Video: Letterman non-apologizes to Palin; Update: McCain scolds Letterman
posted at 2:42 pm on June 11, 2009 by Allahpundit
I had a few long moments of panic after publishing last night’s post when I considered that Entertainment Weekly might have taken him out of context. Surely he didn’t really defend himself by saying he only meant to call Bristol a whore, not Willow. Except … he did, as you’re about to see. No apology, either; the closest we get is an admission that he “probably” regrets having told those jokes — which are duly repeated here in their entirety — but only after admitting that he “kind of likes” the one comparing Palin herself to a “slutty flight attendant.” On some basic level he doesn’t understand what the problem is here (e.g., comparing Spitzer and Alex Rodriguez, each of whom sought fame, to Bristol, who didn’t), and no wonder: Much of the left’s derision towards Palin and her daughter stems from the perception that they’re white trash, a class-oriented smear which Dave naturally figured he could mine for a few safe slut/whore jokes at their expense. Imagine his mystification at suddenly finding out that he can’t. Evidently it’s not just cultured, well educated, progressive girls like the Obama sisters who are off-limits for cheap shots.
Sounds like the ‘Cuda’s done playing nice with him after this. Exit quotation from the governor’s spokesman: “The Palins have no intention of providing a rating’s boost for David Letterman by appearing on his show. Plus, it would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman.”
Update: A mild rebuke from Maverick, but better than saying nothing at all.
Republican Senator John McCain has a message for late-night comic David Letterman: Enough with the jokes about Sarah Palin and her family…
“I don’t understand why Letterman would say that about a young woman,” McCain said during a telephone interview on Thursday. “They (the Palins) deserve some kind of protection from being the butt of late-night hosts.”
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The bad thing is the clapping, laughing, stupid crowd. They just keep feeding the monkey. I’m boycotting NYC!!
redwhiteblue on June 11, 2009 at 3:10 PM
so this is how Letterman career ends…
runner on June 11, 2009 at 3:10 PM
That’s what Saddam said when they pulled him out of that hole in the ground.
“Come on guys, it was joke, no?”
portlandon on June 11, 2009 at 3:11 PM
Are jokes considered exceptions under federal “hate speech” laws?
JohnJ on June 11, 2009 at 3:11 PM
What the idiot doesn’t realize is that it wasn’t Bristol in NY with her mother. It was Willow, the 14-year-old.
Enoxo on June 11, 2009 at 3:11 PM
I think jokers and clowns in Zimbabwe and North Korea can explain how that works..
the_nile on June 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM
I agree that Letterman deserves the 2009 equivalent of tar and feathers, but I just don’t think the way to reply is by making what amounts to another “Willow as potential object of sexual assault” joke. I believe that the parents’ objective should be (and probably is) to declares all such discussion 100% out-of-bounds for now and forever period amen.
CK MacLeod on June 11, 2009 at 3:13 PM
The defense of a coward when defending his words:
“they’re just jokes”
apparently you put the “joke” disclaimer on it and you can say anything.
Scrappy on June 11, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Kicked, nothing. I’d be more concerned about about the aim of any of the Palin women, and what firearms they are proficient with.
Count to 10 on June 11, 2009 at 3:14 PM
The Top 10 Reasons David Letterman has turned into a bitter old coot.
10. Still can’t get over the fact he didn’t get the Tonight Show.
9. Has to get up several times a night to pee.
8. He’s got the only show on any network that is actually trailing NBC in the ratings.
7. His son Harry won’t eat his peas.
6. Having a hard time getting his tri-focal prescription filled.
5. His tighty whities are way too tight.
4. Running joke he had for the last eight years is no longer relevant, and he’s got nothing else.
3. Had his sunny disposition surgically removed.
2. Rupert stopped honoring his “buy eight sandwiches, get one free” card.
1. Lactose intolerence.
jjverdi on June 11, 2009 at 3:14 PM
QOTD
repvoter on June 11, 2009 at 3:14 PM
Considering there are probably 10,000 comments on HotAir calling her and her family that which you tacitly endorsed, where on earth would people get that idea???
