Comments on: Sarah Palin and David Letterman Joke Controversy

By: cyndi

cyndi — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:46:48 +0000

If she doesn’t want people to crack jokes at her she needs to bow out of the public eye. Sadly it’s a fact of life in our culture. She needs to learn to deal.

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:35:11 +0000

When you reach a certain point in the media - you need to understand that stuff like this happens and you need to deal with it. I agree joking about this topic may not be in good taste but come one how many of us havent made the exact same jokes? Only difference is we tell our friends and Letterman told the world! So it was the wrong daughter she was with - I wouldnt have known! And personally I think her daughters may be at risk for worse comments and attacks than this at some point down the line. Its part of living a public life! But she got her apology! Laura´s last blog post..Farmer for Laura

By: dadshouse

dadshouse — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:21:55 +0000

Letterman apologized again to the Palin family, and he seems to understand he crossed a line with his initial joke: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/15/letterman-apologizes-to-p_n_215927.html

Sarah Palin accepted the apology “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.” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31377622/ns/entertainment-television/

Barbara – is joking about Obama’s daughters funny? No. Minors should not be made the butt of jokes. Would it be okay to joke about 18 year-old Bristol Palin? Sure, now that she’s an adult, if she chooses to be in the public spotlight. If she is trying to live a quiet private life outside of her mom’s political career? Then I think no, she should be off limits.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:38:37 +0000

So, Obama took his daughter to Yankee stadium and things got awkward when during the seventh inning, his daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.

Is this an okay joke? After all, Obama is a public figure and if he trots his daughters out in public, well, then they are fair game.

By: FJ

FJ — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:42:22 +0000

I think “hypocrisy” would have been if the family decided to shush the whole scandal up by pressuring their daughter to abort the baby. She was under the impression she’d be a married – albeit young – mom. Didn’t turn out that way, but at least as a member of a fairly wealthy family, she did the right thing and didn’t end the pregnancy purely for social reasons – like 93 or so % of abortions in this country.

By: Extreme John

Extreme John — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:43:10 +0000

Ya know I was watching the show that night and I knew as soon as he made the jokes that there was going to be a problem. Not because I found any problem with the jokes, much like you I knew where he was coming from with them. The reaction to this just makes me even more tired of Palin, and you can add her daughters and family to that list too. The guy apologized, move on. Does she realize there's a porn out there with her name all over it? Is she calling on people to be fired for that? She's an idiot, I can understand her being pissed but move on already. Extreme John´s last blog post..Disgusting News

By: Candace

Candace — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:45:11 +0000

If Sarah Palin wanted to live in the public eye then she should expect stuff like this. Dave wasn’t speaking as a 62 year old man, he was doing his job and speaking as a comedian. A LATE show host. He doesn’t even have to apologize for this, it was JUST a joke, and whomever is taking this more seriously than that has waay to much time on his/her hands.

If Bristol Palin wasn’t having sex at God knows what age, and knocked up at the age of 17, and the hypocrisy of Sarah Palin being a governor against the things her OWN CHILDREN are doing, then this joke never would have been made, it wouldn’t have been funny.

Palin wouldn’t have gotten so upset if she knew that this joke wasn’t as farfetched as she would have hoped, she has already one daughter doing things before her time, and the probability of the other one doing the same are high, after all they both grew up in the same home with little or no morals and values. This joke hit home with her only because it hit home to the fact that she dropped the ball when it came to one daughter.