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.
But it is very relevant. The essence of mockery is humor, and there is a big difference between humor and flippancy. You laugh warmly with the first. You despise coldly with the second. And the object of the derision in this case in not the NYT, but rather the Palins.
You yourself are calling people who disagree with you idiots. That is an ad hominem argument against your oppenents as people, not an argument against their ideas.
The problem I have with it, is out of all the things they could have come up with, why incest? While I think that some jokes are funny, when no one person in particular is skewered (you might be a redneck.. or folks from Arkansas tend to have family trees with no branches), when you direct them at an individual, it changes things, crosses a line.
Not that this hurts SNL in my mind. Haven't watch that bleakness in over 20 years. They just aren't funny.
Will Ferrell is a prime example. Every movie he does is the same thing. I can only think of two movies he's in that I can even stand to watch.
He's just not funny. He thinks he is, but it's he's really just a sad and pathetic person.
Maybe if enough people call those numbers, SNL will get the message to never make fun of the New York Times again...
...ever.
~sheesh~