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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Good grief. What’s your problem with men?
ladyingray on June 11, 2009 at 5:18 PM
He’s probably waiting outside Letterman’s TV studio… With his favorite Louisville slugger… Batter up………………
doriangrey on June 11, 2009 at 5:20 PM
My best guess botched trans gender operation.
Dr Evil on June 11, 2009 at 5:20 PM
lol
SouthernGal on June 11, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Hmmmmm.
How dare she not have an abortion instead? The nerve of that baby-haver!!!
hillbillyjim on June 11, 2009 at 5:20 PM
And Southern Gal, I mean it seriously. There are lots of reasons women have abortions. It doesn’t make you a monster. But when a woman loses a child she loses a part of herself. If she can grieve what was lost and forgive herself, her past loses its power over what she thinks and feels and how she responds to seeing happy, healthy families.
If that’s not what you’re dealing with, I apologize. If it is, please know that you don’t have to carry that burden with you forever. There is forgiveness for everyone who acknowledges what they’ve done wrong. There is also healing for those who can grieve and receive the same grace that every last one of us needs in order to stay afloat.
justincase on June 11, 2009 at 5:21 PM
The comments on this thread are funnier than Letterman Jokes…maybe he needs new writers?
Dr Evil on June 11, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Are you saying she had a choice? What would her mother think!
SouthernGal on June 11, 2009 at 5:21 PM
She’s a gay man trapped the the body of a gay man who cant get laid even with a fist full of
pardonscures for AIDS in a San Fransicko bathhouse.doriangrey on June 11, 2009 at 5:22 PM
This is where I get confused. You say you’re pro choice, but condemn this girl for having her baby…which was probably…her choice, by her upbringing. So she’s hated for making the WRONG choice, according to you? Why is it, that it seems, most people that say they’re pro choice, don’t really offer any choice, but abortion?
And the way you speak, and offer your judgement of this girl….isn’t that what you accuse the right of being? Judgemental, religous zealots? You sound just like that.
capejasmine on June 11, 2009 at 5:22 PM
The lameness of that is mind boggling…do you think every mother knows that her 18 year old daughter had an abortion?
ladyingray on June 11, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Ding ding ding ding…we have a winner.
Careful pointing out the hypocrisy, it hurts their eyeballs.
Thunderstorm129 on June 11, 2009 at 5:24 PM
You should probably stick to three-letter responses, yes. Here’s one your cerebral cortex just sent out: SOS.
Jim Treacher on June 11, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Ah but you see…pro-choice is just the word that is used in public…in private, it’s pro-abortion.
ladyingray on June 11, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Pro choice means choosing to murder your own children.
doriangrey on June 11, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Obviously, in your sad little mind she made the wrong choice, that damnable baby-having baby-haver.
You’re the one who spat out “baby-having” as a condemnation. Now defend it or STFU.
hillbillyjim on June 11, 2009 at 5:26 PM
That’s true pro choice means Get an Abortion ,it doesn’t mean Abortion is an option. It means the person is irresponsible if they bring life into the world because that’s a bad thing to do….just ask Barack H Obama’s Mom oh sorry you can’t.
Dr Evil on June 11, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Sweet_Thang on June 11, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Pro-abortion is a coping mechanism. It’s actually tremendously sad.
I’ll never forget when I was in junior high doing research for a persuasive speech on abortion. I read a magazine article where a bunch of pro-aborts gathered outside an abortion clinic and watched an aborted 7-month-old baby struggling to survive in front of them all. There was a huge cheer as the baby finally gave up and died.
That was woman empowerment. Joycelyn Elders said every woman should have an abortion so she could feel her power, her freedom.
It’s a sad, sad condition. I’ll say it again: denial is a b!tch, and it makes b!tches out of previously alive, previously vibrant women.
justincase on June 11, 2009 at 5:28 PM
http://www.firedavidletterman.com
reshas1 on June 11, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Yes I did. What are you gonna do about it?
SouthernGal on June 11, 2009 at 5:30 PM
A banner day for SouthernGal. She’s getting more attention here than in her real life.
Unfortunately, the back and forth with a troll makes for dull reading.
CarolynM on June 11, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Some people value human life, even *gasp* men.
Your comment smacks of such a small world-view it’s mind boggling.
BakerAllie on June 11, 2009 at 5:32 PM
And with Sarah flying over in a chopper with her rifle.
miron on June 11, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Pro-Choice means, “I’m a promiscuous slut and I don’t want to be held responsible for my actions.” Male, Female, or It. It fits.
