"One awkward moment for the President at the Yankee game," Letterman then quipped on-air. "During the seventh inning, Michelle was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez."
That wouldn't just be not funny. A comment like that would have the papers howling for Letterman's head. And while I like neither, I would expect a grovelling apology as the minimum price for keeping his job.
But by placing Michelles name in you are placing an adult who is in a position where she will be the butt of jokes not a teen age girl. Try placing their oldest daughters name in there when she turns 14 and then we will see the reaction.
Kids of politions have no say in their parents jobs, unless they are continually messing up and being caught doing something illegal their names or even the fact that they are with their parent at an event like a ball game (even celebrity parents take their kids to ball games) should not be mentioned. Making a ‘joke’ about Palin appearing to be a ‘slut’ is one thing (crude but she is an adult), making a joke that includes a 14 yo girl is another.
If people let Letterman and CBS ‘slide’ because it was a joke then we probably are lost.
Unless there is more to Sarah and Todd’s statements then was posted here they did not say anything about the crude ‘slut’ joke, just about bringing a 14 yo into a sexually intended joke by a perverted 60+ something man. I thought that was a good one.
If it is a no no to mention the actual problems of Chelsea Clinton and the Gore children when they were minors why is it ok to bring in the Palin kids with crude sexual jokes.