Yesterday Sarah Palin announced that she is pissed at David Letterman for making “sexually perverted comments” about one of her daughters.
On Monday, Dave joked of the former GOP VP candidate’s recent visit to New York City, “During the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.” He than added “The governor visited Yankee Stadium, sitting in “far, far right field” with Rudy Giuliani. “They had a wonderful time,” he continued. “The toughest part of her visit was keeping Eliot Spitzer away from her daughter.”
Todd Palin fumed on Facebook: “Any ‘jokes’ about raping my 14-year-old are despicable. Alaskans know it and I believe the rest of the world knows it, too.”
From Governor Sarah Palin: “Concerning Letterman’s comments about my young daughter (and I doubt he’d ever dare make such comments about anyone else’s daughter): ‘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.’”
Last night Dave wanted to clear the air so he apologized. Well sort of.
Last night Dave responded to Palin’s comment by saying, first, that he is not a celebrity. A 62 year old man, yes, but not a celebrity. And than he went on to clear up his statement by saying that in his comment he was referring to her 18-year-old Bristol Palin, who recently gave birth to a son out of wedlock despite her mother’s high-profile abstinence advocacy, not 14 year old Willow. He admitted his jokes were in “questionable taste” and that he regrets telling them.
“We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news,” Letterman explained.
“These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make joke about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl. Am I guilty of poor taste? Yes. Did I suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No,” he said.
Here is something even funnier than this stupid controversy. Dave’s Top 10 Monday night.
“Top Ten Highlights of Sarah Palin’s Trip to New York,” included the following: “Keyed Tina Fey’s car” (No. 7), “Finally met one of those Jewish people Mel Gibson’s always talking about” (No. 3), “Bought makeup from Bloomingdale’s to update her ’slutty flight attendant’ look” (No. 2) and “Especially enjoyed not appearing on Letterman” (No. 1).
