I believe that Letterman was out of line--18 is a child to me even if the law thinks otherwise. I use to be a Letterman Fan. His humor has become nasty, political and hurtful. He has a son--I bet he is protective of Harry. It is good to remember--say what you want about a candidate or office holder if it legal, but leave their children alone. Children do not run for office, thus David was off limits. He should have been banned for a time or fired. He is no better than Don Imus in my opinion. Letterman has been away from the Midwest too long--he has forgotten Hoosier Hospitality and Kindness.

SARAH PALIN WAS/IS SO UPSET AND FLABBERGASTED BY DAVE`S REMARKS THAT SHE IS GOING TO RESIGN . PUT THAT IN YOUR ACT . MIGHT SAY I HOPE SHE DOESN`T USE DAVE`S COMMENTS AS AN EXCUSE TO COMMIT SUICIDE !!!!!!!

Jana wrote:

>If a conservative had made a joke like that about the
>Obama kids, they'd be toast.

And deservedly so. They are children who, though they may be seen going with their father to get ice cream, are ciphers. We know nothing about them and that is how it should be. For those old enough to remember, there were some cruel comments, made cruel by the very fact they were uttered, by people about the attractiveness of Amy Carter and Chelsea Clinton. Unnecessary and mean.

Letterman went for the easy joke about an adult, albeit one who became pregnant while still a minor, but that does not negate the commonsense supposition that any resonable person understands that his comment was about an adult. Who but the most loyal lapdog suckling at the far-right conservative teat knows any other Palin offspring other than Bristol in any way but in concept? I know the Palins have other children, but I couldn't pick them out of a line-up and sure as hell don't know any of their names.

Here's the deal. Had adult Bristol not been traipsed out to present her (new?) beliefs about having sex in high school, let alone unprotected sex, who she is and her reason for notoriety go away. The Bush daughters got a little drunk after college and that was the end of them in the public eye. I give the Bushs credit for understanding, or at least accepting, that to have paraded their daughters around to the talk shows to admit the error of their ways and to preach on the evil of drinking would not ring true.

>I don't come to this blog for politics.
But do you stay for the dessert?

It was a stupid joke by a guy who long ago stopped being funny about a woman and her family that the left can't seem to shake out of their system. The joke was pathetic. Palin's outrage was over the top if not understandable. Apologies were made and accepted and yet here we are, still bashing Palin until the bitter end and making Letterman out to be this grand leftist mouthpiece. I'm about sick of the right and left in this country. The suckage is equal.

If a conservative had made a joke like that about the Obama kids, they'd be toast.

I don't come to this blog for politics.

Trickyric: The joke was NOT about a child. It was about Bristol. That was the clear intent and point of the joke and it makes no sense to say otherwise.

John McCain made his joke about Chelsea Clinton in 1998, years before she was campaigning for Hillary.

Learn your facts before you start lecturing people.

Nothing happened to Dave because anyone with a brain knew what Palin was trying to do........And it didn't work. Dave appologized for the tasteless joke and life goes on. Palin's already moved on to other prey.

Some people just can't let it go.

I still don't get how you parisan blowhards could defend such vile speach if and only if it is against a republican.
this guy as an ass hat! David Letterscum let his political hatred go so far beyond acceptable humor that it was obviously wrong.
When Imus made a tastless joke about black woman he got ridiculed and fired. But Dave makes a vile joke about a child and he is cool because Palin is a republican?
you should all be ashamed of yourselves. For all of you who wll point to supposed Chelsea jokes (which I have never heard) after she started to campaign for her mother she was fair game.
Try this next time you want to be openly hateful and partisan, say the joke, but instead of Palins daughter use Melia Obama.....somehow not funny anymore?
I have made my point, but for you Ass Hats I will make it one more time : Decency and respect isn't a right or left issue, it is a right or wrong issue.

She just couldn't let it go and had to stoke it until it was a full blown media circus. Of course it fell flat with 15 people showing up to march and rant. But now, as she continues with her outrage against just about anything that comes her way, people are waking up to who she really is and they're reacting in all sorts of ways. Unfortunately, she's got a lot to hide and it's going to be much harder to do so with people wondering, "who IS this crazy lady".

Here's an example: http://www.ottoline.net/PalinHoax/
Letterman's and Palin's Recent Pregnancies

Maybe the days of staged public outrage are over. Even Al Sharptons last attempt at race baiting fell short of the mark.