a bit of integrity knows, needs no apology.
Do you think an SNL appearance will kick-start Hillary Clinton’s likeability quotient?
