In the first Gulf War, SNL did a stupid press skit about the press covering the war. A general came out for a press conference, and warned that since there were ongoing operations, he couldn’t answer all questions, and laid the ground rules for what he could answer. The press then completely ignored the rules, and kept asking more and more ridiculous questions that would obviously endanger troops. The most over the top question was when a nervous Arab looking reporter in a foreign accent asked what frequencies the US pilots were using and what passwords they had.
And for the people who think incest is just beyond the pale as a topic, there was never any suggestion that there was incest in the Palin family for real. It's BECAUSE incest is the worst thing you can accuse someone of, particularly when you have no evidence or even a suggestion that it's true, that they chose it as the thing the NY Times accused the Palins of. They were being outrageous to satirize the outrageous bias and lies of the NY Times, not to attack the Palins. They showed the reporters just making the charge up out of thin air. Watch the sketch before you leap to conclusions. It will probably be on NBC.com if it isn't already. Once you see how they portrayed the NY Slimes reporters, maybe you'll understand that they were on our side with this one. And the punchline of the reporter winning a Pulitzer Prize for an obviously unsupported slanderous lie about a Republican was the perfect capper.