[muawiyah]

No, that's not the point. The SNL crew intended to associate the word "incest" with our candidate.

They used the NYT as a tool.

A real attack on the NYT would not have included any of the current candidates ~ maybe they could have used Al Franken as their foil.

[Newtiebacker]

Occam’s razor. It’s much more likely they were trying to be funny at the NYT’s expense. After all, that’s what it looked like.