Comments on: David Letterman Apolgizes Yet Again To Sarah Palin and Family

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Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:10:03 +0000

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By: BillyC

BillyC — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:18:00 +0000

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Ron, It was a rhetorical question………

By: Ron Chusid

Ron Chusid — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:11:07 +0000

Why would I defend the appropriateness of the Spitzer comment when I’ve already argued that none of the jokes about Bristol Palin were appropriate?

I wouldn’t expect more jokes about Palin’s daughter but you asked what the writers would have done for material. As it was only two jokes that wasn’t an issue.

By: BillyC

BillyC — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:03:08 +0000

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True. Off point, but true.

Still, the two crude coomments that he did have the poor taste and amazing lack of judgment to mouth have appropriately come back to kick him in the ass.

Note: in your weekly Letterman Palin daughter comment count, surely, you did not expect Letterman to continue the week with more Palin daughter comments after the nuclear reaction to the A-Rod comment.

Note 2: I am assuming you might be referring to the Spitzer comment as the other comment? Why not spend some time defending the appropriatness of that one?

By: Ron Chusid

Ron Chusid — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:51:11 +0000

Considering he had two jokes about Bristol all week, losing them would not have made much of a difference in terms of requiring material.

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Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:49:03 +0000

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By: BillyC

BillyC — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:46:16 +0000

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Whew!
Sure glad Bristol is stil not 17……….
What would Letterman and his overpaid “writers” have done for material?

By: Ron Chusid

Ron Chusid — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:37:10 +0000

No jokes about Yankee Stadium, but plenty of jokes about Palin’s daughters getting knocked up, including ones at sporting events. Letterman should not have said what he said, but he has made far less jokes about the Palin daughters getting knocked up than other comedians have, and he made a point of limiting it to an 18 year old while others have not.

By: BillyC

BillyC — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:23:20 +0000

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Any of the “jokes” you refer to told by other late night comedians involve one of Palin’s daughters being knooked up at Yankee Stadium during the 7th inning stretch by A-Rod? (Or,for that matter, anything close to it?)

I am neither right wing nor paranoid, by the way. I do have enough sensibilities to recognize crude, inappropriate and gratuitous degradation when I see or hear it.

Letterman should not have said what he said about ANYONE’S daughter. Period. Anyone who sdisagrees should head on back for a refresher in Fundamental Decency 1-A.

By: Ron Chusid

Ron Chusid — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:07:14 +0000

There was no reason for them to see this as an issue before they wrote the joke. The news reports did not say that Willow was at the game. Letterman’s writers were used to jokes about Bristol Palin and just fit one into the baseball game. This certainly was a joke, despite right wing paranoia that Letterman’s goal is to get them as opposed to putting on a show.

It might not be ok if the daughter is 18 but why jump on Letterman alone over this when the other late night comedians have told far more jokes about Bristol Palin than he has?

By: BillyC

BillyC — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:37:25 +0000

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It was up to Letterman and his writers to make sure they got their Bristol VS Willow facts right before going off the deep end on the “knocked up” comment — especially the “knoced up” comments.

(Note: calling Letterman’s comments a “joke” somehow sends out the same nasty sound as fingernails on a blackboard.)

Letterman then falling back on the “Oops, I didn’t mean THAT daughter is weak and lame.”
It’s OK if the daughter is 18? Don’t think so.

Note on the Letterman writers: they obviously have been running on empty for a bit, eh?

By: Ron Chusid

Ron Chusid — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:34:25 +0000

b-psycho,

Flight attendants do have grounds to complain about being compared to Sarah Palin and I’m not certain that that modifier will satisfy their legitimate complaint here.

By: Ron Chusid

Ron Chusid — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:31:15 +0000

There is no double standard. The media covered violence from both groups and most condemned both.

Rather than a double standard, many conservatives wear blinders and see criticism of only conservatives everywhere, and love playing the part of a victim.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:28:56 +0000

Standard liberal double standards at work here. Same with the murders of the abortionist and the military recruiters. All the media play for the abortionist being murdered by a media declared “right wing extremist”. Virtually nothing on the murder of the miliary recruiters by the converted Muslim extremist. To a conservative like myself, both were reprehensible murders and the reasons behind it were important. To the liberal media, the abortionist murder was more important and the religion of the recruiters’ murderer being Muslim was not relevant.

By: Ron Chusid

Ron Chusid — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:25:11 +0000

BillyC,

Selective because Letterman has actually told far less jokes about Palin’s daughter than the other late night comedians. Others have also told jokes about Palin’s younger daughter while Letterman did not.