Will you teach your son to talk about women and girls the way you talk about Sarah Palin and her daughters?
You called the married 45-year-old mother, grandmother and Alaska governor a “slutty flight attendant” on your national TV talk show because she happens to be a tall, beautiful and dynamic public figure who doesn’t look, walk or talk the way you think she should.
You joked on national television about Palin’s teenage daughter “getting knocked up” by professional baseball player Alex Rodriguez or solicited by the prostitute-addicted former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer because it’s acceptable in your social and professional circles to sneer at the children of politicians you despise.
You admitted that your attacks on Palin’s family were in “poor taste,” but cackled while acknowledging your sophomoric judgment.
You expressed moral indignation at being misconstrued, yet you purposely omitted the name of the daughter you were mocking.
Fourteen-year-old Willow Palin was the daughter who accompanied Gov. Palin on her trip this week, not 18-year-old Bristol Palin, whom you now claim was the target of your feckless smear — a smear you still insist is perfectly defensible. Look at yourself, Dave. Look at how lame your excuse-making was on your Wednesday night 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. I mean, look at my record. It has never happened. I don’t think it’s funny. I would never think it was funny. I wouldn’t put it in a joke…”
Tell us, great comic genius, how tacking on four years to the target daughter makes it funny? We unenlightened dim bulbs who live outside of Manhattan’s boundaries don’t get the joke.
Will you be able to explain it to your son?
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Nice Link Jack. As usual Malkin is bang on. Remind me again, isnt it the old white haired Republicans that are supposed to demean strong intelligent women – at least according to the Democrat handbook.
Malkin hit this one out of the park!
Letterman is one unfunny comic. He should give it up, and yes, he does need therapy.
I watched the Letterman show briefly several years ago. At time I considered him a cynical jerk and he continues to convey that image in more strident manner today. A pox on him and all the so called Canadian comedians who try to copy his style.
Listening to Rush this AM and he brought up an excelletn point. When Don Imus made a disparaging remark about a womens basketball team – calling them “nappy headed ho’s” he was absolutely excoriated by the media. He did the apology tour, then was thrown under the bus by CBS. The man was virtually destroyed.
Rush also pointed out that Imus made the comment in response to a guest - a stream of concsiousness moment.
Letterman’s stuff is written and vetted, printed on cue cards and planned into the show. As well it is not a one off thing, he has been attacking palin and her family as if he had a personal vendetta.
Lettermans actions are far more insulting and egregious to women than Imus’s were.
I agree Ward. Time to show him the door.
Click. Late Night is no longer available in my home. That means I no longer see the advertising. Nor do my children.
Advertisers – do you understand? Time for you to act – that is, unless you condone jokes about raping 14 year old girls.