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Obama on SNL Weekend Before Election?
Mollygood —
... I heard from one of Sarah’s aides this morning that at the obligatory SNL after party, a slightly affected Seth Meyers blurted out something to the effect of “…yeah, but just wait til you see what we have cooked up for Obama’s appearance right before the election.” You may remember that Obama “canceled” his appearance on the show on opening night because of Hurricane Ike. But sources now say that it could have been a ploy cooked up by Lorne Michaels and David Axelrod to save Obama for the November 1st show… right before the election. ...
Barack Obama Fetches $4,600 For 90 Minutes Of Ecstasy With Lorne Michaels [Defamer Decides 2008]
Gawker: Defamer —
... And now, for what will presumably be its last trick before tumbling into a three-and-a-half-year election hangover, Saturday Night Live is rumored to have booked Barack Obama for an appearance on its Nov. 1 episode. The cameo replaces the candidate's original guest spot on last month's season premiere, which Obama was said to have backed out of in anticipation of Hurricane Ike. But one blogger's recently posed conspiracy theory is way more fun, suggesting that Lorne Michaels and Obama campaign overlord David Axelrod instead colluded at the time for a November ...
Obama to Appear on SNL Just Before the Election?
Evil Beet Gossip —
Word on the street is that Barack Obama is secretly scheduled to do SNL on November 1, the last weekend before the election.
Lorne Michaels recently contributed $4600 to Barack Obama’s campaign, and NBC CEO Jeffrey Immelt contributed $10,000 to Joe Biden’s Delaware Democratic State Committee.
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MSNBC, Others Fall Hard for Pundit Prank
Pressed —
... Not mentioned in the Times story are a pair of Eisenstadt-planted rumors that got wide blogosphere play in the final days of the campaign: the claim that Barack Obama would appear on Saturday Night Live shortly before the election, and a ...
