I'm sorry, but the entire punditocracy has missed the point.
It is NOT news that someone in show business makes an intensely rude, crude, lewd, insulting, disgusting and/or despicable comment regarding an entirely inappropriate subject. Indeed, if we demanded an apology every time that happened, we'd never get anything else done.
The point is that Letterman's comment is a shot across the bow. He is saying, "Governor Palin, if you so much as poke your nose outside the great State of Alaska, we will insult and smear and humiliate and hound you and your family and your community and anybody who thinks or even looks like you until you feel so degraded and miserable that you run back home with your tail between your legs and never, ever come back. We hate you, we fear you, we loathe you, and we will stop at nothing to destroy you."
That's the news.
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You're right and the other scary thing is that Rodriquez didn't object to being portrayed as someone who'd rape teenage girls between innings at a baseball game.
Either he agrees that Palin is fair game or he's afraid he'll get the same treatment if he objects.
Yeah, because as we all know, Letterman never, EVER made tasteless jokes about a Democrat?
"Jokes" about raping children aren't tasteless, they're despicable.
Harry,
You must've missed my 2nd paragraph: "It is NOT news that someone in show business makes an intensely rude, crude..."
I'm well aware of entertainers ability to say nasty stuff publicly.
What's different here is that Palin is too tough to be knocked out of politics by being smeared directly by the media, so now they're going after her children. Willow, being 14, is probably neither democrat nor republican yet.
The best way to remove Palin from national politics is to insult, denigrate, and humiliate her children. I'd bet that'll cause Palin to give up. I know I would if it were my children.
You must not remember what was said about Chelsea Clinton.
The idea that the Democrats are writing Letterman's routines qualifies you for the Tin Hat Club, though.
Harry,
Please refresh my mind. Exactly what was said about Chelsea Clinton in the U.S. media. The alleged much ballyhooed Limbaugh insult was a canard. Got anything else? Only the UK media reported on her drunken episodes in upscale watering holes here and abroad. Remember when a kid at Stanford was kicked out of school for publishing an article about Chelsea in the school paper.
However, the Bush twins were followed around by the media and their college underage drinking was in the headlines. Luckily they wised up, and stopped giving the media fodder to embarrass their father.
That she was ugly. Not a nice thing to read or hear when you're 13 or 14, which is what she was.
That her father was a murderer and cocaine smuggler.
Stuff like that.
Where and by whom was Chelsea called ugly?
Her father is a proven liar. Is that a slur against her?
Can't recall. I wasn't taking notes.
Her father is not a murderer and coke pusher.
The odds are much greater that her father and/or her mother caused people to be killed and are dope dealers and worse than that Chelsea was called ugly by a major television personality on his hit late night TV program.
Harry Eagar wrote: "The idea that the Democrats are writing Letterman's routines qualifies you for the Tin Hat Club, though."
Ummm. Is Letterman not a Democrat? Are his writers not Democrats? I'd be very, very surprised if they were Republicans.
Chelsea Clinton was ugly.
14-year old Willow Palin did not have sex and get pregnant during a baseball game.
No humor in either of them in my opinion.
You definitely get the tin hat.
'Rodriquez didn't object to being portrayed as someone who'd rape teenage girls between innings at a baseball game.'
Yeah, but that would be because he was not portrayed as a rapist. The joke, such as it was, was about consensual teen sex, a subject the Palin family used to be on record as for.
I'm no baseball fan, but I don't think Rodriquez is a teenager.
That doesn't make it rape. Not in my jurisdiction, anyway. 14 is age of consent.
Where I grew up, girls could marry at 13, and some of my playmates did that.
Harry,
From Wikipedia (and anywhere else I look):
"The age of consent in Hawaii is 16 years old. There is however a close in age exemption which allows those aged 14 and 15 to consent to sex with those less than five years older."
Rodriquez (age 33) is more than five years older than Willow. Letterman is even older. No consent possible here.
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