Sarah Palin: Letterman 'not cool or funny'

When are the Republicans going to get over their perpetual victim mentality?

She has some kind of learning disability.

Remember McCain, your old boss?

Remember what happened to him when he tried a feud with Letterman?

Do ya want some of that, Sara baby?

I'd have to agree with Sarah Palin on this one, but then I've never found Letterman particularly funny. At best, I think Letterman is at the "hehehe... how droll" stage of the humor scale, and more often than not he's more at "Eewwwwwww!!!!! For PETESAKE just SHUT UP!" That kind of explains why I don't watch his show unless there's a guest I just gotta gotta listen to. Last one I remember seeing was in about 2004-ish.
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Of course, it wasn't cool for Palin to have gone around proclaiming that Obama was "palling with terrorists" or for her to have sat by and done nothing except smile while her flock of worshipful followers were shouting "kill him" (about Obama) at her rallies, either. Funny that part doesn't get thrown into this story. Brucie must be having a fit over how biased the whole thing is. Oh, that's right...it isn't biased IN FAVOR OF THE REPUBLICANS, so it's all right that it gets left out.

Mark, if Sarah Palin is "last year" as you say, then why have YOU spent so much time covering her in the Swamp? Granted, this dust-up with Letterman is newsworthy, but what about the dozens of other Swamp items you've written?
I also get a kick out of your dismissive tone over the Letterman dust-up. Palin hit it out of the park, so to speak, in her interview with Lauer here. There has been a definite political double standard regarding coverage and targeting of politician's children. And, sorry, whether Letterman was "joking" about the 14-year-old Willow or the 18-year-old Bristol, it was still very poor taste and wrong. Funny, that the Swamp censored my Letterman "joke" in which I replaced the Palin daughter with the daughter of a person very much tied in with the Swamp. So, if that "joke" was deemed offensive and inappropriate to use the daughter of someone else, then it's offensive and inappropriate to use the daughter of Sarah Palin. The double standard of the Leftist Corrupt Media and it's lack of credibility are alarming!

This is all a distraction by the members of the right wing media . They really don't want anyone discussing the connection between their overheated baseless rhetoric that Obama was going to take everyone's guns and the note left by the Holocaust Museum shooter saying "You want my weapons -- this is how you'll get them." The rhetoric of the right wingers has real, deadly, consequences, far more serious than Letterman's joke. Their distraction is working. Shame on us all.

From the party of "palling around with terrorists" and the "magic negro", comes the poor victim cry.

How pathetic. John D and other apologists for Palin's fake anger is predictable, if not laughable. Palin is so desperate she'll use her own kids as props. She had Bristol on the cover of People magazine for God's sake. Now she wante to set up a fight pitting Dave and the NY/Hollywood elete against the mainstream--mainstream wackos maybe...I know, what a surprise.

OK, what if his joke involved Chris Brown shtupping and slapping Malia Obama? The Obama worshipping media would be apoplectic.

Dems, get over your blind hatred of the other party- sex jokes about underage girls and professional athletes, no matter whose daughters they happen to be, will never be funny. If you can't apply this principle despite the fact that the joke involved Palin's kid, you need to recheck your moral compasses and decide what you really stand for.

Michelle asked, "When are the Republicans going to get over their perpetual victim mentality?"

They won't. They have learned from their Religious Right wing of the party that it's an effective strategy. The Religious Right is always complaining about how Christianity is under attack in this country, and how they are having their rights taken away. It's proved an effective strategy to gain sympathy and win laws which unconstitutionally promote (Christian) religion.

The GOP leadership are adopting this strategy to try to gain sympathy, hoping it will translate into election of their candidates and a backlash against those they are targeting.

It seems as the old double standard is being applied to this slug, excuse me comedian.Does everyone have a short memory, look what Don Imus went through and for a lot less. This guy should be vilified. tarred and feathered and ran out of town. But, then again what about the slugs in the audience that laughed at this "joke".

"...to have sat by and done nothing except smile while her flock of worshipful followers were shouting "kill him" (about Obama) at her rallies, either. Funny that part doesn't get thrown into this story Brucie must be having a fit over how biased the whole thing is. Oh, that's right...it isn't biased IN FAVOR OF THE REPUBLICANS, so it's all right that it gets left out. " Op109

Hmmm, could be because it never happened. Well, except for in the imagination of one "reporter."

Odd though, that you didn't know that. Certainly a right leaning media would have reported this grave error.

This is the lady that let her teenage daughter's boyfriend move into her daughter's bedroom and impregnate her?

Yeah, better protect Willow from the dangerous Letterman.

Palin is an ignorant dimwit. She needs to go back to Alaska and take her trashy husband and kids with her.
Limpbaugh, Hannity, Weinerman Savage, and others barf up hate, intolerance, lies and falshoods and anti American garbage everyday. For 8 years we heard all sorts of jokes and nasty remarks and comments about the Clintons and their daughter Chelsea. The Republicans thought it was all so funny. Now they can't handle it. I do not even watch Letterman but who should be surprised he said this. He makes jokes about everyone. Letterman doesn't owe anyone an apology, especially Palin.

It's ok when liberals/democrats make disparaging and disgusting remarks about conservatives, but if the tables are turned they go ballistic. Case in point: a likeness of Obama was hung from a noose - and outrage was immediate. If a joke is made at the expense of a gay person, ethnic minority or some other favored group - again outrage. Case in point: Imus and his comments about the nappy headed.... So, if it's not ok to make such remarks in those cases, why should it be ok when such disgusting remarks are made about conservative people. Double standard.

Where was the outrage from the right when Rush Limbaugh called 13 year old Chelsea Clinton the "White House Dog"?

http://mediamatters.org/research/200906110005

FTW is with this woman? She runs a state? She makes Rod Blagojevich look competent and sane.

