NBC Removes From Own Website SNL Skit Criticizing Democrats Over Bailout Bill

Newsbusters: Early Sunday morning, as is customary for NBC, the video of this sketch was posted at its website. Some time Monday, it was taken down without any explanation.

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October 7, 2008 at 7:44 am - NBC
Dateline: New York, NY
ward   October 7th, 2008 - 7:54 am

Only the truth is funny. This was one of the most accurate, right on sketches they have ever done.

ozhole   October 7th, 2008 - 7:59 am

Hello – anybody out there! I guess from the lack of comments to the honest account of the truth to the financial situation you all want more of the same old lies and I’m not talking about McCain. Go ahead and vote Obama you fools!

Lady liberty   October 7th, 2008 - 8:07 am

finally a skit the libs will understand….or NOT!

GOPchick   October 7th, 2008 - 8:07 am

Love it! Won’t surprise anyone that NBC pulled it. I’m forwarding this on to others who will forward it on…and on…

Nater   October 7th, 2008 - 8:17 am

I don’t understand why this was pulled? Is NBC’s censorship that overt?!

demdicks   October 7th, 2008 - 8:27 am

They probably needed the space to post another anti-Palin skit. Breitbart, call nbc for an OFFICIAL explanation, you know the AP won’t do it.

if   October 7th, 2008 - 8:29 am

NBC just showed how bias and guttless they are. Turn them off, don’t watch their crappy shows. The left should be screaming censorship, but they won’t because they have no integrity.

claspur   October 7th, 2008 - 8:35 am

It was pulled because it went too far on the BS meter, is why.
For starters, Jimmy Carter will always be this nations’ worst president.
Barney Frankenturder was getting his pooper stuffed with Fanny Mae/Freddie Mac funds for years.
Obama got what….almost 170,000K from them after only being in the senate for 10.5 months?
MSM, Hollywood, and liberal elite left are the true enemies of this nation. Make no mistake about that.

IrishKay   October 7th, 2008 - 8:41 am

NOW THAT IS FUNNY, IN A SICK SORT OF WAY.
THE TRUTH HURTS, AND EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS!! Of course the American voter needs to know as much as they can about the candidate they will be electing into office. We have a right and a duty to make sure the candidate is a citizen of the US, is not associated with terrorists, and will not turn our democracy into a socialist country. People outside the US do not realize that our national media is biased and are covering up a lot of facts about Obama, they won’t print it, report it, and even worse attack those who try to bring it to light! The fact that NBC took this skit off their site is proof of the biased position ALL the major news media have in this election. Nothing like “forcing” an election! They’ve got it wrong, again!

Bid D   October 7th, 2008 - 8:52 am

We do not have a free press. The mainstream media is in the tank for Obama. They want George Bush and his administration to take the blame for Clinton and the dems who decided back in the 90’s that people who couldn’t afford to buy a house, MUST be able to buy a house. They didn’t help these people, they hurt them. Once again, an expensive gimmick from the left to buy votes and gain power.

Fedupwithliberals   October 7th, 2008 - 9:11 am

Does anyone wonder why they won’t do a real sendup of Obama past dressing an actor up to look like him and do a mild spoof? What with his radical friends, flip flops, big ears, mannerisms and angry wife, they should have a field day!

Shame on you, Lorne!

Early Cuyler   October 7th, 2008 - 9:14 am

I was surprised when I saw the skit Saturday night, but not surprised to know NBC decided to censor it, there is no network more in the tank for B.O. Welcome to the New World Order, folks, Obama-style. Ridiculing Palin, McCain, and Bush is fine, ridiculing the opposition with some surprisingly accurate satire isn’t. No doubt the writers of that skit are already on their way to the labor camp.

Tobias2012   October 7th, 2008 - 9:25 am

This is only the beginning by the media to cover up and whitewash the Democrats. If Obama is elected President we will never know the truth from the press for they have become an apparatus of the Stalinist tactics of “free speech for me but not for thee” espoused by Obama.

