Analysis: Trump's incomprehensible child care comments appear to have broken a dam (San Francisco Chronicle)

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By Sara Libby,
Politics Editor
Sep 6, 2024

In a “30 Rock” episode called “Governor Dunston,” the writing staff of the fictional sketch comedy show is confronted with a conundrum: The newly tapped Republican vice presidential candidate looks exactly like one of the show’s actors, and happens to also be prone to mortifying gaffes. They’ve been handed a comedic golden ticket, but there’s one problem.

The network’s boss insists they shouldn’t write any jokes making fun of the candidate. So the head writer, played by Tina Fey, finds a loophole. Instead of writing jokes, she simply enlists an actor to quote the candidate verbatim.

It is a not-so-subtle sendup of how Fey actually handled a real vice presidential candidate — then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — on “Saturday Night Live” in the run-up to the 2008 election.

Fey understood a valuable truth: In the end, nothing was funnier — or provided a clearer window into her fitness for the job — than Palin’s own words. It’s a lesson many mainstream journalists are beginning to endorse when it comes to covering former President Donald Trump.

Read more: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/donald-trump-childcare-comments-19747778.php

[keithbvadu2]

1. Is that the theory of 'Let him speak'?

[PSPS]

2. I remember The Shat did that too (Palin verbatim.) Many lulz ensued.

[LearnedHand]

3. Off topic, but does that old bitch look a little like Robert Smith, except from a creepier timeline?

[Blue Owl]

5. Far less cool than Robert Smith

[LearnedHand]

6. Clearly they don't even inhabit the universe

But just out the side of my eye I saw a brief resemblance to Smith’s persona. No offense to Robert Smith either!

[FakeNoose]

4. Just quote him at length, either in print on on video

Don't edit his words, don't soundbite him. Let Americans read and hear Chump's unedited words for themselves.
He's totally unfit for office.