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Should Barack Obama’s Appearance On SNL Be Treated As A Campaign Commercial?

Only to the extent that Fred Thompson on Law and Order, Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan the Barbarian, or Ronald Reagan on Death Valley Dayswas!

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You have a valid point. Equal time and all of that stuff SNL might actually be funny again for the first time in about 20 years when Ron Paul gets to have his appearance.

Spart beat me to it! Damnit! Equal time is definately called for. Maybe the Hobbit Kucinich will bring along that hottie elf he is married to.

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Really, does anyone watch SNL?  They have passed their prime long ago when they had people like Chevy Chase and John Belushi.

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They have passed their prime long ago when they had people like Chevy Chase and John Belushi.

DocDave, you show your age.  While the Not Ready for Primetime Players were brilliant, Saturday Night Live has had subsequent brilliant cast members including Mike Meyers, Will Farrell, Adam Sandler and Joe Piscapo.

NBC couldn’t care less, so long as it is boosting the Dems.

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First, in the case of a movie or television show that the candidate appeared in as an actor and only as an actor prior to their candidacy, even if those movies or shows air after such a declaration, no those should not be a matter of equal time or amount to campaign contributions. When Obama appears on SNL after declaring his candidacy, then SNL should be required to provide equal time to candidates of the other party along with opposing candidates within the same party and/or treat the appearance as a campaign contriution.

I will shock many here, but I think appearances in churches, any church, by a political candidate, whether they talk about political issues or not; it violates the law if these churches do not offer and provide equal time to candidates of the opposite party, opposing candidates of the same party and/or treat the appearance as a campaign contribution and/or remove their tax free status.

How about them apples sports fans?

No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Nicely put, acting a part in a show or movie prior to canidacy is one thing, playing yourself in a rather cheesy, and argueably politically motivated show, as a canidate is another.

I disagree with most of the rules myself, but they seem to only apply to republicans, while the dems skate around and through the laws as if they didn’t exist.