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SNL Takes the NY Times & Reporters to Task re Sarah Palin
Saturday Night Live ^ | 08/20/2008 | NBC's SNL Staff

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: comedy; hystericalmedia; kidsareofflimits; mccainpalin; nyt; nytimes; palin; palinfamily; saturdaynightlive; snl
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To: DoughtyOne

Video no longer up on You Tube due to copyright infringement, or so the message claims.


81 posted on 09/21/2008 8:56:47 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: RightWingConspirator
No, I understand the mode of operation of SNL, Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert, Bill Mahr, Woopie Goldberg, Joy Bayhar, and hundreds of others, completely.

It seems that many here do not, which is exactly the way those leftwing vampires like it, to have us tee-heeing all the way to our demise.

82 posted on 09/21/2008 8:57:40 AM PDT by roses of sharon (The MSM vampires must die!)
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To: DoughtyOne

Seems NBC doesn’t like the idea that the video could be popular.

What do you think of that?


83 posted on 09/21/2008 8:58:52 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: DoughtyOne
Thanks for posting the skit on You Tube. The skit was indeed humorous. I particularly enjoyed watching the antics of the "Reporters" as they found ways to avoid the assignment to Alaska.

Sadly soon after viewing the skit on You Tube the link no longer functioned when I attempted to view it a second time. Hopefully that is just the result of an overloaded server.

Thanks again for posting the skit.

84 posted on 09/21/2008 8:58:54 AM PDT by An Old Man ("The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress." Douglas)
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To: FreeReign

>Watching the video, I would say that it was the NY Times’
>bottom of the gutter, sexist political whisper campaign
>that was being roasted. I thought it was funny.

You don’t attack underage children of politicians in a political campaign. That is over the line and beyond the pale.

The writers of the skit could easily have used infidelity rumors aimed at Gov. Palin and her husband Todd.

Instead they went out of their way to drag in innocents with the writing help of a Democratic candidate for Minnesota’s
Federal Senate seat, AL Frankin.

Given the level of Palin Derangement Syndrome out there, anyone thinking different is a fool or a Democrat.

Here is a partial list of Democrats and Leftists testing positive as carriers of Palin Derangement Syndrome:

** Leading Dem Barney Frank- Sarah Palin’s family and pregnant teen are fair game.

** Chief Obama Supporter Howard Gutman- She’s a bad mother.

** Senator Joe Biden- Palin would be a backward step for women.

** MTV Awards Host Russell Brand- Sarah Palin. She’s a VILF! A vice president I’d like to… fondle.

** Senator Barack Obama- It’s just like putting lipstick on a pig.

** Hollywood’s Matt Damon- She’s like this really bad Disney movie.

** Dem Leader Carol Fowler- She’s only qualified because she did not have an abortion.

** Professor Wendy Doniger: Palin’s biggest hypocrisy is her pretense that she’s a woman.

** Comedian Bill Maher: Palin is a snarling bitch.

** Film critic Roger Ebert- She’s a shallow, chirpy person with those vaguely alarming eyeglasses.

** Former Senator Lincoln Chafee- Palin is a “cocky wacko.”

** Hollywood’s Pamela Anderson- I can’t stand her. She can suck it.

** Singer Pink- Sarah Palin hates women.

** Comedian Brad Garrett- Palin is white trash.

** Air America’s Randi Rhodes- She can’t be trusted with teenage boys.

** Leftist Juan Cole- Sarah Palin resembles those of Muslim fundamentalists.

** Author Cintra Wilson - She’s a f**kable Christian Stepford wife in a ’sexy librarian’ costume.

** Wonder Woman Linda Carter- America should be very afraid.

** Hollywood’s Lindsay Lohan- (She’s) a narrow minded, media obsessed homophobe.

**Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)- She doesn’t know anything.

** Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler- Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking.

** Actress Sandra Bernhard- Turncoat bitch! Don’t you f**king reference Old Testament, bitch!

** Democratic Party Candidate for the Minnesota Senate seat Al Frankin — According to Politico.com, he authored the recent “Palin Family Incest” opening skit on NBC’s Saturday Night Live.

H/T Gatewaypundit.


85 posted on 09/21/2008 8:59:34 AM PDT by Dark Wing
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To: snarkytart

Yep, I perceived it as a slight against Palin.


86 posted on 09/21/2008 9:00:31 AM PDT by Rudder
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To: Vision Thing
It's more a case of "if you don't enforce a copyright, then you lose it".

They really have no choice.

And the Palin/Clinton skit is up on NBC's website.

In other words, they want the hits on THEIR website, not YouTube.

To paraphrase the old quote: "Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to corporate practice."

87 posted on 09/21/2008 9:01:42 AM PDT by George Smiley (Palin is the real deal.)
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To: Dark Wing
Did you hear Greta Friday night? She referred to the woman calling Sarah supporters "white trash" a "pig" three times.

