Someone posted this SNL skit this morning.
nbc.com
I watched it and my first reaction, which I posted, was:
"Personally, I did not find the SNL skit funny. It is plain that Goldman Sachs doesn't care one bit and is out of reach. The audience mirth at the GS skewering is misguided, since the joke is on the audience. Looked like a bunch of people pissing in the wind and laughing when their pants got wet.
Really."
Then I went about the day, finishing up the bathroom tile, but could not get the skit out of my head. There was something about the actors I couldn't shake. The image of a stand up comic in a lounge on the Titanic kept intruding. As the ship's officers are boarding the lifeboats, the comic (being quick on his feet and topical) tosses out some funnies about how bad it looks for them to be abandoning ship, don't they know it's women and children first, and what do they think, the ship's sinking? Guffaws all around.
Then I got to thinking about the children and O'Reilly's loud display of his concern for their wellbeing and I wondered where was his concern for children in this case, where was the congressional investigation, the groundswell of outrage over this? I'm sure it was a simple error, a postal transposition, the vaccine was supposed to go to Goldman Sachs the elementary school, since children are actually in the high risk category and bankers are not. A regrettable error. I wondered if any kids had gotten sick for not having the vaccine or died or how many parents had to take time off from work to care for these kids. All unknowable, unproveable, and a done deal regardless.
Then some vague memory, probably faulty on my part, came to mind of concentration camp musicians playing classical music as others were led into the showers, and there was something eerily similar that bothered me. So I had to write it down (lucky you, put me on ignore if you don't like it) in an attempt to stop running that skit through my head.
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