Letterman Responds To Palin By Repeating Offensive Jokes

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"Late Show" host David Letterman, in response to Sarah Palin's statement concerning a disgusting joke he made Monday evening about her daughter getting knocked-up by Alex Rodriguez in the middle of a Yankee game (video embedded right), made a feable attempt at apologizing to the Governor and her family by -- wait for it! -- repeating the joke on Wednesday's show.

Classy, huh?

For those that can stand it, the video is embedded below the fold:


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David Letterman

YOU are a disgusting joke.

Cmon trolls... ...weigh in

Cmon trolls...

...weigh in on this heartfelt "apology." 

Good morning Sick

Our resident left-wing extremist supporting peanut gallery is hiding in their colorless world behind the grey bushes of compromise. They will return when the coast is clear.

The obvious need for moral absolutes scared them off.

Jesus Loves You so much He died for you

Not hiding anywhere. Just

Not hiding anywhere. Just tired of arguing the same thing over and over again.

→ bal

You're a left-wing extremist?

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

I saw the words "peanut

I saw the words "peanut gallery" and assumed I was included.

→ Just be careful, bal

Be careful you don't allow yourself to get lumped in with the Left wing extremists.

Left wing extremists use words like "Them Jews".  Granted, these would be our President's mentors, but it's still not a good idea to get lumped in with them.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

You are aware

that "peanut gallery" doesn't mean people who are addicted to peanuts don't you?

Or, is your real name Charlie Brown?

 

;-)

Balboa, Are you defending

Balboa,

Are you defending Letterman's digusting, putrid, horrific, vile, hateful, amoral joke about Sarah Palin's 14 year old daughter?

I hope not.

Did he specifcally say

Did he specifcally say Willow Palin? No he didn't. When I heard the joke origianlly I had no idea one Palins daughters was at the game. So hearing the joke I immediuately thought of Bristol, who was knocked up already. Most people probably thought the same thing.

JesseJacksonIV ~ joins in the defense of RAPE JOKE.

No surprise here.

Wasn't a rape joke, it was

Wasn't a rape joke, it was joke about Palins daughter who already was knocked up and a womanizing baseball player.

No, it was about the

No, it was about the daughter who was at the game with Gov Palin, 14 year old Willow.  And as it has been pointed out in numerous posts it is considered STATUTORY RAPE in every State of the Union.  It was and will always be a rape joke and libtards like you are defending it.

The Obama Administration: THE most fiscally irresponsible Administration EVER

Do you for a 100% certainty

Do you know for a 100% certainty that the writers meant the 14 year old daughter? Isn't it possible that they heard her daughter was at the game and did the joke, not knowing it was Willow and not Bristol who was there.

→ Jackson

You missed it.  And most ofus are tired from laughing at all the loopholes liberals have been jumping through to defend Letterman.

Frankly, all your arguments were beat around yesterday.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

Doesn't really answer the

Doesn't really answer the question. Unless someone here was at the meeting where the writers came up with the joke, they have no idea if it was meant for Willow or Bristol. They just assume.

 

I've watched Letterman for 27 years, never heard him joke about a 14 year old having sex with a 30 something. It's very plausible that the writers had no idea it was Willow who was at the game and did the joke based on Bristol already having a baby.

IT. DOESN'T. MATTER.  THE

IT. DOESN'T. MATTER.  THE JOKE IS VULGAR AND OFFENSIVE, AND IF IT WAS DONE AT THE OBAMA DAUGHTERS, LETTERMAN WOULD HAVE BEEN SKEWERED.  AND YES, JEN7, I USED THAT ARGUMENT.

So you are saying . . .

they are that ignorant of the facts?  They knew A DAUGHTER attended the game?  If the rest of the world knew it was Willow and they didn't, their investigative ignorance is showing.  Like pretty much everyone of the left-wing comedians.  They have the gift of gab but facts . . . not so much.

Jokes about kids especially in this sense is inappropriate.  Put the shoe on Obama's foot and see how he likes it.

→ Yes Jarn

It's a matter of not letting the facts get in the way of a cheap joke that smears the Palin family.

Simple as that.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

in the legal world...

ignorance is not a defense.  I isn't a defense for tasteless jokes either.

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds”

Samuel Adams

That's funny, the only

That's funny, the only thing I noticed getting beaten around yesterday was your miserable corpse of a case.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

Letterman apologist

 Are about as fine as you can get, I want every one of you to approach everyone you knows wife and suggest his wife has a new look, far better then the slutty look she had before. Go find a father of an (18) year old daughter and tell him a joke that parallels Dave's joke.
Man up now guy's, tell us how it went. Be a man go out and tell these folks their children are fair fodder for this type of ridicule. Show us what a great sense of humor the parents and Husbands have. Dont let us down now, You might just prove to be a hypocrite.

Fitz your wrong, been wrong from the begining, but whats even worst, is now you acting like a liberal, claiming nonesense and using the old name calling technique, very nice

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

How difficult is this for

How difficult is this for you to understand, general company?  I believe in charging Letterman for the violation I know he committed...not for the more salacious violation that I haven't a hope in hell of proving.  It's about intellectual honesty, you might want to try it some time.  Oh, and spare me the self-righteous bluster about presenting a theoretical husband/father with the Top Ten List quip and the "knocked up" line about the 18-year-old.  It's a cheap, lazy non sequitur and it avoids the only point at issue...whether or not it can be proven that Letterman directed a sex joke at a 14-year-old girl.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

Fitzfong now defends dave's rape joke.

shaking my head...  'intellectual honesty'? 

How about you trying some of that fitz?  

Care to address your

Care to address your disagreements with my argument?  Or are you just one of those substance-free drive-by wastes of time we hear so much about?

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

→ Fitz

Having determined you have no problem with Letterman reducing an unwed mother into casual conquests of A-Rod and Elliott Spitzer, I'm not sure there's much more to say.

The ratings will determine whether Letterman was justified in his masogyny, and your conscience will judge accordingly with yours.

If that's how you talk about your best friends' daughters, I don't even want to be an acquaintance.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

fitzfong continues supporting dave's rape joke.

Absolutely, fitzfong.

I'm game. 

We know the facts...wait, I know the facts and you want to believe dl meant the older sister even though she was not at the game.

We know you want to give dl the benefit of the doubt even though the facts do not match.  

I am waiting your lame reply.

Very substantive analysis

Very substantive analysis there, pahuber.  "I'm right, you're wrong", "fitzfong endorses child rape", blah, blah, blah, end of discussion.  I guess I wasn't wasting my time, after all!  You know what would make your "contribution" a real rhetorical tour de force?  Another NAMBLA reference!

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

fitzfong, you are indeed supporting dl's RAPE JOKE. I provided

you with

"Very substantive analysis there, pahuber. "

No, but I did provide you with the crux of the matter and you do not care what the facts are as you are defending dl no matter what.  you are the one who seems to know exactly what dave means and yet you say this:

"I'm right, you're wrong", "fitzfong endorses child rape", blah, blah,
blah, end of discussion.  I guess I wasn't wasting my time, after all! 
You know what would make your "contribution" a real rhetorical tour de
force?  Another NAMBLA reference!

As far as my NAMBLA reference goes, I do not know whether or not you are a child predator fitzfong.  However, defending rape jokes is not funny and makes me question you personally.

 

 

you are the one who seems

you are the one who seems to know exactly what dave means

No, I'm saying that you don't.

As far as my NAMBLA reference goes, I do not know whether or not you are a child predator fitzfong.  However, defending rape jokes is not funny and makes me question you personally.

Look, pahuber, it's so obvious that you are an intellectual lightweight.  Your lack of impulse control in resorting to sad, petty NAMBLA reference was kind of a big clue.  Given the quality of individual that you are, I would be quite worried if you didn't question me personally.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

Here's my Letterman styled joke--

about you Fitzfong.
Your partner is a man named fong. How well and how often does fitz fitzfong????

Very, very funny---no????

As long as it amuses you, I

As long as it amuses you, I guess.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

JesseJacksonIV, No, he

JesseJacksonIV,

No, he did not say specifically Willow Palin, just like he did not say specifically Briston Palin. So, explain how YOU know that it was about Bristol Palin?

the FACTS are...

1) Sarah Palin and her 14 year old daughter were the ones that attended the Yankees game, NOT Bristol Palin.

2) Bristol Palin was no where near the stadium.

3) Letterman joked about the daughter that was at Yankee Stadium with Sarah Palin. What daughter was there? Willow Palin.

Yes, Letterman made a depraved, disgusting, amoral joke about a 14  year old girl being raped by Alex Rodriguez.

4) IF, IF and that is a huge, huge IF Letterman thought he was talking about Bristol Palin, do please explain how that makes the depraved, disgusting joke any better?

I guess you would be ok if Conservatives started making fun of Joe Biden's over age daughter being raped because she is a drug addict that can't control herself, right?

Liberals=Depraved

Thank you Liberallies for

Thank you Liberallies for fleshing out my statement.  Unfortunately what you said will not penetrate the dense matter that constitutes a libtards brain, especially since the reasoning center is disconnected to the rest of the brain.

The Obama Administration: THE most fiscally irresponsible Administration EVER

Like I said in another post

Like I said in another post the writers might have had no idea it was Wilow who at the game. The only mistake was in not checking which daughter was there.

Based on 27 years of watching the show, I can believe that it was an honest mistake and not intended for the 14 year old daughter.

Rape isn't funny, this wasn't a rape joke.

→ Fair enough JJ IV

You have now succeeded in coinvincing yourself.

That shouldn't be an exercise you have to engage in here.

Now convince yourself "nappy headed hos" wasn't a reference to the basketball players since Imus didn't call any of them by name.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

Imus had a long history of

Imus had a long history of saying stupid things like that. Letterman has no history of child rape jokes.

 

Why couldn't it be an honest mistake by his writers? Why do you completly dimiss that possiblility? Is there another example of a child rape joke Dave has done?

JJ

He knows by now yet he repeats showing the jokes again.

Yes he did, after he

Yes he did, after he explained that it was not about the 14 year old.

JJ

It was the 14 year old at the game.So he knew that and still ran the clip of the jokes.

After he explained the joke

After he explained the joke was not about Willow.

jessejacksonIV defending dave's ongoing rape joke.

Oh, so you believe dl... well, that just makes it a-ok to laugh at then...   you and fitzfong need to go and have a secret confab.

JJ... It's not funny about

JJ...

It's not funny about any daughter...anywhere...any age.

Period.

I don't give a flying fig what Dave Letterman says...all looney leftists are liars, it's their way of life...they thrive and survive on spin and lies.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

→ JJ knows

JJ kinows Letterman has done irreparable harm to his brand and it bothers him something fierce.

We're discussing this topic with a bunch of Liberals telling us "He wasn't talking about Willow, He was talking about Bristol"

I'm ready to say "OK, now that you've caught the car, what the heck did you want with that tire anyway?"

