NBC aired another Thursday night edition of Saturday Night Live last night which featured a skit on the third and final presidential debate between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain (which had a few funny moments but didn’t really deliver for me) and an extended version of Weekend Update. By far the funniest part of the whole Thursday night ep of SNL was Kristen Wiig‘s portrayal of that crazy lady at the McCain rally that was held last Friday. You may recall that a disheveled looking woman told McCain that she read that Obama was an “Arab” and he had to correct her to her face. While I found the exchange between this woman and McCain terribly upsetting, I’m glad that SNL was able to take the edge off her ignorance and find some humor in the whole situation:
Kristen Wiig is THE funniest castmember of Saturday Night Live right now (and, IMHO, has been for quite some time) so I’m glad that she was able to get in on some of the funny during this presidential campaign. She really did a great portrayal of this crazy lady in question (right down to her unkempt hair). After the jump, watch the Weekend Update video that features Kristen‘s performance of said crazy lady …
Click HERE to watch video of the actual woman herself at the McCain rally last week. As I said, I was very troubled by the things I saw coming out of those McCain rallies last week but I am glad that SNL was able to turn a sad situation into a funny one.
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i believe that john mccain was attempting to do the right thing but it came out wrong. i dont think john mccain is personally a racist (although i do think he is a sexist) but that it was obvious that this particular lady was equating arab with ‘bad in some way’.
so yes the correct answer should have been, ‘no he is not an arab but if he were it wouldnt matter.’
I DO believe however that john mccain is not being proactive enough behind the scenes in keeping these underlying feelings of fear and hate from helping his campaign with a certain type of voter. it would be amazing if he publically denounced these types of voters saying ‘if you have hate in your heart for people who are arab or black or non white then I am not looking for your vote on that premise, and i do not want your vote on that premise’