Palin Furious At Letterman.

[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by Jaxon

For anyone who may be trying to loosen the self imposed noose on Lettermans neck never forget one thong Palin said. And that is during the campaign Obama said "leave my family alone....they are off limits". The great ones wishes were respected (it was a very reasonable request).

I am thinking that when candidate Obama said what he said about family being off limits,he was talking about all family of all the politicians involved in the Presidential campaign.

Besides, his family was definitely NOT off limits and they're still not.

Michelle Obama took a lashing and now one of my fellow Republican Senators from SC called her a gorilla.

Figures that he is from SC-- one of the most ignorant states in the Union....



So NOPE, the Obama family has not been off limits:

wife;
impoverished brother in Kenya;
Grandmother in Kenya;
and his own dead mother were all subjected to crudeness and rudeness.

Letterman apologized, went out of his way to apologize again.

Unless someone can pick up on a pattern of this only happening to Palin, as if she is a victim or something, we should all just get over it.

[MissBrattified]

I guess I'm just not willing to malign DL as some pedophile/pervert. He's not really a shock jock, although, as he said, he does go for "cheap laughs."

It's not like him to make off color jokes about children/minors--I've NEVER heard him do that before.

Bristol is the daughter who has been in the news the most, and I have no problem believing she's the one DL was referring to. It was a crass, tasteless joke. But not much beyond that. Not worth the hysterical rhetoric people have been putting forth.

Originally Posted by PressingOn

Alex Rodriquez is 34 years old - it was a perverted, pedophile statement that Letterman made. I agree with Palin!

I'm offended as a woman - Letterman is a trashy pig!

34 years old vs. 18 = perverted pedophile? I have a 31 year old nephew currently engaged to a 20 year old. I have an uncle who has been happily married to a woman 20 years younger than him for about 25 years. Big age differences don't bother me one iota. Point being, age difference in and of itself doesn't make the concept perverted.

[rgcraig]

The problem is it was the younger daughter (14) that was actually the one he was referencing since she was the one in NY with her at the Yankee's game.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

I guess I'm just not willing to malign DL as some pedophile/pervert. He's not really a shock jock, although, as he said, he does go for "cheap laughs."

It's not like him to make off color jokes about children/minors--I've NEVER heard him do that before.

Bristol is the daughter who has been in the news the most, and I have no problem believing she's the one DL was referring to. It was a crass, tasteless joke. But not much beyond that. Not worth the hysterical rhetoric people have been putting forth.



34 years old vs. 18 = perverted pedophile? I have a 31 year old nephew currently engaged to a 20 year old. I have an uncle who has been happily married to a woman 20 years younger than him for about 25 years. Big age differences don't bother me one iota. Point being, age difference in and of itself doesn't make the concept perverted.

A WEEK later, he offers an apology after being deluged with correspondence about his reference to Willow. Not everyone is estupido en la cabeza!

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

The problem is it was the younger daughter (14) that was actually the one he was referencing since she was the one in NY with her at the Yankee's game.

Yes, right! I got that. LOL!!!! I just don't think DL is stupid enough to deliberately make a sexual joke about a 14 year old. But I could be wrong. (I just don't think I am.)

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

The problem is it was the younger daughter (14) that was actually the one he was referencing since she was the one in NY with her at the Yankee's game.

THANK YOU!!!!!

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

Yes, right! I got that. LOL!!!! I just don't think DL is stupid enough to deliberately make a sexual joke about a 14 year old. But I could be wrong. (I just don't think I am.)

Yes, you are!!!

[rgcraig]

I think he was CLUELESS which daughter it was - - the writers thought it was a funny reference and he went with it.

I think his apology (toward Willow, the 14 year old) was sincere. I'd like to think that had he really KNOWN it was the younger one that he wouldn't have read the joke.

However, he did......

[Ron]

I looked at the clip in question on Yahoo!
I may not be a Palin supporter but if DL made a remark about my daughters like that, it would take all my HG to restrain me from busting his chops! I could do it too!

Cheap, dirty, & uncalled for regardless of age!
He was wrong for saying it, the crowd was wrong for laughing.

Palin had every right to be steamed!

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

A WEEK later, he offers an apology after being deluged with correspondence about his reference to Willow. Not everyone is estupido en la cabeza!

He offered an apology/explanation two nights later, and then a second apology yesterday. (which Palin accepted)

As a mother, I understand Palin's reaction, no matter which daughter was being referenced. I'm just not as willing to crucify DL across the board for bad taste, and call the comments something they weren't.