I had to watch it a couple of times because I wondered if I had been watching what everyone else was watching.
Please, no flames. I'm not an insensitive person but I found it hilarious and on point.
If you only watched the first couple of seconds, then you missed the scathing satire.
In my view and involving politics only to the extent that Jodi Arias was included and that the clip has upset so many here.
It seemed to me that there was a shocking lack of interest by the media to what happened there. Keeping politics out completely, thereby shortening my whole position, during and leading up to the hearings before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, there seemed to be absolutely no interest from the mainstream media, despite four Americans (Ambassador Stevens and the three Navy Seals) dying there. In fact, during those hearings, the journalists present were pretty much SLEEPING until graphic details about how the Ambassador was left in the burning consulate. Skipping over American response and massive displays of finger pointing, it seems that Benghazi really wasn't about politics, it was a massive display of criminal incompetence, maybe worse.
Has anyone heard any of the details from the rescue mission? Does anyone know off the tops of their heads why the rescue missions were told to stand down?
Ending the explanation of the position here because I can't hold politics at bay beyond this point BUT, the point IN MY VIEW of the skit on SNL was to BLISTER the appropriate people for how things were handled there and why there seemed to be a "cover up" and why on earth don't the American people know exactly what happened in the weeks before the attack (Ambassador Stevens begging for more security) and why there seemed to be a media "black out" of the event and the subsequent hearings.
Arias was brought in to make the point that if JODI ARIAS had been a part of the hearings, then most definitely there would have been media coverage and most definitely, everyone in America would know what they know about Benghazi, Libya. So in the skit, the speaker was trying to get Arias to testify to what she knew about it (he had an agenda but again, this brings in politics so ...) and there were multiple objections because she's Jodi Arias, what does she know about it.
An objection from a senator was that the sole purpose of Arias being there was to boost ratings. The speaker said, sure but then we'll get the media coverage that these men who were killed deserve.
When Arias was sworn in swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and she hesitated, everyone
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But the sharpest point made was when Arias was asked when she was informed about Benghazi and she responded, "This morning" and she then asked if it was still going on. When they explained it happened last September she said, "Who did it?" When she was told, "Ansar al Sharia" her response, "If you know who did it, why are you having these hearings?"
*crickets*
So I understand why people may be offended but SNL has always been known for biting satire. Some appreciate it and others don't. I really do not believe this was meant to be insulting, disrespectful or dismissive.
I thought it was the opposite: shining a light on what SHOULD have been the focus, not what actually was the focus and the irony was that it took a convicted murderess to make this point clear to a bunch of stuff politicians.
Again, no offense intended and I respect the opposing opinions of my fellow WSers.
