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I can't say it wasn't an apology because it was but it was made with such finesse that the it's obvious the "62 year old celebrity" is having the last laugh. He made a farce of the apology and told her "Sarah Palin, suck this!". Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful.

Can the right exactly point out where the jokes pointed towards a 14 year old girl?

And can the right ever learn how to make the difference between a joke and a threat? Not that I expect any better from people who think the world was created in seven days.

...let’s see him say that about O’s girls

wait, oprah has girls?

and fuck 14year olds. and 13year olds. and mostly 12year olds! (they are the WORST. rape 'em!

Can we please reconfigure the murder tank to go into the internet Tron style and kill fucking Twitter? Because what the internet needed was MORE SPACE for moron dickweeks to spout out about what offends them, only in less space to actually come up with a coherent argument and correct spelling.

A-rod is a slut. FACT.
Bristol Palin go knocked up early. FACT.

Joking about two facts is not offensive. where the fuck does raping a 14 year old come in? OH right, that was sarah palin's creativity at work. She came up with that one. Because it will keep her in the headlines and lord knows she would melt without constant media attention. So I ask...why are we giving it to her? She's an idiot. She's receiving an award for bringing attention to children with disabilities, despite the fact that she shit all over "fruit fly studies" when in fact drosophila research is hugely important to our understanding of autism.
She's against gay marriage because it's a threat to the sanctity of family, yet her daughter, a single, teen-aged parent, is supposed to be a role model for abstinence and family values...yeah, that makes perfect sense. Not hypocritical at all.

Sarah Palin is a useless moron. FACT.

I didn't think I could love Dave any more than I already did. The guy is a pro.

David Letterman is 62? Why did I think he was like, Larry King old?

Palin just needs to get herself noticed again, and create false moral outrage in an effort to get her base riled up. There was nothing about "rape", and to imply so is utter nonsense.

For those of us that can't watch video at work, could someone transcribe the original joke? Much appreciated.

Thanks, branded.

I'm only offended that neither joke is very funny -- cherry-picking (pun intended) easy targets and all that. I'll trust Dave's "apology" was funnier and let it go.

Loooooooong time ago, George Will called it "The Outrage Industry." If only he'd known how industrious it would get.

Is Sarah Palin even relevent anymore?

I wonder if we'll ever stop pandering to the very stupidest among us and just ignore them, as they deserve to be. Faux outrage only works if you pay attention to it.

I really don't like Letterman. I think he is a pompous asshole. I didn't see the joke, so after reading the twitter feed, I was prepared to be pissed.

And...yeah.

I got nothing.

Which daughter was implied aside these are really more jokes at Spitzer and ARod's expense than anything else. Palin's just too dumb to realize it.
Go fig.

...Sarah Palin is enemy #1 for the liberals right now.

You're kidding, right? That's like saying the sponge is the number one enemy of sea creatures.

The Thinker, ladies and gentlemen. Give him a big round of applause. Wasn't he great? One of the funniest men in America today.

There's no joke in there about rape, except for statuatory rape (sex with a person below the legal age of consent). Yeah, yeah, yeah Letterman mixed up the daughter with the baby with the 14 year old but so what? His joke was not about forced sexual intercourse, you know, the kind Jay Leno often giggled about when some criminal in the news was sent off to prison. Don't recall Leno ever apologizing to Martha Stewart when he did a little skit about her being the sex toy of some bull dagger while in prison.

And, you betcha (sly wink to audience), this little dust up is for sure gonna keep that moose skinner in the spotlight just a little bit longer.

Where was all the Republican outrage when Rush Limbaugh called 12-year-old Chelsea Clinton the Whitehoue dog???

It's a stupid joke. It wasn't even funny. But of course conservatives are leaping at ANYTHING these days, so even bad jokes get three full days of news cycles until the new outrage comes along.

Yawn. The whole thing is so unimportant and ridiculous, and of COURSE it's getting blown out of proportion. Move along.

I'm with TylerDF here. Someone needs to annihilate Twitter right NOW.

Good point, Jimbob.

"anyone with half a left brain knew that the fairly benign jokes that Dave made were in regard to the older Palin daughter, Bristol"

And anyone with an entire brain figured that a joke made about Rodriguez knocking up a Palin daughter might be seen as referring to the daughter who was actually at the ballgame and that the confusion might warrant an apology.

Can't we all--Republicans and Democrats alike--just agree that it's always fair game to go after politicians' families so long as the joke is funny enough? Rip on Chelsea, rip on Bristol--just make it funny.

As for the jokes here, sure they weren't that funny--but they really weren't offensive. Sarah just wanted something to get all "mother bear" about, to boost her own ratings.

Bd-

That would be great if the world was operating just to entertain you: just make everything funny. But, sadly, your own pleasure is not the focus of the world, and the things people say with gigantic bully pulpits often have negative consequences, such as discouraging otherwise exceptional people from pursuing public office.

Sorry if "raising the politcal dialouge" interfers with your own silly desires.

Letterman still has 100 times more class than the whole Palin family. That goes without saying but I felt like saying it.

It's been more than 5 months since the election. It would be wise to have someone tell Governor Palin that her 15 minutes of fame is over and it is time to move on with her job and family "issues".

That's it? That's an offensive joke?

In Australia right now, we've had a comedy show taken off the air for two weeks for doing a skit called the 'Make a (Realistic) Wish Foundation'. They satirised those organisations that grant wishes for kids with terminal illnesses, asking an actor playing a sick kid for smaller, less expensive wishes and ending with one of the comedians saying something like 'It doesn't matter anyway, they'll die soon'.
The apology offered was pretty half-arsed, I have to admit, but in the defense of the Chaser guys, I think they were actually trying to make a point about the fact these kinds of charities are so underfunded they can only grant about 30% of the wishes, and a lot of sick kids miss out.

Still, I can understand why people were offended by that a heck of a lot more than people being offended over Letterman's joke.

Oh, I love it when conservatives pretend to momentarily discover feminism! OMG, rape jokes are never funny?? Tell me more!!

(not that this was one, due to the daughter confusiona, blah blee blah)