If you consider the amount of press coverage given to this whole Letterman/Palin debacle you would think that it's the reason Iran is protesting. In a world where media hosts insult half the nation on a daily basis I find it absurd that a veteran comedian is being taken to task for what was obviously a mistake. HOW THE JOKE IN QUESTION SHOULD HAVE READ: Sarah Palin took her 14 year old to the Yankee game today. She left Bristol home in fear she'd get knocked up by A-rod.
I agree that we should also be careful about how we handle children in the media but I don't think Willow was harmed by the mishap and if there are to be any developmental repercussions they were just amplified by the fact that they are now even reading that joke in Palin's cozy neighborhood of Russia.
Maybe Letterman should just have compromised and apologized instead to Tina Fey. Ironically Palin may have been angered because by making a stupid remark he looked more Vice Presidential than she does. Apparently she was so upset by his insensitivity she couldn't even shoot a wolf today.
I think the people that Letterman should really apologize to are his fellow comedians. The first Palin apology should have been enough but when he repeated it again a second night he showed that it was now no longer about the joke but more about his fear about what the world would think of him. As far as monologue jokes go it was just as unfunny as most of his material.
Dave, you survived a heart attack and a change of networks. I promise you that even if it went to the top and the supreme court decided you were wrong it wouldn't matter because, Palin doesn't remember any of their decisions anyway.
i hope your remember your former buddy,
wendie dox
(ex tnt art director)
Thank you for the hearty LOL as I read those words!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJdZr4rByrw
Her opponent Lyda Green being mocked by Sarah's favourite right-wing "shock-jockeys" as a "bitch" and "cancer" - Sarah just finds it hilarious!
Must-see video clip.
Thanks!
What is not OK is a parent who parades their children before the press and media for political and monitary gain.
What is also not OK is they then claim the children are off limits.
But you are right the targtet of scorn should be and is the parent.
Unless the child chooses to to be a public figure and sell their soul for profit. Then they are fair game.
Liz Chaney is fair game. Briston is fair game. That is their choice.
also, dave didn't mention rape, it was sarah herself that brought rape into the conversation
Not only that, the two Palin adults who WERE at the game weren't even there during the time frame of David Letterman's "joke", namely they left in the 6th inning, and the "joke" was that "during the 7th inning stretch Palin's daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez". That's the exact wording of the joke. No Palin daughter's name mentioned. No Palin daughter's AGE mentioned.
So, which Palin daughter has already been "knocked up", and which Palin daughter did 99.44% of people who heard the joke think of?
Yeah, BRISTOL Palin, who ALSO wasn't at the game.
I feel that it's okay to go at Sarah with everything you got, every slicing criticism, every witty retort, and even every boorish stereotype. However, her kids being used as helpless sitting ducks to try and diminish her is fundamentally objectionable.
Setting Sarah aside, I am opposed to anyone in public or private life having their kids attacked.
Also, I'm not going to treat anyone who has had an unmarried pregnancy at a young age as some kind of offender that is fair game to be kicked down the stairs. There are millions of young girls out there that have the same story. Are they all bad people? I don't think so.