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.