Letterman: When I joked about Palin’s daughter having sex, I meant Bristol, not Willow
posted at 8:41 pm on June 10, 2009 by Allahpundit
A sneak preview of tonight’s monologue from EW. He wasn’t joking about her 14-year-old daughter being a prostitute, silly. He was joking about her 18-year-old daughter being a prostitute. Perfectly legal. Whew!
“We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news and we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter [Bristol]… and now they’re upset with me…” Letterman says on tonight’s 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…. Am I guilty of poor taste? Yes. Did I suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No.” Saying he hopes he’s “cleared part of this up,” Letterman extended an invitation to Palin to come on the show as a guest.
Don’t you see? He’d never condone statutorily raping a girl who’s underage. All he meant to do was goof on the idea that Palin’s eldest daughter, a single mother with a baby, is a whore. Everything cool now? Let’s move on.
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Play only says that about Conservative women silly. You have to be Michelle Malkin or Ann Coulter to be raped by liberals.
William Amos on June 10, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Thousands of complaint calls to CBS = Heightened public attention and a possible jump in the ratings.
Thousands of complaint calls to the advertisers = An apology from Letterman.
sherry on June 10, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Thats should read playboy
William Amos on June 10, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Would you prefer the suggestion that you are fat or the suggestion that you are a prostitute who should be raped.
My Lord, getalife, you have had several weeks to work on your knowledge and delivery while you were banished to the cornfield and it seems that all you did was goof off.
MB4 on June 10, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Let’s make some jokes about what the guy who plotted to kidnap Dave’s kid a few years back would do to him….
Let’s make some jokes about the stalker who chased Dave around for years would have loved to do to him…..
seems Dave lives in a glass house. I remember him almost crying on the set, maybe he actually did, about the plot about his son. Why on earth would this man joke, JOKE about someone taking advantage of a child….?
ted c on June 10, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Letterman…the white trash of late night television.
scalleywag on June 10, 2009 at 9:32 PM
I can’t speak for those of you that never struggled with their weight, but fat jokes can hurt
all are beautiful
chelsea <3
meghan
bristol (happy?)
g0tmylifeback on June 10, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Some see this clearly.
Some, clearly, don’t see this.
Guess we know who the good guys are.
massrighty on June 10, 2009 at 9:33 PM
I’m outraged!
crr6 on June 10, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Was this guy ever able to figure out who his father is? Maybe in his lifetime he will be able to figure out who is the biological father of his “so called son”
antisocial on June 10, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Go to Hillbuzz, they have went crazy over this. All advertisers for Letterman’s show have been posted so that you can contact them and let them know he went too far and until he is taken off the air they will boycott all these companies. They are saying if Al Sharpton is capable of having Imus cancelled then we should be able to have him cancelled.
southpaw64 on June 10, 2009 at 9:33 PM
I remember him being quite emotional about his heart surgery also. How would he like it if people made jokes about his ill health?
sherry on June 10, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Well talking about ones looks and talking about a child being sexually engaged at a ballgame is completely diffrent and if you equate them then seek help.
Czarina on June 10, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Oh btw, getalife, shouldn’t you be in Afghanistan, and maybe Pakistan later, supporting your President? What happened? Did you flunk out of BCT for being too fat? Did you proposition the wrong soldiers?
MB4 on June 10, 2009 at 9:34 PM
As a matter of fact, yes. That was an outrageous and mean remark. Didn’t matter who said it. Attacking people’s children is classless and cowardly, no matter who is doing the talking or whom he is attacking. Suggesting that rape is okay for any woman is disgusting.
College Prof on June 10, 2009 at 9:34 PM
When a show about jokes becomes the joke. . .
Chubbs65 on June 10, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Where I Sarah Palin, I’d take that worthless shit Letterman up on his offer, and when I got on stage I’d punch his fucking lights out. Then I’d say, “Now we’re even, asshole!”
GarandFan on June 10, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Actually, I think Todd and Dick Cheney have an Alaska hunting trip all worked out for Dave’s benefit. Apparently Dave doesn’t know where a bear defecates in the woods.
Mark30339 on June 10, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Just thought it was worth repeating. Getalife believes in reincarnation!
infidel on June 10, 2009 at 9:35 PM
I support Obama
Actually no matter what you all keep saying I am proud of him
If only his mother could see this
g0tmylifeback on June 10, 2009 at 9:36 PM
If I wanted to give Letterman a pass, I’d say he did it to boost his ratings, knowing there would be outrage and more people tuning in to hear if he apologized. But… no pass from me.