Blake on June 11, 2009 at 3:14 PM
The world may be ugly, each man must do what he must
Give in lecherous Letterman, in a year you will be dust
Now come let our Lady of Justice possess you
In her breathtaking, hair-raising bed
She will tingle your spine
As she captures your heart and your head
Sing, swing
Savour the sting
As she severs you
Slice, come pedophiles paradise
Our Delilah will shave you razor clean
PercyB on June 11, 2009 at 3:15 PM
That’s pretty weak. She has three daughters….why would we conclude he was talking about Bristol when she wasn’t the one in NY? Just b/c she got pregnant? I think its obvious he and other media/celebrity douchebags see the Palins as white trash, so its not a stretch to conclude he was talking about the 14 year old, the one who was actually in NY.
changer1701 on June 11, 2009 at 3:15 PM
I’ve hated Letterman for 20 years. Nice to see so many folks finally catching up with me.
And yes: he always was like this. You just didn’t want to notice.
fivefeetoffury on June 11, 2009 at 3:15 PM
Waiting for the jokes about the Obama girls.
they are clean and articulate…
oprockwell on June 11, 2009 at 3:16 PM
Waiting for the jokes about the Obama girls.
they are clean and articulate…
oprockwell on June 11, 2009 at 3:16 PM
I suppose I should feel sorry for little Harry for having David and Regina for parents, but I won’t….
ZoneDaiatlas on June 11, 2009 at 3:17 PM
Because he told a joke about a daughter of Sarah Palin who was knocked up. And most people know that one of Sarah Palin’s daughters was knocked up last year. Unless you read press releases from the Governor’s Office or watch Greta, you probably didn’t know or cared who she went to a ballgame with, aheard that joke and thought of Bristol Palin.
YYZ on June 11, 2009 at 3:17 PM
Dave started to phone it in almost 20 years ago. He never really made the move to 11:30 successfully. Here he tries to be a little bit edgy but his writers are too lazy to check which daughter is travelling with the Governor.
The “flight attendant” joke is fair game, but he should leave her daughters out of it. He should also try making his monologue funny. Other hosts manage to.
dedalus on June 11, 2009 at 3:18 PM
Once again, Letterman’s humor demonstrates how he earned the title of “The Bride’s Maid of Late Night Talk Shows”.
But don’t worry Dave, when Conan retires in say 15-20 years, I’m sure you’ll have a shot at the big time…unless Gary Coleman’s career is revived.
Chill Dave, it’s only a joke!
Catseye on June 11, 2009 at 3:18 PM
The aimlessly rambling 100-word sentence sarah released yesterday certainly won’t do much to dispel her public image as an intellectual lightweight.
Of course you can wait a couple weeks, then blame it on Tina Fey!
benny shakar on June 11, 2009 at 3:19 PM
OK everybody, Letterman has the key . . . if you want to use hateful demeaning language just say it’s a joke. This bum is as sick as his jokes.
rplat on June 11, 2009 at 3:19 PM
This old geezer is done. Get him off the show.
jencab on June 11, 2009 at 3:19 PM
He can’t even bring himself to recognize that he made a mistake in assuming which of their daughters was actually at the Yankees game that he used as the premise of his joke.
Until he does, he’s lying trhough his teeth about which daughter the joke was about.
Scrappy on June 11, 2009 at 3:19 PM
Just another old pedofile comedian hasbeen.
rich801 on June 11, 2009 at 3:20 PM
They know exactly what they did , the like to attack Palin children. And then come up with lame excuses.
They’re liberals.
the_nile on June 11, 2009 at 3:20 PM
Letterman’s no longer funny, but he still tries to play funny on TV. Unfortunately, I think he’ll survive this. He plays to Obama’s base, so naturally he’s too big to fail.
ROCnPhilly on June 11, 2009 at 3:21 PM
You think examples just as bad as that one couldn’t be found from ANY politician? Hell, there are dozens as bad or worse from the current VP in just the few months he’s been in office.
Scrappy on June 11, 2009 at 3:22 PM
So if Letterman didn’t make a sexual joke about a child of a politician he wouldn’t be in trouble now. Got it.
portlandon on June 11, 2009 at 3:22 PM
benny shakar on June 11, 2009 at 3:19 PM
That’s funny, Benny. If you can’t defend the indefensible, then attack the person that’s already been attacked.
kingsjester on June 11, 2009 at 3:22 PM
Oh…he realizes who it was…but just as Team Obama teaches…just keep repeating something and it will become the truth. 2 + 2 = 5
redwhiteblue on June 11, 2009 at 3:22 PM
Me. I immediately thought of Willow because only Willow accompanied Todd and Sarah on this trip.
