Even though both parties have kissed and made up, a quickly-expanding number of online protestors are petitioning for David Letterman to be taken off the air for his off-collar joke about Sarah Palin's daughter!
They've also threatened to boycott the sponsors of the Late Show until he gets the axe!
Morons!!!
Over 30,000 people have made the "pledge" on FireDavidLetterman.com to boycott the products sold by the sponsors and even organized a protest outside the Ed Sullivan Theater on Tuesday in NYC.
Once again… morons!!
Said Michael Patrick Leahy, spearhead of the campaign: "David Letterman's comments were disgraceful and beyond the bounds of common decency… It is highly inappropriate for a 62-year-old man to make sexual insults about a 14-year-old girl."
Leahy then went on to compare Letterman's joke to the extremely racist remark radio host Don Imus made in 2007 (calling members of a female basketball team "nappy-headed ho's") that eventually got him fired.
How could anyone ever compare the two???
CBS has yet to release a statement or comment on the issue, but we can't see the network firing Dave anytime soon!
This morning, Sarah Palin officially acceptedDavid Letterman's second apology for his "improper" jokes he made about her daughter.
She says, "Of course it's accepted on behalf of young women, like my daughters, who hope men who 'joke' about public displays of sexual exploitation of girls will soon evolve. Letterman certainly has the right to 'joke' about whatever he wants to, and thankfully we have the right to express our reaction."
Wonderful. Now she can shut the hell up and return to Alaska.
We don't want to hear from her face for at least another six months three years!
During the taping of Monday's Late Show, host David Letterman gave another public apology regarding the joke he made last week about Sarah Palin's trip to NYC and her 14-year-old daughter, Willow, that was actually meant for teenage mama, now 18-year-old Bristol Pailn.
The funny man stated:
"I told a bad joke. I told a joke that was beyond flawed, and my intent is completely meaningless compared to the perception. It's not your fault that it was misunderstood, it's my fault. So I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke. I'm sorry about it and I'll try to do better in the future. Thank you very much."
Since the failed Vice Presidential candidate wouldn't let this misunderstanding go, Letterman was practically bullied into an apology.
This is getting kind of old now. But some people just don't know how to quit.
Because of David Letterman's comments last week about Sarah Palin and her daughter, CBS will be losing an advertiser, though not an advertiser that aired during Letterman.
Embassy Suites, part of the Hilton Hotels Corp., pulled advertising on from the entire CBS site because of patron complaints. Must be a lot of Embassy Igloos Suites in Alaska.
A rep for the company stated:
"We received lots of e-mails from concerned guests and we assessed that the statement that he made was offensive enough to our guests and prospective guests that we elected to take the ads down."
Oh please!
And it goes on as there is actually a group organized to have Letterman fired. They call themselves the "Fire David Letterman" campaign.
Sarah Palin is sure milking this recent thrust into the damn liberal media for all it's worth. We were just getting used to not hearing from this dummy, and then this mess had to happen.
Palin is making the rounds to all the media outlets who want her to talk about the recent feud between herself and David Letterman. Even though David has apologized for any ill-will, Palin isn't accepting it and continues to rant on and on and on.
She will be appearing on CNN's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer today, where she will tell ol' Wolfie that she thinks David's jokes were "you know, pretty perverted."
She continues to vent saying:
"But it goes beyond that. Not just that joke, but this insinuation that it's OK, it's acceptable to talk like that, and then that it's acceptable for the media to not provide the American public, the listeners, the readers, the full context of that joke. Letterman says, now, hey, I wasn't talking about her 14-year old. David, my 14-year-old was there with me at the game. She was the only one there with me. It wasn't my older daughter, who's in college and taking care of her young family. It was my 14-year-old."
We repeat: Get over it! Lighten up! And for goodness sake, go back to Alaska!
We think we can hear some moose you haven't shot at yet!
David Letterman has responded to Sarah Palin's accusation that he suggested "sexually exploiting" her 14-year-old daughter.
Letterman explained that he was in fact referring to her very legal daughter, Bristol, and not her younger sister, Willow, when he joked that one of the Palins was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez at a Yankees game, saying, "I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl. 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."
Letterman added, "Am I guilty of poor taste? Yes. Did I suggest that it was OK for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No."
And further proving his "poor taste" he added, "Governor Palin, if you're watching, I would like you to consider coming to New York City - you and Todd as my guests, or leave Todd at home."
Sarah Palin isn't a fan of David Letterman's humor, now is she?
To celebrate Palin's recent visit to New York, Letterman took the opportunity to take a few jabs at Sarah and her family on Tuesday night's Late Show!
During the funnyman's opening monologue, he poked fun at the former VP-nom's 14-year-old daughter, saying: "The toughest part of [Palin's] visit was keeping Eliot Spitzer away from her daughter."
Ha!
Both Sarah and her husband Todd have released statements shaming Letterman and his 'poor taste' in humor, of course.
From Papa Palin: "Any 'jokes' about raping my 14-year-old are despicable. Alaskans know it and I believe the rest of the world knows it, too."
And from Miz Palin herself? Get ready for a mouthful.
"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."
When news came in about Jay Leno's departure from the Tonight Show, the biggest worry to face NBC was if replacement Conan O'Brien could keep Leno's numbers.
For the first time in 8 months, David Letterman's Late Show beat Tonight in the overnight ratings this week.
What was once a huge gap between the programs is now beginning to narrow.
But is NBC worried? Nah!
They are placing the blame on the youngster viewers who haven't been included in the ratings. NBC co-chair Marc Graboff conceded that when the 18-49 figures become available this week, it will prove Conan is holding his own against veteran Letterman.
Only time will tell if Conan can't keep the Tonight Show alive. Of course, if Jay Leno's gig falls through, he can always come back!
Looks like David Letterman will be staying behind the desk of The Late Show with David Letterman at least until 2012, extending his current contract which ran only through 2010.
That's about 700 Top 10 lists!
The decision is part of CBS's bid to compete with NBC's shifting nighttime television lineup which includes Conan O'Brien earlier west coast slot.
