Either I don’t know how to use the search facility around here, or we have truly been silent over this:
Sarah Palin visited New York, with her 14 year old daughter and took in a Yankee game. Letterman doesn’t like Sarah Palin.
So, he decided to have some fun.
David Letterman started out by declaring that Willow Palin, 14, was ‘knocked up’ by Alex Rodriguez during the 7th inning stretch. His comment that followed indicated that he was taking a shot at A-Rod (if I squint just riiiight....), but he joked about a 14-year old daughter of a person he did not like getting knocked up in a ball park.
He then followed it up with a top-ten list that included Sarah Palin getting Crack and visiting Bloomingdales to improve her ‘slutty flight attendant look’. Oh, goody – a twofer – Sarah Palin is a slut and so are flight attendants.
The audience laughed uproariously and a good time was had by all.
Am I the only one who thinks this is absolutely disgusting? Or do we reserve our respect only for progressive, liberal, pro-choice women?
And just imagine – what if Bill O Reilly had said the exact same thing about Michelle Obama visiting Paris with Sasha?
As for the progressive blogosphere, I looked for the usual suspects - Digby, Amanda, firedoglake - nary a peep. Of course, Somerby was all over it - which is where I found out about this.