Monday, June 15, 2009
Politics / Celeb Will Sarah Palin...
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:33 PM
...apologize to David Letterman when her 14-year-old daughter gets knocked up?
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Ugh, what a dumb situation. I think Letterman initially went over the line, but when Palin insinuated that Letterman was some kind of child molester she became the monster.
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Will Sarah apologize for letting her 14-year-old dress like she's 35? Look at those R convention pictures, that is a 13-year-old? She's two years older than Malia. It makes my head hurt.
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I am SO sick of this. He's apologized. Twice. It's only still an issue because the conservatives can fund-raise on it. Jay-sus.
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Nobody believes he was talking about the 14 year old, it was obvious to everyone he was talking about Bristol, she's the one that became known for that. And since when does "knocked up" immediately means getting raped? He should've known better but this is just pure nonsense.
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If this was a right wing commenter talking about one of the Obama girls, the Slog would be up in arms.
Sometime you guys are so full of shit.
Sometime you guys are so full of shit.
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Should Letterman known better? Who the fuck cares?!?!? HE'S A FUCKING COMIC PEOPLE!!!! The person that made this an issue is Sarah Palin and the media she loves to demonize is pushing it right along.
When news coverage focuses on comedians as news stories you can't even fanthom how totally fucked we are as a society.
When news coverage focuses on comedians as news stories you can't even fanthom how totally fucked we are as a society.
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Of course she won't apologize. Willow's pregnancy will be Letterman's fault. Conservatives are first and foremost victims, after all.
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@12Is rotten666 an evil devilman!? Aaah! Not a comparable scenario, Obama isn't an abstinence only right winger with a knocked up kid. There's no joke there. So go back to hell devil boy.
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@17 cute. But I still say you're all a bunch of hypocrites. One of the Jezebel girls summed it up pretty nicely...
http://jezebel.com/5291510/another-day-f…
http://jezebel.com/5291510/another-day-f…
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It would be nice to know what companies are pulling ads to put the screws to Letterman, so Letterman's supporters and sort-of supporters could turn some heat on their fascist, censoring, moralizing asses. And @12, oh, I'm sorry "rotten666", well no, if Obama's oldest daughter got pregnant partly because her (for the sake of comparison) crazy mom was opposed to birth control and sex ed. and supported (unworkable, unrealistic, stoopid) abstinence pledges, and Letterman made fun of that, and his (already lame) joke misfired and hit the wrong daughter, Slog would be pretty much the same. Eye roll, groan, defence of free speech and condemnation of political opportunism. Don't pre-emptively accuse people of a double standard. Give 'em a chance to actually be hypocrites first.
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what's lame is his apology means that palin has equal or more pull than letterman (or enough pull to force this). i was hoping he would have more, enough so that an apology wouldn't be necessary. he already said the joke was about daughter A, not B. the palin camp insisting he should have known better is basically saying letterman lied. they didn't change their argument to what he apologized for, the appearance of the joke. they just keep saying it was an unacceptable joke.
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Never happen. If Palin's people have any smarts at all, they're slipping a Yaz or Seasonale pill into her orange juice every morning.
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I read the Jezebel article, it's bullshit. Basically trying to call out hypocrisy on those of us calling out hypocrisy. It's like the reverse racism argument. If Palin wants unscientific religious bullshit taught in public schools, she has made her knocked up daughter part of the debate.
You can't have it both ways, that is to let government step in on peoples pesonal lives (ie abortion, gay marriage) and not expect your own personal lives to be picked apart.
You can't have it both ways, that is to let government step in on peoples pesonal lives (ie abortion, gay marriage) and not expect your own personal lives to be picked apart.
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19 - The only company to pull an ad due to this is Embassy Suites/ Hilton... and the right wing wacko's claim victory in their jihad against jokes.
Except for the ones they tell... like the radio host who said if a solider were in the elevator with Pelosi/Reid/Osama Bin Laden with a gun and two bullets he would shoot Pelosi twice and strangle Bin Laden and Reid. Now that was funny and tastefull according to them.
Except for the ones they tell... like the radio host who said if a solider were in the elevator with Pelosi/Reid/Osama Bin Laden with a gun and two bullets he would shoot Pelosi twice and strangle Bin Laden and Reid. Now that was funny and tastefull according to them.
