Well, firstly, David Letterman isn't funny anyways. Any who, what if that was your sister or daughter who was being used to boost low ratings for a biased bitter and not funny comedian? I'm not just saying this because I am a fan of Sarah Palin. I think about this all the time. The thing is, there's no line. Mean spirited comedy is everywhere. There should be a line. You don't think so? Put yourself in Mr. Palin's shoes. Would you not want to choke Letterman to death if he was making sex jokes that involved your daughter?!?!? What pisses me off is that David Letterman would never say that about a democrat. If you gotta make a living at somebody else's expense, fine. Why target the same group every damn time!? And if a republican performer said something like that about a democrats daughter the world would come to an end. He's probably just pissed because Conan O'Brien's show [which is actually funny and entertaining] is destroying his show.
271 days ago | Tagged As: yes
Voted up for starting with, "Well, firstly, David Letterman isn't funny anyways," and saying, "Conan O'Brien's show [which is actually funny and entertaining] is destroying his show." The truth has been spoken.
271 days ago | Tagged As: yes
Let me put it this way, if David the ass hole Letterman was a Conservative, you would never hear the end of it. It would be all over the news and they would grill him like there's no tomorrow. But, since he's an ass hole liberal, he gets a pass. Wow, I almost felt angry there for a second ;)
271 days ago | Tagged As: yes
Absolutely he crossed the line. If he had stood there, to "your" face, and said that about "your" daughter, there would be a fight! I know it would mine. There is no way to argue against the fact that an incredible double standard is being enforced in mainstream media in favor of the Liberal left. Wonder what would have happened had he said that about President Barrack "my family is off limits" Obama's daughters?
268 days ago | Tagged As: yes
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I love that he said "knocked up," which is not "rape," and was refering to the daughter who is legally of age, and obviously sexually active... And the father, who happens to be from the backwoods of Alaska, automatically assumes he talking about raping an underage family member. wonder where his head is at... that's really the funniest part of the whole thing. But pc is out of control, he's a comedian, he wasn't advocating anything illegal, the Palins know this, they just want back in the spotlight.
271 days ago | Tagged As: No
actually, what happened was the daughter Todd took to the Baseball game was his 14 year old daughter. So yes, Letterman technically talked about underage rape of a little girl. Honest mistake? probably. But, I might as well photoshop a large black cock in Dave's mother's mouth and say "lol, see how funny it is?". and, it wouldn't even be the same because his mother's of legal age (if she's even alive). But yeah, if i were Todd i'd be pretty pissed either way. He was attacking my daughter. but as a bystander, i laugh at their sorrow.
271 days ago | Tagged As: No
You'd have a great point if it were Letterman's job to report facts. But it's not. He's a comedian, not a reporter. If he (or anyone else) tells a joke and the details don't exactly match the situation they're referring to, it doesn't mean they're lazy or malicious, it means they were telling a joke. For example: At a recent U2 concert in Glasgow, Scotland, Bono asked the audience for total quiet. Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands, once every few seconds. Holding the audience in total silence, he said into the microphone, “Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies.” From the front of the crowd a voice with a broad Scottish accent pierced the quiet … “Well, fuckin stop doin it then, ya evil bastard!” Honestly, it probably didn't happen. It's a joke. But what's the point of telling a joke if every detail has to contain verifiable events? As a matter of fact, taken literally, Bono is indiscriminately killing scores of Africans. We should all be outraged. That said, Bristol Palin is a public figure who also happens to be an adult. So did he cross "the line"? If you ask me, no.
271 days ago | Tagged As: No
Obama's daughters are also public figures because i see them on TV all the time and Obama constantly has them on interviews with him... are they fair game? as much fair game as Bristol (she was 17 when the jokes started). Letterman still made fun of the 14 year old, nothing else to say about that. he didn't even say Bristol, and when he apologized a bit later all he said was "i don't advocate rape of underage children". he didn't even apologize... but he also wanted people to think that his joke was okay, but, he wanted to say that it wasn't what made it funny. ya see, rape of a 14 year old is funny. Letterman knew that talking about how she got impregnated by A-Rod would be "edgy". Now he regrets it (cause he's a faggot). If Letterman were to just say "it was a joke and fuck all of you" i would at least respect him (he's not funny though). but he took the douchiest way out of this.
269 days ago | Tagged As: No
If one of Obama's daughters was legally an adult (edit: as she is now, as It pertains to the Letterman joke we're discussing), got pregnant, then was paraded in front of the nation by her parents as a symbol of family values, then spent the entire month of may on talk shows to warn about the downfalls of teen pregnancy (and by extension, her mothers advocacy of abstinence-only policies), then of course, yeah, I'd say she'd be fair game too.
268 days ago | Tagged As: No
The point is that if one of Obama's daughters got pregnant the media would not make fun of her. It would say that it is okay to get pregnant in high school. They are only doing it because Palin is a conservative. Letterman should have known which daughter was at the Yankee game before he made the joke. He crossed the line and he isn't being punished.
268 days ago | Tagged As: yes
Again: you do not have to ferret out a story with journalistic zeal to tell a joke. If you're taking the joke literally, it's your fault, not his. I really don't know if 'the media' would treat Obama's daughters differently, nor does it matter as it pertains to this debate. If letterman "crossed the line", it should have nothing to do with wild speculation about what would happen in dreamed up, fictional scenarios.
