October
7
The SNL Bailout Skit
An NBC spokesperson says a "Saturday Night Live" skit removed from its Website "didn't meet our standards," but is expected to return soon.
Per the Los Angeles Times, here's what appears to be objectionable:
"The skit, a parody of a C-SPAN news conference, ridiculed subprime borrowers, housing speculators and Herb and Marion Sandler, the real-life couple who built Golden West Financial into a subprime lending powerhouse and sold it to Wachovia before the subprime collapse. At one point in the skit, the Herb Sandler character says he made $24 billion off the subprime boom. Graphics then appear labeling the Sandlers as "People who should be shot.""
The skit raised hackles among conservative bloggers because the Sandlers are prominent liberal donors.
The edited skit:
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