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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

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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
The lefty folks at work came in this morning laughing about the Palin/incest joke. They did not take it as a slam at the media.

I watched clips of it yesterday. I took it as a slam on the media that also broached a subject that made me cringe. I only thought about those poor kids who have watched their mom be savaged now dealing with this taboo subject used to elicit a cheap laugh. Maybe my being raised down in the hills has me a little sensitive to "Deliverance Jokes" from our more 'enlightened' city brethren.

61 posted on 09/22/2008 10:49:02 AM PDT by Ghengis (Of course freedom is free. If it wasn't, it would be called expensivedom. ~Cindy Sheehan 11/11/06)
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To: Sub-Driver
I remember the original SNL when it first started. It was hip, funny, off the wall. The Coneheads. Belushi the Samurai. Sweet little Gilda "Never Mind" Radnor. All very funny skits.

WHAT THE HELL is funny about incest and insulting a Vice-Presidential candidate's innocent family?!?!

62 posted on 09/22/2008 10:51:52 AM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: Churchillspirit
Eh......wrong!

The Emmys were in conflict with the last game at Yankee Stadium. Same bunch of left wing loons - just different time slot.

63 posted on 09/22/2008 10:52:11 AM PDT by Churchillspirit
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To: roses of sharon
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.

I didn't watch the Emmys, but here's Tina Fey's quote.

-------She was more open about her thoughts on reprising the "SNL" role [Gov. Palin]. As in, she'd prefer not to.

"I want to be done playing this lady Nov. 5," she said. "So if anybody can help me be done playing this lady Nov. 5, that would be good for me."
-------

Good point and good catch!
64 posted on 09/22/2008 10:53:05 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: Sub-Driver
Although I didn't see it, it sounds Brilliant and Right On.

Sounds like the wrong people got angry to me.

65 posted on 09/22/2008 10:53:25 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: y6162
The network should have the cojones to fire whoever was responsible for this travesty. Or better yet, put the show on hiatus for "review" and "development".
66 posted on 09/22/2008 10:53:44 AM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: HamiltonJay
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.

NOPE, as RUSh accurately said, it's a "clever" way to attack Palin while "claiming" it was an attack on the media.

67 posted on 09/22/2008 10:53:47 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: comps4spice

Thanks I’m already busy with emails .


68 posted on 09/22/2008 10:57:58 AM PDT by lionheart 247365 (( 0bama's chickens ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, comin' home to roost . . . : ))
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To: Tempest
Well, if you think the skit is just a satire on the liberal media, let's redo the damn skit next week with OBAMA as the focus. As in, "Gee, he must be doing his daughters. You know how it is among THOSE families."

See? That sounds mighty offensive to me.

Remember, the audience was tittering away at the idea of those rubes in Alaska doing their daughters. That poor white trash up North - always good for a cheap laugh among the young hip NYC audience.

69 posted on 09/22/2008 10:58:42 AM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: Cicero

I see it as an attack on Palin masquerading as a critique of the liberal media. Tarring both with a broad brush. As others mention, would this skit have ever seen the light of day if “nutty right wing bloggers” were accusing Obama of raping his daughters?

Uhhmmm..... no.


70 posted on 09/22/2008 10:58:56 AM PDT by agooga (Struggling every day to be worthy of their sacrifice.)
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To: Aria

This is the danger of talk radio pinheads, and those that blindly follow them. Rush needs to get informed or SHUT UP... have people running around screaming about something that obviously incorrect does not do any favors to anyone.


71 posted on 09/22/2008 11:00:37 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

I agree. As disgusting as it is, this is actually a rip on the Media that is tearing her apart!!


72 posted on 09/22/2008 11:02:05 AM PDT by CharlieOK1 (Pontius Pilate voted "Present" at the Crucifixion of Christ)
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To: lonestar67
The point is that the NYT is over the top. The fact that the skit calls them out directly rather than the oblique media is quite a statement in itself.

Of course the NYT is over the top. But would it have been possible to make fun of the NYT without suggesting that Todd Palin has committed incest with his daughters? I cannot find any humor in this skit.

73 posted on 09/22/2008 11:02:26 AM PDT by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer .)
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To: agooga

Rinse, and repeat....

As others mention, would this skit have ever seen the light of day if “nutty right wing bloggers” were accusing Obama of raping his daughters?

SNL can shove it!!! Mad TV is much funnier.


74 posted on 09/22/2008 11:02:38 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: Ciexyz

NBC is totally in the tank for Obama. Their network is not welcome in my home.


75 posted on 09/22/2008 11:06:04 AM PDT by JFC (The libs fear us Republicans.. wait until JUDGEMENT DAY!!)
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To: stripes1776

I think you make a good point. I still think the skit is an attack on the NYT but it is true that Obama exists as a unique form of communication privilege.

We are not allowed to entertain negative thoughts about Obama— or else we are racists.

That is the tragedy for the nation and even Obama who is increasingly clueless because he is never subject to fair criticism.


76 posted on 09/22/2008 11:07:00 AM PDT by lonestar67 (Its time to withdraw from the War on Bush-- your side is hopelessly lost in a quagmire.)
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To: stlnative

The skit did not IMPLY that, in fact it IMPLIED the exact OPPOSITE, but the NYT would print it anyway!!! And that was the whole point of the skit, for pete’s sake, SNL finally takes an honest shot at the MSM and people are too stupid or willingly ignorant to notice, but just knee jerk because some talk radio pinhead who doesn’t know what he’s talking about decided to scream about it.

The entire piece was ripping how the media was willing to publish ANYTHING to attack the Palin’s no matter how ludicrous or how lacking in any supporting facts. That’s what the skit was.

There was nothing over the top about the skit, the only thing over the top, is the level of ignorance one has to engage in, willing, or biologically influence to believe this skit was an attack on the Palin family in any way shape or form.


77 posted on 09/22/2008 11:08:01 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay
Rush needs to get informed or SHUT UP... have people running around screaming .....

LOL. Who's shouting? Seriously though, incest is not funny. If SNL wanted to make the point about the ridiculousness of media/internet claims, there were many other ways. Incest is the one to stay away from.
78 posted on 09/22/2008 11:08:38 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: Ciexyz

Uhh it probably wouldn’t have as much impact if they did it to Obama since the NYT didn’t target Obama if ever in that way.


79 posted on 09/22/2008 11:08:39 AM PDT by Tempest (The devil and the media have sided with Obama)
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To: Girlene

And what exactly went to far? The fact that it pointed out the media was so rediculous that no matter what the claim, and even though they admittedly had no evidence toward it, or that the NYT writers/editors were so egalitarian that they accepted incest must be part of something simply because its a rural state???

The Media and the NYT in particular were completely the target of this skit, and anyone who thinks it was an attack on the Palin’s, is beyond ignorant.


80 posted on 09/22/2008 11:11:31 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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