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.
It was a funny skit. Places like Alaska and the Midwest are foreign countries to these people. No understanding of the people that make this country work!
My wife and I watched the one from last week with “Hillary”. I thought it was hysterical. They poked just as much fun at Hillary as they did Sarah.
The other thread was going downhill fast.
The most vehement comments came from those who, of course, had not seen the show.
Thanks for trying to provide a little ‘balance’, and the link.
Maybe those posters can watch it, and see the truth.
That’s the way I see it too. It’s an indictment of the press not the Palin’s.
Thanks, I had not seen it.
Excellent. A very good example of the elitist mentality of NYTimes type people and their left coast ilk.
Thanks for posting that. I put in my years in Manhattan, and I know those leftist, smug, but articulate Manhattan reporters—every character in that skit was spot on.
I had not seen it but based on the description on the other thread this was both good for Palin and a damning take on the MSM’s hatred of her.
We are such losers.
Instead of burning it down, we nervously laugh, and lie to ourselves.
No wonder the left has its way with us daily.
But first they must have their wallowing moment in any perceived slight against McCain, Palin or the GOP, no matter how untenable the accuser is.
e.g., Bernhardt dishes Palin---Oh my goodness, pass the smelling salts!
There is actually a thread that focuses on the incest but when I read the last line I got it.
Do you believe I misrepresented the skit?
I’m sorry, I’m not sure how to take your post.
Thanks for the Youtube clip, it does show them ripping on NYT pretty heavily.
Exactly.
I thought it was great.
Skewered:
the NY Slimes,
lazy, loopy lib journalists
anti-2nd amendment types...
and more...
Long, but funny
I’ve only seen the description and, while other FReepers too it as a scurrilous attack on the Palin family, it sure reads like an attack on the MSM to me. And a warranted one, at that.
I said last night that I watched the whole show and didn’t see one funny sketch. I was mistaken - this was a funny one. They really lampooned the MSM and their elitism.
Good sketch. I like the polar bear thread, as I have actually once had a conversation like that regarding bears and mountain lions in while hiking in Colorado.
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