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1. Robert Winkler Burke:

Dear VDH,

Your insight and wisdom regarding this creepy culture we in the US live in, is much appreciated.

The problem is that as the national culture goes, so goes the local.

Thus good can be called evil and evil can be called good… in the local criminal justice system; where the memory of logic, truth, justice, liberty and plain old Western Civilization critical thinking is distant or gone entirely.

The result: It is very dangerous to live in a good and non-hypocritical fashion (the old Western Civilization way of well-wishing and honest purveying) because the creepy culture views such as a dangerous counter-trend to be eliminated at all cost.

Just look for court cases giving high esteem to fear’s empowerment. (Divorce court, domestic abuse, stalking, green living, anti-concealed carry citizens concerned over fellow citizens with concealed carry permits, gossip, slander, mysticism and tyranny (through political correct empowerment) of one neighbor hatred of liberty over the other’s neighbor’s liberty!)

Thus, our Founding Father’s liberty is made to be an evil to be eliminated with extreme prejudice. Mostly under the radar. Mostly a fait complete.

In theory, we in the US live under a great constitution. In practice, the unwritten but well-enforced but politically correct constitution actual citizens experience is simply too creepy for words.

Jun 12, 2009 - 7:20 am 2. Pajamas Media » Our Creepy Culture:

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Jun 12, 2009 - 7:23 am 3. Xanthippe:

Letterman’s a creep. Cher had him pegged long ago (and I’m not much of a Cher fan, but she was spot on about him).

Jun 12, 2009 - 7:35 am 4. Jack:

I think Dave wants to have sex with a lot of girls who, shall we say, are not age appropriate.

Jun 12, 2009 - 7:37 am 5. Robert Winkler Burke:

Reason’s Missing Requiem
by Robert Winkler Burke
of inthatdayteachings.com
June 12, 2009

Reason died without requiem,
That was the stratagem,
Let it die without news,
To give the innocent bruise.

To hurt the innocent who believe,
Truth and logic would give reprieve,
Against accusations wrong,
When what matters is strong.

Who is strong, who is weak?
The strong will dominate the meek,
The strong will say who is wrong,
Who is wrong will not belong.

Reason died without requiem,
Creepy culture is now the gem,
Salute insanity, and bow down deep,
Hail insanity, for heads to keep.

To keep heads on shoulders, not cut off,
Agree, agree: Mysticism is the best boss!
Mysticism and tyranny has all dominion,
Who, in their right mind, would keep reason?

Jun 12, 2009 - 7:46 am 6. tanstaafl:

David Letterman is an insecure little man who is trying to outdo another creepy little man in outrageousness, Bill Maher.

Sarah Palin is too real for the fixed, narrow élitism of the Dowdists (probably even the Quinnists) and other lockstep liberals of the planet.

As for JWright’s very recent comment, he flops around in apparent insecurity after making it. I hope none of the people populating his new gated, suburban Chicago enclave are Jewish.

They might knock the old boy between the eyes with a golf ball.

Jun 12, 2009 - 7:51 am 7. Steve:

Absolutely superb essay. You are a light in the darkness. The hypocracy of the left is transparent and shameful. The Zengerle’s of the world are pathetic, moronic apologists. Unfortunately, they are breeding.

Jun 12, 2009 - 7:52 am 8. sheesh:

More hopeless hapless victims crying about things half as bad as what they themselves do.

Neil Boortz: “I saw Cynthia McKinney’s new hairdo. She looks like a ghetto slut.”

Wait, there’s more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYmFAwhmqaU

Letterman creepy? No. This is creepy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6rSjrBhUIA

And this is creepy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Vs5570pKw

So I suggest you all step down off your high horse, quit your feigned indignation, and move on with something far more important . . . . MUSTARD!

Jun 12, 2009 - 7:54 am 9. proreason:

It’s not worth responding to infantile critics, vdh.

You logic stands on its own.

Even liberals know Lettman went way over the line and that he is a scurilous hypocrite. They celebrate it. This is what the country gets when adolescents “win”.

It could well be the US’s demise as a force for good in the world.

Jun 12, 2009 - 7:58 am 10. Meryl:

Dr. Hanson, thank you again for documenting the disease that is contemporary culture. It needs to be done.

“In theory, we in the US live under a great constitution.” (1. Robert Winkler Burke)

Having a great constitution doesn’t mean much, does it, when it is no longer considered relevant by the so-called elite.

The Chinese Constitution specifically provides for freedom of religion. Obviously, that hasn’t provided freedom of religion for the Chinese.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:00 am 11. river:

Letterman is a prostatitic old fool.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:02 am 12. Stella:

I can only speak for myself, but I’ve been very patient with late night comedians waiting for them to start hammering the democratic executive office, the democratic congress, and the mostly democratic senate. Surely, SURELY, there is humor to be found from other than Bush and Palin. C’mon liberals, get a TRUE sense of humor. Let the jokes about Obama and Biden start to flow.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:06 am 13. MikeL:

Letterman himself has a son born out of wedlock, and he just married the mother (and his long time paramore). Would he feel it was just a joke if someone made a wisecrack about his “slutty” wife or his “bastard” son?

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:06 am 14. AThinkingPerson:

When Obama is relying on the likes of David Letterman to defend him and keep him propped up, well, not much to add to that. I’ve commented before about how Obama is damaging the race relations in this country and find it comforting that I’m not alone in that observation.

Yet more proof that allowing ACORN and the MSM to pick our President was a bad idea.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:08 am 15. Bear:

Letterman’s humor (lack of) has become more pronounced of late… he’s a narcissist as well showing hostility towards those that don’t like him during the decline of his career.

I don’t think he was ever that funny, and he isn’t terribly bright either…that’s what writers are for.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:09 am 16. Macko:

Dogs bark when they get scared.

I think the left is scared sh&&less of Sarah palin.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:13 am 17. rocketeer:

I’d really like to send him (Letterman) some hate-mail, as well as CBS, but I’m not sure where to send it that would be most effective. Anyone have any ideas?

Letterman is typical of the left. They objectify those that they disagree with, dehumanize them, and then, because they are no longer viewed as equal humans, they can demonize them.

I want to see Todd Palin invited onto the Letterman show. Letterman will look pretty good missing all his front teeth after making another child-rape joke.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:15 am 18. karlstro1:

Someone please tell me in anything Letterman said about the rape of an innocent child was funny! I have daughters and this was the most vile, unconscionable attack on national TV on a sibling I think I have ever heard. The moral consious of the Nation is appaling and it is because both sides of the country will not stand up against this kind of repulsive behavior. If Immus can get fired for what he said then certainly the uproar should be the same against Letterman. If not, then Letterman can become the poster child for a doulble standard that is demoralizing America.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:17 am 19. RE:

I remember being takijng offence at Letterman the very first time I saw him on TV. It was shortly after Johnny Carson retired. What a contrast! Johnny Carson was pure class. Letterman on the other hand was always trying to get a laugh at somebody else’s expesnse, through ridicule and humiliation.

At the time I sense this was a cultural marker. The baton had been passed to a much meaner, more cynical, self-righteous, and narcissistic generation.

American pop culture has been degenerating ever since. Today, it is an embarrassment. I leave my television off.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:19 am 20. Bret:

I think VDH has missed the point of Letterman’s jokes.

It is NOT news that someone in show business makes an intensely rude, crude, lewd, insulting, disgusting and/or despicable comment regarding an entirely inappropriate subject. Indeed, if we demanded an apology every time that happened, we’d never get anything else done.

The point is that Letterman’s comment is a shot across the bow. He is saying, “Governor Palin, if you so much as poke your nose outside the great State of Alaska, we will insult and smear and humiliate and hound you and your family and your community and anybody who thinks or even looks like you until you feel so degraded and miserable that you run back home with your tail between your legs and never, ever come back. We hate you, we fear you, we loathe you, and we will stop at nothing to destroy you.”

That’s the point.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:20 am 21. sefton:

Letterman’s own child was born out of wedlock.
Did he hide his wife from Spitzer too? Did A-Rod have ago at her also?
Creepy 62 year old men who have rape fantasies about 14 OR 18 year old girls don’t belong on television. They should be wearing a ankle monitor if not in prison.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:32 am 22. Terry:

When Sarah Palin was nominated for vice president, I investigated a small amount about her background. (Relatively the same amount as learning that BHO had no birth cert, had close relationship with America haters, Wright and Ayers, and his extreme socialist plans.) I was attracted by the type of person I believed Sarah Palin to be. There is a chance I missed important aspects that would affect my judgment, but declined to further investigate because of the left wing/media attacks upon Mrs. Palin and her very American family. Now Letterman. He continues and expands upon the left’s attacks, but has nothing new to add because there’s no there there. I admire Sarah Palin and would support her if she chooses to run for any national office with no reservations about her intellect. Let these Harvard/Yale elite types join Shakespeare’s lawyers, first in line.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:34 am 23. J. Robertson:

Bravo !!!

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:36 am 24. Noesis Noeseos:

I have never watched Letterman. I can’t understand why he has gathered such a large audience and why what he says draws so much public attention, unless there be multitudes as sick as VDH shows Letterman himself to be. This must be the case, else such a mendacious, resentment-pandering radical like Obama would have never been elected. I must sadly conclude that the health of the republic is not looking good at all.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:37 am 25. Scott E:

I remember watching Letterman in college….20 years ago.
An un-edgy man trying to be edgy at this point of his career. The truly great ones retire before it all slips away.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:37 am 26. Ms. Attitude:

All I can say is that I’m thankful I live in a country where you can talk trash and not get arrested, for now. Would Obama’s Fairness Doctrine require Letterman to say an equally nasty joke about the Obama girls?

We don’t need laws to keep our entertainers in line. Remember, they work for us and we can fire them by not giving them any business. Letterman is on his way out, I don’t know of anybody who watches him. I never would’ve known about his stupid statement until the press picked up on it. Who are his advertisers? Write them letters and let them know they won’t get your business until they drop him. If they get enough he’ll be bye bye. Take action against him.

Sheesh…is your real name Mustard? You keep signing off with: Mustard…You’re wierd.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:38 am 27. blotto:

Sheesh #8: So you are drawing a moral equivalence between something said about adults in a non-sexual nature and something said about an under-aged girl in a perverted, sexual way? Do I understand you? If that is your defense then you are too twisted for me to debate.

And if you are okay with saying those things about Willow Palin, then put your full name and address here and say something equally disgusting about Obama’s children.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:41 am 28. Ms. Attitude:

List of Letterman advertisers:

http://hillbuzz.org/2009/06/10/list-of-david-lettermans-advertisers/

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:43 am 29. davimcg:

Sheesh, Watched all three videos and I do not see the connection. Not one of them contained jokes about the raping of a politician’s 14-year-old daughter. As far as th gay stuff, I’m with Obama, marriage should be between one man and one woman.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:44 am 30. Stephanie Llod:

Isn’t It funny how we get upset at the commentators and talk show hosts who display our weakness. Sarah Palin put her 17 year unmarried pregnant daughter on National Television, and we must have sympathy for her. Why? And to top it off her daughter has the child gets on TV and declares it was a mistake. Then her boyfriend gets on two (2) NATIONAL TELEVISON programs and tells the world he slept in the same room and house with her (Sarah Palin) 16 year old daughter. Sorry folks, lets be truthful, if that was Mr. Obama’s black daughter what would have happened? Be honest with yourselves.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:44 am 31. Anonymous:

I wish I could punch Letterman in the mouth! You don’t reason with idiots of his ilk, you smack them down and keep them down – that’s all a creep like Letterman understands.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:45 am 32. Juvenal:

#13 Bret:

That’s very true. Letterman’s disgusting “jokes” are just a parting shot at Palin, as a reminder (as if she needed one) of the really BIG salvos fired at her by almost the entire media universe last fall. I’ve never seen someone hounded or persecuted like that.

And it was effective as hell.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:51 am 33. baluc/ka:

You make reference to Letterman and the aging boomer culture, but he didn’t write that material. Some group of twenty year olds did.
Ultimately he said it, but he wasn’t the first to think it.

I’m worried that when these writers come into their own, the culture will get cruder, coarser and contemptuous.

For their part, they’re worried that Palin will be the ascendant one.

So, let the games begin.

My money is on Palin.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:53 am 34. Delia:

Just more proof that the liberals who are ’supposedly’ pro women’s rights are complete and utter hypocrites in the worst sense of the word. In a Liberal’s mind, if Palin’s daughter would have had an abortion then she wouldn’t be labeled a ’slut’. See? Murder your offspring and you get to pass go.

-And, Liberals are Pro-Rape as long as the Rapee is a Republican. So funny. Ha-ha.

How dare Palin give birth to a handicapped child? She could have had that baby sucked out of her in minutes. Done deal. That stupid, heartless woman. How can she live with herself? Now we’ll have another member of the ‘Special Olympics’ that DohBama merrily jokes about.

Whores? Yeah, right.

Sorry, Dave. I’m just not feelin’ the gallows humor.

The Liberal mind is truly whack.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:54 am 35. Maurice:

“What it is about Sarah Palin that drives the Left insane? Her charisma? Her authentic blue-collar roots? The accent? Todd? The pregnancies? The ability to galvanize crowds. Joe Biden tried to fake his working class origins, but Palin seems to live, not romanticize, the life of the middle strata, so would not the Left appreciate someone from the non-elite?

I suggest two reasons for the fury of the aristocratic Left. One was Palin’s stance on abortion. In the elite feminist mind, the perfect storm would be for a 40ish career woman, on the upswing of her cursus honorum, getting pregnant and, then, heaven forbid, delivering the child with full fore-knowledge of chromosomal abnormality. Or having her 17-year old come to full term with a child, unmarried, and without money?”

I’ve been trying to answer that question myself. The vitriolic hatred of this seemingly all-American woman and her quite normal family is truly curious. This explanation scratches the itch, but it still does not quite answer the question for me. Is it that she dared to take up opposition to the Dear Leader? Or because the Left could not truly unleash its fury on McCain, the war hero?

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:56 am 36. whataloadacrap08:

Letterman is an overripe juvenile delinquent who deserves a good punch in the mouth, and Jeremiah Wright is a big mouthed a$$hat who needs his teeth rearranged too. You don’t reason with idiots of this ilk, you smack them down and keep them down. Intellectual, moral, and philosophical discussions have no effect on idiots who are too stupid to understand them – that’s why God invented baseball bats! Todays word of the day is, pain.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:58 am 37. Peter the Bubblehead:

8. sheesh wrote:
More hopeless hapless victims crying about things half as bad as what they themselves do.

Neil Boortz: “I saw Cynthia McKinney’s new hairdo. She looks like a ghetto slut.”

Peter writes: Gee, I must have missed Neil’s major network television show. Could you please tell me what station it is on and what time of the day so i may watch it and see what you claim is hypocritical for myself?

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:05 am 38. G Alston:

“What it is about Sarah Palin that drives the Left insane?”

What makes you think this is the case? It’s not as if the left goes out of their way to seek her out.

I thought she had her 15 minutes already.

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:05 am 39. Sherab Zangpo:

The mere fact that we are talking about such low level attacks against Governor Palin tells us how much damage the radical-commie left has already caused to the fabric of our society: and this is just a few months into the new regime !

Governor Palin is attacked because she doesn’t play the game played by ALL politicos and commentators in Washington, she is not soft, she is not “the king’s opposition”: in this way, she is THE dissent that the radical-commies have never tolerated and will never tolerate.

The radical-commies are busy building the road from where we are to Paradise-On-Earth and in their opinion every and any dissent can only be psychosis or crime or both.

It’s the old stalinistic story.
How far and how deep the prosecution of DISSENT will go depends only from how strong the resistance against the regime will be: the stronger the resistance , the safer will be our Freedom.

And the psychological violence of the attacks against Governor Palin is just an appetizer for people who have grown to hate America in their pseudo-churches and their pseudo-universities.
It is the same psychological violence used by the media to celebrate the late-term abortion “doctor” and to FORGET the American Hero killed by a domestic muslim terrorist.
What I fear is that all this implicit and explicit psychological violence will turn into brute violence against all dissent.

Europe has seen that when the “teachings” of the sixties turned into the terrorism of the Seventies and the Eighties.

Thank you for the opportunity to comment.

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:09 am 40. Alana:

“So follow the additional sick logic there: having one illegitimate son naturally implies inherent promiscuity of the sort that would send you down to the dugout to have sex with a baseball player or draw in a frequent patron of prostitutes.”

Which would, by the way, make Letterman a slut, too, since he had an illegitimate son whose mother he just recently married.

Or – can only women be sluts? Oh yes, how could I forget. I guess that means it’s Letterman’s new wife who is the slut.

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:13 am 41. The Jovial One:

Vic. The word is “statuatory.” No one is accusing Letterman of joking about raping statues.

And seriously? Grow up, kiddies!

Thanks!

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:15 am 42. Butters Dad:

Bret, you have just identified the left’s
“a-ha” moment.

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:18 am 43. Mr Lucky:

#8 sheesh –

Moral equivalency?

You left out Axl Rose, any number of hip hop artists and much of the entertainment community.

Letterman is a professional comedian. None of the people you cited are. Check out Lenny Bruce (whether or not you like what he did) and how he used his monologues to build to and then support a controversial point. Letterman did not do this because it is not his style, and he did see Palin jokes of any sort non-controversial. He deals in the immediate impact of what are basically one liners. There’s little or no background given, and in the Palin case, if he had gone the Bruce route, he would have realized quickly that this was not a good riff.

As it turned, out, he did realize it and backed off, later, and with the technique of watch this hand while the real action is over here in this hand. Nonetheless, he did address what he did, and did call it a mistake, creepy or not.

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:22 am 44. Libertyship46:

What bothered me most about the David Letterman fiasco was the reaction of his audience after he told the “jokes.” There was no booing, just a lot of laughing and applauding. So if you’re a Republican female with a family, you can be called a slut and your kids whores and that’s OK with people today. Oh, sorry, Letterman thought he was calling Palin’s 18-year-old daughter a whore, not her 14-year-old daughter. My, that does make a difference, doesn’t it? Americans should be ashamed of themselves. I do know that when Don Imus made an off-the-cuff racial comment, he was thrown off the air. But call a sitting governor of a large American State a slut and her daughter a whore, and people laugh and applaud. Letterman should be forced to reseign, no two ways about it. If any standards still exist on the public (yes, that’s right, public) airwaves, Letterman should be held to the same standards as Imus. And to those people who even thought those “jokes” were even remotely funny, shame on you. So much for Obama and his ilk bringing in a new age of “civility.”