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The sad thing about Letterman is that he's been doing this Populist quasi-Democrat shtick since the election and it really hasn't helped him or his ratings.
In fact, it doesn't really fit the persona he built over the past 2 decades as the wisecracking skeptic from Indiana.
Now all of a sudden he's a true believer in Obama politics? Why?
In fact, it doesn't really fit the persona he built over the past 2 decades as the wisecracking skeptic from Indiana.
Now all of a sudden he's a true believer in Obama politics? Why?
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What asshats you people are. You are talking about a 14 YEAR OLD GIRL! For Christ's sake, where has the moral center of liberals gone? I don't know where I belong anymore, because I used to think I was a liberal, but when people who also say they are liberals can sink to the level of talking perverted sexual crap about a minor girl just because they don't like her parents politics, then this is no group for me. I don't care if her mother worships SATAN, LEAVE THE GIRL ALONE. The same way everyone should to the Obama children and should have for Chelsea Clinton, etc. etc. etc.
And, Dan - if you want people to treat sexual minorities with decency, you should also think about how you treat others. Karma is a bitch, after all and probably a drag queen too. So, at long last, have you all no decency left??
And, Dan - if you want people to treat sexual minorities with decency, you should also think about how you treat others. Karma is a bitch, after all and probably a drag queen too. So, at long last, have you all no decency left??
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@29: This is waaaaay too serious, but: the first girl to get pregnant in my tiny redneck class was 11. She wasn't the last. I'm sick of it. Sick and tired! Also, those Palin whores are millionairettes. So yes, @24, maybe it is like that Dune sequel I couldn't finish.
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@29 what part about "not willow" don't you understand? you are not a liberal because a liberal could figure out what "not willow" means.
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Sarah Palin:
Makin' news by any means necessary
(why read it when you can make it ?!# LOLs FTW WTF GTFOH)
Malcolm is rolling over in his grave right now.
Dear Sarah, you try too hard, no on cares about your ignant ass nor ya dopey ass kids. Please carry all y'all asses back to the hole ya came from and look at Russia some more. And leave us alone.
Fanx!
Makin' news by any means necessary
(why read it when you can make it ?!# LOLs FTW WTF GTFOH)
Malcolm is rolling over in his grave right now.
Dear Sarah, you try too hard, no on cares about your ignant ass nor ya dopey ass kids. Please carry all y'all asses back to the hole ya came from and look at Russia some more. And leave us alone.
Fanx!
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David Letterman should apologize for his entire show, really. The guy stopped being funny about 20 years ago. Of course, he won't be suspended or fired - or even required to give a sincere apology - sexism appears to be perfectly acceptable in America today. Good thing he didn't say something racist or anti-semetic - then he'd be outta there! Don Imus must be saying "WTF?"
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Of course - this stupid chanting on and on about the Palin daughters and their personal stuff is a good, really good, to the moon good message for the agenda of the gay community, that national agenda?
Dan,after all goes on national TV these days. Oh messages, that old tired idea ...
By the way, there are many places even in America if such insults were offered about a 14 year old daughter, angry dad would scare the shit out of the big mouth who made the remarks.
Trash talking is NOT good politics. And I give fucking whit shit about who gets pregnant and how. Queer men are strange on this double standard, since they whore around with no fear of getting "knocked up" ... ever.
It is akin to the men of the right wing always telling women about the taboo of abortion.. You all sound so silly. the new pregnancy experts, bunch of Slog's queer boys.
Whoa there guys. Get back to the cock stuff and butt crack stuff, you are experts on that.
Dan,after all goes on national TV these days. Oh messages, that old tired idea ...
By the way, there are many places even in America if such insults were offered about a 14 year old daughter, angry dad would scare the shit out of the big mouth who made the remarks.
Trash talking is NOT good politics. And I give fucking whit shit about who gets pregnant and how. Queer men are strange on this double standard, since they whore around with no fear of getting "knocked up" ... ever.
It is akin to the men of the right wing always telling women about the taboo of abortion.. You all sound so silly. the new pregnancy experts, bunch of Slog's queer boys.
