This is truly sick. I don’t know why but the Left absolutely hates Sarah Palin. I don’t get why but they do. And David Letterman is clearly a sexist liberal jerk. On last night’s show, Letterman said Sarah looked like a “slutty flight attendant” and then mocked Bristol Palin in even worse fashion.
And nothing will be done about this. Could you imagine if similarly outlandish things had been said about Obama and his family. I personally haven’t watched Letterman in years and don’t intend to ever watch him again.
Hot Air and Conservatives 4 Palin have more.
June 9, 2009 at 9:25 pm
I'd love to see Sarah and/or her daughter sue him for slander or at least libel. This is disgusting.
June 9, 2009 at 9:57 pm
January 21 2013 – President Palin, by virtue of the Fairness Doctrine having been re-enacted in 2011, shuts Letterman's show down! Wouldn't that be poetic?
June 9, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Letterman's bit is funnier than Bret Michaels' broken nose.
June 10, 2009 at 1:24 am
After The Tonight with Jay Leno became The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, I decided to try Letterman for the first time in years. I sense that Letterman has lost much of his enthusiasm for his show. This is one of the few things that seemed to energize him. Conan is a bit of an acquired taste, but I will put in some effort to acquire it.
June 10, 2009 at 1:25 am
The Left hates Sarah Palin because she scares them to death.
June 10, 2009 at 1:27 am
The Late Night host crowd disproportionately attacking women's virtues (particularly, calling them sluts) and looks (too pretty must be a slut, too ugly or fat must be desperate, etc.) is no news at all. They picked the obvious stereotypes about Palin (I wasn't too bothered- they've done worse to guests they've had read them) and Bristol's always going to get it from them.
It's not right, but it's so unsurprising. My inappropriate joke guilty pleasure is Craig Ferguson's regular Octomom jokes (when I'm up late enough to catch them).
June 10, 2009 at 1:56 am
Hey mocked WILLOW Palin, the 14 year old.
He made a joke about a 14 year old getting violently raped.
And the left LOL's.
June 10, 2009 at 1:56 am
I decided during the last election when Letterman was so obviously partisan that I had had enough. I've watched Letterman ever since I was in college, but watching him fawn over Obama and then skewer McCain was enough to turn me off permanently — and I didn't even particularly like McCain.
June 10, 2009 at 2:58 am
Didn't he have a child out-of wedlock himself in 2003? (He did married the mother of his child this year.)I guess it is OK when your older man does that sort of thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman#Personal_life
June 10, 2009 at 7:22 am
I think most of you need a sense of humor. Even as a conservative myself, I can appreciate these jokes as funny. Remember, this is the same woman who was willing to make fun of HERSELF on SNL. I'm not sure this has to do with partisanship as much as the fact that she's a quirky public figure. He pokes fun at Biden all the time. And when Clinton was in office, every comic had a field day. It's all in good fun
June 10, 2009 at 11:06 am
It's been years since I've watched a lot of TV so only recently did I manage to catch some Letterman. I find his "humor" to be consistently insulting in character. Actually, I don't find him humorous even a smidgen.
June 10, 2009 at 2:07 pm
The 2:22 commenter nailed it. So to speak. Mr Letterman's bread and butter is mockery, and the targets are largely celebrities.
For whatever reason, the Palins have made themselves celebrities, therefore fair game.
Speaking from the Left, I dearly hope the GOP nominates Governor Palin in 2012, 2016, 2020, and every four years for national office. I don't think she could ever possibly win the presidency.
June 10, 2009 at 3:17 pm
For whatever reason, the Palins have made themselves celebrities, therefore fair game.
Sure, joking that a MLB player has impregnated a 14-year old girl is just oh-so-funny according to the rules of leftist progressives.
And how have the Palins made themselves celebrities other than simply by running for office? The Palins have no more attempted to be celebrities than the Obamas in this regard, so would it be appropriate for the late night "comedians" to make sick jokes at the Obama children's expense?
Letterman ceased being funny . . . well, he nevr really was that funny to begin with.
June 10, 2009 at 3:38 pm
There's a big difference between having some fun at your own expense, and having someone else joke about your 14-yr old being raped. The first shows a healthy sense of humor and humility – the other shows a cynical and violent heart.
AND quite frankly, David Letterman is a huge jackass for holding the teenage Bristol to task for a mistake that he willingly has made for his entire adult life.
June 10, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Paul, I don't know that Mr Letterman is a leftist progressive as much as he is an entertainer. Personally, I care nothing for his brand of humor. He tried it on Leigh Nash, lead singer of Sixpence None the Richer, and she didn't have to say a single word to chastise him. All it took was a look and a silent pause.
That said, mockery is the modus operandi of the culture. And conservatives from Ann Coulter to Jeff Miller on down have made it their bread and butter. Pardon me if the blogosphere outrage on this rings a little hollow to me.
So sure: attacking a 14-year old girl is crude and reprehensible. But the truth is that Mr Letterman doesn't discriminate in choosing his targets. And unlike the Clintons, Sarah and Todd Palin continue to make public appearances at everything from hockey games to political rallies with their kids in tow. Public figures are public targets.
June 10, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I don't know that Mr Letterman is a leftist progressive
Todd, I was referring to you. That you think joking about a 14-year old getting knocked up by a baseball player is okay because of the public persona of her family speaks volumes about your ethics(and lack thereof).
June 10, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Dear American Left,
Thank you for helping me see the light.
Now I understand that jokes about the violent rape of a 14 year old girl, Willow Palin, are funny. What would I do without you?
June 10, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Todd:
What "rings a little hollow" is your entirely predictable commentary on what has become a steady string of "progressive" cheap shots.
Someone asked a variation of this question earlier and I'll put it to you again. What if the Obama's nearly 14-year-old daughter had been the target of a popular comic's contemptible joke about getting knocked up by A-Rod?
Racist, tacky, beyond-the-pale and indefensible, right? Of course right. The same basic respect should be afforded to the Palins' CHILD.
Sarah Palin is an adult and can take care of herself. And the more I observe how she handles herself in the face of this unrelenting barrage of public mockery (the slutty flight attendant comment is actually mild), the more I like her.
June 10, 2009 at 6:31 pm
"Todd, I was referring to you…"
Then, Paul, you need to engage in better reading comprehension. I point out that Mr Letterman and others of his ilk make poor humor of public figures as part of their schtick. You and others, some of whom confess they don't tune him in regularly, take this as an attack on Governor Palin's family because she is a conservative. It's not. She is a public figure. The treatment of Willow Palin is reprehensible, but it's not anything new for these people.
In case you haven't noticed, the "steady string" of mockery is pretty scattershot, and doesn't care whom it hits, nor does it discriminate in who fires the salvos.
June 10, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Just because Sarah Palin is a public figure doesn't mean her children automatically are (besides Bristol, she's an adult). It's a common knowledge, unwritten rule that the children of political "public figures" are off limits.
I wonder what A-Rod has to say about this or if he thinks this is funny. I pray he comes out against this.