I just watched my recording of the segment in question. This was without a doubt the most vicious slam on the media I have ever seen. The New York Times staff was the butt of this skit, and it touched all the bases and them some.
When this hits YouTube, I urge folks to watch it. Man, this couldn’t have been better if we would have collaborated here on FR to make it as in touch with reality as it could be.
I can’t remember it all now, but here are a few highlights.
1. Editor plans to send 50 reporters off to Alaska to dig dirt on Palin
2. Female reporter responds, what I’d like to know is if she is a member of a golf club that won’t admit women. “Oh nevermind...”
3. Male reporter going through a sex change process wants to know if Sarah’s husband is doing their girls. Editor encourages him even if there is no proof, because there’s no proof he isn’t. (At end of skit, this guy gets a pulitzer, for doing the full blown story on this topic with the conclusion they can’t prove he is, but they can’t prove he isn’t.)
4. Reporters are asked how they intend to get around Alaska. When one person says they plan on using a taxi, all are asked who plans to use that method. All raise their hands. They are asked if they know how to drive a stick. Nobody raises their hand. Asked if they have a license, nobody raises their hand.
5. All the reporters have never left New York City.
6. The expert on Alaska says it’s a huge place, and some reporter responds, “Have you ever seen Queens?”
7. One shrew reporterette is described as determined to file a sex discrimination suite at the drop of a hat, has done it to the editor three times. By the end of the show she is revealed to have filed a suit in Alask for $70 million and won, because someone addressed her as sweetie.
8. All but three reporters bail on going to Alaska for various reasons, one being that they don’t have Thai takeout.
Seriously folks, this could have been produced by FR, it was that good.
Hope somebody starts a new thread when they find this on YouTube - I thought the first skit was so stupid I turned off my DVR...
Yes, yes, yes!!! You ‘get it too.’ This was a perfect slam of the NYSlimes (and the effete, elite of the NY media). I almost thought somebody lurked ‘here’ with some of the lines they used...
Thank you both for your reports of this sketch.
I’ll have to keep an eye out to see it somewhere.
Where is it?