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...impossible to say whether SNL drove the drop in Palin's public approval or simply followed it--whether it was the chicken or the egg-throwing. After all, Real Palin really sat down with Real Couric and gave a Really Bad Interview. That still counts for something, right...
...glutted with satire--The Colbert Report, the Onion, JibJab--there is still a special power to an old-fashioned SNL impersonation. It's shamanistic; it's like owning a voodoo doll: capture your target's soul, and you can make her dance just by waving your arms...
...words of Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton--on that supposedly soft outlet SNL--"I invite the media to grow a pair." Of which there are five examples every weekday morning...
...POEHLER announces she's leaving SNL after the election...
Journalists may not like to admit it, but cowing the media works. Not always, not with everyone, but--with a polarized audience, commercial pressures and constant self-doubt about fairness--it can succeed. It was after Hillary Clinton and SNL accused the media of coddling Obama that coverage of him turned sharp. If you want to amplify your message, make it about the media because the press finds itself the most fascinating subject...