Posted by
tohu.vavohu on Monday, September 22, 2008 11:40:00 PM
video below -- scroll down
Looking for the skit, look no further, scroll down a bit [obtained via Sweetness & Light]. My two cents: The part about Todd Palin being involved in incest may be overblown in some part [hear me out] from those screaming foul. SNL was bashing the New York Times. That's what the skit was. A bash fest on the NYT and their [general] willingness to print anything and everything they don't like or understand about something or someone. NYT + fact checking = [false statement, can't compute]. That their universe doesn't excede past the confines of Manhattan. So I don't think SNL's addition of the comment was condoning or trying to spread disturbing and disgusting information as truth. Rather it was showing that they, like other MSM, would/might be willing to jump on doomed disgusting myth bandwagons that we have seen perpetuated before by the likes of a DailyKos diary and Andrew Sullivan or current viral campaigns. Printing it before it's been confirmed or validated, so in essence, feeding the fire with gasoline before realizing they burned half of the forest for no real justifiable reason. Sweetness & Light posted below it's embeded video, a working script I believe. Here is something that was cut out for whatever reason [emphasis mine]:
JAMES (CONTD)
Now, you all know why you’re here. You are, quite
simply, the fifty finest investigative reporters in journalism today.
Thanks to your work, it was The New York Times that broke the story
about our government’s secret program to track terrorist finances
overseas. A program so secret that, until our series, even Al Qaeda
didn’t know about it! Great work on that one, Dennis.
(GROUP APPLAUDS)
HIGGINS
(FROM WAY IN THE BACK)
I had some help.
JAMES
But
we don’t coast on reputation here. We are The New York Times. And in
Sarah Palin, we’ve got a Vice Presidential candidate about whom we know
virtually nothing.
Ouch! That's a major dig. Saying NYT compromised our efforts to fight terrorist; the likes of Al Qaeda. The whole skit was a scathing rebuke of what NYT does and doesn't do. The idea that everything is an assault rifle. Someone thinking a snow machine is a baptism machine, probably showing the wanting of some MSM to attack her faith and/or church. Anything to destroy McCain Palin and exalt Obama Biden.
Dennis Prager mentions every now and then that he has had talks with people who are amazed that there are people voting Republican. Prager says they say they've never met one. And it's because people are surrounded by their own kind. They live in a bubble. An echo chamber. And Prager has said that it's people he knows in New York. That's the New York Times, in it's own uni-bubble-verse. Echo Chamber: "Palin is evil! [~palin is evil!~] Confirmation!!! [~confirmation!!!~] Print it quick!!! [~print it quick!!!~]"
Could the line have been taken out like other lines apparently were? Absolutely. Would it have made the skit less impactful? No. Would it still be mocking the NYT? Yes. But I really think it was crying foul big time on the NYT, making fun of the extremes they go to. The lack of "...fine investigative..." reporting in MSM journalism. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.
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