David Letterman responds to flap over Sarah Palin jokes

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[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.

[PLD]

He is a liar...just like the rest of the filthy liberals..I hope this all back fires on him and he does not get what he is after and that is viewers..He is a pathetic beast..Besides Sarah Palin and family have not been in the news lately as much..I wonder why he doesn't make fun of the Muslim trash in the white house..Oh and the Muslims daddy Wright and what he said about the Jews in the white house not letting him talk to his son..

[DemforBush]

correction: he did mention the rape element earlier on. Still, Letterman’s apology sound more snark than sincere to me.

[6SJ7]

Letterman extended an invitation to Palin to come on the show as a guest.

Drop dead Dave.

[DesertRhino]

Instead of Palin on the show. Make some Jokes about the Kenyan commie and his daughters. Biting, lurid, offensive ones.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Hey, MO's dress looked like something I saw in the shower section of Bed Bath and Beyond...

Hahahahaha.

[floridavoter2]

He also offended the Hispanic community for suggesting that a Hispanic man rapes 14 year old white girls.

[jazusamo]

"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....

Assuming that's true which I don't, I think he's a liar, why would the turkey make jokes about an 18 year old or any woman getting raped?

Letterman is a low class has been.

[Never on my watch]

Let me add “putz” to the long list of pejoratives that I have found to describe this SOB.

[MinuteGal]

There's links to a network complaint line on several FR threads running now where you can send a message. I just sent a scorcher. How many of you have sent one in? All the back and forth among ourselves here doesn't mean a damn thing. Let's support Palin in this just as she supports us.

Leni

[DesertRhino]

“Gov. Palin should invite Letterman to go hunting.”

A gay man hunting? I didnt think they liked that,,,

[RckyRaCoCo]

not good enough, has to be fired

Signed

Imus

[Theophilus]

That sounds like a legitimate apology. I hope the Palin family is helped by this

You have got to be kidding. If it's about Bristol it's OK? Letterman is an illegitimate bastard. I mean it, I'm not joking.

[ConservativeMind]

Honestly, I think they writers assumed Sarah was there with Bristol, who unfortunately has had too much sexual publicity already.

When I heard Sarah was there with her daughter, I thought Bristol, myself.

That said, just because someone is considered an adult child of a celebrity does not mean crass things should be said concerning them.

[SolidWood]

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[Para-Ord.45]

F**k off Dave,

Even the dorky, insecure in his own skin, Coana Obrian is kicking your ass in the ratings!

I mean COME ON ! Conan Obrain !?

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

I would let him twist in the wind.

What he said was disgusting, and he probably has had a LOT of blowback.

Phony, non-apology apology. And trying to capitalize on ratings with it.

[silverleaf]

Oh, he was only joking abut the rape of her 18 year old teenage daughter! While Sarah was in topwn with her 14 year old daughter.

Bristol is a valid figure for public ridicule because her mother is a conservative politician and at 18, she’s a big girl. Like Chelsea and Al Gore JR were when they were 18 and made fun of on national TV...?

Nothing to see folks, move along.

SARC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[editor-surveyor]

Yes David, you’ve cleared that up; you’re a puddle of sub-human scum. (no need to change the markee)

[NoGrayZone]

"If indeed that’s what it is, would it be politically astute of Palin to accept and “mend fences?”"

Only if it's Todd to accept and go "mend fences" with the perv.

That, I would PAY to see.