Tough. When you and your fellow liberals get offended at anything, you immediately protest and cry and whine until the target of your seething hatred is removed.
We’re taking our cue from you and the left. For too long, conservatives laughed at the jokes directed at us and didn’t fight back, for a variety of reasons. One huge reason is that we don’t know how to protest and organize and boycott; that’s your domain, YYZ. But, in this new era of “change”, it’s high time we conservatives stop rolling with the punches and actually start punching back. Thank God Gov. Palin is a fighter.
yogi41 on June 11, 2009 at 3:22 PM
My suggestion: Just require Letterman to make a joke on his next show about his own son involuntarily becoming a member of NAMBLA…
…and then fire him.
*********
For the rest of us: here’s where you can let the station know what you think of Letterman…
http://www.cbs.com/info/user_services/fb_global_form.php
Lockstein13 on June 11, 2009 at 3:23 PM
if you want intellectual, then Joe Biden is your man !
runner on June 11, 2009 at 3:23 PM
Ah, this is the video I mentioned in another thread. So insincere, but, hey, at least it gave him a chance to repeat those jokes once more. In the end, I’m sure that’s all the really matters…at least, to him.
Heresy of Cain on June 11, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Having a big gap between his two incisors must made lying through his teeth easy.
bayview on June 11, 2009 at 3:25 PM
At least Dave and his ho let their bastard be born rather than having it hacked up in utero on the pitcher’s mound during the seventh inning stretch.
I’m just joking! Ha ha!
Akzed on June 11, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Considering there are probably 10,000 comments on HotAir calling her and her family that which you tacitly endorsed, where on earth would people get that idea???
Blake
While I believe AP is a fool and a tool, I don’t think he is in any way responsible for creating the atmosphere of hate directed at the Palin family. Many well-known media and hollywoood/new york types are far more culpable. AP’s sin is mostly just snarky condescension. The like-minded Palin bashers would be thus no matter what. AP gives them an opportunity to bash as much as he gives us an opportunity to defend. I don’t think he actually influences anything other than mild indigestion.
SKYFOX on June 11, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Letterman is creepy on sexism. That’s a matter of lazy comedy.
Target the easy prey.
He did that all last year, but because it was HILLARY, nobody complained.
AnninCA on June 11, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Which they’re doing by reminding everybody what the joke was really about. It’s not a “Willow as potential object of sexual assault” joke, it’s a “Letterman will stoop to anything to attack the Palins, even if it means talking about Willow getting knocked up” joke.
Jim Treacher on June 11, 2009 at 3:26 PM
Every mother has been “knocked up”, as you so eloquently put it — yours too, right? Everyone who saw the game or who watched the NY news with Rudy featured knew who was there. If you’re saying Letterman and his viewers are too stupid and isolated to know what everyone else knows, perhaps that much is true — I’ll have to take your word for it. Trashing a female governor and her female children in this way is disgusting and no laughing matter to all decent people.
littleguy on June 11, 2009 at 3:26 PM
It’s still arguably offensive. But it’s not a joke about rape.
YYZ on June 11, 2009 at 3:26 PM
I guess if POTUS can’t finish a sentence without 50 Uhmms and Ahhs then he is an intellectual lightweight also.
dpierson on June 11, 2009 at 3:26 PM
benny shakar on June 11, 2009 at 3:19 PM
Very little wrong with that statement at all. I suppose Jane Austen, Henry James, or F Scott Fitzgerald might have improved on it, but the grammar, punctuation, and, most important, the clarity of expression are all fine. How would the troll who thinks there’s something obviously wrong with it re-write it?
Here it is again:
What’s wrong with it? Put up or shut up.
CK MacLeod on June 11, 2009 at 3:27 PM
Perhaps, but were any of those jokes about Chelsea?
