Charlie Cook Discusses SNL

I get a lot of feedback on my SNL commentaries coming from people who actually get mad at me for trying to see a deeper meaning in the show's political satire. "Why can't you just laugh?" "It is meant to be funny and THAT'S IT!"

Well, of course that's not true. The people at The Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs, located at Louisiana State University's Manship School of Mass Communication posted this video of Politcal Expert Charlie Cook discussing the influence of Saturday Night Live on the 2008 campaign. What's especially interesting to me is the fact that Charlie Cook is himself a "talking head" and interacts with the national press corp on a daily basis. So if he says that SNL influenced their coverage of the campaign, I think you have to take it as a rock solid opinion.