Video: Letterman doubles down, makes prostitute joke about Palin’s daughter; Update: Both Palins rip Letterman
posted at 12:10 pm on June 10, 2009 by Allahpundit
Via Conservatives 4 Palin. The punchline’s as stale as year-old bread, naturally, which makes this daisy-fresh by Dave’s usual standards. Here’s Lileks on yesterday’s “comedy”:
Really, it’s just a rote slam: If your mother is a loathed politician, and your older sister gets pregnant, famous old men can make jokes about you being knocked up by rich baseball players, and there’s nothing you can do. That’s the culture: a flat, dead-eyed, square-headed old man who’ll go back to the writers and ask for more Palin-daughter knocked-up jokes, because that one went over well. Other children he won’t touch, but not because he’s decent. It’s because he’s a coward…
Well, one more thing. Some say Dave – I’m sorry, the staff members who wrote the joke and had it printed on cards for him to read – thought the daughter in attendance was the older one who had the pregnancy controversy last year. This is possible; it also means that we accept as an excuse the fact that the writers confused the daughters they wished to humiliate…
One more thing: the monologue contained an Angela Lansbury joke. Dude is OUT THERE.
Here’s what the crack “Late Show” writing staff came up with when, as predicted, he went back and demanded more “sex with Palin’s daughters” jokes. Oh, almost forgot: CBS just signed him to a new deal through 2012. Presumably he’ll have worked his way up to gags about Piper Palin turning tricks by then.
Update: C4P has angry statements from both Todd and Sarah laying into Letterman’s “sexually perverted comments.” Will Dave triple down tonight?
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Letterman is a slug.
progressoverpeace on June 10, 2009 at 12:11 PM
the poster child for DUMBING DOWN AMERICA!!!!
SDarchitect on June 10, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Not clicking.
But via Moe Lane at RedState, Didn’t he make a joke about Willow (14) being raped?
bluelightbrigade on June 10, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Ace had a fun game yesterday with some lady that looked like Walter Matthau. Can we play it here, too?
lorien1973 on June 10, 2009 at 12:13 PM
What a tired old washed up old man….
bladegripp on June 10, 2009 at 12:13 PM
wow, just wow
weewilly on June 10, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Dementia.
Star20 on June 10, 2009 at 12:14 PM
Considering Davey’s wife looks like a man, I wonder if most of this is jealousy that Todd Palin is a very lucky man and both Sarah and Bristol are hot.
mjk on June 10, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Haven’t watched Letterman since Larry “Bud” Melman died.
Barneys Bullet on June 10, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Call CBS: 212-975-4321
Let CBS know they suck, and that Letterman is a dirtbag.
We must fight this kind of garbage. Enough is enough.
portlandon on June 10, 2009 at 12:15 PM
He’s a piece of sh!t. Here’s hoping bad things happen to him.
thirteen28 on June 10, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Detestable. This puts CBS in MS-NBC territory.
Tru dat, playa. He needs ratings. That’s all that matters.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 10, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Should’ve read the quote first.
Totally answered it for me.
But even if it wasn’t Willow that he meant, jokes about rape should at least be fine-able by the FCC. It’s totally unacceptable.
bluelightbrigade on June 10, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Will Dave triple down tonight?
This one won’t be watching!
Bambi on June 10, 2009 at 12:16 PM
I think Todd Palin ought to invite Dave to go hunting up in the Yukon.
skydaddy on June 10, 2009 at 12:16 PM
I haven’t watched this turd since 1990ish. Age isn’t doing his mentality very well, is it?
ErinF on June 10, 2009 at 12:16 PM
if I was Todd, Dave would have a dead horse in his bed win he wakes up
jp on June 10, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Call some of the sponsors of the Letterman’s show too. If sponsors get squeamish, that will really get their attention.
thirteen28 on June 10, 2009 at 12:17 PM
w/ Dick Cheney along for the ride. ;)
bluelightbrigade on June 10, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Rush is dicussing this right now.
kingsjester on June 10, 2009 at 12:17 PM
its like they are trying to get the Palins’ to get angry and flip out so the MSM can finish her off.
jp on June 10, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Refuse to click too.
