[seatrout]

—Any legal eageles here that can provide some insight?—

Somehow, I doubt that satire or satricial comedy, however crude or tasteless, directed against a public figure or his or her family, falls under [section] 2261A. In fact, I can’t belive that is being seriously discussed on this forum.

[An.American.Expatriate]

His comments regarding Willow were not satirical nor satrical commedy by any definition of those terms.

[SolidWood]

He should be charged for slander...

but so far I think we should fully concentrate on pounding his sponsors and CBS (especially your local CBS affiliates):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2269359/posts

[prisoner6]

Agreed. While I found the Letterman remarks disgusting - and sent feedback to CBS to make them aware of my displeasure - threatening legal action is treading on very dangerous ground.

Come to think of it the Obama administration might be able to use the same argument to move ahead with the "Fairness Doctrine" or one of it's permutations to censor talk radio.

We have to pick our battles. We must choose wisely.

prisoner6

[jazzlite]

I saw Letterman's comments about this 14 year old child and it was ruthless. He is a political hack for the left, nothing more and nothing less and he cares not for the life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness of the masses while he hides behind his cover that he is just a comedienne and therefore, can say whatever he wishes..My opinion. If good people continue to just back up and back up and back up into the corner while this kind of slime rises to neck level all around, then this nation deserves what is coming.

[William Tell 2]

I concur. I can’t believe it’s taken seriously by this forum either. The idea while I’m sure is well intentioned, is just not practical.

It would probably more effective to Freep Letterman’s advertisers with clips of his comments. It seems to work for liberals. Anyway, it would be good to know if corporate America reacts to pressure from the right as it does from the left.

Now I know there will be some who’ll respond by saying” I don’t want to do what they do.” That is a canard. There’s nothing wrong with complaining about an inappropriate, extremely tasteless and offensive joke.

This is especially true since the comment is really not aimed so much at Palin as much as it is aimed at those who admire her. She is a symbol of a nascent movement that has apparently rattled the liberal intelligentsia to its core.