Dave vs. Sarah 2: So Much for the Ratings Stunt

Well, I think this response is highly offensive. Dave should demand an apology. It's outrageous for a spokesperson to make the assumption that Dave is a sex offender, that's slander. Poor taste, simply poor taste Palin & co.

It's not really much of a call to make. It's pretty obvious. Dave made a joke that was in poor taste, and the Palins, being the level-headed people that they are, responded by calling him a pedophile.

Sigh. The Palins didn't call Dave a pedophile any more than Dave called A-Rod a pedophile. It's like they're all playing this huge game of, "What's the worst possible way I can handle this situations?"

They insinuated earlier, Dave, that Letterman was referring to Willow and now they did it again. He wasn't, and it was clear that he wasn't. It's still way over the line, and I'm not defending him, but they are making stuff up. This is what they do. They say something clearly not true, and then say it over and over again.

Yes, what everybody else said, in a much more succinct fashion. These are not good people. How long before they use the baby(ies) in another manufactured outrage?

If you knew that Willow and not Bristol was the daughter in New York, then it was not "clear" who the daughter was. Yes, it doesn't make sense to make a "knocked up" joke about the daughter who did not get pregnant, but it also doesn't make sense to make a "hardest part about the trip to NY" joke about someone who was not in NY. I believe that Letterman was being lazy and meant for the jokes to be about Bristol, but possible statutory rape was not the only problem with those jokes and I think letting the conversation focus on that lets Letterman off the hook.

And, actually, I semi-take back that it doesn't make sense to do a knocked up joke about the non-pregnant daughter because that would've been a joke about Sarah Palin's parenting and how it led to teen pregnancy. Not likely, I think, but possible.

Letterman was never talking about or thinking about the fourteen year old. He shouldn't have been joking about the nineteen year old, but he was never talking about the little girl. I hope Letterman goes on the warpath. Politics aside-- the fact that his original jokes were in fact cheap and offensive aside-- the old man's never better than when he gets cranky. And the idiot Palin has left a long trail of stoopit to serve as raw material. I have a feeling Palin's going to be looking back on Tina Fey like an old friend a week from now.

For the record, Palin has once again insinuated that it was a joke about the 14 year old. It's nutty, she finally has something to be legitimately upset about and she still finds a way to mess it up.