Saturday Night Live Cold Open: Newt Gingrich as Moon President
[Click above to embiggen: Saturday Night Live depicted Newt Gingrich as President of the Moon and Willard "Mittens" Romney as a disgraced cross-dresser in the cold open to the February 4th, 2012 episode ]
Saturday Night Live cold-opened its February 4th, 2012 show with a sketch predicting Barack Obama’s easy win over Cocktail Party GOP establishment “it’s his turn to be the nominee!” favorite Willard “Mittens” Romney and a future where, in the middle of the second term the Cocktail Party handed Obama, Democrats’ socialist push collapses America as we know it and literally destroys our planet.
In the sketch, Newt Gingrich continued pushing for a permanent lunar base after Romney’s coronation in the GOP primaries; just two years later this is not only built, but colonized with the 13,000 residents that would enable the base to petition for statehood (far-fetched, yest, but remember this was the stuff that kids grew up dreaming was possible up until sometime in the late 1980s when the Tolerant Left took full control of our schools and stopped inspiring children to dream of a bold and history-making future for our country).
The writers decidedly lampooned Gingrich because it’s clear that Saturday Night Live wants Romney to be the Republican nominee – so their prediction of Obama’s re-election comes true.
Many of you, no doubt, are saying, “Well, I don’t care about Saturday Night Live” or “That show hasn’t been funny for years” and these things are most definitely true — but you are foolish to pretend that millions of Americans don’t watch this show or at least hear about it on Monday morning from the twenty-somethings that occupy space in your office’s cubicle farms and parrot everything they see on TV that they believe ridicules conservatives.
Saturday Night Live’s goal was to mock Gingrich so that the nomination could be locked up for Romney — which is part of the larger plan to ensure Barack Obama gets to select the Republican he most wants to run against.
Herman Cain’s in the skit as part of Gingrich’s “Ad-moon-istration”, with the sole purpose of making crass sexual jokes (because the Tolerant Left wants to discourage black men from being conservative and identifying as Republican, so it’s pushing this meme of Cain being unable to control himself sexually to inhibit other blacks from wanting to be conservative like him).
Ronald Reagan’s consciousness has been programmed into a robot that now advises Gingrich on the moon — and a joke you’ll see coming light years away involves the robot mistaking Romney for an android too.
Romney, by the way, has become a cross-dresser in the future and traveled to the moon disguised as a woman, still disgraced by losing the 2012 general election in a race Republicans should have won — if only they hadn’t nominating the “it’s his turn to be nominee!” guy in the same pattern that delivered Bob Dole and John McCain to voters (who then rejected them because they were not the smart choice to run against the Democrat in the years the Cocktail Party chose to run these guys).
Saturday Night Live, as always, went light on Romney; the robot joke and the cross-dressing were as bad as it got for him last night. During the general election, if Romney’s the nominee, you can count on the actor playing him to appear exclusively in “magic underwear” (what the Tolerant Left will call Mormons’ sacred garment) and be portrayed as a cross between Gordon Gecko and the polygamist from Big Love. There will also be lots of “Mutt Romney” stuff too — that’s the bit that’s being saved to attack Romney for strapping his dog to the top of his car on a family trip, which caused the dog to rain diarrhea down the back windows. Saturday Night Live will probably create a new puppet character for “Mutt Romney” similar to Tounces, the Driving Cat because that one anecdote from Romney’s past is just such fertile ground for the Tolerant Left to use in alienating Romney from voters in a general election.
What I’m most struck by after watching this skit, however, is how obvious it is to me that the only way Barack Obama is re-elected is if Willard “Mittens” Romney is the nominee. Everyone seems to know this, except the Cocktail Party GOP establishment (which commits itself years in advance to running whichever candidate has the “next turn”, regardless of what voters want that year) and people who, for whatever reason, like Romney for personal reasons.
I agree the guy is handsome and is probably a very nice person — and he could have won in 2008 — but 2012 is not the year to run someone who can so easily be caricatured as a Wall Street villain with weird, off-putting personality traits in a year when voters are being ginned up against this exact caricature by Occupy Wall Street and Obama’s own off-putting and alien nature is at issue.
When Earth exploded in this Saturday Night Live sketch, I thought about the Superman comics and how, months before the planet Krypton was destroyed, Jor-El (father of the baby Kal-El who would be rocketed to Kansas and grow up to become Superman) desperately tried to convince the idiots in the Kryptonian establishment that everyone was doomed unless someone took action to prevent a clearly telegraphed catastrophe.
The Cocktail Party on Krypton probably didn’t think it was Jor-El’s turn, yet, to be listened to and so they most likely took the advice of the guy who lost to the guy who got the planet into its mess in the first place.
As depressing as this feels, it’s precisely what those in the Cocktail Party GOP establishment are doing in pushing Romney to the nomination in 2012 in much the same way these very people pushed Dole and McCain to their primary wins — in the years they went on to lose (as predicted) to Democrats in the general election.
I know the takeaway Saturday Night Live wanted people to have from this episode was that Gingrich is too big of a dreamer and his push for a moon base is absurd…but instead I see the planet’s explosion in the sketch as a clarion call of Kryptonian proportions that perhaps you can help answer.
How can you convince others to see the elite, agenda-driven media (in the form of shows like SNL) is doing everything it can to push Romney towards the nomination because these people believe Barack Obama has the best chance to beat him in the general election?
© 2012, Kevin DuJan. All rights reserved.
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Nasty, partisan sketches are the reason I quit watching SNL .
Your logic doesn't really hold up. If SNL wants Romney to win the nomination, why would they promote the idea that he will lose to Obama in the general? By your logic, it would seem they would want to show Romney winning the general as a way of encouraging people to nominate him under the pretense that he would win (even if they believe he won't.)
Can you honestly sit there and say that you think Romney was mocked more aggressively than Gingrich in that skit?
There’s no way they are going to show Romney winning the election and Obama losing…that thought won’t even enter into their heads.
You need to look at the fact that Romney only gets a mild ribbing on SNL consistently week after week while people like Gingrich, Cain, Perry, and the other past candidates were all excoriated.
The republican party will be a thing of the past when Romney and the establishment manage to yet again bungle the election. The ONLY hope is that people are soooo sick of Obama – or scared witless – that a republican will beat Bamie.
True, but Kevin's made a good point with both last week's and last night's episodes. People do watch these and strangely use the material as truth. (example: how many people believe that Sarah Palin literally said she could see Russia from her house when in reality it was Tina Fey's imitation Sarah on SNL that coined the phrase)
I think the election season is the best time to view SNL, since the opening usually centers on something political. The Weekend Update segment also has good nuggets as well.
I thought it was interesting that last night the premise of Obama winning also showed that socialism had replaced democracy. Mocking how some of us feel about the demise of the US or weird alternate prediction? It's almost as though everyone is predicting an Obama win, all the while knowing that he's taking our country down this path…
Here's Newt on Meet the Press.
http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012/…
Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz wants nothing more than to run against Newt. If you can't even get on the ballot in your home state how can you expect to run against a very organized and funded DNC/Obama campaign.
The GOP will win on talking about Iran, Debt, jobs and economic growth. I think Romney is the guy who is best. Ann Coulter word in my mind is law and I will follow her always.
Newt is a seasoned statesman and patriot.
The Al Capone wannabes knows he will drop them in the grease hours after he takes office.
The contest has only just begun, I have no doubt he will prevail.
This may not be an opportune time for moon exploration, but this isn't such a crackpot idea. Moon exploration is about the search for Helium-3, a non-radioactive equivlalent to nuclear energy. Even Russia and China want in on it.
http://www.popsci.com/category/tags/helium-3