And the video here is the edited one…. Am I the only one to notice the media on the west coast were willing to edit out the part about the New York Times reporting for al-qaeda, but the part about accusations of incest weren’t deemed censor-worthy?

Well what’s it say about me doc?

It says you didn’t need much convincing.

Do me a favour run the skit through your mind one time…only this time insert you name and state, etc, etc… in place of Todd Palin, the Palin’s, Alaska, etc…

And assume the NYT was directing the kind of hatred at me that they direct at Palin? That’s a badge of honor, as I see it.

If you can still laugh at it and see that SNL was only mocking the NYT singularly…. then that tells me a lot about you as well!!!!

It tells you that I don’t get offended unless an actual offense has been committed.

Face it–there are enough real attacks on conservatives out there. There are plenty of liberals actually slandering us, plenty of liberals poring through records trying to find a scandal or something that can be made into a scandal.

Let’s deal with the real ones and leave the seeing-hate-speech-every-time-our-opponent-opens-his-mouth schtick to the liberals.

To assume these things mean “a barren wasteland out of touch with the rest of the nation” says more about you, I think, than it does about the skit.

Well what’s it say about me doc?

Re: Todd Palin / Incest bit … and the rest. You obviously have no clue when it comes to psychology.

I’m glad you enjoyed the skit…it was great! Hope you had a good laugh!

Do me a favour run the skit through your mind one time…only this time insert you name and state, etc, etc… in place of Todd Palin, the Palin’s, Alaska, etc…

If you can still laugh at it and see that SNL was only mocking the NYT singularly…. then that tells me a lot about you as well!!!!

The vast majority of Americans do not live in NYC.

BTW, WTF is tai food?

So there we have it Alaska is a barren wasteland out of touch with the rest of the nation and is the home of our possible VP, whose husband may be committing incest. It’s a backwards place; you can’t get a taxi, no Thai delivery, etc. It’s not like us!!!

Where you’re likely to be attacked by polar bears.

I live in a place where you can’t get a cab or thai delivery, and if there are any psychoanalysts in Alabam I don’t know them and don’t want to, where people have shotguns and it’s too warm for snowmobiles but there are plenty of four-wheel drives.

To assume these things mean “a barren wasteland out of touch with the rest of the nation” says more about you, I think, than it does about the skit.

I bo think the “lipstick on a pig” comment was a crack on Palin (seriously, how often does Obama use that term? Ever? And how often do crowds laugh raucuously at banal clichés?), but the incest thing was pretty obviously a crack on the slime at the Times, not the Palins.

And tell me what is inclusive, uniting and healing about this kind of ad campaign, humor and commentary? It is worse than politics as usual – it is personal attacks, insinuation and defamation.

And it should not be allowed or tolerated for any reason at all – even to slime the well deserving NYTimes.

I have a 24 year old; and the foremost impression he and his friends were left with is that Alaska is off on another planet where incest is possible; and of course no Thai delivery or cabs. Many in the media; (like Rush – who I respect) feel the same. And although the Todd Palin incest exchange was only a 15 second part of the bit, it was appalling and totally unnecessary – generating a reaction of disgust from many …which is what it was meant to do. Why?

So there we have it Alaska is a barren wasteland out of touch with the rest of the nation and is the home of our possible VP, whose husband may be committing incest. It’s a backwards place; you can’t get a taxi, no Thai delivery, etc. It’s not like us!!!
Therefore I believe that many under 30 will take out of it; that Alaska is not like the rest of the U.S; it’s to be ridiculed… So what can Sarah Palin really know about running a nation (heartbeat away) .

Once again I have to reiterate that the incest line had no place what’s-so-ever in the skit, considering the circumstances, what their daughter (whole family) is being put through in the media.

We’ll agree to disagree.

This skit in particular wanted to do two things:
1. Make another jab at Palin’s family. (remember Obama? Leave my wife alone!)
2. Make fun of Alaska as bumpkins, and culture-less shotgun wielding hillbillies, riding snowmobiles etc.
3. Depict Alaska as barren as the moon, and therefore Palin has no ability to lead “real” people.

Yes, I get the arrogant neuroticism of New Yorkers, and their lack of knowledge of fly-over country. They are using that vague group mentality to make direct insults to individuals, Palin and her family.
But when did incest jokes ever get laughs? Who thought that Palin and incest would be funny?

The more I watch the bit, the more I realize that the incest reference not only is the typical thing the NYT would do, but it also shows quite clearly what NYT reporters probably think Alaskans are really like.

Nope – this was a brilliant hit on NYT reporters that many conservatives are just wrong to being upset over – sort of like McCain’s (IMHO stupid) assertion that Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” reference was a reference to Palin.

And yes, I think el Rushbo (gasp!) has it wrong on this one, too.

IMHO if there’s something to be upset about from the weekend other than the antics of the Obama camp, it’s that the Emmy producers included Tim Russert (and for that matter, George Carlin twice) but left Tony Snow out of their “In Memoriam” reel.

Oprah: “Hey, how do we hammer these conservatives and their lipstick oinky Queen, without being called bias and mean spirited by the conservative watchdogs out there?”

Obama: “I got an idea…why don’t we contrive a skit; that if need be can be defended as ridiculing the New York Times, all the while were gorging on Palin meat!”

Oprah: “that won’t work; the demographic that SNL caters too will never realize that were mocking the NY Times, they’ll just see us disparaging and hammering away at the Palin’s – they’ll never get it” “SNL has never been that deep” “Show is on at 11:30 on a Saturday night, most people have a had a few or more by then…this will never work!”

Obama: “Exactly my point O; the vast majority who tune in are under 30; able to vote and make a difference in the election, yet shallow enough to not notice anything more profound in it” “after all it’s a late night comedy skit”

Oprah: “ya.ya oh ya!” “ooooooooooooooooh”

Obama: “ and the best part is…….If we get attacked by the right, we’ll just use the facade for the skit; the NYT backdrop… as our argument in defence!”

Oprah: “it’s freaking brilliant!”

Obama: “We’ll say… no no no…..we are mocking the NYT…. not the Palin’s!”
“You conservatives are wacky! Hahahha!”

Oprah: “It’s brilliant… no one will ever know” “you are a god O !”

Has it worked?