Greta is solid behind Sarah and is defending her very strongly against all these vile attacks.

Greata is actually watchable right now, and entertaining I might add.

88 posted on 09/21/2008 9:03:43 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. FReerepublic,com baby)
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To: Post5203
She should not be allowed to get away with that.

So stop her.

IMHO Bernhardt is a has-been who never was.

89 posted on 09/21/2008 9:04:28 AM PDT by Rudder
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To: mware

I wouldn’t go so far as to call Greta - Greata.... ;^)

...and she is being low key and letting the Palin story tell itself. She is the only one out there covering it at all. I thank her for that.


90 posted on 09/21/2008 9:06:13 AM PDT by tioga (Bring on the debates! While Obama wows the media, McCain will win over Americans.)
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To: DoughtyOne

if you say it was a sendup of the NYT, I’ll take your word for it.

You have always been pretty lucid around here DO

the Youtube nazis have already closed it

i would suspect some women on SNL even though leftists don’t like a woman being piled on

I’m seeing that out here in flyoverland too, even from some pro-babykillers


91 posted on 09/21/2008 9:07:24 AM PDT by wardaddy (Sandra Bernhard should not be allowed around livestock unsupervised.)
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To: icwhatudo

The video URL in your tagline is awesome.

http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=n1ronxelmtin


92 posted on 09/21/2008 9:08:45 AM PDT by Bulldaddy
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To: George Smiley

Go to YouTube and type in SNL and search.

NBC leaves up what they want to leave up.

It’s up to them, but they look like a big donkey’s behind when they enforce their copyright indiscriminately.

The only reason I attempted to post the clip, was because SNL clips are all over YouTube and remain there to this day.


93 posted on 09/21/2008 9:08:45 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (McCain, the Ipecac president... Obama the strychnine president...)
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To: mware

Greta’s husband was solid Hillary but has publicly changed to MacPalin.


94 posted on 09/21/2008 9:09:57 AM PDT by wardaddy (Sandra Bernhard should not be allowed around livestock unsupervised.)
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To: DoughtyOne
That make more sense. It's no different than the famous cover of the New Yorker.

I've probably watched SNL three times since October 1975. I don't even have a TV now.

Looks like SNL is seeing the hypocrisy of the Left after 30+ years.

The Left can show a picture of presidential candidate G.W. Bush on NBC and run a crawl saying "Snipers wanted;"
The Left can give a tirade demanding mobs attack and kill a Republican Congressman and his family;
The Left lone wolves can slash tires, fire bomb opposition property, hack into private accounts;
The Left's MSM can try to destroy the Palin family;
The Left's candidate can travel the world saying "America is guilty of atrocities but I love the bitch and I'm going to change Her into a good citizen of the world."

Rats are sophisticated "satirists" and we're not.

We are bigots and racists.. hmm, I'll take that any day considering the Rat alternative.

95 posted on 09/21/2008 9:10:26 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: DoughtyOne
Oh, I completely understand SNL’s M.O.

This M.O. is why they and their leftwing cohorts suck so many in to their deception.

You see, the NYT will NOT be hurt by this, nor will the war room of the DNC/Hollywood/Academia. They have NEVER been hurt by this.

The FACT is that their influence is NOT waning, at all.

The other FACT is that the public sees Palin, GWB, McCain, as rubes, stupid, racists, etc......THE MOCKING WORKS.

The perceived baggage works, the meme is EVERYWHERE.

You see, just like the negative ads the public SAYS THAT IT IS SICK OF.....but they WORK.

The NYTWPTIMENEWSWEEKCNNABCCBSNBCMSNBCPBS....still drive the conversation, the news, the debate, the context, history, and they drive the decisions of our candidates and representatives.

The evidence is that 48-50% of voters will elect Barack Hussein Obama.

SNL is brilliant all right....at getting the rightwing to die laughing.

96 posted on 09/21/2008 9:11:45 AM PDT by roses of sharon (The MSM vampires must die!)
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To: UCANSEE2

I think they are fairly selective about what they want left up on YouTube and what they don’t.

There are between ten and twenty versions of the Tina Fey skit from last week still up on YouTube.


97 posted on 09/21/2008 9:11:58 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (McCain, the Ipecac president... Obama the strychnine president...)
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To: roses of sharon

You’re off the charts on the obtuseness scale.


98 posted on 09/21/2008 9:14:39 AM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: misterrob
No, it did not “reach” me at all.

Because I am not as susceptible to their propaganda.

99 posted on 09/21/2008 9:14:54 AM PDT by roses of sharon (The MSM vampires must die!)
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To: spodefly

YouTube pulled this video. They said “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by NBC Universal.” Anyone know where another copy can be had?


100 posted on 09/21/2008 9:15:59 AM PDT by mlizzy (abortion, barack obama,)
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