In Saturday Night Live’s second attempt to mock this year’s vice presidential race, a sketch lampooning The New York Times as out of touch has instead touched off a firestorm by casually throwing out a much more insidious inference — incest — between Todd Palin and his pregnant, teenage daughter, Bristol.

In the sketch, New York Times reporters are sitting around an assignment meeting discussing what about Palin to investigate next.

One reporter asks: “What about the husband? You know he’s doing those daughters. I mean, come on. It’s Alaska.”

Guest host James Franco, who played the assignment editor, sets up the joke of proving a negative, saying, “He very well could be. Admittedly, there is no evidence of that, but on the other hand, there is no convincing evidence to the contrary. And these are just some of the lingering questions about Governor Palin.”

SNL supporters have raged that Trig Palin, who was born with Down syndrome, a much more frequent occurrence in women over 40, could have been the outcome of incest, which also increases the odds of the disability.

Regardless of your politics...aren't there some things that are off limits?  I mean, it was only a generation ago when children with Down's Syndrome would be shut away in an institution for their entire natural life. Now we have SNL spewing their prejudice by mocking children with Down's Syndrome - insinuating that these children are products of incest?  Just one of those precious children has more moral fiber than all of the SNL cast, writers, and producers combined.  Shame on you Lorne Michaels.