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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I could actually envision a Rush parody or something with the exact same premise. Make the Times look like the idiots they are.
Thank you for calling some of the numbers. I wish I had Jeffrey Immelt’s telephone number, but you can be sure those people are pretty high in the hierarchy and Immelt will hear about it quite loudly.
I am sure Bill O’Reilly will use this SNL skit as an excuse to skewer Immelt again on the O’Reilly Factor soon.
Maybe a GE boycott would result.
I agree. Incest is not funny. I don’t care how much people think it lampoons the media. What’s next? The F-word becomes acceptable language with one’s mother? I, for one, don’t want to stoop to their level.
Anyone here who thinks that the SNL skit accusing Todd Palin of incest was really a pro-Palin skit, has got to have their head examined.
Rush is right. Glad he is picking up on this issue.
I’m not so sure.
If he had said “You know he’s doing those daughters. I mean, come on. The Daily Kos said so”
Then the humor would have been clearer. As it stands it, sounds like a jab at Alaskans as well as NYT arrogance.
I think it was left ambiguous on purpose.
And a good opinion it is too. The writers could have come up with some other way to make fun of the NYT. Instead they engaged in slime themselves.
She has TWO DS children? Which of the three girls are you referring to? Or did Trig get a sex change when I wasn't looking?
They didn’t insult fly over country or the Palin’s, if anything they skewered the egalitarianism of the NYT, Big Cities and MSM, by pointing out how utterly ignorant and rediculous they are, and the thought processes that get them there!
People who are acting outraged over this skit as some sort of attack on the palin’s are proving that there are indeed 2 constants in the universe, hydrogen and stupidity.
Whether you laugh at a skit or not is irrellevant, there is no way you can watch this skit and view it as an attack on the Palin’s or Rural america unless your eyes are so clouded with partisan idiocy that you can’t see the truth.
This skit absolutely skewered the NYT, the MSM and the egalitarian urban liberal mindset. Sadly you have rush limbaugh and other idiotic talk radio pinheads out there admitting they haven’t even seen it, but causing stirs.
There is enough things to truly get upset over, to try to feign outrage due to ones own ignorance however is an exercise in stupidity.
Yea, RUSH who admitted he hasn’t seen it.. Please, if you want to take marching orders from someone, I’d suggest picking up the new Testament, and turn off the radio.
SNL — a bunch of idiots making more in a year then they are worth in a lifetime!! Sorry, SNBD (Saturday Night Brain Dead) is not worth watching.
Disagree.
While it may have been a shot at the media, it no doubt was ALSO a shot at a rural small town woman.
The two do not need to be mutually exclusive.
Can you imagine a skit where they portrayed Obama as having sex with his children?
Neither can I.
When the point you are making is that the subject of your ridicule, and in this skit it was the media, is so over the top that they will publish anything regardless of facts, then yes, your going to go to the most rediculously ludicrous over the top claim you can, and then have them in your skit justify running it with it. And that’s exactly what they did.
To try to spin it that by simply using such a rediculous claim to make their point is an attack on Palin is nonsense, this clearly was a complete skewering of the media.. but hey, don’t worry about thinking for yourself, I’m sure Rush will tell you what to think about something he’s admitted he hasn’t seen as well, and you’ll be more than willing to swallow it.
There are 2 universal constants... Hydrogen and Stupidity, and those that are trying to argue the skit was an attack on the Palin’s sure aren’t proving the abundance of the 1st of those items.
There was no amniguity, blaming the DailyKos? are you kidding me, citing them would be like citing FreeRepublic, most of their audience would have no idea who either of those are.
The fact they said “come on its Alaska” just plays more into the egalitarian urban mindset they were ripping! I mean after all anyone who’s not from those big fancy cities but met folks from have had to deal with their holier than though world view.
This skit was an absolutely slam of the NYT, MSM and the Egalitarian Urban mindset, it was not shot at Alaska, or the Palin’s.
I think that remark is uncalled for. Frankly, I was pleased that RUSH agreed with me on this.
“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.”
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.”
You are correct.
It was not a shot at a rural small town woman, the fact the guys where using the fact “come on its alaska for christs sake” as their justification for making the statement was further attack on the egalitarian elitist mindsets that dominate the MSM, NYT and large city elites! It was a completely shot at their stupidity, not folks from Alaska.
They were willing to make and stand behind such a rediculously over the top statment simply because they “the elite” with no evidence, believed it must be true.
It was a complete slam on the liberal elites, and a damned good one, to try to argue it was a slap at rural americans is nonsensical.
yep
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