McCain defends Palin against Letterman joke

McCain defends Palin against Letterman joke

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Senator John McCain has a message for late-night comic David Letterman: Enough with the jokes about Sarah Palin and her family.

The host of CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman" drew the ire of Palin this week by making jokes about her visit to New York last weekend.

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"I don't understand why Letterman would say that about a young woman," McCain said during a telephone interview on Thursday. "They (the Palins) deserve some kind of protection from being the butt of late-night hosts."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_mccain_palin_letterman

whoops,he didn't include that.

:thumbsup:

What a hypocrite!

about a 14 year old.

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Of the Palins' trip to New York, Letterman joked that "the hardest part of the trip was keeping Elliot Spitzer away from her daughter."

"I'm surprised we haven't heard from Elliot Spitzer either," he said. "I'm not necessarily proud of these jokes. It's a joke, that's all it's supposed to be, that's all that is."

As for joke No. 2: "Sarah Palin went to a Yankees game yesterday, there was one awkward moment during the seventh-inning stretch: Her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez."

"I recognize that these are ugly," Letterman explained. "These are borderline, but again, an act of desperation to get cheap laughs, which is what I've been doing the last 30 years. Why didn't we hear from Alex Rodriguez?"

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b128691_letterman_sort_of_apologizes_palin.html?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories

frequency, his outrage rings a little hollow. McMisogynist should zip it.

He's full of shite.

And it wasn't about the 14 year old, but the 18 year old

Even Letterman now apologizes. And we really should not condemn such a behavior. As mentioned, above, McCain had an ugly joke about Chelsea Clinton and... will Malia and Sasha be left alone after that?

And he apologized, so no harm done

anyone else.

unwed teenager, it was pretty obvious which one the joke was about.

If Palin really wanted to protect her daughters from things like this, she would have never exposed them and used them to her advantage as she did. Perhaps the joke was in slightly bad taste, but fair game nonetheless.

going on TV and talking about teen pregnancy. You can claim to be a private person and then go on TV and advocate public policy. The joke was crude and not really funny to me, but certainly was in bounds within the general rules of comedy.

Sarah deserves everything she gets. And this is just a sideshow actually as she sells Alaska's soul to the devil EXXON. http://www.adn.com/money/industries/oil/story/827548.html

"Whore" is too good a word. As Shannyn Moore puts it "Doing business with Exxon is like letting the guy who date raped your daughter rent your basement. But, hey, at least we have a tenant." http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/palin-matchmakes-for-a-gasline/

Watch for lots of crowing from the Palinistas now about her precious, precious gas line. :puke:

I am sure (could be wrong) that most would assume Letterman was talking about their eldest daughter.

All I am saying that most people would not know which kid they are taking to which function. Or even if she had her kids at the game with her. Most would assume Letterman was talking about the eldest daughter. If it was left alone by the Palins, the 14 year old wouldn't have to of been brought into this. IMO anyway.

I agree that the joke was in bad taste. But, Letterman isn't the first comedian that has gone too far, and he won't be the last. I wonder if he will have anything further to say on the subject.

He also said the jokes were in poor taste and apologized for them. what more should he do. I have yet to hear Rush Limbaugh or John McCain apologize for their comments about Chelsey..

She's her own worst enemy.

because it gets her face and name back on the news.

Dave said sorry already

Did McCain add that we should all get off his lawn? Damn, how do the whiny ass titty baby Republicans get the reputation of being tough on crime, or better at national security? They are such a pack of punks.

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh061009.shtml

"Letterman isn’t at NBC any more—but he’s still part of the clan. He’s also a familiar figure in our culture. He’s the smelly, 62-year-old coot who never arranged to grow up.

Boys like Letterman never grow up. Inside their brains, hard wires keep telling them to aim naughty jokes at 14-year-old girls—and to refer to women as “slutty.” The Greenwich guy did it again Monday night. People like this never stop.

Perhaps the most interesting part of this whole syndrome is the way the “liberal” world has accepted it."

"During the 1990s, the liberal world ran off and hid in the woods, hoping that pseudo-conservative rule would come to an end by itself. (If liberals complained, their careers could be damaged! You would have kept quiet too.) For that reason, its toleration of smutty misogyny aimed at Hillary Clinton just seemed like part of the deal. (When the press corps spent a month aiming smut at Naomi Wolf, only Kristol and Safire responded.) But in this decade, a larger pattern has become rather clear: There is no “sexual politics” in the progressive world. Not a discernible morsel."

