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Television critic Tom Shales gave a positive grade to "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams's hosting job on "Saturday Night Live" over the weekend, but bemoaned the show's failure to make fun of President Bush:
Cast member Amy Poehler, laughing
hysterically, played Hillary Clinton, who said Democrats
should support the candidate "no matter who she may be." Horatio
Sanz, who is no longer in the regular cast, returned to play a
look-alike Bill Richardson. Darrell Hammond
did his usual superb impression of Bill Clinton, and so on. It did
seem odd that throughout the evening, and despite "SNL's"
reputation for political satire, there were few if any mentions
of George W. Bushor any other
Republicans, and there were virtually no jokes at the expense of
the president, whose popularity rating stands at a miserable 33
percent.
I guess it's not right in the eyes of the liberal media to let one single show pass without "SNL" satirizing the lame-duck president. There's only so much time for them to get their licks in!
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