David Letterman is totally in the wrong. His "apology/excuse" was no such thing. If he had made any of these comments/jokes against Michelle Obama or the Obama daughters or Hilary Clinton and Chelsea there would be a total uproar from everyone in the media, women's support groups, etc. Where are the other women who are outraged by this? He clearly made this joke against Sarah Palin's 14 year old daughter who was with her at this game. Why is it ok for Sarah Palin and her family and other Republican women getting bashed but it's not ok for Democrat women and children to get bashed? What is wrong with all you people to say this is ok - it's just a joke? It's not ok to make comments/jokes about any children of any person in politics. Keep their kids out of this. To make sexual comments/jokes about a 14 year old or 18 year old is inappropriate. Letterman should apologize. Where is the outrage?

I have never been a big Letterman fan, but he is a late-night talk show host and she is someone who wanted to be the vice president of this country. So it seems to me that she should ignore his crazy remarks, like most every politician does on both sides of the aisle -- unless she craves the attention for herself or her family.

their overheated baseless rhetoric that Obama was going to take everyone's guns and the note left by the Holocaust Museum shooter saying "You want my weapons -- this is how you'll get them."
Posted by: Don't Rush | June 12, 2009 10:37 AM

Yes indeed......they can not see that their hate on Faux News, Rush, Vannity, and Bill O are just the modern day USA madrassas. Keep tellin them they need to arm themselves as those darn liberals will take away your guns.

I agree with Palin on this. It is totally inappropriate to make sexual "jokes" about kids. It does not matter if they are children of politicians or otherwise.
And she is completely correct in the double standard. Obama says that his family is off-limits, and immediately it is. But, Palin's kids are considered fair game.

There also is the issue of sexism, and the flight-attendant slut "joke." This is just another example of how conflicted our society seems to be with women in leadership positions. These types of "jokes" were also aimed at Hillary during the Primaries.

Because of this, it is "open season" on Letterman's or Barry O's slutty wives? As long as it is okay to joke about MLB players knocking up under age children in the stands at Yankee Stadium, who will tell the first joke about Barry O's pickaninnies getting knocked up in a DC crack house?

Barry O and his family will get the same respect that the governor of Alaska gets.

Dave has lost his edge over the last few years and needs to scape the bottom of the barrel for laughs. I say tee off on Sarah Palin but you have to lay off the kids. The kids have no choice about being in the public eye and don't deserve to be the punch line on a bad joke.

The reason that letterboy said what he did was because he couldn’t stand the fact that Palin drew over 20,000 in Auburn, got a warm reception by 12,000 at the Autism walk, and received an award from Independent Group Home Living Foundation. Essentially, he wanted to change the subject so he first called Palin a slut, and then went after her 14 year old daughter. Letterboy is pathetic, and the Palins have every right to be offended by the jerk.

Palin is an incompetent and Letterman is a bonehead. They deserve each other. Shame on the media for making this a story.

I think Palin is right on this one (never thought I'd say that). I found Letterman's joke in poor taste.

Unfortunately, I stopped feeling sorry for the Palins as soon as Sarah decided to make political hay out of it. This stopped being about defending Willow Palin's honor (or whatever) a long time ago. Now this is about Sarah Palin getting in front of every camera she can find and playing up her "East coast elites vs. folksy real Americans nonsense."

We get the point, Sarah. You can go away again.

Lettermen hasn't been funny for years, but he is SMART!

He knows if he talks liberalism they leftist drones will foam at the mouth and tune in.....heck they'll even convince themselves that Lettermen is funny and go out and buy Letterman Chia pets.

Extremely naive? Quite the opposite, only someone as idiotic as Sarah Palin could possibly think that Letterman was referring to the daughter that never was in the news and no one knows anything about rather than the 19(?) year old daughter who was paraded in front of the media and has given multiple interviews. Hint, Sarah -- jokes don't work when they're referring to someone no one knows about or cares about. Besides, the joke was about the lecherous Eliot Spitzer, not your daughter.

Manufactured outrage, plain and simple. But what else do you expect from Palin, desperate to keep herself in the spotlight. I really hope Newt runs for the GOP nomination in 2012 (even though he won't win), he'll destroy her so bad in a debate we'll never hear from her again. Palin just makes people think Republicans are a bunch of know-nothing morons.

McCain once joked that Janet Reno was the father of Chelsea Clinton and never apologized--where was the outrage then?

Palin claimed she didn't want to talk about it--but had a prepared speech???

The joke was in bad taste, but so was Palin's comment about keeping her daughter away from Letterman.

As a general thing, I do think Letterman and other comedians routinely cross lines I'd rather they didn't. This is one of those times, but it's not worse than countless others. But you know it's deliberately over-the-top and aimed at a cheap laugh. It's kinda' part of the joke. And this one impugned A-Rod the most--so far even he's smart enough to let it go.

I'm shocked by the big deal that the Palin family is making out of this, giving it more public exposure than it deserves and dragging their young daughter, Willow, into it to score political points for Sarah.

I heard Letterman tell the joke and he didn't mention the daughter by name. I assumed he was talking about Bristol, the older daughter who, after all, has a history of getting "knocked up." In fact, that is the essential context of the joke that makes is funny at all, otherwise it would make no sense.

"K" claims no one ever yelled "kill him" at a McCain/Palin rally.

So I guess the multiple news channels that picked up it up on videotape don't exist on your planet?

Barry O and his family will get the same respect that the governor of Alaska gets.

Posted by: BDD | June 12, 2009 11:45 AM

The Governor of Alaska has never shown any respect for President Obama or his wife. She has shamelessly attacked them in every way possible. She gets what she gives.

Sarah Palin represents the cancer of the religious right that's destroying the credibility and viability of all things Republican. She is nothing more than a Paris Hilton clone trying to use her good looks and infamous celebrity as career stepping stones. Like Paris Hilton, although Paris Hilton is obviously smarter and more articulate, Sarah Palin would be working in a Moose Burger King drive thru if she wasn't a "pretty woman".

Well, ALEX RODRIGUEZ is purported to be a "ladies man" (i.e. stripper in Toronto, Madonna and Kate Hudson, to name a few), while BRISTOL PALIN obviously didn't quite "practice what she preached" (Abstinence).
Even though Bristol P. wasn't at the YANKEE game, that's where the joke was going.

If you don't like it, watch a different late night host until they say something that offends you.

Palin just needs to get over herself and her hypocrisy. Does statutory rape ring a bell?

