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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That is NOT an apology.
And yet you little pervert that is exactly what you did.
Any company that advertises on your show is dead to me and they are getting a call from me telling them so.
Starve in the gutter you miserable shoe scraping.
BS!!! He is making bad excuses. Saying that Bristol being raped is any better? It was also Willow attending the game, not Bristol. Furthermore he still called Palin a racist slut. Also no mention of him essentially calling Willow Eliot Spitzer's whore. He did NOT apologize. No one is helped by this.
Something tells me Todd Palin would never let his wife (or family) near this guy.
She would be crazy to do this and I hope she would have better sense.
Does he make edgy remarks about the Obamas?
If he does, I’ll have to read about it here, I stopped watching him a decade ago, at some point his humor became humorless, he lost it somewhere along the way. He seems like an unhappy guy.
Please remove your head from ass. Thank you.
He is a pathetic pig. Like it’s acceptable to make jokes about the older daughter? What a jerk! When are the Michelle Obama and daughter jokes coming Letterman since you think that people that are in the news are fair game, afterall?
Actually, Dave...you did.
So the supposedly funnymany weasel puts out a half hearted statement. Screw him and his sorry pathetic existence.
“Did I suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex?”
Notice how Letterman puts the emphasis on Palin’s 14 year old daughter in the hypothetical situation? It’s not “I didn’t mean to suggest it would be okay for a 30+ year old professional baseball player to commit statutory rape”, it’s (essentially) “I didn’t mean to say it was okay for Palin’s underage daughter to be a ho.”
Way to stay classy there, Dave. /s
Todd should be the one to go on the show.
Since Sarah didn't go on Oprah Whimpy I doubt if she'd go on a show with someone who insulted her and her family ...
OK DAVE so it OK to make jokes about rape of a woman over 18?
You piece of c$ap you had better never cross my path.
From what I see here, seems like an apology - quite a suprise coming so quickly.
If indeed that’s what it is, would it be politically astute of Palin to accept and “mend fences?”
I hope that Todd Palin accepts the invitation and confronts the old panty waist on live TV. Heck, I would pay to see it.
Invite Dick Cheney too.
I”m sure Obama will speak out against this as he did with Imus
He didn’t apologize to Sarah and Bristol wasn’t there. Dave needs a vacation and a new set of writers to clean up the act he and his hacks have ruined.
“That sounds like a legitimate apology.”
??? I saw no apology, just squirming.
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