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."
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Absolutely.
But how are you going to get the NYT, kos, Hollywood, and the rest of the elites from joking about this subject?
First, I bet the innocent minor children just love being the punch-line of an awful sex joke. Laugh riot, that.
Second, how about accusing Obama of doing the same thing, or would it not been as funny using the minor children of The One.
Incestuous rape is no joke.
If times were true and we still understood the concept of personal honor, this skit would have resulted in Tod horsewhipping the writers/actors. (It truly was an unspeakable insult to allege he was raping his daughters, joke or no joke).
Lampooning the media could have been aptly done, as demonstrated by the skits poking fun at the media during Gulf War I.. . and they never used incest or rape as a lead-in to the punch-line.
No need to drag the children into the sewer.
Oh. . . the rest of the mature world is wrong and the few that “get it” are truly the sane one's in this wacky world.
;-)
Did you see the skit yourself?
There is NO truth to the allegation in the skit of Palin incest and rape.
Other that that, I guess you are right. . .it was an excellent analogy.
We agree that reporters from the NYT are small-minded and bigoted. And the reporters are made out to be fools in the SNL skit. So why add this suggestion of incest? Is it necessary in order to make a reporter seem like a bigger fool? I think not. The writers could have come up with something else. Maybe that Todd Palin has eaten so much moose that he has gone into molting season. Anything ridiculous would do.
There aren't many belly laughs in an SNL skit anyway. So why add this suggestion of incest? My argument isn't against mocking the NYT.
Yes, case closed and it was funny. . .except one never jokes of incest or rape.
Skit would have been just as funny, more so in fact, if they dropped the incest thing.
Yes. . .see post 207.
Thank you. That is the real point that needs to be made. SNL could have lampooned the MSM by using some other kind of bogus scandal, something even more outlandish, something that might even have been funny.
I am not arguing that the NYT should not be mocked. I have been mocking that paper myself for a long time. If you like the reference to incest, fine. I don't think it has any place in that skit.
The NYT is not going to change its spots because of some skit on SNL.
Oh, don't insult my intelligence. Of course, it was a slam against the media and I "got" it. What you don't seem to "get" is that there are some things that you just don't do and that was to insinuate that vile act by Palin even if it was used to make an entirely different point. There are lines in society and SNL crossed one.
Did you see the skit?
How is this any worse than the prior week’s atrocious “VPILF” comments?
Anyone?
Mr. Stein?
The reporter asked about incest in order to portray him as a fool. If they used an attack that wasn't patently absurd and vicious, it wouldn't portray the NY Times in such a bad light. Ironic huh?
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.
The Times is not running in an election. Palin is. Anything which smears both the Times and Palin is a net advantage for Obama.
SNL would not have done an equivalent skit about Obama sharing cocaine with his kids.
And you post:
And you're struggling to say, what?
Remember the stereotype of the uptight-conservatives-with-no-sense-of-humor?
Today's thread is Exhibit A.
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