PappaMac on June 11, 2009 at 5:32 PM
The cue cards made him do it.
viking01 on June 11, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Already done. Exposed you for the hypocritical double-talking sad sad person that you are. You have my pity.
hillbillyjim on June 11, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Well – you’d know – you’re a liberal.
HondaV65 on June 11, 2009 at 5:33 PM
http://www.firedavidletterman.com
reshas1 on June 11, 2009 at 5:28 PM
I think it is better to leave him on air, and watch his ratings drop even lower…just saying, instead of being fired so he can lauded it on his cocktail party circuit, it’s better if he gets replaced by someone with funnier comedy writers.
Dr Evil on June 11, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Yep, pretty much describes Bristol Palin!
SouthernGal on June 11, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Besides after Imus took CBS to court over his contract I think they are shy of firing folks it cost them lots of money….and viewers.
Dr Evil on June 11, 2009 at 5:37 PM
CNN whats the big deal it was a harmless joke ?
Us conspiracy theorists are just being uppidity.
William Amos on June 11, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Ridiculous position built on a bunch of assumptions on your part. You can see this, can’t you? You “don’t think” she had a choice. Yet you really don’t know, do you? You just assume something, then attack. You then assume something else on top of your previous assumption. And then you yet again assume what the father was thinking. This is rich. Your intellectual dishonesty is glaring.
Thunderstorm129 on June 11, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Please don’t ever quit posting. You are a shining beacon on a tall hill….for everything that you abhor. Thanks.
hillbillyjim on June 11, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Oh you don’t want to get banned already do you? You just got back on.
Dr Evil on June 11, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Classy.
I’m noticing a trend with you.
HondaV65 on June 11, 2009 at 5:39 PM
I did call and complain today simply stated he is no longer entertaining the only amusement I will get from his show is watching his numbers decline.
Czarina on June 11, 2009 at 5:39 PM
More judging. Wow! You must have really messed up in your life, if you feel the need to sit above everyone, and judge others. It’s always those most guilty, that yell the loudest at the guilt of others.
capejasmine on June 11, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Denial is a slutty flight attendant.
Ronnie on June 11, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Well … Southern Gal is NOT a “Southern Gal”. I should know – I’m a “Southern Guy”. More likely Southergal is a dude in his basement somewhere in the San Jose Valley.
This is what liberal trolls do – sign up and pollute conservative blogs – acting like they’re conservative but never saying anything conservative – and always hating.
HondaV65 on June 11, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Quite the contrary, darlin. We simply want equality, when it comes to mean spirited, hateful jokes, such as this. If demeaning jokes were made toward any woman, I would be angry, and outraged. In my opinion, this is a non partisan issue. It’s a womans issue. For you though…it’s very partisan.
capejasmine on June 11, 2009 at 5:42 PM
FIFY
doriangrey on June 11, 2009 at 5:44 PM
It’s un-PC comedy. Lighten up.
SouthernGal on June 11, 2009 at 5:45 PM
How many lovers has Bristol had sweet sweet BaJesus we are aware of one partner and it is none of our buisness yet she is labled a slut good god those who consider her a whore are nasty pieces of work.
Furthermore have ya seen America today according to the standards of the trolls the general female population is compiled of “biatches and hoes” good grief the only thing the sexual revolution has provided for woman is degredation by the same people who proclaimed to free them.
Czarina on June 11, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Yep, if Palin was playing on your team, she would have dragged the girl to the local chop-shop and had the “problem” done away with. That’s the “choice” you’d have given her, right? BTW, you are that blood-thirsty getalife, aren’t you?
littleguy on June 11, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Tell that to the lefties who flipped out over the Nancygalore RNC ad.
William Amos on June 11, 2009 at 5:47 PM
I’m outraged!
crr6 on June 11, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Yup, you sure are.
doriangrey on June 11, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Southern Gal, it is true that many young women don’t make their own choice about birth or abortion. A large majority of women make the choice to abort because a parent, boyfriend, or counselor pressures them into it. There is a lot of pressure from them before the abortion, but usually the woman herself is the one who has to live with the consequences the most deeply. And it is painful, beyond what most people could imagine, because the woman is NOT a monster. She is a hurting, desperate person looking for support and often only getting pressure.
If that’s you, please know you’re not alone and that a lot of us really, really grieve for the situations where the loving family isn’t there to support a woman in desperate circumstances. A lot of people failed you. What you did was understandable even if it wasn’t good. Nobody wants to crucify you for it, but we don’t want that past to kill you either – the part of you that loves and is loved.
Again, if this isn’t you then please forgive me for suggesting it. I just don’t want to leave the hope unsaid.
justincase on June 11, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Great … lighten up here about a rape joke aimed at a 14 year old. Classy Southern Gal.
