Nope, not in this case. In fact, I totally see why you guys see this the way you do. I just don’t honestly think that he was paying attention to which daughter it was and put “Palin’s daughter” + “Yankee player scandal” together to = easy, bad, sophomoric joke. I don’t think he put any research into clarifying that it was the younger daughter on the trip, and if he had, may have thought twice about making the joke. While it’s totally fair game to point out, and still would be a bad joke no matter which girl it was, I personally believe that he’s being vilified beyond his intentions. That’s all.

“Yeah, I’ve felt that way before, too.”

Still do, it appears.

HA! “The only reasonable view is the one I have, and if you don’t agree with me, you’re stupid.”

Yeah, I’ve felt that way before, too.

Don’t ‘ya just love “well reasoned debate?”

Me too. If only they could figure out what it is and do it. But then there wouldn’t be any need, because they would be on our side, or at least a lot closer than they are. It’s some kind of Catch22, like “If they knew how idiotic they were, they wouldn’t be.”

“Yona, you want a visual? Imagine me scraping you off the bottom of my shoe like some dogsh*t I had the mispleasure of stepping in.”

The prosecution rests.

Lots of invective.

Lots of insult.

Lots of bloviation.

Still no answers to the questions.

Hmmmmmm…..

Guess you really were talkin’ out yo’ azz…..

I pegged you way back in post #29.

I close the door behind me to this nuthouse, hoepfully the rest of the sane conservatives will follow me and leave this pathetic string of name-calling behind.

Just remember as you depart, some people improve their surroundings through their presence, others through their absence.

See ya.

I also like how you’ve pegged me as a defender of David Letterman. My friend, I don’t even watch his show and I don’t find him funny in the slightest. What I am a defender of is being a sane conservative and not having jacka$$es like you and your lapdog yOnaSon making us real conservatives look like nutjobs with these wild “news” stories.

I clicked on this link from AOL, I should have known better, what tripe I have stumbled into, what a nest of whack-a-moles. Here I am casting pearls of wisdom before swine-flu addled brains, if what lies between your ears can even still be referred to as such. I close the door behind me to this nuthouse, hoepfully the rest of the sane conservatives will follow me and leave this pathetic string of name-calling behind.

Yona, you want a visual? Imagine me scraping you off the bottom of my shoe like some dogsh*t I had the mispleasure of stepping in.

Letterman specifically included the daughter that attended the game.

He was very, very specific.

To accept what he said later, when called on it, is to impose a willing suspension of disbelief.

As I said, the facts are right there. Plain and simple.

Two. Two. Four.

As to your weak “he doesn’t write the jokes” excuse, that’s just lame and laughable.

Letterman’s name is on the show.

Letterman reads/delivers the jokes/ad libs.

Letterman is responsible for the words that come out of his mouth.

Except, of course, when it is convenient for his defenders to say “well, he didn’t write the joke.”

Pffft…

I note that there is a conspicuous lack of answers to the remainder of the questions that I posed to you in post #29.

Having trouble supporting your claims, eh?

“Come on, man, rise above, IT WAS A JOKE!!!”

We are “above” that, which is why we know it was no joke.

And, if it’s no big deal, why did Leftard NYSlimes have to LIE ABOUT IT?!

To be more specific: I’m going to work now and won’t be back online today, and I hope you all enjoy the rest of your day.

The fact you are choosing to ignore is the one you yourself pointed out, that Letterman said on a later show … “These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter.”

You can choose not to believe him, and that is your choice, but prepare to be called unreasonable. A reasonable person examines the following:

Based on the prior media coverage of Bristol Palin’s pregnancy outside of marriage (what comedians refer to as “knocked up”) it is reasonable to conclude that the joke was a direct reference to that, and as is often the case with a joke, it was not meant to specifically reference the real circumstances, namely that the daughter in attendance was not Bristol.

So you are choosing to make two plus two equal five. You are choosing to take his jokes as evidence that David Letterman is “a hateful misogynistic pig” and other folks replying are taking it as evidence that he is a pedophile or rapist.

I’m choosing to see them as tasteless jokes and not evidence of a deeper conspiracy. I doubt he even writes the jokes himself, so if you see misogyny and pedophilia behind them, maybe it’s some anonymous writer from his staff that is the real culprit.

Do you see what I’m getting at? To take these jokes and make more out of them puts you in that same realm as conspiracy theorists who claim all they are doing is connecting the dots, examining the facts, and drawing the reasonable conclusion that Bush launched a missle at the world trade center tower so he could go to war and avenge his daddy. You start to sound like those guys.

Come on, man, rise above, IT WAS A JOKE!!!

I know, but then I couldn’t use that visual if I didn’t answer it.

You needed to ask?

It was more rhetorical than anything.

You needed to ask?

And what’s with Cary’s “…good night all?” It’s only 11:22AM in California right now.