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:30 am 45. Frank:

If Bristol Palin is a “Slut” and a “Whore” for getting pregnant, than so are all those poor, black innercity girls are baby daddys to 3 different guys, who are sucking the welfare tit while popping out an 8th kid, but of course don’t say that, it would be racist!

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:31 am 46. Harry:

Everyone is outraged, but no one commenting will do anything.

It was the same for the Playboy article about “Hatef*****g” conservative women. A lot of drivel, but no plan for retribution. Letterman and the Liberals want to sexually objectify and demean women, but no one throws pies in their faces or tries to embarrass them in public.

Conservative women should target Letterman, the Playboy author, and the ultimate creepy old Liberal, Hugh Hefner, with public confrontations, protests and picketing, in public places and put the video on You-tube.

Otherwise, if you are not going to play, shut up and get off the field.

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:34 am 47. Alana:

That’s very true. Letterman’s disgusting “jokes” are just a parting shot at Palin, as a reminder (as if she needed one) of the really BIG salvos fired at her by almost the entire media universe last fall. I’ve never seen someone hounded or persecuted like that.

And it was effective as hell.

—-

The thing to remember is when they do this to her, they do this to us. It is a warning to us. If the powers-that-be (political or cultural) don’t like what you say, they will do their best to ruin your life.

In other words, you don’t have a right to speak up with your opinions. If you do, and they don’t like your opinions, they WILL make you regret speaking up, by painting you as a person beneath contempt. Not worthy of any dignity. As not even human. And do it in the grossest, most vile ways.

I can’t imagine very many people managing to stand up against the stuff that has been thrown Sarah Palin’s way. That alone garners her my admiration.

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:35 am 48. RJ:

I remember when I first saw Letterman. One of his basic routines was to phone an innocent person and torment them for the amusement of his audience.

I was taken back by the sheer meanness of the bits. The people on the phone were almost always naive or trying to be helpful, and the joke was “let’s have a laugh at the rube’s expense”.

I wouldn’t mind prank phone calls to people who were public or somehow aggressively offensive, but the ones I remember from his show were just mean-spirited mockery of innocent people.

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:35 am 49. Self-hating Boomer:

To the liberal urban elite, poor “whites” are those responsible for racism and other sins associated with the dominant culture, and thus by association taint the white aristocracy unfairly.

I’d never really considered that before, because I don’t think in racial, tribal terms like they do. But that makes a lot of sense. They’re not embarrassed by minority underclasses, because they’re different tribes. But since they’re so race-conscious, uncouth (or uncool) whites bother them to no end.

That implies that they believe that they own the white tribe. They have no right to dictate anything to non-whites, but they have unlimited right to dictate everything to whites. And when some uppity trailer trash doesn’t follow their dictates, it’s a personal insult.

This explains a lot. Such primitive sophisticates we have.

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:36 am 50. Self-hating Boomer:

When his popularity dives, I think critics will be seen as biased and prejudicial.

And they’re not now? The Republicans, and anyone else who chooses to oppose 0bama can expect this. This is obvious. If Hillary were elected, you could expect her to play the sex card. This is the terrain of the theater. Get used to it.

At some point though, this crying “racist” will get to as effective as the boy crying “wolf”. They can only play that card so many times, and it eventually expires.

There is no realistic alternative. You either gird your loins and prepare to be called a racist, or you give up your birthright as an American citizen to the Chicago mob.

Really, there is life after being called a racist.

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:44 am 51. jim:

Me thinks MR Letterman has a serious crush on the Gov of Alaska. And just like a boy in grade school who has a crush on a fellow student, instead of being mature enough to handle it and simply tell her he likes her, he instead pulls her hair and says cruel things so she will notice him. As a junior high teacher Ive seen it a 1000 times.

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:49 am 52. Fragmentarian:

Letterman, to be consistent with his reasoning, must tell a similar joke about one or both (does it matter) of Barry and Michelle’s girls. If he does, I’ll accept his rationale while I would still question his sense of decency and would still dislike the making of inappropriate sexual jokes about children. If not, he’s proven to be a merely a pro-Obama tool and not an edgy comedian, at all. Over to you Dave.

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:50 am 53. tanstaafl:

I think the comments about a desperate, fading “comedian” are right on.

Reportedly, Letterman…

Recently “legitimized” his own 5 YO son

I wonder how he would take jokes about that.

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:53 am 54. Free Hat:

Hey, if Sarah Palin didn’t want America to joke about her barefoot, pregnant and stupid teenage daughter, then she probably should not have used her as a campaign prop and forced her on national television every 5 minutes to spout her puerile views on sex and abstinence.

If you don’t want your daughter in the public eye, don’t throw her into the national spotlight to bolster your campaign!

If you don’t want your daughter discussed in a sexual manner, don’t make her talk about her sex life on the national stage throughout your campaign!

What a bunch of morons.

If Palin had kept her daughters out of the spotlight, we wouldn’t even be disussing them right now. But Sarah Palin is an idiot and a bad parent who decided that her vice-presidential aspirations were more important than than her family, and thought she could successfully use her pregnant daughter as a pro-life prop on the campaign trail. And now, after throwing her daughter to the media wolves out of sheer political ambition, she’s now complaining that the wolves are biting.

And you wonder why the majority of us think she’s just a intellectually-challeneged opportunistic buffoon. Well look no further.

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:57 am 55. Peter Warner:

VDH wrote:

‘The only thing that saves him is his care to do this with the Palins from Alaska who don’t figure into the usual no-go race/class/gender paradigm.’

Point understood, but let us draw attention to Todd’s eskimo heritage, and factor that in. Certainly, if Governor Palin were a leftist Democrat, we’d be reminded about that element in every news story. All that race and gender stuff actually weighs against you if you’ve got an (R) tagged onto your title.

In fact, the left can attack any protected minority without consequence- recall how they treated Condeleeza Rice. Honestly, it is disgusting.

For more evidence of how the culture is declining, consider the photo released of Mr. Obama with his feet on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. No self-respecting office holder would do that, not to mention let a photo of it be released.

Best regards, Peter Warner.

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:58 am 56. Old Soldier:

I don’t get offended by edgy or profane comics (not that Letterman is much of a comic). I prefer my comics as politically incorrect as possible. They should have us laughing at the establishment and the rules.

I dismiss Letterman as a gutless hack because he (or his writers) would never make that joke about anyone on the left – maybe Obama’s daughters.

No guts, politically correct hack.

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:58 am 57. Self-hating Boomer:

Back on the “white tribe” thing:

Am I allowed to be embarrassed by other white males? Or do you have to be one of the “cool” ones?

As a white male, I’m embarrassed by Letterman, because he’s a general-purpose asshat.
As a white male, I’m embarrassed by Gore, because he’s an opportunistic hustler.
As a white male, I’m embarrassed by Ted Kennedy, because he’s a drunk, a misogynist, a coward, and a manslaughterer.
As a white male, I’m embarrassed by Clinton, because he’s a rapist and a purgerer.
As a white male, I’m embarrassed by Biden, because he’s a dope.
As a white male, I’m embarrassed by 90% of the white males in Hollywood, because they’re cowards and wieners.
As a white male, I’m embarrassed by 98% of the white males in the media, because they’re liars and rather dim, to boot.
As a white male, I’m embarrassed by 98% of white male college professors, because they’ve surrendered the notion of open and free debate to the consensus enforcers.
As a white male, I’m embarrassed by Carter, because he’s senile, and doesn’t know when to sit down, shut up, and die.

Etc. I could go on, but there are only so many bits in the internet.

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:59 am 58. NCBob:

It’s ALL about concern for the children! Is Letterman’s young son safe? Where are the voices calling on Child Protective Services to step in and ensure the boy’s safety. If Letterman is verbalizing his fantasies about a 14 year old girl, maybe, he has fantasies about other perversions. It is the state’s responsibility to ensure that the boy is safe!!!

Jun 12, 2009 - 10:02 am 59. Ms. Attitude:

45. Harry:

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Jun 12, 2009 - 10:09 am 60. JED:

Obama is said to have 30 connections on his Blackberry. Would one suppose that those characters are on his top-30 list of advisors? I would be fairly sure that Palin is not. Would the freedom of information act give us Obama’s contacts? We could always make up said list.

Jun 12, 2009 - 10:09 am 61. FLMom:

Some of you suggest that since others have made comments in bad taste, it’s fine for Letterman to make despicable comments about a 14-year-old child.

By that reasoning, if someone were to murder the family down the road, I guess it would be ok to murder your family too? Your logic seems that absurd. It is at the level of kindergarteners who whine, he said it too.

Until we say enough is enough, stop watching this trash, stop patronizing the sponsors, it will only get worse.

Misogynistic jokes and sexual comments about children are not acceptable. Ever! The public airwaves belong to the people. If we will not say enough is enough, then don’t act surprised when this trend becomes much worse.

Jun 12, 2009 - 10:30 am 62. J.E. Dyer:

Bret #20 — I don’t imagine VDH missed anything at all. He just wasn’t here to comment, today, on that aspect of the situation (Letterman’s implied threat to Palin if she shoots for national office).

I appreciate the Professor’s, well, chivalry, in pointing out that we are an increasingly worthless society, if it really is no big deal for people’s teenage daughters to be the butts of sexual-content “jokes.”

He’s right — and it matters. I don’t know about you, but POLITICAL context aside, I would be every bit as offended if Letterman had, in fact, made this “joke” about the child of a liberal Democrat.

Of course, if Palin had just had the good sense to be a wise Latina, none of this would have happened.

Jun 12, 2009 - 10:37 am 63. snewb:

They fired Rather,Imus.
Now let’s fire this guy
and I will boycott every sponsor of that show.

Jun 12, 2009 - 10:37 am 64. HonestJon:

IMHO, Todd Palin should go on Letterman’s show, grab ol’ Dave by the throat and tell him that if he ever makes a wise crack against a family member again, he’ll very much regret it. A nice goober into Dave’s eye would be nice, too. Then, calmly walk off the stage. It’s too bad dueling is illegal now. My money would be on Todd.

All together, Dave needs an ass-whoopin’. A real good one! Maybe that would show him that there can be consequences for impugning the honor of a lady!

regards

Jun 12, 2009 - 10:39 am 65. Ms. Attitude:

Letterman’s phone number at his show: 212-975-5300

Jun 12, 2009 - 10:40 am 66. Moogie:

David Letterman has never been funny. Why? Because he has no talent. The funniest comedians are those who can make funny without insulting others. The best of them are the ones who make funny about themselves. Those who have to degrade others and get laughs at the expense of others’ dignity are cowards.

David Letterman is a has-been. He was a has-been, IMHO, ever since he first started in show business.

Palin/Rubio 2012

Jun 12, 2009 - 10:43 am 67. Ron Kean:

Thank you as always Professor,

A small ray of light has come to us. A new personality named John Zigler laughs at the left’s nonsense. He’s quick and on the way up.

Yesterday, I saw Karl Rove let Maureen Dowd have it. These attacks are getting in-your-face, hilarious, condescending, biting, and relevant.

They’re doing it in a way Rush, Sean, et. al. haven’t seemed to be able to do…with a true sense of humor and a good belly laugh. Ann Coulter and Mark Steyn have been doing it for some time.

And I’m happy Palin is being catapulted into the lime light. It’s great that she’s in the news everyday with righteous indignation. Dave Letterman in his sleazy way may have helped our cause.

But like the professor said in his excellent NRO article today (Friday), we who point out the lies will be called liars as we wait for the pot to boil over and the tide to turn.

Jun 12, 2009 - 10:44 am 68. Ms. Attitude:

53. Free Hat:

There ya go again, blasting your stupidity all over the place.

Using your logic the Obama girls are now targets…Daddy parades photos of them around, put them up on the stage….

You are a moron!

Jun 12, 2009 - 10:49 am 69. TLM:

“More hopeless hapless victims crying about things half as bad as what they themselves do.”

Sheesh I’d drop dead if you ever addressed the argument at issue, instead of playing tit-for-tat like a second grader. Or making believe it’s a non-issue. It is a minor issue, no pun intended, but one that Letterman himself felt compelled to “apologize” for. His jokes have also been denounced by NOW — certainly a first for them when it’s a Republican being slimed.

Furthermore, your statement above is as idiotic and illogical as VDH’s TNR commentator. The Palins — not the posters on this site — were the victims of Letterman’s jokes. You see, unlike your preferred (ie, pampered) “oppressed peoples”, us white trash folk don’t claim victim status unless the barb is directed at us personally, or our whole tribe was slimed intentionally.

Jun 12, 2009 - 10:51 am 70. PM:

Bravo Dr. Hanson.

Bring on Govenor Palin.

She could do no worse than what we have now, and at least we could believe and respect, and like her.

Biden working class?? Bah hah hah hah.

Jun 12, 2009 - 10:56 am 71. Peter the Bubblehead:

50. jim wrote:
Me thinks MR Letterman has a serious crush on the Gov of Alaska. And just like a boy in grade school who has a crush on a fellow student, instead of being mature enough to handle it and simply tell her he likes her, he instead pulls her hair and says cruel things so she will notice him. As a junior high teacher Ive seen it a 1000 times.

Peter writes: This actually makes more sense than any of the excuses the liberal loonies have been trying to pass off.

Maybe we should get a bunch of conservative women into the audience of the Late Show and as Dave starts his monologue, they can start chanting, “Dave and Sarah, sittin’ in a tree…”

Jun 12, 2009 - 10:59 am 72. Harry:

Ms. Atitude,

You are on the right track, but there has to be a very public and immediate retaliation (yes, I know, some think we should remain high-minded).

High-mindedness is getting our butts kicked in the struggle for public opinion. And this struggle will always have a circus element to it, let’s use public reprisals to make them think twice.

Thank you for not being like most of the wussies who are commenting on this.

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:01 am 73. Dave the Kapampangan:

Jealousy at the hardworking values and success of Jews, Christians, and working class Americans has twisted Letterman and Maher into ugly little Gollum-like men. They simply cannot stomach that traditional values (and not their own “precious” secular ideology) have built alternative success without resorting to postmodern bunk and redistribution– and therefore the little gollums work to mock and undermine traditional foundations, while traveling along with easygoing Americans Frodo and Sam.

Letterman and Maher and similarly hypocritical statists think themselves morally “progressive” enough to mock other people as anti-feminist and anti-minority and anti-free speech. And then they proceed to support the oppression of Muslim women, attack Christian women and young girls with suggestions of rape (See letterman and playboy attacks on conservative women), vindictively take away Miss America crowns, Un-empower and addict minorities to the deblitating downward spiral of welfare, stifle free speech by harrassing voters, refuse to air tea party rebellions and opposing opinions, use the power of the federal government and national network news agencies to dig up dirt on private citizens and launch slanderous television attacks at the reputations of 14-year-old children whose parents they don’t happen to like.

Maher and Letterman can still be part of “their precious” liberal boys network, so long as their oozing hatred and mockery is directed at Jews, Christians, working class Americans and other enemies of the state. But what will happen when they and their pal Reverend Wright are no longer needed by Sauron, who has much more grandiose plans and a really big supply of dupes and fools? Ask Google (antitrust investigation) or the American Jews (Israel thrown to the wolves) who got thrown under the bus after the election, but still can’t quite believe it.

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:08 am 74. moron:

And why did Imus get canned??? Politically incorrect subject???

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:10 am 75. MisterH:

It’s probably an utter waste of time to inject any reason into any discussion of what kind of personal criticism one should or should not make against political candidates (See comment #53 as a prime example). Unfortunately too many liberals seem to think any vile personal attack on Gov. Palin and her family is justified simply because they disagree with her political views. One can only imagine what the reaction might have been had Letterman directed the joke at Pres. Obama and his wife and daughters. Actually I can’t imagine simply because it would never happen.

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:11 am 76. Delia:

54. Free Hat:

“And you wonder why the majority of us think she’s just a intellectually-challeneged opportunistic buffoon. Well look no further.”
~

“intellectually-challeneged”?

‘Challeneged?’

Gotta love it. rotfl

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:15 am 77. Dave ll:

“If Palin had kept her daughters out of the spotlight, we wouldn’t even be disussing them right now.”

Freehat, talk about a moronic statement! WE (meaning the whole country!) WEREN’T talking about Palin’s daughters until the MORON on the boobtube decided they were still “open game” for making jokes about!

Rationalize it all you want, the fact that Obama (or any other liberal) can bring his or her daughters on the campaign trail…and not be
vilified and joked about…but when Palin does, it’s still open season MONTHS after the campaign is over…shows the hypocrisy and the coniption fit that for some reason Palin gives maroons like you!

And the more it she does the more I admire her!

GO PALIN!

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:16 am 78. Anonymous:

Excellent post from Alana and Harry:

Alana:

The thing to remember is when they do this to her, they do this to us. It is a warning to us. If the powers-that-be (political or cultural) don’t like what you say, they will do their best to ruin your life.

In other words, you don’t have a right to speak up with your opinions. If you do, and they don’t like your opinions, they WILL make you regret speaking up, by painting you as a person beneath contempt. Not worthy of any dignity. As not even human. And do it in the grossest, most vile ways.

I can’t imagine very many people managing to stand up against the stuff that has been thrown Sarah Palin’s way. That alone garners her my admiration.

and:

Harry:

Everyone is outraged, but no one commenting will do anything.

It was the same for the Playboy article about “Hatef*****g” conservative women. A lot of drivel, but no plan for retribution. Letterman and the Liberals want to sexually objectify and demean women, but no one throws pies in their faces or tries to embarrass them in public.

Conservative women should target Letterman, the Playboy author, and the ultimate creepy old Liberal, Hugh Hefner, with public confrontations, protests and picketing, in public places and put the video on You-tube.

