Letterman made some jokes about Sarah Palin's recent trip to NY. Palin expressed outrage in the media. Letterman's response:

He has every right to make the jokes.
they are kinda funny...


But why is it wrong for sarah palin to be pissed that he is making fun of her daughter, who never asked to be a celebrity?


I think Letterman is exploiting the situation in a kind of classless way.

She has been on talk shows and been injecting herself in public life. She deserves any and all public criticism. I couldn't disagree more.

(Not to mention she's a fucking hypocrite preaching abstinence while she fucks her brains out.)

Eh. I dont follow talk shows enough to know that she has been on them, so that changes it a bit.

Either way, the jokes werent bad, but i cant fault Sarah and Todd Palin, as parents, for being pissed their daughter is being mocked.

meh, one of the consequences of getting knocked up at a young age is that people can make fun of you for it cause you screwed up... much like leaving your fly open or thinking you lost your glasses when they are on your head.

I agree with Edzeppe, but Palin has also exploited the situation to an extent as well. Letterman made jokes about Bristol Palin, who is 18, and had a baby. She's a legal adult. The Palin crew, in their statement, has claimed that Letterman made jokes about Willow Palin, who's 14, being raped. That's completely twisting the situation for sympathy from the right in an attempt to tarnish Letterman. I love that he fought back, repeated the jokes, and stood his ground.

Letterman

how anyone with half a brain who knows anything about Palin/the campaign would interpret that to be about her 14 year old daughter is beyond me.

i really don't find anything wrong with the jokes since bristol did put herself out there to some extent. also, they were funny.

To some extent? She toured the country preaching abstinence and went on national television shows.

wait, bristol did an abstinence tour? i didn't know that. i just knew she went on a couple talk shows, which is different entirely, since she was in the spotlight due to her mother's campaign.

the 18 year old wasn't at the baseball game with them...it was the 14 year old...so that's why they're able to be douchebags about the whole thing.....

Yeah, this is what i didnt know.

huh? she went on talk shows AFTER the campaign was over. in no way did she try to stay out of the public eye.

and yes, she launched an abstinence tour.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Story?id=7510385&page=1

Teen Mom Bristol Palin: the New Face of Abstinence

Palin Promoting Abstinence in New Campaign, 'Regardless of What I Did Personally'


May 6, 2009 —

She has a healthy baby boy who has just learned to sit up, but Bristol Palin said she's using her fame to tell other teens to do what she didn't do -- abstain from sex.

"Regardless of what I did personally, I just think that abstinence is the only ... 100 percent foolproof way to prevent pregnancy," she told "Good Morning America" today, backing away from a previous statement on Fox News that abstinence wasn't realistic, saying it was taken out of context.

The spotlight has been on the 18-year-old since her pregnancy was announced a few days after her mother accepted the offer to become the GOP's vice presidential nominee. She's now using that spotlight to promote a national campaign to raise awareness for teen pregnancy prevention.

The daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was appointed as a teen ambassador for the New York City-based Candie's Foundation because she believes she could be a living example of the consequences of teen pregnancy, which is foundation's mission.

"It's a hard choice, but it's the safest choice and it's the best choice," Palin said.

Neil Cole, founder of the Candie's Foundation, said the company, which manufactures shoes marketed to teens, wanted to use that relationship to help prevent teen pregnancy.

"Just because you're wearing high-heeled sexy shoes doesn't mean you should have a baby," he said.

Palin's is a poignant message on this National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.

"I don't see myself as a celebrity; I don't want to be one," she said. "But I think using this experience in my life to help others, I think it's a blessing."

Palin said telling her mother and father that she was pregnant was "harder than labor."

"I knew that it would be a huge shock and a huge surprise for my parents," she said, adding that their disappointment eventually turned into support. "I hope that me speaking out now will prevent girls from having to do that in the future."

Palin said son Tripp, born in December, is sitting up, rolling over and starting to giggle. "He's doing awesome," she said. "He's getting so big and so chubby."

But Palin said he life consists mainly of school, diapers, bottles and chores, all on a "few hours of sleep."

"It's a 24-hour job and that's a huge responsibility," she said. "Your priorities completely change once you have a baby."

But Palin said giving up the baby or terminating the pregnancy was never an option. "I knew from the second I found out I was pregnant I was going to keep the baby," she said.

Still, if she could do it all over again, Palin said she would wait to have sex. "My son is a blessing. He's the best thing that ever happened to me. He's the love of my life but I do wish that years from now I could have had the same son."

does oral count?

i have no issue with her going on shows to clear the air, and i don't think it should be held against her or proof that she wants the spotlight (although if it's more than a couple appearances, that changes, and i only recalled one time she was on tv). but yeah, i don't really feel for her at all, especially as it seems she intends to stay in the spotlight.

Fuck that dumb cunt and her entire white trash brood.

That's two, with one of them being last month.

Who said I had any issues with her going on TV? I merely said that she is fair game for late night TV hosts if she goes out of her way to stay in the spotlight.

P.S. Notice in February she said abstinence was not realistic yet in May she is the national advocate for abstinence?

This whole family is one big FAIL.

that's all i was saying

lol @ you guys moving this to A&E.

mods are really working overtime these days, heh?

She must have never heard Tom Waits' story about the girl, the soldier, and the ovary bullet.

go fuck yourself