The old man is a Richard Cranium.
Go away.
ulyses on June 10, 2009 at 12:17 PM
David Letterman is a bitter old impotent man.
HondaV65 on June 10, 2009 at 12:18 PM
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Lifelock
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portlandon on June 10, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Dave needs to be put in a home. How sad.
Laura in Maryland on June 10, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Ratings…his ratings..CBS’s coffers are more important than someone’s daughter.
Thunderstorm129 on June 10, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Todd Palin must have incredible Christian discipline when it comes to people that hate you.
If I were him, I’d put those principles on hold.
Just shows why I’d be a terrible Christian.
bluelightbrigade on June 10, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Disgusting Dave has gone from funny to lame, and now, from lame to just plain pathetic.
hillbillyjim on June 10, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Pedophile jokes are all the rage now
once Gay marriage is legalized pandora’s box is wide open.
/stir pot
jp on June 10, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Letterman is ugly inside and out. A desperate man doing despicable things for ratings . . . and not succeeding.
NebCon on June 10, 2009 at 12:20 PM
What an ass
bwconq on June 10, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Imagine the outrage had he made that joke about one of Obama or Clinton’s daughters. The guy just put himself in the same class as Garafolo, Moore, Penn, Belafonte and Chavez. I’ll never watch his show again.
On the upside…maybe independents and conservative Democrats will think twice before voting for the scum on the left again. I know that Letterman isn’t a politician, but he represents everything that the left stands for. The more idiots like him speak, the better chance we have at marginalizing the lunatic leftists, including Obama.
orlandocajun on June 10, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Letterman is the epitome of a slimy dirtbag.
rplat on June 10, 2009 at 12:20 PM
That jerk Letterman needs a punch in the nose. What a despicable pervert. His disgusting fantasies about a 14 year old.
jencab on June 10, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Not watching. I can’t stand this guy even if he did graduate from my alma mater. Most of the people that went to that school were not slime balls.
Glad that Sarah is fighting back. Leave the kids out of this.
Yes, he will triple down. She is a huge threat to him and all the Liberals out there. We are choosing to not associate with Liberals anymore. Our social circle is much smaller, but it works for me. These Liberals are gut-wrenching.
BetseyRoss on June 10, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Washed-up celebrity needs headlines? Say something outrageous! File with Jeananne, Maher, etc.
KS Rex on June 10, 2009 at 12:21 PM
In the old days, Todd Palin would challenge this guy to a duel at high noon. I miss the old days.
TheQuestion on June 10, 2009 at 12:22 PM
I wonder what it’s like to be ensconced in the liberal double-standard? Must feel safe, cozy, and warm knowing you can vent your derangement without retribution.
pfamis on June 10, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Loserman.
Artifact67 on June 10, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Sarah should go on his show and rip him a new one. By the time she finishes twisting him into a pretzel every mother in America would be a Palin fan. Dave would end up wandering around the stage looking for his balls.
fogw on June 10, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Letterman’s comments are along the same lines as playboy’s.Todd is right.Would he be making those comments about o’s 2 daughters?
ohiobabe on June 10, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Remember after 9/11 when Letterman was on with Dan Rather and they were both in tears, and Letterman said something to the effect that things had changed and moving forward he wouldn’t take cheap shots?
That pledge wore off after about a week…..
shaggy on June 10, 2009 at 12:22 PM
What a bunch of thin-skinned “conservatives”.
simplesimon on June 10, 2009 at 12:23 PM
His wife must be so proud. Her husband tells jokes about child rape and disparages female governors.
sherry on June 10, 2009 at 12:24 PM
It’s going to be especially satisfying to watch Letterman come even more unhinged when Barry’s administration implodes.
Christien on June 10, 2009 at 12:24 PM
I don’t know…seemed more like a prostitute joke about Spitzer than it did about Palin’s daughter although the connotations are there…
TightAggressive on June 10, 2009 at 12:24 PM
You’re assuming he has them.
TheQuestion on June 10, 2009 at 12:24 PM
You mean as opposed to the live horseface he wakes up next to every morning and then there’s the giant horse ass he sees in the mirror every morning. I don’t think he’d get the point.
