Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” skit featured the always animated Democratic strategist James Carville pontificating about the recent gun control debate. Carville (played by Bill Hader) claimed Republicans’ recent gun control victory in the Senate is a result of a “meeting” in which the GOP decided to declare that they had won the 2012 Presidential election.
“So James, how do you think it is that Republicans managed to defeat the bill … despite the overwhelming public support?” ‘Weekend Update’ host Seth Meyers asked Carville. Prior to directly asking Carville about the bill, Meyers mentioned the failure of Democrats to pass a bill expanding background checks, throwing in the aside “despite the fact that 90 percent of Americans support the measure.”
“I think, after the last election, all Republicans had a meeting that went like this: ‘We lost. What are we gonna do? Why don’t we just pretend we won?’ And it’s working!” Carville exclaimed. “They used to walk all over Barack’s self and now they walk right through him like he’s a ghost.”
And the skit’s timing this weekend was right on target as the annual NRA meeting was also this weekend. As can be expected, the National Rifle Association celebrated the recent gun battle victory in the Senate, with NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre calling the bill a “flawed failure” that “lost on its merits and got the defeat it deserved.”
Watch the SNL skit below to see the ragin’ cajun’s antics. The segment starts around the 30-minute mark.
