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David Letterman responds to flap over Sarah Palin jokes
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Posted on 06/10/2009 4:27:20 PM PDT by thewarden

Taping tonight's episode of The Late Show, David Letterman took a few minutes to respond to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who called him "pathetic" in a radio interview after he made her and her family the butt of a recent Top 10 list. The late-night host had drawn particular fire from Palin and some pundits for a joke about one of Palin's daughters being impregnated by New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez during a trip to Yankee Stadium. Camp Palin apparently took the joke to be a crack against Palin's 14-year-old daughter Willow, who had recently attended a Yankees game, but Letterman insisted today that the real target was 18-year-old daughter Bristol.

“We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news and we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter [Bristol]... and now they’re upset with me…” Letterman says on tonight's show. "These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl.... Am I guilty of poor taste? Yes. Did I suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No." Saying he hopes he's "cleared part of this up," Letterman extended an invitation to Palin to come on the show as a guest.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbs; letterman; lettermanpedophile; palin; palinfamily; pds; pedophile; pedophilia
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To: thewarden
He is a liar...just like the rest of the filthy liberals..I hope this all back fires on him and he does not get what he is after and that is viewers..He is a pathetic beast..Besides Sarah Palin and family have not been in the news lately as much..I wonder why he doesn't make fun of the Muslim trash in the white house..Oh and the Muslims daddy Wright and what he said about the Jews in the white house not letting him talk to his son..
41 posted on 06/10/2009 4:34:52 PM PDT by PLD
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To: DemforBush

correction: he did mention the rape element earlier on. Still, Letterman’s apology sound more snark than sincere to me.


42 posted on 06/10/2009 4:35:15 PM PDT by DemforBush (Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
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To: thewarden
Letterman extended an invitation to Palin to come on the show as a guest.

Drop dead Dave.

43 posted on 06/10/2009 4:35:17 PM PDT by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd: ON)
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To: thewarden

Instead of Palin on the show. Make some Jokes about the Kenyan commie and his daughters. Biting, lurid, offensive ones.


44 posted on 06/10/2009 4:35:17 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs earn the title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
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To: marron
Hey, MO's dress looked like something I saw in the shower section of Bed Bath and Beyond...

Hahahahaha.

45 posted on 06/10/2009 4:35:21 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Barak Obama: Pontificator in Chief and Poster Child for the Peter Principle)
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To: thewarden

He also offended the Hispanic community for suggesting that a Hispanic man rapes 14 year old white girls.


46 posted on 06/10/2009 4:35:35 PM PDT by floridavoter2
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To: thewarden
"These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl....

Assuming that's true which I don't, I think he's a liar, why would the turkey make jokes about an 18 year old or any woman getting raped?

Letterman is a low class has been.

47 posted on 06/10/2009 4:35:45 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: thewarden
Let me add “putz” to the long list of pejoratives that I have found to describe this SOB.
48 posted on 06/10/2009 4:36:00 PM PDT by Never on my watch (Obama, your compass has no magnet.)
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To: SkyDancer
There's links to a network complaint line on several FR threads running now where you can send a message. I just sent a scorcher. How many of you have sent one in? All the back and forth among ourselves here doesn't mean a damn thing. Let's support Palin in this just as she supports us.

Leni

49 posted on 06/10/2009 4:36:07 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Don't Blame Me..............I Voted for the American.)
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To: NativeNewYorker

“Gov. Palin should invite Letterman to go hunting.”

A gay man hunting? I didnt think they liked that,,,


50 posted on 06/10/2009 4:36:27 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs earn the title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
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To: thewarden
not good enough, has to be fired

Signed

Imus

51 posted on 06/10/2009 4:36:27 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (I hear the words of Jefferson louder and louder as each day passes)
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To: ConservativeMind
That sounds like a legitimate apology. I hope the Palin family is helped by this

You have got to be kidding. If it's about Bristol it's OK? Letterman is an illegitimate bastard. I mean it, I'm not joking.

52 posted on 06/10/2009 4:36:28 PM PDT by Theophilus (Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?)
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To: SolidWood; NoGrayZone

Honestly, I think they writers assumed Sarah was there with Bristol, who unfortunately has had too much sexual publicity already.

When I heard Sarah was there with her daughter, I thought Bristol, myself.

That said, just because someone is considered an adult child of a celebrity does not mean crass things should be said concerning them.


53 posted on 06/10/2009 4:36:32 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (The UN has never won a war, nor a conflict, but liberals want it to rule all militaries.)
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54 posted on 06/10/2009 4:36:33 PM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "We do not want to become slaves of Washington.")
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To: thewarden

F**k off Dave,

Even the dorky, insecure in his own skin, Coana Obrian is kicking your ass in the ratings!

I mean COME ON ! Conan Obrain !?


55 posted on 06/10/2009 4:36:41 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: thewarden

I would let him twist in the wind.

What he said was disgusting, and he probably has had a LOT of blowback.

Phony, non-apology apology. And trying to capitalize on ratings with it.


57 posted on 06/10/2009 4:36:47 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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To: thewarden

Oh, he was only joking abut the rape of her 18 year old teenage daughter! While Sarah was in topwn with her 14 year old daughter.

Bristol is a valid figure for public ridicule because her mother is a conservative politician and at 18, she’s a big girl. Like Chelsea and Al Gore JR were when they were 18 and made fun of on national TV...?

Nothing to see folks, move along.

SARC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


58 posted on 06/10/2009 4:37:00 PM PDT by silverleaf ("Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal ( Martin Luther King))
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To: thewarden

Yes David, you’ve cleared that up; you’re a puddle of sub-human scum. (no need to change the markee)


59 posted on 06/10/2009 4:37:02 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: PGR88
"If indeed that’s what it is, would it be politically astute of Palin to accept and “mend fences?”"

Only if it's Todd to accept and go "mend fences" with the perv.

That, I would PAY to see.

60 posted on 06/10/2009 4:37:18 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (All aboard the 1st Annual Free Republic National Tea Party Convention 9/10-9/12. Be there!!!)
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