SNL: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong

When Saturday Night Live gets it right, it's superb,

But SNL got it totally wrong last night with its Fatal Attraction skit featuring Kate McKinnon as Kellyanne Conway.

http://time.com/4668085/jake-tapper-kate-mckinnon-kellyanne-conway-saturday-night-live-fatal-attraction/

I was disgusted to see a woman with a serious job on the national scene sexualized in that demeaning way.

Yes, I hate her statements defending Trump, but no woman deserves to be parodied that way.

The little boys who thought that act would be funny have betrayed their basic lack of respect for women.

The voices on Twitter who liked it are equally dismaying.

How can women enter politics if they know their enemies will attack them in ways that are purely sexual and have nothing to do with their political stances?

No one takes a man in politics and turns him into a pathetic, sex-starved caricature.

Not even 45 has been treated like that.

Melissa & SNL skewer dt

Still watching Melissa McCarthy's great impersonation of Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live for February 4...

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/sean-spicer-press-conference/3465162?snl=1

Topics ridiculed include:

• Spicer's hostility to the press including the CNN reporter in diapers in a cage
• His exaggeration of  public response to the prez's announcement of a Supreme Court nominee--"a standing ovation which lasted a full 15 min... everyone was smiling, everyone was happy, and no one was sad.  Okay those are the facts forever..." 
• The prez's watching of silly films/media - Finding Dory
• The travel ban that is not a ban
• Horror of press at Spicer's ridiculous responses
• False info "so print that--that's your story."
• Betsy DeVos impersonation with her inability to answer whether she sees growth or proficiency as more important in evaluating students
• Not mentioning the Jewish people in the president's Holocaust Remembrance Day statement
• Calling the press liars and using a water gun with soapy water to "wash out your mouths"

Also great was the opening skit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZOF9q5fzfs

Steve Bannon is depicted as the medieval figure of Death, a skeleton in a black hood and cloak

• Bannon suggesting the prez call Australia when he's tired and cranky--refusing refugees, hanging up on him with the words "prepare to go to war"
• "huge massacre at Bowling Green"--
• dt's focus on The Apprentice & how bad it
• dt calling Mexico--calling them "bad hombre"--ending "preparing to go to war"
• dt not knowing who Frederick Douglass was
• dt to Angela Mirkel: changing Holocaust Remembrance Day to "6 million people were at my inauguration," then "Germany sucks, your wall failed, prepare to go to war"
• calling Zimbabwe president who says "You think you are a big time dictator?  I will rip out your spine and drink from your skull! ... Don't you ever call Zimbabwe again" and hangs up on dt.
• Bannon actually being president while dt moves to a small desk

Together, both skits reviewed most of the outrageous happenings of the last week.  May they go down in history.