Otherwise, if you are not going to play, shut up and get off the field.

p.s. not just conservative women but everyone man & woman.
____________________________________________

Any “Women’s” organization that sits by silent in the face of these attacks on women should be ashamed of themselves.
There is more to life than being able to get an abortion when ever you feel the need and some aspects of human dignity require people, all people, to stand up for what is right regardless of who it is being wronged.
Too many of the so called “feminist” groups of today are nothing more than a pathetic bunch of single issue hypocrites.
Don’t women understand there is much more on their plate than that one single issue??? (abortion)
That is merely a wedge issue the leftist have used for years to control you as a group.
That is the lefts standard mode of operation.
Wise up ladies, you are being used and abused by the left exactly like most other “Groups” .
But that’s o.k. , just play it off just like when the President calls a female journalist “sweetie” or Letterman decides to get a few laughs by calling you a slut or your underage daughter is simply fodder at his disposal for a few lewd gender based laughs. Or hey it not really murder when some Islamest nut cut’s his wife’s or daughter’s head off because he thinks they disgraced the family, no that’s not a big deal, I mean it was just a woman..
I would hope there were a few in the audience that had the character to get up and walk out after hearing Letterman’s pathetic attack but somehow I doubt it.
Tell me ladies, are the blinders many of you wear worth giving up your human dignity for? Do they give you that much comfort?
Are you that easily bought?
And what does that make you ?

Face it most of you only wish and dream you had 1/10th the character of Gov. Palin,. (males included)
But you know what,
Today is a good day to start to change all that. Just Do It.

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:17 am 79. Pace:

“Letterman is typical of the left. They objectify those that they disagree with, dehumanize them, and then, because they are no longer viewed as equal humans, they can demonize them.”

Just insert “right” for “left” and your popular culture demagogue of choice for “letterman”. And then read some of the comments on this website.

Then you have what passes for “intelligent” political conversation in this country. Shame on us all.

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:20 am 80. bubblehead:

Several here have said Letterman’s public fantasy was just desserts for Sarah’s using her daughter as a campaign prop. HOGWASH!!! And you know it perfectly well! It wasn’t Sarah Palin who brought her daughter into the political fray, but the MSM. She was “exposed” in an effort to embarrass and discredit Sarah. What people like Sheesh never counted on was for Sarah to stand by her daughter, support her and love her and try to protect her from the soulless jackals like Sheesh for whom there is no limit to how low they will go to destroy a person they disagree with. The reason Letterman has gotten away with his public crudity is that his audience is just like Sheesh; perverse, vile and hypocritical. Ancient Rome, at the height of its decadence was never so corrupt as the American left!

Sheesh, I look forward with gleeful anticipation to the day I realize you no longer pollute this and other sites with your pathetic efforts at “wisdom”! Crawl under a rock where you can putrify annonymously.

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:28 am 81. Ms. Attitude:

Please, please, please, contact his advertisers. Boycott them if they continue to advertise Letterman’s show. Men need to do this too.

Let’s start acting instead of blabbing….and BTW, that phone number really is to The Late Show!! 212-975-5300 Call for his “retirement”!

I wish there was a way to shut down Rev. Wright, but I would have no idea where to begin with him. Since he’s turning on Obama, I think they’ll figure it out.

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:33 am 82. blotto:

Freehat: You calling others morons is the kettle calling the pot black. Letterman’s crude jokes were about Willow the underage, not pregnant daughter of Ms. Palin.
So now wiggle your way out of that one. By the way, like I asked before, since Obama has made his kids part of his presidency, I want you to make a crude, offensive, and perverted joke about them. Ya know, just to show you are not biased in your debate here.

We wouldn’t want to get the idea you are not debating on principles. And if you cannot make a joke about Obama’s kids then you have no right defending Letterman.

PS Don’t forget to add you full name and address with the joke

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:34 am 83. Hotpatch 6:

Letterman’s problem is obvious: envy. Have you seen a picture of that woman he is married to? He wishes in his wildest dreams she looked like Sarah Palin!! At least he does not have to worry about her being raped at a ballgame (or anywhere else).

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:34 am 84. gclarke:

Free Hat, I don’t think Bristol Palin came out to explain herself until after she was repeatedly attacked, and the father of her child dumped her and then started talking publicly about her. With the 4920 bloggers who have already called you a moron (and counting) and with the far greater silent majority who find your comments to involve “jaw-gaping” stupidity, I happily concur.

To Dave: The “joke” your writers convinced you to read, supposedly about Bristol, was much “funnier” the first 4920 times I heard it. Not as funny the 4921st time, though we can agree it was probably “funnier” this time than it will be the next 4291 times you tell it. Too bad you were ignorantly referencing the wrong daughter.

But you should put your writers in for a Guinness record. With less than ten words (seven I think it was, depending on how many words “knocked-up” is) they, and you as reader, were able to slander four separate individuals (three of them women and I’m not counting Todd) as well as the entire populations of Latin America and Alaska, not to mention all ball players, philanthropic governors, females and teenage females generally. If the Supreme Court did not immunize jerks like you from slander suits by those in the public eye (Willow — you are not in the public eye. Are you listening?) I am not sure the suits would have allowed you to issue such a “wide-net” slander though with so few words. Too bad it was not funny.

I remember when Jack Parr got in trouble for telling a late-night joke with “water closet” in it which is apparantly British for bathroom. I remember he gave a real apology though, as a young boy at the time, I was not sure for what. How we have degenerated since then. Thanks, Dave, for helping accelerate that Rock down the hill. Try to get in front of it and maybe it will roll over you.

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:35 am 85. Kathy:

What you wrote is SO SO true:
“Letterman would never make a joke about an underage daughter of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Kerry or Al Gore having sex with Alex Rodriquez or Eliot Spitzer. Sorry, he would not. Any idiot knows that.”

Letterman is a pig, as are all the people who laughed at him, the Left media, and the feminists. I want to see some jabs at slutty, uppity Michelle and her ugly daughters (and they are that). Let the Left dish it out everywhere if that is what they think is humor.

they want.

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:44 am 86. Dave ll:

Gee…since daughters of politicians who are “part of” campaigns are free to be joked about (wether or not they are under-age), I suppose we will be hearing jokes about Ashley Biden and her cocaine abuse…right???

RIGHT?

Anyone….

Freehat???

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:45 am 87. AThinkingPerson:

Ms. Attitude: THANK YOU for the information on ways to contact and register our opinions on Mr. Letterman. I’ve already called several and have emailed the phone number onward.

To Sheesh and the rest trying desperately to defend him “because others have said bad things about liberals…”, all I can say is that’s pretty pathetic and you know it. If we follow your line of thinking then Letterman saying vile things about Palin’s children now allows the Conservatives a free swipe at Obama’s kids right? See how juvenile your stance on the issue is? We all do.

We’re too evolved to stoop to that. Wish the liberals would start walking upright with us someday. Until then, I HAVE and WILL CONTINUE to register my complaints with Mr. Letterman’s network and sponsors.

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:48 am 88. Michael:

Sarah Palin scares the crap out of liberals. She is the embodiment of the ideals of the America founding and of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries. She is the “common man” with the rare gift of common sense. Look at who vilifies her and how they do it. Personal attacks with no real point for the real world. Yep, a lot of crapless Democrats out there.

Oh, and for the silly part about Governor Palin dragging her daughters into the limelight, you haven’t been paying attention Free Hat. The media dragged them in. She is a bad parent? You truly are disgusting. Your comments are the slim eveyone scraps from the soles of their shoes.

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:48 am 89. inspectorudy:

Where ever Sarah Palin’s public life takes her one thing is for damn sure, she is becoming a Joan of Arc! Imagine Hillary or Michelle O taking the shots against her and her family while keeping their composure like Sarah has done. Imagine walking onto the national stage for the first time one day and doing a magnificent job, (Remember her teleprompter broke), only to be crucified the next week for things that were not true! The false accusations are still coming fast and furious. This woman may just be a saint.

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:49 am 90. Ms. Attitude:

83. Hotpatch 6:

DUDE!!! That was wrong! Women are not raped because of their looks. C’mon now, don’t stoop to the level of Letterman.

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:50 am 91. ZERO:

Free Hat: You’re so correct. Andrew Sullivan laying out biological conspiracy theories every day was just all part of the Palin’s plan to get her daughter and family in the news. That Rove sure is an evil marketing genius.

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:55 am 92. uburoisc:

Sheesh trots out Neil Boortz, Ted Haggard, Ted Nugent, and the bathroom Senator. Sure, those guys have nationally syndicated late-night TV shows on major networks.

Frankly, I’m pretty absolute on free speech and I’m never enthusiastic about conservative becoming like PC, race-class-gender, leftist crybabies who never miss an opportunity to demand someone step down for making some crack or another. And yes, there is a preposterous double-standard on the subject, but I see nothing but a bad leftist tendency becoming a bad conservative tendency. Conservatives let people say what they want, and then mock and ridicule people who say stupid things in public. Leftists use the government and the media to shut people up under penalty of jail or complete financial ruin.

Oh, and Cynthia McKinney does look like a wigged out, crack smokin’ ghetto slut, really, she does.

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:58 am 93. Ms. Attitude:

87. AThinkingPerson

Thank you!!

Jun 12, 2009 - 12:03 pm 94. Koblog:

Stephanie Llod (#30):
You ask what would have happened to one of Obama’s black daughters had she had a baby and went on national television. To quote, you said, “lets be truthful, if that was Mr. Obama’s black daughter what would have happened?”

We already know the situation would not even happen: Daddy Obama told us he would have his daughter abort his own grandchild, or, as he called it, “the mistake.”

Jun 12, 2009 - 12:21 pm 95. Ed Wallis:

Aside from a phone number,
here is a website where you can express your “thoughts” about Letterman to CBS:

http://www.cbs.com/info/user_services/fb_global_form.php

Letterman should be required to make an on-air joke about his own son being made an active member of NAMBLA involuntarily…

…and then fired.

Jun 12, 2009 - 12:21 pm 96. Marc Malone:

#45 Frank – Your comment was just offensive in its entirety. And, FYI, I am a conservative. That sort of talk is just unseemly.

Jun 12, 2009 - 12:23 pm 97. zanne:

I think Letterman’s thoughts are much darker than his words. Not good.

Jun 12, 2009 - 12:25 pm 98. sydney jane:

Larry King is another old perv. I still remember his interview with Levi Johnston, Bristol’s baby daddy, and asking him details about his first sexual experiences with Bristol – who, at the time, was still 17. That was pretty creepy.

Jun 12, 2009 - 12:35 pm 99. Andy:

Dear VDH,

You are correct that Letterman would never make a joke regarding the improper activity of a minor son/daughter of the Obama, Biden, Gore or Clinton families. In fact, Letterman has forgone the opportunity to make jokes about an adult daughter of the Biden family. It was widely reported (Drudge, etc.) than a “friend” of the Vice President’s daughter was shopping a video, and asking for a lot of money, of her using illegal drugs. A simple Google search will verify this. I am not aware of anyone on television or radio making jokes about that. So we may conclude that even the adult children of liberal pols are off-limits. Only the adult children of conservatives are apparently fair-game.

Jun 12, 2009 - 12:36 pm 100. Jeff Perren:

“Letterman has devolved into a mean-spirited, demented sort.”

He did that more than 25 years ago.

Jun 12, 2009 - 12:38 pm 101. Marc Malone:

To those criticizing Bristol Palin: Yes, she got knocked up, but she made the very adult decision to keep the baby. Does she appear on TV? Yes. What does she do there? Cautions other teens to be more careful. Has she ranted or cried about all the attacks? Does she become the drama queen about her boyfriend dumping her? No and no.

She’s just an average teen thrust into the limelight in very negative circumstances. She has maintained her composure all the while, never letting them see her sweat. No drama. No tears. No wailing, “Poor, pitiful me!” She’s an average teen who seems to be handling it all very well. We could stand to have a few more adults like this. The Palins seem to be very good stock. This is why the Left fears Sarah Palin. Such strength and integrity.

Jun 12, 2009 - 12:40 pm 102. Fragmentarian:

Inspectorudy – Too right. The Klingon’s hate glare would melt Littleman, if he was edgy enough to turn that incredible “sense of humor” on the Obamas.

Jun 12, 2009 - 12:40 pm 103. waltc:

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t letterman have a child out of wedlock? And does, since he brought the child and the mother into the “public eye” by mentioning them on his show, make his (now) wife a target as a slut in the name of comedy?

Common decency would prevent me from making such a comment, joking or not, but there are other comedians.

Jun 12, 2009 - 12:42 pm 104. Tony R.:

It has always fascinated me that the one thing that seems to make Sarah Palin and her family, in particular her daughters, so hated in the eyes of the media and liberals is that when a pregnancy occurs they dont rush out to have an abortion.

I keep trying to work out how this has become something that upsets so many people. At what point – in a country with a population of 300 million people – did having a child instead of terminating it become such a thing of ridicule in the modern America? Seriously, I really can’t work it out no matter how many times I try work out the….ahem…logic.

Your country has become seriously f*cked up. I’m not a religious man but being raised in Catholic Ireland meant that I picked up some biblical education in school. In that whole area about “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth” was there a bit I missed that said:

“Blessed are the self-absorbed heartless liberal bastards as they will be allowed to invert reality and ridicule sane decent folk”

I’d love to hear a rational explanation for the Palin bashing.

Jun 12, 2009 - 12:42 pm 105. Free Hat:

The media is like a shark tank. When it smalls blood, it goes for the kill. And by opening her big dumb mouth EVERY

Jun 12, 2009 - 12:44 pm 106. Free Hat:

…time she gets critisized, all she’s doing is giving the Media more fodder.

Thats why smart politicians keep their mouths shut when they get attacked. Fighting the media is a no-win situation.

Jun 12, 2009 - 12:46 pm 107. Blackwell:

I got up late. Yawned, gulped a latte and read all above, inlcuding Sheesh’s off point comment that someone once slammed soe other politician for looking slutty.

The “slutty flight attendant” joke was kind of funny, and I don’t have the outrage everyone else does. (Phil Spector’s mugshot–that’s outrageous!I almost hurled–gollum on page one). But even “slutty flight attendant” was uninspired writing and a strained effort to be funny. But nothing wrong with picking on a politician, even if it was lame.

Then he became crude and tasteless with the joke about the kid. Either kid. Like a novel’s tired wispy-haired old uncle with a glass full of scotch making a leering joke about his neice. Everyone looks at everyone else, and it’s instantly understood that Uncle Perverto won’t be invited back next year. Lettermans’s cruel sick joke was out of place, out of line for ANY kid of ANY party.

Letterman’s effort to “explain” was as calm and measured as a flopping fish with a hook in its mouth. He couldn’t joke about it, and knew he had ovestepped the bounds.

He’s an aging man trying to remain relevant and its not working. His suits, his hair, his jokes…Palin jokes are so yesterday. He has no edge, no fast wit, and younger talent is surging up aroound him. Chris Rock or Sheesh would be better and at least make us laugh.

Time’s up Dave. Call it a night before you make even more a fool of yourself.

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Jun 12, 2009 - 12:58 pm 109. Paul M Hupf:

To Professor Hanson: Thank you, well said.

Jun 12, 2009 - 1:12 pm 110. mayanpiper:

Letterman is a putz who should have stayed in Indy forecasting the weather. What a maroon.

Jun 12, 2009 - 1:12 pm 111. fred:

I really do believe that I am living in the time of the decline of Western Civilization. The evidence for this abounds, and it did not take a reading of VDH to convince me of it.

The Alliance of the Left with Islam = 19th century retards + 7th century savages = something more potent than the Gothic and Hunnic invasions.

Jun 12, 2009 - 1:20 pm 112. ILikeIke:

This is too funny…

It takes a particularly shallow person to defend Rush Limbaugh as a mere entertainer when he’s “dreaming of riots in Denver” and then to get all PC on David Letterman when he says something in bad taste about Sarah Palin’s adult daughter.

It’s almost like you people WANT to be irrelevant.

Jun 12, 2009 - 1:23 pm 113. Fragmentarian:

19th century retards and 7th century savages? I like that but 7th century morons would be better. Birds of a feather and all that.

Jun 12, 2009 - 1:24 pm 114. Mike:

I am wondering what constitutes ‘progress’. In technology, progress is measured in the somewhat objective terms of speed and size. In contrast, the metrics of political and social progress are inevitably subjective and intangible.

With fuzzy metrics, how can one judge onself, politically, or socially? Letterman and Wright judge themselves favorably, using whatever subjective qualities they choose, but they fail to realize that they are not that special. Their actions have shown that they are harboring thoughts of inferiority, and that they do not have any remarkable qualities of creativity or leadership. Unfortunately this may be true of the President as well.

Jun 12, 2009 - 1:27 pm 115. Fragmentarian:

IlikePike – Well, the world needs more elephants. Liking Pike when you can get any kind of fish you want is truly weird though.

Jun 12, 2009 - 1:28 pm 116. El hefe:

VDH you right on the money.
Listening to the left is like running your fingernails down a chalkboard with both hands indefinably. The Left has no relationship with the Living God (I dare them to prove otherwise). Their morality is one of expediency. The Left is afraid of Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin represents their worst nightmare in 3D, her existence means they are wrong and they are liars.
The left has their wet dream in the white house and Sarah keep showing up to spoil the view. She just won’t go away.
The mentality of the Leftist elite is as follows: I got mine and I’m going to get yours to, you can’t touch me, screw you.
Well I have news for you Leftists: Your little dumpster in iniquity is almost full and the trash man is on his way to haul you off to the incinerator where you belong. You won’t be missed.

Jun 12, 2009 - 1:33 pm 117. Erasmus:

64. You do realize that if Todd Palin physically attacked Letterman, that he would go to prison for assault. Especially since anyone with half a brain would have realized that Dave was telling a joke about an 18 year old who, in fact, got knocked up.

Only in the demented minds of the Palin worshippers has the actual joke been inflated to “Letterman joked about raping a 14 year old”. If Palin were the “Christian” she claims to be, then she would accept the apology that Letterman put forth. For some unknown reason, Palin has decided to start a PR campaign that Letterman is a pedophile?

