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  1. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

    When did the first three daughters listed above turn 18 years old, put themselves into the public domain by taking a political postion, hold themselves up as models for other people’s behaviour, and travel around the country giving politically charged speeches as Bristol Palin did?

    Underage kids and private people ARE off-limits. Purposefully becoming a public figure legitimately opens one up to critical analysis. And stupid jokes.

  2. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, 5 months ago

    Palin pimped her kids herself. She taught them all “abstinence” and “family values”, like being purged of witches. Dave apologized for people MIS understanding that his joke was about the 18 year old with the kid and over-active libido, not the 14 year-old. I also remember all the comments on how homely Chelsea was coming from our “fine outstanding” right-wingers. But yes, the kids should be left alone, until they start hiring press agents.

  3. danielsangeo

    danielsangeo said, 5 months ago

    ANandy: Not a child. She put herself out there. Her mother put her out there. The Republican Party put her out there.

    When Letterman realized that it wasn’t her, he apologized. Twice.

    Manufactured outrage makes me yawn. Where was the outrage on the right when Chelsea Clinton was attacked?

  4. nomad2112

    nomad2112 said, 5 months ago

    Chelsea Clinton was attacked? By who?

  5. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, 5 months ago

    nomad:
    “Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”
    – Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998.

    Rush Limbaugh:
    “Everyone knows the Clintons have a cat. Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is a White House dog?” And he puts up a picture of Chelsea Clinton. Chelsea Clinton was 13 years old at the time.

    LIMBAUGH: “You know the Clintons send Chelsea to the Sidwell Friends private school…. A recent eighth grade class assignment required students to write a paper on ‘Why I Feel Guilty Being White”. ‘… My source for this story is CBS News. I am not making it up.” (Yes, he was making it up. 28% of the kids were not white.)

  6. nomad2112

    nomad2112 said, 5 months ago

    OK, the McCain quote is reprehensible. The first Limbaugh quote is juvenile. The second Limbaugh quote isn’t an attack on Chelsea. The subject is “The Clinton’s”.

    Neither even comes close (IMO) to Letterman’s joking about adult men having sex with Palin’s teenage girls.

    McCain & Limbaugh’s statements were merely rude while Letterman’s is twisted, perverted, and sick.

  7. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    Letterman apologized, as he should have. His apology was specific and sincere (the 2nd one).

    Disagree with nomad, the jokes about Chelsea were not ‘rude,’ they were reprehensible and just as sexist as Letterman’s, and though I found Letterman’s joke in bad taste and over the line, it’s clear he did not mean the 14-year-old, he meant the 18-year-old.

    I think politicians’ kids are off limits and I’ve said so consistently. But Bristol Palin has now put herself in the public eye with her much publicized position as spokeswoman for abstinence. Thus, she now is fair game for jokes as are all public figures.

  8. Machado

    MachadoGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    This panel is great, no one could possibly miss the hypocrisy of the left..

  9. tjdestry

    tjdestryGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    The hypocrisy is not on the left – it’s the constant “waa! waa! waa! They’re picking on me!” coming from the right, when nobody is picking on them.

    Okay, Letterman made a tasteless joke. Now, show me who approved of it. Tell me who defended it.

    Y’all lost the election. Quit crying and making excuses. The world is looking for solutions, not sob stories.

  10. danielsangeo

    danielsangeo said, 5 months ago

    And, if anyone watches any of the shows (Letterman, Leno, et al), they’d see that that is the format of said shows. How many times have they attacked Democrats such as Bill Clinton for sexual reasons? David Letterman thought he was talking about someone like that. When he found out that the person was a minor, he apologized. Twice.

    All this manufactured outrage is starting to get boring.

  11. bgould48

    bgould48Genius_badge said, 5 months ago

    Poor kids! Media is not fair using the young and dumb. Leave the kids alone. They have enough on the plate just trying to grow up let alone putting a target on the backs. In the past or in the future leave the kids alone.

  12. danielsangeo

    danielsangeo said, 5 months ago

    bgould48: How about those “kids” that put themselves out there?

  13. cdward

    cdward said, 5 months ago

    Here’s the rule. If someone puts his or herself out in the public light and is at least 18 (legal adult in this country), then they are and have long been fair game. Bristol is an adult and has willingly put herself in the public light. Willow, of course, has not, and therefore is off limits. If I understand the situation correctly, Letterman said Willow but meant Bristol. He also apologized (which I have not ever heard McCain or Limbaugh do).

    The jokes about Chelsea Clinton seem every bit as bad, by the way. But I guess you see what you want. All I can say is that if I had a 13-year-old daughter and some jerk said that about her on national TV, we’d have words.

