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Rockwell Matters

Monday, March 17, 2008
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  • Amy Poehler, Hillary Clinton

    The Super Delegates of SNL

    Saturday Night Live has always reveled in the theater of presidential campaigns, yet for this election season, have the boundaries between spoof and propaganda begun to blur? Culture critic John Rockwell looks into the history and power of this often unhealthy but ever fruitful marriage of politics and popular culture.

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  • [1] Donna Broussard from Texas April 23, 2008 - 11:55AM

    I think it was typical Sat.nite live.

    Their coddling Obama skit,like the press has been coddling him like the poverotsi ****** they are...You would think that somebody is in bed with somebody? Just clingin' to my guns down here in Tx.(lol)

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