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June 11, 2009

VOTE: Weigh In on Palin/Letterman Feud!

Sarah Palin and David Letterman feud

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin picked a fight with David Letterman after he made jokes about Yankees stud Alex Rodriguez "knocking up" her daughter.

On Wednesday, Dave announced on his show that his jokes on the Palin family were "unpleasant" and "ugly" and said he would love to have the Governor as a guest on "Late Night." Palin's camp responded with a statement saying, "The Palins have no intention of providing a ratings boost for David Letterman by appearing on his show."

"Extra" wants to know: What's going on here?


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letterman is way out of line .. what if someone said the same thing about one of his children ..how would he like it ?


- Anonymous
Posted 06/11/09 04:39 PM
 

Sometimes I think the World is a toilet and Dave, you just became the flush. How can you possibly think it is entertaining to trash a child??? You need to re-think your brand of humor. Why don’t you try to be a real man and fess up??? It is a lot more impressive to the rest of us out here, to say you are just wrong and off base than it is to just say yada yada yada and not take responsibillity for being grossly out of line. You need to apologize to the Palin family and make your most sincerest effort to make it sound REAL.
There are PLENTY of REAL PIGS in this world and if you feel the big need to trash someone pick someone else than zeroing in on a kid.
Look around….there are DIRTBAGS everywhere!!!!! Leave the kids alone.
Sherry


- Sherry
Posted 06/11/09 04:31 PM
 

So this is what night time tv has lowered itself to. Dave Letterman is a pervert and needs to fade back into the cornfields of Indiana. And this morning they try to cover and say the joke writer for Dave didn’t double check which daughter was with the Governor. Throw the blame. I hate to think that Dave Letterman makes the salary he does and is not held accountable. Take the pervert off tv. No wonder world is so messed up. People in his position shouldn’t get paid and his “joke writer” should not be given a BONUS for 2009. I won’t watch his program any more………………CREEP.


- Lee-Atlanta, Georgia
Posted 06/11/09 04:26 PM
 

I would so slap David Letterman in his face so hard I would knock his teeth into place, that was a low blow to talk about any child like that no matter who the parent of that child was , his show is now no better then the Jerry Springer Show and he should be pulled off the air, the girl is a child of 14 years of age and is now going to being teased by other kids her age. He is a JerK


- Michelle Lavallee
Posted 06/11/09 04:21 PM
 

It is appalling what Letterman will say to boost his ratings! He must really be “hard up”!


- Rita Hunt
Posted 06/11/09 04:19 PM
 

Grow up and get a grip Sarah Palin………Thank the lord you are not in public office (oh you are….what a shame for Alaska-ruining the natural beauty by strip mining)…….grow a harder shell, get a better education, and by the way if your kid hadn’t got PG so publicly the jokes wouldn’t be out there. Dave Letterman does not need a visit by you to boost his ratings…he gets them all by himself.


- A NJ Mom
Posted 06/11/09 04:17 PM
 

I am not one of your viewers.

Show no mercy David Letterman, one day none shall you receive.

slither slither.. letterman.


pmc


- Anonymous
Posted 06/11/09 04:16 PM
 

Letterman, you are one sick person!


- Linnie
Posted 06/11/09 04:07 PM
 

Dave…Dave…Dave…
Now you are starting to act like a movie star. Too much information! Shame dude. If I were that girls dad, you’d be in trouble. Common guy.
JJ


- Joshua J
Posted 06/11/09 04:04 PM
 

Just a comment:
No mother in their right mind would let someone say this in public. Defamation. I see socialism starting in our country. I have to agree, say something about Mr. Obama’s children (which I think would be bad taste also) but watch what happens. I am glad to see people fight for right and wrong. Wrong is wrong, no matter how you sugar coat it. Candace is right.. using children for political cut throating is disgusting. What about when Connie Chung and Letterman had a thing going when she was married??? Stop throwing rocks at glass houses. You are transparent Dave!


- Holly
Posted 06/11/09 03:35 PM
 

Leave children alone, Dave. I’m disappointed in you.


