Alaska Governor Sarah Palin continues to blast away at David Letterman for jokes he made earlier this week about her teenage daughter, but the talk show host won’t be firing back during tonight’s new installment of The Late Show. Why? Because he already filmed the show before this controversy even erupted. A CBS spokesperson tells EW that Letterman pre-tapes his Friday shows on Mondays, and this week is no exception. Letterman will be shooting all new shows next week, so perhaps he’ll have something to say on Monday. Gov. Palin—outraged over a crack about her daughter being impregnated by New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez—continued venting today during appearances on NBC’s The Today Show and The Situation Room on CNN. When NBC’s Matt Lauer asked the former Republican vice presidential hopeful if she’d accept an apology from Letterman, Palin responded by saying she’d rather have him apologize to young people for promoting the idea that it’s “okay or funny talk about statutory rape.” (Earlier this week, Letterman conceded his humor was in bad taste, but adamantly disagreed with Palin’s assessment that he was making light of rape or adolescent sexual activity, insisting the joke was not about 14-year-old daughter Willow, as Palin has claimed, but 18-year-old Bristol.)
CBS has no official response to Palin, but a source inside the network forwarded EW this ABCnews.com article from last fall, cataloging various jokes many other late-night hosts made at the expense of Palin’s daughter during the course of presidential campaign. (The implication: Letterman’s joshing is nothing new—and Palin’s anti-Letterman press blitz feels oddly behind-the times.) For her part, Palin is getting new support from a fellow Republican: New York State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb today demanded that CBS fire Letterman for his comments, reports Fox News.
fire letterman, have these people realized how much money or viewers he brings in? talk about over-exaggeration. you know if letterman apologized for those jokes, which were in bad taste, and palin cant stop bashing him, doesnt that tell the people that she’s doing this just to get any publicity she cant get before she goes off killing other animals up north.
Ok Sarah, its a JOKE! Gosh…. there are other people on TV that you didnt have a bother for, but since its your family now…. you are setting an example for the country…please there are better ways to get attention.
p.s and you should be in porn
I HATE HER SO MUCH!!!!
She’s a moron.
This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Fire a comedian for making a joke? Good one. Not to mention, for everyone who keeps comparing Letterman to Imus, please stop. There is a difference between a joke about an 18-year-old mother having an affair with a guy recently famous for an affair of his own and a man directly calling African-Americans what he called them. Imus was blatantly racist. It wasn’t a joke, it was offensive to EVERYONE. Letterman’s joke may have been tasteless to some, but it was not racist or offensive to everyone. Anyone who heard that thought he was talking about the daughter who got knocked up in high school. COME ON PEOPLE. Jeez. Why can’t Palin shut up? She just wants another 15 minutes.
I think it’s incredibly interesting how the word “rape” got into the conversation. Nothing in the joke even hinted towards rape. So whose mind is in the gutter? Palin the publicity whore, that’s who.
Dave’s joke was a good example of both absurdist humor and poor taste.
Let it go at that.
When you decide to run for any political office, you automatically put your personal life in the limelight. Palin is,was and always be an idiot. Her family is like a circus sideshow and she is the ringleader.She gets what she asked for.
This woman can’t diplomatically handle a COMEDIAN, and certain people think she should be allowed to be the president, where she would be expected to deal with openly hostile nations? How absurd.
doesn’t she have a state to run or something more important to do?
And this is who you want a future president? Weep for the republic
Well, Letterman definately should apologize, seriously and formally. If he has any moral, he would. I am sure if you liten to Palin’s video today, you will realize that you have not heard a decent woman talk for a long time!
Letterman knows sluts since his son is beyond school age and his mother was a whore who slept with him and had a baby. Big difference though, she was old and knew better. Have him use his slut wife for a prop and not an 18 or 14 year old girl. No wonder Leno always beat Dave in the ratings, Jay is classy and fun and only bitter Letterman has his ugly looks for a prop
letterboy sucks donkey dicks
I would expect that Letterman won’t have much to say about it on Monday either. As for Palin, she’s definately milking this for all it’s worth. Considering that she dislikes the ‘mainstream media’, she sure doesn’t mind getting on their news shows to bash Letterman.
SV–she’s talking about statutory rape, which is a legitimate complaint. Palin’s 14 year old daughter was the one who accompanied Palin to the Yankee game that Letterman referred to. In addition, he did not explicitly say that the joke was about Bristol Palin, the 18-year-old, so this post is very misleading in that sense. Letterman did, however, claim to be making the joke about Bristol, but sorry Dave, you should have said that outright, or not make the joke at all.