Allowing it was Bristol to whom Letterman referred leaves all these Liberals no quarter.  They still love Letterman, and can't bring themselves to condemn even the less egregious charge.

About the best you'll get out of them is "Letterman went a bit too far"

Proof positive Liberals believe the children of Republicans can be dragged through the mud mercilessly, but I'm not ready to join in with the "They do it too" nonsense the next time some Lib politician's kid powders their nose in a restroom.

I'm done with the "which daugthter did he mean". 

The Libs have agreed to sell their respective dignities at the price of Bristol.  That's pretty low in, and of, itself.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

You are absolutely correct CA. The liberals on this site know

what DL mean't and are going nuts...  watching them defend a rape joke, seems to be right up their alley.

"We're discussing this topic with a bunch of Liberals telling us "He wasn't talking about Willow, He was talking about Bristol"

I guess we did not get the memo...  even though Willow was at the game and not Bristol... all liberals automatically know it was the other way around and exactly what dave mean't.

'tortured logic' indeed.

 

 

→ pahuber

I'm just willing to let them revel in having sold their dignity at a higher price than presented.

They want to reduce an unwed teen to the level of something Elliott Spitzer might pick up, or A-Rod might bang in his spare time.

That's pretty low all by itself.  Bristol didn't deserve this, any more than Trigg deserved having Liberals say he should've been aborted.

I'm ready to let them party.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

Well, you basically hammered them with logic, CA. Their only

defense is 'that's not what he mean't' even though the facts do not bear that out.

They assume that is what he meant and you are very correct.  

pahuber

PS... you do not have to agree with me here, but having some of these types on NB's denigrates the integrity of this site when 'trolls' or whatever come here just to play stupid about a blatant rape joke.  

I wish NB's would do a little weeding once in awhile...hint hint.

So, if her were to make the

So, if he were to make the joke about "Slutty Michelle Obama" and "Her Daughter" the joke would naturally just be laughed off?

Right.....

Good morning Bal

If you were tired of the same old arguments you would stop arguing that it's Ok to tear apart unborn human babies piece by piece until they're dead. that it's OK to make sexual jokes about a 14 year old girl, that it's OK to make jokes insulting a female governor and all stewardesses and supporting every perverted lifestyle imaginable.

But you are still here with your despicable inane arguments.

Jesus Loves You so much He died for you

Case in point. 

Case in point. 

'Troll' here reporting for duty

Dear Mimi (sickoflibs),  

I don't see the big deal, it was a joke. When I heard the jokes the next day throughout the media I didn't interpret the 'A-Rod' joke as referring to Gov. Palin younger daughter, it was obviously about Bristol. I don't even know the 14 yr. old name.

As far as repeating the jokes, I didn't watch Letterman the night of the contronversial jokes, but I did last night as I am sure many others did as well, so it was neccessary to repeat the jokes in question.

If you regulary watch his 'top-ten' then you know there are always 2 or 3 duds that aren't that funny, these jokes classify as duds.

If comedians can't be politically incorrect than they wouldn't be comedians. How many 'e-mails' do you get everyday about Obama. My dad gets two or three a day and they are just as bad, if not worse than Letterman's jokes.

And on a side not if you go to foxnews.com this is the first thing you see "Daves non apology apology" (when I checked last night and this morning before typing this). There are A LOT MORE IMPORTANT NEWS than Letterman and Palin, like the shooting yesterday, economy, flu, or anything else. Lettermans comment is news but it doesn't deserve front page, headline, picture like it is getting at on foxnews.com.

'troll' signing out.

If the joke is no big deal,

If the joke is no big deal, just let Letterman say it about Malia or Sasha and see what the response from the White House would be.

Apples and Onions

Comparing apples to onions, the Obamas don't have a daughter who has a baby, the Obamas don't have an older daughter to which the joke applies. Letterman wouldn't have made the joke if the Palins had two daughters underage, like Sasha and Malia are. The Palins have Bristol, whom isn't a minor, whom has been in the news since election day. The 14 year old daughter hasn't been in the news since the RNC. Bottom line is it doesn't apply to the Obamas daughters, Apples to Onions.

24enak, You are kidding

24enak,

You are kidding right? You are NOT excusing this disgusting, depraved, putrid, amoral joke, are you?

1) Sarah Palin has daughters who are under age, as well as Bristol who is over 18.

2) The daughter that went to the ball game in New York with Sarah Palin was no Bristol, it was the 14 year old. So, please explain how the depraved joke applies to Bristol.

3) Even if you are right, and Letterman ment the 18 year old, Bristol, how the hell does that excuse the depraved joke? eh? Are you truly this sick minded? are you truly this depraved?

4) Want to compare Apples to Apples, per your pathetic explanation above? How about Joe Biden's daughter, who is a cocaine user. She is over age, which Conservative or Republican has made fun of Joe Biden's daughter for having drug issues, eh?

5) You and I both know that if had been a Conservative comedian the one that made such a joke, individuals like you would be demanding that individuals head on a platter.

6) Why are you Liberals such sick, depraved, inhumane, digusting, filthy individuals. How can you stand there and defend this sick, old man Letterman?

7) The joke WAS about Palin's 14 year old daughter since she was the ONLY one that was at the ball game with her mom. Bristol was NO where near the ball park.

 

sick--

It is amazing how a person(?) can find a way to write off any disgusting thing said or done based on their political leanings.

Garofolo you!!!

But we can refer to michelle

But we can refer to michelle Obama as "Slutty", right?

→ BD

That's the invitation the Liberals are extending.

What I'm hearing from them is "Come on in, women deserve to be treated like sluts"

Don't fall for it.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

I would not, as I consider

I would not, as I consider it beneath me.  But it IS the logical question that needs to be asked.

I tire of conservatives being told we are misogynistic, yet it is the rap stars, Hollywood types, etc who are truly beyond the pale.

a joke by any other name

When I first read the joke, didn't see it live, in context of the list of 10 I thought the joke was a stab at Sarah Palin's parenting skills at the expense of her 14 & 18 year old daughters. My thinking was that he was stating that since mother Palin allowed one daughter to get pregnant she would sit by and allow her other daughter to be impregnated by A-Rod.

After reading the various interpretations I see it could be taken a few different ways but I see no interpretation that allows for David Letterman to escape some criticism and any one blaming a mother for protecting her children even by going a little too far, not that I believe she did, is being foolish. Protecting the young is a founding principle in ID, evolution and most if not all religions.

David Letterman has more experience in political jokes than Sarah Palin has in politics; therefore, he should have known the joke was wrong. He has also been an adult longer than the Palin children have been alive and should know how to pick his targets better. A joke is a joke but it is not free from criticism regardless of political interest.

A person may be won over with logic and reason but the masses must be bought with spectacle and platitudes. - 2008 Elections

Oh, for Pete's sake!  If

Oh, for Pete's sake!  If you're going to sanctimoniously pretend to be an educated person who uses the word "whom", at least learn to use it correctly, you ignorant sack of excrement! 

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

Emails are private. They

Emails are private.

They are not on broadcast television.

See the difference?

Re the attention on Fox News:

Letterman was the first thing you saw??????

How did you miss the stories on the shooter, the pandemic, and Miranda rights for terrorists?

Also, how much air time and web space and newspaper space did the lib outlets devote to the Palin "clothing scandal"?

 

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.  -Bart Simpson

 

Substitute e-mails for

Substitute e-mails for anything that is said about Obama on conservative talk radio or foxnews. I don't have a problem with what they say about Obama, in regards to the jokes, I can take a joke, but I do mind when they are outraged by jokes about them, or their ilk. If you are going to dish it out you have to be able to take it, as well.

 Like I said Letterman and Palin was the first thing I saw because it was the only story that had a picture last night and this morning. There was those other stories but they weren't as big and didn't have a picture, Letterman and Palin was the headline on foxnews.com last night and this morning, It was the first thing I and anyone would seen if they seen foxnews.com last night and this morning. I didn't say it was the only story on foxnews.com.

Dear Gladys (24enak): It was

Dear Gladys (24enak):

It was "obviously about Bristol" because you don't know the other daughter's name? Or didn't know Bristol was home in Alaska (with her bastard child)? 

For the record, I can't remember ever receiving an Obama joke via email - what "organizations" is your father associated with if he gets 2 or 3 PER DAY?

I'm betting you were one of those kids who showed up for the SAT without a pencil. Am I correct? 

I was saying that to the

I was saying that to the public the daughter they associate with the Palins is Bristol. Not the 14 year old. The Letterman show made a mistake because they assumed or didn't do research on which daughter was in NYC with Sarah Palin before they made their jokes.

The emails he gets is usually forwarded to him by friends not an 'organizations'.

No, but you are close. I once took a college alebra test without a calculator, which I forgot. But I did pass the test, and did better without a calculator than some did with a calculator.

True story: I was suspended

True story: I was suspended in the 4th grade for sneaking an abacus in to take a math test.

So much for...

the rule of not going after the family members of politicians.  I guess that rule should be ammended to: Don't go after the family members of politicians in the Democrat Party. Republican family members are still fair game.

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds”

Samuel Adams

24, You'll like this:

.

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You are symptomatic of what

You are symptomatic of what is wrong with America.  You are defending a lowlife comedian joking on national TV about raping a 14 year old girl.  You can defend this only if your moral compass is completely broken.

Do you have kids?  How would you feel about them being the butt of a rape joke?  How about if David Letterman made a joke about you getting raped by the Yankees baseball team?  Does any of this even register with you?

I just don't understand moral relativists like you.  And I feel both ashamed and tremendously sorry for you.

I wasn't defending

I wasn't defending Letterman, I am a Conan guy myself, I gave my opionion. Jokes are about interpretation and I gave my interpretation, and I feel that it is being misinterpreted especially by you.

I didn't hear letterman say 'raping a 14 year old girl' he said that her daughter was knocked up by A-Rod. When I say Sarah Palin's daughter and 'knocked up' which do you, and every other person think about, Bristol not the 14 year old.

I don't have my own kids but I have 3 nieces and nephews. It wasn't a 'rape' joke, 'rape' jokes are never funny when directed at somebody else. The joke, I believe, was directed towards the older, legal daughter Bristol and the fact that she was unintentionally 'knocked up' (by Levi, not A-Rod) and that A-Rod has been in headlines about his affairs with Madonna and others.

It was a bad joke, which comedians do from time to time. I feel sorry for you, that you ears, eyes, and brains don't all work together. mistaking knocked up for the word rape, the Yankees baseball team for A-rod, and daughter for for the 14 year old and not Bristol which to whom the joke was directed.

Like Letterman said it was in poor taste.  

  

In poor taste

I don't understand the logic here. The joke was in poor taste. The person against whom this poor taste was directed, Palin, responded. Why is she wrong?

If you called me a vulgar name, and I responded by calling you pathetic, why is the focus of disapproval on me? I didn't start the whole thing, and I wasn't the one who was vulgar. So why would I get heat for my response?

