What kind of jokes did David Letterman make about Sarah Palin?
David Letterman takes a shot at the governor of Alaska, who got a chance to respond later in the week as a guest on John Ziegler’s radio show. MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer talks to Ziegler about the feud in a contentious interview. The governor’s spokeswoman, Meg Stapleton, sent these two statements, the first from Todd: “Any ‘jokes’ about raping my 14-year-old are despicable. Alaskans know it and I believe the rest of the world knows it, too.” The next was from the governor: “Concerning Letterman’s comments about my young daughter (and I doubt he’d ever dare make such comments about anyone else’s daughter): ‘Laughter incited by sexually-perverted comments made by a 62-year-old male celebrity aimed at a 14-year-old girl is not only disgusting, but it reminds us some Hollywood/NY entertainers have a long way to go in understanding what the rest of America understands — that acceptance of inappropriate sexual comments about an underage girl, who could be anyone’s daughter, contributes to the
While reading his top ten list Monday night, “Late Show” host David Letterman said Gov. Sarah Palin bought makeup from Bloomingdale’s to update her “slutty flight attendant” look. Palin was in New York over the weekend. You can see the video here: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/06/09/letterman_palin_updated_her_slutty_flight_attendant_look_in_ny.html While I agree that the children of politicians should normally be off limits for jokes, I find the “outrage” about what Dave Letterman said to be ludicrous. As he explained, he thought Bristol (a teen mother who seems quite comfortable in the spotlight) was the daughter who had accompanied her mother to NYC, not her 14-year old sister. Sources: http://www.washingtonpost.c
