Compare and contrast the initial link about George H W Bush with the
behavior of David Letterman this past week. Talk about day and night -
grace under pressure. We never really appreciated what we had then by
comparison with what we are stuck with now.
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:56 AM, dick thompson <[email protected]>wrote:
> Letterman obviously lied, since the daughter who was at the ball game
> where Letterman said he hoped Alex Rodriguez would knock up the girl WAS the
> 14 year old
>
> And this is no an "assault" on Letterman, it is Palin defending her child.
>
> When will you "liberals" become competent to discuss ideas, like defending
> Obama's collapsing economic policies, rather than smearing women and telling
> rape and racist jokes?
>
> 2009/6/12 Tommy News <[email protected]>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Palin Takes on Letterman, Again*
> By Kate Phillips<http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/author/kate-phillips/>
>
> Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska continued her assault on CBS’s David Letterman
> on Friday morning in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show, calling the
> late-night host’s efforts to apologize for remarks about her daughter “a
> weak excuse” and saying they were “a degrading comment on all young women.”
>
> Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/>, World
> News<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032507>,
> and News about the Economy <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032072>
>
> The governor has been traveling in the “lower 48″ this week. After she
> attended a Yankees game with her daughter Willow, 14, last weekend, Mr.
> Letterman said on his show Monday night: “One awkward moment for Sarah Palin
> at the Yankee game during the seventh inning. Her daughter was knocked up by
> Alex Rodriguez.”
>
> Mr. Letterman also said the hardest part about the Palins’ trip to New York
> was “keeping Eliot Spitzer away from her daughter.”
>
> By Wednesday, after the comments had caused a ruckus, Mr. Letterman apologized
> on his
> show<http://lateshow.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/video_player/index/php/988845.phtml>,
> saying he wasn’t talking about her 14-year-old but about her older daughter,
> Bristol, whose pregnancy out of wedlock caused a stir last year when it was
> disclosed at the time the governor was becoming the Republicans’
> vice-presidential nominee.
>
> “And we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter the 18-year-old
> girl,” Mr. Letterman began, getting prompted that he was talking about
> Bristol, and then said he was only making jokes. He read Ms. Palin’s
> criticisms, in which she called his remarks sexually perverted. He called
> his jokes “ugly.”
>
> “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,” he said on the show. “I mean, look at my record. It has
> never happened. I don’t think it’s funny. I would never think it was funny.
> I wouldn’t put it in a joke. Here’s where you draw the line. Yes maybe these
> are questionable because the girl who actually excuse me who was knocked up
> is 18 years old. ”
>
> Later, he said he probably regretted telling the jokes, like thousands of
> others he’d told: “We do stuff all the time and our objective here is to get
> a laugh, and thank God we don’t have to go to The Hague and the World Court
> to defend them. It’s a joke and that’s all it’s supposed to be. Am I guilty
> of poor taste? Yes. Did I suggest that it was O.K. for her 14-year-old
> daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No.”
>
> On the “Today” show from Texas on Friday morning, where the governor is
> promoting a gas pipeline for her state, she characterized Mr. Letterman’s
> remarks as a reference to “statutory rape” and called it a sad commentary
> about today’s culture that this sort of discussion would be considered
> comedy. Mr. Lauer prodded her to explain whether she really believed that
> Mr. Letterman posed a danger to young women, citing an earlier statement
> that read: “The Palins have no intention of providing a ratings boost for
> David Letterman by appearing on his show. Plus, it would be wise to keep
> Willow away from David Letterman.”
>
> Asked about that, Ms. Palin said her insinuation wasn’t in bad taste,
> offering: “Take it however you want to take it.” And she then said: “Maybe
> he couldn’t be trusted because Willow has had enough of these kinds of
> antics, and maybe she would want to react in a way that would take him off
> guard.”
>
> She also drew a line between the treatment of President Obama’s daughters
> and her own, asserting that there was a double standard at play. And then
> she took a swipe at Mr. Obama.
>
> “During the campaign, Obama said family is off limits,” Ms. Palin said.
> “The ‘candidate who must be obeyed’ adhered to that. But they haven’t done
> that on the other side of the ticket. So that’s a political double
> standard.”
>
> She again said she would decline the invitation by Mr. Letterman to appear
> on his show. Perhaps she’ll jump to be a guest on that of his new rival,
> Conan O’Brien’s.
> Watch the video here:
>
> http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/palin-takes-on-letterman-again/?hp
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
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>
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