BILL5321   October 7th, 2008 - 9:38 am

News Flash

NBC reports the McCain is from Mars.

News Flash

NBC reports Mars is taking over the world.

News Flash

NBC Reports Obama has plan to save the world.

News Flash

AP Reports NBC is a joke.

Jersey Dave   October 7th, 2008 - 9:42 am

Maybe NBC, like the Democratic party, is “Owned by George Soros” as SNL put in the skit!

Why pull their best skit in years? That was the funniest thing they did all year.

[...] The Video NBC does not want you to see http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=189963 [...]

Say hey   October 7th, 2008 - 10:00 am

N ationally
B roadcasting
C rap

Trey   October 7th, 2008 - 10:03 am

From a virtually life long (from age 14ish) fan/viewer of SNL -around 25 yrs.
I’m sick of it, my boycott started around 3 weeks ago.

Cliff   October 7th, 2008 - 10:15 am

Surprise!!! Surprise!!! Guess who is in the tank for B. O.??? NBC!!! What a charlatan of a news organization. Humor only at the expense of the Republicans vote permitted.

NoBoma spoken here…

American   October 7th, 2008 - 10:24 am

And, now it’s been pulled from YouTube. Although it’s at other sites now.

NBC, MSNBC, CNN…should all have to register as PAC’s.

steve   October 7th, 2008 - 10:25 am

“Without explanation”? Here’s the explanation: NBC is fully and completely in the tank for Obama, and not even comedy can escape the liberal gravitational pull.

Truly sad when you have a Dem ticket like Obama/Biden — and even more stunning House leaders like Pelosi and Harry Reid — and you can’t laugh at them. Christ. I hate when ideology kills comedy.

Pandoraha   October 7th, 2008 - 10:26 am

No wonder America hates the biased media. That’s why we get our news elsewhere.
Saturday Night Live once was funny. Now it’s a political “tool” just like the libs who appear on the show. It was great when it made fun of both sides. Now it just makes you mad at the Dems.

Lawrence Talbot   October 7th, 2008 - 10:36 am

NBC, never watch it or SNL.

Gregor   October 7th, 2008 - 10:55 am

NBC, nothing more than a Pravda want-to-be. Go find a different country to spew your filtered “truth”.

Lee   October 7th, 2008 - 11:10 am

TRUTH – JUSTICE – AND THE NBC WAY!

all they forgot was to replace it with their ‘VOTE OBAMA” message!

Mary   October 7th, 2008 - 11:12 am

Maybe we can see it on FOX…they report everything…their fair and unbiased GO FOX!!!!!!!

Kenneth   October 7th, 2008 - 11:22 am

They pulled the video because their lord and master Obama called and ordered them to remove it, Plain and simple.

Algore   October 7th, 2008 - 11:23 am

Barney Frank is so cute!
My boy Lolipop…

http://www.fatboy.cc

davem   October 7th, 2008 - 11:27 am

another reason to hate NBC. time to sit back and watch nbc ratings sink even lower ….are you listening “Katie to cutie for anchor” !

jandj   October 7th, 2008 - 11:33 am

boy nbc is a obama and dem channel and to think tom bored ass old obama man is gonna moderate this is stupid

NBC censorship mania   October 7th, 2008 - 11:39 am

It seems that NBC will even censor itself to promote its own left wing agenda.

jandj   October 7th, 2008 - 11:43 am

nbc is so loww in ratings i wonder if acorn and obama is donating to them

spread the word   October 7th, 2008 - 11:46 am

Post this pages link to your blog.
Email this link to your friends.
Promote it on you tube.
Get the word out, NBC will censor itself to promote its left wing agenda.

??   October 7th, 2008 - 11:51 am

I think it’s pretty obvious the sketch makes fun of just about everybody. As to why it was pulled, who knows? Accidental? You guys sound kind of ridiculous and crazed.

matt from california   October 7th, 2008 - 12:07 pm

Its likely because the graphic depicted the Sandlers (the investment couple who sold their mortgage business to Waichovia) as people who should be shot, but the graphic should be revised to something truthful, but not as nasty.