89. Palin has shown “composure”? Since when does running to press for every perceived offense count as “composure”. Seriously, has there been a thinner skinned politician than Palin in modern times? She makes Nixon look like Deepak Chopra in comparison with her pathological desire to display that chip on her shoulder.

88. Sorry, Palin put forth an aggressive campaign to make people think that Bristol and Levi were getting married, when it’s pretty obvious that was just a straight up lie. Parading one’s knocked up high-school aged daughter around while simultaneously pretending that one’s morals are superior to other people invited that backlash.

35. Quite normal family? Sure, many families have knocked up daughters, relatives arrested for meth, domestic violence, membership in scecessionist poltical parties, blessings to prevent “witchcraft”, etc. Most people don’t take six colleges to get one freaking B.A. by the way.

No one “fears” Palin, they are “appalled” by Palin. She was a cynical choice that was placed on the ticket in order to poach Hillary voters, but the gambit failed when Palin showed that she was a featherweight intellect who was completely ill-prepared for the national stage. The fact that her ticket got walloped in the National Election and that exit polls showed her to be a contributing reason independents FLED the GOP in droves should have humbled this woman. Instead, we’ve been treated to a baffling 7 month “victory lap” by the secondary member of the LOSING ticket.

Jun 12, 2009 - 1:37 pm 118. Erasmus:

104. Who said anything about “wanting” Bristol to have an abortion. Her choice to have the child was her choice. The irony was that her mother opposed comprehensive sex education, preferring an abstinance-only policy that even Bristol said “wasn’t realistic”. The extra irony was that Fox News carried a lot of water defending Bristol only a few months after ripping Jamie-Lynn Spears a new one for doing the very same thing.

Personally, I’m glad that Bristol’s parents are wealthy. Most unmarried teenage moms with no chance of going to college aren’t as lucky.

Jun 12, 2009 - 1:42 pm 119. Blackwell:

112: IlikeIke: it may seem hard to fathom the distinction between slamming a non-politician 14 year old with crude sexual remarks and intemparately wishing for riots in Denver as you say Limbaugh did (I don’t listen to Rush), but its not that hard is it?

I mean seriously: you aren’t one of those creepy people that thinks aging has beens are cool when they make creepy jokes about 14 year olds are you? (even if you give him the benefit of a lot of doubt and say he meant the 18 yr old does that really make it ok for you?).

Jun 12, 2009 - 1:43 pm 120. Self-hating Boomer:

The Alliance of the Left with Islam = 19th century retards + 7th century savages = something more potent than the Gothic and Hunnic invasions.

You left a number of important elements out. Let me complete your equation:

The Alliance of the Left with Islam = 19th century retards + lots of old money + 7th century savages + lots of oil money + the cult of the environment + spineless capitalists + men too addled by stoicism and chivalry to resist feminist subversion + cowardly young men who think “freedom” means reading Playboy + several engineered informational cascades + an ascendant China + a few narcissistic personalities in high-leverage positions = something more potent than the Gothic and Hunnic invasions.

Plus a lot more.

Jun 12, 2009 - 1:47 pm 121. Tootoo:

Letterman simply suffers penis envy against real man like Todd Palin, Dick Cheney et al. It infuriates liberal left that Sarah Palin is beautiful, articulate and righteous and Todd Palin is a strong manly responsible husband. They hate the beautiful qualities of Mr. and Mrs. Palin.

It is the left that has slutty mothers that give birth to bastards, fathers that abandon them. Palins drove them mad.

Jun 12, 2009 - 1:51 pm 122. J.E. Dyer:

Free Hat, dear. #54. Someday you will be older and wiser, and if you had to read this comment of yours again, you would cringe.

Don’t live your life this way. There is no life so unsatisfying as one spent disparaging other people, in obsessive detail.

Soon enough, you are going to encounter challenges you have no idea what to do about. No “majority” to which you think you belong will have the answers. The utter, empty uselessness of reflexively bashing others will become clear to you. If you buckle down, learn something, and find a way to relate to other people with more respect, you just may come through it whole.

Jun 12, 2009 - 1:53 pm 123. Penny:

Mr. and Mrs. Obama trotted their daughters out into the limelight just as much as Mr. and Mrs. Palin. The Obama daughters get a pass because they will abort any “mistake.” The Palin daughters do not get a pass because they believe in LIFE and believe babies are babies not mistakes. Mr. Obama’s daughters were treated with reserve by the elite left wing propaganda media. Mrs. Palins daughters were treated by the elite left wing propaganda media as women of the detested white middle class. Mrs. Palin has been compared in an ugly way with airline stewrdesses, waitresses, female sales clerks. Women of the elite left sit on boards, run the house of reps., sit on the supreme court, etc. Middle class and working class women are despised maybe because they are married to middle class and working class white men. Elites love the lower classes and force middle and working class folks to give their money to the lower classes.

Jun 12, 2009 - 2:00 pm 124. Jim Bob:

Liberal attacks on Palin are no different than their attacks on Justice Thomas during the confirmation.

They want to own the narrative on race/class/gender.

When conservatives take the moral highground, it’s war.

Jun 12, 2009 - 2:03 pm 125. Dorf on Golf:

The Obama daughters are not half as beautiful as the gorgeous Palin daughters. Daddy-O will most likely have to pay some reluctant boy to date his daughters if they grow up to look anything like big, moose-faced Ma.

Jun 12, 2009 - 2:07 pm 126. Rowland:

Here, here – well stated Mr. Hanson.

Jun 12, 2009 - 2:08 pm 127. EdSki:

I agree there’s something that truly appalls the left about Gov. Palin. I’ve been trying to figure it out myself since last October.

I’m not sure what it is, but what ever “it” is, in my opinion, scares the heck of the left. They’ve gone way beyond their normal double-standard and despicable caricature of their political opponents. Except for has-beens like Letterman (and on their way to be-has-beens), when was the last time you heard a person off the street spout a Bush joke?

It indicates something much larger. Which is exactly what intrigues me about Palin? What do they see that’s so terrifying that I can’t?

One possibility is the specter of the resurgence of the Reagan democrat. That would make them stand up and take notice.

Jun 12, 2009 - 2:11 pm 128. Peter the Bubblehead:

54. Free Hat wrote:
If Palin had kept her daughters out of the spotlight, we wouldn’t even be disussing them right now.

Peter explains: What Free Hat is trying to say is, because Governor Palin is a successful, intelligent, thoughtful CONSERVATIVE, she doesn’t have the same right to take her children on a trip to New York City to sight-see or participate in charity events as LIBERALS do.

You do realize how utterly STUPID you sound with what you type, don’t you? Or do you actually believe if you take your children with you on vacation (assuming you even know how to produce children of course), that you are “putting them in the spotlight” and they are open for any and all vicious, libelous attacks directed against them?

Please let me know when you’re taking your next vacation so I can make some ‘jokes’ about how slutty your wife is and how your underaged kids should be raped.

Jun 12, 2009 - 2:17 pm 129. Peter the Bubblehead:

105. Free Hat wrote (in more than one part because he/she/it obviously doesn’t know how to use a keyboard):
The media is like a shark tank. When it smalls blood, it goes for the kill. And by opening her big dumb mouth EVERY time she gets critisized, all she’s doing is giving the Media more fodder.

Peter writes: Which goes to show just how out to lunch Freebie really is. Governor Palin didn’t open her mouth. Letterman opened HIS big dumb mouth and stuck his entire leg into it.

Keep up with the discussion, Freebie.

Jun 12, 2009 - 2:27 pm 130. Peter the Bubblehead:

112. ILikeIke wrote:
…then to get all PC on David Letterman when he says something in bad taste about Sarah Palin’s adult daughter.

Peter asks: You consider a 14 year old girl an ADULT, Ike?

Jun 12, 2009 - 2:30 pm 131. Fragmentarian:

Erazmus – Ah so I can say whatever I want about your wife and daughter then? You won’t defend them? Maybe I could have my way with them while you watch. You’d like that eh? Maybe Islam can have their way with your country too? What a man! You and Littleman deserve each other.
BTW – Jamie Speers is a public figure. The Palin kids, no mater how you twist it, are no more public figures than the Obama girls. Crimeny, is nothing sacred to you people?

Jun 12, 2009 - 2:32 pm 132. Nora:

Erasmus -

Sarah Palin is a supporter of Feminists for Life, which supports birth control, and she has also said that she believes that contraception should be taught to children who are not hearing about it at home.

Jun 12, 2009 - 2:32 pm 133. Trisha2cents:

Check out Dave’s blushing bride…eye candy for sure.

http://celebrity.rightpundits.com/?p=2034

Thank you Ms Attitide for the link to CBS. I just sent off my 2cents.

Hope everyone here does the same.

Jun 12, 2009 - 2:33 pm 134. Peter the Bubblehead:

117. Erasmus wrote:
Especially since anyone with half a brain would have realized that Dave was telling a joke about an 18 year old who, in fact, got knocked up.

Peter writes: Which just goes to show you have much LESS than half a brain, since anyone who was following the news knows it was the Governor’s 14 year old daughter who accompanied her on the trip.

If Letterman wanted to make a joke about the other daughter, maybe he should have had his writers and researchers, the ones who get paid tons of money to actually do research and write jokes that might actually be funny, actually find out WHO was in NYC. Just turning on CNN I’m sure they could have found out. Just watching NBC news that day, I’m sure it was mentioned. But no, instead they sit on their fat @$$es, earning money they don’t deserve, and write jokes about raping little girls. And then liberal loonies like you try to defend them.

Have you any idea, ANY idea at all, how bad that makes YOU look?

Jun 12, 2009 - 2:35 pm 135. tim maguire:

I have two complaints about this article.

One, New York is not David Letterman’s city. He hasn’t lived here in decades, he just drives in to tape his show. And two, neaxt to the blurb of this essay on the main pajamas page, you use a picture of the young David Letterman, when he was a great comedian worth staying up late for.

Please swap it out for a picture of the sad tired demented old man he has become. Don’t help old Dave destroy the memory of young Dave.

Jun 12, 2009 - 2:53 pm 136. JW:

Palin rocks. She came on the Today show to talk about the very important Alaskan pipeline deal w/ Exxon that will help bring oil to the rest of the 49 States. It was Lauer who turned the focus on the “joke’.
Surely, tonight Letterman will joke about Obama’s brother who was denied entry into the UK bc/ of the very real sexual assault charges to a 13 yr old girl. Another Obama story Matt Lauer never covered as he “obeys” (Palin’s words)the great one. We need to hear a lot more of Palin in fearless mode.

Jun 12, 2009 - 3:11 pm 137. Deb:

Palin was very smart to turn Letterman’s crass remarks into an assualt not just on her & her family but on pop culture that degrades women in general. A debate that the Republicans should endorse.

Jun 12, 2009 - 3:15 pm 138. David Letterman/Crusty the Clown:

Hey Kids, did you know pathetic, broken-down CRUSTY THE CLOWN is based on David Letterman? It’s true. The first writers of “The Simpsons” were (mostly) fired Letterman writers and they put all Letterman’s miserable, selfish, needy foibles into Crusty.

One of those “Simpsons” writers might actually put Letterman/Crusty out of his showbiz misery. He’s the new host of The Tonight Show, Conan O’Brien.

(Ironically, O’Brien is just as miserable, selfish and needy as Letterman. “Meet the new boss,” as they say)

Jun 12, 2009 - 3:22 pm 139. Old Patriot:

The way to take care of the Lettermans of this world is to write to the sponsors of his show, saying that they are free to continue to sponsor his “performance”, but that you’re tired of his insults to the things traditionally taboo – rape/incest jokes, non-funny political satire, attacks on everyday religious beliefs of the majority of this nation, and snide remarks about patriots, heroes, and pride in our nation. Since their continued sponsorship supports Letterman’s stupidity, you will take your business elsewhere, and will encourage all of your family members to do the same. Ten letters or emails, and he continues his sliming of all that is good and just in this nation. Once the count passes 100, however, account executives begin to get nervous. After a thousand, the guy’s toast.

Jun 12, 2009 - 4:29 pm 140. SeanLA:

This AM on the radio Laura Ingraham was criticizing Palin for following up with this, saying Palin should be talking about economics and war. I completely disagree with Laura on this, we all know perception is reality, and the media creates perception. The media is the message.
I am so happy to see Palin take this one back, and I really hope to see more fight from this and on other issues to come. The `high road’ is not the best road in the media (perception) and takin’ it to the street is often the best way to go. Bush never defended himself and the perception of him created will be on him long after hes gone.
At least Reagan had great literary quotes to follow up with and his great `Here he goes again’ is fine use of media.
Go Sarah GO!

Jun 12, 2009 - 4:41 pm 141. Phebe:

I HAVE NEVER BEEN A LETTERMAN FAN, AND ALL THIS INSULT TO THE PALINS IS ANOTHER INCIDENT THAT MAKES ME HAVE EVEN LESS RESPECT FOR THE GUY. HIS GUTTERAL EXPRESSION, GETTING KNOCKED UP, IS SO GROSS AND REPUGNANT TO ME, I THINK HE SHOULD BE BANNED FROM EVER BEING SEEN OR HEARD FROM AGAIN. DOES THIS GUY HAVE ANY BRAINS AT ALL??

Jun 12, 2009 - 4:46 pm 142. Anonymous:

The rhetorical and political attacks on right-wing ‘extremists’ by left-wing ‘extremist’ politicians, activists, media outlets and bloggers are creating the environments for the very things they fear. The same is true with the right’s rhetorical and political attacks on the left.

If both sides don’t stop and take a deep breath and think about the consequences of their own words and deeds, open violence and civil war are inevitable.

Historically, when opposition parties begin to actively and openly dehumanize and demonize their ideological opponents, as is now occurring in America? Such things are always a prelude to violence and to civil war.

‘This is America! It can’t happen here!’ Why not? Because we’re somehow immune from the grindstone of history??

Jun 12, 2009 - 4:55 pm 143. Delia:

138. David Letterman/Crusty the Clown,

LOL! HILARIOUS. I could totally believe that too.

BTW, just a little aside but it’s ‘Krusty’ the Clown.

Jun 12, 2009 - 5:02 pm 144. Thomas More:

Erasmus: prove that the Palins are “wealthy.” Do you mean now, after twenty years of marriage and working hard at several jobs, she has a book deal like the Obamas?

Jun 12, 2009 - 5:14 pm 145. Kat in Indiana:

David Letterman started out as a (not-so-accurate) weatherman at an Indianapolis television station in the 70’s, and I am also ashamed to say we share an Alma Mater, Ball State University. I do not watch his show (some of us have Jobs, you know), and of the few times I have seen his monologue, I have not been impressed. The only time I have ever actually laughed at something he said? As a weatherman, he was showing the weather in the midwest, and in those pre-computer days the artist hand-drawing the map had forgotten the state line between Indiana and Ohio, and he was trying to come up with a new name for the combined state. Of couse, I was about 12 or so at the time, and I was not expecting something funny during the news-I was waiting for Gilligan’s Island reruns!! That was the last time he was ever funny that didn’t require denigrating someone else. I assume that all those years in Gotham have flushed all mid-west morals out of his pervy mind….

Thank you, Dr. Hanson, for giving us LOGIC and REASONING in a non-confrontational manner. If you are “not logical”, then I assume that black HAS become white and the terrorists that calmly butchered 3,000 of our brothers and sisters just did it because they felt misunderstood, and that The Anointed One is going to surprise us all and protect our jobs, and our Constitution, and God’s chosen people in Israel from the Evil in Tehran….riiiight…

PS -I enjoy hearing you every week on the local talk radio (Garrison).

Jun 12, 2009 - 5:19 pm 146. tomllewis - The Demise of David Letterman by Victor Davis Hanson:

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Jun 12, 2009 - 6:33 pm 147. Oscar the Grump:

Let’s see if I got this straight. Letterman lived with a woman for many many years and knocked her up. He didn’t marry her till her child was ? five? years old. Would it be correct to call his child a bastard? or his wife a whore? Look at who is throwing sh*t.

Jun 12, 2009 - 6:57 pm 148. Ms. Attitude:

112. ILikeIke:

“You People” ????

You do realize that the outrage is voiced by more than Conservatives and Republicans. Puma Party, NOW and Hillary supporters are on board with David Letterman needing to step down.

Are you referring to women and the men who love them as “you people”?

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139. Old Patriot:

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Jun 12, 2009 - 7:26 pm 150. dck:

I’m going out on a limb here, but here’s a passing thought on Letterman’s irrational hatred of Palin.

I heard a passing remark on talk radio today that Letterman himself got some flak for having a son out of wedlock, and that any criticism of this made him “bristle.”

If true, it may be he sees Palin as a symbol for those who would dare to “judge” his personal “lifestyle choices,” a typical resentment of the narcissistic, Babyboomer Left, which he personifies.

Babyboomer resentments are often expressed as projected rage. Nothing in the media culture in which he is immersed mediates this.

IF that’s the case, then he may feel crudely justified under the aegis of a Biblical quote which serves at the moment: “Judge not, lest ye be judged.”

Just a thought.

Jun 12, 2009 - 7:30 pm 151. Mike:

Certainly, not everyone who lives in NYC is a crude, self-important leftist, however, there are many such, and Letterman’s comments illustrate their thinking, such as it is. Apparently in that part of America, the bluest of the blue states, it is not only considered proper to grossly insult the daughters of another, but it’s considered cutting edge intellectual chic. No doubt some even consider it very courageous, perhaps even “speaking truth to power.” But of course! Letterman didn’t mean that a 14 year old was having sex with a ballplayer during a game, he really meant to suggest that an 18 year old girl was a prostitute (why else would Elliot Spitzer be interested in her?). Such cutting edge humor! Such nuance! And saying that Sarah Palin looked like a “slutty flight attendant?” Comic genius! What’s next? Joking about birth defects?

In the red states, such “jokes” are considered clear evidence that the person telling them was raised poorly, isn’t very bright, has no class, and is begging for a bit of close range physical counseling. After making such a comment, anyone delivering such a pseudo-apology would not be considered to have redeemed himself, but to have removed all doubt–if any existed–that he was an ass. To decent, everyday Americans, there is no excuse, no explanation for such crudity, such stupidity, such glib idiocy. Think about it: Would any of your teachers–those who weren’t lunatic leftists–have allowed you to make such comments in class? Would your mother think such comments cute? Would she be proud of you? Would you repeat them to your minister?

