Re: David Letterman and Sarah Palin: An Unhealthy Fixation

On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:07:09 -0700, Ronnie Bateman
<OurOwnRonnieBateman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

EGK <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So, now you're allowing that it's not a case of Letterman being
malicious, but of not knowing the 14-year-old was at the game. Not
really helping your case.

Even Letterman admitted the joke was in bad taste. I don't think he gave
two shits about who the joke would affect. That's why they didn't even
bother to check. He only claimed he meant the older daughter when he got
called on the joke.

Sure, it was in bad taste. But there's "Crucify him!" bad taste, and
there's "Ouch, tacky" bad taste.

So you think sexual jokes aimed at specific minors are simply tacky then?

Now try telling me how a joke about the rape (statutory or otherwise) of a
14yr old is funny and doesn't come close to racist comments.

Answer my question, first: Do you think Letterman would have been
excused for calling those players nappyheaded hos?

No

Well, there goes that part of your argument.

Not all. You're creatively snipping the posts to make it seem so though.
Blacks and other minorities are protected under Liberal PC. That is unless
they happen to be conservatives. I'm saying that Liberals will jump to
defend one another if the target of the "joke" is someone they perceive to
be the enemy. That's why you and others attempt to excuse a sexually
oriented joke targeting a 14yr old girl. Palin is conservative and
apparently anything about her (and by extension her family) is considered
fair game.

You automatically made the assumption that I am right-wing because I take
Liberals to task on this specific incident. People on both the left and
right both make assumptions like that a lot. It's a circle the wagon
mentality in politics. If someone doesn't march in lockstep they must
automatically be "the other side". Just like Liberals have no monopoly on
hypocrisy, conservatives certainly have no monopoly on mean-spiritedness.

Now you tell me, do you think people would be defending or making excuses
for Letterman if he made a sexual comment like this about one of Obama's
daughters or even his wife?

So, now you're tossing a theoretical sexual comment about his *wife*
into the bargain, and implying it's just as hypocritical to let that go
by? Oh please.

I threw in his wife merely because she's of age just like Bristol. After
all, that's the excuse Letterman ran with. Not the excuse you tried about
it being aimed at only ARod. It is noted that you refused to answer
though. I'm saying if any TV host made a comment like that about Obama's
wife or kids, there would be hell to pay.
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