David Letterman's Palin Child Joke

one love · Postby **one love** » June 13th, 2009, 4:36 pm

Pastor Gary wrote:
Full Quiver wrote:
Guess who wrote:nobody has anything to say about Alex Rodriguez? I don't know who that is,

Like we didn't see this coming.

I can't for the life of me figure out how someones knows about Palin, her children, Letterman, etc but doesn't know who Alex Rodriquez is considering he makes the news just as much if not more than any of the above names.

News?? Alex Rodriguez is never in the "news" - he is in the SPORTS, a section of the newspaper I discard unread each day.

RamboPreacher · Postby **RamboPreacher** » June 13th, 2009, 5:08 pm

Pastor Gary wrote:News?? Alex Rodriguez is never in the "news" - he is in the SPORTS, a section of the newspaper I discard unread each day.

that would be a ditto for me too, if, that is, I actually received a print news paper.

Postby **Pastor Gary** » June 13th, 2009, 5:19 pm

Full Quiver wrote:Gary, it is more than Sports reports that follow A-Rod. Congressional hearings on steroid use, etc. make top news, front pages, etc.

As a guy who only follows the local college football team, I promise you if I saw a jock on a Congressional hearing on the news, I'd switch channels to find a Law & Order rerun. I find overpaid, inflated-ego, testosterone-charged professional athletes generally not worthy of the time it would take to read about them. Sorry.

rjjunior · Postby **rjjunior** » June 14th, 2009, 4:36 pm

Pastor Gary wrote:
Full Quiver wrote:Gary, it is more than Sports reports that follow A-Rod. Congressional hearings on steroid use, etc. make top news, front pages, etc.

As a guy who only follows the local college football team, I promise you if I saw a jock on a Congressional hearing on the news, I'd switch channels to find a Law & Order rerun. I find overpaid, inflated-ego, testosterone-charged professional athletes generally not worthy of the time it would take to read about them. Sorry.

But you DO know who he is, obviously! :wink:

I think that's the unbelievable part. Even non-sports fans like yourself who go out of their way to avoid them accidently know who Arod is.

Postby **Pastor Gary** » June 14th, 2009, 4:48 pm

rjjunior wrote:
Pastor Gary wrote:
Full Quiver wrote:Gary, it is more than Sports reports that follow A-Rod. Congressional hearings on steroid use, etc. make top news, front pages, etc.

As a guy who only follows the local college football team, I promise you if I saw a jock on a Congressional hearing on the news, I'd switch channels to find a Law & Order rerun. I find overpaid, inflated-ego, testosterone-charged professional athletes generally not worthy of the time it would take to read about them. Sorry.

But you DO know who he is, obviously! I think that's the unbelievable part. Even non-sports fans like yourself who go out of their way to avoid them accidently know who Arod is.

Had to Google him. :oops:

Full Quiver · Postby **Full Quiver** » June 14th, 2009, 5:25 pm

PG, there is probably an A-ROD application on your IPhone. :lol:

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » June 15th, 2009, 6:55 am

I wouldn't know whom the guy was either :wink:

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http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena ... -you-dave/

I have had it with Letterman! I used to defend this guy to all of my friends who liked Leno better. I would say from a comic stand point that Jay was a great comic but Letterman was more original and had more style and class than Leno. Two recent events have changed my mind: Jay’s classy departure from the “Tonight Show” and Letterman’s classless left-wing attacks on the kids of politicians.

A comic needs to be an equal opportunity offender. We can’t pick sides in politics. We can have a point of view and a favorite but being a comic means when our guy drops the ball, you have to pick it up and smash it in his face. My friend and political opposite, Will Durst, said this a few years back about Mort Saul (I am paraphrasing here), “You can’t sit down to dinner with the Reagan’s and then pretend you’re still willing to sling mud at them.”

That is what is wrong with comedians like Letterman, Garofalo, and Stewart. They only see one side. Why do none of them at least give love taps to Obama? Why didn’t at least one of them make some comedic hay out of Obama gaffs like “57 states” and a reference to speaking “Austrian?”

... The guy is the President and he can’t shake his mother-in-law and you can’t find a joke in that? Not one of these comics can come up with one joke about Obama like, “Since Michelle Obama’s mother is living in the White House, does that mean it is qualified as section 8 housing?” Or, “Did you ever notice that President Obama is like a televangelist, no matter how much money you send him, he still asks for more?”

Postby **Pastor Gary** » June 15th, 2009, 2:57 pm

Finally, Letterman seems to see that he stepped in it:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31377622/ns ... elevision/

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » June 15th, 2009, 4:01 pm

It might be to "Late..."?

http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/06/letterma ... palin.html

"I had, honestly, no idea that the 14-year-old girl, I had no idea that anybody was at the ball game except the governor, and I was told at the time she was there with Rudy Giuliani," Letterman said. "It’s not your fault that it was misunderstood, it’s my fault. ... So I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke."

...One CBS advertiser reportedly pulled its ads in response to the protests, some of which have demanded that CBS fire Letterman. The network is on the verge of giving Letterman a two-year contract extension that will keep him on the air through 2012.

"I understand, of course, why people are upset; I would be upset myself," Letterman said. "I’m sorry about it and I’ll try to do better in the future."

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Seriously.. just like I told Tim (whom is lurking).. many times in the past. Sarah is extremely popular with the largest single ideological group in the USA.

David Letterman grabbed onto something much larger than he could handle and the tables were reversed. Brilliant.

soulsearcher · Postby **soulsearcher** » June 15th, 2009, 4:25 pm

Honestly, I never could stand Letterman. :evil:

Johnny Carson was King, Leno a close second, but Letterman was just full of himself. Now Conan.... so far a breath of fresh air.

DeWayneTN · Postby **DeWayneTN** » June 15th, 2009, 4:44 pm

Well, I think we should put our money where our mouth is and forgive him at this point. Whether or not it was genuine, it was not a backhanded apology.

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » June 15th, 2009, 4:57 pm

DeWayneTN wrote:Well, I think we should put our money where our mouth is and forgive him at this point. Whether or not it was genuine, it was not a backhanded apology.

Sure. I actually like Letterman... but sometimes people can release things bigger than they are and he appears to have done so.

http://firedavidletterman.com/

Hopefully he can be sincerely contrite, slow the growing anger and continue.
I really like the possible Obama "balance" jokes we might get as a result of this. :wink:

DeWayneTN · Postby **DeWayneTN** » June 15th, 2009, 5:17 pm

What a silly campaign. I've said the entire time there are bigger fish to fry. They need to drop it.

EagerBeaver · Postby **EagerBeaver** » June 15th, 2009, 7:07 pm

DeWayneTN wrote:What a silly campaign. I've said the entire time there are bigger fish to fry. They need to drop it.

I agree. Live and let die.

RamboPreacher · Postby **RamboPreacher** » June 16th, 2009, 2:05 am

interesting quandary. I wonder if it would be "let it die", if it was about an Obama? are we to keep turning our cheek (so to speak), so often that our face is bruised, bloody, misshapen, broken and missing teeth? based on another thread here, there seems to be a lot of this anti-Christian, anti-(Christian) morals in the media. will it get any better if it is left to die (maybe)? or will it continue and grow, as it has in the past (in general terms), in my perception and opinion.

and what of the other person in the joke? maybe he was involved in some other issues that was apparently int eh news, but does that mean this reference to him being a pedophile is justified at all? or is this only about religio-political issues?

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