[gaijin]

Amazingly, this SNL skit was critical of NYC culture, and US journalism. I have NO IDEA why it is being misrepresented like this.

SNL is hugely liberal, and this was one of the few times they got it RIGHT.

[old and cranky]

You can criticize the NY Times and not include an innocent family. If you want to do a skit about them making something up, make it something outlandish. This was just an opportunity for SNL to get a dig in to the Palins.

[pepsi_junkie]

You are right, I heard this thing demonized on Rush yesterday and thought it sounded very low. Then my wife was watching it on the DVR yesterday and I happened to see the skit. It was making fun of how the NY Times considered smearing Palin more important than any other stories, like the unwinding financial crisis, how none of the reporters had ever been anywhere other than Manhattan, LA, or Washington and didnt know what basic items from "flyover country" even looked like (shotguns, snow mobiles), couldn't drive cars, etc. Portrayed them as totally disconnected elitists. But they did have one line about the Times trying to smear her with incest rumors which they considered newsworthy because they "can't be disproven" and that's what everyone is railing about.

It wasnt funny, but it was making fun of the press, not Palin.

[Checkers]

“Amazingly, this SNL skit was critical of NYC culture, and US journalism. I have NO IDEA why it is being misrepresented like this.

SNL is hugely liberal, and this was one of the few times they got it RIGHT.”

If enough humorless Conservatives complain, maybe SNL will learn it's lesson: NEVER MAKE FUN OF THE NYTIMES.

Way to go, folks. /sarc