The story here is that a comedian took a really cheap shot at a politician (the latest in a long line of petty, mean-spirited insults), then the public and the politician responded ... and the comedian is upset about the response. The comedian thinks that he has a free right to insult and say anything he wants, but that he's immune from criticism.

Hi KC, I am not surprised about enak's support of the rape joke

that dl told.  His mission on NB's seems to be that of an apologist for liberals when they totally screw up.  However, dl's statements were not a screw up.

I believe that dl was sending a signal to conservatives that if you take a stand for what is good and decent then you and your family are fair game.   While in New York dl thought this a good time to try and do his damnedest to screw with the Palins.  Perhaps he thinks it is his territory...  I know, juvenile, but just trying to think like a libtard here...

I think dl was sending a message like every msm outlet does every day.

Can Palin take a joke?

Agreed, pahuber.

Let's not kid each other. These aren't just jokes. This is politically-based ridicule. It's a deliberate attempt to disrespect anyone with opposing political views. We've talked about how some liberals demonize opponents ... here, Letterman's tactic is to demean them.

That's why Letterman's (and others') refusal to make jokes at Obama's expense is so revealing. You can't claim to be neutral and yet refuse to ridicule Obama. The excuse that Obama never gives them anything to make jokes at is, bluntly, crap. It's not only untrue, it's also illogical. That would mean that their targets somehow "deserve" to be made fun of, but that Obama hasn't done anything to deserve ridicule.  

By the way, this isn't a case where one joke was too "edgy." Letterman has been insulting Palin for months. This joke is revealing because it wasn't just harmless fun ... it was active disrespect. And this time, his bile was so bad that it overflowed into disrespecting her children. But this is just the worst example of a long line of "jokes."

  • In all that time, Palin took the ridicule. She didn't retaliate or scream back. She has, I think, a solid record of being able to "take a joke."
  • In this particular instance, however, Letterman disrespected her children, and she responded.

Even though she had never before responded, after constant insults for months, Letterman's explanation of her response this time is that she can't take a joke?

The story here isn't Palin; the story is that Letterman can't take criticism. She's already proved she can take it. He's proving here that he can't.

KC, I am hoping that

KC,

I am hoping that everyone contact the sponsors of Letterturds show and complain. Threaten them with boycotts of their products/services.  If this would happen how long before:

A) Letterturd issues an actual heartfelt apology? (highly unlikely).

B) CBS cancels the show because of the financial drain and bad publicity.

C) Both A & B

D) Neither

The Obama Administration: THE most fiscally irresponsible Administration EVER

Scuba Dude

I'm not sure anything will happen. Remember, this is the network that promotes Katie Couric, and her ratings are dropping to near-MSNBC levels. Ratings clearly aren't their driving motivation.

I wish you luck, but my threats would be hollow. I almost never watch him now. If I threatened to stop watching altogether, I'd only be cutting back a few minutes a month anyway.

Absolutely, they are not jokes. They are goon style behavior by

dl who absolutely despises anything conservative or those who stand for what is decent.

I remember dl calling B.O. a goon recently, dave thinks being the dnc lackey hater is quite cool.

 

just another example of the

just another example of the fowl mouthed libs dishing it, but run home crying to mommy if someone calls them something no where near as bad, they are a nasty lot arent they. but to have a 62 year old dude make a major wrong sexual  comment about a 14 year old girl is close to being a pedofile, JMHO

Hello

I never said she was wrong, she has every right to defend her family. My problem with this whole thing is that it is not THAT big of a story, it doesn't deserve or merit all of the attention it is getting.

Following your logic he isn't wrong for being upset at her response. I mean if anything she and the outcry has greatly helped Letterman's ratings. Comedians always take cheap shots at politicians, though he (writers) probaly crossed the line with a few of the jokes, and they weren't that funny.

Fair enough

Well, I'll tell you what's driving me about this story - I can't speak for others.

Remember all of what's going on lately. We're in the middle of a media wave of pundits claiming that conservatives are responsible for nutty whack jobs and that we have to tone down our rhetoric. But Letterman comes on and takes a cheap shot at Palin, and liberals blame us for cheapening the public discourse? It's our fault that the public conversation has been coarsened over time, after eight years of "Bush is a murderer!" crap ... all while we're in a war?

I'm in no mood to take that crap. Letterman openly cheap shots Palin, and they blame us for a climate of hate? Look in the freakin' mirror!

This isn't just a regular joke at a public figure's expense. Now and again, OK, it's good for public figures to have their bubbles burst. But this comment was so obviously just a mean-spirited cheap shot, it crossed a line. This is what liberals accuse us of doing! Combined with the fact that he doesn't target Obama at all, it shows that these comments are political. He's attacking Palin because he doesn't like her, and why doesn't he like her? Pure politics.

It isn't just "his job." If it was just "his job," he'd have to take shots at Obama - but he doesn't. Why not?

Unless you attack the most powerful guy, that excuse doesn't hold water.

There's only one conclusion possible: Letterman can't stand Palin because of politics. That colors his "jokes" as cheap attempts to disrespect her. And even so, you might overlook it - but then his contempt for her politics was so bitter that he took a shot at her child. So, from my point of view, that calls for the public to defend her.

 

Don't be so stupid

If comedians can't be politically incorrect than they wouldn't be comedians.

David Letterman, Jay Leno, and all the rest DO NOT tell Obama jokes. It's not because they can't think of any. It's precisely because it's politically incorrect to do so.

This means: (a) They aren't comedians, or (b) You're the joke.
___________________________________ 

Liberals constantly demand that we accept a glaring falsehood as truth; Obama's elimination of the word "terror" will make terrorist acts less terrifying

Am I allowed to choose "all

Am I allowed to choose "all of the above"?

Why is it...

that any time a liberal is called out on the carpet for the tasteless jokes they made against someone, you liberals always say that there are more important things that need to be reported on than the actions of said offender?  You liberals never said that when the media was following the college antics of the Bush Twins and reporting even the slightest of offenses comitted by college students.  Then it was acceptable news and we conservatives were trying to stiffle free speech if we complained.  Nevermind the fact there was as you say, A LOT MORE IMPORTANT NEWS going on then.  I guess it didn't apply since the targets were Conservatives.

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds”

Samuel Adams

Slick, not responding to you

Just making a casual observation. I've been sitting back watching the liberal apologists go to work on saving dave's ass. It has been fun, and a bit comical watching them thrash around, spin, and generally obfuscate the matter with all manner of inane ideas.

Boa, of course, thinks it's no big deal. Nothing seems much of a big deal to him.

Then we have 24enak, who seems to think that because he is ignorant of Willow Palin, that everyone else is as well. Anyone that knew that Sarah and Willow were at the game would associate Dave's joke with Willow. How many knew this is debateable, but I would bet money that dave letternotaman knew it, and that's the rub.

We also have nwahs confusing 300 yards and 300 miles. The idea that the joke had the implicit idea that A-rod could have gone into the stands in the time frame of a baseball game seems to escape him. Good luck making that 300 mile trek in that span. Not sure where Bristol was, but I know Willow was in the park.

So yes, I will state it loud and clear: If you defend dave letternotaman on this, you support statutory rape. Simple as that. You know the details, and so did he, so that makes all of you, dave and his sypmathisers, pathetic.

"This liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008

It's as simple as this

If you are a fan of Letterman or if you think his sick jokes about the raping of Sarah Palin's 14 year old daughter or Palin's appearance are funny and not offensive, YOU SUCK, you are a sick SOB.

I'm sick to death of hearing you damn liberals talk out both sides of your mouths and you can deny it all you want. Liberals are nothing more than hate filled, putrid human beings. For the entire eight years of Gearge Bush's administration all we heard was:

Bush is a Nazi

Bush is Hitler

Bush is a killer

Bush is a drunk 

Impeach Bush

I could go and on and on but I won't, the conservatives here know the multitude of insults that are hurled our way daily by the liberals so if you don't like my words, TOUGH DAMN LUCK! I'm not going to take your crap anymore, neither am I going to say I was only joking, I'M NOT, I won't say my words were taken out of context, because I meant them only one way, just as you are reading them.

All conservatives need to take the fight to these worthless liberals, they have no redeeming qualities, are not worthy of respect and are not to be compromised with. PERIOD

Take a deep breath

Have you read my comments I have never said the jokes in question were funny.

Hello was all that stuff said about Bush yeah, has that same stuff been said about Obama yeah, plus communist, stalinist, socialist, secret muslim, anticrist, messiah, terrorist by association, un-american, elitist, unconstitutional, marxist, unpatriotic and I could go on and on but I won't, the conservatives here know the multitude of insults, because they have heard or said them.  

'Liberals are nothing more than hate filled' and then you have the stones to talk out the other side of your mouth and say 'conservatives need to take the fight to these worthless liberals, they have no redeeming qualities, are not worthy of respect and are not to be compromised with'

It is words like these that drive Americans to kill/assassinate/publicly shoot other Americans.

24enak, Just One Correction:

Obama is not the Anticrist, although I hear they get along "famously"...

Make that Two:

"It is words like these that drive Americans to kill/assassinate/publicly shoot other Americans"  

Hopefully, 24enak, you won't be driven to kill/assassinate/publicly shoot other Americans because of what I've said.

Right?

 

No worries

Your comment wasn't hateful or hypocritic as the guy I replied to. I am thick skinned, it would take an awful lot to even ponder to do such a thing.

That actually got a little smirk out of me, about Obama and the antichrist getting along 'famously' I know it was a joke, and I can take a joke

24enak

That "guy you replied to" has been here a hell of a lot longer than you have, without a doubt. Where's the hate coming from, 24enak? And if you've got some kind of breaking point where you might just get a mind to "ponder to do such a thing" as "kill/assassinate/publicly shoot other Americans", then I suggest you take your ways elsewhere, meaning away from here.

Cheers.

Are you serious?

He has been here a lot longer than I have, so what. He was 1000% more hateful than I was or have ever been on this site. When I said 'ponder to do such a thing' I was mainly referring to 'kill' if someone attacked me or my family then I would take lethal action on him. I said that because it is stupid to say 'I would never harm, or even kill another human being' in some situations it would be neccessary to 'kill another human being' As far to assassinate or publicly shoot innocent people I can say I would never do such a thing. I suggest you tell that guy who spewed hatred to take his hateful/violent ways elsewhere, unless you agree with what he said.

If I were Todd Palin, I would be on the next plane to New York

...for the sole purpose of kicking Letterman's sorry a$$.

You know, there just comes a point...

-Dave

Obama's health care "reform" plan is to blow up the building in order to fix a leak in the roof-Herman Cain

Heh. Todd Palin craps bigger than Letterman and Shaffer.

Gutless little weasles. 