Scrappy on June 11, 2009 at 3:27 PM
Yep. Motivation is kind of important here. Malignant intent wearing camo.
a capella on June 11, 2009 at 3:27 PM
I honestly would “go here, except I don’t think that way. But I would dearly love a good, nasty, hard-core joke to post.
Let them ban me.
Alas, I probably am just to much of a geek type to even think up one!
AnninCA on June 11, 2009 at 3:28 PM
Please tell us more about how hilarious child-rape is.
Jim Treacher on June 11, 2009 at 3:29 PM
WHO just labeled the Swine Flu a pandemic. Expect intellectual gian Joe “J-O-B-S is a 3 letter word” Biden to announce a nationwide boycott of Amtrak.
Norwegian on June 11, 2009 at 3:29 PM
The only one of the Palins’ daughters who was on the trip to New York, was Willow, the 14 year old, hence no one who heard his jokes could have reasonably assumed them to be about Bristol, the 18 year old, and if they had it would still do little to change the mean spirited vileness of the lame attempts at humor. I find it quite revealing that, with the party which now possesses nearly unchallengeable political power offering up daily multiple humor opportunities which are almost prewritten, liberal “entertainers” can only find topical jokes in the life and family of the failed VP candidate of the last election. Of course they feel they must continue to highlight what an inappropriate choice for a VP candidate Gov. Palin was, because of her lack of intellectual skills, unlike, say, our present VP Mr. Biden, who is obviously just biding his his time for his selection to The Mental Giants’ Hall of Fame.
djaces on June 11, 2009 at 3:29 PM
ROFL…ouch! Fire with fire. I think the Palins have had enough. I know I have.
The statement was perfectly understandable, and clearer than your messiah’s doublespeak festivals.
The tactic is becoming counterproductive, benny.
ddrintn on June 11, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Interesting trend here:
Chelsea Clinton – off limits
The Bush girls – fair game
Obama’s daughter’s – off limits
Palin’s daughter’s – fair game
Anyone recognize a pattern?
Scrappy on June 11, 2009 at 3:31 PM
I quess you have never heard the “joke” about Bill, Hillary, Monica and the camel.
MB4 on June 11, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Yeah, there was one dust-up. Mostly, Hillary took it in the chin.
That is the primary reason I voted for McCain. That’s the primary reason I’m no longer Democrat.
I voted 30 years. Democrat.
I refuse to back the sexism I saw.
I don’t even LIKE Palin’s positions, so far, but I’m still furious.
Oh well, like anything really is going to change here in my lifetime?
I fully admit. This is an issue that just make me nuts.
I’m not reasonable.
AnninCA on June 11, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Nice try, but once you pose for the cover of People Magazine, it’s safe to say that you’re seeking fame.
I originally thought Letterman had crossed the line, since I foolishly believed you folks when you said that he was referring to Willow. When I actually listened to the joke, it was clearly about Bristol.
Bristol is an adult who has put herself in the limelight (and/or allowed her mother to do so). She’s fair game. Now do I think the jokes are appropriate? Not really – I sure wouldnt have said them if I was in Letterman’s place. But this level of outrage is ridiculous.
Plenty of people have made worse jokes about Hillary Clinton or Janet Reno and when the left complains, all I hear from the right is “They have no sense of humor! They cant take a joke!”
Well, just remember this incident the next time that happens.
orange on June 11, 2009 at 3:32 PM
Yes we can.
the_nile on June 11, 2009 at 3:32 PM
The people who watch Letterman don’t know and don’t care about the ages of the Palin daughters. All they know is one of them got pregnant recently and then suddenly became a paid supporter for the abstinence movement.
Blame him for making a cheap, easy, and pointless joke about someone who has no influence on politics just because her mother might run for President in 3 years. But he wasn’t directing toward a 14 year old who has never been pregnant and wasn’t even in the news.
Speedwagon82 on June 11, 2009 at 3:32 PM
The only joke is Letterman’s integrity. It’s one thing to take a potshot at Sarah Palin, which is expected from the left-wing, but it’s another to make offensive comments about a politician’s family. I bet the same people defending this are the same people who were outraged with Rush Limbaugh when he made a crack about Chelsea Clinton being the White House dog.
Shock the Monkey on June 11, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Not really, no. “Knocked up” generally refers to out of wedlock pregnancies.
