Posted on 06/15/2009 7:08:52 PM PDT by kristinn
David Letterman apologized tonight for a slanderous sexually degrading joke he told last week about Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's 14-year-old daughter getting "knocked up" by New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez during the seventh inning of a game attended by the governor and her daughter, yet he failed to apologize for a joke the following night in which he insinuated the 14-year-old girl was a prostitute--indicting himself in the process.
The relevant portion of Letterman's apology:
But there was a joke that I told, and I thought I was telling it about the older daughter being at Yankee Stadium. And it was kind of a coarse joke. There’s no getting around it, but I never thought it was anybody other than the older daughter, and before the show, I checked to make sure in fact that she is of legal age, 18. Yeah. But the joke really, in and of itself, can’t be defended. The next day, people are outraged. They’re angry at me because they said, ‘How could you make a lousy joke like that about the 14-year-old girl who was at the ball game?’ And I had, honestly, no idea that the 14-year-old girl, I had no idea that anybody was at the ball game except the governor and I was told at the time she was there with Rudy Giuliani...
So, taking him at his word, the very next day Letterman learns the 14-year-old daughter was in town with her mother, not the 18-year-old. So what does Letterman do that night? He makes a joke calling the in town daughter a prostitute:
....The toughest part of her visit was keeping Eliot Spitzer away from her daughter.
Literally right before that 'joke', Letterman made a joke about Palin and Rudy Guiliani attending the Yankees game and being seated in the 'far, far right field.
Letterman makes the focus of his apology his failure to get across his intent that he was joking about the 18-year-old daughter getting 'knocked up' not the 14-year-old:
...Mark Shields, was talking about how I had made this indefensible joke about the 14-year-old girl, and I thought, ‘Oh, boy, now I’m beginning to understand what the problem is here. It’s the perception rather than the intent.’ It doesn’t make any difference what my intent was, it’s the perception....
Letterman only apologizes for the one joke about Willow getting "knocked up", yet ignores the Willow-as-prostitute joke that by his own admissions he would have known explicitly was about her.
Link to blog with YouTube videos of Letterman 'jokes'.
I’m not a parent, but if I were, and if someone had made that comment about my daughter; I would very much entertain the notion of raping Letterman’s sorry ass with the business end of my Browning 12GA. And that’s a damn poor way to treat anything with the name of Browning on it.
“A daughter had to be at the game to make the joke work at all.”
Yes, exactly.
Truly, he is scum, I have never liked him, he is just an arrogant, nasty, man
“Am I the only one wondering why A-Rod hasn’t expressed a little outrage of his own in HIS name being used in this mess?...”
A-Rod is dating Kate Hudson and probably is totally oblivious to Letterman’s joke.
A-Roid has isolated himself from all media so as not to hear anything “icky” about himself.
Not enough. He needs to be fired.
I wrote six of his advertisors to tell them I will boycott them until they drop support.
http://firedavidletterman.com/?wwparam=1245177113&wwparam=1245177956
He is a POS and should be fired. Anything less is unacceptable.
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