I hadn't even heard about this until this morning when I was watching the news while getting ready for work.  They played the reel of his show and his nasty remarks.  I understand this guy is supossed to be a comedian, but seriously.....when is everyone gonna let this whole thing with Palins daughter getting pregnant pass?  She is not the first unmarried young lady to be in this situation, she surely will not be the last.  Why is there an automatic assumption that because her mother is a public figure that she will somehow never make bad decisions? (meaning premarital sex or unprotected sex) She's human, like the rest of us.  I applaud her for keeping her child and not aborting.  It would have been very easy for her to "erase the problem", and no one would have known, but instead she stepped up to the plate.  I'm sure this has much to do with the values and principals her mother has instilled in her.  Way to go, Sarah!   I wonder what kind of jokes and negativity there would have been if she would have decided to abort her child.  That would have been picked apart too, even by the abortion lovers.  Some people just can't win.  I love Sarah and hope she runs again for the white house!

Maybe he is trying to keep his ratings up since Conan O'Brian is now his competition????  I don't know....it seems everyone has been picking on Sarah Palin lately...her interview with Matt Lauer was a little tense as well. 

The daughter he was talking about 'getting pregnant by one of the ballplayers' was her 14 yr old daughter.  Who on this planet thinks its funny making fun of the daughter of a republican as the brunt of statutary rape?   Wait..............I bet Obama and his cronies do.    Let Letterman rethink this when his kid gets older.  They would be just sorry Dr Tillman was shot recently.   BTW, with all his cash looks like he could get that gap between his 2 front teeth fixed.

Letterman has finally apologized and admitted that it was a bad joke, and a bad thing to say........big deal, it was already on the air and out there for everyone to hear. Since when is it alright to do something so wrong and then afterward apologize for it? I am sure if no one made a big deal of it, Letterman would not have apologized. I saw today that some advertisers pulled their ads from his show and the CBS websites. So Letterman probably apologized because the money men told him to.  I do not know why everyone is against Sarah Palin, she has only made one mistake since being on the ticket. That was running as the vice presidental candadate instead of the presidental candadate.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PALIN 2012

I never said Letterman should be taken off the air. I do not think anyone should be taken off the air for what they say on their shows. I think that if you go to the impartial fact checking websites you will see that most of the so called news show hosts, both conservative and liberal get a lot of facts wrong. I think it is done on purpose. It is a ratings ploy. The bigger the controversy, the bigger the ratings. Letterman apologized but his ratings still went up.

As for the Palin 2012 remark, well she can not be as dangerous as the tax and spend man we have in there now. Billions for bailouts and yet he wants to cut the military. The people who protect us and our interests. With all the terrorism and unrest in the world, we should be keeping a strong military. Now that is dangerous.

Hannity, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Beck... Take them off too?

Okay, let's have an actual quote from one of them that you think should get them taken off. Maybe they have made tasteless jokes, but I never heard one during the times I have listened to them.

By the way, I'm not saying Letterman should be fired - I only want a real example of something one of the conservative hosts has said that is equally tasteless...

AND I am NOT a Republican, and don't care for Limbaugh at all - but specifically what have any of the named hosts said that is "horrible?"

Oh, and the named conservatives are TALK SHOW hosts, and have never claimed to be newsmen. Their shows are advertised as commentary. If they were news shows, then yes, they should stay neutral. But they are paid to express opinion.

And yes, Letterman is a comedian, and I used to watch him a lot - but it is definitely in poor taste to joke about a teenager being knocked up by a sports figure.

Ever heard of Bernie Ward?  He's the famous liberal Californian talk radio host, often compared to Rush Limbaugh....besides the fact that he is outspokenly liberal, he differs from Limbaugh because he is now serving 7 years in a fedeal prison on child pornography charges. 

Mahatma Gandhi "ran a gas station down in Saint Louis."

-Senator Hillary Clinton

You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent."
-Senator Joe Biden

Blacks and Hispanics are "too busy eating watermelons and tacos" to learn how to read and write." -- Mike Wallace, CBS News. Source: Newsmax


"He's married to a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn't want to be black."

-- California State Senator Diane Watson's on Ward Connerly's interracial marriage

"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."

-- Former Klansman and current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate", in a letter written in 1944, after he quit the KKK.


"You f*cking Jew b@stard." -- Hillary Clinton to political operative Paul Fray. This was revealed in "State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton"

"I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health."

-- Charles Barron, a New York city councilman at a reparations rally, 2002


"There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time." -- Former Klansman and Current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate" in March of 2001


These are all quotes from liberal democrats.  I could go on and on.  We could spend a lifetime quoting liberals and conservatives who have said the most ridiculous, offensive things.  The bottom line is that Letterman made a bad judgement call, period.  Whether he is liberal or or conservative, who cares, he acted an ass that evening.   It's time to let this thing with Palins daughter go.  God forbid Obamas daughters ever wind up in a similar situation....oh wait....they won't be "punished" with a baby as long as their dad has anything to say about it. 


 

dmazment says ...

The daughter Letterman was talking about was Bristol Palin, not Willow.  Remember her?  The one who was pregnant during the campaign, unmarried, underage, supposedly full of high morals and ethics, who now is on the cover of People magazine, saying it was not the wisest choice in her young life?   She put herself out there and is a public figure, therefore fair game to comics.  It was a tasteless joke and in poor judgment, but it was not about the 14 year old.  Everyone can say what they wish about President and Mrs Obama and not much is said here or anywhere.  Shoe's on the other foot now isn't it?

