{"id":32557,"date":"2018-10-01T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32557"},"modified":"2018-10-01T00:00:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T00:00:13","slug":"no-longer-funny-how-does-potus-know-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32557","title":{"rendered":"‘No longer funny’? How does POTUS know that?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. “TV Comedy Critic in Chief” Trump declares that “Saturday Night Live” is “no longer funny,” it has “no talent” and “no charm.”<\/p>\n

How in the world does the president make that judgment? How is he able to discern whether the award-winning comedy sketch TV show is no longer funny?<\/p>\n

Oh, he was watching it — one must presume — while the show poked fun at Brett Kavanaugh’s appearance before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n

Oh, but the president said he didn’t<\/em> watch it, but \u2026 he did offer some praise for Kanye “Kim Kardashian’s Husband” West for wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat during his appearance on the show.\u00a0So, which is it, Mr. President? Did you watch or didn’t you? Oh wait! He said in his tweet that “word is that”<\/em> West wore the hat. Nice dodge, Mr. President.<\/p>\n

Not that it matters. The leader of the free world surely ought to have plenty to do to instead of wasting his time critiquing a show that he says is “no longer funny.”<\/p>\n

This is the kind of response that presidents dating back to Gerald Ford have been getting from “Saturday Night Live.” None of them liked the parody and the occasional ridicule dished out by the writers and the comics.<\/p>\n

But, hey. It goes with the territory. At least that used<\/em> to be the case.<\/p>\n\n

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