SNL’s sappy love song calls Obama “my best friend who taught me right from wrong” (and they weren’t joking!)

SNL’s sappy love song calls Obama “my best friend who taught me right from wrong” (and they weren’t joking!) January 23, 2017

Saturday Night Live has skewered politicians for decades, but something about the recent election of Donald Trump has turned them into sincere, boring, earnest sycophants. First, there was the head-scratching Hillary-Clinton-Singing-Hallelujah “skit” that everyone excused because they were all in shock.

But their recent absolutely ridiculous tribute to Obama includes these amazing lyrics:

How do you thank someone who has taken you from crayons to perfume?

It isn’t easy but I’ll try…

And as you leave, I know that I am losing my best friend.  A friend who taught me right from wrong, and weak from strong.

 What?  President Obama taught the crew at Saturday Night Live right from wrong… Well, that certainly explains this inexcusable tweet from one of their writers, Katie Rich, about Trump’s ten year old son:
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Nevertheless, this un-ironic “skit” even has liberals worried about their mental and emotional health.
Over at Slate, Matthew Dessem wrote, “Oh, Saturday Night Live, Oh Honey, No” which describes their tribute as “kind of embarrassing for everyone.” He writes:

… This is an elaborate homemade valentine to a popular boy who doesn’t know your name. Let’s just pretend, you and me, that we never saw it, ok? You can take it off the internet. It’ll be like that Shazaam movie that doesn’t exist. We’ll all claim we never heard of such a thing, that it would never fly in the United States, where we have presidents, not kings.

Presidents leave after eight years. Sometimes they do good things, sometimes they do bad things, but what’s good or bad are the things. They’re employees, they’re not friends, and they’re definitely not brooding high school teachers. Just because our new president is dedicated to enthusiastically doing bad things—and George W. Bush was no picnic either—is no excuse for building a cult of personality around our last president. I’m gonna go now, but when I come back, could you do a fake lawyer ad or something? We don’t have to talk about this again, I promise. I was never here. This never happened.

Agreed.  But Obama was not ever just a “friend” or “brooding high school teacher” to these guys.  He was their savior, the one who promised that his election was the time that:

“generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.”

Um, okay.  How did that work out for us?

Anyway, check out the song they sang to Obama and just try not to laugh or cry.  I’m not sure there are any other options.


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