Author: Phil Helsel / Source: NBC News
More fake news about the midterm blues. “Saturday Night Live” took to the airwaves to poke fun at conspiracy theories about voter fraud following the midterms, using a parody of conservative commentator Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show.
The sketch featured Kate McKinnon as Ingraham teasing an upcoming segment about how “celebrities in California are whining about some tiny wildfires, while our heroic president is under constant attack — from rain.
”Cecily Strong played firebrand Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro warning about what McKinnon’s Ingraham called “rampant voter fraud that allowed Democrats to literally steal the election.”
“Some have claimed that suburban women revolted against the Republican Party — but doesn’t it feel more true that all Hispanics voted twice?” McKinnon’s Ingraham said. “You can’t dismiss that idea simply because it isn’t true and sounds insane.”
More “feel facts” designed to pander to the stereotypical Fox News crowd followed, like “Santa is Jesus’s dad,” “blackface is a compliment” and “If the Earth is so warm, then why are my feet cold?”
Strong’s Pirro offered up examples that included one person being able…
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