"Let him who would move the world, first move himself." -Socrates

"We sit together, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains." -Li Po

Wrong Person

Sarah Palin could kick Letterman's butt. She doesn't need her husband.

If I were Sarah I would take Letterman up on his offer to come on the show, but he would have to agree to say those exact Top 10 list items directly to her face. And then allow Palin to say whatever she wants to say without interruption or being cut off.

And then let Todd beat him up when he makes the point about his daughter.

All that to be followed by CBS suspending Letterman from the air.

His effort at an explanation was B.S.

 

I think she could kick his

I think she could kick his butt in high heels!

Letterman is a sleazeball....he did NOT apologize.  He tried to deny and justify.

Big difference.

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.  -Bart Simpson

 

Liberals HATE people

Liberals are demons that hate people and especially children and want to see the whole world explode in a ball of flames so they can devour our flesh!!!!

Hows that?

I didn't leave the Republican party, they kicked me out.

I'm not convinced about the

I'm not convinced about the flesh-eating part.

But the rest of it is pretty good! 

shawn

i think they made the right decision, the republican party of course.

→ Letterman's Apology?

I taped last night's Letterman.

Some of his jokes must have been funny because the audience laughed once in a while.

The on-air squirming over his child-rape joke was excruciating.

I'm willing to bet Letterman was 100% supportive of Don Imus a couple of years back, aren't you?

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

Absolutely

If Imus can get canned for calling mature women nappy haired whores or something to that effect, Letterman ought to be canned for joking about the rape of a teenage girl.

Seriously. this is astounding crude "humor" and ought to be harshly dealt with.

He never, ever, made a joke

He never, ever, made a joke involving rape. Why are you making things up?

Knocked up

What did he mean to say?  Gibbles always tells us what Biden meant to say.

Balboa is Wrong

Technically sexual intercourse with a 14 year old girl by a mature man is considered statutorary rape in most states.   That's why the lame cover story that he was insulting Bristol Palin who was not at the game.

→ allanf

Now that's funny.

Last week the local libs were shouting "Tiller's abortions were legal"

Now they're talking like sex with a 14-yr old isn't rape.

The defense?  In the joke, she was asking for it!

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

minor correction

not most states, every state

He never used the word

He never used the word "rape." And he wasn't talking about Willow. 

Yes, he was

First, sex with a 14 year old is rape, so he was talking about rape.

Next, he the "joke" was about Alex Rodriguez knocking up Sara Palin's daughter at the game.  Willow was the only daughter at the game.  She is 14.  So, YES, he had to be talking about Willow, a 14 year old, and talking about A-Rod having sex with her.  That is rape.  So the joke was about the rape of a 14-year old girl.

However, I am was to concede that he didn't know which daughter was at the game until he talked about it for 8 minutes and never said, "Sorry, I thought it was Bristol at the game, not the 14 year old Willow."  That one sentence would have ended all of this, but he never uttered it, proving that he knew exactly who was at the game and intended the joke to be about Willow.

 

"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary."

--Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Well that's some tortured

Well that's some tortured logic. He has never said anything like that before, he didn't do so now. It has nothing to do with who was actually at the game. Bristol is the one who's had sex and gotten pregnant. That's who he meant. 

→ Really?

IMNSHO, tortured is believing A-Rod hopping a plane to Juneau, finding Bristol, having sex with her, back to the airport, back to the game, all in time to start the next inning is:

TORTURED LOGIC!!!!

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

You're trying to apply

You're trying to apply real-world logistics to a joke. 

→ but bal?

Your defense has been that "real world" Bristol is the one who's having sex.

Who the heck says you get to have it both ways just because you want it?

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

Yes, that's the element of

Yes, that's the element of truth in the joke, which is why it's about Bristol and A-Rod. She's the one who got pregnant before. A-Rod is the womanizer. 

→ Oh I get it

So here we have Letterman, universally lauded by Liberals for his "subtle humor", presenting a tasteless joke that couldn't possibly be aimed at a 14-yr old girl?

He throws in "at the game" and "highlight reel" to anchor the location, and suddenly we're expected to envision A-Rod mystically appearing some 3400 miles away from the scene Dave himself has described?

Now the real joke is Letterman's minions are busy extending the joke.  "This man who is so subtle in his humor, made a mistake."

I think Letterman subtly made a joke about Willow, believing there was a measure of wiggle room that his minions would buy, and possibly sell.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

Yes, I know you think

Yes, I know you think that. 

I'm officially done with this topic.  

→ Thank you

You know, there's only one circumstance under which a man is forced to keep his word.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

If I didn't know better, I

If I didn't know better, I would assume that Cool Arrow is a pseudonym for Harry Reid.  Like Harry Reid, you have subjectively chosen to impute context and intent into something someone else has said...and then to take offense on your created victim's behalf.  You've seized upon insignificant, tangential shreds of what you call "evidence" as some kind of smoking gun proof of your baseless charge that Letterman was absolutely and exclusively targeting Willow Palin.  Well, I guess if it's good enough for a Senate Majority Leader to accuse Rush Limbaugh of attacking every member of the U.S. Military when he used the phrase "phony soldier" just because "Harry Reid says so", it must good enough for Cool Arrow to insist that David Letterman attacked Willow Palin just because Cool Arrow says so.  And just like that scumbag from Nevada, when called out on your BS, you don't produce any proof to support your position...you just repeat the same debunked crap a little louder.  Start gathering up those signatures so you can express your fake moral outrage for all to ignore.  Maybe then, Letterman can auction off the letter and give the 5 cents to charity.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

→ fitz

Stop squealing.  Letterman's got to eat so he can make you some more milk.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

That all you got Cool

That all you got Cool Arrow?  Well, you sort of put up a fight, but it's obvious that you were in over your head.  Surrender is your best option.  Now we await the Emperor's signal to determine whether I must finish you.  I'm afraid it's not looking too good for you, though.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

fitzfong, by defending the letterman raping of willow joke and

not being able to prove it either way shows your shallow character and intellectual dishonesty.  You assume too much in error and it is showing.

Please stop supporting dave's rape joke.

Excuse me.  Who are you

Excuse me.  Who are you again?  Why don't you stop your miserable projection exercise and read back what you've written?  Maybe then you'll admit to yourself that you're the one engaging in excessive assumption.  I would accuse you of intellectual dishonesty, but you have yet to confirm that you have an intellect to begin with.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

fitzfong, please do not support rape jokes by dave letter'man'

"Excuse me.  Who are you again? "

Can you see my name?

"Why don't you stop your miserable projection exercise and read back
what you've written?  Maybe then you'll admit to yourself that you're
the one engaging in excessive assumption."

Actually, ff, I have and determined that since you are ignoring the facts by CA and many others then you are incapable of understanding that dl's joke was indeed referring to willow and not bristol. 

- You are the one being disingenous with your baseless and factless assumptions and yet you come here and try to say others are somehow 'in over their heads'? 

Wow, brazen aren't you.

perhaps you should have read the comments before jumping in the fray and making yourself look like the king of the hill jackass...hmmm.  

 

Oh, no, pahuber, a complete

Oh, no, pahuber, a complete non-entity who inserted himself/herself/itself into a discussion a day-and-a-half late and 100 IQ points short says that I've jumped into the fray late and look like a jackass!  Bartender, please pour me a drink so I can forget!

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

Pour me a

Double, 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

"Oh, no, pahuber, a

"Oh, no, pahuber, a complete non-entity who inserted
himself/herself/itself into a discussion a day-and-a-half late and 100
IQ points short says that I've jumped into the fray late and look like
a jackass! "

Just going by the facts, as posted.  You look like a complete jackass and now are attempting to play it off. I've been here the entire debate whether this thread or the last.  The reason you look ignorant is because you claim to know exactly what dl was talking about even though the facts do not bear this out.

 

→ Yup Fitz

That's all I got.

I'll concede he was talking about Bristol, and you can continue with your love for Letterman, because you sold your dignity at the price of a joke about an 18-yr old, but won'd go that far if it's about a 14-yr old.

What you've done is show us a lot about yourself.

That's all I've got.

You win. 

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

Well, by defending a rape joke, fitzfong has shown his dark side

He has no credibility anymore.

Fitzong, you probably should renew your NAMBLA membership if you have one.

Yeah, casually tossing out

Yeah, casually tossing out a NAMBLA reference in a weak attempt to ridicule somebody you disagree with makes you a legitimate judge as to who's credible.  I can only imagine how much sleep I'm going to lose over this.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

Well I refuse

...To put Fitz into this category, I have often thought much of his wisdom

I hate that he dissagrees, but I trust his initiative.

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Thank you, general

Thank you, general company.  I appreciate your support.  We don't agree on this issue, but we've both been arguing honestly and on principle.  You're an honorable man.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

Perhaps you do not. I do not know him and am only going by the

evidence presented.  He seems like a little arrogant know it all who has absolutely NO CLUE what DL thought or meant and yet comes on in out of nowhere with his asinine comments to the contrary.

So far, I've been totally underwhelmed by his so called 'wisdom'...

Whoa pah....fitz has been

Whoa pah....fitz has been here a long time....he isn't any bad guy here...not at all.

So what... you all have a difference of opinion, to be using NAMBLA etc is really going over the line.

Take it to the Woodshed, this has been going on forever now.

..and believe me, I know how that goes.

Woodshed time for you guys....and they say women are bad.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

No thank you BT. I just think I would never trust this Jack Ass

ever.  His defense of DL was indefensible and abhorrent beyond forgiveness.

He can never recover in my book.

NAMBLA and fitzfong seem to go together and I am not one bit concerned about my characterisation about him.  He should have thought of that before he took such an obscene position w/o a shred of evidence to back up his assertions.

 

Everybody has stated their

Everybody has stated their opinions here regarding this...we all know what yours are along with others ad nauseum.

Move on, or please take it to the Woodshed...or do you have to get the last word in pah...come on, I like all of you guys that are arguing here...you've all made your points...we've all heard them.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

If it makes it easier for

If it makes it easier for you to digest my argument by misrepresenting my motive for taking an unpopular position (i.e. my "love" for Letterman), there's nothing I can do to stop you.  I just hope you'll pardon me if I don't give a rat's ass how you perceive me.  I've gotten this far in life without your affirmation, so I think I'll manage.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

→ No impact

Your masogyny doesn't directly affect me.  But I know you exist.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

What you've done is show us

What you've done is show us a lot about yourself.

Oh, so I wasn't supposed to care what you think of me.  Well, that's good, because I don't.

By the way, next time you want to make another lame, dishonest attempt at character assassination, at least spell the word right.  It's misogyny.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

→ Took you a while

But I baited you into the last refuge of a loser.

Spelling.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

Oh, I see.  You

Oh, I see.  You intentionally misspelled a word to trap me into making myself look bad for all to see (which, by now, consists of you and me).  Wow.  You are a genius.  What a clever, diabolical plan. 

