“Fox & Friends,” Dr. Ben Carson, and the GOP’s anti-immigrant rhetoric were all targets for Saturday Night Live’s hilarious cold open.
Saturday Night Live’s version of “Fox & Friends” mocked the falsehoods and extremism that have become hallmarks of the Fox News morning show. In its cold open, the Fox hosts ushered in Thanksgiving, with “Brian Kilmeade” urging viewers to not be PC.
“No need to be politically correct, you can just say it the old-fashioned way: Happy Thanksgiving Jesus!”Â
“Steve Doocey” and “Elizabeth Hasselbeck” showed viewers “a crazed mob of Syrian refugees flooding over our borders into this country.”
“I mean, look at it, it’s just chaos. There’s no screening, they’re just walking into that Walmart.”
Doocey had to correct himself, noting that was actually stock footage of a Walmart on Black Friday.
Hasselbeck, played by Vanessa Bayer, couldn’t control herself and declared, “Why are we supposed to give special treatment to black Friday?â€
In the perfect parody of conservatives who abhor the Black Lives Matter movement, she continued, “I’m just going come out and say it: all Fridays matter.”
Later, “Ben Carson” was a guest, discussing the Syrian refugee crisis – which real GOP presidential candidates have been using by spreading atrocious lies and rhetoric to solidify their base all week.
Carson’s solution to “weeding out the Islamists” from Christian refugees “will be simple,” he said. “You can’t come into this country until I see you eat bacon while singing ‘A Christmas Carol.'”
And he offered another way to separate the Muslim refugees from Christian ones – as if that were a good idea.
“All refugees will be given Mad Libs with the phrase ‘death to blank.’ Anyone who writes ‘America’ won’t be allowed inside America,†Carson offered.
Later, when asked why he seemed so calm, Carson replied, “Oh, I’m like a koala bear. On the outside I may seem nice, but on the inside, I’ve never held elected office.â€
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