Thursday, June 11, 2009

Double Standard on Politicians' Kids

Well, David Letterman has offered up a pathetic explanation for his recent comments:

The late-night host had drawn particular fire from Palin and some pundits for a joke about one of Palin's daughters being impregnated by New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez during a trip to Yankee Stadium. Camp Palin apparently took the joke to be a crack against Palin's 14-year-old daughter Willow, who had recently attended a Yankees game, but Letterman insisted today that the real target was 18-year-old daughter Bristol.
Let's see if we can discern the rules here.

I'd like someone to diagram that joke any way that isn't calling Willow Bristol a whore. So, we've established that it's just fine to joke about a female politician being slutty, and her daughter being knocked up by a professional baseball player during the seventh inning, and the daughter is a whore. And that's OK because both the politician and her daughter are over 18.

Well, now. Let's set the Wayback Machine for February 2008, shall we? Chelsea Clinton was within a few weeks of her 28th birthday, and MSNBC's David Shuster commented on her participation in her mother's campaign.... He thought she was "sort of being pimped out" by the campaign. There are many interpretations of the phrase (Billy Mays and Vince Shlomi can be said to be "pimping" various products, or an actor appearing on Letterman's show might be "pimping" a movie role), but Hillary expressed her outrage at Shuster calling her daughter a whore. She received an apology from the head of NBC News, and Shuster was suspended from the air for two weeks.

Why is it OK to call Bristol Palin a whore, when she is nearly a decade younger than Chelsea Clinton was when Shuster made his remark?
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Posted by The Monster at 4:33 AM

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2 comments:

  1. WayneJune 11, 2009 at 1:48 PM

    Also, no matter what he claims, it wasn't Bristol who went to the ball game with Sarah. It WAS Willow. So, even if he's not lying, he's still an idiot for not getting his facts straight.

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  2. instinctJune 14, 2009 at 5:46 PM

    Facts?? That retard, Letterman, doesn't need facts because he is just speaking 'truth to power' or some bullshit like that.

    Letterman is a dirty old man who is constantly proving that he is a mysoginistic has-been and needs to retire. But as for NBC firing him - hell, we might as well expect them to offer pro-consrevative news reporting too.

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