So let’s test that intellectual chic, that great courage, that comic genius, that daring to speak truth to power. Perhaps Mr. Letterman, who hasn’t been funny for many, many years, might wish to journey to Alaska and, in person, make similar jokes to Todd Palin (for that matter, to any father in red state America), about his daughters. One suspects that Mr, Letterman would, in short order, find himself propelled across the tundra. In fact, I suspect Sarah Palin would do no less. That’s video I’d pay to see. And as Paul Simon wrote in “Still Crazy After All These Years,” “[she] would not be convicted by a jury of [her] peers…”.

Jun 12, 2009 - 7:38 pm 152. s sommer:

Letterman was a total jerk to tell that “joke.”

Any parent should be offended by it, certainly any mother, woman, female should be offended. It was a stupid joke, not at all funny, absolutely in bad taste.

However.. Palin was an idiot and a bad mother to run for national office when she knew that her teenage unwed daughter was pregnant. She completely disregarded her daughter’s needs at that time. I was appalled, as were most of my women friends. We came to the conclusion that if her judgement and values were that poor, and her ambition was that great, that she was a disgusting excuse for a mother, woman and a pathetic human being.

She was already Governor of Alaska, plenty successful. She did not “need” to run!

There are a lot of reasons for people to disapprove of Sarah Palin. This is just one.

Letterman was a cad and a jerk to tell that pathetic “joke..”

But, Sarah Palin is the one who chose to make her daughter a public spectacle.

Both are disgusting.

Jun 12, 2009 - 7:56 pm 153. kathy:

117. Erasmus:
“Since when does running to press for every perceived offense count as “composure”. Seriously, has there been a thinner skinned politician than Palin in modern times?”

Yes, Mr. Logorrhea himself: Obama

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:12 pm 154. Jack Marcotte:

Essential vdh?

What is in this name calling, he said, she said other than smoke and diversions from what is going on?

Who in the hell cares what a 62 year old idiot and pervert with TV ratings that are under water says!?

He simple reads a script and after another operation or two he won’t even be able to do that. He probably already has to wear diapers.

Why have representatives “of the people by the people” not called BHO out to begin impeachment proceedings based on his overturning and shredding of the US Constitution.

A constitution that he is sworn to protect and support as a President of the US.

Can some one tell me where in the Constitution the federal government has the right to do what they have just done under BHO? And not one elected idiot democrat or idiot talking head (Newt the Smart?) republican has stepped forward. Other than requests for donations.

vdh has not even touched on this. It is like the water the fish are living in but being fish they no nothing of the water that allows them to even exist.

The federal government has taken over two major Auto manufacturers, major insurance carriers, major banks all in the name of “financial security”. As defined by “what” and who?! Not one elected rep. even read the documents.

All that has happened is to protect the corrupt Unions, the Old boy network and their bonuses,who are now serving as convenient whipping boys because of excess salaries, only of course after they have “banked” the millions, and of course protect them and their company’s (Democrats) slush fund from Market forces that would have forced their efficiency or demise.

Likely a demise as it should be in a “free” market. As it should have been under the Constitution.

That of course would have busted the Unions gravy train and the “managements” bonus along with big dem party contributions. Not one real car maker in the mix. Simply criminal use of taxpayer money.

Has any one thought about what happens to a US citizen now who complains and gets mad and would try to take his country back? How would that happen when even the elections are rigged.

If Joe Stalin knew it would be this easy to take down America he would have done it.

Maybe Joe Stalin did succeed in the end due to his seeding of idiot intellectuals in the US with LSD fried brains and Pot burned out hippies with his “agents of change” using Utopian verbiage to perfume the communist scorpion.

This coded subversion easily seen through by any with common sense filling the empty spaces in most intellectuals head has led to an ongoing destruction of America that is current and ongoing.

Stalin has finally accomplished his mission. The affirmative action dumbed down, knee jerk liberal “Americans” now being pushed out of the Academic halls at all levels has achieved the POTUS status.

All done with tax payer funded money. All With the help of subversive and criminal elements such as the Chicago political Machine, Acorn, and the teaching of Communist left wing manifesto’s.

This vacuous, inane logic has now started to turn America upside down.

It has reached critical mass. It has reached a parasitic status such that it is even being funded by productive Americans tax dollars under the code of being PC.

It has hypnotized all including vdh. Who waste time by having a spit ball throwing contest instead of being able to address the real issues undermining America.

It is nothing but a power grab and there is no one “home” to fight.

Private business are being shut down by the government run Auto industry.

Dealers are not left to succeed or fail based on their ability in their local markets but on a Government run company’s mandate and decree.

BS artists are now addressing the MSM TV sets to “justify” this action.

I for one will not by another GM truck, car or $30,000.00 bicycle—the end result of BHO’s logic.

Banks who have been given billions of dollars for TARP are not lending money.

Small Business such as ours are scrambling for our financial lives due to a shut down of new business due to an upside down market that has no logic in it other than the “fear” of worse to come.

Most writers in this blog, including vdh would come to a tree cutting and land clearing operation with a paper ax. Nothing will happen out of this.

And if you don’t vote and get others to vote even if you have to take them to the polls it is all smoke.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:24 pm 155. harry:

I looked up the word “smug” in the dictionary and there it was, a picture of David Letterman right beside it.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:29 pm 156. arhooley:

Why do liberals hate Sarah?

Because she’s happy.

She has a faithful husband, a close family, a career for which she’s worked hard, and the gift of personal beauty.

Can you imagine how much Hillary and Michelle must loathe her for this?

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:19 pm 157. SeanLA:

133. Trisha2cents:
OH MY LORD look at that!!!
Letterman is a real piece of work!
So he has a bastard child with a troll he knocked up!
Dispelling two myths at the same time! Proving that person is a female and that hes not impotent.
Say no more, to the dogs with dave!

Jun 12, 2009 - 9:26 pm 158. Joseph:

I love the strange bedfellows politics makes in this country (no pun intended). Most of you all agree with the National Organization of Women. http://www.now.org/issues/media/hall-of-shame/index.php/television/letterman-palin-daughter
Ain’t America great.

Jun 12, 2009 - 10:48 pm 159. JackT:

Letterman could care less, he’s close to retirement, filthy rich, and got a kid to raise. Besides, Palin does dress slutty, and her daughter did get knocked up as a teen, so I don’t see a problem with his jokes. I think it’s ok to make fun of racist trailer trash.

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:32 pm 160. Realist:

I am still waiting for just one of the PC, left wing, Democratic ‘neolibs’ with all their fine tuned antenae on matters racial to explain to me how the fact that 96% of Black American voters voted for the touted Black BOGUS POTUS was NOT an act of blatant barefaced RACISM.

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:57 pm 161. WhyamInotsurprised?:

It is difficult to miss the relatively recent rise of liberal defense by having a “third” party make a statement to the effect of

1. “I’m sure that X did not mean it that way, and if they could, today they would say instead … ”
or
2. “What X meant to say was” “”

This sort of revisionism is done with straight face by Pelosi (well, as straight as possible!), the White House press secretary guy “whatshisname,” and many others of late. Our Dear Leader has set the example and is encouraging/enabling his administration and eventually American culture to new lows in the art of lying. Wow, we thought Clinton as a sleezebag!

Jun 13, 2009 - 12:02 am 162. WhyamInotsurprised?:

Amen #139 Old Patriot! Vote with your wallet. That is the only thing they listen to.

Maybe five years ago, I wrote to CBS Exec. VP for Letterman’s show and told them I would no longer watch his show because of the lecherous way he was dealing with “young” starlets on his show. He thought he was being cute, clever, sexy, or something. But as a father of three daughters, I found his comments and behavior appalling. His joking with them in a crude and lascivious manner, ogling them, touching them in borderline inappropriate ways left me with a feeling of disgust at this man who should be doing comedy and personal interest interviews, instead of getting his jollies at the expense of these young ladies.

However, they too are to blame as they volunteer to go on his show and subject themselves to these treatment. But hey, just where are the feminists to call this guy on the carpet and warn young ladies to beware?

So since I sent that letter, I have not watched his show again. Vote with your channel changer, or more loudly, as Old Patriot advises, vote with your pocketbook.

Jun 13, 2009 - 12:24 am 163. Never For Obama:

I agree with all the posters who say that the reason the left needs to villify Sarah Palin is because they are scared of a true conservative woman who lives her values.

I especially loved the comment on post #16, Dogs bark when they get scared.

If the left was not terrified of Palin and her popularity, they would not feel the overwhelming need to try and destroy her.

Jun 13, 2009 - 6:03 am 164. davo119:

Dr. Hanson why do you waste time on a brain dead clown like Jason Zengerle? Vicious personal attacks on Governor Palin and her family have been going on since her selection as running mate to McCain. Letterman’s decent into lurid depravity is only the latest round and is probably an indication of the end of his career. I would rather you focused on the absolute class act that Sarah Palin and her family represent.

Jun 13, 2009 - 6:11 am 165. noreen:

Dave has made really creepy sexual comments about Sarah Palin before. To throw her kids into the mix is really perverse and foul. They chastise her for throwing her kids into the limelight. Were not every candidates kids at the speeches and rallies? She was at a baseball game with her 14 year old this time . How coarse to parade your kid around in such a manner. She send the left into paroxysms of panic and anxiety that she is A okay in my book. I love her. The left equates her daughter’s pregnancy with hypocrisy. No, she is living her befiefs. Was she to hide her daughter in shame ? They hate her because she did not abort her Down’s kid ? None of it makes any sense

Jun 13, 2009 - 7:11 am 166. noreen:

Rumor has it that Obama keeps in contact with his puppet master George Soros vis his blackberry

Jun 13, 2009 - 7:17 am 167. sheesh:

Ah yes, and so the right wing repressivists are back to their politically correct outrage. I thought you were against political correctness. By the way, you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father.

Jun 13, 2009 - 7:21 am 168. sheesh:

“She comes to me when she wants to be fed. And after I feed her — guess what — she’s off to wherever she wants to be in the house, until the next time she gets hungry. She’s smart enough to know she can’t feed herself. She’s actually a very smart cat. She gets loved. She gets adoration. She gets petted. She gets fed. And she doesn’t have to do anything for it, which is why I say this cat’s taught me more about women, than anything my whole life.”
- Rush Limbaugh

How many more you want?

Jun 13, 2009 - 7:37 am 169. PegoPete:

Hey Freehat #54 Thanks. Your juvenile diatribe so clearly makes the point as an example as to what pondscum with your way of thinking are really like. Congratulations, moron.

Jun 13, 2009 - 7:47 am 170. rssrvs:

VDH is right on all fronts. There is another aspect I find apppalling. Dare I mention that, at least in the old days, parents (like but not limited to the Palins)who learn an unmarried daughter is pregnant (we used to say “expecting”) are devastated and mortified. They typically sublimate this with their love. Given his experience, as chronicled in these responses, goofy ol’ Dave from Indiana doesn’t share this. Perhaps that’s why he can so cavalierly cut them, and millions like them, with remarks about “knocked up” children. In normal America one would blush with shame if he accidently (much less deliberately) made a remark about “knocked up” teenagers in front of an unwed mother or her parents. This isn’t a question of “tasteless” comedy, but rather one of basic inhumanity. As Shylock said, “cut me, and do I not bleed?”

BTW. Dave likes to promote his “mom” on his show. Let’s ger her take on this subject.

Jun 13, 2009 - 8:08 am 171. mycatholicdog:

I AM APPALLED AT THE WOMEN NEWS ANCHORS ON THE MSNBC, THE WAY THEY STUCK UP FOR DAVID LETTERMAN. IF THIS WAS MICHELLE OBAMA, THAT LETTERMAN WAS MAKING FUN OF, OBAMA WOULD HAVE HIM OFF THAT SHOW LIKE YESTERDAY.

Jun 13, 2009 - 8:12 am 172. Kolchak:

Why is the Left so afraid of Palin?

Jun 13, 2009 - 8:32 am 173. Granny:

Letterman is an ass! He is repulsive and in my opinion hasn’t been funny since the beginning of his career. The “joke” was vile and disparaging to all women. Sarah Palin has a sense of right and wrong that I agree with. However, I think his perversion should be punished. Apologizing isn’t good enough especially since the so called “apology” made it 10 times worse. Ok if the joke was about an 18 year old? Not! Fire this jerk.
Since this “joke” made the news I have read several accounts excusing Letterman’s behavior on the basis he is a comedian. I have been a big fan of Bill Cosby for years and cannot remember a single instance where he had even used minor bad language on national TV. Mr. Cosby is funny, Letterman is fatuous.
Anyone who approves or excuses this kind of behavior is depraved just like Letterman.

Jun 13, 2009 - 8:43 am 174. Tony:

We as a whole don’t live in a creepy culture. There are alot more normal, moral decent peo;le then their are lefty liberals that are amoral. It just seems like the culture has gotten even worse than it is becasue the amorale liberals are in charge of the press.

They are snowing the rest of the country what their fellow citizens are like, and that they are not in step, so they might as well accept it. Go with the flow. A flow that is not shared by a huge majority of the population.

It’s happy horses**t-much like being told the majority favors global warming when just the opposite is true-hoping to change peoples perception to match theirs using smoke and mirrors

Kinda like Californias would overwhelmingly support Prop 8. The reality couldn’t be any more opposite-look how it got voted down in flames by huge numbers

Tell a lie often enough and people will believe it.

Jun 13, 2009 - 8:47 am 175. Sonny:

#8 scheesh(?) Bad behovior by one idiot doesn’t justify bad behavior by another idiot. Should they both be condemned? Absolutely!!!

Jun 13, 2009 - 8:55 am 176. dicta:

Obama’s mother was an 18 yr old who got “knocked-up.”

Jun 13, 2009 - 9:00 am 177. Ellen K:

This is a societal issue. From reality TV to tabloid journalism, we have become a nation that revers the cheap and tawdry over the upright and noble. Letterman, a bitter old man, was trying to be cool for his ratings war with Conan. While all of the late night talking heads have taken shots at politicians and their children, only Olberman and Letterman come across as having persona grudges. Maybe they are trying to prove the validity of their surnames’ late syllables, but I digress…

I have always cringed at attacks on the children of celebrities. I thought the attacks on Chelsea Clinton were out of line. I thought the attacks on the Bush twins were out of line. And I think the attacks on Palin and her family are out of line. What I would like to know is, where is NOW on these attacks? Why have they not castigated CBS and Letterman for smearing a female governor and her female children? Is this the message of Team Obama-you can smear someone regardless of the validity of the comment, as long as they aren’t Democrats or part of a socio-economic group? And what of parity in reporting? Does anyone think that a sitting Republican politician would have gotten a free pass on the statement President Obama made regarding his bowling skills? Where’s the sensitivity and why aren’t related groups demanding apoligies? Face it, we have a Teflon presidency, a shrinking network of news and a population that is disinterested in facts over fiction. This type of complacency will come back to haunt us. God help us all.

Jun 13, 2009 - 9:02 am 178. Sonny:

How about this!

Gov. Palin just completed what were failed efforts of 30 years by her predecessors in getting a natural gas pipeline from Alaska to the Lower 48.

Here we are in the middle of an energy crisis and she does something about it. Put your hands together for her. She saved us all a bundle of energy expense.

Jun 13, 2009 - 9:05 am 179. Pig face franken:

8. sheesh:

You liberals don’t seem to understand, Ted Nugent doesn’t have a national television audience forum available to him like Letterman does…big difference. Letterman spews his crap on the public airwaves whereas Nugent doesn’t. I long to hear the obama daughters be dissed just to see the reaction of the always reactive left wing loons.

Jun 13, 2009 - 9:07 am 180. Fuzzlenutter:

17. rocketeer:

Well, I sent this email to cbsmailbag@aol.com (his show claims “For all show-related topics, e-mail us at…):

Letterman has a six year-old son, doesn’t he? He had him with a fat “slut” whom he didn’t marry until a few years after his birth, right?

Well, I think some NAMBLA “jokes” about his son are in perfectly appropriate order now. How about you??

Jun 13, 2009 - 9:10 am 181. McKenz59:

FREE HAT:
So Palin, while running for VP, was supposed to hide her family from the media? Is that what you’re saying? Right! That would have worked out really well! The ever respectful and unbiased media would certainly have been okay with that.
The media/celebrity world/and other politicians will continue to pile on Palin, continue to smear her and her family until she either gives up, or loses her cool and tells them all what she REALLY thinks of them, which is exactly what I think they’re going for. What none of them understand is that the more you try and beat some people down, the stronger and more hard-headed they become. If they’re afraid of Palin now, just wait for a couple of years.

Jun 13, 2009 - 10:00 am 182. divorced male:

We used to say the power of the pen was important and now that has been changed to the power of the keystroke! The number of people that are bothered by these things must let their voices be heard or it is just meaningless whining! Investigate and find out who the people are that are in charge and need to be contacted with your intelligent, tactful views….below is an example of a letter I received in response to one of my letters:
____________________
I will pass along your e-mail to CBS along with others we have received. You can also write them at audsvcs@cbs.com

I hope Dave realizes he crossed the line by making jokes about a minor – my guess is he would feel similar if someone made jokes about his son Harry.

Mark Binda,
Program Director
WTVF Nashville
615-248-5242
mbinda@newschannel5.com

Jun 13, 2009 - 10:12 am 183. Sapwolf:

Gov. Palin is gold.

Letterman is s**t.

What more can you say?

The woman is gonna be President because the REAL Sarah is a good person, likable, and really believes she is a public servant. Plus, she can lead, and not just talk with a teleprompter.

I heard TOTUS is afraid of her because if she beats O-man in 2012 he could be out of a job.

Jun 13, 2009 - 10:18 am 184. allyHM:

If you want to write to CBS, here’s the easiest way:

1. Go to http://lateshow.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/#

2. Scroll all the way to the bottom and click on “Feedback” on the bottom left.

This will open up a small-ish window which states: “Your opinions and comments are very important to CBS and we read every message that we receive.”

