I think that the media coverage of the SNL remark is skipping over a vital point, the skits in question were horrendously unfunny. Why is no one talking about how far Saturday Night Live has fallen?

Even forgetting the classic early years of the show and Chevy Chase's Ford actually altering the public perception of Ford, the show has fallen badly. Remember Dana Carvey's spot-on George Bush imitation? That sadly gave way to a so-so Clinton impersonation, which gave way to a poor Bush imitation (although I will say, in SNL's defense, that mocking Bush/Cheney has been excessively hard because no matter how ludicrous a concept you came up with for Saturday Night, The real Bush/Cheney would say/do something far more cartoonishly outlandish by Friday evening).

Now we get a passable Hillary imitation and a truly horrendous Obama imitation. We have someone who utterly fails to resemble Obama. He doesn't look like Obama nor are his cadence or mannerisms evocative of Obama's. We know he is Obama becasue the screen tells us so.

The fact that Obama is poampered by the media that trashes Hillary is a myth, one that Salon loves to help spread. Reading the AP headlines has been an exercise in rage suppression for Obama supporters. Articles actually refute the anti-Obama or pro-Hillary claims made in their own headlines. The media bought right into Hillary's fake plagiarism scandal. Hillary's press releases have been reported as news in the same way that White House press releases are.

The pro-Obama spin is a lie. The media wants a horserace to the convention and hell to break out there. Whom the media favors is based solely on which side currently needs the boost. Obama won Super Tuesday handily, but the media still refers to it as a tie. And, frankly, there hasn't been much positive news to report about the Hillary machine since then. The media has, however, refrained from pointing out just how sleazy her campaign has become. She has been getting the easy treatment as her campaign has sunk to new lows on a daily basis.

Using today's SNL as a pop-culture barometer is a terrible mistake. It is as empty as it is unfunny. The pro-Obama media (myth though it is) might have been a fit subject for political parody, but not by the current SNL crop.

Much ado about nothing here.

The comments, even in transcript form, clearly indicate that Hillary went out of her way to avoid completely dismissing the possibility that Obama is a Muslim. The Clintons are people who parse the word "is". She knew EXACTLY what she was doing.

You want to look at biased journalism, look no further than your own pages, Joan and Alex. Compare your coverage of Hillary refusing to absolutely rule out that Obama is a Muslim to your reaming of Mike Huckabee for not coming right out and declaring that Mormonism is not a cult. The two situations are almost identical, yet Salon's stance is reversed when it is Hillary using the same tactics that Huckabee did.

Hillary Clinton's campaign has been shameless and any true Democrat should be appalled by her Rovian tactics and Clintonian parsing.

Rush Limbaugh said it best when he told the dittoheads to go out and vote for Hillary in the primaries if they are eligible. He pointed out, accurately for a change, that she is doing a better job beating Obama up than McCain or the Republicans can or will. She is willing to destroy the chances of another Democrat taking the White House if it can't be her. Republicans won Texas for her (check out the exit polls and the number of "extremely conservative" people voting in the Democratic primary). The math doesn't allow her to win.

So now they want to change the rules on the fly and have primaries in states that refused to schedule theirs in accordance with the party rules. How long until Hillary offers to fully pay for primaries in MI and FL herself. Altering the rules and allowing a full primary at this point would be rewarding FL and MI for violating the party rules and giving them even more prominence in the election than they would have had either way before. The governor of FL is a republican and the gov of Michigan is a Hillary supporter. Letting them have a disproportionate say in the nomination process is absurd.

Rovian campaigning still works. It works on Democrats, as we saw this week. The late deciders (i.e. those who decided after the scare tactic ads of the weekend) went heavily for Clinton. Hillary's ego is tearing the party apart. Rush Limbaugh is the big winner from Tuesday. It is time for the reamining superdelegates to line up behind Obama and pressure Clinton to bow out with some grace.