David Letterman's Sarah Palin jokes
How the 'Late Show' host explained his cracks about Palin and her daughter
Sarah Palin, left, and Willow Palin
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The drama continues between David Letterman and Sarah Palin, said Nick Sabloff in The Huffington Post. Letterman addressed the feud on his CBS "Late Show" after Palin said Letterman's crack that she looked like a "slutty flight attendant" (watch) was "pretty pathetic," and that his joke that her daughter had been impregnated by New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez (watch) was "sexually perverted." Letterman said his swipes at Palin were just attempts at "cheap laughs," and that his pregnancy joke was about 18-year-old single mom Bristol Palin, not her 14-year-old sister, Willow.
What a relief to know that David Letterman would "never condone statutorily raping a girl who’s underage," said Allapundit in Hot Air. "All he meant to do was goof on the idea that Palin’s eldest daughter, a single mother with a baby, is a whore." That almost makes Letterman a gentleman.
Give David Letterman credit for apologizing—sort of, said Toby Harnden in Britain's Telegraph. A dirty joke about an 18-year-old is not as bad as one about a 14-year-old, "but it's still pretty grubby." Either way, "some half-wit" on Letterman's staff probably wrote the joke and he didn't notice or care which daughter actually attended the Yankees game with Sarah Palin on her New York trip, because Letterman was out to insult the conservative Alaska governor, not her daughters.
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Posted by Ace, Thursday, June 11, 2009, 3:14 pm Probaby written by Bill Scheft. Search Townhall for Lorie Byrd and read her May 12th column.
Posted by Sue, Thursday, June 11, 2009, 3:57 pm I didn't vote for Palin, but she doesn't deserve Letterman's insulting remarks. I have always thought that Letterman is smartalecky and not funny. I have been a Leno fan. Now that Conan has taken Leno's slot, I plan to watch him, toohe knows how to be sly and funny without being tasteless. Letterman has no class.
Posted by Theodore Kurrus, Thursday, June 11, 2009, 6:12 pm I can't help but wonder how funny Lettermen wold consider a comment that his wife might enjoy being buggered by an inhabitant of Guantanamo?
Posted by venicementor, Thursday, June 11, 2009, 6:24 pm Typical cheap, none creative humor, is always at the expense of someone else. Letterman, grow up and see if you have any talent.
Posted by Brett, Friday, June 12, 2009, 9:10 am Folks, Letterman has been making those kinds of jokes about people all the time for almost 30 years now. Why the sudden outrage?!? Because he spoke ill of your darling Sarah?!?
Posted by Curious, Saturday, June 13, 2009, 4:09 am I am curious how in the world David Letterman can talk about anyone being knocked up or a slut. He himself obviously knocked up a woman, had a child by her and never married her for five years. What does that say about a man that talks about people that this. This would make his own son be called a bastard. He has no respect for anyone including his own family.DIRTY OLD MAN.
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