268 days ago | Tagged As: No
Letterman needs to make sure his jokes do not cross the line and he didn't. If he needs to make jokes about someones kids to get viewers then he does deseve to have a show. The media would skip over a story about Obama's daughters smoking crack in an alley to report a meaningless story about a polar bear drowning. It will hide anything that would harm Obama and his friends.
268 days ago | Tagged As: yes
no, you still don't seem to understand what i'm saying. The joke wasn't about Bristol (the one who got pregnant). It was about the 14 year old girl who went to the baseball game. She was never in the media and never got pregnant. anyway, Dave finally made a huge apology saying that what he said was wrong and that he truly is sorry to the Palin family.
267 days ago | Tagged As: No
Oh, I understand you completely. I just think it's a gross overreaction to assume he was making a statutory rape joke when there is a much more plausible explanation. We can go back and forth all day about what his intent was, but in the end, there is a daughter that did get knocked up, went on an abstinence tour, and landed on the cover of People magazine. Since Letterman is in the business of ridiculing public figures, it is only logical to assume he was ridiculing a public figure. Let me state my previous argument another way: In "Why did the chicken cross the road?", does it matter if there was ever a chicken trying to cross a road - anywhere? Do you even care? In short, if you insist on taking humor literally, it's more likely than not that you're missing the point completely.
263 days ago | Tagged As: No
Well, the fact that, not only is she not a virgin but, she had a baby means she can take a good pounding ;)
272 days ago | Tagged As: No
Give me a break- I think the person who crossed the line was Mr. Palin, who tried to imply Letterman was saying something about the 14 year old daughter when obviously it was about the one who got pregnent and had a kid out of wed lock- was the joke in bad taste? That's subjective- but the Palin's are in the public eye, and they put their daughters up on stage for the world to see- and to make jokes about. I think all this publicity about a stupid joke just gives them more press- which is no doubt what the Palin family wants.
272 days ago | Tagged As: No
Sarah Palin is fair game to every comedian out there. She did not waste a second making him look like a pervert...when she knew that he was taking about her slutty daughter Bristol. Apples do not fall far from the tree. Southern smiles and world peace, Sharon ~The Baby Boomer Queen~
272 days ago | Tagged As: No
Sarah Palin is fair game I agree, but why do you need to attack her daughter? Thousands of teenage girls get pregnant and Letterman does not make fun of them. Letterman is only doing it because he is a liberal and Palin is a conservative.
272 days ago | Tagged As: yes
Well, thousands of teenage girls don't have a mother who is against sex-ed, against condoms, and against pre-marital sex, who is also governor of the state. I realize you have trouble seeing hypocricy when it's your home team, but surely you have to see the humor in that situation...
271 days ago | Tagged As: No
No, he's doing it because he's a comedian and she's a public figure. You just think it's about politics because you're a conservative, and he's a liberal. Basically, it's lazy comedy. You make a joke that would be funny either way, but to make it seem pertinent you tack on the name of a public figure. Who else can you tack on for an underage wedlock baby?
271 days ago | Tagged As: No
although i think comedians should attack the best of the best, your reasoning would also suggest this: Comedians can attack Obama's daughters just how they can attack Palin's daughter. I, in fact, do make some pretty sick jokes about the Obama girls as well, but I just want you to know... that is what you are advocating.
272 days ago | Tagged As: No
Well, if anyone was saying that it was okay to make jokes about underage girls being raped... okay. But again, as Letterman made clear, and whether it could have been interpreted wrong or not, the point of the joke was not "rape" or "underage" it was "sex" and "of age" While I realize that as soon as people accept this fact, the Palin's will once again be out of the spotlight, and so want to desperately hold on to the delusion that he was making an underage rape joke, I think it's pretty clear from both his statement which followed only 3 hours after the complaint (not a day or days as Sara is claiming) and that anyone who has ever seen Letterman knows he has not made a joke about raping underage girls once for however many years he's been on tv, kind of all points to the situation you seem to be describing as a very different thing all together. I would point out as well, that while Palin was dragging her children all over the country with her during the campaign, the Obama's purposefully kept their kids out of the spotlight until he was elected. I mean, if she didn't want her kids to be part of her pop-stardom, why take them with you? That aside though, again, you are comparing a sexually active woman who is over the age of 18, and trying to say it's now okay to make the same joke about kids who I don't even think are 10 yet...
270 days ago | Tagged As: yes
Whether Letterman knew it or not, though, the kid that he made a joke about was the 14 year old, since she was the one at the baseball game (he was joking about the girl at the baseball game). as for Obama, I saw his kids on TV ALL THE TIME before he was elected.
270 days ago | Tagged As: No
This is comedy, there is no line. Now, Letterman isn't funny, I'll give you that, but he did it as a comedian (which is why i feel sorry for him) so technically there is no line. I mean, Nick Depalo hopes to make fun of Michelle Obama on air soon (he already does it in clubs) and he was saying that this is comedy, there is no line to cross.
272 days ago | Tagged As: No
Absolutely not. Letterman is a consummate tongue in cheek comedian and everyone knows this. Even the backwoods Palin's must be aware but it's her golden opportunity to keep a good thing going as she always does when her name is mentioned anywhere. Perhaps the lady doth protest too much? Her reputation and background are hardly as pristine as she would love everyone to believe. Sarah Palin should really back up, back off and try and be the Governor of the great snow covered state of Alaska where she can shoot all the game she can eat or probably wouldn't dare eat. Trophies seem to be her middle name...or was it Pristine?
268 days ago | Tagged As: No
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