Equal Opportunity Satire

That, and other news, in today's Political Panorama.

A "Saturday Night Live" skit over the weekend skewered Hillary Clinton in a big way ("My supporters are racist"), to the point that MSNBC's Chuck Todd asks, "anyone else sense that SNL --- which was pretty tough on Obama early on --- is trying TOO hard to win over Obama folks with that cheap-shot filled parody?"

"SNL" did what it often does: Take some piece of satire and then beat it to death. In other words, they haven't quite figured out the adage of less is more.

Pundit Parsed: The New York Times profiles Karl Rove in his new role as Fox News pundit --- dispensing advice not just to John McCain but to the Democrats. “Wouldn’t taking his advice be a little like getting health tips from a funeral home director?” said Obama’s press secretary, Bill Burton.

Pundit Pissed: Another pundit, Clinton backer Lanny Davis, calls his CNN primary night appearance the "worst experience I ever had on television."

Penn Politics: Obama supporter Kal Penn urges two uncommitted superdelegates, the president and vice president of College Democrats, to make up their minds.

He writes on HuffingtonPost, "As representatives of a college group, I respect your decision to have waited until your constituents made their voices heard in a clear fashion. But that time has come and gone. You are no doubt aware that this election season started with an increase in youth voter turnout of 135% above 2004 levels in Iowa. Senator Obama won the 'youth vote' by a 4-1 margin in that state, followed by 3-1 in New Hampshire, and 2-1 in Nevada."

Sounding Off: Surfacing in recent days on YouTube is this outtake from "Inside Edition" in the years when Bill O'Reilly hosted. It looks like something out of an "SCTV" skit, and was perhaps a sign of things to come.