Too hot for YouTube! NBC's Palin 'incest' video yanked

WND ^ | 9-22-08 | Joe Kovacs

[hope]

YouTube has pulled from its website a video of a "Saturday Night Live" skit featuring characters portraying New York Times reporters investigating whether Todd Palin was having sex with the couple's own daughters after NBC expressed a claim of copyright, even though a wide range of other "SNL" clips remain available.

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And they still wouldn’t DARE to do the same skit about Obama.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Well...if you check YouTube right now you will see about a dozen of the Palin/Clinton (Fey/Poehler) openning from last week. Go back in an hour...the ones up now will be gone; and 'new' posters will take their place. NBC copyrights and sells their 'hot' properties (for placement on hulu, iTunes, and their own website...last week's openner was shown on NBC.com 'sponsored by Splenda.') NBC, like alot of 'owners' of the material routinely scrub YouTube for their property (but so many files are out there that it is a losing battle). Older SNL routines are there (again, the age makes them less valuable because the go after the current, hot items they cant turn a profit off).

As to why this skit isn't up on NBC.com yet...maybe criticism from both sides...but my, guess...they haven't found a sponsor. Once they can turn a dime on it, it will be there...

What amazes me is that this is the third or fourth thread (on FR alone) with the vast majority of 'FRighteously indignant' posters not even having seen the bit. Sunday, it was WorldNutDaily (slow weekend for BigFoot sightings) who fanned the flames...and yesterday (sadly) it was Rush (who admitted he didn't see it!). There is alot to be upset about this election cycle...and a late night comedy routine that absolutely ridicules the elite MSM, is not it!!!Put your energy folks into campaigning, canvassing, phone calling for McCain/Palin...not wasting your time tilting at the NBC windmill when there is sooooo many important issue today.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

And if people actually watched the skit they would see that it was not critical of the Palin family...it showed the smears were just made up and unsubstantiated. The people 'smearing' (the elite MSM) were severely damaged themselves...the bullseye was aimed at the NYTimes...not the Palins.

McCain has been on SNL several times...he always gets good laughs and comes across really well. SNL has infact skewered Obama (anybody remember the Hillary Debate skit where the moderators ask if they can get Barry anything...a pillow...and become orgasmic when he responds to 'that' question?) I am guessing alot (ok, most here) don't remember that one...because they don't watch the show...only comment upon it.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

The reporter named Karl Marx who needed 2 psychiatrists ... the feminazi with 2 last names that sued everyone for sexual harassment ... the self-certain know it all who knew nothing yet won a Pulitzer ... the neurotic polar bear-o-phobic ... the expert of Alaska who had spent one summer there 20 years ago ... the entire group of 50 journalists, none of which could even drive a car or had ever been outside of LA, Manhattan, and Sag Harbor ...

And none of them could survive without Thai take out...

[Guenevere]

Thank-you!

Now that I've finally seen it I can't for the life of me understand why ANYONE would defend it!!..and plenty here at FR are defending it!!!!

Disgusting, vulgar, vile and sick!

Why are some of you defending this????

[muawiyah]

Leftwingnuts NEVER make fun of each other, particularly if the other party is homosexual.

The purpose was simply to have a giggle at the expense of a normal family.

If SNL needs a defense I suggest they start doing so themselves. One thing FR doesn't need is to defend the indefensible.

[SauronOfMordor]

Youtube download site allows you to download a youtube video. The VLC player allows you to play it locally. And once you have the vid, you can upload it. Let NBC and others play "whack a mole".

[PennsylvaniaMom]

The entire skit is 8:04 in run time. That link shows about 30 seconds of it (skewering it for the reaction sought). Its not the whole piece...whoever put ‘that’ up (on YouTube) is stoking the outrage fire and missing what the whole skit was about...impaling those who have slandered the Palins. Playing conservatives is that all that little snippet does...THAT WAS NOT THE ENTIRE SKETCH.

[muawiyah]

The skit was not done in a vacuum of political discussion and manufactured news. As a consequence it was an attack on our candidate, not the NYT.

[Guenevere]

Good mercy!..NOW I've seen the whole skit.

WHY IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT'S DECENT ARE ANY OF YOU DEFENDING THIS SICK,STUPID JUNK?????????????????

[SauronOfMordor]

Thanks. Downloaded. another youtube download site. This first one I posted seems to have problems

[muawiyah]

Let's put it this way, SNL became too smarmy for normal people to watch over 20 years ago. However, during an election year stuff will ooze up out of there into public consciousness ~ this time on U-tube, et al, and that makes it quite posible for everybody to see what the fuss was about in daylight.

End of story.

NBC is indefensible.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Did you actually see the entire clip? No the editted 28 second bit...the actual 8:04 run?

[Guenevere]

I'll REPEAT!....(Now that I've seen the WHOLE skit)

Good mercy, in the name of all that's decent...

WHY ARE YOU DEFENDING THIS SICK, STUPID SKIT???????????

[comps4spice]

The bigger question is why is NBC letting a demoncRAT candidate for senate write anything on their programming line up. But then again, the National Barack Channel is one of the propaganda outlets of the DNC.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

(Okay...I'll bite...)

I am defending 'it' because is showed, with great clarity how the main stream media (ie., the New York Times) 'makes up' the news. If you saw the skit...the 'investigative reporter' MADE UP THE INCEST CLAIM. And the NYTimes ran with it. And the story won a Pulitzer Prize EVEN THOUGH IT WAS MADE UP! It showed the media to be a deeply damaged (can't live without contact to multiple psycho-therapists; transgendered; phobic; angry and ligitious; can't drive a car or even hold driver's license; never been off Manhattan Island) insular, elitist, basically useless group. What part about THAT don't you get?

Don't you 'get' that this is no different than the MSM running with 'Trig is Bristol's baby?' That was made up too...and what SNL was doing, via satire, was SHOWING THAT THE MEDIA MAKES THIS CRAP UP!

There is alot to get upset folks...this isn't it!

[SauronOfMordor]

Now that I’ve seen the whole thing, I agree with you

[Guenevere]

Can any of you who support/defend this garbage even imagine the UPROAR!!!..if they had said 'well, you know Obama is doing his daughters'.........CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE THE UPROAR???

It would be sick to suggest with Obama....

.. and this is sick to suggest with Palin... to imply .....to put out that innuendo... that gets in the public mind.

Shame on all of you for defending this.....it just makes me sick!

[muawiyah]

As much of it as could be stomached ~ still, the more popular excerpt is enough to condemn the whole network so why should we quibble about that excerpt condemning the skit?

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Shame on you for ignoring what HAS been alleged against the Palin family and has already been printed about them. The media hasn't made these type of made up charges against anyone BUT the Palin family. That was the purpose of the skit...TO SHOW THAT THE MEDIA MAKES THE SMEARS AGAINST THE PALINS UP. Out of thin air. And the charges can't be proven...but that doesn't stop the media...infact they are rewarded (the Pulitzer Prize reference?) for MAKING UP THE NEWS.