This is ridiculous. If Palin (or anyone) believed that Dave was talking about a 14 years old than it truly shows she's an idiot. I think she's smarter than that and is just playing the victim role.

Chelsea Clinton got much worse....oh, how everyone forgets.

I'm not Sarah Palin fan but Letterman is out of line. I've watched him for over 20 years now...and I'm beginning to find that he really is losing his sense of humor. How were any of the jokes funny..really..not funny picking on teens..

Letterman suffers no fools. Palin better learn that soon.

The double standard of the Leftist Corrupt Media and it's lack of credibility are alarming!

Posted by: John D | June 12, 2009 10:36 AM
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So's the double standard of the Right wing, whose credibility (yours in particular) is equally (EQUALLY!) suspect, for the same reasons and to the same end.
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It's NOT "funny" at all that the Swamp finds your rants over-the-top and screens them. Did you REALLY think you're alone in not having every single pearl of your "wisdom" not be pubished for the whole world to adore, or even that it's something done only to the Right-wing (you're not, and it isn't)? Your posts are being left out because they're NUTSO, JohnD, not because they're politically problematic for this blog. You're trying to post the same vile stuff you rail at when it comes from Letterman -- in your OWN WORDS "offensive and inappropriate" -- and don't see anything wrong and kind of SICK with that? And you'd be fine with the Swamp going ahead and POSTING "offensive and inappropriate" material as long as it's yours, yet at the same time howl at them for printing stories -- ANY story --you don't like, and in any WAY that doesn't suit you? Child, the problem ISN'T with the Swamp here. It's YOU.
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Yeah, yeah. I know. Loony left. Worst the world has to offer. Blah, blah, blah. Whatever, if it makes you feel less threatened, junior. No skin off MY nose. Go nuts, as it were.

"When are the Republicans going to get over their perpetual victim mentality?"

When the Democrats stop making cruel jokes about their young children.

Oh, and don't forget to Fight the Smears, right?

Hah! Yeah, Matt. Don't make me reluctantly talk about about Letterman - but excuse me while I whip out my notes.

But why should Palin tell her kids to stay away from Lettermen? She's already taught them abstinence.

Holocaust museum shooter and the RNC. One and the same.

Is this really the person the Republicans think will be around in 2012 as a presidential candidate? Every time she opens her mouth she makes a bigger idiot of herself. Letterman hasn't been funny for years, but if she didn't have all these 'official press responses' nobody would have even noticed he said it.

Go Sarah Go!!!
Another personal attack by a foul mouthed liberal! Kick his buttocks!

Wow, it's funny looking at the hysterical BS the Loons on the Left believe in.
"Kill Obama" at Palin rallies?!?!?!?!? Yeah, that really happened.
Oh, and the Holocause shooter left a note about taking his guns! Yeah, right.
No wonder the Loons on the Left are deranged: they believe in the most goofy lies ever. No wonder they are viewers of Keith Olberidiot and Rachel Madcowdiese on MSNBC.
Oh and the fake anger Sarah Palin has for Letterman calling her daughter an easy lay. Yeah, parents always like to hear jokes like that abiout their kids!!
The dumbest and worst mankind has ever offered: the loons on the left!

Get off your cross, snowbilly.

letterman has become such a perv. He has gotton so mean spirited and dark I cant even look at him. He is a real hater!

letterman is totally offf base to make fun of palins lovely slutty daughter. He should keep his attacks to more sophisticated females like porn stars and prostitutes.

Dear Republicans,
Please nominate Sarah Palin in 2012.

Letterman's jokes were funny, but in bad taste.

Palin wants it both ways though - she repeatedly uses her family to enhance her image and message, bringing them up in speeches, then complaining when others speak about them. Also, its obvious Letterman wasn't refferring to "Willow," and Palin is the one who keeps on dragging her into this. Poor girl. What a terrible mother.

If you use your family members to your advantage, blatantly disregarding how they will be affected, don't be surprised if others do the same.

As is obvious to all but the brain-dead Palin, her daughters are in danger from the boy down the street, not Letterman. Instead of constantly doing interviews, Palin needs to spend her time with her youngest daughter so she doesn't get pregnant like her oldest daughter.

Can you imagine the Swamp/Democrat uproar if Letterman joked (?) about a ballplayer raping Barack Obama's daughter?

Letterman is filth. His online defenders aren't much better.

Remember when McSame said that Chealse was ugly. Palin needs to go away. We are tried of this dumb woman. She only attention and makes no sense when she speaks

Remember when McSame said that Chealse was ugly. Palin needs to go away. We are tried of this dumb woman. She only attention and makes no sense when she speaks

Dave is a funny guy and my opinion of him will not change based on one comment/joke he made. Palin on the other hand is a total joke and therefore should be joked about.

also Sarah Palin:
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"Blah blah blah, poor me, blah blah, watch me get my 15 minutes out of this fake outrage, blah blah blah, poor me."

The empty kettles are calling each other black. Whoops! I wrote "empty kettles" and "black," could be construed a lot of ways.

Late night TV is for adults. If you don't like what you hear, change the channel, or better yet - shut the one-eyed boob tube off. Period. When I was a child, the networks used to run this ad:

"It's (the time). Do you know where your kids are?"

Where is the outrage? Please.

Here is where you should focus your outrage: preferential bailouts with our money; attacks on our liberties; more taxes, less services while public servant continue to vote themselves pay raises and appoint cronies who get lifetime pensions?!?!?

I agree with the person who said we need more tea parties - only this time let's throw all the entrenched pols from both sides into the bay.

On second thought, that would cause a bigger oil slick than the Exxon Valdez catastrophe...

Let them serve their country - in Afghanistan.

Posted by: rg | June 12, 2009 1:51 PM

Wingnut Day Planner - June 12, 2009:
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-Condemn David Letterman

-Boycott buying anything from GM or Chrysler

-Assert that the right-wing domestic terrorist Holocaust Museum Killer is a leftist

-Listen to Rush

-Listen to Hannity

-Listen to Levin

-Dress in drag and dance in front of the mirror

-Brush teeth

- Open beer and start crying

I think the real joke is that Bristol Palin is a spokeswoman for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.

Don't ever pick a fight with somebody that has their own tv or radio show.

