It is a rare cold day that I post something from Pat Buchanan, particularly due to his odd defense of Charles Lindburgh isolationists just prior to the Second World War, his seeming apologist attitudes towards Nazi Germany (albeit some taken out of context by his enemies), and his rhetoric — that would make your typical far Left conspiracy nut blush — accusing the U.S. of being beholden to Israel’s interests.
Having said that, I must agree with his question, “What if Saturday Night Live mocked Michelle Obama?”
The media cannot get enough of the “Saturday Night Live” impersonations of Palin as a bubblehead. News shows pick up the Tina Fey clips and run them and run them to the merriment of all.
Can one imagine “Saturday Night Live” doing weekly send-ups of Michelle Obama and her “I’ve never been proud” of my country, this “just downright mean” America, using a black comedienne to mimic and mock her voice and accent?
“Saturday Night Live” would be facing hate-crime charges.
How do we know? When the New Yorker ran a cartoon of Michelle in an Angela-Davis afro with an AK-47 slung over her shoulder, New Yorker editors had to go on national television to swear they were not mocking Michelle, but the conservatives who have so caricatured Michelle and the Messiah.
Is there a media double standard? You betcha.