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Letterman "Jokes" About Palin's Daughter (Voted into NOW Hall of Shame - Hell Freezes Over)
National Organization for Women (NOW) ^ | June 11, 2009 | National Organization for Women (NOW)

Posted on 06/11/2009 4:33:58 PM PDT by joinedafterattack

Letterman voted into NOW Hall of Shame: After two nights of "jokes" at the expense of Palin and her family, Letterman tried to explain himself and offer something of an apology. On his June 10 show, Letterman said he was referring to Palin's 18-year-old daughter, Bristol -- not the 14-year-old daughter who actually accompanied Palin on her New York trip. Letterman said "I recognize that these are ugly" jokes. NOW agrees. Comedians in search of a laugh should really know better than to snicker about men having sex with teenage girls (or young women) less than half their age.

The sexualization of girls and women in the media is reaching new lows these days -- it is exploitative and has a negative effect on how all women and girls are perceived and how they view themselves. Letterman also joked about what he called Palin's "slutty flight attendant look" -- yet another example of how the media love to focus on a woman politician's appearance, especially as it relates to her sexual appeal to men. Someone of Letterman's stature, who appears on what used to be known as "the Tiffany Network" (CBS), should be above wallowing in the juvenile, sexist mud that other comedians and broadcasters seem to prefer.

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KEYWORDS: bitterlibtard; cbs; feminists; letterman; nags; now; palin; palinfamily; trashtv
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To: joinedafterattack

“NOW hopes that all the conservatives who are fired up about sexism in the media lately will join us in calling out sexism when it is directed at women who aren’t professed conservatives.”

WHERE IN THE HELL WERE YOU AT LAST YEAR WHEN PALIN AND HER DAUGHTERS WERE ATTACKED DAILY IN THE MEDIA! CONSERVATIVE WOMEN ARE ATTACKED CONSTANTLY BY YOU THUGS. I DON’T THINK CONSERVATIVES ARE THE ONES YOU NEED TO WAKE UP!


41 posted on 06/11/2009 4:50:55 PM PDT by RatsDawg
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To: Juan Medén

I’ll continue to ridicule them as they’ve logged four decades of hypocrisy , simply basing their polemics and actions on what serves a leftist agenda and not what’s best for women.


42 posted on 06/11/2009 4:51:02 PM PDT by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: joinedafterattack

Not good Letterman to PO those dykes. Maybe you had just better retire.


43 posted on 06/11/2009 4:51:27 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: joinedafterattack

Letterman is finished now that the NOW Feminazis are on his case. GOOD!


44 posted on 06/11/2009 4:52:46 PM PDT by FFranco (To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness.)
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To: sissyjane

NOW officially has dove into the fray, willy-nilly.

This COULD mean that Letterman is toast.


45 posted on 06/11/2009 4:53:38 PM PDT by elcid1970
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To: joinedafterattack

Anyone remember what their reaction was to Clinton during his groping/Kathleen Willey/Juanita Broaddrick,Monica/oral office period?
Did NOW EVER voice concerns about Clinton’s degrading treatment of women?


46 posted on 06/11/2009 4:54:00 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: Juan Medén

found it:

17. How can I contact NOW?

Mailing address: 1100 H St NW, 3rd floor, Washington, D.C. 20005
Phone Number: (202) 628-8NOW (8669)
Fax Number: (202) 785-8576
E-mail Address: now@now.org or use our comments page.
Web Address: http://www.now.org

http://www.now.org/organization/faq.html#contact

You gotta be a detective to find it, though!


47 posted on 06/11/2009 4:58:27 PM PDT by Daisyjane69
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To: RatsDawg
"WHERE IN THE HELL WERE YOU AT LAST YEAR WHEN PALIN AND HER DAUGHTERS WERE ATTACKED DAILY IN THE MEDIA! "

That's for a separate letter to Now (now@now.org). For this moment, however, it would certainly help if all FReepers would submit the brief form to CBS that NOW has up--and to put in the subject line your desire to see Letterman fired. In the body of your message, you can always remind CBS of its dwindling audience.