They can keep it going way way longer than you can.

ahhahahahah

D'OH!

This is a woman (Palin) who when it became apparent that her inaccurate "Pallin' around with Terrorists" BS was causing death threats against the Obama family to spike....she decided to ramp it up.

Palin is a narcissist and she's trying to raise her own profile by engaging in a "celebrity feud" with David Letterman.

Your 15 minutes are up Palin, go away!

What a media hungry whore to go on and on about next to nothing! Vistime mentality is correct with this bunch of tools!

The state of politics in America is at an all time low.

We are arguing over whether or not this is funny and/or acceptable. An old man makes a crack about a sexual act between a baseball star with a notorious reputation and a young girl. We're arguing over whether he meant the 14 year old or the 18 year old. Does that really matter to you?

Does anyone else not see how sick this is? No one cares that he trashed flight attendents in general. No one cares that he called them and the Gov. of Alaska slutty.

It's just defend the party at all costs. And it's sickening. While we're arguing this absurdity, Congress and POTUS are robbing us blind and mortgaging our grandchildren. Wake up America.

Letterman isn't funny. Palin, on the other hand, is a laugh riot.

I was watching Letterman when he said it. He wasn't referring to the 14 year old. When you read it online it does sound harsh, but when he said it I laughed. It was just a joke - yes a bit tasteless, but a joke. Lets get over it and move on to more important things.

Johnny Carson had the brains and the class not to alienate a huge portion of his mainstream audience with comments like Letterman made, and he was not a smug and self-important jerk.

Letterman's comments are more worthy of a bush league, frat house outfit like MSNBC. If Conan would have done this his first week, his sponsors would have jerked his leash. Hard.

Does anyone actually watch Letterman anymore? He is old, tired and irrelevant. NBC made the right decision when they chose Leno over this leering, snickering buffoon.

Uuuh, Johnny Dimwit--I guess the FBI just made it up:

A notebook that law enforcement officers discovered in Mr. von Brunn’s 2002 red Hyundai, which he had double-parked outside the museum’s 14th Street entrance on Wednesday, appeared to offer insight into his mind-set before the shooting.

“You want my weapons — this is how you’ll get them,” Mr. von Brunn wrote in a note he had signed, according to the arrest affidavit.

“The Holocaust is a lie,” the note read. “Obama was created by Jews. Obama does what his Jew owners tell him to do. Jews captured America’s money. Jews control the mass media.”

"As long as it is okay to joke about MLB players knocking up under age children in the stands at Yankee Stadium, who will tell the first joke about Barry O's pickaninnies getting knocked up in a DC crack house?"

As usual, you white Republican loons resort to racism cuz after all, that's what you are and will always be. It's your heritage and your destiny. Sucks to be you.

Palin is implying that Letterman is a pedophile.

This is typical of the far right wing religious nutjobs and their attack dog/play the victim politics.

These people are nothing more than liars and hypocrites.

It was a huge mistake for the Palins to imply that Letterman shouldn't be allowed around young girls or that he advocates rape. If I were Letterman I wouldn't let that go unanswered. Sarah Palin is an idiot with lousy political instincts because her own comments have put her in a place where she may be expected to apologize. And because she is too obtuse to understand why her own comments are equally egregious it only diminishes her credibility as a reasonable candidate.

Letterman is only interested in ratings, and attention. I suggest we on the right calm down and ignore him...

This would not be an issue if Palin had not "pimped out" her family (including their Down Syndrome baby) the entire election campaign. If she had kept her kids out of the spotlight, her family would not be a target of tasteless jokes.

She's obviously running for president in 12. She should shut up and allow Letterman to keep telling his jokes.

"Can you imagine the Swamp/Democrat uproar if Letterman joked (?) about a ballplayer raping Barack Obama's daughter?"

If Letterman had joked about a ballplayer raping one of Sarah Palin's daughters, there would be outrage by everyone. But he didn't. The fact that any of you believe that he did is simply stunning.

I assume that all of you complaining about this thought Paris Hilton jokes were off limits when they were being made all the time when she was 18 or 19? Right? Didn't think so.

Palin is not even in the top 20 of qualified Republicans to be POTUS. She was on the ticket for one reason. We ALL know what that reason was...don't we you scumbag Republicans?

I get it.
How long before the knights in shinning amour (Republican party) throw the Governess (Palin) under the bus to make all their headaches go away.
Palin better be careful.
Wouldn't it be funny if the media was not the last of her enemies? Saved ala Miss America and then fired by her handlers. The plot thickens....

Lets make this simple...

If Letterman had cracked this "joke" in the face of any parent of a teenager - left, right or "whatever" wing- he would stand a good chance of getting knocked on his not so funny anymore ***...

Any parent who defends this stupidity is as big of a schmuck as Letterman.

Leftwingnut Planner

-Condemn George W. Bush for economy
-Condemn George W. Bush for unemployment rate
-Condemn George W. Bush for Iran's building nuclear weapon and firing missile even though Obama did tell them, "Please, pretty please, don't do that because, well, unlike Bush I'm so adorable and I've bowed to the Saudi King and my middle name is Hussein"
-Condemn George W. Bush as the reason people hate America
-Defend Obama's poor performance by blaming Bush
-Support public health plan option to copy disastrously rationed healthcare in Europe
-Listen to MSNBC
-Listen to Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews
-Listen to MIchael Moore
-Read the Daily Kos and Huffington Post
-Don't brush teeth
-Open beer and start shouting protests angrily about people who use gas and electricity
-Remember to recycle beer can, thereby saving the world
-Love and cherish Obama forever and ever
-Condemn George W. Bush

Dave actually pulled his punches in his apology to Palin. His joke mentioning the daughter was not sexual, sexist, dirty, lurid or meant to demean women; and, if anyone was slandered, it was Eliott Spitzer and A-Rod. Dave's real unspoken intent was to bring attention to Palin's hypocrisy. She preaches "family values" and abstinence and yet she can't even influence the behaviour of her own daughter. Moreover, she trots the daughter out on the campaign trail as a paragon of virtue. After using Bristol's young man like a rented mule in the campaign, the whole family attacks him when he is of no longer use to them. And, finally, as though she has somehow regained her virginity, Bristol is again on the stump preaching abstinence to help mommy score political points. What a pathetic bunch! But Dave didn't spell any of that out because he tries to avoid politics in his show. He hopes you can figure that all out on your own.

