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< BACK TO Fresh Intelligence If You Actually Care Who Plays Barack Obama On SNL You Should Be Forcibly Sterilized
One of the occupational hazards of sifting through a massive number of news sources to get a sense of what's going on in popular culture is the occasional sputtering, inchoate rage that rises up within you when you see the same idiot story in multiple locations being treated as if it is actually A) news, B) relevant to any single person's life, or C) worth the time anyone took to write it, read it, or even give the matter a second's worth of thought. So I just want to share something with you: It doesn't make a damn bit of difference whoever the hell winds up playing Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live, and anyone who tells you otherwise is either complicit in a poorly designed publicity campaign for a show that hasn't had any effect on popular discourse since Chris Farley was still snorting bacon double-cheeseburgers through his ass for the amusement of Chicago-area pub dwellers OR is lying to you because they think you lack the critical faculties to understand that this is a meaningless piece of sub-cultural jetsam that doesn't merit the inches of both real and virtual ink it has already received. Seriously. ENOUGH.
Sorry. There's something in the air today, right? 
Is Obama the American Mandela? Obama brings a message of hope and change to a country at the crossroads. It is choice between the past and the future. But is Obama the American Mandela who could inspire Americans to a better future at home? And a future where America takes it rightful place at the global table? Is he the one? The question of whether Obama is the American Mandela is discussed in my blog Angry African on the Loose at http://angryafrican.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/is-obama-the-american-mandela/ Posted by: AngryAfrican on February 21, 2008 5:35 PM Sure, but who do you think should play him on SNL? Posted by: Balk on February 21, 2008 6:02 PM
Posted by: escoBam on February 21, 2008 6:08 PM Dear AngryAfrican, Posted by: lbh on February 21, 2008 6:23 PM Advertisement I bet Tracey Morgan would do a great Barack Obama. Or Keenan Thompson--he was great as Colin Powell! Ooh, or there's Wayne Brady! Is Tim Meadows still performing? Someone call his agent! OMG! Wait, I've got it!!!! COLIN POWELL SHOULD PLAY BARACK OBAMA!!!!!!11!!!!111 Not because he's black, I just think they look similar. Posted by: Fate Popcorn on February 21, 2008 6:38 PM Connor Oberst. Totally. Posted by: gray on February 21, 2008 7:14 PM If carin' who plays Obama on MAD TV is wrong...I don't wanna be right. Posted by: Bill Gahammer on February 21, 2008 7:40 PM Anyone for Tina Fey? Posted by: Bellboy on February 21, 2008 7:51 PM I honestly can't imagine who might have inspired this rant of yours. Posted by: Moon Over My Hammy on February 21, 2008 10:35 PM That last comment was all supposed to be in hypertext but apparently your comments tool doesn't allow it. Sigh. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/20/four-days-from-relaunch-_n_87528.html Get with the times, Radar! Posted by: Moon Over My Hammy on February 21, 2008 10:36 PM Or what about Alec Baldwin? Posted by: yoko on February 22, 2008 12:51 PM Tracy Morgan: too ghetto Posted by: lbh on February 22, 2008 2:05 PM Oops! I meant "Colin Powell". Posted by: lbh on February 22, 2008 2:07 PM |
    
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