Jun 13, 2009 - 10:43 am 185. justltl:

The correct answer is that provided by Ms. Attitude in post #28.

We can moan and groan all we want about the hideousness of the left, media bias, etc., etc., but that will amount to nothing.

Send some e-mails to the sponsors and follow through on not purchasing their products.

Want to effect some change?
Hit ‘em where it hurts. Right in the wallet.

Jun 13, 2009 - 10:43 am 186. RandyChandler:

To All Sorros Goons, Trolls And The Usual Gang of Useless Lefty Idiots:
You’re wasting your time here with your attacks and fuzzy logic. If you getting paid to haunt these pages, you aren’t earning your money. If you’re here on your own dime, you’re embarassing yourself out of some twisted psychological need that cannot be fulfilled here.

But don’t go away. You’re better than Letterman for a few cheap laughs.

Jun 13, 2009 - 10:43 am 187. POWinCA:

Not to diminish one iota of blame from David Letterman, but the joke he delivered was probably written by one of his writers. I hold Letterman responsible for everything he says and especially for lacking the humility to realize he went way over the line in a targeted act of defamation.

My point is that the hypocritical misogyny and barely-veiled political agenda goes beyond the man who doesn’t realize an unbuttoned double-breasted suit jacket looks foolish. There is an entire crew of tasteless, hateful leftists working for CBS – not only for the Letterman show but for 60 Minutes, the CBS Evening News, etc.

Jun 13, 2009 - 10:59 am 188. Tess:

159. That is what they want you to do, then it legitimizes their hate. I think this is the ‘proverbial line in the sand.’ This is not going away. Letterman has woken the “sleeping giant.” Sarah doesn’t have to do anything anymore, she is class, but the people are not letting this rest.

Jun 13, 2009 - 11:25 am 189. Peter the Bubblehead:

153. Joseph wrote:
I love the strange bedfellows politics makes in this country (no pun intended). Most of you all agree with the National Organization of Women.

Peter writes: You’ve got it backwards. For once, NOW agrees with most of US!

Jun 13, 2009 - 11:38 am 190. Peter the Bubblehead:

154. JackT wrote:
Besides, Palin does dress slutty, and her daughter did get knocked up as a teen, so I don’t see a problem with his jokes

Peter writes: You have no problem with Letterman making jokes about 14 year olds getting raped? You’re SICK!

In case it never occurred to you to check your facts, 14 year old Willow is not, and has never been, pregnant. Or is this the next big liberal rumor you want to start spreading?

Jun 13, 2009 - 11:40 am 191. Mark30339:

I agree with davo119: “I would rather you focused on the absolute class act that Sarah Palin and her family represent.”
.
Americans no longer insist on honest debate and respectful disagreement. Dr. H, how do we begin to restore that social understanding?

Jun 13, 2009 - 11:46 am 192. TLM:

Regarding the latest anti-semitic statements from the Right Reverend Wright, we should remember that Obama once claimed that never in his 20 years of listening to Wright’s sermons did he hear the man express such views. Clearly that’s a lie, as Wright can’t open his mouth without spewing bigotry and racism.

Ironic that Wright dissed ‘Them Joooooz’ around the same time another anti-semitic crackpot attacked the Holocaust Museum, and an American Muslim shot two Army recruiters. You’d think the MSM would put 2 and 2 together and come up with a connection. Use an abacus if necessary — that’s a muslim invention too, right? No such luck. Back to the important work of defending Letterman before he gets sh*tcanned

Jun 13, 2009 - 12:03 pm 193. Dukeishness:

david littleman (spelling correct) is suffering from long term effects of erectile disfunction. CBS is at epidemic levels of this disfunction if they dont FIRE david littleman.
thanx
Fred

Jun 13, 2009 - 12:16 pm 194. johnny go:

Victor Davis Hanson is to David Letterman as Gary Cooper was to….(help me out here, people: there’s gotta be someone who knows one of the legendary Hollywood stoic lawman’s disgusting arch-rivals).

anyway, i saw the Letterman clip and VDH nailed it perfectly. Letterman is a carp, not a comedian…

And VDH would be (come on people, help me out here, there’s gotta be some wonderfully admirable fish that outclasses the Carpus Lettermanus that I can equate our magnificent Victor to).

Actually, Victor has been hitting them out of the park lately what with his columns on our bought-and-sold media, Obama and co.’s racialism, the Cairo speech, etc. Here’s to your good health, Mister Victor!

Jun 13, 2009 - 12:18 pm 195. myth buster:

I believe he was trying to make a joke about Bristol, and it’s still disgusting. Also, he needs to fire his fact-checkers, because this is something you should not miss. He also needs to issue a real apology.

BTW, 104. Not only do the beatitudes not bless taunting and slandering people; they do bless the victims of such wicked speech. “Blessed are you when wicked tongues insult and hate you and utter every manner of evil accusation against you falsely for the sake of righteousness, for great is your reward.”

Jun 13, 2009 - 12:32 pm 196. myth buster:

BTW, I can’t wait for Palin to run for President in 2020; I expect her son to come out and accuse the left point blank of wanting him dead and hating his mother because she didn’t kill him.

Jun 13, 2009 - 12:34 pm 197. DavidN:

Two things:

First, I’ve always disliked Letterman. He’s got this “Gee I’m a dork” routine he does every night, endlessly repeats the same joke and gets nervous laughs from the audience, who aren’t sure they get it, and always gets overnervous with the female guests, being silly and trying to flirt. It’s gotten very old, and that combined with the white socks, the running across the stage before each show (if you watch on TV sometimes you can see him do it, just before the monologue), and the double-breasted suits combined with those silly little glasses, and the pencils with erasers on both ends (so he doesn’t hurt himself–no, really!)…the whole thing is just tired, and not that funny. One correction to be made: I don’t think he’s avoiding making jokes about the Obama children because *he’s* partisan. Reportedly he despised Clinton, referring to him as “the Hillbilly”. There are two things at work here: one, he knows he can attack Palin (more about this below), and two, he, like most desperate comedians, knows that if you say something sexual that’s provocative, you can get a nervous laugh out of the audience. It’s a substitute for being funny. Of course he couldn’t do this about the children of any Democrats, and whether he’d like to or not, he’s smart enough to know he *can’t* and that alone is enough to prevent him.

Second, as to Sarah Palin and the left’s reaction to her. It’s sort of a perfect storm thing. They aren’t upset with her solely because of her stand on abortion; there are any number of politicians, even women, who have the same stance, and don’t get the same reaction. It’s also not solely because she didn’t go to Ivy League schools; there are any number of politicians who didn’t do that, either. It’s not her family; most Republicans have one of those. Thing is, it’s most of the circumstances of her life, stands she’s taken, and her background, combined with how popular she is, that made her so unpopular with Democrats. They learned their lesson with Reagan, who they dismissed as an old guy who gives good speeches, but whose ideas were “out of touch” with mainstream America. After he won two elections by landslides and governed for 8 years, the Democrats vowed “Never Again” and go into attack mode whenever there’s a popular Republican running for office. Since Jon Stewart’s a comedian, he’s free to say anything he wants, and influence opinion as much as he can…if he gets something wrong, well, he’s a comedian, it was a joke. Now we’ve actually (apparently) elected a joke to the Senate (Al Franken) and the snarkiness will take over our political arena. Palin didn’t come from the “proper” upbringing, so they can’t make fun of her Ivy League education (while typically concealing a similar background their guy has), and she is politically honest. This last is horrifying to them: Republicans who run for office need to have a taint of corruption, so that the media can be distracted from the wholesale looting of the country’s financial coffers that they’re engineering simultaneously. I mean, imagine Sarah Palin running for something against Murtha, Frank, Wrangel, or even Chris Dodd. If she’s all of these things, well then she must be a slut, or something, because we can’t allow her to successfully run for office…she might *win* and that would be a disaster for the country, or at least the Democratic Party.

Jun 13, 2009 - 12:44 pm 198. MisterH:

154. JackT:
Palin does dress slutty, and her daughter did get knocked up as a teen, so I don’t see a problem with his jokes. I think it’s ok to make fun of racist trailer trash.

—————————

Racist trailer trash??? You’re referring to a woman from a very humble background and means with no big family or political connections that was elected governor of a state while in her 40’s; is still married to the same man with whom she’s had three children. So pray tell, what great accomplishments do you have in your CV that place YOU above trailer trash?

Jun 13, 2009 - 12:50 pm 199. Penny:

some photos of women after lettercreep is finished with them at Atlas Shrugs blog

Jun 13, 2009 - 12:58 pm 200. james:

The last time Dave had an on-air sex fantasy his guest was Richard Simmons. There is a photo of this appearance which is one of the all-time classics.
Sarah Palin should not stoop to conquer this degenerate. I understand the impulse, and the atmosphere now is so toxic that ordinary behavior just gets you trampled. But still. Move on, Sarah.

Jun 13, 2009 - 1:15 pm 201. jlpillinois:

Bret you are spot on – that is exactly the left’s tactic – Obama used it against Hillary Clinton. I don’t care what your politics are – the treatment of women by the left is shameful and wrong. My disgust for Letterman is beyond words. My disgust for CBS, ABC, and NBC grows by the day.

I am deeply saddened that we don’t have an alternative to the trash that is on all 3 networks.

Sarah Palin you are my hero – some say that she should stand and fight, but be quiet (Charles Krauthammer on Fox) – I say fight – fight – fight – fight until you do not have another breath in your body.

Jun 13, 2009 - 1:16 pm 202. jlpillinois:

Correction on previous post – some says she should not stand and fight, but be quiet (Charles Krauthammer on Fox) – I say FIGHT! We all should fight with her to get this stopped.

Jun 13, 2009 - 1:19 pm 203. Virginia 11775:

Barack Obama has already made it clear what would happen if one of his daughters was “punished with a baby.” The fetus would be vacuumed out by an abortionist, and the public would never be the wiser.

I always felt Bristol Palin’s decision to have her baby was courageous, and the old-fashioned ridicule heaped on her by lecherous old men like David Letterman and the gossiping old biddies of the pro-so-called-choice left only shows how little society has changed since Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter.

If I remember correctly, Sasha and Malia were constantly with their family on magazine covers, onstage and on the campaign trail. An earlier comment supposed they would be treated as despicably as the Palin children, if they only “asked for it,” but their behavior is above reproach.

No one thought any less of Barack Obama being born to an underage teen who was seduced by a married man who left her. We can therefore say with near certainty that if no one has made a joke about the President’s mother, his two daughters would be off-limits, as well. No one even said a peep about Ashley Biden caught on film snorting coke.

Jun 13, 2009 - 1:53 pm 204. Dschoen:

I would have like to have sent this to Jason Zengerle but there is no way I will pay to post on TNR

“Yes, it’s true (as Hanson emphasizes) that it was Willow, not Bristol, who attended the Yankees game with her mom. But my guess is Letterman was simply confused about which daughter was in attendance. (it wasn’t exactly national news)”

Jason Zengerle

Jason, please explain EXACTLY how Letterman AND the shows writers along with who ever approved this “Joke”, MISSED the hundreds of “current news articles about Palin’s charity trip to NY and attending the Yankee game with her daughter Willow!

“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.”

“we often do, making jokes about people in the news”
Did ya get that Jason?

Let me clarify, JUST FOR YOU!

“we” Meaning Letterman, the shows writers AND who ever approved this “Joke” We have to also include CBS for this as well.

often do,

making jokes about people in the news”

Did ya get that Jason? About people in the news! So what “was” in the News about Palin’s attending the Yankee game? If we can find that ALL questions will be answered yes?

Well here’s the news article.

On June 7, the AP reported
“Palin was being honored Sunday at an anniversary celebration for the Long Island-based Independent Group Home Living Inc. after attending a New York Yankees game. She was joined by her husband, daughter Willow and a sister.”

Would you like to try the excuse “The joke was about Bristol”?

Did ya get that Jason? The article on June 7th, 2 days before Letterman’s joke, CLEARLY states it was daughter Willow, NOT daughter Bristol that attended the game.

Do you see the problem here Jason?

If you want me or anyone else with half a brain to believe that Letterman was ACTUALLY talking about Bristol and not Willow, you have to prove Letterman is a liar!

“about people in the new” Bristol was not in the news about the Yankee game Buckie! Willow was.

Clear?

Now once you PROVE Letterman is lying about his “about people in the new” claim, why would anyone with half a brain believe this proven liar is telling the truth?

(it wasn’t exactly national news)

Really Jason? Did you look it up?

Google
3,130 for attending a New York Yankees game. She was joined by her husband, daughter Willow and a sister. (0.25 seconds)

Jason, 0.25 seconds 3,130 proves you’re a lying lazy idiot.

Palin Pals Around With Rudy During N.Y. Visit | NBC New York
Jun 8, 2009 … In Photos: Sarah Palin Takes New York. View Slideshow … autism awareness and kicked back at a Yankee game over the weekend in New York. … Home Living Inc. She was joined by her husband, daughter Willow and a sister. … paid $100 or more to attend a garden party on the museum grounds in Auburn. …
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Sarah-Palin-Visits-New-York-Yankee-Game-Rudy-

NBS New York, wild guess here Jason but wouldn’t NBS New York, qualify as a “major news source in New York?
(it wasn’t exactly national news)

Alaska Gov. Palin talks about special needs in NY – Netscape News
Jun 7, 2009 … NEW YORK (AP) – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has called for measures to make life … Independent Group Home Living Inc. after attending a New York Yankees game. She was joined by her husband, daughter Willow and a sister. …
channels.isp.netscape.com/news/story.jsp?floc=ne-story-9-l1&idq=/ff/story/

Channels isp is world wide, or at lest as far as the internet goes. Oh and AP is in fact “exactly national news”

Seriously Jason, are you an idiot?

(it wasn’t exactly national news)

Alaska Gov. Palin Talks About Special Needs In NY – wcbstv.com

Jun 7, 2009 … NEW YORK (CBS) ―. Click to enlarge … an anniversary celebration for the Manorville-based Independent Group Home Living Inc. after attending a Yankees game. She was joined by her husband, daughter Willow and a sister. …
wcbstv.com/topstories/palin.special.needs.2.1034707.html

Golly Jason, even CBS in New York made it absolutely clear it was daughter Willow at the game!

Please Jason please give an explanation as to why CBS didn’t know about this CBS report?
That would be a hoot!

Palin talks about special needs in NY
Jun 7, 2009 …
WIVB 4 is western New York’s news leader for breaking news, traffic and weather in … News 4 at Noon · Live Streams · CBS Video · Notebooks … Long Island-based Independent Group Home Living Inc. after attending a New York Yankees game. She was joined by her husband, daughter Willow and a sister. …

http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/nation/news_ap_newyork_palin_special_needs

So far the .025 search has proven the “(it wasn’t exactly national news)” was on TV, in Print and on the TV.

There are thousands more Jason, would you like to admit you’re an idiot or do I have to prove it further?

Jason, if you can’t back up YOUR claims please resign.

Jun 13, 2009 - 2:15 pm 205. Dschoen:

“sheesh:
Neil Boortz: “I saw Cynthia McKinney’s new hairdo. She looks like a ghetto slut.”
Wait, there’s more:”

Cynthia McKinney, like Sarah Palin is fair game. Cynthia McKinney children, like Sarah Palin children are not fair game.

Ted Haggard, like Sarah Palin is fair game. Ted Haggard children, like Sarah Palin children are not fair game.

Senator Larry Craig, like Sarah Palin is fair game. Senator Larry Craig children, like Sarah Palin children are not fair game.

Is this too complicated for you sheesh?

Jun 13, 2009 - 2:25 pm 206. Dschoen:

Bear:

“I don’t think he was ever that funny, and he isn’t terribly bright either…that’s what writers are for”.

He used to be funny back in the 80’s when I was drin… wait, never mind.

Hey Dave bring back stupid human tricks, like Cordless bungee jumping!

Jun 13, 2009 - 2:33 pm 207. Delia:

154. JackT:

Letterman could care less, he’s close to retirement, filthy rich, and got a kid to raise. Besides, Palin does dress slutty, and her daughter did get knocked up as a teen, so I don’t see a problem with his jokes. I think it’s ok to make fun of racist trailer trash.
~

Slutty? Palin dresses slutty????????

You’ve got to be freakin’ KIDDING me! -And, have you seen the tight dresses the ‘first lady’ has been wearing? Palin dresses with far more class than hobag hathcet faced Michelle does.

I dare you, JackT, to find me a photo of Palin looking ’slutty’ to you.

You want an example of what a low class skank dresses like? Look no further than the Michelle 0bama:

1). Lotsa leg
2). Camel toe alert
3). Tight-Tight-Dress
4). Another Tight Dress
5). Another revealing leg and thigh dress
6). Michelle at graduation is the most ‘covered’ I’ve seen her: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL7da8T-BMI/AAAAAAAABQY/IxCmRfBrwqY/s400/Obama,Michelle.teenager.JPG

I’m waiting for the pictures of Palin looking like a floozy. I’m waiiiiiiiitinggggggggg.

Jun 13, 2009 - 2:41 pm 208. Horace Wells:

Nice to see this so called professor returning to his right wing, talk show level anti-iintellectual roots. The only people who take this hack seriousl are the same ones who admire Palin. It’s a joke for god yet all the small minds, like most of the right, are making a mountain out of a mole hill. Since Palin’s father was a Science teacher, the quintessential middle class job and she was in media as a college grad, going on about her “blue collar” background make Victor sound like even stupider and more shallow than Lars Larson. Right, they are attacking this idiot cause they are elitists, that is the classic line of a moron who is proud of his ignorance. What does thos court jester for Bush care about sexual harrassment anywayys. It’s a joke you pointy headed know nothings. I’d rather have Letterman for VP than a dimwit like Palin or a lettered fool like Hanson.

Jun 13, 2009 - 3:03 pm 209. Dschoen:

Good points! Stephanie Llod

“on National Television” so did the Obama’s. Are Obama’s kids now fair game for ridicule?

It doesn’t even have to be slightly true as Letterman has shown us.

