"Saturday Night Live" has also parodied the Palin family in questionable ways. In a skit last September, a mock reporter joked about incest in the vice presidential candidate's family, saying, "I mean, come on. It's Alaska!"
Palin not only didn't protest, she appeared as a guest on the program a few weeks later.
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It's conceivable that Palin was aware of the late-night jokes made about her daughter during the campaign and wanted to fight back, but kept quiet as a strategic matter, says Tim Graham, the director of media analysis for the Media Research Center, a conservative media watchdog organization.
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A more cynical view may be that Palin had more than enough media attention last fall, and that her Letterman broadside was designed to renew attention when the spotlight is dimming. Palin may even have been aware of a Gallup poll released last week showing that she attracted less than 1 percent of Republicans who were asked to name the "main person who speaks for the Republican Party today."
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it's never cool.
It's politics. Anyway, you haven't proven any cause here, just accused.
I guess that's ok only for your side though.
It's worth pointing out that these are the same jokes that she wasn't offended enough to respond to just a while back. Is there a preferred RWN rationale for this sudden change in behavior (besides being on the rag of course)?
I think she's been vocal about media treatment since the beginning, but this is the first time her little kid gets referred to as A-Rod's cunt interest.
That may well be new, right?
no - i you read the article:
On Sept. 2, during the presidential campaign, Leno, for example, told this joke on "The Tonight Show": "Governor Palin announced over the weekend that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is five months pregnant. And you thought John Edwards was in trouble before! Now he has really done it."
On Oct. 10, O'Brien, then host of "Late Night," quipped: "Sarah Palin is going to drop the first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers hockey game. Then Palin will spend the rest of the game trying to keep the hockey players out of her daughter's penalty box."
etc... etc...
that's the whole point.
Willow != Bristol.
Letterman made the 'mistake' of specifically going after the minor while the others specifically went after the knocked up one.
Anyway, so what?
Fucking Obama went up and gave a "major speech on race" when there was no offense and had no content.
The lib media swooned.
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It was "a coarse joke,""a bad joke," Letterman told viewers. "But I never thought it was (about) anybody other than the older daughter, and before the show, I checked to make sure, in fact, that she is of legal age, 18."
Bullshit cya.
Creole = mayate. Jesus.
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