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

→ Yup Fitz

BD used the correct spelling of the word over an hour ago, Do you need a link, or can you manage to scroll up.

That's when I decided to set you up.

I'm just toying with you now.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

Well, Cool Arrow when you

Well, Cool Arrow when you are looking up to the likes of Bob Shrum, the '62 Mets, the '76 Buccaneers and the '08 Detroit Lions, I suppose you have to take any shred of victory you can get.  Congratulations, Cool Arrow.  You've given further proof that there are no small victories.  Only small people.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

→ It's OK fitz

Just because you're looking up sports teams and athletes from years gone by doesn't necessarily make you a small person.  They may be very important to you for some reason.

I'm not even sure it's important that you've admitted you're small.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

The "I know you are, but

The "I know you are, but what am I defense"?  Wow, Cool Arrow.  I thought you were better than that.  Try taking your lumps like a man next time or come up with a better original response.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

→ No lumps

I conceded, for sake of argument that Letterman was referring to Bristol, and you're stuck with the simple task of defending his misogynistic attacks on Sarah and Bristol.

So far, you're not doing much to help your cause.

That you'll let it stand is what's got you on the other side of the 8-ball.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

Finally, Cool Arrow, I

Finally, Cool Arrow, I think we're getting to the root of the issue.  I am not defending his attacks on Sarah or Bristol.  My point is and always has been that he should face a severe backlash for his attack on Sarah and Bristol Palin (or on Sarah and "unspecified daughter", if you prefer).  What I have always objected to was the rush to assign Willow as the intended butt of the joke when the evidence of that was shaky, at best.  Let's face it, Letterman gets a lot more mileage out of portraying Sarah Palin as a hypocritical and unfit mother whose reward for being so "rigid" on issues of teenage sex and abortion is having a promiscuous daughter who has been so repressed that all she can think about is sneaking out behind her mother's back and having copious amounts of unprotected pre-marital sex (after already having one child out of wedlock).  Bristol has been used by the NOW and NARAL advocates in the media as a cudgel to continually beat Sarah Palin over the head for her "outdated" views on sex and "reproductive freedom".  As such, Letterman's objective is to make Sarah Palin look ridiculous...not to make her appear sympathetic.  By making the joke at Willow's expense, he would make Sarah Palin appear sympathetic...by making the joke at Bristol's expense, I assume he thinks he is making Sarah Palin look ridiculous.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

Geez fitzfong, now you are starting to calm down and think.

 "What I have always objected to was the rush to assign Willow as the
intended butt of the joke when the evidence of that was shaky, at best."

NO, evidence in YOUR mind was shaky.  Many of us here got it pretty quickly.

Evidence points to Willow.  You just took DL's word for it.  Again, you sound like an arrogant fool calling people non-entities and assuming you can win w/o any evidence.  Sorry to blacken your eye, but you provided not one shred of evidence in your case, other than indignation.  Now you are starting to calm down and seeing that you were the one who jumped to conclusions?

I do not believe you are man enough to admit you were wrong.  Let's just say you have a hell of a knee jerk reaction and leave it at that.

 

 

fitzfong is a piece of work... I can see his E-harmony profile

fitzfong's e-harmony:  'I love a good old fashioned dl rape joke making fun of a familyies little daughter.'

Fitz would the above go under your turn ons? 

Fitzfong, your NAMBLA membership may be expiring soon.

"Oh, so I wasn't supposed to care what you think of me.  Well, that's good, because I don't."

We got that you jackass.  

Got any evidence to present or are you looking for others to come to save you?  

fitsfong, personally, I just think you like RAPE JOKES about

little girls.

For all I know you may even be a card carrying member of NAMBLA...  one cannot tell.

 

Gee, I really am in over my

Gee, I really am in over my head.  You sure are showing me.  Here I was thinking you were coming unglued, but you continually impress me with your superior intellect. 

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

Like it or not

I now consider us blood brothers :)

Well till the next "issue"  anyway..

I didn't leave the Republican party, they kicked me out.

→ HA HA

Still stuck to fitz's foot.

Sing a few bars of "Me and my shadow" for us, will ya'?

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

Is 'blood brothers' some sorta rape joke enthusiast code you two

got going on?

Or could it be you guys are both in the same NAMBLA caucus?

Fitzfong

Given that you think Letterman was referring to Bristol, can you also tell us whether he meant  she was willingly, or forcibly, "knocked up" by the one they call A-Rod?

Well, Barker, as I believe

Well, Barker, as I believe Letterman and those who would use Bristol Palin as a prop to attack not only Sarah Palin's skills as a mother, but also her "outdated" and "unrealistic" views on issues like abortion and pre-marital sex, he would accomplish more by suggesting it was consensual.  After all, the media got a lot of mileage out of portraying Sarah Palin as an ideological hypocrite and an unfit mother.  What better way to slime Palin than by re-opening a wound and suggesting that her oldest daughter is a nymphomaniac slut?  You see, I'm all for shaming David Letterman...I just think he should be shamed for what he did say, not what he didn't say.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

Wrong again and why do you fail to acknowlege the truth?

You are going by what you believe he meant and said he meant even though Willow was at the ball park to view the game.

You sound like McCain on this one as far as sanctimoniously saying you want to take the high road.  Problem with that is that there is NO high road for you to take on this one... only the willful ignorance that you have displayed in such a short time.  McCain did the same thing to our party this election...  perhaps you helped him?

Fitzfong

It's a 'good' thing for David "The Shamed" Letterman that he's a flaming liberal, or this whole episode would be construed as racism -as well as sexism- on his part. Agreed?

Or it may be that Sharpton and his bullhorn are just too busy right now, trying to shout down an IRS probe.

Who knows?

Or in this case,

Or in this case, teenagerizer.

That's Bal for you CA. He

That's Bal for you CA.

He is torturing the neurons in his brain trying to figure how to best deflect any and all criticism of the sick jokes David Letterman made.

The Obama Administration: THE most fiscally irresponsible Administration EVER

I've actually state already

I've actually state already that the jokes were, IMO, over the line.

→ Right on

Would you say "nappy-headed hos" over the line?

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

→ Hey bal

Would you concede a David Shuster "Pimping out Chelsea" suspension?

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

No balboa

The tortured logic is yours....that the object of A-Rod's knock-up (crude, in and of itself) was the older daughter....who as far as we know, was in Alaska, during the 7th inning stretch.  That's tortured logic.

Leave it to you to defend Dave's mysoginistic, crude, disgusting "joke" and his non-apology.  I see you've manned up just as well as Letterman has, i.e. a weasly/sleazy not at all.

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

Now thats supreme logic

It couldn't possibly be about the daughter with the public unwed pregnancy, because she was in Alaska! It had to be about the daughter 300 yards away. It would be impossible for A-rod to knock up Bristol in Alaska, but 300 yards- piece of cake! Lets see, he could sneak up the stands (after the 7th inning stretch according to Rush) and while Sarah isn't looking..

The one good thing about this subject is its caused some of the more conservative posters here, to give the nuts a second glance :)

I didn't leave the Republican party, they kicked me out.

→ Not really nwahs

It's given us a chance to make the little Liberals squeal like they're gettin' pulled off of Letterman's hind teat.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

backward shawn

Does the pretzel logic contortions again.  Epic Fail.

And while I'm at it.....little bwshwan blathered on about Rush's oh-so-horrible comments re: Letterman's stupid joke yesterday.....all the while saying he was going to cite Rush's exact words.....poor little libtard, the transcripts weren't available until today. 

So here you go, backward shawn....you who got kicked out of the Republican Party (oh how I wish I'd been the one to do that to you, too)....

RUSH: Did you hear about David Letterman and Sarah Palin?  She went to the Yankee game the other night.  During the seventh inning, A-Rod knocked up her daughter.  That's what Letterman said on TV.  "She went to the Yankee game the other night.  During the seventh inning stretch, A-Rod knocked up her daughter."  Could you believe David Letterman would insult A-Rod that way?  This stuff is just going beyond the pale.  I mean, A-Rod is playing a game.  He doesn't have time to knock up anybody's daughter.  That's for after the game.  If you're going to talk about A-Rod knocking up somebody's daughter, say it happened after the game, not in the seventh inning stretch.  There's no truth to that.

Horrible stuff, huh? 

Oh how I despise liberal twitism.

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

Yea crazy woman

Its extremely horrible if someone actually thought someone was referencing a child. "Thats for after the game" ???

You don't see the horror in that, loony tune?

"Could you believe David Letterman would insult A-Rod that way?"

What? He's not perturbed about the 14 year old?

Oh maybe even Rush thought it was Bristol who was the butt of the joke?

Thanks for the exact transcript BTW - I don't pay for 24/7, but I did hear it while driving. He could've done something better with the 7th inning stretch thing given the steroids issue :)

I didn't leave the Republican party, they kicked me out.

→ crazy woman?

That's a strange observation.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

Backwards Shawn and the temple of pedophiles? Coming soon.

We get it allready, backwards.  You seemingly think a statutory rape joke by dave letterman is funny. 

We do not.

"That's who he meant"

Please share with us the secret of the Vulcan Mind Meld.

Can you mind meld with the

Can you mind meld with the writers to know if they purposely wrote a joke about the 14 year old and not Bristol?

Gee, you missed all the action yesterday

Mind meld? Yeah, I could, but I'm not going to.

I did not make the statement that "I know" (by intuition) what the writers meant. Others did. You apparently also are blessed with this "gift."

Any posts I made on this topic were based on THE FACT that Bristol was in Alaska. It doesn't exactly require a giant leap to put 2 and 2 together. So I can't help you.

Now if Letterman had said his writers were dumbasses for not knowing this and apologized for the confusion, instead of sitting there at the creative meeting trying to come up yet another gratuitous hit on the Palin family, I'd cut him a tiny break. But of course he did not.

So what does he do? He digs himself in further by basically regurgitating the same schtick the following night, and with a number of embellishments, to his squealing studio audience. Then he tops it off by challenging (not inviting) the family to come on his show (while fantasizing Sarah should leave Todd home), and voila, he has "apologized" and all is forgiven.

Well that's some tortured

Well that's some tortured logic. He has never said anything like that
before, he didn't do so now. It has nothing to do with who was actually
at the game. Bristol is the one who's had sex and gotten pregnant.
That's who he meant. 

He used eight minutes and never mentioned that he meant Bristol.  Surely in eight minutes he could have said, "I thought Bristol was at the game." or even, "I meant Bristol, not Willow."  If he had said either one, you would be right.  Unfortunately for you, he said neither, proving that you are wrong.

"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary."

--Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Well he did

Well did say he meant Bristol and not Willow and that he would never in a million years advocate promiscuous sex for 14 year olds.

If its not on the tape here, that tape is edited.

I didn't leave the Republican party, they kicked me out.

Of course he is going to

Of course he is going to back peddle and say he meant Bristol.  He is probably hearing all the rumblings and outrage of the despicable "joke" he told and is now in a half-assed CYA mode.

