Saturday Night Live circa March 2000

[Mr_King]

Last Saturday they reran a SNL episode from March 2000 and in the Weekend Update segment they talked/joked about in this very order:

-Governor Bush critizes President Clinton about the energy crisis and says if President he'd go to war with Alaska to get it's oil

-A joke about a NYC cop with the twin towers in the background

-bin Laden said to be near death in the mountains in Afghanistan

-A joke about an airplane crash




I just found that very odd.

[JuniperLea]

1. Creepy

Very, very creepy.

[laruemtt]

2. whoever could have imagined

things would have gone so completely to hell..........

[leveymg]

3. Karl Jung called it "Synchronicity"

His term for "meaningful coincidences". 9/11 was obviously right beneith the surface of the collective unconsciousness. Good example of Gestalt at work.

[Kingshakabobo]

4. I keep thinking...

about the episode SNL aired during (IIRC) the re-count. It was a look in to the possible future of both presidencies.

Gore = preempting TV shows to host lessons on national television.

Bush = Hiding under a desk because he broke the country. IIRC, there was flames in the background.

[Mr_King]

5. Yeah I remember that...

I taped that sketch. Damn I wish I knew where I put that tape.

[leveymg]

6. In 1982, I was writing a column for the local weekly newspaper in

Santa Cruz, CA. It was called "Santa Cruz in the Year 2002". In the first installment, I wrote that in 2000 a Middle East oil war started with a terrorist attack when a US-made plane killed thousands of Americans.

I set that incident on a landing beach near Tripoli, Lybia, so I won't claim it was Synchronicity or zeitgeist. I wrote that the oil war led under a Republican President to the privatization of law enforcement, and a highly automated total surveillance society.

The story said that in the early 21st Century live broadcast of law enforcement and missing persons broadcasts had become the main form of entertainment on television, along with interactive computer games and inter-computer communication. This was way before OJ and the commercial Internet, which wasn't established until 1992. I wrote that the extreme Right Wing would try to take over government on state and local levels. Coercive behavior modification using electroshock were used part of the effort to deal with "troubled youth" at risk for subversive, anti-social behaviors.

The series was in ten installments, and ended in 2012.

In retrospect, I hate to say, things have turned out as I said they would. Synchronicity or just extrapolation of long existing trends? You tell me.

[darkism]

17. I'd be interested in reading the whole thing. n/t

[leveymg]

18. I'd have to e-mail it you. My site's not up at this point.

[Uncle Joe]

7. That was an all time classic,

one of my favorites.

[Kingshakabobo]

8. The joke's on us.

:hi:

[Uncle Joe]

9. Hi Kingshakabobo,

:hi: kudos to your name.

[Kingshakabobo]

14. Thanks! I don't know what it means.

My mom used to ask me: Who do you think you are, Kingshakabobo?

I never asked her where it came from.



:hi:

[Uncle Joe]

15. My interpretation for whatever it's worth says,

you think highly of your self, confident is the good version, you like to dance or shake it up, and you are funny such as the class clown type or prankster. That's my .25 analysis.:)

[Kingshakabobo]

16. LOL. You got me. n/t

[ChickMagic]

12. I liked when Will Ferrell as Bush said

"The Great Lakes are on fire and even I know that ain't right!"

[Kingshakabobo]

20. HA HA. Now it's coming back to me. n/t

[Marie26]

10. It's a weird world when satire is more accurate than the news.

I remember the "Onion" wrote an article in 2000 about the future Bush Presidency that ended up being more prescient than anything the media was saying. The "Daily Show" will tell you the real news, while CNN is just entertainment. Colbert's parody of O'Reilly has more actual truth than the real thing. Letterman mentions Cheney's secret Energy meetings, while the news does not. It's just a weird world, & getting stranger all the time. I think without our comedians, we'd be lost.

[ThatsMyBarack]

11. I hate it when....

....NBC overlooks the real classics from the '70s and '80s, and just airs the same stuff from E! :mad:

[NewJeffCT]

13. look at the Onion from Jan of 2001

A week or so before Bush's official inaugeration...

"Our long national nightmare of peace & prosperity is finally over."

Bush goes on to say how he will pass tax cuts for the rich that will run up the deficit and get involved in at least 1 middle eastern war.

http://www.chak.org/pages/onion/bush_nightmare.html

>>>Bush swore to do "everything in power" to undo the damage wrought by Clinton's two terms in office, including selling off the national parks to developers, going into massive debt to develop expensive and impractical weapons technologies, and passing sweeping budget cuts that drive the mentally ill out of hospitals and onto the street.

During the 40-minute speech, Bush also promised to bring an end to the severe war drought that plagued the nation under Clinton, assuring citizens that the U.S. will engage in at least one Gulf War-level armed conflict in the next four years.

<<<

[leveymg]

19. The Onion. That's where they got their game plan!

Foolish me, I was blaming PNAC and the neocons.

[NewJeffCT]

23. Over a year ago that they published Bush's Iraq exit strategy

Bush's Iraq Exit Strategy - the troops exit through Iran:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30931

Bush Announces Iraq Exit Strategy: 'We'll Go Through Iran'

March 9, 2005 | Issue 41•10

WASHINGTON, DC—Almost a year after the cessation of major combat and a month after the nation's first free democratic elections, President Bush unveiled the coalition forces' strategy for exiting Iraq.

"I'm pleased to announce that the Department of Defense and I have formulated a plan for a speedy withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq," Bush announced Monday morning. "We'll just go through Iran."

[Marie26]

25. .... and Pakistan, and China,

till they finally arrive home safe in the USA.

[Marie26]

24. Oh, that's it!

Thanks for posting that article. I especially like the photo caption: "Soldiers at Ft. Bragg march lockstep in preparation for America's return to aggression." It's almost eeire, isn't it?

[LSK]

21. they joked about Bin Ladin in 2000 on SNL??????

:wtf:

[SPKrazy]

22. It's Not Like Anyone But Bush Had Never Heard Of Him!

I think everyone knew about bin Laden, except Bush!


Richard Clarke tried to warn him, to no avail.

He either didn't know, or didn't care, or worse, was just waiting to LIHOP

[Marie26]

26. They were too busy planning their war in Iraq;

so got caught off guard. Understandable.