Monica on June 10, 2009 at 12:24 PM
I’m not sure what’s worse: an dirty old man joking about the rape of 14 year old, or the audience laughing? What kind of people would find that funny?
theenforser on June 10, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Isn’t that what he does every night?
Laura in Maryland on June 10, 2009 at 12:24 PM
So will John McCain ever go on Letterman again?
Yeah, right, the next time his ego needs stroking, McVain will be yukking it up with Letterman.
Wethal on June 10, 2009 at 12:25 PM
David Letterman needs a bitch slap from Todd Palin.
It might even be good for him. In the long run.
Mr. Joe on June 10, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Letterman = pedophile… Doesn’t that make him a Letterphile?
DL13 on June 10, 2009 at 12:25 PM
If one ever needs the quintessential example of an ass, Letterman is your guy.
GT on June 10, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Excellent…thanks for the list.
Didn’t there used to be something called standards and practice for television that would have prevented this kind of thing (or at least there would have been fines assessed against ABC & Letterman). I mean, shows have been cancelled for MUCH less than this.
Dee2008 on June 10, 2009 at 12:26 PM
bluelightbrigade on June 10, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Then Sarah could field dress him.
ohio kat on June 10, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Sadly, this is the standard of discourse from the left, has been for awhile now.
Rebar on June 10, 2009 at 12:26 PM
David Letterman needs a certain type of slap from Todd Palin.
In the long run, it might even be good for Letterman.
Might make him grow up and finally be a man.
Mr. Joe on June 10, 2009 at 12:26 PM
I called CBS, and let them have an earful. I told her I’m sure I’m not the only one whose complaining about the Letterman Child sex abuse laughter show and she said “believe me, you aren’t.”
Show David Letterman that he is the dirtbag pervert that he is.
Call CBS: 212-975-4321
Tell them you are calling regarding the David Letterman show.
portlandon on June 10, 2009 at 12:26 PM
basically Letterman is sending a message to Establishment GOP that Sarah Palin can never, ever, go on his Show during the campaign. Like all past GOP nominee’s have as well.
the MSM are trying to force Palin not to run and the GOP not to even think about nominating her.
to we submit in fear and do as they tell us????
jp on June 10, 2009 at 12:26 PM
If MSNBC is going to suspend David Schuster for allegedly alluding that the 27-year old daughter of a NY Senator is a prostitute – saying that she was being pimped out and so forth – then I’m sure CBS is going to suspend a talk show host for saying that the 14-year old daughter of the Governor of Alaska was knocked up in the middle of Yankee Stadium by a ballplayer will be suspended as well. Right?
DarkKnight3565 on June 10, 2009 at 12:26 PM
I’m not too upset about all this. Sure, Dave has a cloaca sitting on his shoulders, and sure, he’s married to a reptile, but he’s pretty typical of the old, white, liberal.
I don’t know anyone who watches his show, and I don’t watch it, so I can only assume his audience is getting what it wants. The good thing is, he’s opened the door for some blowback onto liberal politician’s children.
jaime on June 10, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Dave is bored and wondering how far he has to go before someone pops him. If you’ve seen his wife, you’ll understand. Having a child when he was 61 apparently didn’t provide the excitement he was expecting.
Jaibones on June 10, 2009 at 12:28 PM
The kind of pathetic losers who still think Letterman is relevant.
Dee2008 on June 10, 2009 at 12:28 PM
good point, but of course not
Palin is legitimate trash the the MSM, they can do as they please with her.
jp on June 10, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Seriously uncool.
SarahW on June 10, 2009 at 12:28 PM
I thought sex outside of marriage was cool?
*gasp* He’s not judging her lifestyle choice is he?
mankai on June 10, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Did I hear some boo’s on that clip?
Knucklehead on June 10, 2009 at 12:28 PM
I remember seeing him on the Tonight Show when Johnny Carson was the host and thinking that he was funny; so I stayed up late and remember being disappointed at how unfunny Dave was on his own show. Since then he has grown into a mean old codger.
