From No Looking Backwards:
"Call It a Hunch...
...but, I have to think that if Barack Obama had taken his daughters to a Washington Wizards game, and a conservative television personality made a joke about one of them getting raped and impregnated at halftime by Antawn Jamison, that person might be in the middle of a major shitstorm right about now."
From Jim Treacher's Blog:
"Okay. Most of the attention is going toward Letterman's "slutty flight attendant" crack, but this one is actually worse.
At first I thought "her daughter" referred to Bristol. Which would be a pretty crappy joke to make about somebody's kid, no matter how much you disagree with the parents' politics (or mere existence, apparently). But it'd still be fair game. After all, Bristol did what she did. That's not to say she should be happy about over-the-hill comedians getting cheap laughs from her mistakes, but hey, that's comedy.
The thing is, that joke isn't about Bristol: Palin brought her 14-year-old daughter Willow to the Yankees game with her.
That's right: A state governor went to a baseball game with her underage daughter, and a national talk show host made a joke about the girl being sexually assaulted by one of the players.
I realize I'm just an inbred backwoods moron who can't abide by any criticism of Sarah Palin whatsoever, but is this really the precedent we want to set for our politicians and their families?
After all, Samson Obama, one of the president's many half-brothers, isn't allowed in the UK because he tried to assault a 13-year-old girl. Are we to impose the Letterman standard there? Is it okay to make a joke like this?
"How come the First Family never invites Uncle Samson to visit? Because whenever Sasha and Malia sit on his knee, it takes six Secret Service guys to pry them off!"
Or how about this?
"Joe Biden keeps saying he's not really sure where all that stimulus money is going. In other news, Ashley Biden's coke dealer just bought Luxembourg."
Hey, I didn't say they were good jokes. But are they really worse than what Letterman just got away with on national TV? If so, why?"
And surprise, surprise, the joke was somehow left out of the transcript...
As if comparing her to herpes wasn't bad enough....
Well, I guess we can definitely say that times have indeed changed.
UPDATE: Check out Hillbuzz's coverage of this.
And Mark Levin's take on this:
Apparently Letterman didn't get enough Monday night. Here he is last night:
Really? He couldn't leave 14 year old Willow alone?
Comments from the Palins:
"Any 'jokes' about raping my 14-year-old are despicable. Alaskans know it and I believe the rest of the world knows it, too."
- Todd Palin
"Concerning Letterman's comments about my young daughter (and I doubt he'd ever dare make such comments about anyone else's daughter): 'Laughter incited by sexually-perverted comments made by a 62-year-old male celebrity aimed at a 14-year-old girl is not only disgusting, but it reminds us some Hollywood/NY entertainers have a long way to go in understanding what the rest of America understands - that acceptance of inappropriate sexual comments about an underage girl, who could be anyone's daughter, contribute to the atrociously high rate of sexual exploitation of minors by older men who use and abuse others.'"
- Governor Sarah Palin
What a horrible shame that for putting herself in a position that possibly could have helped the republican party avoid the disasters of a democratic landslide, she, and worse - all her family too, have to take all this crap for the next 4-8-12 years, or until she retires from politics completely.
ReplyDeleteUntil then, the d's (democrats, for lack of a less vulgar d-word to publish on a family-oriented blog) can't risk letting her regain any semblance of composure or presence, even at the risk of taking swipes at her young daughters that haven't done anything to deserve it.
The only thing I can say is thank goodness it's summer vacation, and her daughter probably won't have to deal with any fallout from this at her school next fall as it will be forgotten by then, at least by the other frosh and sophs. As the father of a fourteen year old girl myself, I am sure glad I am not Willow's dad, as I'd hate to see my family through the jail visiting window for something as simple and merited as payback against someone so superficially political as Letterman seems to have become.