Late night host David Letterman apologized Monday for an offensive joke about the children of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, amid calls for CBS to fire him. Wow, tempers are hot over this issues, check out this website calling for Letterman’s firing.
Palin slammed Letterman last week after he tried to get a laugh by saying New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez impregnated the governor’s teenage daughter when they recently attended a game at Yankee Stadium.
Letterman explained he wasn’t referring to the Republican former vice presidential nominee’s 14-year-old daughter, Willow — who was at the game with Palin — but was instead poking fun at Palin’s single-mom, 18-year-old daughter, Bristol, who was not at the game.
During the taping of Monday night’s “Late Show” show in New York, Letterman said he wanted to apologize “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.”
He told his audience he had mixed up the two Palin daughters, The New York Times said Monday, and accepted responsibility for the mistake.
“I told a joke that was beyond flawed, and my intent is completely meaningless compared to the perception,” Letterman said.
New York State Assemblyman Brian Kolb is co-sponsor of a Web site calling for Letterman to be fired. The San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News said the proprietors of FireDavidLetterman.com are organizing a rally Tuesday outside the New York theater where Letterman’s is produced.
“Firing Mr. Letterman would send a clear message that CBS will not tolerate any of its employees, even an established media figure like Mr. Letterman, making demeaning and degrading comments about women,” the Mercury News said Kolb wrote in a letter to CBS chief Les Moonves.
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How stupid these people are! I didn't feel as the comment made was demeaning towards women. It was a f-ing joke! A joke that was made with her "other daughter" in mind. People get talked about everyday & she isn't better than anybody else. And the sad thing about this is that if Sarah hadn't made such a too-doo about this, everybody & their momma would have forgotten the whole joke in a couple of days. David Letterman tells jokes, that's just what he does. I'm sure he's probably told his jokes for even longer than Sarah Palin's political career & inadvertent boost to fame. If she would have never gotten in politics she would just be any other somebody off the streets. So I'm saying "Get a life!" Volunteer to work with pregnant,unwed teens or something. Stop focusing on stupid sh*t that won't really matter a year from now.