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.
You.
Nailed.
It.
First, I bet the innocent minor children just love being the punch-line of an awful sex joke. Laugh riot, that.
Second, how about accusing Obama of doing the same thing, or would it not been as funny using the minor children of The One.
Incestuous rape is no joke.
If times were true and we still understood the concept of personal honor, this skit would have resulted in Tod horsewhipping the writers/actors. (It truly was an unspeakable insult to allege he was raping his daughters, joke or no joke).
Lampooning the media could have been aptly done, as demonstrated by the skits poking fun at the media during Gulf War I.. . and they never used incest or rape as a lead-in to the punch-line.
No need to drag the children into the sewer.