“Sorry folks, lets be truthful, if that was Mr. Obama’s black daughter what would have happened? Be honest with yourselves”

The Joke wasn’t about Bristol, she wasn’t there.
AHHH! I get it! facts not necessary!

So the joke was REALLY About Obama’s mother!! D’oh!!

Obama’s mother, underage and “knocked up” by a married man, with Obama, do you find that funny?

No wait, the joke was about EVERY woman who has EVER been “knocked up”

So the joke was really about your mother being “banged” during the 7th inning at Yankee stadium!

Whewwwwwwww! Nothing offensive bout dat!

You do realize this joke is about your mother right?

You do know your mother got knocked up right?

Jun 13, 2009 - 3:05 pm 210. Horace Wells:

You pinheads should get down and kiss Letterman’s feet because he gave you know nothings at least two weeks of pointless outrage(your raison de etre) and a chance to show your fealty and kinship with the penultimate reactionary know nothing in America. Plain for VP, or worse

Jun 13, 2009 - 3:11 pm 211. javelin:

proreason:
“It could well be the US’s demise as a force for good in the world.”
A joke is going to destroy the US, when the trash you admire made far worse jokes and mistakes.
You screen name should be ‘Illogic’, not ‘proreason’ cause there is no reason in your petty tirade.

Jun 13, 2009 - 3:15 pm 212. sheesh:

87. AThinkingPerson: . . . “We’re too evolved to stoop to that.”

Really? Then why are there so many examples of right wing crudity and attacks on women? The difference between you and me is that I admit everybody does it. You say only liberals do it. And that’s all the difference I need.

Jun 13, 2009 - 3:19 pm 213. james:

Uh, Horace, it’s Know-Nothings and Raison d’Etre. Genius. Those government schools working out for you, huh?

Jun 13, 2009 - 3:58 pm 214. Morris Minor:

sheesh
I am not a liberal but I cn’ agree more. People like most posters here and VDH are the shallowest sort of partisan hacks, It’s a joke not a bomb.

Jun 13, 2009 - 4:01 pm 215. Morris Minor:

As another example of this professor’s total anti-intellectualism (or lack of integrity), he went on a month ago about how it was so hypocritical for liberals to attack conservatives and the GOP for their subservience to Rush and Coulter then went on to name Moore and Reverend Wright, as if they had comparable levels of influence and exposure than the fat slob who blaps for 15 hours a week and has congreeemen and the head of the GOP apologizing to him.
Well after Wright’s latest verbal excrement, even Keith Olberman named him “Worst Person” in his silly count down. Outside of Planet Sharpton, the whole country has disowned Wright. So does VDH still think he is the leftwing equivalent of Rush Limbaugh?

Jun 13, 2009 - 4:09 pm 216. Kat in Indiana:

#208/210 Hmmmmm….I think someone forgot their medication. Or the attendants forgot to lock the padded cage….

Jun 13, 2009 - 5:00 pm 217. TLM:

JackT(off) — Get your jollies off sliming women do you?

Horace Wells — You’d be more effective at riling up us rubes if you’d learn how to frickin’ spell correctly. “Raison d[uh] etre” ought to be your new blog name.

shee[pi]sh — You still here defending a washed up B-grade comedian over an issue you think is inconsequential? “…I admit everybody does it. You say only liberals do it.” Na na na. Wow, I eagerly await your next bit of profundity.

So, 200-plus comments on this article and this is the best the Left can muster in defense of their pervert poster boy: a whack job, an illiterate and a schoolboy who soiled his pants on the playground and now sheepishly stinks up the professor’s class. Sure is odd lot to be dumping on those they consider trailer trash.

Jun 13, 2009 - 5:42 pm 218. TLM:

My note to CBS’s website:

What do you get when your star comedian trash talks a politician’s daughter(s)? A lot of feedback (and a look at the show’s sponsors). From a good article on why Dave should clarify his apology, here’s a sampling of the 2-3% of posters who DEFEND Dave:

“…if Sarah Palin didn’t want America to joke about her barefoot, pregnant and stupid teenage daughter, then she probably should not have used her as a campaign prop…”

“Palin does dress slutty, and her daughter did get knocked up as a teen, so I don’t see a problem with his jokes. I think it’s ok to make fun of racist trailer trash.”

“It’s a joke you pointy headed know nothings. I’d rather have Letterman for VP than a dimwit like Palin…”

“You pinheads should get down and kiss Letterman’s feet because he gave you know nothings at least two weeks of pointless outrage(your raison de etre)”

“A joke is going to destroy the US, when the trash you admire…”

That’s Dave’s supporters for ya’, out here in cyberland. Good luck with keeping his show financially viable.

Jun 13, 2009 - 6:49 pm 219. Dschoen:

154. JackT:
Palin does dress slutty, and her daughter did get knocked up as a teen, so I don’t see a problem with his jokes. I think it’s ok to make fun of racist trailer trash.

“Palin does dress slutty” Please supply some “non photo shopped” examples or I have to conclude your lying.

“her daughter did get knocked up as a teen” Yep just like Obama’s mother. Is Obama trailer trash?

“racist” Racist, based on what exactly her Bi-racial children? Her Native American husband?

“so I don’t see a problem with his jokes” So you think raping a 14 year-old girl is okay because that 14 year-old girl is Bi-racial? Really?

How much are you paying for your “Custom” bed sheets these days?

Jun 13, 2009 - 7:08 pm 220. tnxplant:

I don’t understand why the tu quoque argument has such power. And two wrongs have never made right.

Here’s a story for you: we attended a Southern Baptist church in a small Tennessee town. Most of the members there are white working class people. They own guns and are pro-life. Before the election, the choir director, in the middle of a service, told a joke mocking Sarah Palin in his version of her accent. Many people laughed, and we quietly left the service. I still don’t understand that incident.

Jun 13, 2009 - 7:09 pm 221. Minaka:

Why are the lib language police who would never dream of using “welfare trash” to describe single black mothers so comfortable with “trailer trash” to describe white families?

Why do libs who abort their babies feel morally superior to women who don’t kill their babies?

Jun 13, 2009 - 7:37 pm 222. Horace Wells:

james
So what, I didn’t take the time to proof read it. Thanks for proving my point anyways, my petty small minded critic. (gubiment skools hah hah) Petty trash like this flap is what you live for so you can feel all smug and self righteousness while accomplishing 0.

Jun 13, 2009 - 7:49 pm 223. Horace Wells:

TLM:
I live in the country too. That is not my point. I could care less where you live or what your station in life is, how much you make, what your hobbies are or what degrees you’ve earned. But if you focus on petty trash like a bad joke or the spelling in a hasty post, while far more important things are happening in the world, then I can safely dismiss you as petty, irrelevant and small minded.

Jun 13, 2009 - 8:19 pm 224. Banned by Huffpo:

# 20 Bret:

You nailed it, buddy. End of story.

Great job!

Jun 13, 2009 - 8:36 pm 225. ITF:

Dschoen: “Is Obama trailer trash?”

Please. No self respecting trailer resident would have such putrid garbage anywhere near their trailer. They’d pull the chain right away.

Hey Letterman, you’re right. Jokes are a lot of fun – ar, ar.

Jun 13, 2009 - 9:57 pm 226. Meryl:

Even if he agrees to “apologize”, brace yourselves.

Because it won’t be an apology as in, “I am sorry for what I said. I should not have said it. I apologize for what I said.”

It will be lefty apology which goes like this:

“I want to apologize to those who may have been offended by what I said.”

So….

#1–”I want to apologize”….but I won’t.

#2–”to those who may have been offended”–i.e., “I can’t help it if you’re offended; your problem, nothing wrong with what I said, but since your being offended is causing me problems, I will say I apologize….without actually apologizing.”

They’ve got this down to a science, folks.

Any “apology” he may issue will not be worth the 3 seconds it takes to read it–before he busts up laughing off camera.

Jun 13, 2009 - 11:06 pm 227. vivo:

David Letterman makes me laugh.

Sarah Palin makes me laugh.

I’m late to the party, but it’s a funny world!

Jun 14, 2009 - 12:35 am 228. JMS:

Funny, when I was in college the sluts were all progressive hippy-types. Guys looking to score easily tended not to go after well-dressed, classy, conservative-types.

Jun 14, 2009 - 1:26 am 229. David M. in Europe:

The sickness of mind is not limited to this little Letterman. The people who write and put their words in his mouth, the people who watch and clap for him, advertisers who put money in his pocket, CBS and the people who defend him are as sick as this little Letterman.

Jun 14, 2009 - 4:27 am 230. Gary Ogletree:

Darling Sarah is back and she’s not playing the enemy’s game. Palin/Bachman 2012.

Jun 14, 2009 - 4:35 am 231. steveg:

People like Vivo and Horace Wells are not liberals. They are hate filled leftist. Progressive Fascist.

Jun 14, 2009 - 7:25 am 232. kdman:

#54 Freehat – “If Palin had kept her daughters out of the spotlight, we wouldn’t even be disussing them right now.” That statement proves YOU to be the true and undisputed idiot. Not to mention a brain-dead, agenda spewing leftist hack.

Jun 14, 2009 - 7:26 am 233. sheesh:

226. Meryl . . . “#2–”to those who may have been offended”–i.e., “I can’t help it if you’re offended; your problem, nothing wrong with what I said, but since your being offended is causing me problems, I will say I apologize….without actually apologizing.”

Yep, this and other techniques constitute the non-apology, but to say it’s the province of the left is ridiculous.

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/breaking-virginia-foxx-issues-second-non-apology/politics/2009/05/01/2251

http://wonkette.com/406018/hilarious-racist-email-gets-gop-official-fired

Rupert Murdoch on the infamous chimp assassination cartoon . . . “Last week, we made a mistake. We ran a cartoon that offended many people. Today I want to personally apologize to any reader who felt offended, and even insulted,” writes Murdoch.

So, when you make a good observation, don’t ruin it by wrapping it in mindless statements like, “It will be lefty apology”.

You want to hear a non-apology? “There have been times when America has shown arrogance . .. been dismissive, even derisive. But in Europe, there is an anti-Americanism that is at once casual but can also be insidious. Instead of recognizing the good that America so often does in the world, there have been times where Europeans choose to blame America for much of what’s bad.”

I didn’t hear an apology in there.

Jun 14, 2009 - 7:29 am 234. David S:

I agree. Any culture that could promote Sarah Palin as a candidate for national political office is indeed quite creepy.

For the record, the left is not afraid of Palin. She is actually a blessing to the left, because she demonstrates on a regular basis how unconcerned with reality the GOP is.

So long as the GOP faithful keep pretending that Palin is a viable national candidate, the Democrats have very little to worry about. Her qualifications, experience, intellect and interest are all lacking. The real question is why the right is so fascinated by this unimpressive woman, and how long it will take for the GOP to wake up. Dumb, meet dumber.

This should be fun.

Peace.

DS

Jun 14, 2009 - 8:02 am 235. LeftyK:

First, I would like to say that to pass judgement on Sotomayor without fully reading what she said is ignorant. Both sides of the political coin are too quick to take sound bites at face value in order to make the opposition look bad. In this case, she said that a hispanic woman with the wealth of experiences that she has had would make better decisions than a white man without those experiences. The comment was really about experience and perhaps race or gender should not have been involved at all.

Secondly, I would like to address the ’slutty’ Palin comment. Maybe he should not have said that. It isn’t really appropriate but then again, neither is his show… he is a comedian. If he said it about Michelle Obama, I’m sure people would be upset, but probably not you. Also, comparing Palin to Michelle is strange as they share very little in common other than being public female figures (open to media fodder). Whether she be a Republican or Democrat, insulting the first lady is very different than insulting a Governor.

Then on to the A-rod comment. If it was intended for Willow, it is absolutely in poor taste as joking about statutory rape isn’t really funny (although the underlying comment of A-Rod being slutty is). If it was intended to Bristol, as Letterman stated, I think it is ethically o.k. I mean, this girl was originally only in the spotlight because of her mother ( and was off limits as the children usually are) but now she has chosen to stay there. She was recently on the cover of People magazine, which I think makes her fair game. Again, the joke really only makes sense if it was about Bristol…

What I’m trying to argue is that both sides are guilty. Why do we only lose our sense of humor when the joke is on us? And it has been going on forever. Limbaugh used to make fun of how ugly Chelsea Clinton was, Liberals cited the ‘crazy partying behavior’ of the Bush twins (when in reality it was just like any other teenage debauchery). I don’t think it is so much a conspiracy on the right or left but the age old tale of being able to dish it and not take it.

Why do we let silly things like this distract us from all the truly important things going on around us?

Jun 14, 2009 - 9:09 am 236. Rip Ford:

The hypocrisy of the Palin/Letterman affair by the MSM and liberal elites is just disgusting. Try substituting Michele Obama with Sarah Palin, “hot House N-word” for “slutty flight attendent” look and see what happens.

The sick left is quite good at racial, homosexual gender, etc. slurs when the target is on the right.

Jun 14, 2009 - 9:13 am 237. LeftyK:

I would also like to say, I am in no way threatened by Palin’s ‘realness’. That is silly. I simply just do not agree with her on most issues.

Why are people getting SO UPSET about Letterman calling Palin slutty and then including links to pictures of Michelle Obama wearing tight dresses? I mean, if it isn’t right to call Palin a slut then why is it o.k. to call the First Lady (not parenthesized because that is what she is) slutty?

Can we stop with the kettle calling the pot?

Jun 14, 2009 - 9:15 am 238. LeftyK:

Sorry… One more:

I do not think he was advocating the rape of underage girls and I do not think anyone defending him is either, that is pretty inflammatory rhetoric for intellectual debate.

I also want to say that Bristol is NOT considered a slut for having her baby. Her mother is a hypocrite for extolling abstinence while her daughter is allowed to sleep in the same bed as her high school boyfriend. I mean, did she think they just held hands all night? I also think it is silly for her to come out and start saying ” If girls knew what was gonna happen, they would wait to have sex”… Most people know that having unprotected sex will lead to a baby.

Still, slut would not be something I would call her… ever. I wouldn’t call Obama’s mom a slut either. Or mine either, who had me out of wedlock.

Jun 14, 2009 - 9:33 am 239. Sibyl:

The offended thought Obama has simian features?

Jun 14, 2009 - 10:29 am 240. Just Passing Through:

‘Rupert Murdoch on the infamous chimp assassination cartoon . . . “Last week, we made a mistake. We ran a cartoon that offended many people. Today I want to personally apologize to any reader who felt offended, and even insulted,” writes Murdoch.’

Not even a good try at equivalency. You either don’t know the details of the chimp cartoon story, or you’re just grabbing at anything to promote your usual nonsense.

The apology in this case was perfectly legitimate as made. The inclusion of the chimp in the cartoon was related to a then recent story about a chimpanzee that mauled a woman. People looking for an ax to grind CHOSE to read something else into it. The apology to the people who claimed to be offended by opting to interpret the cartoon out of context in favor of spinning it through their distorted world view was more than they deserved.

Letterman’s comments were targeted, specific, and offensive without any spinning of interpretation. The equivalence would be if Murdoch were to apologize to any chimpanzees who were offended. A rather stupid position but one I would not be at all surprised if you’d tried to make it.

You should stick to your mustard fetish and leave logic to others.

Jun 14, 2009 - 11:18 am 241. Ellen K:

First of all, Sarah Palin dresses better than most of the teachers in my high school. She wears business suits when it is appropriate and jeans and sweatshirt when it is appropriate. Compare that just just about any celebrity, many of whom seems to be clueless as to the sanitary need of underwear.
Secondly, there is a definite defensive air to President Obama’s denials of hearing anti-Semitic rhetoric in Rev. Wright’s church. Those views are part and parcel of Black Liberation Theology. They seek a scapegoat for their own lack of initiative and try to pin it on the Jewish people. The Blame Game is an old liberal trap and if Team Obama wants to deny they were listening, that makes it interesting that they even claim membership.
Third, I think Michelle Obama is an attractive woman. But I cannot believe that she wore those June Cleaver dirndls when she was a high powered lawyer. Whoever is her stylist should be fired. Stop trying to make her into June Cleaver and allow her to dress as a modern, professional woman would dress. She would look much better in tailored clothes that reveal her trim figure. I don’t know what they were thinking, but it is her choice to wear it.
Fourth, can we PLEASE get away from reality programming? I think this is in part responsible for the voyeuristic views and the idea that everyone is open game for ridicule. There used to be some standards in our society known as manners and courtesy. Reality programming scrapped all that and frankly, made the last election into an American Idol type frenzy. I am sure there were voters consternating that they couldn’t vote over the phone and more than once for their chosen leaders!

Jun 14, 2009 - 11:35 am 242. JR:

Oh come now, liberal unmarried 17 year olds get pregnant and come to term all the time… they are the Democrat Party’s tax supported constituency of welfare sluts. Palin’s problem with liberals is that she solves her own problems with her own money, disproving the liberal lie of taxation as the only means to social well being.” And no I’m not going to apologize for the term “welfare sluts,” because getting pregnant while totally dependent on the government confiscated paychecks of one’s fellow Americans is very slutty behavior.

Jun 14, 2009 - 11:46 am 243. High Five:

Sheesh-We have heard all these boorish Micheal Moore rants before.

Rupert Murdoch does not give hundred of million to right wing groups like your beloved George Soros does to the most vile of the left.

Check out what your neo-com buddies have to say about Tony Snow.

L.A. Times Commenters Joyously Revel in Tony Snow’s Death

http://patterico.com/2008/07/12/la-times-commenters-joyously-revel-in-tony-snows-death/

“Oh YES HE WAS A WONDERFUL MAN AND A …..
PUUULLLEEEASE
THIS PERSON HAD A MAJOR PART IN THE MOST EVIL ADMINISTRATION THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN.
DEATH AND TORTURE, ILLEGAL WARS, WAR CRIMINAL SOLDIERS, GOOD RIDDANCE
CANCER WAS TOO GOOD FOR HIM
HOPE IT WAS PAINFUL.
NOW FOR THE REST OF THIS SCUMMY ADMINISTRATION. COME ON CANCER, DO YOUR GOOD WORK………………..”
.

