Fact Checking NBC: SNL Palin Incest Skit

**RobInKuwait** · 09-22-2008, 08:55 PM

WTF....I hope no one has the audacity to defend that skit. You can say it was poking fun at the NY Times, but there is a line of good taste and it was utterly ignored.

This was the only video of it I could find.

**RobInKuwait** · 09-23-2008, 10:43 PM

Nobody wants to talk about this? Not many things leave me speechless, but when I heard about this I was completely speechless.

**Iron Lungz** · 09-23-2008, 11:01 PM

I can remember when skits like this were taboo... I liked T.V. a lot more then.
Without picking a side, I will say that it was poor taste and I don't think that it was funny.

**RobInKuwait** · 09-24-2008, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Iron Lungz

I can remember when skits like this were taboo... I liked T.V. a lot more then.
Without picking a side, I will say that it was poor taste and I don't think that it was funny.

I guess what shocked me is that I thought they still were taboo!

**Iron Lungz** · 09-24-2008, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by RobInKuwait

I guess what shocked me is that I thought they still were taboo!

Sadly, it's not. Without getting in to the politics of it, the freedom of expression/free thought is being taken to the maximum. It's all about how far the envelope can be pushed now.

Reaper329 · 09-24-2008, 09:55 AM

certain things are off limits, and this should be one of them. There are too many times where things go overboard, pathetic

futurepilot · 09-24-2008, 01:08 PM

You guys are really worried about a skit on saturday night live? There is no more pressing issues we could be debating than a satirical news conference from a moving picture box thats existence is only to sell commercials?

How about if you replaced palins husband with Earl Higgins from arkansas, still not funny?

**RobInKuwait** · 09-24-2008, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by futurepilot

You guys are really worried about a skit on saturday night live? There is no more pressing issues we could be debating than a satirical news conference from a moving picture box thats existence is only to sell commercials?

How about if you replaced palins husband with Earl Higgins from arkansas, still not funny?

Calling a parent and the spouse of a Vice Presidential candidate a pedophile on national TV without basis is disgusting not satirical.

I can't believe this barely even made the news anywhere other than on conservative talk radio. Just shows who is deciding on what is newsworthy.

futurepilot · 09-24-2008, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by RobInKuwait

Calling a parent and the spouse of a Vice Presidential candidate a pedophile on national TV without basis is disgusting not satirical.

The news conference was satirical, the comments were irreverant, but like I said: T.V. isnt real, it exists in it of itself, purely for economic revenue, as do radio stations, they have a target market and they play whatever they need to, to get viewers. Which in turns allows them to charge a higher price for advertising time.

If you think this is bad, you would riot in the streets over south park.

**RobInKuwait** · 09-24-2008, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by futurepilot

The news conference was satirical, the comments were irreverant, but like I said: T.V. isnt real, it exists in it of itself, purely for economic revenue, as do radio stations, they have a target market and they play whatever they need to, to get viewers. Which in turns allows them to charge a higher price for advertising time.

If you think this is bad, you would riot in the streets over south park.

I disagree that its purely for economic revenue. If that were true don't you think another network would go a little less to the left and try and compete with Fox News. Their ratings utterly destroy every other cable news network in every demographic? You said it was all about the revenue.

Cable News Nielsen TV Ratings for Tuesday, September 16, 2008

futurepilot · 09-24-2008, 02:11 PM

I'm not an investment banker, I cant say why certain financial decisions are made.

But its not up for discussion whether T.V. is a for profit enterprise, its a fact. T.V. isn't the peace corp, its a business.

**RobInKuwait** · 09-24-2008, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by futurepilot

I'm not an investment banker, I cant say why certain financial decisions are made.

But its not up for discussion whether T.V. is a for profit enterprise, its a fact. T.V. isn't the peace corp, its a business.

Why is it not up for discussion? You said TV made its decision off what makes them the most money, like it was a fact.

I showed you that cable news networks were not doing what makes them the most money. I'd say they are either incompetent or they are basing their decisions on something other than money.

Mulletsoldier · 09-24-2008, 02:28 PM

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

That simple.