Regards . . . Penny

48 posted on 06/11/2009 4:59:17 PM PDT by Penny
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To: joinedafterattack
Letterman was pushing the envelope as far as he could. He was suffering in the ratings and he had gotten away with similar jokes on Palin, she was in the news in New York so he decided to go to the well. This was so over the top that even NOW couldn't deny it and had to call it out.
49 posted on 06/11/2009 5:01:21 PM PDT by lt.america (Looking for a bailout)
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To: counterpunch
...morally equate calling a homely girl a "dog" with a hateful comment about raping a 14 year old girl in front of her mother.

Read the article and thought to myself "shocking" in a good way, until I got to the last paragraph about Rush.

Now was trying to "morally equate" was exactly the same thought I had.

I seriously doubt the NOW hags even see it as complete hypocrisy

50 posted on 06/11/2009 5:02:51 PM PDT by Popman (Joe Biden REALLY can't be Vice President, can he ?)
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To: joinedafterattack

Personally, I could care less what the useless NAGS have to say. Where have they been over the many years when conservative women have been attacked by the left. I guess even they couldn’t ignore joking about the raping of a young girl.

For the record, Rush did not compare Chelsie to a dog and even if he did, what is sexist about that? My dogs are quite cute. I watched said show and he was comparing what was in at the White House with Clinton and what was out with Bush. A picture of the Bush’s dog, Millie was shown and then a picture of the Clinton’s cat Socks was supposed to be shown. It appears somebody on the staff decided it would be funny to put Chelsie’s picture up instead. I believe Rush apologized and the staffer was fired.

The two things do not even compare.


51 posted on 06/11/2009 5:02:54 PM PDT by beandog
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To: RatsDawg

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> WHERE IN THE HELL WERE YOU AT LAST YEAR WHEN PALIN AND HER DAUGHTERS WERE ATTACKED DAILY IN THE MEDIA! CONSERVATIVE WOMEN ARE ATTACKED CONSTANTLY BY YOU THUGS. I DON’T THINK CONSERVATIVES ARE THE ONES YOU NEED TO WAKE UP! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

I think they may have just woken up.

They still have the dig about conservatives in at the back end, BUT THIS IS A FIRST FOR THEM.

They finally defended a conservative woman.

It took a YEAR of attacks, but even they had trouble with these comments.


52 posted on 06/11/2009 5:06:25 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: joinedafterattack

NOW would never lift a finger to help any attractive woman. They are the National Organization of ugly women.


53 posted on 06/11/2009 5:11:02 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
Anyone remember what their reaction was to Clinton during his groping/Kathleen Willey/Juanita Broaddrick,Monica/oral office period? Did NOW EVER voice concerns about Clinton’s degrading treatment of women?

No, they never did. I do remember one of their minions saying she'd even give Clinton a BJ as long as he kept abortion legal! The number ONE reason NOW even exists. Let's be honest.

54 posted on 06/11/2009 5:13:30 PM PDT by boatbums (Pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life!)
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To: joinedafterattack

How could they not?


55 posted on 06/11/2009 5:14:14 PM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: joinedafterattack

LOL. The NOW nags had to get a dig into conservatives and Rush Limbaugh in particular.

Sorry, nags, we don’t need you.

It is kinda funny to see them slamming letterdork, though.


56 posted on 06/11/2009 5:14:19 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I'm SO glad I no longer belong to the party of Dependence on Government!)
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To: joinedafterattack

Too little, too late and they got snarky at the end. They must really be feeling heat to actually stand up for a principal that should have been front and center throughout the Clinton Years.


57 posted on 06/11/2009 5:18:00 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("I've conquered my goddam willpower." Don Marquis)
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To: Juan Medén

They provide a link to Les Moonves to let him know how you feel. You send the email right from their site.
I sent him a blistering note.
Yes, at the end they showed their leftist bias but still are doing something that needs to be done in defense of Willow and her sister.


58 posted on 06/11/2009 5:18:52 PM PDT by IceAge
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To: boatbums

It’s interesting then that the jokes are considered offensive to them (they are) but they couldn’t find it in themselves to say anything about groping, rape, or degrading oral sex slavery with an intern in the Clinton White House. Maybe they could issue a clarification.


59 posted on 06/11/2009 5:19:14 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: Slings and Arrows

About the time their membership dropped to all time lows.

NOW is over and has been for the last 20 years.


60 posted on 06/11/2009 5:20:06 PM PDT by alarm rider (My tagline is on vacation.)
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