Posted on 06/11/2009 9:00:15 AM PDT by Tolik
"We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news and we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter, the 18-year-old girl, who is — her name is Bristol, that's right, and so, then, now they're upset with me . . ."
"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. I mean, look at my record. It has never happened. I don't think it's funny. I would never think it was funny. I wouldn't put it in a joke..."
Examine the logic. First, Letterman makes a gutter joke about Palin and her unnamed 14-year-old daughter attending a NY Yankees game. Then when a bit of outrage follows, he apparently claims he really meant to slur the other 18-year-old daughter who, back in Alaska, of course did not attend the game but was not named by Letterman. That would be okay, you see.
Second, then he evokes the now common straw man "they" who are apparently "upset" with him, hoping to play the victim card. Then he dribbles out something about his "last show" as if we are to weep that some mob is out to silence him. (But the reason he picked the Palins, and not the Obamas, Gores, Bidens, or Kerrys, was precisely because he knew it would not equate to his "last show").
Third, he strangely amplifies his joke by confessing it really was about "raping" and "having sex of any description," but just not with a "14-year-old girl," suggesting it would have been okay had he just been more explicit and named Bristol, the 18-year-old. In Letterman's world, because Bristol is 18, she is a year past most statuary rape clauses and thus the joke would have only been about "raping or having sex of any description with a [18-year-old] girl."
Nothing offered about his slurs against airline attendants and Governor Palin herself, when he sneered that she had a "slutty flight-attendant look," or his remark that Palin "was keeping Eliot Spitzer away from her daughter."
The self-serving, creepy apology was as bad as the initial slur. Letterman is emblematic of an aging, baby-boomer culture, that dresses up street vulgarity with a tie and coat. The only thing that saves him is his care to do this with the Palins from Alaska that don't figure into the usual no-go race/class/gender paradigm.
Letterman in His Dotage [Victor Davis Hanson]
Letterman attacked in crass sexual terms both Palin and her daughter: Two of the rhetorical cornerstones of the feminist movement used to be zero-tolerance for sexual slurs by men alleging promiscuity ("slutty flight-attendant look"), and jokes about something as serious as rape (e.g., Palin's 14-year-old daughter "knocked up by Alex Rodriguez"). David Letterman, who has become ever more creepy in his dotage, on both counts proved a boor — and receives only silence? (Personally, I admire flight attendants a great deal: They put up with a great deal from jet lag to obnoxious passengers, and somehow remain polite and hard-working — and with a modest and professional look.)
The left really detests Governor Palin, for she is and stands for everything they’ve never dealt with and that they trip over.
Makes me wonder what his connection is with the Libtards.
Two kinds of people in God’s Word: The Righteous and The Wicked.
I’m done for now.
To me Letterman is less than a man BUT what bothers me the most is the laughter from the audience and the lack of feminine support for a young girl. He needed to be booed by the audience and attacked by the NOW gang.
To me Letterman is less than a man BUT what bothers me the most is the laughter from the audience and the lack of feminine support for a young girl. He needed to be booed by the audience and attacked by the NOW gang.
“Smug, hip David Letterman...”
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In his opening sentence, the redoubtable VDH nails a fundamental pillar of diseased Leftist thinking:
The elitism of the non-judgmental,amoral progressive liberal.
Their new name for the organization is now: NOL/LW or NOLLW
National Organization for protection of lesbian/liberal women.
Wonder how much they get from the government for the organization. An organization that only protects some women - not all women.
Maybe we need a new organization - NOCW - National Organization for Conservative Women - and we want federal funds for it.
And maybe we need to start filing discrimination lawsuits - conservative women are being discriminated against by an organization claiming to be for all women.
I am just wondering about Don Imas somewhere shaking his head in wonder. He refers to a basketball team’s look comparitive to another with mild two word slur and BOOM he has lost his show.
Letterman makes endless sexual and natsy references to a sitting woman Governor and here daughters and makes a whole routine of it and the special privileges crowd has their hands over their eyes pretending they never saw it.
If homosexuals get called names....SO WHAT! What they do is dirty.
And if they don't like it....they can just go home and stay in the closet.
Cause I don;t think ANYBODY wants to know their sexual proclivities and ESPECIALLY we do not want our children sexualized.
My hope is the next time the Palin’s visit NY that Todd comes along, finds Dave, and punches him in the effing nose! That’s what I’d do if someone spoke about my daughter like that. I hope his ratings go into the toilet. Go Conan!
You mean Letterman’s “bastard son”?
Oh, sorry - that’s dropping down to his level, isn’t it?
His own bastard child with a woman young enough to be his grand daughter explains his obsession with child rape.
“NOW, but have been become entranced with their ability to ONLY protect lesbians or liberal women.”
Don’t forget pervs like Bill Clinton. They always defend them!
The left is now attacking Sarah for her reaction to Letterman’s perverted commentary about her young daughter.
I don’t even believe they protect lesbian women.
They support the AIDS/HIV agenda iow the male homosexual agenda. This takes tax dollars away from women’s diseases like breast cancer. No group is less likely to become infected with HIV than lesbians.
Thanks for posting.
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I got a response from the Hilton Corp - they pulled their ads!
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Everyone who is as enraged as Victor is and all of Us should be, must write Moonves directly as well as Letterman’s Sponsors. As Victor points out, Letterman has confessed to it being all about RAPE and PERVERSIONS! Mr. Moonves has the responsibility to protect CBS from the actions of those who believe RAPE and Sexual Perversions are Humorous in however a sick, twisted way.
...Is Letterman's show taped in NYC? Is there a NY ping list...His show needs a good freeping"
After being with Dave since show 1, I can no longer watch. I tolerated Great Moments in Presidential Speeches for Years looking for it to continue with duh, uh and 57 states, Obama, but no dice.
His rants on Global Warming and Iraq were proved wrong when he engaged OReilly and couldn't respond to challenges in his position.
Now I see he intends to blast Palin's family and refer to Palin as a slut. He is way over the line. There is something wrong in his constant need to use his show as a bully pulpit and to insult.
I can no longer watch. Give him a political talking head show to fit his ego and give us a new host to bring entertainment back to the show.
Good-bye Dave.
Send directly to the Chairman of CBS:
Ask Les Moonves if he would appreciate Letterman making the same perverted comments about His family?
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