SNL and Real Time hits politics on its head....

How would we get through election cycles without the media mocking our politicians and SHOCKINGLY talking straight to Americans? On Friday night, Real Time with Bill Maher has Alec Baldwin, Christiane Amanpour and Gary Shandling sat down with Maher to discuss the bailout, the VP debate and the course of politics at this point. And in their own jocking manner, they ripped on the state of gov't in the United States. And oddly enough, Baldwin had the most concise and true point of view - everyone is to blame for this mess. Below is a clip of him and the other panel members debating the role of Republicans and Democrats in the economic downturn and our "rescue bailout" plan.



On top of that, SNL this week's only high points were the political skewerings delivered by the cast. And it seems that it could be the only strong attribute of the show continuing to pull in an audience nowadays. This weekend's was actually full of political satire. The below sketch on the bailout plan is a perfect example of what Baldwin was discussing in the above Real Time clip. While it goes on about two minutes too long, it just illustrates the nonsense that is partisanship within government right now and the lack of owning the mistakes from EITHER side. Enjoy!

New Rules - Thank you Bill Maher

After getting all testy on a daily basis on Jezebel's political feature Crappy Hour, I realized that I think Obama was chatting about me when he posed the "bitter" argument last week. I am bitter and I think most of us in America that make under $200,000 a year and can not understand why we are fighting a war that will not benefit us and wonder why we are allowing China to poison us with their lead based products and why we don't care if people have health care can understand what he meant. And apparently, Bill Maher and his writers do too!...On last night's Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher discussed the bitter remark in his New Rules segment and I could not have agreed more. Its time that people are bitter that Americans voted two times in a row for a man they would rather drink beer with, but they knew he as INCOMPETENT!

Here is the clip of the New Rules, where Maher expresses why most of us in America should be bitter. He delivered it so ridiculously well I actually applauded in my own living room.