Posted on 09/21/2008 8:01:45 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
On last nights Saturday Night Live, there was an eight minute clip that focused on the NY Times coverage of Sarah Palin.
The skit addressed a fictional meeting where the Peter Conolly Assignment Editor of the NY Times explains his plans to send 50 reporters to Alaska, to dig dirt on the Palins.
The media may try to play this off as SNL bringing up the topic of incest in the Palin household. The real story is that SNL framed the NY Times and it's staff for precisely what kind of tactics they have used against the Palins so far. The management and the reporters for the times were skewered here, and it was amazingly over the top.
Folks, this was a great skit. You'll have to see it to believe it, and I have posted the 8:04 minute clip on YouTube for you to see.
Enjoy.
I didn’t miss anything. Of course they tried to slam Sarah, it’s SNL, after all, but the slams didn’t ring true against her. They perfectly captured Hillary, though, because everyone KNOWS how much Hillary wanted the White House.
I’d like to see it, as well.
Did anyone cache it?
It’s “no longer available” on youTube
I agree. Hopefully they’ll get the thing up on their sight this week.
Here’s the SARAH + HILLARY one that was right on about the NJDL meeting.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/34465/saturday-night-live-palin—hillary-open
However, if you want to see McCain act as the creepy husband, invading Amy Poehler's personal space in a "Lifetime Movie" skit, which is hilarious and in its entirety, it's on page 5 of the link, called something like Love, Honor, and Stalk. I think McCain is a great sport and does a good job in it.
BTW, my attitude is longstanding.....their power is corrosive, their myth-making is hypnotic. They are poison to us, our children and young people.
We should give them no quarter, ever.
Their incest skit was done to foist another bag of freakishness on Palin...it had zero to do with the NYT, (who is on their side).
Again, my attitude has evidence to back it up.
Look at the polls.
Look at the elections.
Look at the actual record of the reputations that SNL/MSM have ruined. This “funny” stuff sticks forever.
And tell me where Conservatives have any influence?
They public says they don't like negative ads either, but they work everytime.....as does the MSM.
That skit isn’t listed.
Everything else is. Wonder why?
I looked too and its not there. Things that make you go hmmmmmm?
That is absurd. They were trashing the Times on a number of levels, but you think them using this extreme subject matter would stick to Palin, but not the Times.
Once again, did you view the video. Please tell me you didn't, because I don't want to know you did and still think along these lines.
Every other skit from last night's show appears to be available. Perhaps the NYT and old media didn't find their SNL treatment particularly humorous, and they expressed a preference that this skit be ushered into a memory hole.
SNL’s Dims are cool and funny for making a free commercial, written by a Democratic Senate candidate, that calls McCain a fear-mongering old man who hates brown people.
And making fun of the NYT finding out that the Republican VP candidates husband could have raped his daughters!
Wow, what fun.
I hope I'm in the “in” crowd now!
The video is gone, unfortunately.
Let’s see....
The MSM claims that the GOP is keeping Palin hidden.
Palin disinvited to anti-Ahmadinejad rally (but it was OK to invite Hillary, and I wonder what politicians will be deemed sufficiently ideologically in line with NY libs to be the speakers)
NCB pulls anti-NYT video from youtube but leaves all the others.
They are for free speech, as long as they like what is being said. And they are for “choice” too....
Yes, sadly it is. I’ll keep an eye on NBC’s SNL sight and link the clip in if it comes up.
I agree. NBC and it’s affiliate networks are terrible.
I don't want to pile on too much, since you already have your critics, but even if SNL intended it to be a slam on Palin, which I would argue it isn't , its effect is entirely to bash the press, and Palin escapes scott free. In fact, they are barely even in the sketch.
It was almost a modern comedic version of the parable between Jesus, the prostitute, and the cynical crowd that wanted her to be stoned. The crowd was willing to stone Palin, but ended up disintegrating because no one among them could be found to throw the first stone. The one who accuses Todd of incest is himself revealed to be a pre-op transsexual who can't make the trip to Alaska because there are probably no facilities for him there.
One could also argue that this was Blazing Saddles style vulgarity. That movie was filled with racism towards the black Sheriff Bart, but none of it was allow to stick to him. It would always backfire on the villans, or the ignorant townsfolk, which was the comedic point.
You can lead a FReeper to humor, but you can’t make them laugh.
Leni
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