Letterman "isn't cool or funny, but this is:

http://www.dickipedia.org/dick.php?title=Sarah_Palin

Letterman should probably apologize to Willow...not to Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin should publicly thank Willow, A-Rod, Bristol and Letterman for combining to bring her back to our teevees. The question of who's right and wrong is all over the networks, which is pretty ridic:

http://www.newsy.com/videos/comedy_vs_news_how_far_is_too_far

Liberals by their nature are an angry, bitter, vile bunch. Letterman is just an old angry creep. But Liberals are in fact threatened by Palin. She is accomplished, independent and Conservative. Liberals find that threatening. Why? Because Liberals are insecure and when threatened tend to lash out and attack. Liberal behavior on this issue points to their ignorant nature. What the creep Letterman did is inexcusable yet the Libs stand by their man. Odd and twisted.

Liberals by their nature are an angry, bitter, vile bunch. Letterman is just an old angry creep. But Liberals are in fact threatened by Palin. She is accomplished, independent and Conservative. Liberals find that threatening. Why? Because Liberals are insecure and when threatened tend to lash out and attack. Liberal behavior on this issue points to their ignorant nature. What the creep Letterman did is inexcusable yet the Libs stand by their man. Odd and twisted.

Can Plain see NYC from her house?

Palin runs circles around the moron Biden. Biden, what a complete embarrassing.

The people defending Letterman are disgusting, truly the lowest trash of society. This is not a politcal issue, not Republican or Democratic. This is a nasty, classless joke from a classless man. 18 years or 14 years, the joke is not funny, and people who think this joke is OK deeply disturb me. This country is fading fast. Pride comes before the Fall.

about Barry O's pickaninnies
Posted by: BDD | June 12, 2009 11:45 AM

If you are going to resort to racial spew...at least spell it correctly. Picaninny!

but..but..but..Palin was calling Obama a terrorist for most of the campaign and she did not care that she was inciting panic and fear. She did this while trotting her children out on to the world stage. Palin is so unnecessary. Letterman rocks.

"The Governor of Alaska has never shown any respect for President Obama or his wife. She has shamelessly attacked them in every way possible. She gets what she gives.

Posted by: Melissa | June 12, 2009 12:12 PM "

Melissa honey, the Kool-Aid cart is coming your way in 5, 4, 3, 2.....

"Dear Republicans,
Please nominate Sarah Palin in 2012.

Posted by: With Ice Cream | June 12, 2009 1:26 PM"

CHANGE THAT YOU WILL BE BEGGING FOR!

This woman is no longer relevant. Try as she may to become relevant, she will melt away on her iceberg floating back to Alaska. She was the one who thrust her children into the media circus at the Republican National Convention. I for one, couldn't care less about the Palin's. David Letterman is being David Letterman by trashing celebrities and celebrity wannabees.

Can she just go away. She is clueless. She should never speak in public again. She should be ashame that her son and her grand son are the same age.

The mouth-breathing Republican knuckle-draggers on here need to clean up the hate talk coming from their own back yard (Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck and O'Reilly etc) before anyone is ever going to take them seriously about something David Letterman says:

Bill-O:
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/bill-oreilly-has-dr-george-tillers-b

ChickenHawk Seany:
http://www.newshounds.us/2009/05/06/is_hannity_inciting_civil_war.php

Mullah Limbaugh:
http://newsone.blackplanet.com/obama/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/

Crazy Glenn:
http://boards.hbo.com/topic/Maher-Member-Created/Glenn-Beck-Inciting/1900012539

I guess after exploiting Bristol, it's now time for Sarah to exploit her 14 year old. That woman's values are way outta wack.

Letterman cracks these jokes about Palin and her family. I never heard anyone criticize him for fathering an illegitimate son six years ago, bringing him on the show at least once for people to see, and then finally making that son legitimate early this year. How would he feel if people started saying mean things about his son? What if someone asked if his son knows how to spell illegitimate? Also, did you notice that he is giving his top ten about Palin and not Bush? Why did he shift from criticizing a sitting president to a past nominee? He should have shifted from a past president to the current sitting president.

Repuglicans always play the victim role. It's part of the conservative mentality. Anything they do or say, no matter how vicious, is only a response to being wronged - either in reality, or merely in their perception - by someone else.

A lifetime of being ridiculed by comedians won't even start to make up for the lies, distortions and innuendo about Obama and Democrats in general that Palin and Republicans spewed during the 2008 campaign.

Go get 'er, Dave! Your apology was not accepted.

Sarah Palin thinks abortion clinic bombers aren't terrorists.

Glenn Beck expects anyone of a muslim heritage to prove they are NOT a terrorist.

We've got lunatic fringe right-wing "media-outlets" like Faux News and AM hate radio blowhards like Mullah Limbaugh trying to spin the right-wing domestic terrorist holocaust museum shooter as a - left wing liberal.

Neocons say they are for individual freedoms but only for the people whose views match their own.

The Republican party in general claims to want small government, unless their party is in power (DHS anyone?!).

Republicans claim everything should be left up to the states to decide, except - emission standards, equal rights, gun laws, and cannabis legislation etc. They claim government shouldn't be able to tell you how to live your life...unless your last name is Schiavo. They call themselves moral and pro life, yet their thirst for making war and executing abortion doctors and Jewish people etc is unquenchable.

And yet they still wonder why their party (Republican) has been overwelmingly REJECTED?!?!

I am so glad that Palin stood up to Letterman.

Being a comedian is no justification for insulting people every night. His remarks were crude and his tacit acknowledgment is no apology.

Fire Letterman. (And take Bill Maher too!)

Letterman is a jerk both he and wanda sykes are out of material, but if they keep it up we can laugh at them.

Liking David Letterman or any comic or entertainer for that matter is bound to one's personal taste. I've never cared for his sarcastic humor. But many people find his jokes entertaining. I think Sarah should not have reacted at all. A reaction is what Letterman wants. It continues to focus the publicity on him.

