Posted on 09/22/2008 9:56:46 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
'SNL' Palin 'Incest' Skit Angers Viewers Viewers, Bloggers Think Skit Went Over Line
POSTED: 11:30 am EDT September 22, 2008 UPDATED: 12:14 pm EDT September 22, 2008 For the second week in a row, NBC's "Saturday Night Live" has taken to lampooning Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin -- but this time, it has angered conservative viewers over a skit that suggests that the Alaska governor's husband, Todd Palin, was having sex with the couple's daughters.
In the skit, show guest host James Franco plays an assignment editor at the New York Times at the head of an editorial meeting. During a mock assignment meeting where the paper announced that 50 reporters were being sent to look for dirt on Sarah Palin, a Times "reporter" asks, "What about the husband? You know he's doing those daughters. I mean, come on. It's Alaska."
In response, Franco's character said, "He very well could be. Admittedly, there is no evidence of that, but on the other hand, there is no convincing evidence to the contrary. And these are just some of the lingering questions about Gov. Palin."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnbc.com ...
“After getting a bunch of complaints from these jokes, if I was an SNL writer, I would never again write a sketch that is anti-liberal. They probably got less criticism over the sketches that were ACTUALLY anti-Palin.”
You’re on to something.
Did you see the skit?
Not struggling at all.
Do you have a point?
Do you have a point?
Yes and it is pretty obvious. Both are extremely crude and defiled and should have no place in civil discourse.
We must have had different experiences. I found the suggestion of incest so disgusting, that I didn't find much humor in the rest of the skit. I didn't need SNL to convince me that the NYT is biased.
I saw it as a cheap shot and the rest as mostly fluff to cover it up.
But to show you I am not totally devoid of humor, I liked the part about the polar bear. But then I really like polar bears.
American culture has been doomed for some time now.
Yes. . .please see post 207 and 209 for my point.
I think I have a wonderful sense of humor. However, there is no humor in incest - ever.
I think you are half right. The skit does take a shot at the NYT but it also has the double “bonus” of smearing Sarah.
I’m sorry but I don’t see much of an upside.
Thank you for posting the obvious.
Thank you for posting this link. Now that I finally got to watch it for myself, I see it as obviously a slam on the media - not knowing anything outside of their life in Manhattan and willing to make up lies about Sarah Palin and her family.
Did you see the skit?
Yes and especially knowing it was 9X% a slam on the NYT, I say...
Why all the furor about this and not about the outrageous "VPILF" comments, the prior week?
-- Not to mention that kind of crude, defiling garbage even by conservatives.
“I think I have a wonderful sense of humor. However, there is no humor in incest - ever.”
I bet South Park has had a funny episode that touched on “Incest”.
Anyway, the SNL skit was not laughing at incest. It was laughing at the NYTimes.
Did you see the skit?
If you have not, here it is: http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=179063
What was the “smear” of Sarah Palin?
I don't see how anyone can watch the skit and come to any other conclusion.
“Why all the furor about this and not about the outrageous “VPILF” comments, the prior week?
— Not to mention that kind of crude, defiling garbage even by conservatives.”
Can you be more specific? Free Republic is a big place.
Excellent. Keep up the pressure everyone. GE has a financial interest in NBC being profitable, not politically correct.
I stick with my opinion. Incest is no joke, ever.
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