Betty White is a superstar, and SNL is barely afloat

As a little girl, I loved staying up to 11 PM, turning to Lifetime, and eating Cheesecake with my grandmother and mother to watch the Golden Girls (obviously, you must have cheesecake while watching the Golden Girls!).  In fact, I still (much to the horror of most people my age) still watch the Golden Girls, as if each episode is new.

As we all know, Betty White played Rose Nylund, the innocent, fumbling, ditzy blonde from St. Olef, Minnesota on the show.  She was one of my favorites because she always threw a curveball that showed people she wasn't as naive as she portrayed herself.

Anyhow, given my love of the Golden Girls, I love love love that Betty White has somehow become a modern day pop culture icon.  Its fabulous, and she doesn't even do nudity (see little girls, you can be famous and keep your damn clothes on). So of course, I had to tune into SNL to see where how they were going to use this lovely woman.  First, I preface this with: I hate SNL, I think it should have died long ago, and the skits aren't funny.  Much to my delight, most of the skits from tonight's show that involved Betty were pretty good...she was the grandmother of McGruder, a chef making and selling 'muffins,' and some random person in the "Weekend Update." (sidenote: wasn't quite sure about the Whitney Houston section of that skit...I thought we were done making lame ass Bobby Brown jokes about her...)  But by far the most heinous use of Betty White was in this Dominican talk show:

Back to the failure that is SNL, I was also really put off by the "Really, Greece?!" section:

I know I'm a global economy nerd and most people don't understand what "budget reductions" mean in the world of global finance.  So I will explain it for those who just repeat the term that hear on the news.  In the global economy "budget reductions" does not refer to reduced government spending as in "waste."  It means cutting social spending, privatizing state owned companies (thus making them crazy unaffordable), devaluing currency, and pandering to international financial institutions and governments as they lend you the money and thus force your already economically troubled country.  Whats's the problem with this you say? Well...most countries that borrow mass amounts of money to "economically recover" are also incredibly corrupt and Greece is no different, in fact corruption is what got the country into its current mess.  Therefore, the Really Greece?! section of this skit was ill informed and in poor taste (in my opinion) since the youth of Greece will be paying off this debt for generations to come. [end rant]

So, SNL sucks, and Betty White is a rockstar...but we all knew that.