Posted on 06/10/2009 4:27:20 PM PDT by thewarden
Taping tonight's episode of The Late Show, David Letterman took a few minutes to respond to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who called him "pathetic" in a radio interview after he made her and her family the butt of a recent Top 10 list. The late-night host had drawn particular fire from Palin and some pundits for a joke about one of Palin's daughters being impregnated by New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez during a trip to Yankee Stadium. Camp Palin apparently took the joke to be a crack against Palin's 14-year-old daughter Willow, who had recently attended a Yankees game, but Letterman insisted today that the real target was 18-year-old daughter Bristol.
“We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news and we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter [Bristol]... and now they’re upset with me…” Letterman says on tonight's show. "These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl.... Am I guilty of poor taste? Yes. Did I suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No." Saying he hopes he's "cleared part of this up," Letterman extended an invitation to Palin to come on the show as a guest.
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You forgot that “Hate Rape” article from Playboy last week
You're kidding, right? My translation: "I didn't mean the 14 year old, I meant the the 18 year old slut..."
With all due respect, that was not an apology.
His sponsors are listed in another thread. I suggest everyone start contacting them.
Enough is enough....he knew full well who was at that game.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269180/posts
...and yes the pervert is a coward!!!
I think the left is scared of Sarah Palin. They can see how poplular she is with the common people and see her as a political threat.
We need to support her in this and show them for the sickos they are.
I second that.
That's what I'm thinking. Settle this the old fashioned way with Letterman crying about his broken nose. Then he can do a Top Ten reasons why assholes shouldn't call other peoples wives sluts.
How many jokes has he made about MO’s fashion sense???
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As many as he’s made about her fat arms, ugly flat face, or complete lack of fashion sense.
I was not nice either. Tomorrow I will email the sponsors.
With Cheney.
If Dave had gotten The Tonight Show, they would have been his writers, not Jay Leno’s. Typically the hosts run these things.
He’s an unfunny POS. Keep up the calls to the sponsors, that’s the only thing that hurts them.
Hmmmm, FCC? Anyone contact them over this matter?
Letterman has always been and continues to be a prime example of poor taste and tactless gibberish.
I stopped watching him years ago and this reinforces my decision to avoid him and people of his ilk.
Mike
No Dave, you suggested she was raped at a baseball game. It obviously couldn't have been consensual, but you libtards like to fantasize about raping conservative women and their daughters. No Dave, if you meant to fantasize about her older sister being raped instead, it's still disgusting.
The crux of this story is that David Letterman thinks sex jokes about 14 year olds is an acceptable laugh line in America. Since he’s one of America’s experts about what America thinks is funny, I can only assume he is correct.
Angels walking in pairs should scare the bejeebers out of knowledgeable Americans, of whom, I hope they number more than 9 per city.
He can send the list in from the ICU.
This qualifies as an apology in whose eyes?
Couldn't happent to a more worthy scumbag.
The left know she can beat Obama, EASILY..if that were not the case, they would care less what she does or what she says. They probably have some internal polling which shows that she can beat him in 2012
In his apology, he repeats it.
“I apologize for calling you a drug dealer. I never meant to call you a drug dealer. I am so sorry I called you a drug dealer, I didn’t mean any harm.”
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