A week after a high-profile send-up of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night Live,” the NBC comedy show returned to making fun of the Alaskan governor in a skit where New York Times reporters sought to probe the possibility Palin’s husband, Todd, was having sex with the couple’s own daughters.

“What about the husband?” asked a Times reporter during a mock assignment meeting for the paper. “You know he’s doing those daughters. I mean, come on. It’s Alaska.”

The assignment editor for the Times, portrayed by actor James Franco, responded: “He very well could be. Admittedly, there is no evidence of that, but on the other hand, there is no convincing evidence to the contrary. And these are just some of the lingering questions about Governor Palin.”

The skit featured a photo of one reporter and an on-screen message that stated, “In 2009 [reporter] Howland Gwathmey Moss, V was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his Times series on unproven, yet un-disproven incest in the Palin family. Sadly, he was to die 3 months later, run over by a snow machine, driven by a polar bear.” The final shot showed an image of a New York Times page, with headlines that included:

“While No Direct Evidence of Incest in Palin Family Emerges, Counter Evidence Remains Agonizingly Elusive” and “In a Small Alaska Town, Doubts Still Linger.”

The sketch seemed to be designed to mock how out of touch journalists from the Big Apple are when it comes to their knowledge of Alaska, with left-leaning, Manhattan-dwelling reporters mistaking a snowmobile for a “baptizing machine,” a crucifix and a NordicTrack exerciser in photographs held up for them.

Obviously this hit a sour note with NBC, it’s been pulled from YouTube and Google video. Though I did think the reference to the “baptizing machine” to be hilarious.

Found by James “lefty” Hill




  1. jccalhoun says:

    That’s great except it is in no way equivalent to the section of the skit in question.

  2. SuperBK says:

    John, Glad to see you sticking up for the Republicans.

  3. Nimby says:

    Didn’t see it. Wouldn’t waste my time with SNL, anymore. But, it is a well known fact that the SNL team is pro-Obama so it’s hard to accept the joke was strictly aimed at the news media and not a personal attack.

    That aside, Obama made it patently clear that the children in this campaign should be left out of the fight. Even the slightest suggestion of incest is hurtful and obnoxious. NBC should be offering profound apologies.

  4. eddie says:

    Verbally attacking children is out of bounds and so are sex jokes about children. People who don’t get this may need to be put under observation 24/7. Amen to that.
    Sounds like our democrat friends like their daughters. NO THINKING PERSON WOULD THINK THIS WAS FUNNY. Any reasonable person would be condeming this in the strongest terms. This certainly shows the mind set of our lib friends. I THINK WE NEED TO SEE WHATS GOING ON IN SOME OF SNL.S FAMILYS.

  5. #35 – Mr. Haskell

    >>I THINK WE NEED TO SEE WHATS GOING ON IN SOME
    >>OF SNL.S FAMILYS.

    All things in good time.

    First, we need to see what’s going on in SARAH PALIN’S FAMILY.

    How about that DNA test on her and Trig? You think the results will be ready any time soon? I still want to know whose kid that is.

  6. Noam Sane says:

    (clutches pearls and tries not to faint)

    The bigger fuss they make over this, the more attention they can divert over the fact that they are taking money from your wallet to give to people who are already incredibly rich.

    The Bush administration is ending the way they started: redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top.

    Look! Over there! Something to be outraged by!

  7. The Monster's Lawyer says:

    Nobody said comedy was pretty.

  8. jccalhoun says:

    It is amazing how people who never saw the skit feel qualified to condemn it. I wouldn’t be surprised if they protest movies before they come out too.

  9. Mister Ketchup says:

    What is the best selling item at an Alaskan bakery? Inbred…

  10. Mr. Fusion says:

    It doesn’t matter if it was Obama or Palin at the center of the skit. It was about media abuse. For some reason though, I am not surprised that so many right wing nuts are taking this personally.

    GET A LIFE !!! Not everything is about you. This was a comedy skit. If you don’t think SNL is funny, don’t watch. If you don’t like what you hear about them, ignore them.

    “Left” Hill. Quit your whining. You are already owned.

  11. bob says:

    The joke was at the expense of the media, not the Palins.

    Seriously.

    Republicans, don’t seek power in victimization- that’s the Democrats’ favorite tool. YOU’RE DOING IT RIGHT NOW!

  12. Well ... says:

    I was into SNL skits back in the late 80’s through the early to mid-nineties.

    Now, I just happened to see SNL last Saturday and the skit being discussed.

    Politically, I lean more democratic than republican. I recognized the skit was making fun of the media, but at the time, I thought the reference to Palin’s husband detracted from the humor and the message the skit was trying to make.

    The incest “joke” was tasteless.

    I have have absolutely no confidence in Palins ability to take the position that would put her a heart-beat away from president of the United States.

    From the interviews I have seen, she reminds me of a mix between Dan Quale and G.W. Bush

    A recent episode of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart pointed out additional info about Palin that I think others who are on the fence about her should see as well.

  13. MikeN says:

    #34, SNL is pro-Hillary, though now I guess they’re pro-Obama.

    #29, You spelled your name wrong. It should be
    dEmoCrAt

  14. ZOEZOE says:

    #21? Perception is reality and the reality is that the Left-Wing-Moore-hugging cast of SNL intention was to ridicule & embarrass the Palin family. That was the underlining intention. To say otherwise is typical liberal deniability. This has been the platform in which you operate and it is rather insulting when people try to put an alternative spin on everything. Do you think that this allows one to say whatever they want regardless of how horrible as long as you claim that it is a ‘joke’ Why didn’t SNL have equally as insulting jokes about Biden’s family? Left wing bias makes the whole entertainment industry look petty & stupid.

  15. Mr. Fusion says:

    #45, ZOE,

    Sure. Let’s have SNL write a skit about Biden’s wife dieing in a car crash and leaving him with a couple seriously injured kids to look after. Hey, they could set the time to just before he takes office for the first time in the Senate.

    WOW, wouldn’t the wing nuts find that funny.

  16. James Hill says:

    Angry liberals,

    Look at the hit count: Quite not as hot as when she was announced, but still worth a lot of posts. Just because this is yet another way to keep Palin, and not Obama, in the press is no reason to get pissy.

    #41 – Your worship is noted. Besides, my lines work much better when they’re coming from me.

  17. smartalix says:

    So everyone here condemning this was also disgusted at the same kind of attacks on Chelsea Clinton back when Clinton was running?

    Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”

    – Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998.

  18. Brendal says:

    Let’s bring back Eddie Murphy as Obama…

  19. judy upton says:

    I have never found SNL funny, now i just find it Pathetic. The skit on
    Palin incest was crude, tasteless, and hitting below the belt. I am a supporter of McCain/Palin, but I would say the same if this done to Obama. It’s time to trash SNL!

  20. Mr. Fusion says:

    #49, Brenda,

    Don’t you think he would make a better “Todd”. Also Dan Ackroyd would make a wonderfully senile old Senator. Chevy Chase as the hair plugged, handsome, seemingly docile but tough, Joe Biden. And it would have to be someone like

  21. ” Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”

    – Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998. “

    I hate to break the news to WrinklePuss, but Chelsea Clinton is HOT!

    http://tinyurl.com/3vd9e3

    He could only dream that his aging trophy wife looked like that.

    Of course, Chelsea’s not a beer heiress. Funny how being a millionairess can make a woman look better to her husband.

  22. kate says:

    some things should just not be ‘JOKED’ about


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