Letterman v. Palin

[Another_Dude]

Originally Posted by Marine Mike

Anyone that willingly put themselves into the public eye are open game in my opinion.

Lets see a comic crack some jokes about Obama's kids in this way since they are in the public eye and see what happens.

My opinion is that anyone who is a big enough boy to make sex-themed jokes about someone's underage daughter on national TV is big enough to handle the reaction they'll get for it.

[Chordata]

Originally Posted by Another_Dude

My opinion is that anyone who is a big enough boy to make sex-themed jokes about someone's underage daughter on national TV is big enough to handle the reaction they'll get for it.

Isn't she 18?

[Another_Dude]

Originally Posted by O_V_N

Isn't she 18?

The daughter (Willow) that was with Sarah in New York at the time, which was the basis of the jokes, is 14.

[Chordata]

Yikes.

[Another_Dude]

Originally Posted by O_V_N

Yikes.

The joke was that Palin and her daughter went to a Yankees game while in NY and ARod got the daughter pregnant during the game.

The backpedal was that he was somehow talking about the older daughter that wasn't in NY or at a Yankees game. Some folks didn't buy it.

[Psychonaut]

The joke was made with him thinking the 18 year old was at Yankee Stadium but it was actually the 14 year old. Simple misunderstanding. Regardless, who cares? Palin needs to fade away. And quickly. Letterman should never have had to apologize. Too many people in this country need to shut up and quit trying to worry about what's best for the rest of us.

[fatediesel]

Originally Posted by Psychonaut

The joke was made with him thinking the 18 year old was at Yankee Stadium but it was actually the 14 year old. Simple misunderstanding. Regardless, who cares? Palin needs to fade away. And quickly. Letterman should never have had to apologize. Too many people in this country need to shut up and quit trying to worry about what's best for the rest of us.

Palin is going to do everything in her power to not fade away. She wants to run for President in 2012 and to do that she needs to stay in the spotlight.

[Another_Dude]

Originally Posted by fatediesel

Palin is going to do everything in her power to not fade away. She wants to run for President in 2012 and to do that she needs to stay in the spotlight.

I don't see her running in 2012.

[Another_Dude]

Originally Posted by Psychonaut

The joke was made with him thinking the 18 year old was at Yankee Stadium but it was actually the 14 year old. Simple misunderstanding. Regardless, who cares? Palin needs to fade away. And quickly. Letterman should never have had to apologize. Too many people in this country need to shut up and quit trying to worry about what's best for the rest of us.

She accepted his apology.

And remember, Palin was asked to be on the campaign last year. She wasn't seeking out the limelight and trash that has been thrown at her family.

Plenty of smart and qualified people in the future will look at what happened to the Palin family and stay out of national politics where they could have done some good. The media on the last election went full retard and the country will be worse off because of it.

[Chordata]

Originally Posted by Another_Dude

And remember, Palin was asked to be on the campaign last year. She wasn't seeking out the limelight and trash that has been thrown at her family.

She could have declined. By accepting, she made herself an even greater public figure than she was (and thus the source of much late-night fodder).

By shoving her pregnant daughter into the focus, she did the same.

It was a stupid and inappropriate joke, but Palin and the 15 people who protested Letterman yesterday need to get over themselves.

"Letterman supports raping underage children." Of course he does...

Talk about "going full retard."