SNL Erases Dem Fatcats From Bailout Skit

If you happened to watch the re-run of Saturday Night last night, you may have noticed that NBC has discretely airbrushed the Democrat fatcats Herb and Marion Sandler out of their now famous “bailout” sketch.

Here is the new airbrushed version, via Saturday Night Live’s own website:

The gap begins at about 1:05 in. (If your browser refuses to play the clip, watch it via the SNL link above.)

Here is the dialogue that has now been removed:

C-SPAN BAILOUT

NANCY PELOSI: This is Herbert and Marianne Sandler, tell us your story.
HERB SANDLER: My wife and I had a company which aggressively marketed sub-prime mortgages and then bundled them as “securities” to sell to banks, such as Wachovia. Today, our portfolio is worth almost nothing. Though at one point, it was worth close to $19 billion.
NANCY PELOSI: Oh my God, I’m so sorry. Were you able to sell it for anything?
HERB SANDLER: Yes. For $24 billion.
NANCY PELOSI: I see. So, in that sense, you’re not actually “victims,” as such.
HERB SANDLER: No. That would be Wachovia bank.
NANCY PELOSI: Uh-huh.
MARION SANDLER: Actually, we have done quite well. We’re very happy.
(GRAPHIC: HERBERT AND MARIANNE SANDLER: PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE SHOT)
HERB SANDLER: We were sort of wondering why you asked us to come today.
MARION SANDLER: Anyway, it’s delightful to see you, Nancy.
NANCY PELOSI: And thank you, Congressman Frank, as well as many Republicans, for helping block Congressional oversight of our corrupt activities.
BARNEY FRANK: Not at all. There’s an important social contract here. When deceitful housing lenders play by the rules, and bribe members of Congress with campaign contributions, they have a right to expect that we will protect them from losing money. Now let me say something else here. Many of you are probably wondering, where did that $700 billion missing from our economy go? To help answer that, let me introduce our good friend, billionaire hedge fund manager, George Soros…

At the point where the Sandlers had been introduced there is now a flash, as if from a camera, and the sketch jump cuts ahead to Barney Frank’s wrap up. It is a very obvious edit.

According to the New York Times, the Sandlers threatened to sue NBC for using them in a sketch — so NBC immediately capitulated and cut them out of the sketch.

Can you imagine NBC cutting Sarah Palin, Mel Gibson or Rush Limbaugh from a comedy sketch because they complained about it? (Indeed, none of them would complain, much less threaten to sue.)

That they had complained (let alone sued) would be all over the news.

But we are talking about Democrat uber fatcats here.

As we have noted previously, the Sandlers (along with George Soros) used their ill gotten gains from their Wachovia shenanigans to launch the now uncountable army of DNC 527 front groups.

So we will hear nary a peep from our watchdog media.