10) Last September, a skit on Saturday Night Live suggested incest in the Palin family. "What about the husband?" asked a mock Times reporter. "You know he's doing those daughters. I mean, come on. It's Alaska!" No outrage. Sarah Palin appeared on the show one month later in late October.
9) Days after the announcement of Bristol's pregnancy, Conan O'Brien joked, "It's true, John McCain's running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, has revealed that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. Palin said, 'We should never have introduced her to John Edwards.'" Where was the outrage? Was Conan promoting infidelity with an underage girl?
8 ) From two different Tonight Shows: "Governor Palin announced over the weekend that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is five months pregnant. Oh, boy, you thought John Edwards was in trouble before, now he's really done it!" AND..."All the Republicans are heaping praise on Governor Palin. Fred Thompson said, as an actor, he could see them making a movie about Sarah Palin and her family. Didn't they already make that movie? I think it was called 'Knocked Up!'"--Jay Leno
7) Craig Ferguson's skit of "Larry King vs Levi Johnston" asks about "kinky sex" with the drapes open. Craig Ferguson's honorary Alaska citizenship, granted by Governor Palin wasn't rescinded.
6) "According to expense reports, Sarah Palin charged the state of Alaska over $21,000 for her children to travel with her on official business. In fairness to Gov. Palin, when she leaves them home alone they get pregnant." --Seth Meyers (SNL). Sarah Palin was in a sketch with Meyers a week earlier.
5) On October 8, 2008, Sarah Palin walked out on the ice with six year old Piper and 13 year old Willow, before the game, Conan O'Brien said, "Saturday night, Sarah Palin is going to drop the first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers' hockey game. Then Palin will spend the rest of the game trying to keep the hockey players out of her daughter's penalty box."
Oh, yes he did. You get the outrage...but not a peep then. According to the new "logic", O'Brien was advocating for some really sick stuff.
4) Rush Limbaugh: "Everyone knows the Clintons have a cat. Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is a White House dog?" Limbaugh put up a picture of Chelsea Clinton. At the time, Chelsea Clinton was 13 years old. Rush also said, "In last year's campaign, the most prominent, articulate voice for standard run-of-the-mill good old-fashioned American conservatism was Sarah Palin." Calling a young teenager a "dog" can't be helpful to her "self-esteem." Where is the apology from the leader of the GOP?
3) "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."--John McCain, Sarah Palin's running mate. Should McCain apologize to every young woman in America?
2) Palin's friend, political defender and informer of the David Letterman comments, John Ziegler, was fired from his radio show for using the "n-word" online and on air in 1997. In 2000, he was fired for spelling the "n-word" on the air. How much does that word affect the psychological health of America's youth, regardless of their race? Now he is pimping his film about how mean the "liberal media" was to Sarah Palin.
AND...The NUMBER 1 REASON Sarah Palin's Outrage is Misplaced and A Little Late...
1) The "candidate who must be obeyed" was talking about Palin's family when he said, "Kids are off limits." Jake Tapper of ABC News interviewed then Candidate Obama, and asked, "Governor Palin and her husband issued a statement today saying their 17-year-old daughter Bristol, who is unmarried, is five months pregnant. Do you have any reaction?"
OBAMA: "I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people's families are off-limits. And people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Governor Palin's performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know, my mother had me when she was 18. And, you know, how family deals with issues and -- and, you know, teenaged children, that shouldn't be the topic of -- of our politics."
The Palin children have been fodder for comedians since they were brought to the national stage. Incest isn't funny. Ugly kid jokes aren't funny. Many of the things said about public figures are just flat wrong. Being "knocked up" isn't much fun. Racist comments hurt all of us. I exhausted the top 10 list before I ran out of outrageous instances ignored by the Palins.
The National Organization for Women named David Letterman to their Hall of Shame. Will Letterman be joining Jay Leno? Conan O'Brien? Craig Ferguson? Seth Myers? Rush Limbaugh? Or John McCain? Of course not! I guess N.O.W. didn't bother checking Sarah Palin's "feminist" credentials. All across America, right wing radio and television talk show hosts feigned outrage in perfect synchronicity. The same people who back up Palin's high drama assertions against Letterman ignored the connections between Bill O'Reilly's irresponsible incitement and the murder of Dr. George Tiller. David Letterman, a late night entertainer, apologized. Fox New's Bill O'Reilly has not.
As a parent, I understand being defensive. I just wonder what took so long. Why now?
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Why don't you hone in on the obamas and their shortcomings as vociferously as you do the Palins?
One example that everyone can see is on YOU TUBE.
The greeting mr. obama gave the Queen of England was very cordial and gentlemanly however, the greeting (excuse me BOW) he extended to the King of Saudi Arabia (and he literally glowed) and makes me even more suspicious of where his loyalties really lie.
Say what you will about Sarah. She is adamantly for America and Americans!
If I was her and read that, I guess I would quit too.
And as you say, you only scratched the surface of the Palin Hypocrisy.
Remember her condescending chastisement of Hillary for a comment about media bias?
Now the question becomes WHY the press in full knowledge of this hypocrisy chooses not to confront her. I mean wtf? I can bet with fairly good certainty none of these questions will ever make their way into her hypocritical ears. I'm so over how the media cherry picks their targets. I hardly believe the larger segment is necessarily cheering for Palin to succeed in her bizarre quest (for what one wonders?), but they do seem to curl their tails in when she expresses her moral outrage. The idea of risking a Palin snub or rebuke seems to render them mute. What a bunch of buttholes!
""Fair or unfair, I think she does herself a disservice to even mention it...When I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism or, you know, maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think, man, that doesn't do us any good. Women in politics, women in general wanting to progress this country. I don't think it's, it bodes well for her -- a statement like that...It bothers me a little bit hearing her bring that attention to herself on that level."
What part of faux outrage do you not grasp?
Sorry that the entire point of the post passed you by and sorry that you're gullible enough to be taken in by her act, it's a bit sad really.
Thank you for bringing to light that it is not Gov. Palin's outrage that was lagging behind all the male sexist comments and bullying of these young people rather it is the lack of outrage by the very media that proliferates this type of male sexism and female sexualization.
Regardless of your politics, sexism and the sexualization of our girls along with the sense of entitlement these men believe they have to behave so badly, is not acceptable nor should it ever be.
o The "male sexism"/humor was intended to lampoon Gov Palin's hypocrisy, as well as perhaps illuminate the lack of efficacy of her brand of morality in dealing with the subject at hand.
o Gov Palin is, to lift a line from JD Salinger, "as sensitive as a darn toilet seat" regarding the "sexist attacks" on her child(ren).
o The segment of population that she is attempting to appeal to, even more that the rest of us, is being set up to be the big losers in the demographic and economic shifts going on around us. Their world is crumbling beneath their feet. She's decided to do her pit bull thing, throwing out the red meat. Letterman just walked into it. So far, to his advantage.
o It is just politics.
Does this mean the obama kids are far game?
Come on. The Palins are a bad unreality show. Those kids were dragged along to every appearance like live props--"Look! I can Produce Babies!" Yeah, so can a gerbil. Doesn't make her fit for public office.
The Obamas have been trying to maintain a stable family life for their kids--they were usually left at home during the campaign, with trusted friends or their grandmother.
There's no comparison. But that doesn't stop racist b00bs from making bad jokes about Michelle and the kids -- why are you pretending it does?
I don't even like Letterman--but this whole brouhaha makes me want to watch him.
As for why the outrage now...? The aging pageant princess hadn't been front-page for a few days... she was getting lonesome without media attention.
Send this narcissistic nitwit back to Alaska. Or maybe the North Pole...