The buck stops with you, Mr Letterman. “Ignorance” is no excuse. Whether you meant Willow or Bristol, your joke was insulting to women, in poor taste and totally out of line.
Beaglemom on June 10, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Letterman is just sore he is the unfunny loser on the block.
Go Red Eye!!
StubbleSpark on June 10, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Thanks for the address, katy. I put in my two cents.
mikeyboss on June 10, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Todd Palin should go on Letterman’s show.
canditaylor68 on June 10, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Good point – sorry it’s getting missed in all the noise.
We should add proper respect for women to the many arguments being made against this kind of reprehensible comment.
Thanks for pointing this out.
massrighty on June 10, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Please provide the link to David Letterman (or a figure of similar prominence) making sexual jokes about Chelsea Clinton or Meghan McCain … when they were 14 years old. Go ahead. I’ll wait.
And if you’re going to continue to pretend that you actually believe Letterman was “accidentally” committing verbal pedophilia and actually meant the elder daughter … fine. Provide a link to Letterman (or a comparable entertainer) making sexual jokes about Chelsea or Meghan at age 18.
Go ahead. I’ll wait.
Intellectual dishonesty doesn’t become you – and I suspect you’re smart enough to know just dishonest your argument is.
If Letterman actually made pedophile jokes about Chelsea – er, excuse me, if he waited until her 19th birthday to tell pregnancy jokes – I’ll concede your point.
In the meantime, perhaps you could point us to somebody, somewhere, making sexual comments about Obama’s daughters … since that would be the legitimate comparison you’re attempting to make.
Go ahead. I’ll wait.
Meh. No, I won’t. We both already know what you won’t find.
Professor Blather on June 10, 2009 at 9:37 PM
An eerie thing is, in the clip I heard, that when Letterman said something like “You know, Governor Palin is in town…” there was applause in the audience.
ddrintn on June 10, 2009 at 9:37 PM
This is the first time I ever called to complain about anything in my life…it was just that offensive. And if the article rings true that he address this tonight without one iota of what he said was wrong I will call again tommrow.
Hillbuzz has all the phone numbers on their website to contact CBS directly and I think they were working on getting adverts numbers too.
Czarina on June 10, 2009 at 9:38 PM
What was Letterman thinking when he said that…
GW_SS-Delta on June 10, 2009 at 9:38 PM
I’ve never joked about either of them. Chelsea is clearly the best of the Clintons; Meghan is cute but vapid.
ddrintn on June 10, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Oooh, Greta’s pissed!!!!
mikeyboss on June 10, 2009 at 9:39 PM
If I was the palins I would “Joke” that the local sherriff’s office just delievered a notice to their door that a 62 year old sex pervert just moved into the area of the CBS Studios in New York.
William Amos on June 10, 2009 at 9:40 PM
I filed an online complaint with the FCC at http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgb/fcc475B.cfm — is there an online petition somewhere to demand advertisers to drop the show?
Mark30339 on June 10, 2009 at 9:40 PM
+7%…………….
………. If I were Todd Palin, I would buy tickets to his show, and in the middle of his monologue, I would stand up and explain to Mr. Letterman and the nation, that insults to his wife and sexual degrading ‘jokes’ about his daughters were not topics for a polite society.
Better yet……
……… remind Mr. Letterman that Track Palin, the son and older brother of those insulted publicly, is serving in the Armed Forces of the United States of America, and challenge Mr. World Wide Pants to go to Iraq and Afghanistan to perform a USO show.
Then sit back, and watch him squirm………..
Seven Percent Solution on June 10, 2009 at 9:40 PM
BFD
thomasaur on June 10, 2009 at 9:40 PM
I love love love Red Eye, though they need to boot the talking newspaper that well has run dry!
Czarina on June 10, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Letterman is a tipical liberal coward. He would never make those comments with her father present.
Johan Klaus on June 10, 2009 at 9:41 PM
And what about your own mother getalife? You do have a mother don’t you? What must she think of you when you keep professing your support for your President but you won’t help him in Afghanistan, and maybe Pakistan later?
Don’t keep letting your President and your own mother down, getalife.
MB4 on June 10, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Haven’t seen you around in a while, Prof. Very glad to have you back (or have I been away?).
mikeyboss on June 10, 2009 at 9:41 PM
You’re not even good at trying to hide your old getalife BS. I thought you were leaving?
Knucklehead on June 10, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Unacceptable. Palin’s trip had already been in the news for at least a day, and it was already known that Willow, not Bristol was with her. Are we really to believe that both he and his writers had no idea Willow was on this trip? She was sitting next to her mother at the baseball game he was riffing on. Pleading ignorance now is no excuse.
