Seriously? Still on this?

**R13** · June 16th, 2009, 02:35 PM

Another reason the GOP is continuing to fall, ignorant things like this. With this and the tea-bagging that they started a month or so ago, come on? There's no face to the party (with Rush actually considered the speaker for them in a poll last week, no joke) plus this ridiculous stuff. Rally for something relevant for a change.

NEW YORK (CNN) ? Despite an apology Monday night from David Letterman, a protest rally outside of Letterman's Ed Sullivan Theater in New York will still go on as planned Tuesday, according to its organizer.

Political documentarian and conservative radio talk show host, John Ziegler, tells CNN that the point of the rally is to, "Raise awareness and get some sort of accountability."

He says that Letterman's apology, "Would have been fine had it come six days ago. This apology came seven days after the fact and his first apology was completely self serving." He added, "We think our voices should still be heard."

The protest is scheduled to take place as Letterman begins taping Tuesday's program. The group is angry over a joke the talk show host told related to the family of Sarah Palin.

Ziegler could not confirm how many of the more than 2,000 people he originally indicated would be attending had canceled. The rally's page on Facebook has approximately 200 confirmed guests. 1,383 have declined the invitation since the Letterman apology.

A significant number of the people who are attending list their residence as out of state.

Ziegler, who produced "Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin was Targeted" is also promoting his upcoming film, "Blocking the Path to 9/11."

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Letterman protest to still go on as planned, says organizer - Blogs from CNN.com

**CoeburnCane** · June 16th, 2009, 03:06 PM

Ziegler, who produced "Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin was Targeted" is also promoting his upcoming film, "Blocking the Path to 9/11."

Right there's your motivation for the rally...not to "raise awareness and get some sort of accountability", it's to shill his documentary film work. I hadn't heard of this cat nor had I heard of his films yet until this article--same will go for a lot of other people when this rally goes as planned.

**TheBeast** · June 16th, 2009, 03:14 PM

Who was it that said family was off limits but then their party went after Palin's family without mercy throughout the campaign?

Hello kettle meet pot he's black, well in this case half-black.

**R13** · June 16th, 2009, 03:26 PM

Originally Posted by TheBeast

Who was it that said family was off limits but then their party went after Palin's family without mercy throughout the campaign?

Hello kettle meet pot he's black, well in this case half-black.

Oh I'm sorry, I didn't know Letterman was a member of the Obama administration or the DNC for that matter. He's a comedian who made a joke about an 18 year old, so again how does that fall under the pot and kettle argument. That's right, it doesn't..Obama or administration didn't go after Palins daughters at all then or now.

**Biggin** · June 16th, 2009, 11:06 PM

just give it up, its obvious its not about right or wrong, its about twisting the way things REALLY happened to try and make your backwoods racist ideology seem ok.

seeing as how apparently david letterman is a huge dem. and should be held accoutable like a political pundit. :/

**Counts** · June 17th, 2009, 08:21 AM

IMHO the Davis letterman comment was no differant than the "Nappy headed Hos" thing from a few years ago.

Neather was a good Idea but I think it is overkill for eaither of those guys to lose there job over it....

That being said the same type of people should have been equaly upset/appathetic over both comments.....that being said that never seems to be the case in matters like this

**TheBeast** · June 17th, 2009, 08:45 AM

Originally Posted by Burton13

Oh I'm sorry, I didn't know Letterman was a member of the Obama administration or the DNC for that matter. He's a comedian who made a joke about an 18 year old, so again how does that fall under the pot and kettle argument. That's right, it doesn't..Obama or administration didn't go after Palins daughters at all then or now.

The comment was about the 14 year old not the 18 year old no matter what Letterman 2 days later after he was called on it tried to say. How on earth you can possibly believe that he wasn't talking about the daughter that was there at the game but the one that was 2000 miles away in Alaska is laughable.

My response was about the way the dem's went after Palin and her daughter being pregnant out of wedlock during the campaign but made it clear noone could say a word about any of bama's family.

**R13** · June 17th, 2009, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by TheBeast

The comment was about the 14 year old not the 18 year old no matter what Letterman 2 days later after he was called on it tried to say. How on earth you can possibly believe that he wasn't talking about the daughter that was there at the game but the one that was 2000 miles away in Alaska is laughable.

My response was about the way the dem's went after Palin and her daughter being pregnant out of wedlock during the campaign but made it clear noone could say a word about any of bama's family.

It was about Bristol, no matter how bad you or the Palins try to spin it. When it was said, the whole world knew which daughter he was talking about. I, myself didn't even know who Willow was. Do you seriously think he knew who was even at that game? He was his fault he didn't make it clear though and the Palins jumped on it. They spun the whole thing grossly and said some pretty disgusting things themselve.\

1) The joke was about Bristol, plain and simple.
2) Bristol is an adult.
3) Bristol has a child.
4) Bristol is like any other, fair game to take shots...apparently she likes taking them

5) Why would she be spared from jokes? See 2 and 3.

