Comments on: Oh That Liberal Humor. First Threats of Gang Rape, Now Father- Daughter Incest

By: Mike D

Mike D — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:47:12 +0000

The SNL did make fun of the “media”…..

But the means it used to poke fun was the distasteful and slanderous incest accusations.

So the poking fun was used as a means to demean and hurt both the republican VP nominee and her family.

They could have done that with class but chose to be vulgar and sophmoric.

By: bill_finger

bill_finger — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:13:57 +0000

I might just be a whacko-left-wing-baby-killing hippie, but I’m pretty sure that SNL skit was directed to make fun of the media.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:25:58 +0000

I think anytime someone takes anything to extremes, it’s a problem. I’ve heard both sides go to extremes with their backing of their party or a candidate believing their party or candidate is never wrong and that no one else is ever right. That other beliefs are not valid.(not just in this election)

while threedegrees is making the point that both sides do it (and McCain’s comments are part of what made me lose respect for him), it doesn’t make it any less disgusting.

Comedians have some wiggle room with things others would be chastised for, but making a suggestion of rape is not one of them. It’s not funny in any way. SNL DID stop being funny, for the most part, long ago. I have heard the rumors about Bristol’s baby being from incest. As I’ve said before, kids should be off limits, but making that kind of accusation is dangerous. Making it into a comedy skit is outrageous. Don’t these people think before they speak? Don’t they realize that the candidates are not the only ones affected? Their children see and hear these things and are taunted by it?

We all believe things differently and for different reasons. I wish we could do so with respect. Sad, sad, sad!

~Kelly
http://www.30somethingandsearching.today.com/

By: major.obvious

major.obvious — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:54:25 +0000

I honestly think people on both extremes are completely off their rockers; that’s why sit on this comfy fence.

By: threedegrees

threedegrees — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:37:52 +0000

I completely agree. That’s as distasteful as telling a rape joke.

“Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, ‘Where is that marvelous ape?” -John Sindey McCain

Or wife beating:
John McCain recently made a joke about wife beating to a reporter from the Las Vegas Sun. McCain was being asked if he was avoiding the unpopular Republican Governor of Nevada, he replied “and I stopped beating my wife a couple weeks ago.”

Or torture:

His presidential hopes apparently derailed, a number of his staff had abandoned the campaign, only to be brought back when McCain reemerged as the Republican front-runner. He joked that he conducted “a short period of waterboarding to find out what they did in their absence.”

But I get your point. McCain’s only running for the highest office in the land, not working as an actor on a late-night comedy show. Just don’t tell him he’s going bald:

“When his wife teased that his hair was getting “a little thin,” McCain fumed. “At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollup, you c*nt!”