YYZ on June 11, 2009 at 3:33 PM
If that were true, she’s not a moral imbecile like Letterman has proven himself to be.
Speaking of intellectual lightweights, what’s an inhalator?
Akzed on June 11, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Don’t tell us, tell Willow.
Jim Treacher on June 11, 2009 at 3:33 PM
AnninCA on June 11, 2009 at 3:34 PM
When will you make a remark that will dispel the popular image here of you being nothing but a dimwitted douchebag?
changer1701 on June 11, 2009 at 3:34 PM
So it’s okay to say anything we want about Obama’s children.
Jim Treacher on June 11, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Couldn’t have said it better…
repvoter on June 11, 2009 at 3:35 PM
But Letterman talked about an unname daughter getting knocked up by Alex Rodriguez at the Yankees game. Bristol wasn’t at the Yankees game, Willow was.
And since when is teenage pregnancy a joke? How many jokes did have Letterman and his ilk made about Obama being the product of an adulterous relationship between his mother and his father when his mother was merely 17 years old? Crickets???
Or is the “comical” issue having children out of wedlock. Like Letterman did?
People who had been paying attention to Palin’s trip and knew that she was travelling with Willow?
Especially when you add the slimy insinuation that she’s a prostitute.
Give me a break.
And what did Letterman intend? To ridicule at politician he reviles by attacking her children and by calling her ‘slutty’.
Ha. Ha. Ha.
How much does he get paid for this sh*t, and why doesn’t Obama put a cap on HIS salary?
ProfessorMiao on June 11, 2009 at 3:35 PM
It’s not an image, it’s a fact
dpierson on June 11, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Only if you are a kick-back to the 1950′s, is Bristol “fair game.”
Give me a break.
AnninCA on June 11, 2009 at 3:36 PM
You miss the point , this was a personal attack on Palin , and a pledge to Obama.
the_nile on June 11, 2009 at 3:36 PM
What they’ll say is, “Well it costs too much money,” but you know what? It would cost, about… It — it — it would cost about the same as what we would spend… It… Over the course of 10 years it would cost what it would costs us… (nervous laugh) All right. Okay. We’re going to… It… It would cost us about the same as it would cost for about — hold on one second. I can’t hear myself. But I’m glad you’re fired up, though. I’m glad. Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed, it costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early and they got some treatment, and a, a breathalyzer, or inhalator, not a breathalyzer. (crowd laughing) I haven’t had much sleep in the last 48 hours.
[END OF BRAINIAC'S OFF-PROMPTER ADVENTURE]
Akzed on June 11, 2009 at 3:36 PM
She was 17 when the Kos Kiddy types started to go after her. Try again.
ddrintn on June 11, 2009 at 3:36 PM
Again… to make a fair comparison you’d have to be tallking about Chelsea jokes back when she was a kid. And as I recall those were strictly off limits.
And you just remember this incident the next time around too OK?
Scrappy on June 11, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Nail on the head.
ROCnPhilly on June 11, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Letterman knocked up his girlfriend (at least he wants us to believe it was him).
Akzed on June 11, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Better put some ice on that Dave.
MarkTheGreat on June 11, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Strangely enough, though we don’t hear many jokes about Obama’s mom having been a “knocked-up slut”.
ddrintn on June 11, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Excellent Dylan quote. The sun’s not yellow, it’s chicken.
And so is Letterman.
DeweyWins on June 11, 2009 at 3:40 PM
There is a big difference between ridiculing a politician in office or running for office, and ridiculing their children. If you can’t figure that out, you have a serious problem with reasoning and morality.
Loxodonta on June 11, 2009 at 3:40 PM
substitute the name Barack Obama for Sarah Palin and tell how funny your ‘alex rodriguez knocked up his daugther in the 7th inning’ joke is Dave.
what a dick.
DrW on June 11, 2009 at 3:40 PM
Yeah, nice try indeed. Every woman who’s appeared in a magazine or on TV is now fair game for any has-been pervert, eh? Nonetheless, He didn’t care which daughter it was, and you know it. Perhaps you should email the perv expressing your loving support — no doubt he’s lusting for it right now.
littleguy on June 11, 2009 at 3:40 PM
The mere fact that Shakar doesn’t even understand what Palin is CLEARLY conveying is proof that the liberals are the problem here.
