Lettermans apology was asking the Palins to be on his show. That is just a ratings ploy. The Palins are not coming to bolster Lettermans ratings. They have already stated that.

Well, weather what letterman said was 'right' or 'wrong' makes little difference now....the horse has left the barn. it opens the flood gates for off color remarks to be hurled at Sasha and Malia.

What a funny smilie.

But anyway, in fact it was a slutty flight attendant, not stewardess. Btw, what happened to slutty librarian? I think that's the most accurate. You see I know, I used to work in a library once, I could you tell you stories...:DL

Lol, it's [face_mischief].

Oh and we all can't forget Who's Nailin' Palin?, ha.:haha:

Agreed, very bad taste, and unacceptable from a grown man. I would feel the same if it were the Obama daughters, Clinton's daughter, the Bush daughters...etc. Letterman should get his ass kicked. Where's Madonna when you need her?


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Nobody is off limits. That's why you never sit in the front row at a comedy club, become a celebrity, run for public office....

You're gonna get hammered eventually, fair or not.

Palin's a easy mark for comedians. Her own statements, verbatim, made for the funniest SNL skit in decades. Besides portraying yourself as a champion of conservative 'family values' and then have a pregnant teenage daughter is just too much irony for most comedians to pass up.

Funny enough in my local papers it's the 'conservative' columnists that HATE Palin the most. They think she is GOD's gift to Democrats.:haha:

Meh. The comment was much more about Palin's parenting and much less about the daughter. No, it probably wasn't the smartest thing to say, and there are much better ways to take a stab at Palin than invoking her children, but this is a molehill.

Zachstar I am sorry, but regarding the NBC lineup, Jimmy Fallon and his program are just god-awful.

So 17 year olds having sex is a sign of bad parenting? Or, teenagers making bad decisions is a sign of bad parenting?

If you cannot cleary see the double standards of the 'popular' media then I dont know what to say.

That wasn't an answer to my question, Steam.

my parents were great.

i said no to drugs, i never got drunk and never got into trouble with the law.

i did my homework (usually) and turned out to be a pretty decent guy.

but i screwed my brains out when i was 17 years old. :rock:

teens fu*king is normal.

ask any generation, they will tell you.

teenagers have been sneaking off and screwing since the dawn of the first erection.

Yeah, I was getting a bone of my own around that age. :03: I played it safe though. :D

Well as others have said .. for example if Limbaugh described Michelle Obama or there children in such a manner calls for his immediate censure and firing would be loud and prominent.

I don't understand? You preach about right of expression. Yet when someone does it you tell him to shut up?

The right of express can be good and bad for anyone. Either allow people to express there opinions or remove the right for people to talk.

Why is this an issue? Free speech is free speech. You don't like it don't listen to it.

Simple. :nope:

This is the latest from the Letterman camp..................

saying that the joke was aimed at 18-year-old Bristol Palin, not 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 said.

But Bristol wasn't with the governoron here trip to NYC to help autistic children, her 14 yo daughter Willow was along and was at the Yankee's game. So it was just a gratuitous slam for which Letterman will forever be known. What is his child up to now?

I'll say it Letterman is a POS for this behavior.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/200...letterman.html

One of the things I admired about Johnny Carson was that he had the class and the grace to leave his show while he was in top form. Probably too difficult a proposition for Letterman who may have been fresh and edgy when he started in the early eighties, but I think his routine has descended into tired shtick. The election was nine long months ago and he's still going after the losing side's VP candidate? Time for him to hand the reins over before he embarrasses himself further. The show has become flat and uninspired and he's pretty much just going through the motions anyway.

Well that's a stupid idea.

Nobody is saying he couldn't say what he said. Don't you think people have the right to express their opinions about your opinion?

SERIOUSLY?

Are you implying that one cannot hold values that sometimes are compromised due to the actions of a TEENAGER?

Heh, you said exactly what I was thinking...

I find it ironic that the left's so-called "champions" of free speech always complain about others exercising their free speech rights to tell them that they should shut up.