Sarah Palin thinks David Letterman is a meanie and a creep

The attack on Letterman is a cheap shot by that bitch Palin. She knows that Letterman thought that Bristol was at the game, not her younger sister.

... Put the crack pipe down and step away from the computer.

I have stayed out of this whole argument, mainly because its a stupid issue, and I wouldnt be at all surprised to see that Palin knew about the joke beforehand.

Having said that, I do wonder how you can say its not a double standard.
After all, Letterman has more viewers and more "power" then Imus did.

So that excuses it?

No, in my opinion.

What has this to do with the poor goddam kids?

If they are really adults and choose to go on the stage, that may be one thing. And I don't count Bristol amongst those adults. I mean old enough to know the true **** that may land on them.

Normally, kids get trotted out by politicians in a sickening and saccharine display of how bright, shiny and wholesome they (the politician) are.

Why should attacking a kid be ok because either they get trotted out by a a parent, or because, they love their parental unit and wanna be there, without any informed understanding of how horrible the media can get?

Attack Palin for using her kids by all means...but leave the kids alone.

Yes.

All I can say is that if this ends up with Letterman fired, I will be getting a recording of the jokes and have them blasted through a megaphone at the edge of her property twenty-four hours a day until the end of time.

Letterman should not be fired over this. No way!

Yes! Bristol is an adult, a public figure, and fair game for a comedian.

Fired!!!!

That's ridiculous! (...& obviously I haven't read the entire thread!)

There's no serious talk of firing him, is there?

<snort>



no.

(they like all the ratings, however)

Fire David Letterman Protest in New York on Tuesday, June 16




Here's the link to the "FIRE DAVID LETTERMAN" website:

http://www.firedavidletterman.com/

Here's a picture from their nutty rally:

Oh thank heavens for that!
Ya never know, though! Sillier things have happened.

Imus was fired for his "nappy headed hos" comment. Letterman will not be fired but he will be much more careful in the future. His first apology was rather niggardly. He did, of course, de nigrate Palin's daughter.

If Palin was black... Letterman would have been fired long ago.

I don't defend what Letterman said, i also don't watch him, because i consider his "humor" to be based in nasty, invidious comments about individuals. I've felt that way for 20 years or more, so this episode doesn't surprise me at all.

With that caveat, i'd say that Letterman is not likely to be fired because there are so few people who are genuinely pissed off about this, and for whatever my taste in the matter may be, he gets high ratings. Imus made a racist remark, which offended far more people than Letterman's remark has, and one of the women referred to brought suit against him and against NBC. Imus may have enjoyed high ratings with his radio show, but nothing in comparison to what Letterman is worth to advertisers with his ratings. Imus also had a prior history.

In 1984, he referred to Howard Stern as a slut, and a Jew bastard who should be castrated. He referred to a black sports reported at the New York Times as a "quota hire." In 1993, he referred to a female reporter at the New York Times as a "cleaning lady." One columnist from the New York Times reported in 1998 that off camera in a "60 Minutes" interview, he referred to his radio sidekick as having been hired to tell "n*gger jokes." Robin Quivers has said that he called her "n*gger" to her face, and she and Howard Stern both claim that he screamed "n*gger, n*gger" at a black woman employed at WNBC. Imus has referred to Arabs as radheads too many times to count. His station had trouble employing female newsreaders because of his comments on their appearance and he referred to one newsreader as a "skank" on the air. In 1998 he had referred to a critic as a "little Jew boy" (with other grossly offensive descriptors) and in 2004 referred to the owners of the Simon and Schuster publishing house as "thieving Jews." In addition to using slighting terms and racist epithets for Jews, he has offered the same kinds of remarks about the Irish and the Italians.

There's just no comparison between Letterman and Imus, the latter of whom is a loose cannon with a big mouth which he has shot off offensively for years and years. Imus has been employed since the Rutgers flap, and has not learned to keep his mouth shut. He made a racist comment about Dallas Cowboys defensive back Adam Jones.

There is just no reasonable comparison to be made between these two. Once gain, i am not defending Letterman, whom i happen to despise as a comedian. But it is ridiculous to compare this incident with Imus' life long history of insulting and racist remarks.

If roles were reversed and god forbid, the victim of the joke was a liberal, the networks would have lead with
the story and called for Letterman to be fired. The networks would have run the story 24/7 until everyone was
pissed off about the situation and the masses were demanding Letterman's big dumb head on a silver platter.

There are few more hilarious bullshit stories circulating among the conservative ditto-heads than that the media is a liberal tool. Thanks for the laughs.