Like we are to blame for the crisis, or something like that.

Phil Lee   October 7th, 2008 - 12:45 pm

NBC = Obama News Station

Sean R.   October 7th, 2008 - 1:54 pm

And you all know why NBC took down that skit, because they know that the truth hurts. It was the Liberals who did all this pressure to banks in order to give loans to non-qualified minorities (and you so-called good liberals, don’t you dare dismiss me as a “raaaacist”, because I happen to be African-American myself), and I almost forgot that they also lended loans to you guess it, “Illegal-Aliens”. We all know that NBC and other midstream media outlets are in the think-tank for Barrack Hussein Obama and they want this smooth-talking, con-artist to win the election!

Liberalism is a Mental Disorder!!!!!

Concerned Citizen   October 7th, 2008 - 2:01 pm

Download and enjoy it for yourself.

http://cid-cd5df1958f36cdbd.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/snlbailoutskit.wmv

Eileen   October 7th, 2008 - 3:28 pm

Well…their NBC leaders…the devious biased ultra-liberal, left wingers that run their network…must have been offended about the truth.

America…the Democrats are responsible for your losing your 401K money…they are responsible for not listening to economists, Senators (including John McCain) who tried to get legislation passed to prevent it, President Bush who repeatedly tried to get the Speaker of the failed Democratic house – Marie Antoinette – Pelosi and Barney Frank – head of the banking committee – to do something…they would not heed the warnings and blocked any/all legislation that would stop this train about ready to crash!

They waited until it crashed and went over the mountain…now we…which were in that train are hanging over the edge of this massive mountain of a mess trying to hang on.

Look up an article on Fannie Mae in the New York Times for September 1999! There is the truth in print and now in history!

NBC is biased…NBC should be boycotted. Don’t buy the products from their sponsors…don’t watch their programs…and don’t watch their news…they are in bed with the Flim Flam Obamaman and all his other anti-American friends who want to see America destroyed from within with the Flim Flam Obamaman at the helm!

I will be voting for the only “all American” candidate…President Elect McCain and Vice President Elect Palin. They have honor, integrity and are committed to putting our country first. They have friends who are loyal to the United States government unlike the Flim Flam Obamaman friends who want to see our government destroyed!

VOTER REVOLUTION HERE AND NOW!

FLIM FLAM: HE IS DECEITFUL, HE IS A FRAUD, DOUBLE-DEALING AND DOUBLE-TONGUED!

Jay   October 7th, 2008 - 4:38 pm

What happened to NBC? Good Lord, they are more left leaning than the glory days of CBS news.

peter c   October 7th, 2008 - 6:43 pm

Not one B.Hussein Obama supporter can say what he has ever accomplished.They only say his campaign.But it’s full of slogans,lies,anti-Christ blasphemies and more lies and lies.
This is the MOST EVIL movement in American history.Unfortunately, millions of Americans are like sheep going to slaughter.Obama and his Boss Ayers struck knowing that millions of American young people are Dumb and have no experience with God on any level.
We CAN NOT let this anti-Christ win.Vote McCain-Palin to save America from this man’s lies and radical wife and friends…and from the Dems who ruined our economy.

Poorboy   October 7th, 2008 - 7:30 pm

You can see the Video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYyGD–Skcg&eurl=http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/06/the-missing-snl-bailout-skit-and-the-soros-connection/
It is on You Tube under “Fannie and Freddie” YOu can Download it using Firefox Download Helper

To Poorboy   October 7th, 2008 - 7:44 pm

To Poorboy per YouTube:

This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by NBC Universal.

Mary   October 8th, 2008 - 11:39 am

This is typical of the Libs. when the truth about Democrats hits them in the face…they run and hide and pull any information that may damage their little OBAMY BOY…poor Demoncrats..if you had any brains you’d be Republicans, at least for this election.

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