Donviti PSA #101-2b
If you have 2 daughters aged 14 and 17 and one of them gets pregnant via a penis and then months later I make a joke about one of your daughters and the joke has to do with sex. Odds are I’m talking about the daughter that had sex even if I don’t mention it specifically. Jokes are weird that way, they sometimes don’t specify exactly who you are talking about because for the joke to work you have to let the audience figure out what you are saying instead of delivering it to them on their laps.
That’s too complicated. I prefer to interpret things in the way that makes me the most outraged.
Sahrie & Todd ain’t to keen on the figurin’
I know you will disagree, but by prefacing the whole thing with Sara, Todd and their daughter were in town this week…….then tell jokes about “the daughter”….then seeing as the daughter that was with them was the 14 year old….I see the Palin’s point.
Dave’s a good guy, he should have just apologized for those that were offeneded and moved on…..
Sarah and Todd do need thicker skin, but making sure the 14 year old isn’t the butt of a misogynsist joke isn’t a bad thing in my book.
I’d rather see the Palin’s rail on Limbaugh for wishing our President fails then an obvious joke that was intended for their slutty daughter
but who knows…the 14 y/o could be sexually active based on Alaska Standards
besides that you don’t have to know who was traveling with who to know who he is talking about.
I don’t like involving kids. That said, I wasn’t the one who trotted out my pregnant daughter and her boyfriend at the Republican Convention – complete with ring tattoo.
Still… I’m uneasy with making kids the butt of jokes. Geez, that said, McCain is scum and Letterman was wrong. That said, Sarah and Todd Palin are opportunists.
Follow that?
DV, Lettermen knew and he did the joke anway. Who beneifts from this? Yep, Lettermen. Palin and hubby are indeed opportunistic assholes, buthat does notexcuse Dave’s RESPONSIBILITY to make is clear…he could have said “Bristol maight get knocked up by A-Rod”, but he didn’t and the nearest antecedent was “the dauhte with Sarah and Todd at the game: Willow, a 14 year old.
DV, I get your point, you are just wrong this time.
ffflllllbtttttttt!!!!!!
“ffflllllbtttttttt!!!!!!”
i actualy do not know what that means
I call bullshit on anon 7. Everyone who heard the joke knew it was made at the expense of the 18 year old sluty one.
just like you don’t know that Dave was making a joke about Bristol
I call double bullshit on jason330:
jason, if by everyone you mean you, then you’re right. based on widespread reaction and Letterman’s “need” to discuss it, it is clear that “not everyone” knew….you can diagree that it should matter, but to deny that many people didn’t know is you ving in another reality.
DV,
DV, if by everyone you mean you, then you’re right. based on widespread reaction and Letterman’s “need” to discuss it, it is clear that “not everyone” knew….you can diagree that it should matter, but to deny that many people didn’t know is you ving in another reality.
I was hoping for a good Down Syndrome joke about the prop baby.
Too bad.
widespread reaction = The Palin PR braintrust figured out that they hit the publicity jackpot.
Case closed.
Palin PR braintrust
*snicker*
and so did Letterman.
case doubled closed, they are ALL assholes and Willow is 14 dude.
Letterman is wrong for the sloppy comedy writing and the Palin supporters are little bitchy twats.
Hell, the only one I don’t give a big STFU to is Sarah. As the mother, she’s allowed to complain. The joke read as if a daughter is in town on the PR tour, but the only one is the 14 yo. But to believe that Letterman was aiming at the young one, you’re just dense and a whiny pig with lipstick.
Funny that Alex Rodriguez didn’t complain about being portrayed as a pedophile.
good point
I find the lack of memory on Fox’s part confusing. They completing don’t remember or on purpose McCain’s joke about Clinton’s daughter or when Rush had his TV show and put up a picture of socks the cat and commented that the White House also had a dog and followed that comment with a picture of Clinton’s daughter
TT: See, it’s OK to call a kid ugly; it’s not OK to portray one as the victim of a celebrity lothario.
That said, when you turn your family into a political joke, you should learn to take your lumps.
It’s all icky, all the time. Letterman shouldn’t have gone there. When you get too close to those folks it’s like being sucked into a black hole. If it’s funny it’s going to be in poor taste or worse.
“Letterman shouldn’t have gone there. ”
Where? Making cracks about A-Rod and Eliot Spitzer hitting on teen-age girls? Yeah, I was really, really offended.
I can’t believe I’m defending the Palin family on here again, but I take offense at you guys calling the daughter slutty. She’s young and she made a mistake.
Would you call her slutty if she were a Democrat? I don’t think so.
God forbid any of your daughters makes a mistake like this when she grows up.
Too bad Letterman’s last name isn’t Imus.
You know what? I just came across Palin’s interview on Today this morning. I take back what I said earlier in the thread. Eff her, fucking victim whore – she’s totally using this for political sympathy now….
But keep digging, Sarah…the only outcome from this is just more people laughing at you.
Link, VC? We can put it up for everyone to watch.
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