Letterman’s Lies: “I Would Never Joke About Raping A 14 Year Old
Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, are swinging back at David Letterman, after the talk-show host made the Alaska governor and her family the focus of a series of off-color jokes.
Letterman’s “Top 10” list Tuesday night focused on Palin’s recent trip to New York, and included several cracks: “Bought makeup from Bloomingdale’s to update her ’slutty flight attendant’ look,” Letterman said.
But it was a line in Letterman’s monologue that set off a firestorm: “One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game, during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.”
Palin was in New York with her 14-year-old daughter, Willow.
The line prompted an angry response from the Palins. In a statement posted on Facebook and distributed to the press yesterday, the governor said:
“Concerning Letterman’s comments about my young daughter (and I doubt he’d ever dare make such comments about anyone else’s daughter): ‘Laughter incited by sexually-perverted comments made by a 62-year-old male celebrity aimed at a 14-year-old girl is not only disgusting, but it reminds us some Hollywood/NY entertainers have a long way to go in understanding what the rest of America understands - that acceptance of inappropriate sexual comments about an underage girl, who could be anyone’s daughter, contributes to the atrociously high rate of sexual exploitation of minors by older men who use and abuse others.’ ”
Todd Palin added: “Any ‘jokes’ about raping my 14-year-old are despicable. Alaskans know it and I believe the rest of the world knows it, too.”
Letterman responded last night by saying that the joke was aimed at 18-year-old Bristol Palin, not Willow: “We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news and we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter [Bristol]… and now they’re upset with me…” Letterman said.
“These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl…. Am I guilty of poor taste? Yes. Did I suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No.”
Letterman also invited the Alaska governor to come on his show.
UPDATE: Per ABC News’ Kate Snow: Gov. Palin pushed back at Letterman again this morning, issuing a statement via Palin PAC spokesperson Meghan Stapelton.
“The Palins have no intention of providing a ratings boost for David Letterman by appearing on his show,” Stapelton said in an email to ABC News. “Plus, it would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman.”
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Me thinks that David “The Human Hemorroid” Letterman is going to find that his comments were indeed in poor taste and that a halfhearted atempt at an appology will not suffice.
Exactly! Letterman is a disgrace and unfit to be on the air.
http://www.firedavidletterman.com/
Recently Playboy listed conservative women they would like to “hate fuck”.
Now I hear the words “rape joke” used.
Excuse me… but perhaps Dave needs a buggering to understand that rape (or as it is now termed, hate fuck,) is no joking matter.
Let me say: it hurts; it demeans; it invades dreams for years.
It is a very damaging violation for a woman of any age and what innocence was stolen is never again reclaimed.
It shatters beauty and steals joy for love and sex.
What is so hard to understand?Rape is no ‘crime of passion’ but anger directed at a weaker one.
I saw a little fagboy, today, on PMSNBC bitching about the ‘nonsense’ Letterman flap- and I thought- typical- the girlieman can’t get any so he winds up gay with another feminine man and they cry in their diet soda and comiserate and hate women.
Yeah- typical of the girliemen on the tube today.
(A real man can usually be found in uniform now or then, doing the hard job, slogging for our freedom, protecting us all-even the little, mewling shits who deserve it not).
They expose themselves in their fear of Sarah.
Good.
You get all riled up about the term rape joke and how horrible rape is in the same post you use the word fagboy. And you see nothing wrong with that?
There ya go, equivocating again! What the fuck does a rape joke have to do with calling someone “fagboy”?
A rape is a violent crime that more and more woman have to live with every fucking day of their lives, and the word “fagboy” simply describes a man with deviant behavior. If he doesn’t want to be called a faggot, queer, buttfucker, cocksucker, whatever, then he should stop the deviant behavior.
Substitute David Letterman with Dennis Miller
Substitute Sarah Palin with Michelle Obama
Substitute Willow and Bristol with Sasha and Malia
Any guesses as to the outcome? I thought liberals were the champions for women and children? Guess Not.
Miller would have to go into hiding. Seriously.
It would be the worse than Gibson’s remarks about jews or Cramer’s remarks about blacks.
Baroness W.
Great comments! Thanks too.