HondaV65 on June 11, 2009 at 5:48 PM
No, in private, it’s more along the lines of “OMG! This horrific alien has invaded my body and is gonna put a real crimp in my style and my need to hook-up and grind!” Cause and effect gets lost in the shuffle.
jimmy2shoes on June 11, 2009 at 5:49 PM
getalife is posted under gOtmylifeback. The Troll might be noneya.
kingsjester on June 11, 2009 at 5:50 PM
SouthernGal on June 11, 2009 at 5:07 PM
In an intellectual sense, I’ve discovered your root problem: just like many Libs, you have no understanding of a timeline. (The Palin daughter didn’t get knocked up while preaching abstinence; she had her baby first, then talked about how abstinence alone isn’t enough, and then became a spokeswoman for abstinence most of all.)
Denying the importance of a timeline means you will never understand key concepts of personal development like Cause and Effect, Sin and Redemption or even Maturity and Growth, because you will always assume the person under discussion has two faces simultaneously. No wonder you feel more at home with guys; everyone knows we never really grow up.
Emotionally, of course, your reason for being a Lib is your fervent belief that anyone who preaches “do right” is a hypocrite who sooner or later will fail to live up to their own expectations. So your standard of right-and-wrong behavior is not yours at all, but is the anti-right of people who may have been weaker than you at one time but have since grown up.
I recommend that you take 2 Hotairs and call me in the morning.
rwenger43 on June 11, 2009 at 5:50 PM
No you’re not, or you’d be outraged by the joke he made, not their observation about the sort of person who would make such a joke.
Jim Treacher on June 11, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Un-pc would be a joke about Obama. But that’ll take a spine.
the_nile on June 11, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Why is everyone letting Dave off the hook for making a rape joke about a 14 year old girl?
He’s says **NOW** that the joke was about Bristol – but clearly – it was not.
Bristol wasn’t even at the game.
David Letterman is a SICK individual. I don’t care how much you hate a woman – joking about raping her 14 year old daughter is pretty sick.
HondaV65 on June 11, 2009 at 5:55 PM
It’s just outrageously fun to be outraged, so I felt the need to join in.
By the way Jim, didn’t you state that if the joke was about Bristol, then it would be rough but permissible because “that’s comedy”? Letternman clarified, so what’s your grievance?
I think you like being outraged too!
crr6 on June 11, 2009 at 5:56 PM
McCain is a joke. So lets see, NOW you can come to her defense?
deidre on June 11, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Eh, SouthernGal is just being supportive of the lifetime NAMBLA member, Letterman. Nothing says “funny” to a liberal more than sexual abuse of a child.
Hey, it’s un-PC comedy. Lighten up.
malclave on June 11, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Problem is – the facts don’t match his “clarification” – Bristol wasn’t at the game.
14 year old WILLOW was.
HondaV65 on June 11, 2009 at 5:58 PM
You are a good person. +1
BakerAllie on June 11, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Ahhh. Need that Troll Czar to help with the roster.
littleguy on June 11, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Which is exactly why liberals are constantly trying to push non-smoking laws on us – but refuse to pass laws protecting children.
Got to hand it to Liberals – they are a big tent. Got the pedophile and sexual offender vote nailed.
HondaV65 on June 11, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Because it wasn’t about Bristol. Bristol wasn’t at the game. Letterman doesn’t even address that. He clarified nothing, except that he gets even more angry and self-pitying than usual when he can’t defend his behavior.
Jim Treacher on June 11, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Letterman probably didn’t know. Every night his jokes are the weakest and least inventive possible. His writers’ formula was probably Palin + A-Rod = unwed pregnancy + guy who cheated on his wife. Sadly with Dave it is always the most obvious punchline possible in order to save his writers and his audience any mental effort.
dedalus on June 11, 2009 at 6:01 PM
And don’t forget Fox News also. Quite the conservative indeed. /sarc
coyoterex on June 11, 2009 at 6:04 PM
I don’t buy that and, at the very least – a thinking man would have checked the facts before making the joke.
But no – I believe he actually aimed the joke at Willow – sick individual that he is. He’s clearly got a wild hair up his arse for Palin – I mean – the election is over and Joe Biden is plowing fertile comedy ground every hour. But Dave doesn’t want to go there.
No I clearly think he aimed that at Willow.
HondaV65 on June 11, 2009 at 6:05 PM
I mean, really…everybody knows that ‘roids make it so you can’t knock anyone up.
James on June 11, 2009 at 6:05 PM
LOL! I was just thinking today what a confused bunch the White Supremacist crowd must be these days! They have to look to the Democratic Party to find any Anti-Semites!
