In the weeks running up to the election, it wasn’t difficult to find journalists on social media pre-awarding each other Pulitzer prizes for their takedowns of Donald Trump. Which reporter would take the credit for publishing THE story that managed to bury Trump’s chances once and for all?
That was then, of course, and now reporters are spending their days trying to analyze where it all went wrong and just who was to blame. For as much as people like to tell themselves politics is all about the issues, there sure are a lot of people who still hold a grudge against Jimmy Fallon, who in September had Donald Trump on as a guest and even jokingly tousled his hair. Yep, that was it for Hillary.
https://twitter.com/mulhoIlandrive/status/796211032935034880
Holy cow, that tweet has nearly 7,000 likes.
Never forget he was on Jimmy Fallon.
Never forget he was on SNL, and y'all watched.
Blame yourself first.— Some Dude™️ (@Granddad_Sr) November 9, 2016
Yes, Saturday Night Live is culpable in this global meltdown, too, for allowing Trump to host that time. Slate reported Monday on the Twitter war between Alec Baldwin, who returned to the show to lampoon Trump, and TIME television critic Daniel D’Addario.
Alec Baldwin says “NBC execs” prevent Saturday Night Live from endorsing candidates: https://t.co/mu7J2sKKyu pic.twitter.com/EntsI4jAYu
— Slate (@Slate) November 14, 2016
D’Addario was among those who thought Saturday Night Live could have done more to present Trump as the demonic hell-spawn he surely is.
https://twitter.com/DPD_/status/797947267655208961
https://twitter.com/DPD_/status/797947400220528640
That caught the attention of Baldwin, who suggested that the executives running the show were the ones standing in the way of a full-blown Hillary Clinton endorsement — because, in hindsight, that certainly would have flipped the outcome.
Poor @DPD_
You write about television, yet you know so little about how it really works— HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) November 14, 2016
How naive you are, @DPD_
SNL tell people who to vote for?
Don't think that doesn't cross their mind.
But NBC execs kill that— HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) November 14, 2016
Guys … it’s a sketch comedy show that peaked somewhere around 30 years ago. No one cares.
https://twitter.com/MoonbatCatnip/status/798255563930931200
Yeah! I had NO IDEA who they supported. Need to know!
— Chris Cornwell (@jccornwell) November 14, 2016
https://twitter.com/dolfan352/status/798264322296147969
Yeah that was the problem, not enough celebrities gave their opinion on this election.
— Judson McCulloch (@JudsonMcCulloch) November 14, 2016
Yes, that’s the problem. We just don’t know what SNL’s entire team thinks about the relative merits of HRC and Trump. https://t.co/Xdkhmb7Tjr
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) November 14, 2016
@Slate because folks had NO IDEA whom the cast was pulling for, right?
— Scott W. Hunter (@SWHesq) November 14, 2016
https://twitter.com/Dad613/status/798261428880809984
SNL officially endorsing Clinton surely would have made the difference that all those newspaper endorsements for her did not.
— Eric Boehm (@EricBoehm87) November 14, 2016
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