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1:10 PM, Oct 6, 2009 • By MARY KATHARINE HAM

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CNN is now fact-checking comedy skits critical of The One.

Sycophancy you can believe in, right this way.

In other news, upon further investigation, CNN has discovered that those two guys weren't "wild and crazy," but merely socially awkward and Eastern European. For more goofs on CNN, which would make for a superb SNL follow-up spoof of Wolf Blitzer, check the Twitter tag, #CNNFactCheck.

Here's the original SNL skit, which CNN felt worthy of being treated as an attack ad:

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