Another Letterman Apology
June 15th, 2009, 8:06 PM EDT
Viewers of Monday’s “Late Show” will see David Letterman apologize again for his joke about Sarah Palin’s daughter.
On Monday’s edition of “Late Show,” Letterman explains that the risque joke thought by some to have targeted Palin’s underage daughter, Willow, was actually intended for 18-year-old daughter Bristol. The name of the daughter wasn’t mentioned in the joke, which was part of Letterman’s monologue on last Monday’s show. “It’s not your fault that it was misunderstood,” he tells his audience.
“It’s my fault.” And he says he’ll try to do better.
Will this finally silence his critics?
Viewers of Monday’s “Late Show” will see David Letterman apologize again for his joke about Sarah Palin’s daughter.
Well, apparently much more of this is being made than should be (there are times I am very happy to be out of reach of the news bitz programs) – but assuming he actually apologizes today, as opposed to the 8 minute comedy bit you last week referred to as an ‘apology’ that Palin should ‘graciously accept’, it will be his first public apology over the matter.
So saying he will ‘apologize again’ is misleading, as it suggests he has already apologized.
June 15th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Yeah last week’s statement is better described as an “explanation,” and given all the free PR that Palin and her radical rightwing cronies have gotten it should be Palin expressing her thanks to good ole Dave.
June 15th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
The Letterman/Slutty Palin controversy is old news.
The faux Republican outrage over dissing Slutty Palin has exceeded it’s shelf life and it’s time to put it out with the trash, freeing America to move on to the next faux Republican controversy …
[ Cue fresh controversy: ]
… “CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney’s criticism of the Obama administration’s approach to terrorism almost suggests “he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.” …
Panetta says Cheney is wishing for a new terrorist attack on the USA? Apologize, Panetta!!! Or, BE FIRED!!! NOW!!! ARGH!!!!!
Um Cara Reply:
June 15th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
the faux Republican outrage over dissing Slutty Palin
17 year old girl gets pregnant from her boyfriend, so you label her a slut?
Nice. You have no class, anonymouse.
anonymouse Reply:
June 15th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
You aren’t paying attention to the faux controversy.
Slutty Palin would be the (slutty flight attendant dressing) politician/mother, although you could make a good case for the unmarried elder daughter with child too.
It’s a family affair.
Palin (in real life) is a cartoon character. She’s all over the news in her cartoon voice expressing her faux outrage over the faux controversy.
RDM Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Anonymouse Source
Is that another term to describe a weasel?
June 15th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
http://www.firedavidletterman.com/
Fire David Letterman. Our Mission Statement: David Letterman Must Held Be Accountable For His Disgraceful Statements – 62 Year Old Letterman Violates Common Decency With Sexist Insults of 14 Year Old Girl.
They’re having a rally in NY tomorrow.
Wingnuts gone wild. I guess it gets them out of the house.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 2:52 am
of all the causes in all the world…this is the dumbest, or at least in the top 3.
June 15th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Will this finally silence his critics?
Does he say “I am sorry?”
June 15th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
First of all, Alan, Letterman has not yet apologized. If he does say “I am sorry” tonight it will look suspicious because he did it after he lost an advertising client.
Southern Girl Lib Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 9:47 am
And you would think that wouldn’t you since you’re the close minded tongue clucking church lady from snl.
June 15th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Why David? why?
The perception of Kouri’s Interviews will never change.
June 15th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Letterman put his foot in his mouth..big deal.
He will take the high road of humility & apologize. That’s nice.(I’ll be listening to Alan Colmes Show tonight because his show is far superior in all respects).
Palin, on the other hand has repeatedly demonstrated the art of placing both feet in her mouth (not to worry..plenty of room even with her shoes on) and races over the spin-bridge to nohwere.
Who wins the debate? Not the American people. As one, I am sick of hearing about it!!!
Maybe just maybe, behind the scenes of it all, the Repubs have nothing of substance to say after 8 years of total bs & screwing up this country so badly it will take at least a decade to fully recover. WHO REALLY should be apologizing??
June 15th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
I wonder if Dave will drop things (like water balloons) on the protesters tomorrow.
FuRyUs Reply:
June 15th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Water filled condoms…
June 15th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
THAT is an apology. Well done David.
flap Reply:
June 15th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
I agree…although I thought his first apology was sufficient.
pino Reply:
June 15th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
I didn’t; this is cool.
Move on….
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 2:53 am
it’s an apology…but he had no reason to apologize…the joke was funny.
June 15th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
And I COMPLETELY disagree with the “fire David Letterman” campaign. It’s similar to what happened with Imus, which was dead wrong.
Letterman tilts to the left but he’s not a hardcore “left-winger.” As he said, he tries to get cheap laughs, right or wrong.
June 15th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Alan said: Will this finally silence his critics?
