Palin has fans?

Palin has fans?

lynp: Wow! You sent me six emails to make sure I'd read your obnoxious comment! David apologized for the distasteful joke. Get over it. The joke wasn't about rape. It was about Palin's promiscuous older daughter. You know, the one mom Palin dragged out into the limelight? The unwed mother who talks abstinence now? Palin twisted the joke around to better suit her purpose and that's all that this is about. Dave apologized to put an end to this. Let's see if Palin does the same. If her followers want to waste their time trying to get Letterman fired, let them. He's been around for thirty years and will be around for many more. Palin's fifteen minutes are almost up, thank goodness. Maybe she could spend her spare time teaching her 14 year old not to make the same mistakes her 18 year old made.

To Adam
Well said! The only way this joke makes any sense at all is if it is about Bristol, regardless of which Palin daughter was actually at the game. I personally could not name or identify any of Palins children and I suspect neither Letterman nor his writers could either. This is a comedy show we are talking about, not PBS or Meet The Press. Comics are generally afforded a large amount of leeway as far as facts and the actual reality of situations are concerned. I knew this joke was about Bristol when I heard it and I had no idea who was at the game with Sarah Palin. Its obvious!
I also agree with you about Sharpton, Jackson and Palin as horrible role models. As far as Heidi whatshername, I cant really comment, cause I barely know who she its.

Newswire, July 10, 2009 -- This just in:

Shortly after David Letterman was fired today by CBS, Palin supporters continued to picket his home in Greenwich, CT. One supporter was quoted as saying, "It's not enough that he's fired! We want a pound of flesh!"

When asked about the incident, Sarah Palin's spokesperson was quoted as saying, "Not even a pound of flesh is enough. We want him arrested, waterboarded, and summarily placed on Death Row without trial. And whatever prison he's in, we will not allow Willow within 1000 miles of that prison."

Here is my vent... conservatives only vent when they hear a liberal make a blunder like this. Then liberals only come to the liberal blunderer's ardent defense. Flip the situation around using the exact same set of facts and liberals would vent while conservatives would defend. Let's be honest here people... Letterman made an indefensible mistake and he did the right thing (finally) by apoligizing for it. Time to drop it conservatives and time to stop defending his comments liberals (actually there was never an appropriate time to be defending them).

How about instead of our current mode of operation, liberals speak out against inappropriate actions of other liberals and conservatives don't defend reprehensible actions of other conservatives. Then maybe you'll have my respect. Until then the partisanship on both sides smells rancid!

Dave got himself into trouble. There is no reason to still be taking shots at Palin and her family. The election is long-over. Dave's "team" won. Take satisfaction in that. Instead, he lets his zealous hatred overrule his common sense. Just move on.

I think the most clear sign of his hate for conservatives/Republicans came the day of the botched photo op when Air Force One flew low over NYC. Instead of poking fun at Obama, Letterman said, "It sounds like something the BUSH Administration would do." No Dave, Bush went 8 years without doing that. It was OBAMA. It was a poorly thought out, sophomoric attempt at a joke. He tried to take the easy laugh. He just can't help himself because he hates conservatives so much. He just piles on. This time, it got him into trouble and some sponsors withdrew. Thus, the "apology".

I couldn't care less about Palin, Letterman or the joke.
I like to watch the way people are outraged when it's their ox being gored.
Like Jimmy, he had a lot of respect for Letterman during the Election. When he was nightly bashing Bush and MCcain. Now he's losing respect because someone's fighting back and Letterman can't take the heat. If Bill OReilly said something like that about Sotomayer.
Everyone involved would switch sides and exchange outrage.

I demand an apology. I am outraged that David Letterman has single-handedly made Sarah Palin relevant again. This ridiculous woman was halfway to obscurity when Dave made one stupid joke, and now look at what's happened. For shame, Dave. What hast thou wrought?

This goes down in the record books as one of the most cynical, calculated political ploys in a long time.

Letterman told a moderately risque joke, that only makes sense as a joke when referencing the older daughter. But Palin's handlers seized moment to gain some badly needed sympathy and media exposure for their client, cynically casting about preposterous hot button words like "rape" and laboriously grafting on the fate of all young female America to this non-event.

Palin's fifteen minutes was perilously close to being up, on her way to becoming a somewhat embarrassing footnote in political history, but her handlers were fortuitously thrown an inadvertent life ring and now they're marshaling what's left of her base with bluster, crocodile tears and mock outrage and milking it for all it's worth.