Posted on 06/11/2009 5:00:38 AM PDT by jimbo123
TV host David Letterman has been criticised for making "sexually perverted" comments and "rape jokes" about Sarah Palin's teenage daughter.
The former vice presidential candidate hit back after he called her "slutty" and appeared to suggest her 14-year-old child slept with a baseball star.
Letterman, the host of The Late Show on CBS, told his audience Mrs Palin looked like a "slutty flight attendant" on a trip to New York.
The Alaskan governor was there for a baseball game and to be honoured by a special needs group, accompanied by Willow, 14.
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To the American press this only matters when liberals are the victims. Move on. Nothing to see here. Ignore the man behind the curtain!
David Letterman has deteriorated into a nasty and bitter old man.
C'mon Letteman! Why don't you grow a pair and invite Todd on your show!
Liberals make me want to vomit.
So what, have you heard the latest from “Britain’s Got Talent”?
(/sarc barely)
What’s happening there?
What interesting backpedalling! He wasn’t talking about the daughter who was AT the game, with her mother, when he said she was “knocked up” by A-Rod during the game. Noooooooo. He meant her other daughter who wasn’t there!
Yes, Dave, please keep ‘splainin. Why don’t you invite Todd Palin on the show? I bet your ratings would double (for one night). Oh, I forgot, can’t have any real men on that show.
What interesting backpedalling! He wasn’t talking about the daughter who was AT the game, with her mother, when he said she was “knocked up” by A-Rod during the game. Noooooooo. He meant her other daughter who wasn’t there!
Yes, Dave, please keep ‘splainin. Why don’t you invite Todd Palin on the show? I bet your ratings would double (for one night). Oh, I forgot, can’t have any real men on that show.
I deleted CBS from the list of stations my TV receives and notified CBS. Not only will I no longer watch Letterman, but I will no longer watch anything on CBS. This seuxal “joke” about a 14 y/o girl was way too far over the line, and Letterman and CBS have made it clear that their response will not satisfy basic human decency. [Posting on multiple threads in the hopes of reaching as many Freepers as possible and encouraging them to delete CBS too.]
So it's okay to joke about one daughter being raped but not the other?
Did I miss something?
Letterman was a nasty, bitter young man.
further ... he appears to think it is ok to joke about one TEENAGE daughter but not not the other TEENAGE daughter???
Unless "knocking up" means something different in NY than it does on the west coast.
How do you think A-Rod would “knock up” a 14 yr old without committing statutory rape?
Statutory
Hey Dave.... you lose!
Statutory rape is not a joke.
In three years he can repeat the same joke about Malia Obama. She will be 14 then. >sarc<
Meanwhile that bee-otch of a First Lady, who looks like an NFL linebacker, goes around London and Paris on our nickel, dressed in what looks like a table cloth from a day care center, and they all rave about her.
It might just be a regional linguistic difference but those are two very different things to me.
I don't want to start a big flame war over this....it's just that when something is so inflammatory, it should be carefully parsed.
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