Sarah Palin is doing something conservatives rarely do — other than Rush Limbaugh — when smeared by the Left: she’s fighting back.
In an interview with the state-run media’s Today Show on NBC, one of the Obama Channel’s family of networks, Palin came out swinging against David Letterman and his crude, despicable comments about her and his 14 year old daughter, Willow.
Palin called on the public to rise up in opposition over David Letterman’s “degrading” jokes about her daughter this week. In a Friday morning television interview on NBC’s “Today” show, Gov. Palin said the late-night comedian’s remarks are a “sad commentary on where we are as a culture, as a society, to chuckle and laugh through comments such as he had made the other night, I think is quite unfortunate.”
Letterman’s explanation that he was referring to her 18-year-old daughter, Bristol, instead of her 14-year-old daughter, Willow, who accompanied her recently to New York, was met with derision by the governor. She called the remarks a “very convenient excuse” that took him a couple of days to present. “It was a degrading comment about a young woman. I would hope that people really start rising up and deciding it’s not acceptable. No wonder young girls especially have such low self-esteem in America when we think it’s funny for a so-called comedian to get away with being able to make such a remark as he did and to think that that’s acceptable,” Palin said.
Even if Bristol were Letterman’s target, which they weren’t, since it was Willow who accompanied her mother to New York, the comments are unacceptable. Children of public figures should be off-limits for cruel, mean-spirited comments, be they adult children of Algore, Joe Biden or George W. Bush or minor children of Barack Obama or Sarah Palin.
They didn’t ask to be put in the spotlight simply because Mom or Dad entered the political arena.
And to those who say that Palin has used her kids as political props, then saying the same about the Obamas is fair game. Tit for tat, as the old saying goes.
Leave the kids alone. Period.
As a man and the father of a daughter, I would suggest Todd Palin get involved in this immediately. I see this as some big ugly asshole disgracing my wife, daughter and family name in public. No different than some big loud mouthed creep yelling indecent comments to either my wife or daughter or both to be heard by many, many people down at the mall. Since when did we as American men start letting ugly effeminate cowards pick on our women?? I say, Todd better get himself a ticket to NY ASAP and plan on being in the Letterman audience at his next show. Do I need to say anymore?? This is not a matter to be sliced and diced by our so-called media ‘experts’. Most of which can’t find their way home at night. American history reminds us that Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr fought a duel over less than this.