This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features Kate McKinnon, the “Saturday Night Live” comic who plays Hillary Rodham Clinton, cheering the Democrat on.
In a Hollywood Reporter interview, she called Clinton “so resplendent,” a far cry from how Tina Fey approached her SNL role of Sarah Palin.
In the interview, reporter Michael O’Connell asked, “You have a huge platform in the next year and a half being the Hillary Clinton on SNL. How are you going to approach that? Do you feel pressure?”
She answered, “I do feel pressure. I’m rooting for her, obviously. It’s a combination of the writers’ take on her but also this contrast between a woman so driven and hardened by her experiences — She needs this! The country needs this! — and this sweetie granny from the Midwest. The juxtaposition.”
She added: “I’d be so nervous to meet her. I find her so resplendent!”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our pick: “Not what Tina Fey thought of Sarah Palin as she turned the conservative Republican into an object of national ridicule. It’s another example of the advantages given to liberal Democrats. Even those making fun of you won’t go too far since they really are, literally, ‘rooting’ for you to win.”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
