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Letterman to Make Full Apology Tonight for Joke About Palin's Daughter By Brent Baker Created 2009-06-15 20:10 “David Letterman is making a full-throated apology for his controversial joke about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter,” TV Week reported a short while ago [1]. “During a taping of tonight's [Monday 6/15] edition of his CBS Late Show, Letterman went much further than his last explanation of the joke, in which he quipped that a baseball player had 'knocked up' Palin's daughter,” Josef Adalian wrote. Though Palin and conservatives were outraged and demanded an apology [2] and retraction for a “joke” seemed aimed...

Smug, hip David Letterman offered a smirky non-apology about his ongoing class and sexist slurs against the Palins, his apparent social inferiors. "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...

I videotaped Letterpervs show last night and zipped through it this morning to see who the advertisers were, and here they are. Note, this is not a complete list, I missed the first 10 to 15 minutes of the lie/hate fest. Paramount Pictures Lincoln-Mercury Met-Life AT&T Actonel AAA McDonalds HBO Mazda Direct TV Olive Garden Listerine MyCricket.com Toyota Geico Best Buy Icy Hot Chase Bank (credit card) Touchstone Pictures Verizon Wireless Kelloggs Pepcid I won't be able to look up the contact info like I did yesterday until later this afternoon. If someone can do it, I am sure everyone...

Every once in a while, someone who builds their career through a lifetime of decent, honest, hard work…blows it in a moment of seething hatred and bitterness. In Dan Rather’s case, it was his blind acceptance as true of a document ostensibly proving President Bush missed a Texas Air National Guard physical examination due to his father’s influence. Instead of adhering to a main tenet of journalistic probity, that is; verify, verify, verify; Mr. Rather quickly and blindly accepted the document as genuine, and then taunted his critics to “prove it isn’t real!” In that moment Dan Rather forever tainted...

There's been quite a stink over David Letterman's ill-judged and offensive joke about Sarah Palin's daughter getting "knocked up" by Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees. I initially took it as a reference to Bristol Palin, who is now 18 and has a young baby. Turns out though that the daughter who did accompany Governor Palin to the Yankees was Bristol Palin, who's 14. Letterman has taken a lot of flak and few, even on the Left, have been prepared to stick up for him with any conviction. So Dave has apologised. Kind of. Sort of. Well, hardly at...

In recent days, David Letterman has repeatedly made comments about a juvenile private citizen (Willow Palin) on his nationally broadcast television show. These comments were made with the full knowledge that Miss Palin herself, as well as her freinds and schoolmates, would hear them and were calculated to cause the utmost in emotional distress on the part of Miss Palin. By using the public airwaves to broadcast these comments, David Letterman has violated Title 18, Part I, Chapter 110A, §2261A Stalking: Whoever— (1) travels in interstate or foreign commerce or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United...