- Anonymous
Posted 06/11/09 03:35 PM
 

LETTERMAN YOU SICK WORTHLESS BASTARD………….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


- Bubba
Posted 06/11/09 03:24 PM
 

I was actually watching when comments were made about this young lady and at the time I actually changed the channel and was disturbed by David Letterman’s comments. I have four daughters and dispite my political beliefs, thought “this has turned into the ” Jerry Springer show”. This is a little gal and I wonder if she were sitting there in the room looking at him would he still have the nerve to say it. She is a mother and the baby doesn’t deserve this either. I really have always loved letterman but his refusal for an appology was worse. All my lady friends at coffee said they felt the same way as I. We just commented that we will just go to bed earlier and skip the night shows. Who wants to go to sleep with comments like that. Mothers were not happy to hear this. I would hope that we are all not going to be punished for deciding to keep our babies. Why are they not putting down the father??? I think using this little gal for political hatred towards a certain party horrifies me.


- Candace
Posted 06/11/09 03:12 PM
 

OH MY GOSH!!!!! CHILL


- Anonymous
Posted 06/11/09 03:09 PM
 

David Letterman has gone off the deep end with his liberal bias. So much so that he has lost perspective and has become comsistently mean spirited in his attempt at humor. When the motivation is to hurt someone -especially a 14 or even 18 year old girl - it’s just sad. Dave’s low road humor indicates more about him than the Palin family. Get happy, Dave, maybe then you will be funny again.


- Diane
Posted 06/11/09 03:01 PM
 

What if this was your child ? Its just a joke right ?

Kramer and his racist remarks , its just a joke right ?

Imus “nappy headed” just a joke right?

Nazi jokes , just a joke right ?

THINK BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR PUTRID BLOOD ROTTEN STOOL MOUTH !


- ken
Posted 06/11/09 02:52 PM
 


Dave Letterman has finally reached the peak of his ability to be obnoxious and crude. His remark about Sarah Palin’s daughter was totally out of line and a humiliating insult. It was not funny!! Shame on him. I’m sure his mother is really proud. Dave, you’re pathetic. You just lost CBS this viewer and a lot of others. Time for you to retire your sick humor.


- ST
Posted 06/11/09 02:34 PM
 

I’m am surprised at Extra for labeling Mrs. Palin as overreacting! Who began this tirade was none other than Mr. Letterman and his writers who obviously have an issue with a conservative politician. It makes you wonder if they feel threatened by the conservatives, even though we elected a liberal President and and a mostly liberal Congress. I wonder if Mr. Letterman would have used the President’s daughters in similar demeaning jokes—or-belittled the First Lady? The answer, of course is a resounding NO, because he has respect for the First Family. I did not vote for Obama, but he is my President and I have respect for the First Family. And as for Mrs. Palin, she has served the people of Alaska honorably. She deserves respect as well. I understand poking fun at politicians. But this time Mr. Letterman was extremely off!! He was disgusting!! He can go on for days how he was referring to the other daughter, and that these jokes were never directed at the little daughter, ect…The botttom line is—Mrs. Palin was in New York for a charity and, like alot of citizens, took in a baseball game. Yet, he detests her and believes the majority of his viewers feel the same. So like the bully at the playground, he tried knocking her down. Tisk, Tisk! YOU, Mr. Letterman, are a great disappointment. You are vile, disgusting and rude. What kind of man belittles a woman at the expense of her children and family? Are you that afraid of her? Maybe you and your cronies realize that she is alot smarter than you give her credit for. Last time I checked, Mr. Lettermen, you weren’t governing any state. Oh, and it gets better…I knew you had a hand in the writing of your jokes, but you don’t even proofread them!!! Some puppet you are!!!!


- Sylvia
Posted 06/11/09 02:16 PM
 

Hey, let’s try a joke about Obama’s kids. How about this Dave. When one looks at a family picture of Obama’s kids, it looks like a promo for the new adventures of “Children of Planet of The Apes”. Funny? No it is not, but neither is it funny to talk about a 14 year old child who happened to accompany her mother to a New York Yankee ball game while in New York for charity. Hey, by the way, Yankees, where are you on this? Remember, Old Dave said that A-Rod “knocked up” Sarah Palin’s 14 year old daughter. Funny? Is A-Rod a child molester like Dave suggests? Put away your Socialist leanings Obama supporters and get real. He crossed over the line by a lot. Whether you like Sarah Palin or not, his joke was as wrong as the example of a joke I used earlier about Obama’s kids and you should admit it.


- BJP
Posted 06/11/09 01:51 PM
 

What a pathetic example of a “comedian”…Letterman isn’t funny, he’s a disease…..better be careful Davie-boy, lest others start suggesting similar situations for your daughter..(who just happened to be born out of wedlock, too)…!!


- john
Posted 06/11/09 01:29 PM

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