Palin V Letterman - The FINAL Chapter???

If you think a man that makes perverted jokes about a teenage girl is taking the high road than you seriously need to reevaluate what a high road is. Hatred and anger is perfectly normal and to be expected when your children are attacked. I sure hope you don't have any children as you seem to be one who would support a 62 year old man making perverted jokes about them.

Taskr, there was nothing foul or perverted about the joke. Knocked up. 18 year old. Hardly anything perverted. What century are you from? Geez, what a puritan. Or is this fake outrage for some political angle? Get a life.

Rollo, I still don't get where the joke was vile or perverted. Tasteless maybe. But hey, her daughter with the kid has been fodder for comedians for a while, and Palin exploits the kids more than anyone.

I don't know if anyone can be absolutely sure about someone else's sincerity. I mean, I sincerely thought Letterman DID seem sincere but I could certainly be wrong, he is after all an entertainer, right? I know you think I started this discussion because I hate Sarah Palin and found another "excuse" to attack her, but that really isn't it. I agree about the joke being awful and I have no problem with him being called out about it by Sarah. I think it's very unfortunate that this whole debacle took such a wrong turn when whomever it was started the nonsense about him meaning Willow and then started to inject words like "rape" into it. I think rape is the most horrible crime there is, short of murder, and it is NEVER a laughing matter. I don't think anyone should ever make light of it happening to anyone nor do I think anyone should ever be accused of it or of making light of it unjustly. What I'm saying in a nutshell is if Sarah Palin had called Letterman out on his stupid"knocked-up" joke which everyone has to agree was obviously directly at Bristol that would have been more than justified. I promise you there wouldn't have been a word of complaint from me about that. Hey, I think you know I once was a "knocked-up" 17 year old myself - and I was called that, too - and I didn't like that phrase anymore then than I do now. BUT I also know that, at least for me, I didn't want something like that to be dwelled on after the fact. I mean, tell the person off, hope for an apology then let it go. Maybe it's just me but I have to wonder if Bristol would have preferred for it not to have gone on as long as it did. As for poor Willow, I can't imagine how she felt about all this, she was the completely innocent victim. Anyway, David said he'll try to do better so let's hope he does. Annie

i believe that other comedienne too should have this kind of experienced too. they should not ridicule and shame other people just because they are comedienne. let us say that he has forgiveness. was he asking forgiveness because he is really sorry or just because he just don't want to be the center of ridicule from other people. but when he was the one on the position of ridiculing others, didn't he think that other people may feel the same way too. i think what happened is good for him to learn his lesson and not only him but other people on the media as well. celebrity writers and so forth who have so gone off the board in talking about other people. i think that what he received from people was not that big compared to what he had done on other people. he had not ridiculed only one person. he had ridicule a lot of people before . i am just irritated if a person will ridicule an individual who is not strong enough to stand for himself. let them ridicule those powerful , strong influential people. but not kids and other people who have no voice for themselves to answer back or fight back against was said against them. or who will feel crushed by their so mean comments.

Actually, according to a poll done by HLN's Showbiz Tonight show 68% sided with him and only 32% with her. Annie

Which is why I don't put much faith in "polls" or even "studies" sometimes. Numbers and facts can be manipulated. We all know that, don't we?

foxforums.blogs. .. Haha. Nice one. I wouldn't listen to or read anything with the Fox News taint. Noone that watches Letterman regularly is likely to stop watching, and some that have watched him in the last week because of the controversy will realize he is a funny guy, and that the loony right are just that, loony (and dangerous). His original apology, or maybe clarification would be a better term, and his conduct since this nonsense started has been exemplary. And now he's apologized unequivocally (though I'm sure some still smell blood). Unlike Palin, who has spouted her hate-filled crap to anyone that'll listen. I hope Letterman continues to make jokes about the 'sl%tty flight attendant' (though, on second thoughts, it would great if we could all just forget about her).