Saturday Night Live’s final pre-election take: biting criticism of Donald Trump’s media
Saturday Night Live’s final pre-election take: biting criticism of Donald Trump’s media The Washington Post Aaron Blake
There was one final "Saturday Night Live” left before the 2016 election, but there was no debate to send up.
Instead, SNL went with some pretty strong political commentary. And it wasn't friendly to Donald Trump — or the media.
The nine-minute cold open featured Alec Baldwin returning as Trump and being interviewed alongside Hillary Clinton on CNN. Over the course of the interview, Trump literally kissed — on the mouth — an FBI agent, Russian President Vladimir Putin and a member of the KKK, only to have the CNN host quickly return the discussion to Clinton's emails. And at the start of the interview, Clinton begs the host to talk about Trump's taxes, only to have the host ask her about her emails.
It doesn't quite twist the knife when it comes to the media's coverage of Trump — the sketch overall seems to be more about Clinton being exasperated that the race is close, and it ends on a more fanciful note — but the media criticism is unmistakable.
This, of course, is a long-running theme of the campaign. Clinton's supporters have frequently argued that the media is obsessed with her email issue and that it has garnered entirely too much coverage, constantly overshadowing the controversial things that Trump has said.
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There was one final "Saturday Night Live” left before the 2016 election, but there was no debate to send up.
Instead, SNL went with some pretty strong political commentary. And it wasn't friendly to Donald Trump — or the media.
The nine-minute cold open featured Alec Baldwin returning as Trump and being interviewed alongside Hillary Clinton on CNN. Over the course of the interview, Trump literally kissed — on the mouth — an FBI agent, Russian President Vladimir Putin and a member of the KKK, only to have the CNN host quickly return the discussion to Clinton's emails. And at the start of the interview, Clinton begs the host to talk about Trump's taxes, only to have the host ask her about her emails.
It doesn't quite twist the knife when it comes to the media's coverage of Trump — the sketch overall seems to be more about Clinton being exasperated that the race is close, and it ends on a more fanciful note — but the media criticism is unmistakable.
This, of course, is a long-running theme of the campaign. Clinton's supporters have frequently argued that the media is obsessed with her email issue and that it has garnered entirely too much coverage, constantly overshadowing the controversial things that Trump has said.
READ MORE: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sat...