Palin jokes again. They may have succeeded. He really cannot "win" this one, and they know it. The jokes were lame, and Palin & Co have created enough of a shitstorm now, that he has no way to undo it. He can only "retire" the Palin jokes, whick is what they wanted..

He has learned a valuable lesson here, republicans are "allowed" to say anything about anyone, and democrats are not.

he may have fucked the joke up but it was the 14 year old who attended the game, once he realised that he should of at least apoligised rather than try to be a smart ass. cant believe the number of people on DU who dont see why a parent might be pissed over this joke on their daughter, i know i sure as hell would be mistake or not.

I seriously doubt that anyone has to worry about Letterman sneaking in & molesting their daughter.. don't buy into the faux outrage.

The Palins are NOT paragons of family values..this is totally political. They have been "using" their family for politcal gain , when it suits them, and basically ignoring those kids the rest of the time. Tawwwd, is gone most of the time, so's she. Those kids raised each other. Sarah trots them out as props, when it suits her

Political gain, political props, etc.

But you'll be fine with people making crass jokes at their expense, right?

"People" say a LOT of things I don't "agree with", but going apeshit loony and beating that dead horse for days-on-end and trying to silence other people is not very democratic, now is it.

The Obama girls are CHILDREN..and they are the president's children...(presidents usually get a pass from the press when it comes to their children). Failed candidates who prop themselves up ON and who USE their children, often do not get the same courtesy. DAVE WAS NOT MEANING THE 14 YR OLD, AND WE ALL "KNOW" THAT...so does sarah :)

Remember.. Sweet Sarah apparently told the kids about the veep-think ON THE PLANE to go accept it in public. Not quite the way a caring mom would break the news to her "mono-stricken" pregnant teenager, who was about to be thrust into the national spotlight.. I'll take Dave's parenting skills over hers , any day.

In any case, I'm sure that Dave wishes he had nixed that whole Top Ten.. you DO know that he's not the ONLY writer:) I think he will just write HER and her whole wacky family off, since she's going nowhere fast anyway:)

But if a candidate loses, then the children are fair game. Gotcha. Especially jokes about impregnating daughters. Okay.

If Letterman MEANT the 18-year old teenager, then he should have said so, though it wouldn't have made any sense, since it was the 14-YEAR OLD who was at the game in New York. Maybe Dave needs better fact checkers, as well as better joke writers.

and the Top Ten was in poor taste, but it's NOT anything more than lazy writers, writing lazy jokes...like how he (and others) are STILL doing Clinton jokes.
Won't matter much in the long run.. the folks who did not like Dave, STILL won't..and the ones who like Dave, still will.

and Sarah will still be the biggest "joke" of all.

Remember during the campaign when he said something about his daughter being punished with a child if she were to get knocked up as a teen.

:scared:

even if it was aimed at the 18 year old, you might think its okay, but i presume if it was obamas girls you would feel differently.

But I guess when it's against a Republican's family members, we should be cool with it.

and making public appearances on her own. She is fair game.

for nasty "jokes" about Malia and Sasha?

abstinence only, and one of the kids got pregnant at seventeen, and then proceeded, when she turned eighteen, to do the talk show circuit promoting abstinence only (calling her child a "horrible mistake") I would not have a problem with Letterman cracking a joke.

Bristol has put herself up as a public figure in her own right. She is fair game. The fact that she is a politicians child doesn't give her a free card. If it did, then all cheap jokes about both Bush's are off the table. Jokes about Al Gore- off the table. Whatsername McCain--off the table. Bristol is no longer a child. The free pass is over. Its a very tough game, and if you don't have a very tough skin, you shouldn't be playing. And Bristol (about whom the joke in question was really about) has jumped into the game willingly.

McCain and Palin just need to move on. How many times does she insult decent people with her "average Amukin" bullshit remarks? I have never heard her apologize for anything.

McCain just needs to down some more Geritol and take another nap.

Oh, just one more thing; and in words they should understand.

WE WON, GET OVER IT ALREADY.

But he never apologized.

Letterman's statement was more like a Republican "apology". I wonder how they liked it?

Huge mistake to pick a fight with a comedian.

and here's -another- one!"

:rofl:

If Palin had just STFU about it everyone would have assumed as I did that Dave meant the older (slut) daughter.

so boo fucking hoo

and WTF was Cobert thinking having that horrible shrill on his show for the troops? NOT cool! There are literally hundreds of other politicians to choose from.