Palin: Letterman owes apology to young women

[Bill]

This is from Wiki on Letterman...
Letterman has a son, Harry Joseph (born in 2003) with Regina Lasko. Harry is named after Letterman's father.[44] In 2005, police discovered a plot to kidnap Harry Letterman and ransom him for $5 million. Kelly Frank, a house painter who had worked for Letterman, was charged in the conspiracy.[45]

Perhaps other comedians should start making jokes about Dave's son. Pretty funny, huh Dave?

[qiphlow]

actually, his writers should be gettin' the brunt of the shitstorm. letterman's just the delivery boy.

[Jeice]

This is from Wiki on Letterman...
Letterman has a son, Harry Joseph (born in 2003) with Regina Lasko. Harry is named after Letterman's father.[44] In 2005, police discovered a plot to kidnap Harry Letterman and ransom him for $5 million. Kelly Frank, a house painter who had worked for Letterman, was charged in the conspiracy.[45]

Perhaps other comedians should start making jokes about Dave's son. Pretty funny, huh Dave?

That joke sucked. Let's go back to making fun of Palin.

[chud]

I don't know about that, I remember when Clinton got into office I'd hear jokes about how ugly little Chelsea was.

Also I heard a lot of jokes about W's alcholic daughters.

Well that was wrong too.

I'd give chelsea clinton a right good seglering.

S- just sayin.

Ok, that made me laugh out loud...still wrong though.

[CaliG]

Check this out. People are taking this way out of hand.

http://www.firedavidletterman.com/

What a joke! Palin is just trying to get back in the spotlight.

Top 10 Reasons Sarah Palin's "Outrage" is Misplaced and A Little Late...

10) Last September, a skit on Saturday Night Live suggested incest in the Palin family. "What about the husband?" asked a mock Times reporter. "You know he's doing those daughters. I mean, come on. It's Alaska!" No outrage. Sarah Palin appeared on the show one month later in late October.

9) Days after the announcement of Bristol's pregnancy, Conan O'Brien joked, "It's true, John McCain's running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, has revealed that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. Palin said, 'We should never have introduced her to John Edwards.'" Where was the outrage? Was Conan promoting infidelity with an underage girl?

8 ) From two different Tonight Shows: "Governor Palin announced over the weekend that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is five months pregnant. Oh, boy, you thought John Edwards was in trouble before, now he's really done it!" AND..."All the Republicans are heaping praise on Governor Palin. Fred Thompson said, as an actor, he could see them making a movie about Sarah Palin and her family. Didn't they already make that movie? I think it was called 'Knocked Up!'"--Jay Leno

7) Craig Ferguson's skit of "Larry King vs Levi Johnston" asks about "kinky sex" with the drapes open. Craig Ferguson's honorary Alaska citizenship, granted by Governor Palin wasn't rescinded.

6) "According to expense reports, Sarah Palin charged the state of Alaska over $21,000 for her children to travel with her on official business. In fairness to Gov. Palin, when she leaves them home alone they get pregnant." --Seth Meyers (SNL). Sarah Palin was in a sketch with Meyers a week earlier.

5) On October 8, 2008, Sarah Palin walked out on the ice with six year old Piper and 13 year old Willow, before the game, Conan O'Brien said, "Saturday night, Sarah Palin is going to drop the first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers' hockey game. Then Palin will spend the rest of the game trying to keep the hockey players out of her daughter's penalty box."
Oh, yes he did. You get the outrage...but not a peep then. According to the new "logic", O'Brien was advocating for some really sick stuff.

4) Rush Limbaugh: "Everyone knows the Clintons have a cat. Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is a White House dog?" Limbaugh put up a picture of Chelsea Clinton. At the time, Chelsea Clinton was 13 years old. Rush also said, "In last year's campaign, the most prominent, articulate voice for standard run-of-the-mill good old-fashioned American conservatism was Sarah Palin." Calling a young teenager a "dog" can't be helpful to her "self-esteem." Where is the apology from the leader of the GOP?

3) "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."--John McCain, Sarah Palin's running mate. Should McCain apologize to every young woman in America?

2) Palin's friend, political defender and informer of the David Letterman comments, John Ziegler, was fired from his radio show for using the "n-word" online and on air in 1997. In 2000, he was fired for spelling the "n-word" on the air. How much does that word affect the psychological health of America's youth, regardless of their race? Now he is pimping his film about how mean the "liberal media" was to Sarah Palin.

AND...The NUMBER 1 REASON Sarah Palin's Outrage is Misplaced and A Little Late...

