On September 22, 2001, 11 days after the worst terrorist attack on American soil, then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani looked squarely into the Saturday Night Live camera and told a shaken nation, “We will not let our decisions be made out of fear.” Flanked by a somber phalanx of uniformed police officers and firefighters, Giuliani offered stirring and patriotic words: “We choose to live our lives in freedom.”Paul Simon performed a searing rendition of “The Boxer,” his folky ode to a battered fighter’s gritty resilience. It was a total tonal shift for television’s longest-running comedy show, in line with …read more
Source:: The Atlantic
