Letterman Apologizes to Sarah Palin
June 11, 2009 by Jeanne Dupuis
Filed under Television
David Letterman is now feuding with Alaskan governor, Sarah Palin and her family, after he told some off-color jokes about them on Monday. In his monologue, he made reference to the fact that one of Palin’s daughters was traveling with her in New York City (where Letterman’s show is filmed) and quipped that the girl had to fend off Eliot Spitzer and was then “knocked up” by NY Yankees star, Alex Rodriguez.
The younger Palin was not the only target of Letterman’s jests, however. He also said that Governor Palin “bought makeup from Bloomingdale’s to update her ’slutty flight attendant’ look” during his “Top Ten Highlights of Sarah Palin’s Trip to New York” segment.
Of course, Palin and her husband, Todd, did not find the jokes amusing and fired back saying: “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.”
When I read her retort, I was confused and apparently Letterman was too. He had aimed the jokes at Palin’s 18-year-old daughter, Bristol, who recently became a mother, and did not realize that it was her 14-year-old daughter, Willow, that had accompanied the governor to New York.
After he realized his mistake, he issued an apology of sorts. Here’s a video of the apology along with highlights from the feud from earlier in the week:
image: Newscom
David Letterman’s utterly sleazy attempt to pretend that the joke he told about Sarah Palin’s daughter at the baseball game WASN’T about the daughter who was at the baseball game was worthy of the sleaziest politicians he’s ever tried to mock.
Picture this scene: Mr. David Letterman comes home at night, and his son comes running to greet him. His son asks, “Daddy, what kind of work do you do?” Letterman replies, “Well, sonny dear, I take gratuitous, scurrilous and depraved shots at people who’ve never done me harm – yes, lad, even at their children – in order to get cheap laughs from an audience of mindless sycophants who’ll laugh at anything I say because I’m famous and they think it makes them really cool. (They’re so dumb they don’t even know when they’re not supposed to laugh.) Wouldn’t you like to be just like your ol’ pop when you grow up, sonny boy? Sonny? … Sonny?”
A 62-year-old man still cracking junior-high-school jokes for a living…. yeah, that’s really something to look up to.