David Letterman makes rape joke about Palin's 14 year old daughter, crowd cheers

i didn't see the show, nor have i heard anything of this until i saw this post. from what i can gleen, i agree with the above, anniepa. if palin did not want to be a media target, she should not have become a politician. the right seems to think they can have it both ways, be in the public eye, but never be the target of the media and it's personalities. i DO NOT think that rape in any way, shape or form is acceptable. the statement appears to be in bad taste. the most gracious way to handle bad taste is to ignore it. even if others are responding, just let it flow past. by calling attention to this, the left is likely to keep it going longer than it would if they had just ignored it all. ok, now i have to give in to my silly, childish, liberal, left wing sensibilities. sarah palin is such a joke, how can we avoid making fun of her and hers? please.....

Annie, does it really matter which daughter he was refering to? It was tasteless and disgusting either way. It was a way over the line comment about someone's daughter.

So that makes it fine to make virtually any kind of comments/jokes,etc. about Obama and his family because he's a politician. Thanks for the heads up flying.

Really? It's ONLY LIBERALS that are pathetic peverts? I sincerely doubt that.

Flyinglove, you've made it clear that you think attacks like this on children are appropriate so yes, you are a pervert.

i'm liberal and i am not a pervert. however, i may be pathetic. that is a matter of opinion. and i know many people, both liberal and conservative that are pathetic in my view. it goes both ways.

Well according to Annie those of us on the right just don't have any sense of humor. I guess we're just not as special as those on the left who can laugh heartily at jokes about child rape. I wonder how people would have reacted if this joke had been made about one of Obama's daughters.

She's just trying to change the subject in an attempt to justify the perverted attacks on Willow Palin.

That is not even remotely similar and I'm pretty sure everyone but you knows that. Mind showing me where David Letterman made jokes about her being raped at a baseball game?

"Does anyone recall the mass sexualization of a young Disney star, Britney Spears?" yes, it was disgusting, why would you assume anyone would find that ok?

http://blog.laborlawtalk.com/2006/11/07/alaska-age-of-consent-laws/ http://www.ageofconsent.us/ A search for smears against Obama daughters resulted in zero hits directly referring to them.

Where have you heard anything rude being said about Obama's children? I haven't heard a thing about that, from either the left or the right.

what difference does it make which daughter it was anyway??? fer real, what difference is it?

"Are you offended by ALL derogatory jokes directed at women and girls" Of course I am, ESPECIALLY when it's a child. My point is that this was considered acceptable from the left because it was Sarah Palin's daughter. "It sounds like his joke was inappropriate (didn't see the clip but don't need to) and would be inappropriate no matter WHO the 14 year old girl might have been." Absolutely. I'm glad we agree on that. "sometimes people are quick to react to a joke without actually thinking it through" That may be true, but the laughter lasted a VERY long time, and resumed after he followed up with "you can see how that'd be awkward". Compare that to when Wanda Sykes made her joke about wanting Rush Limbaugh's kidneys to fail. Some laughed but the boos started very quickly when people realized what she'd said. There was not a single boo heard from Letterman's crowd. "Has Letterman been confronted about this joke?" According to Fox News "A representative for “The Late Show” declined to offer comment for this story." http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525724,00.html

So which do you think will do more damage to her daughter. Letterman's joke or the Republicans dragging this out indefinitely and replaying it OVER and OVER again so that she has to keep hearing it over and over again. YES it was tasteless. NO he probably didn't think it through. He probably didn't think of the "rape" angle. Yes even if we didn't throw the "Rape" angel into it it would still be tasteless. ALL night ime talk show hosts tell tasteless jokes about politicians and their families. I'm sure this was done to EVERY presidents daughter at one time or another...pr presidential candidates daughter. Unfortunately when you choose to put yourself AND your family in the public eye like that, it's going to happen! Does it make it right? NO, but those are the facts ma'am. If you don't want your family to be under public scrutiny don't run for public office. If Ms. Palin had something to say (which she did) good for her. She said something about his other joke. She has a right to do so. She has a right to be disgusted, and offended, but she also knows it comes with the territory. I think needs to and probably has put her "big girl panties" on and unfortunately her daughter is going to have to do the same. One of the consequences of getting pregnant at a young age is that you will be called names. It happens every day in high schools across the nation. The difference here is that,unfortunately for her. Her criticism in on a national level. Dave, shame on you! Now, how long are we going to give his tasteless joke attention? Maybe instead of making this about dems and republicans or about late night comedians, maybe we could use this to start talking about how society in general thinks that it's okay to make these types of comments about ALL GIRLS who find themselves in the same unfortunate circumstances.

Taskr. You twisted and nitpicked through my words as you did with Annies.You also put words into my mouth. I'd go back line by line over what you said and explain where you did that, but it truly is a waste of time arguing/debating (whatever you want to call it) with you, sometimes. You just put those blinders on and bulldoze your way through these discussions. annie and I BOTH said we didn't like his joke. Just because we aren't in 100% agreement with your opinion doesn't mean we think his joke was funny.