SNL tries and fails to mock Elise Stefanik’s successful blasting of Penn’s president
Tiana Lowe Doescher
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Saturday Night Live has not been funny in over a decade, but at least it used to try. Once upon a time, it would have found the hysteria in a murderers’ row of elite university presidents unable to agree that active calls for genocide against Jews constitute a violation of codes of conduct. Alas, SNL tried and failed to make the butt of the joke not the dilettante dictators who steamrolled all other forms of free speech until the Jews were the target, but rather the powerful woman who managed to hold them to account.
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) is not former Republican New York Rep. George Santos. Unlike other women in her caucus, Stefanik has never been caught spewing conspiracy theories about “Jewish space lasers” or QAnon. Stefanik has never been filmed playing over-the-pants pogo stick with her Democratic boyfriend, and she has never been accused of talking about her sex life with staffers. Stefanik is a Harvard graduate, a lifelong Republican, once the youngest woman ever elected to the House, and now one of the most serious Republicans, man or woman, to run the party.
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Yet SNL tried to lampoon Stefanik as though she were Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) or Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO). And why? To SNL, all women with an “R” next to their names are the same. SNL’s poor caricature of Stefanik is a hysterical, yelping, and yodeling ditz who laments that if these university presidents fail to condemn the genocide of Jews, they’ll “make me look good!”
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Sure, SNL hints at the absurdity of the presidents’ recalcitrance to answer the question. They are portrayed as legalistic and idiotically cautious. But they are not portrayed as insidious, nor their answers as revealing as the rest of the country understood them to be. While the presidents get the benefit of an intellectualized farce per SNL, Stefanik is insultingly portrayed as a bimbo.
In real life, one of the three presidents has already resigned, and Stefanik is equally well positioned to continue to climb the ranks of House leadership or join former President Donald Trump, the party’s presidential front-runner, as his running mate. She doesn’t need SNL to remind the world that her career has many decades ahead of her, relative to those university presidents whose jobs she just ended.