Interesting, I was thinking along the lines of Palin saying Todd can’t get close to Letterman because he’d kick his ass, then I read the statement she thought she should keep Willow away from Letterman….but my first thought was, because Willow would kick his add.
In reality? She probably would–and that’s what I like about the Palin’s.
CL
Thank you.
Just read your page and it is me who thank you- a debt I can never repay.
God bless and keep you.
B.
Baroness. I must agree with your view on rape and the abhorrent manner in which david littleman has treated that poor child. While, yes, Willow likely can thump littleman to a pulp, it would not change his view one iota. The best thing that can happen is the we make it known tolerance of any sort for that despicable, destructive, damnable behavior will not be tolerated. Furthermore, Baroness, it was brave of you to share so much of yourself in those few lines. Bless you.
We just had a child molester tranfered to Warren prison …. he lasted 4 days. Someone should be up for a pardon from the Gov.
Let me get this straight - he was commenting about Sarah Palin and making jokes without checking his facts. He has “no idea” that the younger daughter was with her mother and not the older daughter.
My response is that it makes no difference. Making off-color jokes about such things is irresponsible and completely in line with Letterman’s usual humorless plodding dialogs.
If you have no real humor you attack someone’s character and make sexual references. The audience will usually respond with a nervous giggle that is a poor substitute for genuine laughter. He is not funny and never has been.
I think you’re letting the audience off too easy. What a bunch of buffoons to just auto-laugh with the old pervert.
It made me sick to hear an entire room of people laughing at that shit. It made me sad for our culture.
Letterman has not been funny in a long, long time. I quit watching years ago and am much better for it.
I’m floored how the media is defending Letterman - its as if Obama himself said it.
Is this worse than Kosmo Kramer ranting with the “N” word? Look how he was crucified.
Remember the chicks with dicks,I mean the dixie chicks singer made the same sorry ass reply to her comments about W. “I was just joking”.Fuck you letterman.
…and i wouldnt joke about that!
“The Palins have no intention of providing a ratings boost for David Letterman by appearing on his show,” Stapelton said in an email to ABC News. “Plus, it would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman.” - Last paragraph.
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OUCH!!
I think Piper could kick his New York, liberal, snotty ass. With one hand tied behind her back.
David Letterman is a penis with glasses…no brain and always wanting something it can’t have.
I am also interested in what Alex Rodriquez is saying.
If I were Letterman I might be more worried about Alex.
I wrote a blog here in Boston…
http://community2.myfoxboston.com/_Late-Night-underage-sex-at-Yankee-Stadium/blog/344301/71243.html
I tried to be more calm with my language, but it states about the same points…
How have we come to this point (rhetorical question)? When you go to a George Carlin comedy show you might expect such things (actually, George was a bad example-Kinison would be better)? And, yeah, it might have been a joke in bad taste, as Dave states…
But when you find out what you said and to whom (research be damned-I would be made if it was made about Bristol or a 40 year old) you do the right thing. Imus did the right thing. David is not.
I just must come from a different era…
[...] night talk show scum David Letterpussy insults teenage women to get a laugh. How much would you pay to hit this looser in the mouth with a nice, crisp straight right [...]
David Letterman is a misnomer. His real name should be David Letterpussy.
“The Palins have no intention of providing a ratings boost for David Letterman by appearing on his show,” Stapelton said in an email to ABC News. “Plus, it would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman.”
This is a perfect response.
It is amazing to how full the line going into the gates of hell has gotten since Obama took office. There is no job loss in Hell these days!
Also, Palin has this strange ability to expose people for who they really are:
David Letterman: Pervert
Katie Couric: Pathetic Bitch
John McCain: Two-Faced
Hardworking Conservative Americans: Proud and Happy
Feminists: Hypocrites
Liberals: Scared, Angry, Mental Midgets
RINO’s: Phony
The list goes on and on…Just watch for it though, it’s kinda freaky but I like it.
Who even watches this ditz
and maybe 
If it was my daughter or wife–
Then
I am sorry, but I HAVE to revisit this.