The Obama Administration: THE most fiscally irresponsible Administration EVER

key word... watch out, here it comes, - "promiscuous"

I can't believe this is scheduled for 15 rounds, but here goes:

nwahs staunchly defends Letterman's statement on face value that Letterman does not advocate "promiscuous sex for 14 yr olds".

So I'm going to make the giant leap here - if a 14 yr old is "in a committed relationship" with a peer, or an adult, that's different? If not, why include the word "promiscuous"?

What a joke. Next apologist, you're up...

bottom line letterman called

bottom line letterman called palin a slut and her daughter a whore, is that clear enough for ya

At the worst it is BOTH!

Facts: Bristol is the one that was "knocked up" and Willow was at the game.

Joke was made about A-Rod knocking up Palin's daughter during the 7th inning stretch (whatever the timframe).

This leads to the conclusion that since it happened to Bristol, it could happen to Willow. So, anyway you slice it, it was about Willow (because she was at the game) and really it was about both (because it has already happened to Bristol).

Can't get around it. But the very bottom line is that if this was a Liberal family, it would not be getting a pass.

You trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?

balboa

He has never referenced a female governor by saying they had clothes that made them look like a slut. Yet he did that also. So what if Bristol had sex before and was pregnant. She wasn’t at the game. He knew before Wed that Willow was at the game and played the jokes again.

→ Speaking of clothes

If ever there was an opening for Letterman to make jokes about fashion, it was yesterday. I haven't seen a more gosh-awful outfit since Moms Mabley.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

CA

This was emailed to me.

Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson, Brian Williams and a tough old U.S. Marine Sergeant were captured by terrorists in Iraq ...
The leader of the terrorists told them he'd grant each of them one last request before they were beheaded and dragged naked through the streets.
Katie Couric said, 'Well, I'm a Southerner, so I'd like one last plate of fried chicken.'
The leader nodded to an underling who left and returned with the
chicken. Couric ate it all and said, 'Now I can die content.'
Charlie Gibson said, 'I'm living in ' New York , so I'd like to hear
the song, The Moon and Me, one last time.'
The terrorist leader nodded to another terrorist who had studied the Western world and knew the music. He returned with some rag-tag musicians and played the song.
Gibson was satisfied.
Brian Williams said, 'I'm a reporter to the end. I want to take out my tape recorder and describe the scene here and what's about to happen. Maybe, someday, someone will hear it and know that I was on the job till the end.'
The leader directed an aide to hand over the tape recorder and Williams dictated his comments.
He then said, 'Now I can die happy.'
The leader turned and said, 'And now, Mr.. U.S. Marine, what is your final wish?

'Kick me in the a$$,' said the Marine.
'What?' asked the leader, 'Will you mock us in your last hour?'
'No, I'm NOT kidding. I want you to kick me in the a$$,' insisted the Marine.
So the leader shoved him into the yard and kicked him in the a$$.
The Marine went sprawling, but rolled to his knees, pulled a 9 mm pistol from inside his cammies and shot the leader dead.
In the resulting confusion, he emptied his sidearm on six terrorists, then with his knife he slashed the throat of one, and with an AK-47, which he took, sprayed the rest of the terrorists killing another 11..
In a flash, all of them were either dead or fleeing for their lives.
As the Marine was untying Couric, Gibson, and Williams, they asked him, 'Why didn't you just shoot them all in the first place? Why did you ask him to kick you in the ass?'

'What?' replied the Marine, 'and have you three a$$ holes report that I was the aggressor....?

Semper Fi!

If You Are Not Willing To Stand Behind Our Troops, Please, Please Feel Free To Stand In Front Of Them!

 

Now that is a joke.

w99... You still have me

w99...

You still have me laughing with that priceless 'joke'...I had that in my email awhile back and passed on to all, speaks the truth doesn't it?

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

BT

I saw it for the first time today.I got a big kick out of it.I have to send it my brother.He is a retired Marine.Yes I agree it does speak the truth.

w99... Wonderful how the

w99...

Wonderful how the internet works where things like this do get around....thank goodness.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

So, if I make the identical

So, if I make the identical joke about "The Obama family" I can justify it in that I do not specify MEMBERS?
Right.....

You can keep repeating

You can keep repeating it over and over, but the fact remains he joked about an adult man impregnating a 14 year old girl. Only a sick ass like yourself would defend it.

He never used the word

He never used the word "rape." And he wasn't talking about Willow. 

Don't Embarass Yourself ....

Sex with as 14 year old by an adult is "rape" under the law. He didn't have to use the word. It makes no sense for Alex to have had a "quickie" with the daughter who was not at the game.

It's okay to be a tendentious gadfly, but don't overreach.  Lettermen stepped in it bigtime. It is as bad as the Don Imus remark.

He wasn't talking about

He wasn't talking about Willow. He has never made jokes about sex with 14-year-old girls before, or anything close,at any point in his career, which he said last night. He was talking about Bristol. 

Balboa

You are an important cog on this site. It wouldn't be the same without you. But in this case, I think you are flat out wrong. 

Let's see if one can

Let's see if one can understand a little logic here:

Bristol was in Alaska and Willow was at the game.  The joke was made about Palin's daughter at the game.  Willow, the daughter at the game is 14.  The joke was made about Palin's daughter who was at the game having sex with A-Rod, that is Alex Rodriguez just in case you don't understand that either.  Having sex with a 14 year old girl is statutory rape in all states in the union, which is the United States of America in case you don't understand that either.  Letterman (I think you know who this is) made a joke about Palin's daughter Willow, who is 14, about getting "knocked up" (which is sex) by A-Rod at the Yankee game.  Hence, Letterman made a joke about Palin's daughter Willow being raped by A-Rod.  Is that broken down enough for you are you purposely acting uneducated and callous?

 

When the people fear the government it's called tyranny, when the government fears the people it's called liberty!

BS

BS, balboa and you know it! Only a complete idiot, liberal apologist would think otherwise. 

minor correction

Not only was Bristol not at the game, she was 3,400 miles away in Alaska.

Translation: balboa thinks

Translation: balboa thinks Letterman is still justified in his actions.

balboa

Did he know weds when he showed it again?

balboa's taken one too many punches..and can't think straight

You're right - he never made a joke involving rape - just statutory rape. Which is apparently acceptable to you. How was he not making a joke about statutory rape, when it was the 14 year old at the game that he was talking about, and not the 18 year old? And if he had mistakenly thought when he made the joke that it was the 18 year old at the game, why in 8 1/2 minutes did he not make that claim and apologize for the mistake? As if targeting an 18 year old instead,  would somehow be fine and dandy...anyone notice how there haven't been any "jokes" about Joe Biden's coke snorting daughter, who's older than Bristol and therefore has less of an excuse for her indiscretions?

Balboa, Hmmm....by law,

Balboa,

Hmmm....by law, if a man of Alex Rodriguez age has sex with a 14 year old, whether there was consent or not, the law considers it rape. It is called, Statutory rape.

The second Letterman joked about A-Rod having sex with Sarah Palin's daughter who was at the ball game, he made a joke about Statutory rape.

WOW! no wonder you are a Liberal, you are clueless.

Perhaps clarifying the

Perhaps clarifying the terminology would help...

"Statutory" rape does NOT mean having your way with a mannequin or Robert E. Lee. 

Balbo, stop defending davy's RAPE JOKE. Please, it is sick

and your comments trying to say otherwise is just appalling.

yes, VERY excruciating

oh, they were laughing more than once in a while.

more like every 10 seconds, and with enthusiastic clapping, even at inappropriate parts where Letterman was attempting to be serious.

I attribute that partly to the fact that many in the audience are bombed. I "won" tickets to a Letterman taping about 15 years ago, and the nearby bars are packed with ticket holders waiting for the studio line to begin forming up around 4 pm. (Of course, I was one of them.)

Hey David,

What if the entire New York Yankee line up gang raped your kid? HA HA HA. Exactly. Not funny.

Calling this guy classless is a compliment.

Calling this guy classless is a compliment. He is an a-hole. He was funny back in the early 80's. He has become Bill Maher and Rosie O'donell. I hope his show goes down the toilet. We are still waiting for the jokes about Obama and his family.

 

Advertiser Boycott Info

There's a very nice list here of David Lecherman's advertisers with addresses and phone numbers:

Advertiser boycott information: http://www.redstate.com

Thanks slickwillie

I already went to Cbsports.com and told them I won't be back and will move my fantasy leagues to competitors. Whether they care or not is not a big deal because I feel better.

To be fair....

I contacted Lifelock to tell them I was going to cancel my service, and I got the following reply:

At no time has LifeLock ever sponsored David Letterman or any other national CBS
talk show. It is possible, however, that depending on where you live that your
local station inserted one of our advertisements into an open slot. We have no
control what these stations do with the open slot or where the station places
our approved advertisement. 

We appreciate your email and assure you again, that we have no affiliation with
Mr. Letterman’s show.

 Sincerely,
Tami Nealy

I guess I won't cancel after all.I wonder how many letters they got - they sound pretty emphatic about not being affliated. Could Letterman be a pariah?

 

"I would rather be historically accurate than politically correct" ~ My husband's T-Shirt

Joke for Dave the Depraved:

What's the difference between Letterman and Leno?

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Leno knew when to quit.

#1

Letterman has a "glass chin"

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

Dave sucks

8 1/2 minutes long - and no explanation at all of why he wasn't targeting the 14 year old, when she was the daughter at the Yankees game that Letterman was talking about. As if targeting her 18 year old daughter instead, would somehow make it "OK". Given that Spitzer is a john who hires prostitutes, is there a subtle inference in that "joke" of somehow comparing Palin's daughter to a prostitute? Todd Palin has a lot more discipline than I do - if Letterman called my wife "slutty", the next day he'd have a far bigger gap in his teeth. It's open season on the Palins, but gutless "comedians" like Letterman, who consider their comedy to be "edgy", are anything but - in fact they are all shills for the Obama administration, absolutely terrified to make a single joke at Obama's expense, even though there's a wealth of material there to be mined. Gutless, spineless shills - who go after the Palins tooth and nail, for reasons of "safety", and partisan demagogery. They all know what the backlash would be if they made a single cutting joke at Obama's expense - let alone what would happen if they went after his family. But the Palins are expected to be national punching bags.  

You should send that

You should send that to: 

cbsmailbag@aol.com

cbs mailbag

Thanks for the suggestion, I just did. I also added a paragraph, in which I told them that if Letterman had made the same comments about Michelle Obama, he'd have already been fired and Les Moonves would be doing PSA's begging the public for forgiveness. I challenged them to explain why a woman named Sarah, who happens to be a Republican, should be treated differently than a woman named Michelle who happens to be a Democrat. Prediction - since they cannot answer this question (or excuse their inaction), they will simply ignore it. 

