Protest against Trump hosting 'Saturday Night Live' grows

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By FRAZIER MOORE

NEW YORK (AP) — Pressure continued to mount on NBC to cancel Donald Trump's guest-host appearance on this weekend's "Saturday Night Live" as a coalition of advocacy groups delivered petitions to the network Wednesday calling for him to be dropped from the show.

The petitions delivered to 30 Rockefeller Plaza, home of NBC and "Saturday Night Live," marked the latest attempts to dissuade the network from allowing the Republican presidential hopeful to host the show, with the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda earlier asking that NBC reconsider the decision.

"There's mounting evidence that Donald Trump's racist demagoguery is resulting in real-world violence and physical and verbal intimidation," Mushed Zaheed, deputy political director of Credo Action, one of the participating groups, said in a statement.

In advance of the show, NBC released promotional spots featuring Trump that included one in which he refers to a Republican opponent, Ben Carson, as "a complete and total loser."

FULL story at link.


Juan Escalante, campaign manager for the immigration reform group America's Voice, carries a box he claims contains over half a million petition signatures demanding that NBC revoke the invitation for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to be a guest-host on this weekend's "Saturday Night Live," into NBC Studios where the show is taped and broadcast, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015 in New York. Pressure from a coalition of advocacy groups continued to mount on NBC to cancel Trump's appearance. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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[Judi Lynn]

1. No reason this pathetic dreg should get free tv time, and celebrity treatment

from a network besides Fox.

Dirty, underhanded, sneaky pandering to a greedy, loathsome, dull piece of crap.

They shouldn't have to be nudged to know better. Everyone else certainly does.

[yeoman6987]

9. They really can't stop it now

It takes a week to get the show together and they have 2 days left before airing live.

[Mr.Bill]

12. It would be costly but doable.

They could just show a rerun instead. Even during their regular season they show many reruns. They might have to adjust the fees for advertising. I'm no expert but I'm assuming they get more for advertising on a new show than a rerun.

A good tactic may be to threaten to boycott advertisers if Trump hosts. Hit them (SNL) in the pocketbook by scaring off sponsors.

[JoeOtterbein]

2. And the preview they released

...was the most obvious and predictable stupid joke I have ever heard! By the way, in all honesty, really, really big STUPID!

[Bigredhunk]

3. Ugh

Even more publicity for him. It will get "huuuuge" ratings, and he'll brag about it. Can't wait until he finally drops out after not being #1 for a couple weeks. The braggadochio is so annoying.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

4. Would they put someone who was openly homophobic on?

Or openly racist against blacks?

No? Then why is it ok to put someone who hates Hispanics on? His schtick isn't cute anymore!

[zentrum]

7. Absolutely true. It's terrible.

And Lorne knows it.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. Well, yeah, NBC has done that many times. Open homophobia is still totally acceptable in 'comics'

so they shouldn't have Trump on and they should fire their other bigots as they come along but it is not correct to claim they have and do. Sorry. This is the same as, not worst than, how others get treated which is not well.

[PSPS]

15. When does Michael Richards host? Mel Gibson?

[appalachiablue]

16. Or anti-semitic? This was a huge offensive blunder by NBC/SNL. Cancel it, eat the loss and

try to save your reputations. Trump is a repulsive wind bag con and racist.

[TacoD]

27. Yes, Tracy Morgan just hosted a couple weeks ago. (nt)

[geek tragedy]

37. Yes and yes, since Trump is all of the above. He's a birther nt

[Travelman]

42. Done already

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/alec-baldwin

[ronnykmarshall]

5. Let the asshole host ...

and see what happens live. I'd love to see that shit bag boo'd of the stage.

[zentrum]

6. Lorne is doing

…..something disgusting and harmful. This is not satire. It's Lorne pandering to the Lords of Ratings.

[TexasBushwhacker]

41. Yup, it's sweeps month

It's all about ratings.

[starroute]

8. So the GOP is boycotting NBC when it comes to debates ...

But it's perfectly fine for Trump to host SNL?

Which side of this dispute is groveling before the other more shamelessly?

[Midnight Writer]

21. My exact reaction. A one way circle jerk.

[davidpdx]

24. Good point

It is hypocrisy at its finest on their part.

[bvf]

11. Fuck it. Let him host.

Hopefully the market will do the rest.

"Laugh In" used Nixon (albeit briefly).

Letterman similarly used Limbaugh. Remember "Big Ass Ham"?

Neither came off it for the better.

[rpannier]

17. Donahue had Limbaugh on his show in the 80's

There are many shows that have had repulsive people on their show
You hope nothing good (for the show or the network) would come of it
But, we've reached the point of so many channels that networks will do almost anything to get ratings
It's why the news sucks so badly now

[Lint Head]

13. It's live. I hope protests breakout in the audience.

Fuck that yellow headed idiot.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

29. They should scarf up all the tickets

Stop the live show in it's tracks every 5 minutes or so, as another protester stands up yelling: fuck TRUMP!