K: No, you idiot. It doesn’t matter whether it was the younger OR the older daughter – NEITHER are public figures and do not deserve this effite lecher’s making tasteless jokes about them. I still like my joke – since I’ve declared myself a comedian so as to escape responsibility for offending anyone – about david littleman’s young son servicing pedophiles during the seventh-inning ’stretch’… Same joke – shoe on other foot. Not so funny Alan?
jasperjava Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 8:50 am
It’ll never silence his critics, because they are hotheads with short fuses who get into a throbbing lather of hate at the slightest provocation.
Daddio Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 8:51 am
Like the liberals did with the Lott apologies?
jasperjava Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 11:09 am
You think Trent Lott deserves to be forgiven? With all the Republican racist “jokes” floating around lately, I’m in no mood to put up with the Klan wing right now.
June 16th, 2009 at 12:31 am
K: No,
What would it take?
Kregg Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 1:03 am
Nothing less than an acknowledgement that such jokes have no place on his show and that he will not stoop to making such jokes about non-public persons in the future.
EricG Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 2:22 am
But I bet you could care less if it was Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage making jokes about a Democrats kids … huh, Kregg?
Not a peep when racists calling themselves Republicans go wild but when a comedian on a late night show tells a joke … oh my! Start the outrage machine up!
jasperjava Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 8:55 am
What Letterman said is no worse than things that Rush Limbaugh or John McCain said about Chelsea Clinton.
And with all the hilarious “jokes” about Michelle Obama being related to gorillas, and e-mails with Black Barack as a bug-eyed Negro invisible man, the fake Republican outrage over Caribou Barbie and her brood doesn’t inspire sympathy.
Kregg Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 11:15 am
The Eric said: But I bet you could care less if it was Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage making jokes about a Democrats kids … huh, Kregg?
K; Wrong. No adult needs to be making tasteless jokes that impune the morals of non-public individuals for profit.
June 16th, 2009 at 12:53 am
America could avoid all this nonsense if the Palins would just go away. Far, Far away, Far, Far, Far, Far away. If I never see the name Palin in the media again I will feel that my life is complete.
flap Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 1:59 am
They need to move to Alaska!
June 16th, 2009 at 1:10 am
If I never see the name Palin in the media again I will feel that my life is complete.
Somehow I’m not surprised.
June 16th, 2009 at 1:15 am
How much good will it do for Letterman to apologize to the Palins for their faux outrage?
How much good would it have done for the commies to apologize to the Nazis for “setting” the 1933 Reichstag fire?
Sometimes, an apology isn’t really what they’re looking for. Sometimes, the aggrieved have something bigger in mind than a simple apology.
flap Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 2:01 am
In my mind, I want Sarah Palin to use this as a springboard so she can become Queen of the Universe!
anonymouse Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 3:03 am
Xena is “Queen of the Universe”.
Of course, that’s real life. Cartoonish Palin could be the comic book, make-believe version.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 3:05 am
I thought Xena was just a warrior princess?
June 16th, 2009 at 1:43 am
“Will this finally silence his critics?”
Of course not. It’s a bunch of false outrage.
Let’s see the outrage next time some radio bigot calls Bernie Frank some disgusting name.
Daddio Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 8:24 am
Who called Barney Fwank a bad name?
Kregg Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 11:16 am
The Eric said: Let’s see the outrage next time some radio bigot calls Bernie Frank some disgusting name.
K: You mean like “US representative”?
JFA Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 11:49 am
What Eric. Like Barney “the banking queen” Frank??
Southern Girl Lib Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 11:59 am
I guess gay jokes are still acceptable in repubican circles.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 18th, 2009 at 3:32 am
only if they are funny.
goliath43 Reply:
June 18th, 2009 at 6:33 am
Do you know any?
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 18th, 2009 at 7:45 am
let me think…most I’ve heard don’t qualify as funny, sort of like the example above…I don’t get it. I get that he’s gay and has some banking oversight, but it’s not haha funny.
If Barney Frank was a the banking czar…then calling him the banking queen would be funny, as it would be a clever play on royalty titles and his open gayness.
June 16th, 2009 at 2:20 am
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/15/ED10187F2P.DTL
Debra J. Saunders:
“I wish Sarah Palin would just go away.”
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 2:59 am
that is actually a good article Eric…but she’s not saying Palin should go away. She’s saying Palin the victim should go away.
If she wants to be a player, she has to highlight her good points (sound energy policy, the governor of the one state that isn’t a money seive) not wallow in self-misery and persecution complexes.
June 16th, 2009 at 2:48 am
It’s pretty obvious that in Palin’s universe there would be no Lettermans because anyone who spoke their mind would be tossed into detention camps just like Gitmo.
steve Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 7:36 am
ROCKY
I wonder if Palin is ADHD at times because the is always striving for attention.
