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'SNL' Palin 'Incest' Skit Angers Viewers - Viewers, Bloggers Think Skit Went Over Line
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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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alfranken; comedy; culturewar; democrats; elections; hystericalmedia; jamesfranco; liberalmedia; mccainpalin; nbc; nytimes; palin; palinattacks; pds; propagandawingofdnc; satire; smearcampaign; snl
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To: faithinchaos

Actually it was the NYT, Daily Kos, and the losers at DU that crossed the line.

The skit mocked it and cited it for relevance.


41 posted on 09/22/2008 10:29:06 AM PDT by Tempest (The devil and the media have sided with Obama)
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To: rwfromkansas; All

In this skit, they announced they were sending 50 reporters to try to get Palin.

This was one of the suggestions.

Unfortunately, there is no video online as far as I can tell; NBC has had the one briefly on Youtube removed.


42 posted on 09/22/2008 10:30:35 AM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I agree. Regardless of what the skit was trying to say about the media’s feeding frenzy, the subject matter was obscene and uncalled for. The line was crossed.


43 posted on 09/22/2008 10:31:57 AM PDT by Genoa
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To: warbride2009

What’s the difference between SNL and the NBC Nightly News?

A set change.


44 posted on 09/22/2008 10:32:24 AM PDT by hsrazorback1 (To get what you had, do what you did.)
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To: HamiltonJay; Sub-Driver
For God’s sake folks, this skit is a rip on the MEDIA!!! And how rediculous they are behaving!!! For once SNL’s taking a shot at the liberal media!!! Sheesh.

I agree that it sounds to me as if the skit was lampooning the media and its eagerness to throw rumors out there as stories -- especially when it involves a conservative. That said, the idiots that watch SNL would probably assume that the story (about Palin) is true or it wouldn't have been included in the skit.

45 posted on 09/22/2008 10:32:39 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: HamiltonJay
Sorry I don't see the humor in it.

Surely they could have found another subject to "joke" about other than jokingly implying that Todd Palin is having incestuous pedophile sex with his minor daughters.

What if they would have jokingly implied that it was Obama who was having incestuous pedophile sex with his two minor daughters? Of course they would never do that to the Messiah, so why did they think they could jokingly imply that Todd Palin was?
46 posted on 09/22/2008 10:33:30 AM PDT by stlnative (HurraMcCain Palin will continue to build strength as it travels across the USA over the next 60 days)
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To: rwfromkansas; HamiltonJay
many are lacking in intelligence, it appears.

It clearly was a rip on the media.


I'm not lacking in intelligence.....it's not funny. It went too far.
47 posted on 09/22/2008 10:34:19 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: AuntB

Good point, if you can replace the bunt of the joke with another sex or race, and it is still funny, then you have a good joke. However, if you replace it with an opposite, and it looks like race of sexism, the the joke is disgusting.


48 posted on 09/22/2008 10:34:24 AM PDT by Exton1
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To: Sub-Driver

That is unbelievable. Who knew that Saturday Night Live was still on the air?!


49 posted on 09/22/2008 10:35:45 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: comps4spice

In Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.


50 posted on 09/22/2008 10:36:28 AM PDT by Exton1
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To: Tempest
Oh for goodness sakes, the skit was meant to point out what a bunch of butt clowns the NYT is for taking gaarbage spewed directly from the Daily Kos and DU and posting it as fact.

I didn't see the skit, but where's the balance? Why wouldn't they make a skit that shows Obama's family as a bunch of Islamic, bomb-making terrorists?

51 posted on 09/22/2008 10:36:45 AM PDT by Lou L
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To: All

Sorry...OT......

Is FR a wee slow today, or is it just moi??

Thanks......


52 posted on 09/22/2008 10:40:09 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: Sub-Driver

You have to wonder why NBC yanked the video off of YouTube so quickly yesterday. And if it was for copyright issues, then why are other SNL skits still out there on YouTube?


53 posted on 09/22/2008 10:40:12 AM PDT by RightWingConspirator (Swiftboating: Revealing inconvenient truths about Democrat candidates)
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To: Girlene

Since SNL and the NYT, ARE ON THE SAME SIDE, as Fey admitted in public last night, this supposed debate about who they were mocking is over.

Obviously, they were cloaking the lame “criticism” about the NYT in order to suggest to the public AGAIN that the Palins are white trash rubes.

Its beyond me why the Right consistently wants to give quarter to our enemies.

Maybe its a compulsion to be with the “in” crowd, be seen as sophisticated by the masses....who knows...could be like battered wife syndrome.


54 posted on 09/22/2008 10:40:31 AM PDT by roses of sharon (The MSM vampires must die!)
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To: RightWingConspirator

I believe NBC has an agreement with hulu.com to show SNL skits, so that probably explains why they want to yank the videos from YouTube.


55 posted on 09/22/2008 10:44:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Tempest

Yeah, it was obviously mocking the liberal, out of touch elitists on the NY Times, yet some people think it put down the Palins...I just don’t get it sometimes!

Ed


56 posted on 09/22/2008 10:44:32 AM PDT by Sir_Ed
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To: Sub-Driver

This site is back up.

retardedbaby.net

Very sick


57 posted on 09/22/2008 10:44:50 AM PDT by stockpirate (Bitter white trash clinging to God and guns. Sarah Barracuda - the trilla from Willsila)
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To: Sub-Driver

Isn’t it ironic.....

The voter backlash against the hate filled biased media will INSURE a McCain/Palin win and perhaps 16 years of Palin on the front page - that is going to leave a mark in these liberal lapdogs in the media’s drawers.


58 posted on 09/22/2008 10:47:10 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: henkster
Also in conflict with the last game at Yankee Stadium.
59 posted on 09/22/2008 10:48:23 AM PDT by Churchillspirit
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To: WilliamReading

Thanks for the phone numbers. Most people have cell service that allows them to make phone calls at no additional charge. I sent them all a message saying... I was upset about the SNL skit and they crossed the line. Middle America is not going to take this type of satatire and let it go. We vote, We spend money and we have a choice and I will choose from now on where to spend my money.


60 posted on 09/22/2008 10:48:35 AM PDT by JFC (The libs fear us Republicans.. wait until JUDGEMENT DAY!!)
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