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.
There was one kernel of truth—the gag about “lipstick.” You have to admit that Sarah kind of wore that one out within a couple of days.
SNL, Colbert, Stewart...all joke about their media...it is cover for the vile myths they ingrain in our culture about Conservatives.
It is poison, and it sticks with conservatives....over decades and decades. And most importantly it really hurts us with the public.
The media cover they use is old, and matters not.(sort of like when a reporter on C-span is asked about bias and they say “well, from the letters I get, I am hearing it from both sides). A complete lie and they know it.
Again, I see no hard evidence that SNL teasing their own media hurts the MSM, but plenty of evidence that SNL hurts Republicans/Conservatives tremendously.
And now it appears that even SNL has more defenders here than your average conservative pol, or (admittedly wild) rightwing mag such as WND.
More evidence that their propagnada works.
I hear ya, and I don’t even care if they laugh.
We profess we wish we could get the word out about media bias. Then we get an eight minute Media Bias 101 gift, and folks complain about it.
It’s a good thing we don’t pass out bats to forum participants. Some of these folks would hit themselves with them.
I have never seen it, nor will you.
(btw, I hope everyone knows this is a differing opinion about the influence of MSM and Hollywood, not each other here, I don't think we are hard enough on them, and I don't think they are funny or on our side )
Last week’s skit is also still available, though you have to look for the ones or one in decent quality and full length.
There are a lot of boobs on youtube who don’t know how to post a video except by pointing a webcam at a TV—or sometimes a Victrola.
Can you repost the video—WITHOUT any search terms or descriptions that would lead NBC to it? Just some totally unrelated words that Freepers could us to locate the video?
Did you see the video?
I don’t think I should do that in good faith Arthur. YouTube took it down and I don’t want to have them close my account closed on me. It’s a 42.5 megabyte file or I would email it to you.
I’m keeping my eyes on NBC. When they post it, I’ll let folks know.
It sure rubs me the wrong way. It was one of my most professional looking videos.
I have also seen all the anti-war movies, disguised as drama, history, factual, or anything Hollywood chooses to couch them in.
And have sat in front of men and women who claim to be college professors, “teaching”, while really telling their student that their country is vile and not worth defending. My children sat in front of those same kind of “teachers and professors”
And the common thread thru them all in the last 30 years that Conservative, Republicans, patriots, middle America, Christians are scum......and they say it all the time in as many different ways that they are able.
I went there and NBC Universal seems to have claimed copyright infringement... maybe there was too much shown, or maybe there’s a time limit on how quickly clips can be posted online ?
Thanks Rose.
-PJ
There was a bit of a delay for the Palin/Clinton season opening skit to be put up.
Give it a few days.
Perhaps their webweasels don’t work weekends.
Is the video online anywhere else?
I get this message at the link you posted.
“This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by NBC Universal”
LOL! Well said ...
;o)
It was devastatingly effective. If for no other reason that the fact that the one thing the left cannot stand is being mocked.
What's taking NBC so long to put it up? The McCain skit has been up for hours.
They're selective about what they want on the NBC website, too.
They've had the McCain skit posted for quite a few hours.
Maybe the Palin skit will go up soon.
I’ve noticed that posters on other websites who also saw the skit were also unhappy with it.
I spent hours getting that video just right, so it would be high quality and still be a small enough file to get onto YouTube. It turned out to be my best post on YouTube, very clear, great sound, and just the perfect reproduction for others to see.
It lasted about 45 minutes before NBC complained to YouTube. YouTube took it down.
There are SNL clips all over YouTube. There are upwards of fifteen Sarah Palin/Hillary Clinton clips alone on YouTube. For that reason, I didn’t have much concern that NBC would be offended, or that YouTube would object to my post. WRONG!
Right now I don’t know of any place where the video is available. I have reproduced a 6.5 (apx) megabyte (started out at about 2.1 gigabytes) version of the video, that is about 180x120 pixels. It’s quite small, but you can make out what took place. I need to find an alternative method of posting to my internet sight, which for some reason won’t take MOV files using the sight’s normal posting software.
I’ll try to get it up tomorrow and link anyone to it that want’s a look.
It also possible that NBC will have a link to the clip up by tomorrow also. We’ll see.
Later...
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