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I would have invited him to a snowmachine race.

Your sensibilities may think this is a funny standard to try to achieve ... until it comes to the ox that you cherish gets gored.

Actually, dunkleberg, I feel a bit insulted by your little snark and it just goes to prove how uncultured you really are - it really says more about you and what you believe than you think it says about yourself (hint: it is not positive).

I grew up in a rough neighborhood in Philadelphia. One of the things that most impressed me about the kids from the suburbs was what a bunch of smartmouths they were. They were also completely unconscious of just how sarcastic and unappealing and disrespectful they were. Apparently, they had been subject to a lot less threat of violence for being a smartmouth than was customary where I lived.

What they needed was what ancient Rome had a great supply of: "lectori" and "batone".

In ancient Rome, people in charge had assistants called "lectors" who used to carry "batons" and give "lectorings" or "lickings"  to those who needed them, instant painful lessons in good manners, civility and respect.

So, the "baton" was for beating one to instill good manners. The name comes from battere, to beat or to batter.

 The lector, who beat you with that baton, giving you a "lectoring" (lecturing) or "licking" (as it got chewed down), his name came from the word lex, or law.

You learned good manners and respect from the threat of force or from force's direct application.

Of course, the Lettermans of the world do the same.

Palin dared to go against the grain, not of traditional Hubert Humphrey decent liberalism, but against modern liberalism, the ranting, cynical, rhetoric-heavy, reason-light version that came into existence in the late '60s as radicalization took hold in academia first, department by department, and then into the professions.

Palin did this by successfully mocking the left's idol of the ideal man, Obama, a person who represents what Plato would have called "the philosopher-king", a man who should rule by virtue of his reason and objectivity, and to whom all should bow.

Letterman and others have been acting as the lectori of Obama, wielding the cudgel of egregious mockery to teach "civility" to Palin and others who don't toe the line, such as Miss California or the women who should be "hate-f*cked" according to Playboy magazine distinguished experts on morality.

Modern libs try this here as well. But they don't succeed because we have some rules and we have some cudgels on our part as well. :)

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To nyctuber, get your facts straight.  You are deliberately spreading lies about Sarah Palin, particularly as regards the 'rape kit story.'  That's the thing about far left liberals, they simply do not care if what they say is true or not, if it sounds like what they WANT to hear, they will spew it to anyone that will listen.  You make me sick.

I recently told CBS that I would never watch David Letterman again. So then he later "apologizes"; Yahoo reports this today, & then has a link directed to show a full video of the apology; ...however, when it gets to YouTube, you get a message that the video has been taken of it for "copyright" reasons. What kind of nonsense is this?!? ...And later, Yahoo realizes this and takes the link off its news site altogether. ...And not one time have I ever heard any of these SP haters posting to comment about how Willow feels about all this, or how its affecting her. Isn't she the real victim here?  I have 2 young girls of my own. They only are defending DL because of their hatred for Sarah! If ANY true parent heard anyone say a joke about their young daughter the way DL did about Willow, regardless of the sayer's "intent", I guarantee they would not be so apt to put it in a perspective that would favor DL. Such hypocrisy! People who use this situation to attack SP without any concern for Willow have absolutely NO credibility!

I actually agree with Roy here. Sexism and misogyny are still what they are, no matter whom they're directed at. Even if you hate Palin, condoning such things against her sends a message that, in part, you're condoning such actions against women in general, simply by justification of not agreeing with their politics.

A similar case is when many Obama supporters during the primaries, evidently "liberal", fell back on base sexism and misogyny to attack Hillary Clinton. So much for Democrats and progressive ideals.

A good article on this phenomenon (which they called "selective sexism") is here: 

"Sexism against Conservative Women Is still Sexism"

Also here--normally "Where are the feminists NOW?" is a classic anti-feminist question people ask (since why do you have to wait for feminists to stand up against the wrong, if you're so incensed why can't you do it yourself?), but since it is pertinent to this issue...

"Where is the Outrage by Feminists on Letterman's Sexist Remarks?"

Personally, I think this entire thing has been blown out of proportion and taken up WAYYY too much more time, energy, bandwidth, and broadcast space than it should've.  I hate that Palin is using it and in part her daughter to drag up all the publicity she can get, and I hate that Letterman made us actually sympathize with such a person even a little bit (by being stupid and not specifying, since Bristol as a public figure and since used by Palin in her campaign, would've been fairer game politically if not tastefully).

I just wish that all the right-wingers who jumped to Palin's defense for the right reasons could apply their suddenly-clear reasoning to ALL women, not just when one of their own finds out what it's like. (And the same goes for the Playboy hit list.  NEVER thought I'd find myself nodding along with Michelle Malkin.)

It was a joke, period. It harmed no one. If you don't like Letterman's sarcastic sense of humor, then don't watch him. But don't feign ignorance over his benign intentions. Forcing rape victims to pay for their own rape kits, on the other hand, harms real people in the real world, psychologically, emotionally, and potentially physically. The idea that Letterman was addressing her 14 year old daughter is absurd and frankly opportunistic from a desperate, vicious Sarah Palin. Look up the difference between mocking and joking. Here's a hint: The way Sarah Palin talked about Barack Obama during her campaign is an excellent example of mocking. Pretty brutal, smirky mocking, at that.

Actually, it's time for the Right Wing to go. Trying to paint David Letterman as a monster over a single joke (it was funny, btw) shows the vicious desperation of the Right Wing to force the US to bow to it's gay hating, women's rights hating, fundamentalist madness. It's not gonna happen.

Btw, 'Mad Men' is a parody of the times, which were indeed sexist. Are there any ADULTS left who can appreciate anything other than Bible verses?

When I was in college in New York that was one of the main reasons I left the SDS. The other was the rage and anger that prevailed in the leadership. They were worse then the fools in power.

... and after he is prosecuted for terrorist war crimes, he needs about 100 hours of sensitivity training classes!

Basically, David Letterman has morphed into an irrelevant, humorless 62 year old hateful progressive with nothing much else to say.

He said what he said - and it still isn't funny no matter which daughter accompanied Sarah Palin to the Yankee game.

Where is the outrage from Alex Rodriguez, the Yankee organization, CBS, and "so-called" Woman's Rights organizations ... not to mention Flight Attendants everywhere (male or female).

This situation is way beyond a double-standard ... it is the absence of standards and should repulse everyone who considers themselves civilized.

Don Imus paid a heavy price for an unscripted, off of the cuff remark whereas David Letterman had all of these comments planned out before the show, then placed on cue-cards, and the show was taped to be broadcast to all timezones - this was an intentional, hateful, and unprovoked attack. To suggest that any young female (14 years old) be the object of statuary RAPE and gets "Knocked-Up" should pay a heavy, heavy price as well.