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Political suicide: Saturday Night Live veers left, swerves right.

By ED BARK

***The latest Saturday Night Live had two big political sketches. They underscored the show's liberal/conservative bias in a polarized presidential election year unlike any other.

For starters, SNL deployed Darrell Hammond as a clueless John McCain authorizing a series of attack ads against Barack Obama. "I approve this message," McCain kept parroting after being assured that all of the ads were indisputably truthful.

They included the assertion, "Obama supports tax cuts for pedophiles." Factually that's correct. Some pedophiles could benefit from his plan.

A later, longer sketch deployed virtually the entire SNL cast and a big chunk of extras as a clueless task force of 50 New York Times reporters. They were being prepped for an all-out invasion of Alaska and assault on McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin. One identified himself as Karl Marx.

In the end, only three of these pampered, effete elites were willing to rough it in a land bereft of their accustomed creature comforts. Epilogue: one of them won the Pulitzer Prize for a series of reports on "unproven yet undisproven incest in the Palin family."

Republican talking point: Aha, but SNL led the show with the McCain sketch and then waited until the last half-hour to give a semblance of equal time to our side of things. They knew, of course, that viewing levels would be lower by then. No further evidence is needed of calculated liberal bias. So don't get fooled again.

Democratic talking point: Aha, but last night's celebrity host was hot young actor James Franco (Pineapple Express and the Spiderman movies). He had a prominent role in SNL's shredding of the NYT, but where was he for the McCain sketch? Nowhere. Instead we got stuck with tired old Darrell Hammond. No further evidence is needed of calculated conservative bias. So don't get fooled again.

C'mon, SNL. Who do you think you're kidding?