It is just astonishing that liberals think children can be the object of tasteless “jokes”. The fact that these “jokes” are very mean spirited and they find them “funny” is just further proof that our society, overall, has just degraded from being a polite, let’s be nice to each other, kind of culture.
Does Letterman EVER say anything funny in his jokes where he is not directly defiling someone else in any way? No. All of his so called jokes are at the expense of others. This is why Leno killed him for 17 years in the ratings. Leno made fun of SITUATIONS, Letterman makes fun of people, mostly tradition, conservative type of people.
And would Letterman make fun of any other GOVERNOR’S attire? Well probably not, because I can’t think of any other female governor in the US who is as attractive as Sarah. So because conservative women are fair game to libtards like Letterman, he has to demean her by calling her a slut. This man is just an over the hill has been troll.
Sarah’s statement about keeping Willow away from him is the best press release smack down I have ever read. You go girl!!
karenhasfreedom on June 11, 2009 at 3:40 PM
No ,Obama told Letterman his family was off-limits..
the_nile on June 11, 2009 at 3:41 PM
do you know any jokes about obama’s mama ?
runner on June 11, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Really? So it’s okay for a 60+ year old man to make sex jokes about an 18 year old woman now?
Slublog on June 11, 2009 at 3:42 PM
This is the most gracious interpretation of his ungracious pseudoapology and the one he is trying to sell, but I have seen nothing to suggest that he deserves such graciousness from those he has offended.
You take him at his word that he never intended to imply that the 14-year old was engaging in sex, but the fact remains that the 14-year old was the only daughter at the game.
I frankly find it odd that the “joke” didn’t refer to the daughter by name, given that Bristol’s name is well known. In that light, a less gracious and equally plausible interpretation is that Letterman was in fact implying that Willow is a promiscuous slut, like her mother and her older sister.
ProfessorMiao on June 11, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Yeah. After all, they “allowed” their parents to put them in the spotlight.
ddrintn on June 11, 2009 at 3:43 PM
This whole “but he meant Bristol” line of defense from you libs is creepy and worse than “it depends on what the definition of is is.
NebCon on June 11, 2009 at 3:43 PM
14 year old girl + 34 year old Yankee = statutory Rape.
14 year old girl + 50 year old NY Governor = statutory Rape.
Defending Rape jokes = mental disorder
portlandon on June 11, 2009 at 3:44 PM
Watch Conan O’Brien. He’s more funny anyway.
jjrakman on June 11, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Proof that Palin criticism is deranged projection of mental deficiency.
econavenger on June 11, 2009 at 3:46 PM
CBS apparently maintains that if you go to New York to make an appearance for a worthy cause, you should be prepared to have yourself and your daughter annihilated with degrading sex jokes by a powerful media figure on national television.
jay12 on June 11, 2009 at 3:46 PM
Here, let me explain the rules to you, as practiced by the liberal elites. Obama’s mom was a bohemian intellectual with an exotic penchant for various Muslim men….that transends sluttiness.
CarolynM on June 11, 2009 at 3:46 PM
+1000
ProfessorMiao on June 11, 2009 at 3:46 PM
I don’t watch any of them. They’re all cut from the same cloth anyway.
ddrintn on June 11, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Letterman has been boring for a long time. The guy’s a dinosaur.
jdflorida on June 11, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Letterman’s joke makes no sense using Bristol and A-rod during the 7th inning at a game she didn’t attend. It isn’t even coherent. You’re trying to give him cover by attacking Bristol. It doesn’t fly because it creates a false context in the way he introduced the joke. I shouldn’t even be calling it a joke. It wasn’t.
a capella on June 11, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Who’s he trying to kid? He took great relish in these jokes. Watch and you’ll see how he builds up to them, knowing what he’s doing and where they’re going and just loving it. Every political joke he told that night was directed against conservatives and their family. He knows all he has to do is a lame ‘apology’ like this and he’s off the hook.
Mr A on June 11, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Really? It’s crude slang for pregnant everywhere I know of. What street did you hang around?
littleguy on June 11, 2009 at 3:48 PM
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