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Posts: 5529 07/03/09 3:00 PM |
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Posts: 5081 07/03/09 4:36 PM |
KC wrote:I certainly hope she doesn't leave the national scene. She represents all that was good about the America I grew up in. |
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Posts: 5529 07/03/09 5:22 PM |
Well the sewer rats are out both in the national media and some folks closer to home. That is to be expected from minority groups and makes for humor.
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Posts: 5081 07/03/09 7:48 PM |
KC wrote:It is not to be unexpected. When 'jokes' about raping her daughter become not only culturally acceptable but funny to many I would expect nothing less from those in the gutter. |
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Posts: 3028 07/03/09 9:06 PM |
OOF wrote: MSNBC,com was reporting this as a possibility. Timing makes sense to me. |
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Posts: 2441 07/06/09 8:22 AM |
Awe, I hadn't heard any jokes like that..... not nice.
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Posts: 1467 07/06/09 6:34 PM |
Letterman made a joke about her daughter becoming pregnant, not raped. Becoming pregnant is a possibility since it did happen to one of the daughters.
Lettermans mistake was he mistakenly thought the oldest daughter was on the trip with her.
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Posts: 5081 07/06/09 8:00 PM |
62656 wrote:If you feel comfortable defending David Letterman when he refers to Palin's slutty airline stewardess look and says she should be concerned about a ballplayer knocking up her daughter have at it. Most decent people think it went too far. |
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Posts: 1467 07/06/09 8:50 PM |
OOF wrote: The oldest daughter was knocked up, and I made no comment on Palin's slutty looks. Rape was not mentioned by Letterman. I think you went to far in lying or being misinformed in saying that he said rape. Most decent people would make a retraction when called out on the fact that rape was not mentioned by Letterman. |
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Posts: 5081 07/06/09 9:27 PM |
62656 wrote:Oh, so he was sliming the 18 year old daughter and not suggesting that her 14 year old daughter might get knocked up by a 30 year old man (statutory rape in most places) and that makes it all better. And God didn't make the little green apples and it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime. |
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Posts: 1467 07/06/09 9:32 PM |
OOF wrote: That's what I figured you would do, ignore the fact that you purposely lied about Letterman saying rape.
Last Edited By: 62656 07/06/09 9:37 PM.
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Posts: 6330 07/06/09 10:10 PM |
OOF wrote:If there's anyone who can tank whatever hope conservatives have for 2012, it's her. I'll be the first to admit that I had hopes for her that were as high as anyone else's and I'll be the first to admit that her candidacy devolved into a freakin' train wreck. I don't think she gets it. She flopped. |
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Posts: 1282 07/06/09 10:31 PM |
Palin took her 14-year-old daughter to a baseball game. Letterman said that while Palin was at the ballgame her daughter was impregnated by a baseball player.
Of course he was referring to the daughter that was at the game with her.
I think in trying to be funny, Letterman went too far. It happens a lot when people try to be funny. It's part of the risk they take. It's really not a big deal, and I don't believe Letterman was actually being as creepy as it came across. But he gave Palin an opening and she attacked it with gusto, as anyone in her position should do. It's beyond me, though, why anyone would try to act like Letterman said something different. He said what he said, and it is what it is. Let Palin enjoy a little righteous indignation, then everyone move on. Really, folks, it's just an example of a joke gone bad. I don't believe there was any statutory rape comedy intended even if it was really easy to make that argument. But he deserves to take his lumps over it because he did serve up a defective joke. |
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Posts: 1467 07/07/09 9:18 AM |
Todd, and BGlifer...two good posts. The woman is not Presidential material, and shows this best by quiting the governor job people elected her to do in Alaska.
All politicians are subject to jokes, the Clinton's, Obama's, and of course the Bush's, went through it and they did not even speak out, they
remained and done the job they were voted in to do. One of the mistakes Palin made was parading her family on stage with her from the start till finish.
Perhaps they should be able to do this, but in doing so you should know that you are inviting problems.
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Posts: 5081 07/07/09 10:29 AM |
BGlifer wrote:What I find really disturbing about the situation is that there are people who defend the unprecedented sliming of her family by the blogs and media, especially the media. I guess that is what our culture has descended into. |
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Posts: 6330 07/07/09 11:39 AM |
OOF wrote:How has the media (barring Letterman's bad joke) slimed her family? |
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Posts: 5081 07/07/09 12:49 PM |
ToddZilla6 wrote:I don't do the 'gotta have the last word' thing. If you were interested you could do some searches on members of the Palin family. |
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Posts: 6330 07/07/09 1:02 PM |
I was interested in what YOU were saying and in YOUR take on the situation, which is why I asked YOU the question.
Apparently, you don't do the "I can answer simple questions about the statements I make" thing, either. |
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RayRay |
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Posts: 2441 07/07/09 3:35 PM |
I just hope Sarah takes this time to "brush up" and get ready for the 2012 elections.
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Posts: 505 07/07/09 3:43 PM |
Sarah Palin is not a "politics as usual" kind of person. That's one of the things I like about her. I think this country is in desparate need
of a lot of people like that. I wish we could throw every congressman out and start all over, with the exception of Bret Guthrie and possibly some other new
ones.
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Posts: 2441 07/07/09 4:57 PM |
That's what I like about her too!
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