Greggy

If you don't mind, I copy-pasted this and sent it to the email mattm provided... we should all do this! :)

 

You're the next contestant on...
THE MESSIAH IS... LEFT !!

 

cbs mailbag

Fine by me, thanks.

Black Moon Repost

I am posting this again not for the regulars here but for any guest who might be visiting this site. The sub-slime media(ssm=msm) disgust me and i would love to see action taken against them, some talking heads and execs., fired and the corporations driven towards bankruptcy and forced to report the truth or go broke. The only way i know to do it is to turn the tube off and cut off their add revenue. At some point it's time to "put up or shut up" and i am 'putting up". Snake excrement scum like Letterman, Brewer, Cooper, etc. etc. and the list is too long to list, need a good ass kicking and i intend to enjoy watching it. If Operation Black Moon does'nt get any results at least the seeds are being sown and somewhere, someway, somehow, i will get in a lick at these ssm scum and make it count.

kilrod

Pass this on if you will. I would'nt mind "mooning the media" myself and being called a "black mooner".!!~~!!

  ************************************************************************************************************

                             OPERATION BLACK MOON

This is an idea that has been rolling around in my little B-B brain inside my boxcar skull since the April 15th Tea Parties. I am frustrated that at the end of the Tea Parties no actual actions were taken and no course of future action seems to be on the horizon other than more Tea Parties on July 4th. I fully support the Tea Parties, i think they are important and i will attend the next one when it happens. In the meantime i would like for all Tea Party supporters to join in a movement within and as part of the Tea Party movement, nationwide, that will run from June 4th thru July 4th that i have dubbed Operation Black Moon. Which will be a 30-31 day blackout of all major media, the operative slogan will be "Moon the Media" and "There is a Black Moon Rising". No tv., no movies, no newspapers, no magazines. The exceptions will be Fox News and other decent broadcast such as CBN etc. etc.. And of course your local news etc.. Plus we can monitor the news via the internet on sights such as NB and others that are appropriate. During this period would be a good time to make friends, have cook-outs, play dominoes, cards, spades, 42, monopoly, ya-hoo, play golf, hunt, fish, spend time with family, you get the picture.

   It has long been my contention that the best way to return to fair, balanced, un-biased and honest news, and to persuade the msm to turn away from their liberal bias, the promotion of their liberal agenda, their arrogant and open support of liberal socialist polititions, judges and gov. officials, is to ATTACK the msm. During this blackout period e-mail the sponsors of the major nets and tell them you are part of Operation Black Moon and tell them why, e-mail the nets themselves and call for the firing of the talking heads, the producers and the ceo's and tell them why. Remind them we expect fair, balanced, un-biased, and truthfull news coverage and that character assasinations such as the hatchet job the media did on the Palins, Prejean, Bush, Rove, Cheny and too many others, will not be tolerated. This is not gov. censorship, nor censorship from a political party, but censorship of the marketplace by a free people who only ask that the media be honest and decent, fair and factual. E-mail your senators and representatives and tell them you support Operation Black Moon and suggest that a Black Moon could also rise over the next election and tell them why.

    I would like to see  bumperstickers/magnetic stickers/ signs etc. carrying the "Moon the Media" and "Their is a Black Moon Rising" slogans depicting a black moon with a pair of buttcheeks shining down to emphasize the point. I'm sure there are graphic artist who can do the artwork and come up with something kicky that would make the point. I would invite any and all Tea Party organizers, conservative and patriotic webbsites, webbhost, conservative political activist organizations, and any other patriots who agree that the liberal media has done the country a disservice, to take this idea, and run with it. Add to it, improve it, and clarify it more so than i have outlined here. I invite all who read this message and who agree we need to take action to join in mooning the media and let them know that, There is a Black Moon Rising, and that they [the media] will not see the light of day untill and unless they bring us the news of our country in a fair, unbiased, balanced, and truthfull way, with prejudice towards none.

 

Remember, only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American Soldier

They will not change. 

They will not change.  They have to be replaced. This will take ownership.  i.e. FOX news should get into the over the air market to run programs that directly compete with the MSM. Then do this locally. 

People of means, like Limbaugh and friends, should be buying up local TV stations and purging the newsrooms of leftist activists and staffing them with actual journalists.

I also think Newsbusters should try to get on Over the Air TV...I believe it would be a big hit.  Just a weekly show re-capping the most blatant examples of media bias from the previous week.

It's time for more than talk.  There are things individuals can do:  Find a group that's doing something you believe in and support them, or find a cause and start your own group.  Run for school board, City Council, State legislature, Congress etc.  Or, if you don't want to run, help out someone who does. 

There's tons of stuff people can do, (Example: A group I'm involved in sued over an election reform which basically disenfranchises voters.  Our case is at the state court, and may go federal.)  Just a little effort from a lot of people can make a big difference.

Apology

"made a feable attempt at apologizing"

Apology is not in the liberal lexicon.  Have you ever heard some of their apologies, especially people like Hillary Clinton and John Kerry?

The content of a normal apology would be: I'm sorry that I offended you.  Please forgive me.

The content of a liberal apology is:  I'm sorry you aren't able to understand what I said.

If you listen to the content of liberal apologies you see they don't actually apologize for what they said.  Their "sorrow" is not that they made a mistake, but pity because you are too stupid to agree with them.

→ Anderson Cooper Redux

So where have Anderson Cooper's numbers gone since he let slip on-air that "It's hard to talk when you're teabagging"?

Just possibly, Letterman has turned the stomachs of his moderately liberal viewers.  Perhaps some of them have 14-yr old daughters. 

Hell, maybe some of those moderately liberal viewers don't like Letterman's implication that Bristol Palin is such an obvious slut that Elliot Spitzer would approach her.

Local Liberal NB posters aside, ( you know, the ones who think sex jokes about celebrity children are A-OK?), maybe it's possible there are moderate liberals who think "A-Rod + Bristol" was disgusting enough, let alone A-Rod + Willow.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

Good point, CA

The liberals cheer the media's smarmy sexual references when they are aimed at conservatives...Cooper & Shuster and teabagging, the sexual effigy of Palin during the election, the attack on Carrie Prejean (remember the NOW twit on BOR w/Ingraham subbing?), and now this latest crude joke about a child of a conservative.

Yet, when one of their own sacred cows (Chelsea Clinton, black female basketball players) is the target of an "off color" comment, the leftist media go ballistic.

I truly hope John Zeigler makes another appearance today. 

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

Anybody else here developing

Anybody else here developing a severe headache?

Maybe its the slapping sound

 On this dead horse.

I didn't leave the Republican party, they kicked me out.

And for good reason, it

And for good reason, it would appear.  The Republican party has no use for a total horse's ass.

I'm with you that. Can't

I'm with you that.

Can't someone post a good ole light hearted Behar story for a changeup? 

Joy Brayhard

is getting her own show.

Affirmative action at it's finest.

→ That's good news

Maybe Letterman can write jokes for her.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

Someone needs to

I've never heard anything funny come out of her mouth.

Re headaches

Engaging with trolls tends to do that. Better to ignore them.

Classy stuff, Dave. No

Classy stuff, Dave. No wonder you lost the Tonight Show job to Jay Leno.

The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy

This is wrong

I don't comment often here, but I do read a lot of your comments.

I do believe that Letterman thought Bristol was the target of his joke.  But, excuse me, THAT DOES NOT MAKE IT RIGHT!

Unless they are adult participants in the political process, the children of politicians should be totally off limits.  Period.  End of statement.

The Clintons complained about some comments made about Chelsie during the last campaign... and she was making stump speeches.

Thank you.

Beauxdog

→ Good point beauxdog

And I believe it was Liberal idiot David Shuster who made the Chelsea Clinton "pimping out" comment.

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

NOW and David Letterman

What does NOW have to say about Letterman? ...Silence

What does NOW have to say about Sexual Harassment? Here's their comment regarding the serious sex harassment problem on Campus: Most of the students experienced non-contact forms of harassment such as crude jokes, remarks and gestures, but nearly one-third said the harassment involved physical contact.

Note the remark about crude jokes?

Let me ask again: What does NOW have to say about Letterman? ...Silence

___________________________________ 

Liberals constantly demand that we accept a glaring falsehood as truth; Obama's elimination of the word "terror" will make terrorist acts less terrifying

this whole situation reinforces...

what absolute frauds NOW and the entire ERA movement are.  As you've stated TNT...the silence coming from NOW is deafening.  They are NOT and NEVER WILL BE an organization for women's rights.  They are a hard left wing collection of intellectually dishonest people.  They only care about women's rights if the women in question are liberals.  They use situations to their advantage to promote their left wing agenda.  That's is what they are really about.

They are pathetic and their "performance" in this instance is a complete disgrace.  The question of course is "When will they get called on the carpet for their biased "support" of only left leaning woman?"  My guess is never.  Hopefully, more and more of us here will see what a sham they are and others will gradually open their eyes.

PAC

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends,
it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new government...

NOW

NOW is merely a cover and for abortion advocacy.  The latest incidence of their thundering silence in regard to Letterman's piggish "joke" is just another example.  That the butt of the "joke" is a family who not only had the unmitagated gall to NOT abort a Down's syndrome baby, but further inflamed the NOW agenda by choosing life instead of death when a teen was "punished" with a baby, is the reason for their silence.

They should be re-named National Organization For Abortion. Or National Organization of Leftist Agenda.

NOFA, NOoLA....not NOW.  Don't forget their absolute silence at the media excoriation of another pro-life advocate, Carrie Prejean...who dared to voice her opinion about the definition of marriage.

The liberal left are the worst sort of hypocrites.

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

 Classless!  Letterman

 Classless!  Letterman and the rest of the rabid left are absolutely classless! 

The moment Palin's name was announced for the VP postion last year she was attacked.  But what REALLY set the left off was her address at the RNC.  She spoke the truth; her assessment of Obama and his adoring media was spot on and since then they have been out to utterly destroy this woman. 

Watch the address again sometimes and see why their hate is so intense.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCDxXJSucF4

My!  She skinned 'em alive!

 

 

Liberals all think Obama can eat flour, sugar, and butter and crap a cake.  Hence, they consume what he's putting out so vigorously and encourage others to partake.  But we TRUE Consevative Americans know SHIT when we smell it! 

This is strictly media bias regardless

I have googled Letterman and Palin.

I found nothing from CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN concerning the joke. No news here. Not even a mention of it. Everyone's talking about it except the government owned msm. MSNBC did have something this morning on their web-site. It said "Palin SLAMS Letterman over joke". Get it everybody. Palin is the bad guy. It is all about Bias period. If Limbaugh had said it about a Democrat we would see it 24 hours posted on every channel  I named. It is bias Period!!!!!!

 

"Palin SLAMS Letterman over joke"

Yeah, and if you listened to the audio you would have heard a very calm, matter-of-fact, almost lighthearted tone to her voice as she chided Letterman.

