David Letterman may have gone beyond good taste in several jokes he made during his Tuesday night monologue. He was speaking about the fact that Sarah Palin and her family, including 14-year-old Willow Palin, were in town for a Repubican fund raising event and he proceeded to paint a scenario where they took in a Yankees game.
He suggested that Palin’s daughter got “knocked-up” by third baseman Alex Rodriguez during the 7th inning. Dave took it a step farther by saying “The hardest part of her visit to New York was keeping Eliot Spitzer away from her daughter.”
Apparently Sarah and Todd Palin were not amused. They took the matter to their Facebook pages, with Todd saying “Any ‘jokes’ about raping my 14-year-old daughter are despicable. Alaskans know it and I believe the rest of the world knows it, too.”
Governor Palin, as you might well imagine, had more to say on the subject:
“Concerning Letterman’s comments about my young daughter (and I doubt he’d ever dare make such comments about anyone else’s daughter): Laughter incited by sexually-perverted comments made by a 62-year-old male celebrity aimed at a 14-year-old girl is not only disgusting, but it reminds us some entertainers have a long way to go in understanding what the rest of America understands–that acceptance of inappropriate sexual comments about an underage girl, who could be anyone’s daughter, contributes to the atrociously high rate of sexual exploitation of minors by older men who use and abuse others.”
Did ol’ Dave go too far this time? Check out the controversial video clips below.
UPDATE: June 10, 2009 – Dave responded to the Palin’s comments during his Wednesday night show. We’ve included that video below too. See June 15 REAL apology here.