I’m hereby removing their right to fly the Confederate Flag by jimmies!
HondaV65 on June 11, 2009 at 6:07 PM
So how do you explain the daughter/Spitzer joke the next day, AFTER it was pointed out that Willow was on the trip, not Bristol.
JeffWeimer on June 11, 2009 at 6:08 PM
What say you Rev. Jackson?
diogenes on June 11, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Another plus for Conan. He’s actually done a few “Biden is an idiot” bits during his first week. Biden whispering to Sotomayor that he likes quesadilla’s had my husband and I cracking up.
BakerAllie on June 11, 2009 at 6:10 PM
I have not posted here in a long time. But this just has my blood boiling. I wrote about 500 words worth of a response but decided the best thing to say is: I hope Sarah does come on the show just to be able to kick Dave in the nards (if he has any) on national TV.
Leave the kids out of it!!!
Joeyyy on June 11, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Yeah, neither of us can go back and read his mind from a few days ago. You tend to believe he is sick. I think he pockets his $40MM a year and barely puts any effort into the monologue before he reads the jokes from the Q Cards.
I don’t know if he’ll make a joke about Biden, but I’d bet if he does it won’t be funny.
dedalus on June 11, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Remember when someone took a shot at Michelle Obama during the campaign and Dick Durbin came out and said …
“The hottest fires of hell are reserved for those who go after the wives of candidates.”
Remember that?
LOL!
And now they just say “Oh! Cute Little PC Joke!” whenever one of theirs makes a joke about raping the 14 year old daughter of a Republican.
They should just admit that Dave’s an idiot that should be fired. They’d at least save their credibility.
HondaV65 on June 11, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Sorry if this has already been posted somewhere amid the hundreds of comments:
http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/06/conan-obrien-regains-lead-palin-letterman.html
Lady Texan on June 11, 2009 at 6:15 PM
You come here defending vile jokes, but pretend to get the vapors over some rough language?
If you actually showed some respect, I’d believe you were sincere.
JeffWeimer on June 11, 2009 at 6:17 PM
CWforFreedom on June 11, 2009 at 6:20 PM
I agree with you, he’s too lazy to even remove an unfunny, tasteless joke about the same daughter being a prostitute the next day. When he definitely should have known better.
His non-apology (no, I meant your OTHER daughter!) was equally phoned-in.
JeffWeimer on June 11, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Of course you think that. Otherwise how could you be outraged?
You might be the most humorless self-professed comedian I’ve ever heard of. Which I suppose is funny in and of itself.
crr6 on June 11, 2009 at 6:22 PM
That’s the most bass-ackwards argument I’ve ever heard. Jim didn’t make the joke – David Letterman did. And since Bristol Palin wasn’t at the game – a reasonable man would conclude the joke was aimed at the daughter that did attend it.
Uhm – that would be 14 year old Willow.
Facts are cold masters, no?
HondaV65 on June 11, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Far be it from me to act as an apologist for Letterman (I think he’s a complete tool)… but Jim, is it somehow inconceivable that Letterman thought that the older of the two was the one at the game? Everything else falls out from there. That would make it a combination of a rough-but-in-bounds joke (as you pointed out), combined with a simple mis-identification.
What am I missing here? It’s not like there’s some indelible imprint for everyone that ties names like Bristol and Willow to age 18 versus 14.
VekTor on June 11, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Or maybe he made a mistake. Has he ever made jokes of that nature before in his long television career?
Admit it, you’d prefer to be outraged.
crr6 on June 11, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Scolds him? A 62 year old man makes sexual intercourse “jokes” about a 14 year old girl and McCain “scolds” him? He should call him what he is, a sick pedophile.
MB4 on June 11, 2009 at 6:29 PM
I cannot believe the gall of some posters here.
Really, calling Letterman a thinking man? Absurd.
Also SouthernGal, get off your holy-rolling high horse. You are so utterly judgemental. Aren’t you supposed to be praising single mothers as heroes or something?
Well, I suppose you can’t because Bristol’s dad is still in the picture, so she’s not quite as glorifiable as generational single mothers.
BKennedy on June 11, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Letterman made the joke on purpose because Jim said so. Otherwise, there would be no reason to be outraged.
And that would be the greatest tragedy of all.
crr6 on June 11, 2009 at 6:34 PM
I think Letterman’s turning into a flaming fag
Cybergeezer on June 11, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Are you saying Bristol was at the game?
Good effort, but next time try to unclench your fists and relax your neck muscles when you “laugh.”
