Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis, Fred Armisen, Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is racking up ratings with its political
satire this season, so why did NBC yank a popular sketch that
skewered Democrats and subprime lenders off the Internet?  The
sketch, which lampooned a C-SPAN news conference about the
government's economic bailout package, labeled a couple as
"People who should be shot" for making $24 billion off the
subprime bonanza. Funny, right? Not when the characters, Herb
and Marion Sandler, are a real-life couple who built Golden West
Financial into a super lender and sold out to Wachovia.  A
firestorm on the blogosphere had Conservative columnists
praising the sketch after SNL's repeated Sarah Palin bashing,
and immediately suggesting the Sandlers and a few other
"connected" Democrats pulled a few strings to get it removed
after the show aired on Saturday.  Shortly after NBC pulled the
sketch from the Internet, it was reposted without references to
the couple's "corrupt activities" and their be