{"id":16809,"date":"2017-01-23T00:24:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T05:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/?p=16809"},"modified":"2017-01-23T00:39:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T05:39:54","slug":"snls-sappy-love-song-calls-obama-best-friend-taught-right-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/2017\/01\/23\/snls-sappy-love-song-calls-obama-best-friend-taught-right-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL&#8217;s sappy love song calls Obama &#8220;my best friend who taught me right from wrong&#8221; (and they weren&#8217;t joking!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 396px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/83548005\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 150.000000% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/83548005?et=c0ZmC4RoQRFXRDIM76Szlg&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=JcSaWNRtyLcdkrSaiaknohfh4iPL_CbD7zcAX2FxiGQ=\" width=\"396\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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 \u201cskit\u201d that everyone excused because they were all in shock.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But their recent absolutely ridiculous tribute to Obama includes these amazing lyrics:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">How do you thank someone who has taken you from crayons to perfume?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It isn\u2019t easy but I\u2019ll try\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And as you leave, I know that I am losing my best friend. \u00a0A friend who taught me right from wrong, and weak from strong.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\u00a0What? \u00a0President Obama taught the crew at Saturday Night Live right from wrong\u2026 Well, that certainly explains this inexcusable tweet from one of their writers, Katie Rich, about Trump\u2019s ten year old son:<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16818\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/9\/2017\/01\/SNLtweet.png\" alt=\"SNLtweet\" width=\"600\" height=\"560\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nevertheless, this un-ironic \u201cskit\u201d even has liberals worried about their mental and emotional health.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Over at Slate, Matthew Dessem wrote, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2017\/01\/22\/_watch_saturday_night_live_s_valentine_to_president_obama.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Oh, Saturday Night Live, Oh Honey, No<\/a>\u201d which describes their\u00a0tribute as \u201ckind of embarrassing for everyone.\u201d He writes:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026 This is an elaborate homemade valentine to a popular boy who doesn\u2019t know your name. Let\u2019s just pretend, you and me, that we never saw it, ok? You can take it off the internet. It\u2019ll be like that Shazaam movie that doesn\u2019t exist. We\u2019ll all claim we never heard of such a thing, that it would never fly in the United States, where we have presidents, not kings.<\/p>\n<p>Presidents leave after eight years. Sometimes they do good things, sometimes they do bad things, but what\u2019s good or bad are the things. They\u2019re employees, they\u2019re not friends, and they\u2019re definitely not brooding high school teachers. Just because our new president is dedicated to enthusiastically doing bad things\u2014and George W. Bush was no picnic either\u2014is no excuse for building a cult of personality around our last president. I\u2019m gonna go now, but when I come back, could you do a fake lawyer ad or something? We don\u2019t have to talk about this again, I promise. I was never here. This never happened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Agreed. \u00a0But Obama was not ever just a \u201cfriend\u201d or \u201cbrooding high school teacher\u201d to these guys. \u00a0He was their savior, the one who promised that his election was the time\u00a0that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cgenerations 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, okay. \u00a0How did that work out for us?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, check out the song they sang to Obama and just try not to laugh or cry. \u00a0I\u2019m not sure there are any other options.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/NnzsPC\/widget\/select\/media\/rfQl6j8SQi7l\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" seamless=\"seamless\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s just pretend, you and me, that we never saw it, ok? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":16814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SNL&#039;s sappy love song calls Obama &quot;my best friend who taught me right from wrong&quot; 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