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David Letterman responds to flap over Sarah Palin jokes
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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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbs; letterman; lettermanpedophile; palin; palinfamily; pds; pedophile; pedophilia
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1 posted on 06/10/2009 4:27:21 PM PDT by thewarden
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To: thewarden
How many jokes has he made about MO’s fashion sense???
2 posted on 06/10/2009 4:29:08 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Barak Obama: Pontificator in Chief and Poster Child for the Peter Principle)
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To: thewarden

He’s liar.

Bristol Palin wasn’t at the Yankees’ game - Willow was.


3 posted on 06/10/2009 4:29:42 PM PDT by Wil H (The most destructive act of Muslim terrorism against the US was paying for 0bama's Harvard education)
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To: thewarden

Well, I must say I didn’t expect that from him.

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


4 posted on 06/10/2009 4:30:24 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (The UN has never won a war, nor a conflict, but liberals want it to rule all militaries.)
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To: thewarden
Letterman extended an invitation to Palin to come on the show as a guest.

Gov. Palin should invite Letterman to go hunting.

5 posted on 06/10/2009 4:30:24 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: thewarden

Yet, another “I am sorry YOU misunderstood me” POS non-apology.


6 posted on 06/10/2009 4:30:31 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Abbeville Conservative; sleepwalker; Roses0508; feedback doctor; LibLieSlayer; ...

Ping!

Todd and Sarah should appear at his show and kick the living chit out of him.

He should APOLOGIZE! Mocking Bristol isn’t any better.

And he didn’t lose a word on his “Willow is Eliot Spitzer’s whore” joke.

Flame his rear!


7 posted on 06/10/2009 4:30:37 PM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "We do not want to become slaves of Washington.")
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8 posted on 06/10/2009 4:31:13 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
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To: thewarden
"I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl.... "

Liar liar, old perv's pants on fire!

9 posted on 06/10/2009 4:31:15 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (All aboard the 1st Annual Free Republic National Tea Party Convention 9/10-9/12. Be there!!!)
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To: thewarden

You just knew there would be lame rationale or faked “apology” with this nutcase. He stuck his big smelly feet in that goofy tooth gapped mouth of us and now he’s trying to backpedal due to the outcry over his immaturity


10 posted on 06/10/2009 4:31:18 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: thewarden

Too late, Pervman. Doesn’t matter which daughter you “meant,” your comment was gutter level either way.


11 posted on 06/10/2009 4:31:28 PM PDT by madison10
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To: thewarden

CBS top dogs got after him I bet...they can’t afford more negative opinions....


12 posted on 06/10/2009 4:31:30 PM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: thewarden

The genie is out of the bottle so Letterman gets to have it both ways. He gets to look like the “good guy” to his libtard pals while having got his joke out at Palin’s expense and receiving the much needed attention. He is a despicable person that I actually enjoyed watching many years ago. Where is Odumbo and his hew tone rheteric now?


13 posted on 06/10/2009 4:31:30 PM PDT by PLKIng
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To: NativeNewYorker

Hehehe.....


14 posted on 06/10/2009 4:31:40 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (All aboard the 1st Annual Free Republic National Tea Party Convention 9/10-9/12. Be there!!!)
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To: thewarden

Oh, so then it’s OK to make rape jokes on women if they’re over 18 -??!!!
He’s still a demented pervert!


15 posted on 06/10/2009 4:31:43 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: thewarden
He is just a bald-faced liar. He has no shame and no one calls him on it. He was, without question, making a joke about a 14 year-old girl. There a tape Dave. Anyone who'd not stoned or an Obama voter knows you're lying.

And then he wants her to come on his show. Please.

16 posted on 06/10/2009 4:31:46 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
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To: thewarden
Not good enough.

He has to lose his job.

17 posted on 06/10/2009 4:31:49 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: SolidWood

Invitation to the show? Sounds more like another ambush attempt !!!


18 posted on 06/10/2009 4:31:50 PM PDT by ak267
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To: thewarden

Who’s he trying to kid? That’s his schtick for the past 10 plus years! Insult someone and try to be nice to them on air and THEN when they go on his show, destroy them.
Nice try.


19 posted on 06/10/2009 4:32:01 PM PDT by max americana
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To: gov_bean_ counter

He won’t even tell jokes about the dog (Bo, not shelley), much less any of the family and the TOTUS-reader.


20 posted on 06/10/2009 4:32:19 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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