Thursday, April 8, 2021

Weekend Update on Sidney Powell being sued by Dominion updates 'SNL' on the 2020 election and its aftermath for Throwback Thursday

Happy Throwback Thursday! Yesterday, I told my readers "stay tuned for a Throwback Thursday retrospective [about] the top posts from the tenth year of the blog featuring Saturday Night Live on the 2020 election and its aftermath. The late night talk show hosts didn't have all the fun."

I'll get to those popular posts from the blogging year just ended over the jump, but first I'm sharing Weekend Update: Sidney Powell on Being Sued by Dominion from the last SNL of March as the most recent clip from the show about the 2020 election and its aftermath.

Sidney Powell stops by Weekend Update to discuss being sued for defamation by Dominion for making false voter fraud claims during the 2020 Election.
The good news for Powell and bad news for Dominion (and democracy) is that her defense might actually work. I saw a similar defense work for Courtney Love in 2014, when I quoted KPBS.
Context matters in defamation law. And if reasonable minds conclude Love's tweet was never meant to be taken seriously, charges should be dismissed.
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"Her history of saying incredibly loopy things means that perhaps no one should take her seriously," [University of San Diego Law School Professor Junichi] Semitsu said.
I agree that no reasonable person should have taken Powell's claims seriously. The problem is that there were so many unreasonable people who did.

Follow over the jump for the most popular posts featuring SNL commenting about the 2020 election and its aftermath.


'SNL' gives its satirical take on the election results from November 8, 2020 was the most read entry featuring clips from SNL with ~2,540 default and 2631 raw page views received by March 20, 2021. Those were enough to rank it third according to default page views and fifth according to raw page views overall during the blogging year just ended and third among entries actually posted during the tenth year of this blog. The entry ended November 2020 as the third most read for the month with ~2,520 default and 2,580 raw page views. It continued to accumulate page views with ~2,520 default and ~2,590 raw page views by December 31, 2020 to rank third for the calendar year in default page views, second among entries posted during 2020, and fourth overall in raw page views. The entry gained the bulk of its page views from my sharing it at the Coffee Party USA Facebook page.


According to raw page views, the second most read entry featuring SNL during the tenth year of this blog was 'SNL' lampoons the debate, Trump's COVID diagnosis, and Supreme Court nomination in season premiere after winning six Emmy Awards from October 4, 2020. By March 20, 2021, it received ~1,400 default and 1495 raw page views to rank it twelfth overall according to default page views, eleventh overall according to raw page views, and ninth among entries posted during the tenth year of this blog. The post ended October 2020 with ~1,380 default and 1427 raw page views, enough to rank it fourth overall and second among entries actually posted during month. It accumulated more page views through 2020, so that the entry had ~1,400 default and ~1,450 raw page views, enough for it to rank twelfth overall according to default page views, thirteenth according to raw page views, but eleventh among entries actually posted during the calendar year. The entry gained the bulk of its page views from my sharing it at the Coffee Party USA Facebook page.


On the other hand 'SNL' opens with Pence getting vaccinated then looks back at Trump's presidency from December 20, 2020 was the second most read entry featuring SNL last year according to default page views. Despite the two posts essentially tying at ~1,400 default page views, Blogger consistently ranked this entry higher than 'SNL' lampoons the debate, Trump's COVID diagnosis, and Supreme Court nomination in season premiere after winning six Emmy Awards to be the eleventh most read entry of the tenth year of the blog by this measure. On the other hand, its 1444 raw page views ranked it twelfth overall and tenth among entries actually posted during March 21, 2020 to March 20, 2021. At the end of December 2020, Blogger listed it as having more default page views than it had last month with ~1,410, but fewer raw page views, also ~1,410. That's a persistent phenomenon and why I learned to pay more attention to raw page views which don't decrease over time as Blogger culls duplicates and referrer spam. Those ~1,410 raw and default page views mostly from my sharing it at the Coffee Party USA Facebook page made this post the second most read entry during December 2020 and the twelfth most read entry overall during 2020 as well as the tenth most read among those posted during the calendar year.

I might recycle this entry and the next one in the retrospective I'm planning for Flashback Friday tomorrow about the pandemic. Speaking of which, I'm going to be a good environmentalist by recycling from Broken Peach celebrating Halloween updates holidays for the tenth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News for Flashback Friday.

Four other entries examined holidays as a secondary subject during the blogging year just ended. The most read was 'Saturday Night Live' opens with a vaccine announcement and makes fun of election lawsuits and Space Force in a coronavirus holiday episode from December 13, 2020. It earned ~1,320 default and 1402 raw page views to rank 13th overall for the year according to both measures and eleventh among entries posted during the last blogging year. It was the fourth most read entry during December 2020 according to default page views, third according to raw page views, and sixth actually posted during the last month of 2020. It earned its page views by being shared at the Coffee Party USA Facebook page and political groups on Facebook and MeWe. I'll mention it again, like I will the next one, in a retrospective with a different theme.
As I promised, I'm sharing it again in a post with a theme other than holidays. The only information I'm adding to it besides placing it in a different context is the graph of its page views.


'SNL' satirizes the vice-presidential debate and puts the news in the context of Mental Health Awareness Week from October 11, 2020 came in fourteenth overall in both default and raw page views with ~1,300 and 1351 respectively. The latter also resulted in the entry being ranked twelfth among entries posted during the tenth year of this blog. It ended October 2020 in fifth place overall according to both its ~1,270 default and 1307 raw page views and third among entries actually posted during the tenth month of last year. It ended 2020 in fifteenth place overall and thirteenth among entries posted during the calendar year with ~1,300 default and ~1,330 raw page views. Like all the other entries in today's retrospective, it earned its page views by being shared at the Coffee Party USA Facebook page and political groups on Facebook and MeWe.


Once again, I'm going to be a good environmentalist by recycling from Broken Peach celebrating Halloween updates holidays for the tenth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News for Flashback Friday.
'SNL' covers impeachment and celebrates Valentines Day posted February 14, 2021 had a stronger tie-in to a specific holiday instead of the year-end holiday season in general. It earned ~1,200 default and 1247 raw page views to rank 18th according to the first measure and 19th according to the second, 17th if just entries posted during 2020-2021 are considered. It was also the number one post during February 2021. The entry also earned its page views by being shared at the Coffee Party USA Facebook page and political groups on Facebook and MeWe. I plan on being a good environmentalist and recycling it for a retrospective about impeachment and the events that led up to it.
Beyond sharing the link again in a post with a theme other than holidays and including the graph of its page views, I'm adding that this is the third most read entry of 2021 so far. I expect it will still be in the top 20 at the end of the year.

I have one more retrospective about the 2020 election and the actions that led to impeachment planned, but that should appear on Throwback Thursday next week. Stay tuned for a look back at the most popular posts about the pandemic for tomorrow's Flashback Friday.

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