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Offensive to Leonard Cohen's legacy....

posted 7 years ago by moviefool09
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Leave it to SNL and its knee-jerk liberalism to take a tribute to Leonard Cohen and politicize it. Why have McKinnon sing it in her Hillary persona? To suggest Hillary at all there is ridiculous and even kind of offensive to the memory of Leonard Cohen. I doubt he'd want his masterpiece to be intended as a funereal lament of Trump's win.

If SNL was fair, they'd have started the show with a sobbing McKinnon as Hillary, and making fun of it all. Instead, they show their blatant favoritism of Hillary and have the gall to make it a 'memorial' for the country.

SNL and NBC, get off your high horse. Move on. Your liberal agenda is old and tiresome. No one cares who you wanted to win.

[–] straw_hat_boy_luffy 7 years ago

They could've had the funniest skits of the year. They're too partisan to see it.

[–] walsh90210 7 years ago

Totally agree with OP! Entertainment and media have exploited this song for a long time now, using it for any narrative they want. I'm sure the whole segment was meant to be well intended, but it came across as honoring Clinton's political death instead of Cohen's actual death!

[–] A_l_a_c_h_u_a_1 7 years ago

Spot on, OP...

[–] wylierichardson-966-922691 7 years ago

It sounds to me like you are not so much 'apolitical', as a right-leaning person. That is your right, of course - pun intended - but why do you expect SNL to follow suit?

[–] justanicknamed 7 years ago

Because SNL USED to take pride in the fact that they skewered BOTH sides equally. Be it Dana Carvey's "na-ga-da" of Bush and him speaking in only sound bites, or Phil Hartman standing there in his wife beater when the cops show up to investigate a spousal abuse report at his house - they find Hillary hiding in the closet and when she steps out the cops say, "How long are you going to stay here and put up with this? One of these days she's going to kill you."

Those days are gone.

[–] dexx-26415 7 years ago

It was propaganda garbage