Why is it that rape is a weapon of war in Africa but a joke in the US? What twisted, sick, demented, perverted, inhuman, scum sucking, shit gurgling, loathful, disgusting change has happened in America to allow this? To laugh at it on TV? In Public? In living rooms that are also peopled by women, young ladies, and girls? What does this tell them?
Rape as a Weapon of War in Congo
By François Grignon
Sexual violence is a brutal reality in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo: Tens of thousands of women and children were raped in the region last year alone. In a guest editorial, François Grignon of the International Crisis Group urges the West to fight the epidemic before more lives are shattered.
Panzi Hospital in the town of Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo specialises in the care of rape victims. Although Panzi has 350 beds, it must send many women home before they have fully recovered because of the never-ending stream of new patients arriving for treatment.
Panzi is emblematic of the catastrophic toll sexual violence has inflicted on the people of eastern Congo over the past decade. The non-governmental organization Medecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) has reported that 75 percent of all the rape cases it dealt with worldwide were in the eastern Congo. A census by UNICEF and related medical centres reported treatment of 18,505 persons for sexual violence in the first 10 months of 2008, 30 percent of whom were children. This year, the situation deteriorated further still, with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reporting a huge surge in sexual violence and rape in eastern Congo.
Reported cases represent only a fraction of the total — a vast number of cases go unreported. Women fear that they will lose all prospects for marriage or that their husbands will abandon them if they acknowledge they have been raped. In other cases, the threat of retribution — coupled with the near certainty that the perpetrators will never be held accountable — discourages women from stepping forward.
Most of the warring parties of the conflict in eastern Congo, including the Congolese Army, Rwandan Hutu rebels, and Congolese Tutsi rebels, have used rape as a weapon of war. Moreover, rape has become ingrained in Congolese civilian society and is widely used to determine power relations. Men and teenagers rape not only women and girls of all ages, but also other males. An estimated 90 percent of minors in prison in eastern Congo have been convicted of rape, according to the non-governmental North Kivu Provincial Subcommission on Sexual Violence.
A Culture of Impunity
Sexual violence can be as damaging as bullets. It destroys not only the bodies of the victims, but the basic social fabric of local communities and stokes the armed conflict that has plagued the eastern Congo. Enduring peace will require systematically putting military and civilian rapists behind bars in order to end the culture of impunity that promotes sexual violence.
But Congolese military and civilian authorities show little will to prosecute sexual crimes. And Congolese military and civilian courts lack the capacity, credibility and political neutrality to judge such crimes effectively and fairly. To deal successfully with the scourge of sexual violence, a consolidated approach needs to be developed involving both international and national judicial mechanisms.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) should immediately begin to issue arrest warrants for senior commanders who have used sexual violence as a weapon of war, since it can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, or even a constitutive act with respect to genocide. The ICC cannot, however, handle the bulk of the cases. Widespread enforcement will require a reformed Congolese justice system that the Congolese people trust and use, staffed by competent, trained and fair-minded people. It should also include increased civilian and military criminal penalties for sexual crimes, the strengthening of arrest, detention and prosecution capabilities, the stepped-up recruitment and training of female police officers and a civilian court of appeal for victims of sexual abuse to replace the military court that now handles such cases.
Empty Words?
The Congolese authorities also need to take steps to prevent sexual crimes from happening before they occur. These steps include enforcing appropriate military disciplinary measures, upholding the principle of command responsibility, training troops on the categorical prohibition of sexual violence against civilians, debunking myths that fuel sexual violence, vetting armed and security forces to take into account past actions of rape and evacuating women and children under imminent threat of sexual violence.
The UN’s launch on April 1, 2009 of an overall strategy for combating sexual violence in the Congo was a welcome step. But this strategy and other recommendations for justice reform and for preventing sexual violence will be empty words in the absence of robust engagement at all levels of the Congolese civilian and military hierarchy.
If we wish to end the never-ending stream of women arriving at Panzi Hospital, we cannot afford to turn our heads. Western donor countries must apply the necessary pressure on Congolese military and civilian authorities and demand both judicial and political accountability for the continuing violence in eastern Congo, pushing them much harder to take the actions needed to rid the country of the epidemic of sexual violence
Well posted, Tarantula.
what does Alex Rodriguez, say about Letterman on his so called joke?