Posted on 09/22/2008 9:56:46 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Exactly!
“Well, it was the cheapest of a cheap shots, and I am not going to let this go by without a challenge.”
1.) What is the “challenge” you’re announcing?
2.)Do you understand that the skit was satirizing the NYTIMES feeding frenzy over the Palin selection and nomination?
3.) Do you understand that the skit was satirizing the parochialism of some Manhattanites?
“Well, it was the cheapest of a cheap shots, and I am not going to let this go by without a challenge.”
1.) What is the “challenge” you’re announcing?
2.)Do you understand that the skit was satirizing the NYTIMES feeding frenzy over the Palin selection and nomination?
3.) Do you understand that the skit was satirizing the parochialism of some Manhattanites?
Next time read YOUR OWN post. I'm not the one who said, "a skit making fun of Sarah’s down syndrome daughter."
Instead of being half humerous to point out your gaffe,, I could have just made a cutting remark about "idiot posters".
I saw the show. The skit was relentlessly mocking the media for their anti-Palin bias. To protest this skit as anti-Palin - particularly if you didn’t even see it - would be very silly indeed.
You didn’t see it either. Right?
No decent person does.
If you haven't seen the skit, I think you will find it difficult to understand why it was a slam on the media and really didn't touch Palin.
Obviously incest is a ugly subject - but that doesn't mean that it can't be discussed.
In the skit, one of the reporters makes a reference that incest obviously happened. The "Trainer" leading the group basically played the a professional "straight man" taking the incest comment with with a sort of sardonic incredulousness - basically taking the comment as those from a fool - which is the way all the reporters were portrayed in this skit - as fools. Kudos to SNL for lampooning the media.
Like I said earlier, I was surprised and pleased. I wouldn't want my young kids to have been exposed to this - as incest is an adult topic of discussion, but then young kids should not be watching any late night TV.
Having said all that, the rest of the show pretty much stank (we just happened to be watching it for the first time in about 6 mo.)
regards
Sent this email moments ago to all on the list.
I wish to express my indignation at GE’s continuing support of SNL after the tasteless skit aired with perverse humor asserting incest against the Palin daughters by their father.
This episode of SNL establishes that SNL no longer merits your venerable business continued support. Once a fine program with outstanding humor, it has fallen into vitriolic and venomous personal attacks all in the name of so called avant-garde humor.
Strongly urge you all to chastise the entire staff of SNL for their low actions and to emphasize that chastisement with a GE statement that any further such incidents will result in GE withholding continued financial support of SNL.
Making fun of President Ford’s public clumsiness, President Clinton’s extra-marital dalliances, President Bush’s malapropisms is in the vein of the lasting humor that Will Rogers would have used. What SNL did falls far outside the acceptable and brings shame and dishonor to your business.
Request you severely and publically chastise SNL for this poor conduct on their part and as representatives of GE.
Sorry, you're both wrong. This is SNLs way of slandering ALL conservatives by proxy. You think the cute little "come on this is Alaska" comment isn't exactly what the writers of the stupid show believe? It's called the power of suggestion and the storyline is all that brain-dead boob-tube watchers are going to remember.
"Like, aren't those Alaska people all, like, incestuous or something? I saw it on TV..."
“I could have just made a cutting remark about “idiot posters”.
Speaking of which.
This is satire, folks. A bit unseemly, but not, in my opinion, aimed to be negative. It is a satire of the way the stupid rumors about Palin spread so quickly and viciously.
Others have said it, and I will add my 2 cents: this was NOT an anti-Palin skit, but rather, one that made the NY Times look like the biased arses they are.
STOP it Jay. You're making an a$$ of yourself. STOP CALLING OTHER FREEPERS IDIOTS!
There is no need for sarcasm. And there is no need to put the word challenge in quotations marks. Challenge is a word everyone knows by common sense. It means to call into question. And that is what I have done. I have already challenged NBC by a phone call, and I will be writing letter to NBC and GE as well.
2.)Do you understand that the skit was satirizing the NYTIMES feeding frenzy over the Palin selection and nomination?
Yes, that is what SNL does. It satirizes. But it went over the line when it had a foolish reporter suggest Todd Palin committed incest with his daughters.
3.) Do you understand that the skit was satirizing the parochialism of some Manhattanites?
I know what satire is. And this was not satire. It was a cheap shot. I think the more important question is why any one would find a suggestion that Todd Palin committed incest with his daughters so hillarious? Have peoples' taste become that jaded?
I am not going to pretend that this was funny just because it was on SNL.
No, you are wrong.
“I could have just made a cutting remark about “idiot posters”.”
If you did that on this thread, you’d be awfully busy.
This is the response I just got to the email cited in Reply # 168
Thanks for your note. We understand your concerns and value your opinion. This has been brought to the attention of Saturday Night Live Executive Producer Lorne Michaels. I will forward your note to him.
yep
Did you see the skit?
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