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There’s a long tradition in comedy of parodying politicians with their own words, accents and mannerisms. Vaughn Meader made a brief career out of satirizing the Kennedys back in the ’60s and David Frye created the quintessential Nixon. Impressionist Jim Morris talks about the art form.
You know, going over some of McCain's past associations with the assistance of reminders by the Rachel Maddow Show, I am recalling his link to Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church (even less mainstream than Palin’s or Romney’s versions of Christianity), through the World Anti-Communist League I think it is called, and that, combined with his long confinement in Hanoi, makes me wonder why Saturday Night Live hasn’t had Darrell Hammond do a skit based on the Manchurian Candidate.
Have we ever had a candidate whose life so eerily mirrored that storyline?
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