[Lint Head]

39. Yes!

[Sunlei]

14. He's the only Republican not scared of NBC

[LW1977]

18. Hopefully he pulls a Frank Zappa...

....and the cast doesn't want to be near him during the the Goodbyes..

[Cayenne]

40. What happened there?

[Hulk]

19. You aren't going to stop this sick bastard from appearing on SNL

Money talks. This loud mouth, digusting low-life SOB brings in ratings. That's why anyone is even paying attention to the repuKKKe clown circus that is going on. That's why CNN and MSNBC invite the jack ass to interviews. It brings in ratings.

Lorne Michaels is just as much a pig as any other program on our capitalistic line-up of near death programs. You can bet they will get good ratings. You can bet your last dime that the video clips will be playing for years to come. Thanks SNL, for selling your soul to the devil. I have ZERO respect for your twisted humor any longer. My little viewership isn't going to make a dent in their ratings, but I'm done with SNL.

Disgusting sell out!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

44. Right on. Perfectly stated. nt

[smirkymonkey]

45. Yep. They are not going to give up this ratings buster.

Loved or hated, he will draw viewers,

[former9thward]

20. SNL had Hillary Clinton on when they opened up the season.

And their sketch with her was a total love fest. So why not have the R front runner?

[busterbrown]

22. Man, I do not know but..

Trump is an asshole, but the rest of the Repubs in the primary are assholes times 10..
Kind of like the idea of Trump dumping on the rest of the nominees in a way which is almost impossible to
analyze...I mean he got rid of Walker..Now if he could get Carson, Rubio and Bush to withdraw...well I think the Dems would have a cakewalk a year from now..

[Kelvin Mace]

30. She did a cameo.

she didn't host the show.

Also, I would not describe the sketch as a "love fest" since there were some barbed references to her "evolving" policies.

[former9thward]

35. "barbed references"

LOL. Most politicians get at least some satire on that show. Not that sketch.

[wordpix]

47. I agree, the sketch was not a love fest & SNL has always

brought in stupids like Sarah Palin to be on the show, host or no host.

[Kingofalldems]

32. Funny. Hillary did not host the show.

Did you forget?

[former9thward]

34. It was a sketch which was totally pro Hillary.

Her staff probably wrote it. Did you forget that?

[LanternWaste]

36. Creative interpretation that portraying her as a bartender is a "love-fest."

Creative interpretation that her portrayal of a bartender is a "love-fest." And the additional guess-work on who wrote it improves the fiction too. As for guess-work...

I'm guessing you're not even aware of the inherent bias in your premise, and will rationalize it as something completely differently to better maintain the pretense of rational thought... looking forward to that bit of bemusing creativity, too!

[Kingofalldems]

38. I saw the sketch and no I did not forget.

Note the word 'sketch'. Very different from host.

[foo_bar]

23. don't overlook his comedic brilliance

I mean if Stephen Colbert ran on the same words we'd laugh because he's "in character" but with Trump it's hard to know where the schtick begins a la Andy Kaufman / Tony Clifton, which generates comedic tension: is Trump really this out-of-touch Archie Bunker type or is he playing one on TV for laughs? Or is it the Ann Coulter thing where it's better to be reviled than unnoticed? (I assume other comedians are in on the Coulter "joke" or they wouldn't keep inviting her back on Bill Maher et al.) I mean it's hard to judge ever since politics and reality TV merged, the choices are faux-reality stars like the mock-Duck rednecks or Klondike Kardashians versus far less accomplished comedians, so it's hard to say "no! this crosses the line!" when we get our news from comedians and our comedy from bad actors playing civil servants.

[IcyPeas]

25. I don't know.... isn't this giving him even more

publicity? Calling attention to it like this with petitions and protests?

Best to just not watch it.

I'm watching it anyway.

[PoliticAverse]

26. Thus ensuring his appearance gets the maximum publicity possible. n/t

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

33. Yes this is great publicity. And there's some controversy.

That's a win-win in TrumpLand.

He gets extra air time as "news reporters" interview him about the protests.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

28. A complete and total loser?

Is the Donald still in middle school? He has the brain of a 3rd grader.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

31. When the show comes on, look for this button on your remote:

Now push it.

No more problems.

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[Joe Nation]

43. SNL is what Trump Should be doing...

Not running for president. I think this protest is backwards.

[dembotoz]

46. if a dem candidate goes on the show so should a gop candidate be able to

shit they let sarah palin on


protest if you want
the threat of disruption only will increase the ratings

disruptions only cement him with his base
he is a tv reality star....

[goldent]

48. I'll be watching

I haven't watched SNL a lot, but I'll be watching this one (I guess that is the idea). He knows how to play to the audience, and so during the show he is bound to be all funny and charming.