Whoa there guys. Get back to the cock stuff and butt crack stuff, you are experts on that.
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Sarah Palin is the smartest political head in American politics at the moment.
She is keeping alive in the popular mind of her supporters because of stupid shit eaters like Letterman.
And the women of America, right and left, will remember well. So will the dads. In America society protects under age kids ... esp. girls. Period. ALL kids.
Last week I saw a very articulate Palin telling the world how Alaska has NO taxes on its population, none. Course that means nothing is being done correctly in the administration of that state and its resources....
With oil money, do you think Washington would give up its sales tax? End property taxes? Dream on.
She is keeping alive in the popular mind of her supporters because of stupid shit eaters like Letterman.
And the women of America, right and left, will remember well. So will the dads. In America society protects under age kids ... esp. girls. Period. ALL kids.
Last week I saw a very articulate Palin telling the world how Alaska has NO taxes on its population, none. Course that means nothing is being done correctly in the administration of that state and its resources....
With oil money, do you think Washington would give up its sales tax? End property taxes? Dream on.
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@29...we'll stop making jokes about the double standard in the family when (a) she quits parading them around like stage props; and (b) Limbaugh apologizes for his dig at Chelsea Clinton's looks (because - having once been a teenage girl myself I can attest - at that age, being called ugly is *probably* worse for your mental health than being called a slut).
"On his TV show, early in the Clinton administration, Limbaugh put up a picture of Socks, the White House cat, and asked, 'Did you know there's a White House dog?' Then he put up a picture of Chelsea Clinton, who was 13 years old at the time... When viewers objected, he claimed, in typical Limbaugh fashion, that the gag was an accident and that without his permission some technician had put up the picture of Chelsea..."
"On his TV show, early in the Clinton administration, Limbaugh put up a picture of Socks, the White House cat, and asked, 'Did you know there's a White House dog?' Then he put up a picture of Chelsea Clinton, who was 13 years old at the time... When viewers objected, he claimed, in typical Limbaugh fashion, that the gag was an accident and that without his permission some technician had put up the picture of Chelsea..."
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Personally, I don't find Letterman that funny in general but seriously, get over it people. Imus, Rush, Hannity and the lot make WAY more offensive comments about innocent people all the time. Anyone with any sort of sense knew he was talking about Bristol not Willow.
Bristol would not be a reasonable target for a political joke just because she's the daughter of a political figure but she is absolutely fair game as a target because she has made herself a prominent national figure in the abstinence only education crowd. If she's going to get up in front of the world and make hypocritical speeches telling people to do what she says and completely ignore what she does then she's making herself a target for late night comedians.
Besides, he's just a damn comedian. His job is to make people laugh not to make sure nobody gets offended. Let him tell what jokes he wants. If you don't like the jokes he tells because they offend you (idiot conservatives) or because he's not funny (me) then change the channel and quit bitching. If enough people turn him off he'll lose his show.
Bristol would not be a reasonable target for a political joke just because she's the daughter of a political figure but she is absolutely fair game as a target because she has made herself a prominent national figure in the abstinence only education crowd. If she's going to get up in front of the world and make hypocritical speeches telling people to do what she says and completely ignore what she does then she's making herself a target for late night comedians.
Besides, he's just a damn comedian. His job is to make people laugh not to make sure nobody gets offended. Let him tell what jokes he wants. If you don't like the jokes he tells because they offend you (idiot conservatives) or because he's not funny (me) then change the channel and quit bitching. If enough people turn him off he'll lose his show.
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Stop calling the Palin women whores.
There's no evidence they're particularly promiscuous. The eldest daughter had a child young, true, but it's not unusual for someone to be having sex at that age, and just because she got pregnant doesn't mean she was having sex with a million different people.
Besides, this attack based on presumed promiscuity is fucking sexist.
There's plenty of dumbass to attack, stick to the stupidity, kids.
There's no evidence they're particularly promiscuous. The eldest daughter had a child young, true, but it's not unusual for someone to be having sex at that age, and just because she got pregnant doesn't mean she was having sex with a million different people.
Besides, this attack based on presumed promiscuity is fucking sexist.
There's plenty of dumbass to attack, stick to the stupidity, kids.
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