SNL takes its shot at White House impotence

Published December 4, 2011 5:00am ET



Saturday Night Live skewered President Obama’s attempts to pass the buck last night with a fake presidential address by SNL’s Obama impersonator, Fred Armisen.

Armisen complained from a fake Oval Office that the tripartite power structure Americans learned in grade school is incorrect. Rather, there is a hierarchy of power in which Congress takes the top spot, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist is in second and Oprah Winfrey is in third. (“There are still 150 million women out there who, because of Oprah, have an unread Toni Morrison book on their shelves.”)

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