As for the general public, most of Letterman's fans will think Palin is whining and that Letterman is right-on.

The remarks will not make new fans for Letterman or Palin -- just further gel each "sides" fan base.

I consider Palin more of a celebrity than a serious candidate for future political office. Unless that changes, I will continue to ignore her and Letterman.

Letterman is not funny. Palin is - at least on Saturday Night Live. I wonder if those long, cold, dark winters had anything to do with Alaskans finding someone like Palin to represent them.

I will remember to start taking cues as to what is "funny" and "cool" from the conservative, Alaskan, bumpkin.

Whether Letterman was referring to an 18 year old or a 14 year old, it's in bad taste.

Neither of Palin's daughters are "politicians." And even if you want to make fun of a single teenage mom, it's simply not funny.

Score this one for Palin and Letterman needs to move on, lest he appears desperate to beat O'Brien by fanning the flames of this "debate."

... Note to Republicans: Now see. THIS is fair and balanced. Not that nonsense you hear from Limbaugh, et al, and see on FOX.

Letterman was way out of line on this one regarding Palin's daughter and the Alex R. In my opinion he should be doing more to apoligize than what he has hinted (he apologized). You are getting worse Letterman!

Ha Ha,
Now making fun of Palin backfires......uh oh, what will the left and pop culture do now?

Palin wins this round

The real offense at Letterman's comments should be taken by A-Rod.
I mean who would want to be associated with having sex with a Palin?

Wow some of you people are something else?If Letterman made that comment about one of Obama's daughter, the media would be all over Letterman to apologize. It is not right what he said and being a woman, I am offended at his comment. Democrat or Republican, no child should have to hear themselves being made fun of by a talk show host. David Letterman should be ashamed of himself!

Wow some of you people are something else?If Letterman made that comment about one of Obama's daughter, the media would be all over Letterman to apologize. It is not right what he said and being a woman, I am offended at his comment. Democrat or Republican, no child should have to hear themselves being made fun of by a talk show host. David Letterman should be ashamed of himself!

"last-year's Sarah Palin"...and you Democrats are still dragging her and her family through the mud.

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Palin is not cool or funny. She is the original Ditz!

i think letterman was very tackey......and as far as i know people have never commented on children no matter what the age like they did and do about gov palin's family....very sad way to do her
she needs apolige and so do other young women in the world

Dear DopieOpie, my alleged "offensive and inappropriate" post not allowed by the Swamp Thug Censors was taking Letterman's "jokes" and inserting Democrats. It was more a test than anything because I knew the Censor Thugs would censor it. Silva gets a kick out of demeaning the Palins, even the children, as well as all members of the deranged left. But when the tables are turned, then we don't like it.
As far as "over the top" posts, sure some of them are, but then again they are done that way to make a point: point out the stupidity of the Left as well as the hypocrisy, because when it comes to "over the top" there is nothing more in outer space than members of the deranged, loony left.

Letterman is still bitter about not getting the Late Night gig. Leno never cared as much as Letterman and that's why Leno got the gig and also knew when to get out.

Letterman is just a dirty old man who needs to go out to pasture.

Letterman is not funny and his writers are not funny. He's just another flaming Liberal who needs to go away.

If Palin would have been a better mother and had "the talk" with her teenage daughter before she got pregnant, she wouldn't be the butt of a joke. She's a clown and a horrible reminder of what's wrong in the world every time she shows her face on TV. Stay in Alaska where you belong, witch!
I love you Dave, don't ever change.

OH what a joke . . . any of you punks making this a political thing. GROW UP this is about a truly tasteless joke about knocking up a 14 year old girl, and that's who was at the game, keep that in mind dimwits!

Anyone who mentions politics about this low life comment need to pull their heads out of their you know what. blind fools with a great deal of hatred you'd be if you can't acknowledge this low class comment. Of course maybe you'd like your daughter to be knocked up by arod!

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Posted by: Kathy | June 12, 2009 2:08 PM
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I totally agree with you, Kathy. I can’t add to what you wrote, either.

Sara, Your fake outrage is getting old. Everyone knows Letterman did not refer to Willow. Hey, till yesterday most people did not even know her name. The entire country knows the older girls' name as she was the kid that was knocked up and paraded by her mama all around the country. Palin and her family belong on the Jerry Springer show. Palin your outrage is one gig act.

This is just ANOTHER example of Palin's extreme hypocrisy. One joke by David Letterman can be soooooo "detrimental", but hours and hours and hours of truly detrimental hate speech from her and her right-wing media enablers like Faux News and Druggy Rush, doesn't have any effect on people and their views? Years and years of subjugating women doesn't play into women's "self-esteem"?

Perhaps the need for Palin to buy $75,000 worth of new clothes to "present" herself a certain way in order to be "accepted" has something to do with women and girls' self-esteem? Perhaps the spackle she puts on her face every day to be "pretty" has something to do with the twisted ways women and girls feel about their looks and themselves?

My god, Palin is just so pathetic on so many levels...it's the only word that fits - pathetic.

Palin trotted out her kids during the campaign, made them an issue, continues to use them, and get offended when there is any public commentary that doesn't go her way. She does not get to use her kids only for her own political gain.

She doesn't care about what Letterman said. What she does care about is all the media attention that she's now getting after a couple weeks in the wasteland. She's a political opportunist and media whore. If she really cared about this, she would let the joke slide into oblivion. What she did, however, was to ensure that everyone now knows about this "incident".

I knew she was a shameless attention monger as soon as she trotted her kids out all throughout the campaign all over the place instead of leaving them in school most of the time like the other candidates did. Someone should have called Child Protective Services to protect those kids from their mothers political abuse of them.

Don't get me started on her promotion of her special needs child at the same time she cut funds for special needs children in Alaska.

David Letterman should be fired. Letterman's type of comedy is very degrading. He is neither funny nor cool.
He needs to make a real apology.

I'd be worried about Dave's physical safety except that I know he has good security, especially after his years of being stalked and the other nut who wanted to kidnap his son.

One thing the unhinged Right-Wing Lunatic Fringe has proven over and over again, especially within the last few weeks (abortion doctor murderer, Holocaust Museum murderer) - if they and their very small band of lockstep braindead followers don't get their way, they'll start shooting people and blowing stuff up.

