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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>> rwfromkansas: many are lacking in intelligence, it appears.
LOL, now that’s something to laugh about.
Mean humor sucks. We’ve all seen it - the jackass at the party who assaults the naive one with a double entendre disguised as a joke.
I trust that no one at the NY Times was offended by the skit.
That makes a lot of sense and is a lot different from thinking the remark was directed at smearing Palin.
“Excellent. Keep up the pressure everyone. GE has a financial interest in NBC being profitable, not politically correct.”
That’ll teach ‘em to make fun of the New York Times.
I realize by your continual comments that you can't understand that or don't want to. But no one is asking you to get involved in contacting GE or NBC if you don't feel the need to. Why do you criticize those who want to take action.
Think of it this way. Who were the ones mentioned in the skit? Was it Obama? Ron Paul? Hitlery? It was the Palin family, and given the media and Hollywood's constant out of bound attacks on the children of that family, why would anyone want to defend a mention of the Palin in this kind of context?
1. I was specific enough
2. Who is bringing up FR?
3. You seem to have a chip on your shoulder of some kind. Bug me not.
We are like starving dogs accepting any disgusting putdown to see a slap of our enemies. A joke about incest and a 17 yr old pregnant daughter is never acceptable. We don’t have to accept that as funny.
Pray for W, Palin and Our Troops
We must have missed all those incest jokes about BJ clinton and Chelsea. After all, which one is more believable??
Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops
Me seeing the skit is not relevant. Do you think incest among the Palin family (or any family), is an appropriate premise for a comedy skit? You argue that because the butt of the joke is the NY Slimes the premise is thus okay.
Do you really think SNL has no ill will toward the Palins and/or the GOP?
You said:“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 said: “Can you be more specific? Free Republic is a big place.”
You replied: “I was specific enough”
I say: Huh?!
Well, I never heard any incest jokes about Clinton and his daughter. Was it on SNL and broadcast into millions of homes?
Where I come from, you don't make jokes about a man's family and say the father is committing incest with his daughter. Is there no decency anymore?
Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops
They are in our prayers every night.
“Do you think incest among the Palin family (or any family), is an appropriate premise for a comedy skit?”
To what skit are you refering?
“Me seeing the skit is not relevant.”
Here’s the skit we’re all referencing: http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=179063
“Where I come from, you don’t make jokes about a man’s family and say the father is committing incest with his daughter.”
Here ya go:
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=179063
Of course there was no jokes about BJ and Chelsea as there shouldn’t be. That is the point.
Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops
“Of course there was no jokes about BJ and Chelsea as there shouldn’t be.”
How did we get to BJ and Chelsea?
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