And everyone seems to have forgotten the reason she was in NY to begin with, i.e., the Walk for Autism. No speeches, no political agendas, just another participant. That was glossed over by the media too.
Dave in San Diego on June 10, 2009 at 9:42 PM
So Letterman is not only a pervert, he’s also a moron. Well, I guess that’s to be expected, he is a liberal, after all.
I wonder if Letterman is going to apologize?
And does this mean that sex jokes about Malia and Sasha Obama are now acceptable, as long as the person telling the joke later says he didn’t really mean it?
malclave on June 10, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Me too. I have never made a formal complaint call. I was so mad I actually called three times. Good idea to call again tomorrow. I think so many people have had it with the degrading of the Palin family that Letterman probably has no idea that he is taking the heat for a lot of pent up frustration out here. But so be it.
sherry on June 10, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Read the whole thread. Limbaugh called Chelsea Clinton the “white house dog” when she was 13. Admit you were wrong. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
crr6 on June 10, 2009 at 9:43 PM
As far as going on Letterman’s show, she doesn’t need to. She’ll do just fine without him.
Dave in San Diego on June 10, 2009 at 9:43 PM
What I would do to letterman, I would not repeat in mixed company.
Johan Klaus on June 10, 2009 at 9:44 PM
This link has them all… it’s a site called The New Agenda and I think they’re a non-partisan feminist group
http://thenewagenda.net/2009/06/10/letterman-doesnt-stop-contact-these-sponsors/
yogi41 on June 10, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Maybe Todd will show up and “explain” why making jokes about his girls is slightly off limits. With a rifle.
No rifle. He couldn’t go anywhere in NYC if it were visible, anyway.
But, I think that Todd has an increasing moral obligation to defend his family. As such, I agree, and think that he should “show up and explain.” By beating the piss out of Letterman. And I don’t think that any of the staff could (or would) stop him.
Doc Rochester on June 10, 2009 at 9:45 PM
How does MSM address/cover Palin outrage. Bait and switch.
It was just a joke… :( sic
AOL news headline link:
mad over makeup… wtf
Indian Outlaw on June 10, 2009 at 9:46 PM
I think that the discussion is about the scumbag, lettergirl.
Johan Klaus on June 10, 2009 at 9:46 PM
David Letterman, you’re a genuine dick-head!
byteshredder on June 10, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Also Laura Ingraham made a joke about Meghan McCain’s weight this year a couple months ago. Mind you, this is off the top of my head.
crr6 on June 10, 2009 at 9:46 PM
What difference does it make which daughter was Dave’s “target”…simply nasty, Dave.
Yer toast.
ladyingray on June 10, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Well, good for Letterman for apologizing.
But he’s still not funny.
chemjeff on June 10, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Not sure if there is but I saw the list of advertisers today and went to their websites and sent a complaint email detailing how I would be unable to purchase their products or services if they continued to patronize the David Letterman show. Thanks for the link to the FCC, that is a good route to take.
sherry on June 10, 2009 at 9:47 PM
If he joked about either one of my daughters in that fashion I’d slap him naked and hide his clothes.
thomasaur on June 10, 2009 at 9:48 PM
I finally figured it out… David Letterman is a prostitute.
drunyan8315 on June 10, 2009 at 9:48 PM
People need to get the facts before arguing. Bristol Palin was NOT at the ball game. Sarah and Willow Palin were. Davis Letterman said “one awkward moment for Sarah Palin, during the seventh inning her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez”. It’s quite a stretch to think that Mr. Letterman confused Bristol and Willow. I think David Letterman was trying to push the envelope and see how much he could get away with.
FWIW Mr. Letterman has a team of people who write his jokes for him, and he could blame sloppy screening as the cause. Maybe fire the writer. It was pretty well known That it was Sarah and Willow at the ball game, so for Mr. Letterman to try to wash his hands of what he said is difficult to say the least. However in the near term I expect the MSM to accept his explanation, and whitewash the event.
Rode Werk on June 10, 2009 at 9:48 PM
If you also recall Megyn was attacking conservatives left and right and engaging in her own insult throwing.
William Amos on June 10, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Mr. Letterman,
When I joked about your hole, I meant your anus not your wife.
Geochelone on June 10, 2009 at 9:48 PM
David Letterman is an old pervert. He isn’t funny. He not only insulted Sarah and her daughters (which everyone he meant) he insulted the many thousands of flight attendants who are highly trained professions who must handle life or death emergencies.