I dislike Palins polices,but the lady is well like in alot of circles. I blame her PR people more so than Palin. Palin has has some of the worst PR people ever and they handle the lady wrong.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 7:50 am
steve…do you even know what ADHD is? Your post makes no sense whatsoever.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:23 am
It,s a attention disoder Gundo VanHorn . My son and daughter both have it and the lady strives for attention and bad attention at that. It makes sense when you have a person with great talent as in Palin and her public relation people keep her in bad light.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 17th, 2009 at 2:40 am
well I feel bad for your kids since you obviously have no idea what their disorder is.
ADHD has nothing to do with seeking attention.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:05 am
“It’s not your fault it was misunderstood’ he tells his audience.” THAT’S AN APOLOGY???
Trent Lott actually apologize a dozen times, and it still was not accepted. He then had to give up his majority leader position.
Letterman gives lip service that doesn’t even come close to an apologh and conservatives are a bunch of meanies for not accepting his so-called apology.
jasperjava Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 9:00 am
“I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke. I’m sorry about it and I’ll try to do better in the future,” Letterman told the studio audience….
“I thought I was telling it about the older daughter being at Yankee Stadium. And it was kind of a coarse joke. There’s no getting around it, but I never thought it was anybody other than the older daughter, and before the show, I checked to make sure in fact that she is of legal age, 18. Yeah. But the joke really, in and of itself, can’t be defended.”
If that doesn’t satisfy you, then nothing will. And nothing will satisfy you, because you do not wish to be satisfied. You want to stew and wallow in your gall, bitterness, and hate. Keep the fires of faux outrage burning!
June 16th, 2009 at 8:30 am
Some things just aren’t funny; whether they are comments about the Palin girls, Obama girls or their mothers. There appears to be an upsurge in violent crimes directed at women these days. One has to wonder if such blatant disrespect(verbal abuse) helps fuel the physical abuse so rampant these days.
Southern Girl Lib Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 9:35 am
I’m old enough to remember the women’s movement. As bad as it is today, it was even worse pre-women’s movement.
Kregg Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Clem said: There appears to be an upsurge in violent crimes directed at women these days. One has to wonder if such blatant disrespect(verbal abuse) helps fuel the physical abuse so rampant these days.
K: Well, of COURSE not, Clem! Only right-wing whackos are susceptible outside influence of their actions… I know because these Libs have told me so…
June 16th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Does Palin have a daughter that ISN’T a whore?
jasperjava Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 10:43 am
That’s over the line and uncalled for. Sarah Palin’s kids have to put up with a lot of crap: Goofy first names, a dysfunctional family, an embarrassingly stupid media-hound mother who keeps thrusting them into the glare of the public spotlight. It’s – not – their – fault that their mother has no brains nor self-control.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Lets not forget that Palin and her Tribe are a joke to many, many people. She is comic fodder.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:59 am
On October 8, 2008, Sarah Palin walked out on the ice with six year old Piper and 13 year old Willow, before the game.
Conan O’Brien said, “Saturday night, Sarah Palin is going to drop the first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers’ hockey game. Then Palin will spend the rest of the game trying to keep the hockey players out of her daughter’s penalty box.”
Seth Meyers, SNL: “According to expense reports, Sarah Palin charged the state of Alaska over $21,000 for her children to travel with her on official business. In fairness to Gov. Palin, when she leaves them home alone they get pregnant.”
Kregg Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Both excellent examples of lib tolerance and acceptance and their concern for the plight of women…
June 16th, 2009 at 11:00 am
[...] We’ve already seen that when Jay Leno told a similar joke to David Letterman’s it was virtually ignored. And why didn’t this skit get the level of attention that David Letterman’s joke did? On “Saturday Night Live” last September, the premise was that New York Times reporters were trying to find out of Todd Palin was having sex with his daughters. Of course, the joke was aimed at the Times, but the level of outrage doesn’t come close to the Letterman flap. [...]
June 16th, 2009 at 11:15 am
I’ve always heard liberals are pro-women?
Apparently No, No: liberals are pro-liberal women–as long as they toe-the-liberal-line.
Going after their families and doing everything to destroy women like Sarah Palin and Carrie Prejean is vile.
TDro319 Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Geez. Let me grab my violin. It was a JOKE! Not a very good one, but a joke nonetheless. Letterman apologized, now get over it. By the way, I’ve heard some off color, nasty jokes made about Obama, but I take them for what they are – JOKES.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:31 am
No mother can tolerate comments like this, whether her daughter is 14 or 18. Neither Hillary nor Laura nor my Mother would tolerate it. Good for Sarah for fighting back. Her daughter is watching. (I hope SNL will be next.)
Budda Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
SNL; oh, they’re watching alright.
June 16th, 2009 at 1:33 pm