She wasn't crucified, but a lot of supporters brought it up because it was a little ironic being who she is and what happened. Obama's girls are 10 and 7 I think, so if a joke like this was made..it'd definitely be a little different. This is nothing but a political ploy by the Palins to stay relevant, a little proof...

Last September, a skit on Saturday Night Live suggested incest in the Palin family. "What about the husband?" asked a mock Times reporter. "You know he's doing those daughters. I mean, come on. It's Alaska!" No outrage. Sarah Palin appeared on the show one month later btw.

Days after the announcement of Bristol's pregnancy, Conan O'Brien joked, "It's true, John McCain's running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, has revealed that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. Palin said, 'We should never have introduced her to John Edwards.'" Where was the outrage?

"All the Republicans are heaping praise on Governor Palin. Fred Thompson said, as an actor, he could see them making a movie about Sarah Palin and her family. Didn't they already make that movie? I think it was called 'Knocked Up!'"--Jay Leno...Outrage anyone?

"According to expense reports, Sarah Palin charged the state of Alaska over $21,000 for her children to travel with her on official business. In fairness to Gov. Palin, when she leaves them home alone they get pregnant." --Seth Meyers (SNL). Sarah Palin was in a sketch with Meyers a week earlier.

And one very similar to Letterman...

"Saturday night, 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." Conan said that and Palin walked out on the ice with six year old Piper and 13 year old Willow...not Bristol, but everyone knew which daughter he was talking about then. No outrage though.

It was spun completely and Palin has acted just as "disgusting" through this.

**collegetrumpet2010** · June 17th, 2009, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by TheBeast

The comment was about the 14 year old not the 18 year old no matter what Letterman 2 days later after he was called on it tried to say. How on earth you can possibly believe that he wasn't talking about the daughter that was there at the game but the one that was 2000 miles away in Alaska is laughable.

My response was about the way the dem's went after Palin and her daughter being pregnant out of wedlock during the campaign but made it clear noone could say a word about any of bama's family.

The dude will never learn. It's a lost cause.

**VHSLhelper** · June 17th, 2009, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by TheBeast

The comment was about the 14 year old not the 18 year old no matter what Letterman 2 days later after he was called on it tried to say. How on earth you can possibly believe that he wasn't talking about the daughter that was there at the game but the one that was 2000 miles away in Alaska is laughable.

Fairly easily, actually.

Mention Palin, daughter, and knocked up, and the 14 year old isn't the one that pops into my mind.

The video clip that was used (and I don't rem. when it was shown) didn't do anything to make me think of either daughter.

I wasn't at the game. I didn't see it mentioned on the 6:30 national news. I didn't see Sportscenter. I had no idea which daughter/s were there. And I'd bet 99% of the TV audience and 99% of the live audience didn't know, either.

So, when you heard the joke the first time, did YOU know Bristol wasn't at the game, but Willow was? If so, how?

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You ever watch the comedy show TMZ? I'd guess the top 10 list was compiled by Dave's writers, and the meeting went something like this...

Writer 1 : So, I saw where Gov. Palin and her family were at Yankee Stadium.
Writer 2 : Was her daughter there?
W 1 : Yeah.
W 2 : I can do something with that.

My response was about the way the dem's went after Palin and her daughter being pregnant out of wedlock ...

What ?!?!?! Dem's went after a girl that was pregnant out of wedlock ?
THAT'S laughable.

The Palin women were picked on because of their support of "abstinence-only", which is stupid.

Yes, abstinence-only is stupid. And yes, their support of it is stupid, since Bristol was PROOF that it doesn't work.

So I guess what I'm saying is that the Dems went after them simply because... they're stupid. Hunting from a helicopter, seeing Russia from your front porch, and not knowing the name of any magazine you said you've read lately should have already given you that hint.

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WHY can't schools actually TEACH something in Sex Ed., other than "just say no"?

(I know I'm going OT here, but I was part of a workshop at a small, rural HS back when I was in college. We had nearly 100 HS kids there, divided into smaller groups. A question about bras came up. I made a comment about how guys think it's hot when it's removed through the shirt sleeve. I got a bunch of blank stares. I asked who knew the "hook, spin & flip method" for putting one on. The response floored me. Of a dozen HS girls, only TWO knew. I then brought it up with the next 2 groups and got basically the same response rate... something like 7 of 34 girls (20%) knew how it was done. After I showed them how to do it, I got a bunch of "thank you"'s. The best one was from a girl who was basically a loner and an outcast. She said that trying to hook it behind her back hurt her arms so bad that she rarely wore one, so she had to wear 3 or 4 shirts to, ummmm, "protect her modesty". She borrowed the one I had borrowed as a demo and put it on in the bathroom. An hour later, her closest friend came up to me and asked what I had told her that caused such a huge personality change so fast. I laughed and said "What if I told you she's so happy because she's wearing a bra". That's something that I thought should have been talked about in Health class, but about 30 girls learned it from a college guy that night. (HEY - NO JOKES!)