Sarah Palin: Letterman "Pretty Pathetic" For "Slutty Flight Attendant" Joke

David Letterman used Sarah Palin's recent trip to New York as inspiration for a top ten list in which he described her look as "slutty flight attendant." Fans of the governor are up in arms -- and Governor Palin herself responded to the joke by calling it "pretty pathetic."

The second "highlight" of Palin's visit according to Letterman: "Bought makeup at Bloomingdale's to update her "slutty flight attendant look."

Palin, who was in New York for an autism awareness event before heading to Washington for a Republican fundraiser, responded to the jab from the late-night host on John Ziegler's radio show Tuesday afternoon, evidently missing Letterman's intended humor.

"Pretty pathetic, good old David Letterman, that old David Letterman, what a commentary there ... very sad to not recognize what this trip was all about," she said. "Just doing some good things here for some good people in New York... such a distortion." She added that she had not visited Bloomingdale's and concluded, "Slow news day, evidently."

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[lanquihue]

Letterman stopped being funny years ago, and is obviously trying to restore his career by pandering to the hateful left. Look at Leno, he's funny, and he's got the biggest late night gig without being a robotic conservative hater. Letterman for thirty years has watched people pass him up while he treads water. Short on talent? Then simply insult people, there will always be haters out there, short in numbers but with big, filthy mouths.

[Jason Hollis]

Letterman was obviously joking about Bristols underage unwed pregnancy in conjunction with ARod's reputation as a womanizer. You really have to twist to get the meaning that the Palins are claiming. But that's their strong suit.

She's obviously trying to make this into some sort of victim fantasy to flog dat ole debbil da librul media with. And the allegedly liberal corporate media, by failing to question.. well, anything, as usual, is helping her do it.

Why this is even news boggles my mind.

[DrJohnnySkeptic]

I just sent an email to CBS in support of David Letterman. The anti-Letterman hate site I was on made me so disgusted that I wanted to express my defense of him and his show and that they should not give any validity to these freaks by stopping the comedic stylings of Dave Letterman. In fact, I encouraged that he continue on his jokes about Sarah Palin, leaving both daughters out of it.

Check out this anti-Letterman hate site. It really shows how crazy these people are.

http://hillbuzz.org/2009/06/10/list-of-david-lettermans-advertisers/

I've left a comment of disgust with the site, but I'm sure that it won't make it on, since they only what anti-Letterman garbage.

[Veteran111]

I think David Letterman should toss watermelons out the window tonight at the protesting right-wing nuts. Now that would be funny!

[proleswillsaveus]

Each day there are hundreds and jokes made publicly about politicians and their families. This is just another reason that we should be thankful that the Republicans lost the last Presidential Election. If not, Sarah Palin would be very busy writing blogs, speaking to reporters, and using our tax dollars to "defend" her family against all of the jokes that would be written about her[them].

I understand that the joke may have been crude and/or tasteless but every person who has seen it knows that it was only a joke intended to make people laugh. Which it did. When you enter public service you put yourself in a position to be mocked. This is not any different than the even racier jokes that are told about celebrities. Yet, how many times to you see celebrities in the press speaking against the host of late night talk shows.

If Palin wants to run for President in the future she may need to get thicker skin. Each night Letterman, Leno, O'Brien, Stewart, and Colbert all throw in digs agains the President and she will never keep up with her "other" responsibilities if she has to address their jokes every morning.

To me this seems like a person who is trying to keep her face and name out in public, and unlike David Letterman's joke - that is truely pathetic.

proleswill­saveus.blo­gspot.com

[Hedonist88]

slutty stewardess look.

ouch so painfully accurate

[DrJohnnySkeptic]

I'm reading that these Sarah Palin freaks want to know why flight attendants are being accused of being slutty.

LOL

[TRichards]

Palin loves an issue, even when she has to create it, to keep herself in the news. As for "slutty flight attendant look" -- well, the truth must hurt. But, hey, I'll admit it, I like that look. : O )

INDIGNATION: Without it, what would the Republicans have left to offer?

[Okieborn]

Hey Dave !!!
Just Say No !!!

[wadenelson1]

You've really lost it when you start defending yourself from comedians.

[tomasedison]

ride your snowmachine Dave
ride ride ride and don't look back

[dengal]

she needs to go to a class and learn how to speak english, in complete, coherent sentences.

[glorialovelace]

You need to go to a class and learn how to punctuate.

[BlueFloyd]

a bit angry are you? there is technically nothing wrong with that punctuation. and i betcha it was written, actually written by the blogger, as opposed to a ghost writer there.

[KayJay90]

David Letterman has retreated a little bit, about his Palin family jokes. And I think this is the best they're going to get from him if they are wanting an apology.

