SNL Gets Highest Ratings In 14 Years...With A Conservative!

Sarah Palin's appearance on Saturday Night Live last Saturday was the highest rated SNL episode in 14 years. Okay, let's do some simple political math. The uber-liberal show that is SNL has tanked consistently for more than a decade for various reasons. The reason in my head is that the comedy itself has just gone downhill since the days of Chris Kattan, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler and the like. The material itself is just not interesting anymore but the show continues to maintain it's status as a long running series on Saturday nights because of the tradition more than anything.

Personally they lost my interest when they continually bashed conservative politicians and glorified the liberal ones. And then WHAMMO! They agree to put Sarah Palin in a couple sketches including the famous opening sketch and they get the best ratings in a long time.

The reason of course is simple. If you put such a mesmerizing conservative politician on a well known conservative hating show(and network) you will draw the conservative masses that have so fully dropped you from their TV watching agenda.

NBC won't learn of course. This isn't the first or the last time that NBC will score big with conservative viewers and still shun them every chance they get.

All in all I think SNL actually treated Palin with a little decency, at least while she was on set. And as Palin would say, she's a trooper and isn't going to allow a teeny tiny show like SNL get under her skin when she's got an America to save.