David Letterman's Palin Child Joke

[DeWayneTN]

He apologized so we don't have a choice as Christians but to let it die. We're not the other side - we're supposed to be different. We're supposed to model something other than an eye for an eye.

EDIT add - I don't think forgiveness means you have to watch him if you don't want to. I think he's going to lose a lot of viewers and nothing can be done about that. I'm basically talking about moving past the campaign.

[Dr. Ron]

You are all being kind to the great american icon of tv.

Don Imus, a talk show host, was fired because of a joke (not even sexual in nature) about some black girls.....

No, an apology is not enough. He needs to be fired. Period. His right to be in front of people should be taken from him and they all need to be sued by the Palins for whatever reason they can think of........

No apology is acceptable here.....firing.....A message needs to be sent to these idiots ....no, everyone is not your fair game.

[Dr. Ron]

Dewayne, with all due respect, you and I and the christian faith weren't the ones wronged. We don't have the right nor the responsibility to forgive him.
That is up to the Palin family. They were the ones who were wronged.

If you want to keep watching him, go ahead, but not under the guise of "as christians we have to forgive".....If this is really your theology about forgiveness, you have somewhat to learn.

I do not mean to chastize you, but his is the wrong connotation of forgiveness. We have to take a stand as Christians was well......

That's like saying "well, Obama is doing some good stuff, so we will overlook his killing of babies...."....

[MacUser]

I see it in a radical new way. It's bigger than David.

Sara Palin has single handily done more for women recently than any of the liberal left. Because of the horrific attacks against her person, family and female gender (hers and daughters)... she has stood her ground and pushed back against the status quo for all women! Flat amazing.

In doing so.. she has raised the bar literally on what you can say against women in this modern world. That slippery slope took a brief detour upward this past week.

She took a crude negative... spun that around and into a positive for women everywhere. THAT my friend is real LEADERSHIP in real change.

Bravo.


Sarah Palin accepts David Letterman's apology
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id ... _article=1

NEW YORK (AP) - Sarah Palin says she accepts David Letterman's apology for the joke about her daughter.

The Alaska governor, in a statement issued Tuesday, said the apology was accepted "on behalf of all young women, like my daughters, who hope men who `joke' about public displays of sexual exploitation of girls will soon evolve."

[DeWayneTN]

I don't watch Letterman. By his own words, he has condemned. I'm not taking up for him, I'm just saying I'm not signing a petition or standing outside of his studio with a picket sign. It's silly and petty at this point. If Palin didn't already win this fight, it would be different.

[dolfan]

It think it is like, well, peeing up a rope. The best ammo at this point is to take the apology as the last word in the matter and then rub that in forevermore to illustrate what a rube and what a thug David Letterman really is. Demonstrations of the nature of the one planned for his firing give way, way too much room for PR spin to counteract the merit of the protest. End result: Letterman's the good guy, Palin's the nut, and all her daughters and their children and their grandchildren will be too. That's the message that will be given a chance to resonate. I think the demonstration would be well motivated, but the end will not be what people expect and it will be turned on them to frustrate them further.