Bl@ck_Dr@gon on June 10, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Two notes.
First, David Letterman might not see a problem with this because he’s a guy who would bang a cute 14 year old in a heartbeat. He is a dirty old man so we shouldn’t be too surprised when he acts like one. Write the show and ask him if his wife, whom he knocked up, was a hooker when he did her. See what he says. Sounds funny to me, yuk, yuk, so he’ll chuckle at that one, too, right?
Second, and most disturbing (and the above is partly sarcastic — this is horrendous and disgusting at all levels), Letterman is a product, playing to a consuming audience. People laughed. His people, his audience, loves this stuff and howls at it. He’ll keep doing it so long as he gets laughs from his fawning, dung sniffing bobble heads that need someone else to denigrate to make themselves feel superior to (someone/anyone). So many people’s egos are built on the carcasses of those they can manage to pile up and stand astride. If there’s nobody down there when you look down your nose, it’s no fun at all.
Hopefully somone out there is working on a book about the treatment of women, generally, and specifically during and after this last national campaign, in this tolerant, supposedly Christian (predominantly) nation. A collection of the salacious, sexual, predatory, disgusting comments and cartoons, television shows and skits, political “commentary” and locker room jokes, directed at Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin and her (now) entire female family. It would (or should) shock the world that thinks we’re just so special here in the U.S.
If Barack Obama wants to apologize for something that America has done, he doesn’t have to go back that far and he might start right here, with a statement and two phone calls, one to Alaska and one to his Secretary of State.
And, if it really matters, one to David Smut Mouth Letterman.
Final note: Notice nobody’s joking about Todd Palin? I know I wouldn’t. But, then, I guess girls can’t hit back. It’s not ‘ladylike.’
IndieDogg on June 10, 2009 at 12:28 PM
I am proud to say I have never watched this “man’s” show.
txag92 on June 10, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Says the sheet of store brand toilet paper.
LibTired (KO) on June 10, 2009 at 12:30 PM
Those comments are so insulting, unfunny and unnecessary. I have stopped watching his show a long time ago when his show gone way downhill. Looking at his ratings, many other people are doing the same.
bayview on June 10, 2009 at 12:30 PM
You know Letterman really, really, really wants to call Palin a c–t, but like I said in the original thread yesterday, he’s probably going to save that bon mot of pithy wit for the 2012 election cycle.
jon1979 on June 10, 2009 at 12:30 PM
I have confirmation from Olbermann.
fogw on June 10, 2009 at 12:30 PM
if the MSM is any indication, we are slouching towards ROme and the left is determined to take us there
jp on June 10, 2009 at 12:30 PM
Idiot, didn’t Hillary get upset when some left wing news commentator talked about “prostituting Chelsea Clinton” during the Primaries? There are some places you just don’t go when you are attacking people, even if you can’t stand their political views.
DL13 on June 10, 2009 at 12:31 PM
Thanks for the #, just called and gave my opinion. I got a live voice after being on hold for several minutes. If they are getting bombarded, the voice mail will probably be set up within the hour.
sherry on June 10, 2009 at 12:31 PM
This gap-toothed twit is such an ass. No wonder his ratings are in the toilet. I am calling all the advertisers listed above today along with CBS HQ to voice my disgust.
Norwegian on June 10, 2009 at 12:31 PM
Letterman has turned into a giant bag of douche.
And to think I liked him back in the day.
toliver on June 10, 2009 at 12:32 PM
Only in America can you become a millionaire due to nothing more than being a smartass.
BacaDog on June 10, 2009 at 12:32 PM
He’s just cranky because Bill Paxton won’t give him any.
And I doubt we’ll have the same fun as with Ace on this. O’Reilly will probably call us out on it.
Savrielle on June 10, 2009 at 12:32 PM
Three for three?
I think Letterman will go for it..
It’s all him phoning it in anyway.
