I’ve seen a lot of comments on the blogosphere about Saturday Night Live making a joke about incest in the Palin family.

Tasteless? Yes. A cause for conservative outrage? Not so much.

Hugh Hewitt played the audio of the entire skit last night, and in fact, taken in context, it was a piece that could have been written by clever Republicans (there are a few, I’ve heard). The skit involved an editor sending a group of reporters to Alaska expressly to find dirt on Gov. Palin, and the reporters’ questions (including the incest one) were actually meant as examples of how out of touch the reporters were, how prejudiced against anyone living outside the liberal coasts.

The big laugh was when the editor informed the group that there was no Thai take-out in Alaska, and half of the reporters backed out.

It would be better to get outraged about issues that have some substance. There are plenty of those out there.