The liberals at Mediaite.com gushed over the latest anti-conservative comedy from NBC: "Kash Patel Gets Absolutely Smoked in Punishing SNL Sendup By Aziz Ansari: 'I'm the First Indian Person to Suck at Their Job!'"
After another vomitous episode of Colin Jost badly attempting to turn Pete Hegseth into a villainous-jock character from "Revenge of the Nerds," this "cold open" skit on "Saturday Night Live" turned to Indian comedian Aziz Ansari punishing his fellow Indian American as a dolt.
"You guys should not be reporting the lies and the gossip, you should be reporting on the historic nature of my appointment," Ansari's Patel said. "I'm a trailblazer. I'm the first Indian person to suck at their job! Everyone says Indian people are smart, hardworking, incredibly intelligent. I've proved without a shadow of a doubt that we can be just as incapable and incompetent as the whites!"
This is liberal humor in a nutshell -- mocking the white people (how progressive) and any minority who doesn't stick like glue to the Left. Being on the Left automatically makes you competent and racially sensitive.
"SNL" added the indecency of making fun of the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting just a week after it happened. Ansari's Patel boasted: "After the attempted assassination of President Trump -- another one -- we've conducted an investigation that could not have been more thorough. We've dotted every T and bulged every eye!" When a fake reporter asked fake Patel if Trump was mad at him, he replied: "Everybody loves me. Even the correspondents' dinner shooter said, 'Kill everyone but Mr. Patel.' You get a shoutout like that in a psycho's manifesto, you must be doing something right!"
There's nothing funny about shooting up a media dinner. But taste is not their strong suit.
The Patel mockery also proves that the Left seeks to punish Trump for appointing minorities. The list of Indian Americans appointed by Trump includes Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health, Harmeet Dhillon heading up the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department, Sriram Krishnan as senior White House policy advisor for Artificial Intelligence, and Vivek Ramaswamy as an original co-chair of the DOGE team. In addition, Vice President J.D. Vance's wife Usha Vance made history as the first Indian American second lady.
Remember how much the liberals adored "historic" Kamala Harris for being the first African American-slash-Indian American vice president? On "Saturday Night Live," the Harris impression was an ongoing valentine. Maya Rudolph proclaimed Harris was like a superhero in 2021: "There've been times when you're asked to play up someone's flaws or characteristics that are annoying or frustrating or embarrassing. This one feels like a superhero cape I get to don."
Mocking Patel's alleged "flaws and characteristics" is all Ansari did. The Atlantic uncorked a nasty hit piece suggesting Patel is a raging alcoholic on the job, and Patel sued them for defamation. This only made him bigger grist for NBC "comedy."
"Let me be clear, this FBI director has never been drunk or hungover on the job," Ansari's Patel said. "This FBI director never filled a 40-ounce travel mug with ice-cold gin and a swirl of dry vermouth and six lemon peels and called it a Kashtini."
Ansari should imagine what this would be like with the shoe on the other foot, like when a woman accused him of a very sexually aggressive first date in a 2018 article. How many jokes could you make out of that? But "SNL" doesn't do that to their Democrat friends.
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.