The 2009 GOP is nothing more than a bunch of buffoonish petulant children. It's no wonder they can't win elections anymore.

Much ado about nothing.

Is it me or does dave look more and more like Jed Clampett..

http://www.unclejedcountry.com/images/jed.jpg

If anybody implied that my wife and daughter was slutty i'd smack em! end of story. Time for dave to retire.

Who's playing Letterman on SNL?

How about the idiocy of Sarah Palin commenting on what was such an obvious in your face joke by Letterman? Letterman used the expression Slutty Flight Attendants (flight attendants are BOTH Male and Female), referring to the make-up- it was so obviously a silly joke- and Governor Palin lowers herself to comment on stupid humor. She really IS dumber than a sack of rocks and I am fed up with her manufactured outrage.

How about the idiocy of Sarah Palin commenting on what was such an obvious in your face joke by Letterman? Letterman used the expression Slutty Flight Attendants (flight attendants are BOTH Male and Female), referring to the make-up- it was so obviously a silly joke- and Governor Palin lowers herself to comment on stupid humor. She really IS dumber than a sack of rocks and I am fed up with her manufactured outrage.

Letternan says this joke four years from now as BO taks his 14 year old daughter to Chicago White Sox game.

"During the 7th inning stretch Sasha Obama got knocked-up by Alexi Rameriez. Also, while in Chicago, Michelle Obama went to Michigan Avenue to pick-up some make-up to work on her slutty flight attendant look" You would see Sharpton, Jackson, NOW, and every other community group out picketing CBS stations across the country.

BTW, when it comes to looks, there aren't many prominent democratic women that can compare to Sarah Palin.

Add Letterman to the Left wing hate monger list....just like a lot of the ones commenting here.

BTW, when it comes to looks, there aren't many prominent democratic women that can compare to Sarah Palin.

Posted by: Terry | June 13, 2009 1:16 PM
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Peggy,
Palin's ridiculousness in terms of actual issues is so bad that you don’t even bother to discuss it. Meanwhile, you admit to wallowing in the shallow end of the pool and quacking about her looks.

If there was ever anymore proof as to why the Republican party is flushing itsself down the toilet, Peggy here just provided it for us.

What's really disturbing about this is that Palin doesn't seem to mind exploiting her own children for political gain. She appeared on NBC's Today Show yesterday and once again cried about how during the 08 campaign, Obama demanded family members "being off limits" yet how hers were constantly were brought up. The thing is, she was the one always keeping it alive by bringing them on stage and keeping them in the spotlight. The McCain campaign CHOSE to hide her daughters pregnancy in the begining, knowing full well that it would soon be leaked, most likely by the left. And then they cried foul. Did they think that the press et al would simply look the other way for the rest of the season?

It appears now that there's this opportunity to turn this "old white male" thing around and to be used in their favor. When asked about appearing on the Letterman show, she responded "it would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman", an obvious insinuation that the "62 year old male" can't control himself around preteens.
If that isn't exploiting, she certainly missed an excellent opportunity to STFU.

This is nothing more than another GOPer con job. Palin is using this fake controversy to soak the Wingnut rubes for more cash for her PAC. Then she'll skim the PAC money to pay for her own expenses for years to come.

When their GOPer talking points are so crazy that you don't know if it's snark or reality doesn't that speak volumes of itself? Here we have a group Teabagging Wingnuttes that are taking a comment by a comedian to the extremes while saying there is no such thing as a RIGHT-WING extremist out there. And it's to the point of extreme when they call for a man to be fired for a bad joke.

I'm sorry but these Conservatives/Republicans are such idiots. With all the important things going on in the world right now, with our country in economic turmoil and millions suffering, THIS is what they want to make an issue of? THIS is what they want to protest? THIS is what is important to them? They still don't uderstand that things like this are why no one takes them seriously anymore.

Got a question: why hasn't palin challenged Letterman about his slutty flight attendant remark? Any guesses?

It was wrong. What if the joke was about Hussein's (obama) daughter?

Trickled On,

Let's take the highest ranking woman in the democratic party - that would be Nancy Pelosi and have her debate Sarah Palin. Palin will mop that dimwit all over the stage.

Let's take the highest ranking woman in the democratic party - that would be Nancy Pelosi and have her debate Sarah Palin. Palin will mop that dimwit all over the stage.

Posted by: Terry | June 13, 2009 9:02 PM
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Brittany,
Seeing as how you're a barely funtioning illiterate (average Repuglican), I can see how you would be dumb enough to pick a two bit trailer trash governor of Alaska (Palin), who has no chance whatsoever of being reelected, to win a debate over the first female Speaker of the House ever.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbEwKcs-7Hc

It must SO easy to fundraise off of cretins like you Brittany.

I'm wondering where Alex Rodriguez is in regards to this matter. I couldn't find any statement by him. One would think Alex wouldn't want the world to think he would commit statutory rape. If I were Alex, I would sue Letteman for defamation of character, and Palin should do the same on behalf of her daughter.

On the desk next to me, young Bristol Palin is beaming with her child on the cover People magazine. Sarah suggests that Letterman should be kept away from young girls. As a father of a young girl, I feel that the only one that needs to be kept away from young girls is the white trash Palin clan. The People magazine/Palin glorification of teen pregnancy is the elephant in the room.

Dear DopieOpie, my alleged "offensive and inappropriate" post not allowed by the Swamp Thug Censors was taking Letterman's "jokes" and inserting Democrats. It was more a test than anything because I knew the Censor Thugs would censor it. Silva gets a kick out of demeaning the Palins, even the children, as well as all members of the deranged left. But when the tables are turned, then we don't like it.
As far as "over the top" posts, sure some of them are, but then again they are done that way to make a point: point out the stupidity of the Left as well as the hypocrisy, because when it comes to "over the top" there is nothing more in outer space than members of the deranged, loony left.