Send a letter to CBS:
http://sarah-palin-2012.blogspot.com/2009/06/inform-cbs-that-letterman-has-stepped.html
History Chaser on June 10, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Some personal attacks are more equal than others. Which is a nice little summary of the point I’m making.
crr6 on June 10, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Letterman never said he was sorry for the joke. He said he meant Bristol and that the joke was “In poor taste”.
That isnt an apology.
William Amos on June 10, 2009 at 9:50 PM
I haven’t posted here for months. I usually hang out at MM’s site…but this just makes me want to spit nails at that idiot. Imus was fired for much less. Imus was humiliated, escoriated, filleted and served up for dinner. I didn’t like him, and don’t like Letterman. Both should have used some semblance of common sense. This makes Letterman look like the dirty old man that sits in a park all day waiting to look up a child’s dress. He’s a letch and is now proven to be a pervert. Any apologies are worthless.
Had he made the same comments about the First Lady and her daughters there would have been hell to pay. This man reads lines from a script, and like all actors (he’s not a comedian) thinks his vision of the world is golden. He’s twisted and needs help. He needs to go.
24K lady on June 10, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Like I said, children should always be off limits. It is wrong, regardless of who does it when.
Now, making “jokes” about a woman being a whore or getting raped, RAPED, well, that’s just not appropriate really at any time, and considering this was a 14-year-old being the object of this, that takes it to another level where no one should ever go.
What’s so hard to understand about that Sparky?
MightyConservative on June 10, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Really. Many of you need to get a grip on reality.
You comment (correctly) about how unhinged the Obama worshipers are, then you declare war on a guy because of a few jokes about Palin or whoever.
Grow up. They’re just jokes and you don’t control the universe.
Moesart on June 10, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Thinking?
Johan Klaus on June 10, 2009 at 9:51 PM
So raping a 14 year old is = to calling a 13 year old a dog ?
Neither is nice but one is much more offensive. Added to that he was making comments about the mother being “Slutty”.
William Amos on June 10, 2009 at 9:51 PM
except he didn’t really apologize. Apologies don’t includes “but’s”, excuses do.
Fighton03 on June 10, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Can you link to a transcript re: the Limbaugh thing? I’ve heard different takes on that. It’s become an urban legend.
ddrintn on June 10, 2009 at 9:52 PM
I said it would be over the line if he was referring to Willow. Which he wasn’t.
crr6 on June 10, 2009 at 9:52 PM
For the third time, when children are involved, it just wrong. There is no grey area here.
MightyConservative on June 10, 2009 at 9:52 PM
This thread is not about Limbaugh, it is about Letterman. If you can’t defend the funny looking cowardly old pedophile just make it explicit instead of implicit as you are not fooling anyone, probably not even yourself.
MB4 on June 10, 2009 at 9:52 PM
I’m so sick of all of them. Letterman and all his advertisers should be boycotted, along with all those affiliated with GE/MSNBC/NBCNews.
They won’t stop, until they are hit in the pocketbook. Unfortunately GE’s now got the deep pockets with Obama making them his propaganda arm, but they should still be boycotted.
tmedlin on June 10, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Its not just the joke its the cottage industry the left has built on Palin trashing.
It needs to be stood up against. Because not one GOPer is immune to this just ask Huck or Mitt who have also had comments made about their Children.
Palin is the main target but they are all at risk.
William Amos on June 10, 2009 at 9:52 PM
So, you do?
Johan Klaus on June 10, 2009 at 9:53 PM
our being dishonest here. Again Bristol was never at Yankee stadium so how can he have meant her ?
William Amos on June 10, 2009 at 9:53 PM
I think Dave….needs to go on Todd’s show. I think Todd’s filming out in the AK wilderness—Todd Palin, “Dave, let’s take a walk…”
—-trust me, the jokes would end…
ted c on June 10, 2009 at 9:54 PM
If someone said something derogatory about chelsea clinton at age 13, then that sh*t was wrong and over the line.
These are CHILDREN, minors, innocents. Leave them alone.
If not, the nasty sasha and malia jokes from disgruntled people will begin very soon and we will see true hypocrisy from the lefties. Leave the children ALONE. If it goes to soetoro’s kids, we will see a civil backlash, for sure.
Ris4victory on June 10, 2009 at 9:54 PM
I’d have more sympathy for Palin and her family if she didn’t dress up in skimpy outfits, wink at the audience during the debates, and use her family as a prop for pro-life grandstanding. I think her fans are making a mountain out of a molehill. They should realize that if you are going to throw ridiculous accusations out like calling the president a terrorist, then you should also prepare for incoming fire and not act like you are the victim.
She is acting like a liberal.
