NEW CIVILITY WATCH: ‘Tolerance’! SNL alum’s CNN New Year’s resolution is to ‘make sure the Republican party dies’
As Kyle Smith tweets, “If it dies I’m guessing Jane Curtin is not going to be its killer.”
She certainly wasn’t during the heyday of the original Saturday Night Live four decades ago, where five years of the original (and most watchable) cast’s transgressive humor preceded the election of Ronald Reagan. And more recently, eight years of the now-venerable franchise’s Obama worshipping non-entities preceded the election of Trump.
But regarding the network where Curtin appeared last night, I’m so old, I can remember when CNN’s John King got the vapors because someone uttered the word “crosshairs” regarding Rahm Emanuel’s political future shortly after Gabrielle Giffords was shot in January of 2011. But a CNN guest figuratively wishing that half the network’s potential audience dies? Crickets.
Related: Anderson Cooper Gets Drunk On Tequila On CNN’s New Year’s Eve Broadcast.
As with his viewers, even Cooper needs to be drunk to tolerate his palaver.