Jim Treacher on June 11, 2009 at 6:36 PM
I prefer to assume the guy knows the facts. He’s been a professional comedian since the 70′s. He knows how jokes can get you in trouble.
But Palin gets under his skin – so I think he loses it. And he can afford to – he knows he’s got apologists like you out here to defend his perversion.
A reasonable man concludes the joke was aimed at the one daughter was there – that would be 14 year old Willow Palin.
Personally – I’m not outraged – so I won’t admit that I want to be. I’m not outraged by anything your side says or does anymore. You have no boundaries or rules of civility – so why not just admit … “Yeah Dave was making a rape joke about a 14 year old girl.”
Own it.
HondaV65 on June 11, 2009 at 6:36 PM
This bum’s about as funny as a fart in church!
Cybergeezer on June 11, 2009 at 6:36 PM
I hope we registered our protests to CBS as well as here on HA, I know I did.
Can you imagine if the “joke” was about the Obama’s older daughter?
Maybe we ought to try that in a few years and see if the libs are so “tolerant” and find it amusing and urbane
clnurnberg on June 11, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Weak. Especially, the second line. As I already posted, other politicians that had the guts to talk to Letterman face to face after he joked about them helped themselves a great deal. Palin clearly isn’t interested in moving to the next level. She is guaranteed now to get heavy duty treatment from Letterman from now on, so get your crying towels ready.
Palin could have really helped the perception of her nationally if she handled this correctly, She has not. Some “Cuda”. I’m starting to believe that the people that call her an empty suit might be correct. She certainly seems to make bad choices under the slightest pressure.
She should have said she was going to go there and demand an apology face to face. It would be a big score for her. Plan to stay in Alaska, Governor. You’re not ready for the big leagues.
Moesart on June 11, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Send Letterman to my place for some R&R.
I’ll have him digging holes for fence posts,
setting posts, stringing wire and if he complains once,
I will dig a hole …You know the rest.
Middle Aged Punks like him are not wise. He never worked a day of his life. Probably cheated on taxes and is addicted to several substances.
Send him to me.
old trooper2 on June 11, 2009 at 6:43 PM
I couldn’t agree more! You can rest assured if someone associated me with that family I’d be on the phone with my lawyer!
benny shakar on June 11, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Since there’s no possible way you could be interested in the best interests of Gov. Palin – you’ll excuse me if I discount your advice to her.
Fact is – Palin, nor any Conservative should appear or talk to anyone in the State Controlled Media or their surrogates – like David Letterman.
The next election – when she moves to the “next election” – part of the war will be on the State Controlled Media. And there will be plenty of ears for that considering the damage this country will have suffered at the hands of Obama – and facilitated by his prostitutes in the media.
It’s going to be fun. So yeah – she has no reason to go on Letterman – he has no audience anyway and is a burn-out.
HondaV65 on June 11, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Sure, it’s conceivable, but nowhere in his “apology” does he say so. He just says he would never make a joke about a kid being raped, which is kind of tough to pull off after he’s just repeated the joke about a kid being raped.
If he wants to put forward the argument that he was actually mocking an 18-year-old girl because she had a baby out of wedlock, just like he and his girlfriend did, he can say so. He has not said so.
Letterman made the joke on purpose because he hasn’t said who the joke was about. He’s just sputtered about how he’d never do such a thing. Well, Dave, ya did.
Jim Treacher on June 11, 2009 at 6:44 PM
That’s funny, you talking about calling the authorities especially after the restraining orders against you for stalking the Palin’s in Alaska.
Remember Bunny Shaker. 500 Feet.
portlandon on June 11, 2009 at 6:45 PM
You’ve been associating yourself with that family for months. You rarely talk about anything else.
Jim Treacher on June 11, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Going on Letterman just makes her look like a cheap obamaesque publicity hound. Rape jokes have no place in any credible programming. Even playboy cought trouble for their rape column and that was about ADULTs, not teenagers.
It’s Letterman who should be removed from the bigleagues. Don’t try to elevate rape jokes to appropriate public discourse, they’re not
clnurnberg on June 11, 2009 at 6:47 PM
If I had screwed up a joke like that – and left an impression that I made a joke about raping a 14 year old – I would have bent over backwards in an apology to redeem myself. There would have been no ambiguity – I would told people “I’m an idiot – I was wrong – and I apologize deeply – very deeply – for the impression I made”.
Instead … Letterman phones in a snarky “clarification”.
No – he clearly doesn’t care – and that is why I’m convinced the perverted old fool was actually joking about 14 year old Willow. No doubt in my mind.
HondaV65 on June 11, 2009 at 6:48 PM
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