SouthernGal on June 10, 2009 at 9:54 PM
In a perfect world…Todd would get ahold of Letterman and make him cry like the liberal pussy he is.
In a even MORE perfect world, Track would get to him first.
LtE126 on June 10, 2009 at 9:54 PM
But go ahead and keep ignoring reality.
MightyConservative on June 10, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Then you got past my sarcasm to my true point……..
……….. +7% for you!
:O)
Seven Percent Solution on June 10, 2009 at 9:55 PM
He’s not funny. Just another lib A$$**** …..
Benjamin9 on June 10, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Where were you in the last 8 years before Obama ?
William Amos on June 10, 2009 at 9:56 PM
They’re not “just jokes.” They’re outrageous, inapropriate comments made at the expense of a child.
They’re wrong.
massrighty on June 10, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Funny how farther down the comments you were complaining about something that Rush Limbaugh said about Chelsea 16 years ago. How long do you have to maintain your outrage before it becomes considered “perpetual”?
In any case, Letterman’s excuse about Bristol Palin being the butt of his asinine jokes just doesn’t wash. Both jokes were about the Palins trip to New York and their interactions with New York personalities. Fish out of water and all that. But Bristol did not come on this trip to New York, and Willow did. The jokes were about Willow, and Willow is 14-years-old.
Why you want to defend a guy who cracks sexual jokes about a 14-year-old girl, but are still outraged about a comment made about a 13-year-old’s appearance made 16 years ago, I can’t quite figure out.
Maybe if Letterman starts making innuendoes about Piper, that would be over-the-line to you. I would hope so, anyway.
gridlock2 on June 10, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Rode Werk I was referring crr6 to your post, and directed my comment at him; sorry for any confusion since I can’t go back and edit my post.
MightyConservative on June 10, 2009 at 9:57 PM
I recall listening to him on late night TV many years ago (when he had a TV show) and although I don’t recall the particulars, he did make disparaging remarks about the Clinton’s young daughters looks. I stop watching his TV show then and there and I don’t think his TV show laster much longer either. Letterman’s remarks were much more vile so I suggest everyone stop watching his TV show.
MB4 on June 10, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Letterman is lying. His “joke” was, SPECIFICALLY, about the daughter who attended a Yankees game with her mom. That daughter is a minor.
He can claim he meant whatever inside his own head, but he clearly targeted a minor.
Christien on June 10, 2009 at 9:57 PM
William Amos seems to disagree with you. Search any semi-recent Meghan McCain thread on this site and you’ll find a sizable portion of the commenters here disagree with you. Strongly.
crr6 on June 10, 2009 at 9:57 PM
“If not, the nasty sasha and malia jokes from disgruntled people will begin very soon and we will see true hypocrisy from the lefties.”
Yeah, I guess they’re fair game now.
Sounds good to me.
Turnabout is fair play.
LtE126 on June 10, 2009 at 9:57 PM
I can’t believe how someone could possibly justify David Letterman’s comments. I don’t care if it’s a 14 year old or an 18 year old, there is not excuse for those comments. Now, if liberals want to claim that all children of politicians are fair game, let the games begin. All politicans have children and it could really get ugly.
The most annoying thing about this is not one media outlet thought it was appropriate to condemn what Letterman said, not one. Not his home network, CBS, nor any of the alphabets, not a cable outfit like CNN the “Cable News Network” not even Obama’s favorite network, even though Obama has children who could be targeted if this gets out of hand.
It’s becoming apparent that liberals, as they did in the 50′s, have determined there is an underclass in the United States who can be discriminated against and made fun of, and it’s White Republicans. Democrats have always looked the other way until they saw some political expediency, and then they jumped on the bandwagon, such as they did with civil rights. All of the discriminators were Democrats, making Jim Crow laws, and segretating their schools and lunch counters. Now they’re doing it again, only now it’s White republicans.
bflat879 on June 10, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Hey dont misrepresent anything I said. And since when is Megyn McCain a child ?
William Amos on June 10, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Where did she call the president a terrorist? I recall that the line was “palling around with terrorists.” Which is true when you consider William Ayers.
MightyConservative on June 10, 2009 at 9:59 PM
liberal
mental
disease
That is all.
angryed on June 10, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Just look at that picture that Allah put up of Brisol and her little boy! In what universe is acceptable to make lewd remarks about young women. In any other corporate setting he would be fired at the most and go through sexual harassment classes at the least.
Cindy Munford on June 10, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Shasha and Malia are going to have mustaches just like their bigfoot mama.
That was easy.
LtE126 on June 10, 2009 at 10:00 PM
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