McCain jokes about Rape and Chelsea Clinton. What? It's not just liberals?

I get your point and Letterman did apologize for the Palin thing.

Cite your source about this allegation. In other words, prove it. Show the statement... provide the link. If you cannot, then you have nothing to say. We already know liberals support rape, including the rape of children... so stick a fork in it, because that issue is now done. By making this post, you are showing that you also condone it... so what exactly is your point? You claim McCain made such statements, so it is up to you to prove it.

Example please.

Well, being that the Letterman incident happened 2 nights ago and McCains disrespectfull and equally appaling comments were made...oh....years ago, perhaps that is why we are talking about Letterman today and not McCain?

It was two separate jokes. The one about Chelsea Clinton had nothing about rape in it. Neither one was funny.

I didn't hear McCain make the joke, just the reporter read the copy that said he did. If the liberals have to go back to 1986 to get sleaze against a Republican, that's pretty sad. But whether the tasteless jokes are made by Republicans or Democrats, conservatives or liberals, bad taste is bad taste and the person making the joke should be called on it.

That is one election campaign I'm glad to see behind us. Thank God McCain and Palin didn't win.

Unfortunately, politics (and persuasion in general) has always been about the manipulation of the emotions (and an added dash of slandering.) It's just a sad reality that our present day populace and its so-called leaders have sunk down to the lowest possible levels.

There is a common theme here though. Anti-woman sentiment! Rape is apparently free game for jokes for the "old boys club" in Washington. Was there any doubt we would have a minority President before we had a woman President? Is Letterman's joke just the tip of the iceberg?

The gorrilla joke was bogus and I'm betting Olberman knew that when he reported it. The claim was originally made in 1986 by a woman who worked for NOW. She claimed that McCain made the joke in front of her and two other people and that's how it got into an article. The two people who she claimed were present both denied that he made that joke and she later recanted. It was a lie, plain and simple. He did make a joke calling Chelsea Clinton ugly once. It was wrong, inappropriate, and completely unacceptable and he did apologize for it. Fortunately no republicans are out there defending his remarks and saying Chelsea needs a thicker skin or to put on her big girl panties as you said about 14 year old Willow Palin.

"...less than perfect, miamilady?" That is a mute argument since there is no one who is perfect, so, therefore, everyone is subject to the same scrutiny. In my opinion, we would all be much better off if we quit throwing around words like "liberal."

Liberals do mainly get away with telling tasteless jokes. Let it be a right wing conservative, that person is then called a racist, sexist, a homophobe or some other name only a liberal can come up with. Liberals even get away with cursing and making copies of their raw butts such as Whoopi Goldberg did during the Obama/McCain presidential battle.

It's not that liberals Tell Jokes like this. It's that they Laugh at them. And then spend so much energy defending the teller. And as for Letterman saying that the joke was about 18 YO Bristol....Well that's bs It was 14 Yo Willow that was at the Game with her mother. So why would Dave tell a joke about a daughter getting "knocked up" by ARod if she wasn't even at the game? And if she was "Knocked Up" by A Rod, Then was she raped? Or was he saying she was a willing participant? I think you are the one with the blinders on, miamilady.

Except David Letterman is a entertainer and John McCain was running for president. BIG difference.... McCain has beeen known for making very offensive jokes.

They are both disgusting. I think Dave was worse. How could he such a thing about that little girl? Tasteless classless regardless to who said it.

I looked it up online too, and found that there is absolutely no evidence that McCain ever told that joke. The youtube video is someone reporting that he told that joke and that he said he doesn't remember it. Well apparently the original reporter had to recant because she has no evidence that he told that joke. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/15/sources-recall-mccains-jo_n_112955.html 'But the McCain campaign denied that he had ever said the offensive gag. "It's pretty obvious to us that this is a politically motivated sideshow," Torrie Clarke, McCain's spokeswoman at the time, said back in 1986. Till this day it has never been proven definitively true or false whether the Senator ever said the line. ' The woman who originally reported it said that other women told her about it, there are no names of women who claim to have heard it. At the time, back in 1986, McCain denied it. Now it's up in front again 22 years later? He certainly did say Chelsea was ugly, and apologized for that. But there is no evidence that he told this rape joke, the story originally was posted on a blog and then picked up by news sources. This 20-some-odd-year-old telling of a joke isn't really a proven case. Could it be true? It's possible but all we know is that someone said he said it, but didn't produce names, and he said he doesn't remember saying it. So it's more than likely something that someone used to discredit him in a campaign and therefore deserves more scrutiny than it received before it became a 7 minute spot on a news show.

I don't know if anyone suggested that it was only the "liberals," at least that I heard. I have heard, and even said myself, that it happens far more often from liberals. However, it's wrong on either side. And more often than not, the liberal side has more media, meaning more firepower, meaning more apologists to tell us that if a person is "famous" or in the limelight, then they're fair game. I don't subscribe to any of these excuses. Grown people should know better. It's just childish; something I'd expect to see on myLot, not the public airways coming from people old enough to be my grandfather.

It is what it is. Individuals should be held responsible for their tasteless jokes not political parties. As long as people laugh and participate the action is going to continue.