Tuesday, June 16, 2009
A Line is Finally Drawn in the Media’s Ongoing Palin-Bash
It may be of little consolation to the supporters of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin but we can now say there is an uncrossable line in the media’s ongoing Palin-bash: Jokes about her daughters getting “knocked up” at baseball games go too far. Some of us would have drawn the line months ago and for less offensive “jokes,” but at least the media now have a metric against which to judge their skits, sketches, and news segments.
Forget for a moment that Embassy Suites Hotels had decided to cease advertising on Letterman’s program, the Late Show host finally apologized, directly and unsquishily, to Gov. Palin and her family for his stupid and mean-spirited joke.
Okay. What happens now?
You see, after Palin supporters, and the governor herself, first vocalized their anger at the joke, the usual “news analysts” hit the talk show circuit to claim that Palin was overreacting, she had asked for it, her daughters are fair game, that she was expressing “manufactured outrage.”
But Letterman has apologized. Will we see the same from others like, say, Campbell Brown and Jeffery Toobin of CNN or Arianna Huffington?
Letterman was shamed into making amends. Let’s hope our friends in the media are not immune from such stimuli.
UPDATE: Gov. Palin has accepted David Letterman’s apology in a somewhat oddly-worded statement:
In a statement to FOXNews.com early Tuesday, the Alaska governor said, “Of course it’s accepted on behalf of young women, like my daughters, who hope men who ‘joke’ about public displays of sexual exploitation of girls will soon evolve.”
“Letterman certainly has the right to ‘joke’ about whatever he wants to, and thankfully we have the right to express our reaction,” Palin said. “This is all thanks to our U.S. Military women and men putting their lives on the line for us to secure America’s Right to Free Speech - in this case, may that right be used to promote equality and respect.”
Topics: cnn, palin, huffington, campbell-brown, toobin, letterman
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“the Late Show host finally apologized, directly and unsquishily”
I read the text. It’s not an apology, just more of the same: wink, wink the audience will cheer and the fools will think I actually apologized.
The substance is based on the obvious lie that he thought Palin was alone at the game. So it would be funny to make a joke about one of her daughters.
The tone is of a rationalization wrapped in a faux apology.
There’s a full paragraph there on how it’s not the “intent”, it’s the “perception” and it doesn’t matter that he was “misunderstood”.
Which tells me that he thinks we rubes out here in outrage land are too dim to properly grasp his form of humor.
“Apology. I don’t think that word means what you think it means.”
Letterman wasn’t shamed. The “apology” was good business.
Its not an apology. Its something that Letterman’s handlers figured would be something to do to get those pesky conservatives off our backs so they can get back to the real business of making him look wonderful.
Genuine contrition for show business folks is something unheard of and it smacks of bowing down to the wrong kind of people. Its just not done.
This is the time for conservatives to push Letterman to do even more and perhaps even resign.
The Ten Top Reasons Dave Letterman Shouldn’t Visit Alaska
10. Grizzlies can smell ‘dead meat’ from miles away.
9. It’s really difficult to walk back to shore from the deck of a fishing trawler 200 miles off the coast of Unalakleet.
8. Dave would be the only guy stupid enough to lick the flagpole in front of the Barrow post office in February.
7. 10,000,000 mosquitos would just love to perform fellatio on Dave, strapped naked to the float of a bush plane.
6. A man Dave’s age would have a difficult time out-running a bullet from Sarah Palin’s favorite moose rifle.
5. From the center of the Harding Ice Field no one can hear you scream.
4. Strands of silver hair sticking out of sled-dog poop make lousy Iditarod trail markers.
3. That pin-striped suit inside a crab pot at the bottom of Resurrection Bay, probably wouldn’t keep the Dungeness away from Dave’s genitals.
2. Fourteen year old polar bears have no sense of humor when it comes to performing kinky sex acts with some old bug-eyed dude from New York City.
1. Dave would have trouble getting a laugh when telling a Sarah Palin joke from the bottom of a crevasse on Mount Denali.
Toobin? The same Toobin that has been rumored to be chasing the skirt of another colleague’s daughter while still married?
What Sarah should do now is say NOTHING further about this. What Letterman needs is what Ayn Rand used to call “the sanction of the victim.” As long as she says nothing further about this, old Dave just will need to keep bringing it up in order to get her “approval.” Unless she does this, he’ll be forced to keep digging himself in deeper. Goodbye, Dave. By the way, Dave, if Sarah is married and a mother and a slut, what would you call a woman who has a child out of wedlock and waits SIX YEARS until getting married to the guy? What does that make him?
The real butt of the joke was Alex Rodriguez, who Letterman implied was a pedophile and capbale of committing a felonious act.
Fire David Letterman
http://www.firedavidletterman.com
Letterman can apologize all he wants. CBS fired Don Imus for less.
Fire David Letterman.
poor Dave ... he’s become the 62 year old pervert who hangs around the magazine section in the 7-11. sad ... sad ... sad
Letterman’s non-apology was well met by Gov. Palin’s non-acceptance. Her acceptance isn’t oddly worded. She’s a bright woman who knows a BS “apology” when she hears it. Letterman would be wise not to head north to Alaska.
Don’t forget, Governor Palin has a son in Iraq. I don’t think it was oddly worder at all. Just a proud and grateful mom.
This foolishness is all about politics and has nothing to do with comedy. The left’s been getting away with this stuff for years. This time, however, one old commie got the ridicule dumped back on him. Way to go, SARAH!
Besides, is all in goood fun. Da comrade?
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also, it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”
Saul Alinsky, Rules For Radicals 1971
Dave apologized about being caught - now he can go back to making personal sexual insults about someone else he doesn’t like.
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Genuine contrition for show business folks is something unheard of and it smacks of bowing down to the wrong kind of people. Its just not done. This is the time for conservatives to push Letterman to do even more and perhaps even resign..Personal Injury Lawyer Houston
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