1) The "candidate who must be obeyed" was talking about Palin's family when he said, "Kids are off limits." Jake Tapper of ABC News interviewed then Candidate Obama, and asked, "Governor Palin and her husband issued a statement today saying their 17-year-old daughter Bristol, who is unmarried, is five months pregnant. Do you have any reaction?"

OBAMA: "I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people's families are off-limits. And people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Governor Palin's performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know, my mother had me when she was 18. And, you know, how family deals with issues and -- and, you know, teenaged children, that shouldn't be the topic of -- of our politics."

The Palin children have been fodder for comedians since they were brought to the national stage. Incest isn't funny. Ugly kid jokes aren't funny. Many of the things said about public figures are just flat wrong. Being "knocked up" isn't much fun. Racist comments hurt all of us. I exhausted the top 10 list before I ran out of outrageous instances ignored by the Palins.

The National Organization for Women named David Letterman to their Hall of Shame. Will Letterman be joining Jay Leno? Conan O'Brien? Craig Ferguson? Seth Myers? Rush Limbaugh? Or John McCain? Of course not! I guess N.O.W. didn't bother checking Sarah Palin's "feminist" credentials. All across America, right wing radio and television talk show hosts feigned outrage in perfect synchronicity. The same people who back up Palin's high drama assertions against Letterman ignored the connections between Bill O'Reilly's irresponsible incitement and the murder of Dr. George Tiller. David Letterman, a late night entertainer, apologized. Fox New's Bill O'Reilly has not.

As a parent, I understand being defensive. I just wonder what took so long. Why now?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-m ... i_b_215468.

[Dmitri]

Palin is just trying to get back in the spotlight.

That's exactly how I feel about this "incident"...

[Steve James]

According to the news, Letterman did the right thing and apologized to the Palin family.

[Darth Rock&Roll]

This is from Wiki on Letterman...
Letterman has a son, Harry Joseph (born in 2003) with Regina Lasko. Harry is named after Letterman's father.[44] In 2005, police discovered a plot to kidnap Harry Letterman and ransom him for $5 million. Kelly Frank, a house painter who had worked for Letterman, was charged in the conspiracy.[45]

Perhaps other comedians should start making jokes about Dave's son. Pretty funny, huh Dave?

That joke sucked. Let's go back to making fun of Palin.

+1 for fucking awesomeness.

your popcycle is waiting in my freezer.

as for Palin, she's just a has been desperately looking for attention like Mildred in W.Somerset Maugham's 'Of Human Bondage'. lol

[Chris Fleming]

The sad thing is, if he had cracked a joke about some young ladies being "nappy headed hoes" that would have been the end of his career, at least for a while, and not without Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson getting involved. Double standard?

[cerebus]

3) "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."--John McCain

LOL! Dayum! That was rough, buy I hafta admit that it made me laugh...

[Jeice]

+1 for fucking awesomeness.

your popcycle is waiting in my freezer.

And I intend to collect!

[pujimeng]

I am not a fan of Sarah Palin, but Letterman's joke was tasteless and offensive to women. Also it was not funny. But Palin is blowing the whole thing out of proportion. So, probably Teazer's opinion is the best choice.

gretel

Palin's other teen daughter got pregnant, no?

If you ask me this just shows that the GOP has no sense of humor.

Yeah, don't they see the humor in statutory rape jokes about their 14 year old daughters? C'mon GOP. lighten up. Apparently the left thinks MAMBLA is hilarious!

[pujimeng]

Palin (or any public official)'s kids should be off limits to this stuff in my opinion. Typically in the past they have been.
I'm not sure what about Palin gets the media so riled up, but they seem to have gone after her and her family more than previous politicians, from either party.

I don't know about that, I remember when Clinton got into office I'd hear jokes about how ugly little Chelsea was.

Also I heard a lot of jokes about W's alcholic daughters.

But it doesn't really matter, the fact is if you want to stay out of the public eye then stay out of the public eye.

Any jokes about them having sex with 30 something sports stars when they were 14? And the "two wrongs make a right" argument lost it's power around the third grade, IMHO

[Darth Rock&Roll]

Palin is just missing the attention she got courtesy of McCain and she liked that little taste of fame.

She sees going head to head on this empty item as a chance to get her mug out there again.

I gotta say, when it comes to transparency, her pettiness is right there!

[Bill]

Apparently the left thinks MAMBLA is hilarious!

You mean NAMBLA?

North American Man Boy Love Association?

They should all be shot on site. Imagine that, an organization devoted to raping little boys.