The exact opposite of a nasty, venom-spewing, vindictive attack that SLAMS implies.

Par for the course. Classless MSM, classy Palin. 

David is a bore-however

the baseball bat A-Rod uses should be available for two broken legs and an arm or two. Dave you crossed the line from comedy into being a political hack. and so you must held accountable for bad behavior. and dave i would not use a baseball bat, mine would be an ice pick behind one of your knees. a little limp would let you know-rape of a 14 or 18 year old girl is punishable, even for suggesting it.

 

BHO- the one term DIMOCRAT

 

 

 

I got one word for Letterboob...........

DIRTBAG!!!

Right On Sarah!!!

A brilliant response from the Palin Camp:

"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."

Keep on Rockin' in the Free World Sarah-cuda!!!

 

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds”

Samuel Adams

miz

Good link.I think Todd should go and give Dave some wall to wall counseling.

Accountability for an Asshat’s (Letterman) non-apology

There was a time when people of honor held themselves accountable for their actions.  Meaning they would either defend or apologize for them and accept responsibility.  Letterman has no honor, no respect for himself or anyone else.  As the old saying goes '...he has let his alligator mouth overload his cottontail behind..." so here's hoping he runs into someone who will knock his male-member into the dirt sooner than later.

Tit for Tat

Call me old school, but I think Todd Palin confronting this sniveling coward Letterman would be appropriate.

A picture of Letterman soiling himself would be worthy of good "computer desktop office humor" No actual violence would be nessecay.

I'm sure these same

I'm sure these same fair-minded "Liberals" defended Imus or even Jimmy the Greek back in the day.

They didn't?

Well, I am shocked, shocked I tell ya!  

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).

We have to remember that the same people

defending David Littermouth are the same people who thought that the political cartoon of the psycho chimp representing Obama policies was racist.

You see, the Left is allowed to read into whatever it wishes and turn it into something racist, sexist, anti-gay, etc., but when there is a blatant insult in poor taste is launched against a mother and her 18-year old daughter, then they are just being thin-skinned.

 

Bristol

is a very distinctive name. If he meant Bristol he would have said Bristol. But this weasel won't be held accountable, though. Business as usual. Alec Baldwin is still enjoying a lucrative acting career, even after suggesting that a United States congressman and his family deserved to be stoned to death. Another "hilarious" joke.

→ Baldwin

But at least Baldwin kept his child abuse in the family.

"YOU RUDE LITTLE PIG!" - Alec Baldwin to his preteen daughter.

Liberals seem to have this thing for child abuse.

Wait for it!!!

The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden

Did you hear the one about A-Rod and Mrs Letterman?

The gonadly impaired A-Rod reckons he's in with a chance of banging Letterman's wife, as she obviously has a thing for little pricks.

“For God's sake, somebody tell Obama that a TRILLION is one MILLION MILLION!!!!

Re Did You Hear

Dave took his wife to the Bronx Zoo benefit event and the folks at the door thanked him for bringing her back.

ROFLMFAO double time, that

ROFLMFAO double time, that was a LOL moment

Okay, well I guess it's

Okay, well I guess it's okay to rape anyone that has a kid out of wedlock or make sexist jokes about them?  Regardless, he was referring to Willow Palin, the 14 year old.  Anything in defense or denial of that is truly sick and a lie.

 

When the people fear the government it's called tyranny, when the government fears the people it's called liberty!

The bottom line, as far as

The bottom line, as far as I'm concerned, is that, whether the "joke" was directed at 14 year old Willow Palin, or 18 year old Bristol Palin, it was ugly, crude, and miscogynistic, proving that liberals, like Letterman, treat conservatives as trash where no comment is off limits or over the line. Plus, the startling revelaton is that supposedly civilized people will not condemn Letterman in the strongest possible terms without an attempt at equivocation or justification. This has been a landmark episode that proves how far down popular culture has sunk. Now that an "establishment" celebrity - Letterman - has seen that it's safe to be this hideous, I expect it to keep sinking - especially coming from non-establishment figures The spriral will continue. 

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

Let us also consider

the jokes he made about Sarah Palin and her "slutty" look.

Would the same be said about a liberal woman and tolerated?  Anyone who thinks so is in serious denial.

None of this was "humor" -

It was hideous. None of this was "humor" - in fact, all of the bile that has been spewed towards the Palin family amounts to verbal violence. I wouldn't talk about dogs the way the liberals have spoken of Sarah Palin and her family. Have they no conscience at all? 

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

Linked to this post from "Adultery and Lust"

Section on Jeremiah Films within the section on the 10 commandments

10 Reasons Not To Watch David Letterman

1. Liberals don't apologize.
2. He's hoping to become the Obama Comedy Czar.
3. He is proof there is an off switch on the genius switch.
4. Loves to make fun of little girls.
5. He often steals material from Joe Biden.
6. Dave was one of five who actually bought the Nancy Pelosi book.
7. His next comedy target: Hannah Montana.
8. His NASCAR buddies refer to him as Old Skid Plate.
9. You might be an Alex Rodriguez fan.
10. CBS is worried Letterman is doing for comedy what Katie Couric is doing for news.

 http://chalktalk-talk.blogspot.com
 

letterman

jessieH   Where is all of the woman's groups that used to have a voice? They have been degrading Palin since before the election. They ( the dems.) must fear her alot. I don't blame them. She is more qualifide to be in office than most of those idiots.                                        Letterman is the joke. 

Hi jesse... I mentioned

Hi jesse...

I mentioned that early on yesterday...the silence from NOW and sisters ilk have been as usual MUM....after all, these slams aren't toward a democrat, let alone one who was a President and accused of rape to-boot...amoung all the rest of BS.

Nothing but ugly old NAGS with no cause or power anymore...and always been nothing but agenda-driven hypocrites.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

David Letterman... You

David Letterman...

You are a pathetic excuse for a man.

I wished Todd Palin would accept your invitation...with a fist between your yapping lips.

...I wished Sarah Palin would be in your show to meet you face to face as you suggest to put a hand to your cheek with mighty force...or a fist.

I know I am not being PC here...and I really don't care, if anyone ever said anything to me like he has about my daughters, he or she would feel my force.

What was most disgusting to me was the laughter from the brain dead in the audience.

People on the left make me ill...period.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

BT--

I did not see the show. Watching Letteman, to me, is a waste. I did see and hear what he had tosay on the news and here at NB. So I watched for a few minutes last night to hear his apology. All I heard was more disgusting words on his own behalf.

BUT like you--I was appalled at the audience reaction.

So Garofalo them!!!

Hi misterb... I don't

Hi misterb...

I don't watch Letterman either...he has never been amusing to me.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Double/Triple insult???

Here's what an old guy who grew up in a city gets out of Letterman's comments (not joke). One of the Palin girls )it does not matter to me which one he meant), is a slut. Arod is a sex pig. Sarah and Todd Palin are irresponsible, negligent parents.

Ok, maybe that is not what everybody got out of it, but that's what I get.

Apology--I think Todd Palin should be allowed to bitch slap Letterman until he cries and apologizes.

PS Garofalo NOW. Garofalo CBS. (A shame, they carry my favorite shows.)

PPS I know it's been referenced, but --look at what happened to Imus.

Wrong spelling!

It is spelled "Gabarfalo".

Well, Letterman...

I don't know what can be said about a man who behaves like this. But a song does come to mind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOKK8mAkiUI

LOL GG!

 
...and a straw man at that!  Too funny!

 

Gary

Gettin' along is so much easier than buttin' heads. - My Dad

And funner too! - Me

Double post

Crap!

 

Gary

Gettin' along is so much easier than buttin' heads. - My Dad

And funner too! - Me

Gary~

LOL...Yeah, the only bummer is that the comparison is an insult to Scarecrow. No offense intended, Mr. Scarecrow. ((^_^))

MSNBC blog site 80-20% favor Letterman

I was just surfing and wanted to see what the libs at MSNBC blogs were saying. I read as much as I could and about 80% think that there is nothing wrong with what the skag Letterman said. Most just made fun of Palin saying she does look slutty and her daughter did get knocked up so what is the problem? I am telling you. We are in for a Civil War soon because the media in this country is trying to smash conservative values and at some point we are not going to take it anymore. God help us! Yes I am an angry conservative and you msm types are making me this way. And I am not going away.

MSNBC blog

What would you expect? The network of Keith Olberpuke, Rachel Madpuke, and Chris Mathpuke. Otherwise known as the unholy triumvirate. Also the network owned by GE, the recipient of massive bailout funds from the Obama administration, and the Obama administration's vendor of choice for massive "global warming" spending to come. In other words - in the tank, and on the take..the best reporting (taxpayer's) money can buy. Paid shills for the Obama administration, masquerading as "news" outlets. It's a regular Joseph Goebbels operation over there, that gives an all new level of literalness to Rush's phrase "the state-run media". There should be a federal investigation into the extent to which msnbc is financing its "news" operations, with taxpayer dollars - and the extent to which this blatant conflict of interest has perverted the public interest with one-sided and corrupt information. But do you think Eric Holder cares? Hell no!

Odd--there used to be a

Odd--there used to be a comedian named David Letterman.  I wonder if there's any relation. 

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

Top Ten Reasons ...

I decided to watch Letterman's monologue tonight and he seemed tense. He did manage to slip in a pretty good joke about everything being all right between him and Palin saying she'd phoned him and invited him to go hunting.

Anyway, here's my humble "Top Ten" reasons why Letterman has become so mean-spirited and unfunny:

Top 10 Reasons Dave Letterman is angry, bitter, and just not so funny anymore:

10. Dave's fourth coronary bypass inadvertently connected the left side of his brain to a bile duct.

9. His longtime companion and new wife won’t let Drew Barrymore dance topless on his desk anymore.

8. Since January, all joke-writers have been hired by the new top-secret Obama Comedy Czar.

7. Getting passed over for the second time as Johnny Carson’s replacement on the Tonight Show
(for Conan O'Brien) has sent Dave over the edge.

6. Dave's still confused as to the significance of the term "mean deviation" which he learned taking a statistics course at Ball State in Muncie.

5. Lou Reed absolutely refuses to perform Sweet Jane one more time.

4. Dave’s still mad at Paul Shaffer for not getting him a gig singing with the Blues Brothers at the 1997 Super Bowl in New Orleans.

3. Seven-hundred-and-sixteen Depends jokes since last summer, and still not one nickel in kickbacks.

2. Money won’t make you happy, being happy won't make you money, but eating cottage cheese won’t make you either.

And the number one reason ...

1. The only person left on the planet who’ll go out for a beer with him is John McCain.

 metaphorsbwithu

After about 300 top 10's..

Yours are good!

10, 5, 3,2,1 are my favorites.

Good job.

(10 is actually the best :))

Lights will guide you home

Dominoes Pizza must've

Dominoes Pizza must've recently laid off a bunch of people judging by the influx of Libtrolls tonight.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).

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