Posted by: John D | June 12, 2009 6:50 PM

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Yeah, Deezie. Pure brilliance. Prove how insane the left is by being more insane yourself. Make a point about how wrong they are by being more wrong yourself. Make your points about how inappropriate and offensive you think the left is by being even MORE inappropriate and offensive. You really got us there, huh? Wow. I'm really shaking in MY boots over how brainy you are.
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John D -- FAR worse than any accusation he's ever made of the left, any day of the week.

Letterman is responding to this non-controversy perfectly.

He's remaining silent and letting Palin and her fundie nutjob supporters over play their hand.

Palin is the most tone deaf politician in America.

Sarah Palin, the Dirty Old Man, and Ugly Feminists

I’ll confess. I think Sarah Louise Heath Palin, who happens to be the first female governor of the great state of Alaska, is the foxiest politician I’ve seen in my lifetime. My wife of 41 years doesn’t even blink anymore when I mention that fact.

Would I vote for her as president of the United States because she’s attractive? Not bloody likely, even if she were a replication of Britney Spears or Carrie Prejean. If she resembled Judge Sonia Sotomayor, it would be even more bloody unlikely.

Palin’s looks are not the issue, or shouldn’t be. What is an issue in 2009–and which will be an issue in 2012– is not the reincarnation of J.D. Salinger’s dirty old man, in the person of dirty old Dave Letterman, or Palin’s looks but whether Dyke-World can overcome its revulsion over attractive women who aren’t lesbians.

It will be a challenge; most who flock to Dyke World more closely resemble Betty Friedan than Mrs. Palin. Brains and success, and Palin has both in spades, appeal to the lez set, but attractiveness seems to be a contraindicator for acceptance for most feminazis.

Make no mistake, the libs, the gays, the lesbians, and the Democrats, which is a redundancy, are terrified of Governor Sarah Palin and Letterman is nothing but a water carrier for that whole crew. Letterman’s crudities are almost irrelevant. What is worth emphasis is the atmosphere in which Dirty Dave and his writers feel free to dump on Palin.

It’s the same prevailing atmosphere which allows attacks on a beauty queen for being honest about gay marriage, which mandates the persecution of a radio shock jock for letting slip a dumb racial slur, and which hounded a sports commentator twenty or so years ago who was fired by CBS for praising Black athletes’ slave-derived athleticism.

To liberals today there are various levels of discriminatory language, acceptable, marginal, and totally objectionable, and they determine the parameters of each category. The Left, for example, has twisted words and language to such an extent that the term “reproductive rights” now has no relation to reproduction but rather to aborting life.

Letterman’s inane “jokes,” referring to the governor of Alaska as a slut and to her daughter being knocked-up way out in right field at Yankee Stadium are in a class with Wanda Sykes’ “humorous” wish that Rush Limbaugh die of kidney failure. That brand of ”humor” so tickled Obama’s funny bone that he all but peed his pants when he heard it. The rest of the lib establishment either condoned or ignored it.

Incredibly, Letterman’s entire defense of his knocked-up crack was that he was referring to Bristol Palin who, since she was 18 and, to feminist dismay, had chosen to bear her child out of wedlock instead of aborting the baby. She thereby violated the First Commandment of liberal theology, Thou shalt abort inconvenient babies. Their Second Commandment is, Thou shalt abort any baby if you don’t want it, inconvenient or no.

Never would Dirty Dave refer to 14 year old Willow Palin in such a way. Not Dave! That would be statutory rape! It was just hunky dorey, however, to make light of Bristol being raped by Alex Rodriquez. I assume, Dirty Dave considered her a fallen woman already and so, who knows, maybe it was consensual.

It was Willow Palin and not Bristol Palin who accompanied her mother and Rudy Giuliani to the Yankee game but, hey, ya seen one Palin girl, ya seen ‘em all. They all look alike, right, Mr. Letterman?

As for his “slutty flight attendant” witticism about Governor Palin, he did sort of apologize for that and will probably not joke about Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton being sluts, unless one of their daughters gets knocked-up out in left field in the Stadium.

No doubt Dirty Dave, who didn’t marry his son Harry’s mother until the boy was five,. . .
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We've got blogs about REAL issues. Health Care, National Security, etc. And there are currently 138 entries (far more than any other) on this one? About a feud between a currently irrelevant politician and an old grumpy talk-show host?

Get real, please.

Posted by: Kathy | June 12, 2009 2:08 PM

The previous administration mortgaged our children's future with a phony war. And the first "bail-out" last fall was the Bush administration, too. Now this administration has to clean up the mess. It will take time, but Obama's administraton is off to an extraordinarily good start.

Hey, outraged Republicans, especially John W, let's see some outrage about this attempt at humor:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/06/14/2009-06-14_pol_gorilla_is_related_to_first_lady.html

I am sick of everyone going against republicans!

SARAH,GO HOME!! whiteagle38

Letterman should be ashamed of himself and so should Matt Lauer for playing the devil's advocate. Do not be accepting of these shameful comments about females in general. It's not funny at all! As Obama say's family is off limits. That goes for the Democratic comedians too.

Right- Not cool...
It's the Kids- Stupid!

Posted by: Gene Lalor | June 15, 2009 1:40 AM

One of the greatest dirty-jokes ever from the movies could have been considered "child-porn". Sort of.

From the Marx Brothers movie "Animal Crackers":

Captain Spaulding(Groucho), talking about his trip to Africa: "We took some pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed."

We're arguing over whether he meant the 14 year old or the 18 year old. Does that really matter to you?

Posted by: Kathy | June 12, 2009 2:08 PM

As I recall, the difference between the age of consent and lower than the age of consent mattered a GREAT deal to REPUBLICANS when Mark Foley was emailing 17-year-old pages smutty emails. Seems that as long as they're legal, there's no problem AT ALL, 'cuz there were posts from the usual neocon suspects defending him against liberals complaining. Or at least there's no problem if it's a Republican who's messing around with teenagers who are pretty much age of consent or more. Or more or less. So if Republicans are willing to defend Foley and 17-year-olds, they OUGHT to be just dandy-roo with Letterman and an 18-year-old girl.
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Me? I thought Foley was disgusting and I think Letterman's disgusting. And, by the way, I think Republicans are disgusting in general, not that that needs to matter to you.

Sarah Palin should just shut up. It's a friggin joke. What has society come to. I weep for the future.