Letterman Jokes About Palin Fight

Late Show’ host David Letterman apologized to Sarah Palin on Thursday and admitted the jokes about the GOP star and her daughter were in “poor taste,” but again denied he was ever talking about the former VP hopeful’s 14-year-old child.

Palin, in turn, appeared on NBC’s ‘Today’ show on Friday and asserted Letterman now has to “apologize to young women” the world over for his gaffe.

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As you may have heard, Letterman’s Top Ten List on Monday, titled “Highlights of Sarah Palin’s Trip” to New York City, joked that there was “an awkward moment” for Palin when she attended a Yankees game when,

“during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by (Yankee third baseman) Alex Rodriguez.”

The joke seemed to refer to Palin’s 18-year-old daughter Bristol, an unwed mother. But it was 14-year-old daughter Willow, not Bristol, who had been at the game.

“I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl. I don’t think it’s funny. I would never think it was funny.

I’m not necessarily proud of these jokes. We do stuff all the time and our objective here is to get a laugh, and thank God we don’t have to go to the Hague and the World Court to defend them. It’s a joke and that’s all it’s supposed to be.”

Palin told ‘Today’ she thought it was “a degrading comment about a young woman. And I would hope that people would star really rising up and not accepting this.” Adding, “it’s no wonder girls have such low self-esteem in America when a comedian can make a remark like this.”

source: Palin: Letterman owes apology to young women [MSNBC]

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Letterman Jokes About Palin Fight

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