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.)
Face it folks, take a good look at Letterman, he is so obviously a pervert is anyone surprised at this? I have arrived a point where I even hear that someone is s democrat and I have to leave the room, you already know they are vulgar and crude and you want nothing to do with them.
I have been unable to watch Letterman for years now! He sucks!
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Excerpt:
Sarah Palin isn't taking David Letterman's ratings bait.
"The Palins have no intention of providing a rating's boost for David Letterman by appearing on his show," the Alaska governor's rep said in a statement to FOXNews.com. "Plus, it would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman."
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Way to go, Sarah! Thanks for the ping, nutmeg!
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See post 35 in http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269613/posts
the left hates palin because she terrifies them. the left made fun of reagan before the primary saying he was the most pathetic and pitiful candidate and could never win because he was to stupid. anyone besides me see this happening with palin? cuz it sure looks (from where i am sitting) like the left is terrified by the fact that palin is so popular with the american people. and the msm/liberal entertainment industry is making it ever more possible that Mrs. Palin will be the first female president in 2012.
Wow... because of this Letterman/Palin situation? Good for Embassy Suites either way.
The audience is largely made up of people who are just happy to be in the presence of a "celebrity" - they would never consider booing a famous person whose limelight they are briefly sharing in. :)
As for the NOW gang, they are engaged in a perpetual social civil war - they can hardly be expected to speak out against someone who is making fun of one of their arch-enemies, even if they would never tolerate such comments about one of their own.
The left, ie, the MAJORITY in this country, hate us with a passion. They will not come to our (America's) defense if needed, they hate whites (payback for slavery, the founders, etc), they hate the successful, the “rich”, they hate heart-landers, Christian evangelicals, they are bigots.
We are on our own.
“Embassy Suites has pulled their ads from CBS”
Sweet!! Keep contacting these sponsors!
Does Letterman ever crack jokes about Obama....because there is so much material it would take up his whole show and he would not even have to use his underage stuff.
Forever more the CBS late night show host should be referred to as:
“Statutory rape fantasist David Letterman”
You said what you said, Davey boy. It can not be unsaid. You, and any writer or producer who participated in the writing of—or knew the contents of—that “joke,” and still allowed it to be broadcast, should resign. If you don’t resign, you should be fired.
That would be the beginning of an acceptable “apology.”
I have to agree that Letterman’s physical appearance has deteriorated on a level that betrays something more than natural aging. He reminds me a bit of Hugh Hefner. There is something very reptilian about Hefner, as if his soul is morphing into a physical manifestation. Harry Reid comes to mind as well as someone who the aging process seems to reflect the inner evil inside.
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