DaveC on June 10, 2009 at 12:32 PM
The C4P post has info about Letterman’s advertisers. please take time to email and call them to put pressure on CBS to cancel Letterman or at the minimum, issue an apology. Tell them that you’ll boycott their business otherwise. Thank You.
promachus on June 10, 2009 at 12:32 PM
Letterman is using valuble oxygen which could be better used for burning garbage.
angus mcbeemer on June 10, 2009 at 12:33 PM
John Cole, to his credit (and no, I didn’t think I’d ever that phrase again) bitchslapped Letterman on his blog. And the majority of his commenters thought he was being stupid and that the Palins deserved any and all crap, including jokes about someone knocking up their underage daughter. I haven’t checked to see the response to yesterday’s bilge from Letterman, but I’m willing to bet that they’re still wiping away the tears of laughter.
Physics Geek on June 10, 2009 at 12:33 PM
They’re trying to make her think that the cost to her family of her running for president would be too high. As a mother, I can empathize — I would be very, very hesitant to expose my children to this kind of poison for several more years. If she backs down for the kids’ sake, she’ll be played as a weak woman. But if her family says, “Go for it Mom. We can take it,” the media will play her as a bad mom for knowing what kind of abuse was in store for her moppets and doing it anyway. The blame will not fall on Letterman and other abusers for the abuse. It will somehow fall on Sarah for not running away and hiding.
aero on June 10, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Haven’t watched him in years… I just emailed the prick. What with him saying that about a 14 year old, especially with the latest Playboy piece. These people are pathetic..
cbsmailbag@aol.com
reshas1 on June 10, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Really funny stuff coming from a guy who looks like the pervert uncle you don’t want to leave alone with the kids.
PaddyJ on June 10, 2009 at 12:34 PM
BIll O’reilly didn’t have the testicular fortitude to call him a Pinhead last night. He told the audience to make up their minds. Well, I have. Bill, if you actually had the morals and ethics you claim to have, you would have been a man and called Letterman a Pinhead. You just want to curry favor and keep your mug on the network talk shows.
kingsjester on June 10, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Foget the obvious double standard practiced by our “elite”, how does anyone get away with smearing any young person? This is a sad thing that we invite into our homes on a daily basis.
Cindy Munford on June 10, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Dave should balance things out with a joke about the failed plot to kidnap his son…
mjbrooks3 on June 10, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Too bad she missed you Dave
oldernwiser on June 10, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Off course Letterman would not be relevant if no one watched him, yet millions of idiots turn to late night TV every night to get their information. When McCain went on the show I lost all respect for him and my respect dropped for Palin when she went on SNL. Until we get politics out of late night and the comedy channel and people engage their brain we will end up with more of the same in Washington. As they say: The thermometer does not make the temperature it just shows it.
dpierson on June 10, 2009 at 12:36 PM
This was vile. Attacks from the left have continue to become more heinous and hateful over the last year. Remember when it was just the looney left on DailyKos and HuffPo that tried to say Trig was Bristol’s kid with Todd. The left wing media wrote that off as just some kooks. Here is Letterman, an avowed liberal and Democrat, cracking more sexually perverted jokes about Palin’s daughters. And nothing but silence. Lets see someone make jokes about Micheal Jackson and Letterman’s kid and see how long it takes the left to cry foul.
Wolftech on June 10, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Was this a pathetic attempt to divert attention away from Conan O’Brien’s show? He sells his soul and reputation to cannibalize the competition. He knew the outrage would get 24/7 coverage for at least three or four days. What a pig.
sherry on June 10, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Waiting for the Sasha and Malia jokes in 5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . never.
No wonder Dave’s ratings have fallen.
rbj on June 10, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Sarah should go on his show and rip him a new one. By the time she finishes twisting him into a pretzel every mother in America would be a Palin fan. Dave would end up wandering around the stage looking for his balls.
fogw
Strongly disagree. All that would do is boost his sagging ratings. The governor can smack that slimey turd down in a different venue. Maybe on the Tonight Show? That would be a double smack-down. Todd needs to step up and break that SOB’s nose. One punch will do. Gets the point across.
SKYFOX on June 10, 2009 at 12:36 PM
I hope that sponsors list is correct, because I’m contacting them as of now.
ChristianRock on June 10, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Apparently he does every morning.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20267488,00.html
1sttofight on June 10, 2009 at 12:36 PM
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