Saturday Night Live is becoming a Kuafman-esque Ouroboros, with pretend feuds leaking out onto the stages of Jimmy Kimmel and the like, so you can no longer tell who is actually mad about their SNL caricatures, and who is just pretending to be mad so they can show up for a cameo. And that is totally fine, according to Alec Baldwin, who took out some space at Huffpost to declare his support of Lorne's decision to have VP nominee Sarah Palin drop-in for a cameo this week.

Except, no one said it was a bad idea Alec. So just chill out

Saturday Night Live is a comedy show. It's not Meet the Press. It doesn't "ask the tough questions" or "set the agenda." It attempts, with varying degrees of success, to make people laugh. That's it. Whether they skewer and savage people in order to do so, they don't care. When you come on a show like that, you are prepared in advance to get worked over. Palin knew that. Palin came on to be a good sport. And she was. She was polite, gracious. (More so than some of the famous actors who come through there, believe me.)

However, I assume that, like Meet the Press, SNL feels an obligation to offer their special forum to any and all public figures and officials who are current. Headline making. And in SNL's case, would make for a hit show. Several people decried SNL for giving her a spot on the show. You're kidding, right? The woman is the Vice Presidential nominee of one of the two major parties in this country. Don't put her on SNL? With all of her exposure and the Tina Fey performance? What reality are you in?

Glad to see that good old Crazy Pants Baldwin found a new vague target to launch a campaign against, besides the entire Child Custody Law industry.

It's sort of weird to read this, because it's almost like Alec is having the argument with himself. You can't really imagine anyone sitting in front of their TVs outraged that Palin was allowed on NBC. Except for Alec Baldwin. You could kind of imagine Alec Baldwin, frothing liberal that he is, being pretty upset about the Republican cameo, until he struck a deal with SNL producers that he would be allowed on to say some nasty things to Palin's face, for the sake of a laugh. And escorting her off screen by the arm.