Posted by: perry | July 12, 2008 at 02:26 PM

Jun 14, 2009 - 12:47 pm 244. Delia:

233. sheesh:

Sheeshers, so you agree that DohBama looks like a chimp and any ‘chimp’ references are ‘off limits’ because of ‘racial look-alike’ monkey faced black people? So, you’re saying that black people really *DO* look like apes? People made TONS of CHIMP jokes about Bush and now when it’s a half-black dude it’s all inclusive h8terade when anyone even says the word ‘monkey’?

Please, stick with your mustard jokes.

Jun 14, 2009 - 1:52 pm 245. TLM:

sheepish:

“I didn’t hear an apology in there.”

And you wouldn’t even if it smacked you upside the head. This is a typical Obama rhetorical construction: on the one hand we bad, on the other hand you bad. Moral relativity leads to meaningless statements such as these, and they dominate in Obama’s speeches. Of course, cowardice leads to the same behavior, so maybe that’s his problem.

Jun 14, 2009 - 1:56 pm 246. bing crosby:

You neocons all miss point: There is a war on white people being carried out. Sarah Palin is a target because she is an unashamed white person who doesn’t kowtow to minorities. Therefore, she and her daughters are fair game. They must be subdued in the manner of the conqueror.

Now stop whining, wake up and smell the coffee.

Jun 14, 2009 - 3:04 pm 247. Ron Kean:

This is the best blog.

Jun 14, 2009 - 4:13 pm 248. Marshall:

“…sick jokes about statuary rape,…”

Did the good Doctor VDH mean, “statutory”? Or am I having a senior moment and the joke reference went over my head like a 747?

Otherwise, I am against the sexual abuse of statues.

Jun 14, 2009 - 4:55 pm 249. Sneakypete:

ummmm, I think the obsession with Palin is that she is dumb….you know, stupid….hard to believe people rally behind a dolt. Give me an Elizabeth Dole please. Not some sub par moron.

Jun 14, 2009 - 4:55 pm 250. cammie:

Correct me if I am wrong…weren’t Olbermann and Lettermen two of those guys in that Jodie Foster movie???…you know where they like to take advantage of women. And, like to make it public..

Jun 14, 2009 - 5:14 pm 251. TLM:

LeftyK:

“The comment was really about experience and perhaps race or gender should not have been involved at all.”

Nice try, but your reframing of the meaning of that line in her speech — which many here have read — is off base. She meant what she said as the rest of her speech clearly shows. The “wise Latina” line shows up in other speeches by her and is not a slip of the tongue. You can argue the import of what she said, but not what she meant. Words matter, right? Especially to someone who has been angling for a SCOTUS position for years.

As for your other comments: Calling any woman politician slutty on a national media show is ridiculous. Complaining that “Rush does it” does not in any way exculpate Letterman. That’s a sheepish way of arguing. It was not entirely clear which daughter Letterman meant, and in saying what he said the onus was on him to be very clear. Governor Palin’s fecundity is well known. She has three daughters. That’s why he offered the lame apology he did, so we would know for sure he meant the 18 year old Bristol. Of course a sex joke about an 18 year old is borderline uncouth anyway. Finally, it has been 150 days now without any well known comedian making jokes about the president. So I guess we can only look forward to more Palin family sex jokes from the cowards in the MSM.

Jun 14, 2009 - 5:48 pm 252. TLM:

Sneakypete:

“ummmm, I think the obsession with Palin is that she is dumb….you know, stupid…”

If that were the case the MSM would showcase her and subtly deride her behind the scenes. The “stupid” slander against Palin started before anyone even knew her, as in the day she was picked by McCain. The character assassination of Palin is a retread of the “What’s the Matter with Kansas” trope. Dumb hicks don’t know how to pick a leader. Speaking of which…

“…hard to believe people rally behind a dolt.”

Then how’d Obama get elected?

Jun 14, 2009 - 6:00 pm 253. fred:

If you ponder the trajectory and logic about how the heavy guns came out quick, hard, thick, and relentless within a couple of days of Palin’s nomination, it should reinforce the point that the collectivists are at war with traditional, Constitutional America. They are ruthless and they play for keeps.

We are at war.

And if we don’t play for keeps they will do us all in.

They’ve been at war with us since 1917. At some point we have to stop trying to make nice with them and feed them bullets. Out of the business end of our guns.

Jun 14, 2009 - 6:22 pm 254. Delia:

249. Sneakypete:

“ummmm, I think the obsession with Palin is that she is dumb….you know, stupid….hard to believe people rally behind a dolt. Give me an Elizabeth Dole please. Not some sub par moron.”
~

Uhmmmmmm. Before you cast stones from your candy glass house, I’d be careful about calling someone stupid.

Case in point:

Doh Boy boys to Saudi King

DohBama ‘Austrian’ language Gaffe

The skanky constituency who littered the place during Borat Dohma’a inauguration.

Teleprompter in chief

Yeah, and don’t forget when Palin ‘accidentally’ admitted she was aMuslim or ‘accidentally’ said she visited 57 states with ‘one’ left to go.

Nor did Palin trump up pipe-dreamed ‘Muslim’ accomplishments in order to rise ‘above’ America’s past.

Fathom the truth and the truth shall set you free.

Jun 14, 2009 - 6:32 pm 255. David S:

@254. Delia:

“Uhmmmmmm. Before you cast stones from your candy glass house, I’d be careful about calling someone stupid.”

I suppose you could argue for Palin’s intelligence – but evidence is lacking. Hence the typical “Obama made a gaffe” response.

Sarah Palin has demonstrated profound ignorance, limited education, poor judgement and is simply a stooge for her corporate sponsors. I would love to see the GOP promote a woman, but only if this person is qualified and capable. Palin is not.

“Fathom the truth and the truth shall set you free.”

The truth is that Sarah Palin is perhaps the only person who could make GWB look like a wise POTUS. I’m glad we won’t have to find out the hard way.

Peace.

DS

Jun 14, 2009 - 7:02 pm 256. sheesh:

240. Just Passing Through . . . “The apology in this case was perfectly legitimate as made.”

Of course you’d say that, because you don’t think there was a need for an apology. That’s because you’re complicit in the plausible deniability that marks the soft tyranny of racism. I’m not calling you a racist, but I am calling you a racialist. Stay in the shallow end with whyamisuchashlub. It’s safer there.

244. Delia ” . . . so you agree that DohBama looks like a chimp and any ‘chimp’ references are ‘off limits’”

Delia, Delia, Delia, we’ve been through all that. It was indefensible. Murdoch knows it but didn’t have the stones to admit it. He’d rather have his Fox shills whip up mustard-gate. (There you go, mustard is always relevant where Republicans are concerned. In fact, mustard is the quintessential symbol of feigned outrage and baseless offense that has come to represent the great unwashed tactics of the conservative right . . . you know, “Can you believe XYZ” followed shortly thereafter by “I never said XYZ.” No, I will never forget mustard, and neither will you if I have my way. Consider it my own little liberal version of your right wing turd fetish.)

Jun 14, 2009 - 7:20 pm 257. sheesh:

Here you go . . . . strap this on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBu1b_GpXM8

Where was the right wing outrage?

Jun 14, 2009 - 7:53 pm 258. dennis magee:

Your are right and I agree with everything you said. Why can’t the libs answer a yes or no question with yes or no? No matter who Letterman was referring to, it was out of taste and totally wrong and we know that no conservative would still be on the air ie: Don Imus with his remarks about the Rutgers womens basketball team. Same CBS was his employer and he was fired as quick as they could. The typical double standard that is common in the USA.”Dems can and you can’t.

Jun 14, 2009 - 8:00 pm 259. Still Bill:

Carson was funny; Letterman isn’t. Carson had class; Letterman doesn’t. I miss Johnny Carson.

Jun 14, 2009 - 8:01 pm 260. Delia:

252. TLM:

Q: “Then how’d Obama get elected?”

A: Taffy minded kool-aid junkies.

You’re welcome.

Jun 14, 2009 - 8:14 pm 261. Jack Marcotte:

sneakypete is not a sneakypete. Idiots don’t and can’t cut it.

Jun 15, 2009 - 4:48 am 262. vivo:

231. steveg:

People like steveg are not conservatives or rednecks. They are just crazy lunatics.

Jun 15, 2009 - 5:05 am 263. Sneakypete:

254. Delia:
Case in point:
Ummmmmmmmmmm……….

* Hawaii Pacific University (Fall 1982),
* North Idaho College (Spring 1983 & Fall 1983),
* University of Idaho (Fall 1984 – Spring 1985),
* Matanuska-Susitna College (Fall 1985) and
* University of Idaho (Spring 1986, Fall 1986 and Spring 1987 ).
duhhhhhhhhhhh…………..

Jun 15, 2009 - 6:11 am 264. sheesh:

When he was 19, Gingrich slept with and married his high school geometry teacher who switched religions for him, mothered two of his children and funded his undergraduate and graduate education only to be dumped and divorced by Gingrich several years later when he decided she wasn’t “young enough or pretty enough to be the president’s wife. In a dick move that makes even John Edwards look like Ward Cleaver in a stage production of the life of Mother Teresa, Gingrich got his wife to agree to a very one-sided divorce while she was recovering in a hospital from uterine cancer. – Dickipedia

Now, who should you be worried about, Newt or Dave?

Jun 15, 2009 - 6:27 am 265. Just Passing Through:

‘Of course you’d say that, because you don’t think there was a need for an apology. That’s because you’re complicit in the plausible deniability that marks the soft tyranny of racism. I’m not calling you a racist, but I am calling you a racialist. Stay in the shallow end with whyamisuchashlub. It’s safer there.’

No, you jackass, I say that for exactly the reason I said when I posted. That the cartoon in question was taken from a then current event that had zero to do with Obama, race, the democrats etc. The offense was manufactured. The offensive comments about Palin were targeted.

I don’t expect you to admit to the obvious, which is why I suggested that you don’t embarrass yourself by playing with logic. Stick with playing with mustard.

Jun 15, 2009 - 8:01 am 266. Delia:

263. Sneakypete:

No links? If you’re saying Palin was a former beauty queen, well DUH. Er, I mean, “DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”!

Can I slap you upside the head with a cold fish now?

Jun 15, 2009 - 8:10 am 267. Delia:

264. sheesh:

Are you saying all men suck? Kinda self-deprecatin’ don’tchya think [said in Palin accent].

Jun 15, 2009 - 8:22 am 268. COL. SEBASTIAN MORAN:

SHEESH
#8
Actually, moron, you’re quite creepy yourself. You come off as some sort of perverted voyeur covertly watching that which is of interest/concern to Conservatives. Crawl back into your hole at Huffpo or Dailykos. We truly don’t need or want you here !
77/88
S.M.

Jun 15, 2009 - 9:22 am 269. Peter the Bubblehead:

249. Sneakypete wrote:
ummmm, I think the obsession with Palin is that she is dumb….you know, stupid….hard to believe people rally behind a dolt.

Peter writes: Hey, sneak, you Do realize that Sarah Palin is the sitting governor of the largest state in the union, one of the few that is working with a buget surplus and, in fact, rather than colecting income taxes actually PAYS its citizens living in the state.

Yeah, some real stupidity. Must take a head full of rocks to be able to competently run a state.

MORON!

Jun 15, 2009 - 9:38 am 270. Delia:

269. Peter the Bubblehead:

You rock, Peter! Delia does the funky ghetto onion dance *Go, Peter, Go Peter, Go-go-go, Peter!*

The gorgeous, youthful, fit, beautiful, INTELLIGENT and HONEST Sarah Palin obviously scares the knickers off the left.

Jun 15, 2009 - 10:01 am 271. Free Hat:

During the 2008 election, rather than just attacking the ideas of the Democrats, she declared war on them. She accused the Left of not being part of the real America, of sympathizing with terrorists, and of being Fascists.

Rather than have a legitimate dialogue about the differences between Republican ideals and Liberal ideas, Palin instead chose to relentlessly attack the character of her opponents, and accuse them of being friends with terrorists.

The Secret Service even publicly admitted that Sarah Palin’s attacks on Barack Obama’s patriotism provoked a spike in death threats against the future president.

When you lie about your opponents, and attack them as being un-American and terrorist sympathizers simply because you disagree with them, then what gives you the right to feign outrage when they do the same to you?

She called people anti-American, and they call her an ignorant slut.

She joked about Obama palling around with terrorists, and they joked about her pregnant daughter getting knocked up.

I fail to see how either of those attacks is worse than the other.

And this is just a microcosm of what the right wing has become – a party of stone-throwing adolescents that for lack of any good ideas or serious leadership descend to personal attacks, calling their opponents terrorists, fascists, totalitarians, communists, pagans, racists, and baby killers, but then whine like a bunch of infants when they are treated similarly to the way they treat their opponents.

Conservatives some how expect that feminists everywhere must come to Palin’s defense simply because she’s a woman.

But she’s a woman who just happened to label half of Americans as terrorist-sympathizing socialist America-haters.

She’s also a woman who said this about Hillary Clinton:
“I say this with all due respect to Hillary Clinton…but when I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism or you know maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think you know that doesn’t do us any good – women in politics, women in general wanting to progress this country.”

So if Palin won’t even come to the defense of fellow women who are being treated unfairly, why should they come to her defense?

And furthermore, why should anyone come to the defense of an individual whose entire campaign for the vice presidency was based on vitriol, attacks and mistruths?

The reason that the Right loves Palin is because she was able to put a pretty face and voice on all the hate that the Right wing has for liberals, minorities, and any other groups and institutions that they deem to be “leftist”. They believed that having a pretty person vocalize their hate legitimized their hate, which made the hate grow more vociferous the more she spoke.

Which is exactly why everyone else wants her to go away.

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Jun 15, 2009 - 2:55 pm 274. RogerCfromSD:

To all the intellectually dishonest liberals spouting off the same lame crap about Bristol Palin being a “prop:”

The Obamas, in their countless magazine covers and interviews, and television appearances during the campaign ALSO showed their children.

Were they, too, “props?”

You absolute loons.

Jun 15, 2009 - 4:55 pm 275. Just Passing Through:

271. Free Hat:

That comment comes from so deep in the fever swamp that it is beyond even caricature.

Jun 15, 2009 - 5:13 pm 276. sheesh:

268. Colonel Moron . . . why the name calling?

Jun 15, 2009 - 6:47 pm 277. Son of Bob:

Letterman “knocked up” his wife long before they were married. And, she was certainly much older than a teenager, and thus shouldn’t be making the mistakes of youth. So, why does he not entertain us with jokes about his slut girlfriend/wife and how he must keep her from screwing every baseball player on the team during the 7th inning stretch?

Oh that’s right, because these were never really “jokes” in the first place…just another liberal attack on someone who’s crime is not having the same socialist political viewpoints as them. So, we’ll never hear similar “jokes” about the “The One,” his wife or their children.

Jun 15, 2009 - 8:42 pm 278. karen:

I guess liberals just like the idea of an old white guy leering at underage Native Americans.
Or are they forcing Todd Palin to retire from the minority club because he didn’t drink the kool-aid?

Jun 15, 2009 - 9:34 pm 279. conservababe:

Over and over, the left denies being afraid of Palin. But something just doesn’t…fit. If they were truly just making fun, they’d get the most pleasure out of doing it on their own sites, where they could cut lose and REALLY be nasty — and they’d get the boost of having others agree with them. If they came to blogs like this at all, it would be to “agree” wholeheartedly that Palin’s the best thing that could happen to the conservative movement (and then they’d go back to their own blogs and ROFL and LOL at the dumb VDH readers.)

But instead, they take time out of their busy schedules to come to this group to drop their insults. There’s no logical reason for spending so much time here and for trying so hard to convince us of Palin’s stupidity — UNLESS they’re in a total panic and want to stomp her chances out of existence 3 years before the next election.

SO — either: 1.they’re getting paid for it, or 2. they’re trying to discourage conservatives by doing the ol’ “isolate it, demonize it” treatment recommended by Allinsky. (or both)

The only other possible solution is that they’re just creeps who like to annoy other people, and we all know leftists are peace-loving humanitarians, so it couldn’t be that…right?

Jun 16, 2009 - 12:23 am 280. sheesh:

279 conservabimbo . . . There’s another option you didn’t mention. Palin is such a complete disaster for the Republican party, as proven in the last election, that we’ll do anything we can to make sure she gets as much opportunity as possible to speak to the American people.

If coming to right wing whining sites and pointing out her monumental weaknesses gets you folks riled up to the point of nominating her, then we win . . . again. We’re playing to the conservative base for our own benefit. Scared? We’re no more scared of Palin than you are of Dennis Kucinich. In fact, we’re thrilled. The more Palin and Limbaugh and Cheney and Gingrich we see, the better. Simple, really.

By the way, July 4 is right around the corner. Haven’t heard anything about the next big tea bag party. What’s up? I’m guessing, as many others did the last time, that you just don’t have the passion or commitment to carry through with the hard work of dissent. You had your barbecue, now you’re just gonna sit back and whine. Lightweights. Amateurs. Poseurs. What would our founding fathers think of your lack of conviction and sacrifice? It’s the perfect symbol for the conservative movement in America . . . all talk, no balls.

Jun 16, 2009 - 6:45 am 281. Peter the Bubblehead:

Well, Letterman finally apologized (more-or-less) and Governor Palin has accepted the apology, but I still don’t buy his “I didn’t know it was the 14 year old girl” excuse. As has been pointed out here regularly, the news of who exactly was coming to NYC with the Governor was made public DAYS before their arrival. At the very least, Letterman and CBS should fire their entire staff of writers and legal people who are paid to keep up with so-called current events. Likewise, if this were anyone on the right, thry would have been out the door last week, so I still think it’s time for Davey to get the boot.

Jun 16, 2009 - 7:20 am 282. Oregonian:

David Letterman delivers jokes (written for him) that are aimed at the lowest common denominator of television bottom-feeders: his audience. If you need any proof of that, read the posts in this thread from the people who are defending Letterman’s actions. The reason that this collection of life’s losers hate Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney are because they are successful people with real lives outside of their work, and they believe strongly enough in the principles they espouse to defend them. It is much more fulfilling than sitting around in a dark room in your underwear and dispensing vitriol over a blog site, using video clips as a substitute for logic.

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