Sarah Palin Hates David Letterman, Loves Attention

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David Letterman apologized (kind of) Wednesday for his jokes about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her family, and extended an invite for them to come on his show.

Well, the former Republican Vice Presidential nominee, who seems intent on making People magazine headlines at every opportunity, issued a reply Thursday:

"The Palins have no intention of providing a ratings boost for David Letterman by appearing on his show," Palin family spokeswoman Meg Stapleton says. Zinnng.

"Plus, it would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman."

So ... Letterman is a pedophile now, according to the Palin spokesperson? We thought we weren't allowed to joke about underage girls ... not that anyone was.

Seriously, no one is saying the jokes weren't inappropriate, but the Palins are clearly just using Letterman, and by extension their own daughter, as an opportunity to rally support for ... something. Makes us wonder if they own NBC stock.

In case you missed it, David Letterman jabbed at the Palin family after Sarah and Todd visited NYC and took in a Yankees game with 14-year-old daughter, Willow.

The host cracked that the worst part of the trip was "keeping Eliot Spitzer away" from her daughter, and that Alex Rodriguez knocked her up in the 7th inning.

The Palins denounced Letterman on Facebook, calling his comments "sexually perverted" and saying "Any 'jokes' about raping my 14-year-old are despicable."

Letterman took eight minutes on Wednesday night's show to explain the jokes, clarifying that he was referring to 18-year-old Bristol Palin (who did get knocked up when she was a minor, incidentally) and admitting his material was in bad taste.

"These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl," he said.

He continued to emphasize: "Am I guilty of poor taste? Yes. Did I suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No."

He called the jokes, "borderline ... but again, made in an act of desperation to get cheap laughs, which is what I've been doing for the last 30 years."

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    lorac6

    Sarah Palin is correct in her anger at Letterman and his disrespectful and perverted comments. That being said, what does she expect from CBS, or anyone who works for CBS? It's another arm of this nation's liberal media. Conservatives will never get respect from any of the mainstream networks. I wonder what the hate-filled liberals would say if a joke done in bad taste was told about one of Obama's daughters. I'm sure the reaction would be quite different. Then, I'm guessing, Letterman would be forced to offer up some kind of a legitimate apology. The double standard is quite laughable.

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    GINO

    Oh, Sarah Palin. Thanks for introducing America to another one of your family members in a way that will most definitely enhance her self-esteem! That was really smart.

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    GoddessAndrea

    The liberals went into a frenzy because SARAH PALIN IS NOT QUALIFIED TO GOVERN A GLASS OF WATER, and anyone with the ability to spell intimidated properly recognizes this. Saying Sarah Palin is intimidating because she is beautiful is like saying Sarah Palin is smart because she admits she is stupid. Which might get her more respect if she at least admitted that. Big difference between bashing, and telling it like it is. Right now she is bashing Letterman for a joke that was never told. Imagine her in the White House, *what did Obama say, cut taxes.... oh, well, my daughter just got back from Texas and he said cut so that must mean they want to stab my daughter!* If she was smart she would have ignored this, but like most narcissists, she is not as smart as she is self-absorbed.

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    MB

    What it comes down to is this: ever since Sara Palin came to national attention, she has sent the liberals into a frenzy. It's so obvious by all the media bashing that they are so intimated by her because she is a beautiful, smart conservative who is a popular governor of an important state in our union. She is independent, while also being a mother and wife to a large family. I love how all these so called women's right groups say they are for women's rights, and so on and so forth, but when it comes to sticking up for the bashing of conservative women, you just here crickets in the background. It appears they are only for women who have the same political beleifs as they do. Disgusting.

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    anon

    Bristol Palin said *abstinence is not realistic* Then she said *abstinence is the only solution* If we cant hold Bristol accountable to her word, she comes across like a joke. People who are jokes (Paris Hilton, Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin) get jokes told about them, by people who make jokes for a living. Hypocrisy and back-pedalling go a long way for the Palins. Todd needs to reign in all that talk about rape, nobody said anything like that. The insinuation is GROSS, so much worse than a tasteless joke. Todd was dead serious talking about raping fourteen year olds. Nice of him to drag his daughter into a situation that never even happened.