[Huck]

I get what you're saying, but you're just begging for trouble arguing about it. IMO, they probably didn't know which daughter was there, and didn't care. I doubt it was intended to be a joke about statutory rape. They were trying to combine two current events--Palins at a ballgame, and Arod being a scandal-magnet. It was a crass joke, but not a rape joke, imo. They tried to tie in a joke about the Palin daughter who got pregnant, and Arod, and now they're getting blowback because the wrong daughter was at the game, and because there are a lot of people happy to try to take Letterman down for his leftist sympathies and advocacy. And it's got traction.

So you're best off just letting it be. You're swimming against a raging tide of anger. It's an excuse to go after Letterman, who has made his bed with the left. And so folks are going after him. I don't really care one way or the other. But I know from experience, when everyone is headed in one direction, it's pretty pointless to push against the tide. Let it be.

All that said, they really shouldn't even be making jokes about the older daughter getting knocked up. But whatever. Tastless jokes on late night tv don't shock or offend me. I couldn't care less.

[xsmommy]

what offends and enrages me is the fact that were he to have made the joke about sasha or malia, there would be blood in the streets.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Yes, you’re completely correct and I realized it too late.

[Scotswife]

“IMO, they probably didn’t know which daughter was there, and didn’t care.”

YOu are wrong they didn’t know - it was put into print for anyone willing to read.
I agree they didn’t care. All that matters is that Willow is a “Palin”.
And in the world of liberal entertainment that makes her fair game regardless of her age.

“They were trying to combine two current events—Palins at a ballgame, and Arod being a scandal-magnet”

Yes - it was that, but it was also more.
The left wing media is intent on bringing Sarah down.
They will use any means possible.
So the meme they want to promote is “white trash”.
So the notion that a Palin daughter would quickly get down and dirty w/ A-Rod during a game is “funny” to them.
It also gets the audience - and hopefully America - to laugh at those stupid redneck Palins that keep breeding like bunnies.This is the leftist “story” of the Palins.

You are probably right he didn’t exactly mean to make a joke about statutory rape, but that doesn’t excuse him from the fact that he DID make a joke about statutory rape.

In their blind hatred of the Palin family they messed up big time and should not get a pass.