  14. Ian Valenzuela

    Ian ValenzuelaGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    Palin and the Palinistas are being willfully ignorant. If there is a joke about a Palin girl being knocked up, it’s only relevant because there was a Palin girl who was knocked up. If Palin was truly concerned about people making jokes about Bristol, she wouldn’t have gone on Saturday Night Live after they made essentially the same joke about Bristol that Letterman did. If Palin was truly concerned about statutory rape on her daughter, she would have prosecuted the man who actually committed statutory rape on her daughter. His name, as I recall, was Levi, not David.

    This is misplaced outrage, and it is Palin who is trying to boost her sagging ratings by leeching off someone with more fame and credibility. She knows her 15 minutes ended in November 2008, and this is a desperate, calculated move to keep the spotlight on her, long after it’s been shown that the American electorate wants nothing to do with her. She’s attacking a comedian for making a joke - one that has been made by a great many comedians, right and left - which exposes both her personal hypocrisy, and the failure of her right-wing policies when they come in conflict with the real world.

  15. fennec

    fennec said, 5 months ago

    Even Debra Saunders, the conservative columnist, is tired of Palin as victim. See her column:
    http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/saunders/

  16. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, 5 months ago

    Left wingers got to love them and their white canes.

  17. Michael

    Michael said, 5 months ago

    The first 3 were attacked all the time, in the media, especially. There were lots of jokes about how ugly Chelsea was, and the Clintons did NOT use her as a campaign prop.

  18. ohrn

    ohrnGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    This cartoon reeks of reality. I like it, it’s “Truthy” and over the edge like Colbert

  19. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, 5 months ago

    Motive, the quotes from the right, notably Limbaugh and McCain, are correct. Proof that the real offenses are spouted by the “righties” is proven daily on blogs, here and elsewhere, like any day on the Limbaugh show. Hypocrisy is not their sin, but tool.

  20. wbr

    wbr said, 5 months ago

    LIMBAUGH: “You know the Clintons send Chelsea to the Sidwell Friends private school…. A recent eighth grade class assignment required students to write a paper on ‘Why I Feel Guilty Being White”. ‘… My source for this story is CBS News. I am not making it up.” (Yes, he was making it up. 28% of the kids were not white.)

    so 28%non white the paper was still assigned

    the joke was about the 14 yr old — only after getting heat did letterman lie he should get IMUS treatment

  21. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, 5 months ago

    Then Limbaugh should get the Imus treatment, too. And McCain. Do try to be consistent.
    By the way, the paper was not assigned. He made it up. Research by snopes.com and others found that no such paper topic existed.

  22. Tigger

    TiggerGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    Yet here in Tennessee, A Worker for a Tennessee Senator is not fired for their reprehensible emailing of a blatant Racial Attack on President Obama. Republicans do not have a problem with this lady’s actions. Why? Just a reprimand, now if she was a Democrat and Obama was a Republican, The Republicans would want her Fired. She should be Fired. You and I would be fired if we passed this email to ‘The Right’ People. Ms. Goforth should be Fired. Andy, why do you have Double Standards?

    Link From Tennessean: http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090617/NEWS0201/906170375/Reprimand+appropriate+for+racist+e-mail++Tennessee+Lt.+Gov.+Ramsey+says

    Palin is Not President. She’s the One who paraded Bristol around proclaiming Abstnecance when her daughter was Pregnant. So Much for Abstenance working in Palin’s Household. Oh, Bristol never married the fater of her child. So Much for ‘Family Values’

  23. cdward

    cdward said, 5 months ago

    I just gotta ask. All this to do over one joke? And did Letterman apologize? Did “the left” (whoever that is) stand up and cheer for the joke?

    If he apologized, could someone let me know why we’re still discussing this?

  24. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

    We are still discussing this because it’s a standard Republican ploy to accuse the Democrats of something totally outrageous that they did not do, and then scream how terrible the Democrats are for doing it.

    Example: As O’Reilly said: “The mainstream media is going on and on about Bristol’s pregnancy.” No, they reported it once and moved on. It’s O’Reilly that’s going on and on about an imagined behaviour.

    Example: “Al Gore said he invented the Internet. Ha ha ha, what a fool! Well, no he didn’t.

  25. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, 5 months ago

    cdward - The left thought it was tasteless, too. Letterman apologized twice, making it clear that it wasn’t a good joke in the first place, and that he got the daughter wrong. (Bristol is fair game.)

    O’Reilly goes on and on about a lot of things. See the Daily Show look at “The Blame Game” where he had on Joan Walsh, the editor of Salon.com and said “You have blood on your hands.”

  26. pswhitlark

    pswhitlark said, 5 months ago

    Why does the left HATE Sarah Palin so much? Maybe she will make a better leader than all the democrats in Washington DC put together.
    I never heard the “ugly Chelsea Clinton” jokes. While I would have considered those tasteless, that doesn’t excuse Letterman’s disrespect of a young woman by suggesting she is a ‘ho’, or to joke about her getting raped, I wouldn’t care if she were 58. (Where was N.O.W. to defend these girls? Trying to think up ways to keep their membership from taking a hike back into the real world?)
    You people on the left are such bad winners.