The Media Research Center’s resident comedy cop, Alex Christy, continued his hateful routine against “Saturday Night Live” in a Jan. 20 post:
NBC’s Saturday Night Live returned from its lengthy Christmas break this past weekend and quickly joined the rest of the nightly comedy shows in seeking to smear ICE. According to SNL, ICE agents are bad fathers who have anger issues and just like being violent for its own sake.
During the cold open, Ashley Padilla played the role of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem who rattled off some job qualifications for aspiring ICE agents, “Now, obviously, there’s been clashes on both sides in Minneapolis, and have we been perfect? Yes. And I know a lot of people looking at the situation in Minnesota are wondering the same thing. Can I join ICE? Well, let me ask you this. Is your neck wider than your head? Are you currently wearing a Punisher T-shirt? Have you ever punched a hole in the wall because your son took a dance class? If the answer is yes, then grab a gun, any gun, and saddle up, big boy. And just know you can always count on me, because my last name is Noem as in, do I have the situation under control? Noem, I don’t.”
Later, during Weekend Update, co-anchor Michael Che declared that the Trump administration knows what they are doing is illegal, but that they simply do not care, “Officials in Minnesota have sued the Trump administration, claiming that their large-scale ICE actions are an unconstitutional federal invasion. While the Trump administration claims that, yep!”
Fellow co-anchor Colin Jost then added, “President Trump defended the actions of ICE agents in Minneapolis, adding that the day of reckoning and retribution is coming. Which is a phrase he stole from that guy who’s always pointing at him.”
[…]It is difficult to see what any of SNL’s attacks on ICE have to do with the debate about whether or not Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good in self-defense. SNL instead went for personal attacks built around a caricature they have constructed to make them feel better about themselves.
And Christy is not doing the same thing with the comedians he attacks? Please.
Christy returned to huff in a Feb. 3 post:
With ICE-Nazi analogies flying all over the late night comedy shows, it was inevitable that NBC’s Saturday Night Live would join the trend, and they did this past weekend during its 1,000th episode in both the cold open and Weekend Update segments.
During the cold open, Pete Davidson portrayed border czar Tom Homan, who told an assembled group of ICE agents, “Now, I’m sure a lot of you are wondering why Greg Bovino, the last guy, was dismissed. I want to stress that it wasn’t because he did a bad job. Or publicly lied about the shooting of an American citizen. Or even, uh-oh, dressed like a Nazi. It was that he was filmed doing these things. And the president no like-y that.”
That then led to Fake Homan asking the crowd some questions, which they would also get wrong. For instance, Davidson began, “Now, who can tell me why we’re here in Minneapolis?”
[…]Don Lemon was not arrested by ICE, but facts aside, the Nazi analogies kept coming on Weekend Update. Co-anchor Colin Jost began by putting up two pictures: one of Bovino and another of a Sean Penn character who has been described as a “pocket Nazi.” Jost declared, “Meanwhile, President Trump is changing things up in Minnesota to calm the recent violence against his poll numbers. Border patrol official Gregory Bovino, who was incredible in One Battle After Another, has been removed from overseeing the Minneapolis ICE operation, and hopefully he was removed ICE-style through the broken window of his car.”
Christy failed to disclose that his employer has also used Nazi analogies, from falsely claiming George Soros worked for the Nazis to dismissing critics as “digital brownshirts.”
Meanwhile, Tim Graham raged that “SNL” makes Trump jokes in his Dec. 30 podcast, which had as a guest onetime junior comedy cop Christian Toto:
We’ve found the same tilt on NBC’s Saturday Night Live on their “Weekend Update” fake newscast. Then there’s the constant anti-Trump skits to open the show.
A December live-open skit suggested Trump is on drugs. James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump character was simultaneously drugged up on Adderall and Ambien in December. The problem is when the jokes somehow transform into factoids, like the idea that Sarah Palin (instead of Tina Fey) actually said “I can see Russia from my house.”
Palin is a right-wing Republican, so of course Graham would defend her.