He said, taping tonight's show:

“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....

Actually, he continued by saying, "...I mean, look at my record. It has never happened. I don't think it is funny. I would never think it was funny. I wouldn't put it in a joke..."

"...Governor Palin,if you're watching, I would like you to consider coming to New York City -- you and Todd as my guests, or leave Todd at home -- I'd love to have you on the show. It'd be exciting...All right, so there, I hope I've cleared part of this up. 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."

[dengal]

i didnt think that was a retreat - he just pointed out her exaggeration of the truth (as her usual)
he also said he's told 1000's of jokes he regrets

he doesnt owe them an apology - they want to be in the public eye - then you gotta take the lumps with the fendi bags

you gotta admit - she does look like a slutty flight attendant

[Lee323]

Palin declared "Screw political correctness" in an Anchorage speech last week.

Isn't that what Letterman just did with his "Top Ten" on Palin?

[glorialovelace]

Telling smutty jokes about somebody's fourteen year old daughter is not just politically incorrect. It is the behavior of a boor, and a slob.

[Larry Eames]

it wasn't about the 14 year old half-wit. Saying it over and over doesn't make it true little Goebbels.

[LoveAlaska]

It wasn't about a 14 year old but the Palins continue to parade their kids for the sake of press, any press at all will do.

[VirginiaJeff]

"Slow news day"? Palin thinks Letterman's a journalist?? Jeez

[dengal]

he's not on faux, lol

[LauraAgain]

YES! Way to go, Barto. I'm with you.

[LauraAgain]

No, she knows that it's Letterman's job to comment on the news in his MONOLOGUE.

Duh.

[barto]

RANTA: You really are bright! Now please explain what differance it makes that he was talking about the one that got 'knocked-up'

[KayJay90]

That's the one who paraded unmarried and pregnant at the RNC convention, had her 18th birthday 10/18/08 (making her an ADULT), had her baby still unmarried, broke up with the baby daddy whom she never married, and marched out on stage AGAIN as a representative of the teen-slut-clothing manufacturer Candies who have a mixed-message foundation going that speaks out for teen sexual abstinence (which is pretty danged wierd, but that's another subject altogether).

That's the difference. Bristol's fair game; she's a PEOPLE mag celebrity, and a Candies celebrity.

[barto]

OK! Let's talk about 'fair game'....u­nmarried,t­eenage,pre­gnant girls. sounds like a favorite Democrat constituancy.

[klondiker]

Anyone here who watches late night TV regularly knows that Hillary jokes (both sexual and non-sexual) are made ALL the time. Go over to Letterman's site and search his top-ten list - you'll find that there are maybe a hundred lists about Hillary, making fun of virtually everything about her.

And, yet, we never see Hillary rushing out to denounce Letterman and Leno and Conan. Why? Because she has more substantive things to talk about, and she doesn't want to define herself by those jokes.

Palin, on the other hand, has NOTHING to contribute to the national discussion. When you have nothing to say, it's no wonder that you will latch on to anything at all to stay relevant.

[HC4BO]

Like I said earlier ...

She SHOULD be THANKING Dave Letterman for boosting her back into the daily cable chatter ....

For a moment there Liz Cheney was about to steal the spotlight with her psycho talk ...

[HC4BO]

Like I said earlier ...

She SHOULD be THANKING Dave Letterman for boosting her back into the daily cable chatter ....

For a moment there Liz Chiney was about to steal the spotlight with her psych0 talk ...

[KayJay90]

More than that, David Letterman managed to single-handedly take the question of Sarah Palin's plagiarism of the Gingrich/Shirley speech totally off the front pages.

(but those who care, won't forget)

[hillvoter]

Hillary is a public figure and Palin's daughter is in middle school.

[glorialovelace]

It doesn't make it okay that it's done all the time. It's simply a symptom of the extent to which our society and culture have deteriorated. Too many late night TV hosts are cheerleaders for stupidity and the worst kind of crassness. They damage society and many of them -- Dave in particular -- should be sacked.

[BlueFloyd]

and you probably think that that deterioration is what brought on the 911 attacks, right? why dont you go stand in line now in anticipation of palin's book release, and while you are in line you can read a few of dinesh d'souza's gems. i betcha you'd like 'em dontchaknow.

[MA4HRC]

Um yeah, but Hillary was pissed off when the MSNBC "reporter" David Shuster opened his trap and said that the Clintons were pimping Chelsea out. Why, because she dared to campaign for her mother like every other politician's child. I guarantee that if those words were used to describe Obama's kids, the people on this site wouldn't know what to do with themselves.

I may not hold the same political views with Sarah Palin, but I love a fighter and I like that she isn't a coward afraid to stand up for herself and her family. You mess with her family, she'll rip into you like a bull.