I beg to differ with you dmazement. Letterman said that Sarah Palin's daughter got pregnant by A-Rod during the game. Sarah's 14 year old daughter Willow was at the game, Bristol was not. No matter how Letterman and his people try to spin it, he was talking about the daughter at the game. Come on now, how can anyone think he meant Bristol.

Nurse_John says ...

dmazment says ...

The daughter Letterman was talking about was Bristol Palin, not Willow.  Remember her?  The one who was pregnant during the campaign, unmarried, underage, supposedly full of high morals and ethics, who now is on the cover of People magazine, saying it was not the wisest choice in her young life?   She put herself out there and is a public figure, therefore fair game to comics.  It was a tasteless joke and in poor judgment, but it was not about the 14 year old.  Everyone can say what they wish about President and Mrs Obama and not much is said here or anywhere.  Shoe's on the other foot now isn't it?

I beg to differ with you dmazement. Letterman said that Sarah Palin's daughter got pregnant by A-Rod during the game. Sarah's 14 year old daughter Willow was at the game, Bristol was not. No matter how Letterman and his people try to spin it, he was talking about the daughter at the game. Come on now, how can anyone think he meant Bristol.

Why do I believe this?  Because he said so in his apology and also stated it was tasteless and a poor joke.  Sorry, but I don't think Letterman or anyone else would ever condon statuatory rape.  Those who jumped on the band wagon over this all assumed he meant the 14 year old girl.  Assumptions are something every nurse is taught to ignore, yet everyone makes assumptions, guesses and comes to incorrect and erroneous conclusions.

Well , this just goes to show, that whoever wrote the joke for Letterman, did not do his homework. Besides, regardless of whom he was speaking of, either way it was disgusting and wrong!

Why is it Don Imus paid dearly for his nasty remarks, yet Letterman is still on the air? Agian, the hypocrisy makes me wan to hurl.

 One of the many things I found interesting about Letterman's Joke....if you want to call it that, is the fact that he had a child out of wedlock.  I believe it was a few years after the child was born that he got married to his girlfriend.  Why would he even want to touch that joke is beyond me.  I especially don't see the humor when the girl is under age.   I give her a lot of credit for having the child!!  

Nurse_John says ...

dmazment says ...

The daughter Letterman was talking about was Bristol Palin, not Willow.  Remember her?  The one who was pregnant during the campaign, unmarried, underage, supposedly full of high morals and ethics, who now is on the cover of People magazine, saying it was not the wisest choice in her young life?   She put herself out there and is a public figure, therefore fair game to comics.  It was a tasteless joke and in poor judgment, but it was not about the 14 year old.  Everyone can say what they wish about President and Mrs Obama and not much is said here or anywhere.  Shoe's on the other foot now isn't it?

I beg to differ with you dmazement. Letterman said that Sarah Palin's daughter got pregnant by A-Rod during the game. Sarah's 14 year old daughter Willow was at the game, Bristol was not. No matter how Letterman and his people try to spin it, he was talking about the daughter at the game. Come on now, how can anyone think he meant Bristol.

BRAVO NURSE JOHN!!!   Hey, howdy Dmazment, hadnt seen you on here in ages,Didnt recognize you!  Lol.  John, I'm so glad it was somebody besides me to point out that if you watched the clip, he was refering to the daughter that was at the game.................hence.............the one who was pregnant during the campaign wasnt the one talked about.     I keep wondring why the liberal media love trying to make jokes about Sarah Pailin.........I truly they they fear her.  She represents something good and honest................and Im sure everybody knows for those who like to throw up that she was busted for tax evasion or some sort of nonpayment.   Well, sorry to tell all of the Pailin haters she was cleared 100% of the charges.    I feel Sarah Pailin would not hesitate to take up for the protesters in Iran........for the Women who were fighting as much as the men.   Obaba hasnt the spine to take for for oppressed women.   I have written a couple of emails to Sarah Pailin trying to through the thought of not only suing Letterman but the network as well for violation of her civil rights...........and her daughter's civil rights.   I wish others would do the same.  People think nothing of making tastless jokes about the young women..........teenagers that are sexist.  Im sure everyone on this link has rules at the workforce that well defines sexual harassment.   Nobody in this country respects the rights of teenage girls regarding sexual harrasment.   Nothing will ever make things better unless huge amounts of calls and emails to our congressmen and senators.   I know there is our freedom of speech............but what about freedome of our children from sexual harrassment?   I think Letterman needs to be fired and sued along with the network.   People think we're all so stupid, especially Obamanites...........they dont realize we can put 2 and 2 together and we know that 'hey, thats not the daughter that had the baby, it was the other one".    They dont realize that all of the world saw Obama bow to the king of Saudi Arabia..........he wasnt squatting because he was a short dude............it was a Bow.............the whole world knows what we saw.    Um........did everybody also see the VP and Sec of State rebuke Obama for no action over the supreme ruler in Iran?   Go Biden!   Good work.

klwinsor says ...

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Katie, I do not believe that this forum has gotten out of control. Everyone has voiced their opinion of a public statement made by a public figure. Everyone has been civil in their treatment of one another even though there has been disagreement. I personally never felt anyone who disagreed with me was being uncivil towards me. I also feel I was civil with everyone else. As long as we do not get into name calling and such, healthy disagreement and discussion is always welcome.

 Liberal, conservative, Republican or Democrat, it doesn't matter. The joke was wrong regardless of who said it or whom it was about. He should have had the good sense to refuse to do that joke if it wasn't his own idea, and the decency not to come up with with something like that if it was his idea. But with that being said I also believe the media were like sharks circling bleeding prey with this story. It never should have happened, but the way it was handled wasn't right, either.