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OPINION

Dear Dave: Shut Up About Palin

By M. Morris| Posted Jun 15, 09 4:41 PM CDT|

(Newser) – Sarah Palin is "glowingly happy to be in the national spotlight again and doesn't want to give it up any time soon," Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly observes in the course of offering David Letterman unsolicited advice: "Clam up." The Late Night host returns tonight after being off the air since Thursday—his Friday show tapes earlier in the week—while the flap over his wisecracks about the Alaska governor has inflamed the blogosphere.

"Don't give the TV cable news analysis shows, whether they lean right, left, or 'objective,' any more fodder for what has been, for the most part, an ever-higher tower of Babel-babble without any useful insight," Tucker writes. Meanwhile, protesters organized by through a website set up by a New York state assemblyman and a self-described "Republican strategist" from Tennessee are planning a "Fire David Letterman" rally outside the Ed Sullivan Theater tomorrow, the New York Daily News reports.

Julia Roberts laughs as she holds host David Letterman's hand on the set of "The Late Show," June 9, 2009, in New York. (AP Photo/CBS, John Paul Filo)

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin waves as she arrives at a Republican congressional fundraiser, Monday, June 8, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Robin Williams laughs while exchanging heart surgery stories with David Letterman on the "Late Show" set, May 13, 2009. It was Williams' first TV appearance since heart surgery 8 weeks earlier. (AP Photo/CBS, John Paul Filo)

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deebles
Jun 15, 09 5:21 PM CDT

Double me down on that, Atomick. Support is lovely; blind allegiance is merely cultish.

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godawgs
Jun 15, 09 5:36 PM CDT

Hey atomick you shut the fuck up, that's all you can say and as for your agreer deebles I am sure that there are people who could apply the same logic to Obama dumbass.

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deebles
Jun 15, 09 6:13 PM CDT

Well, isn't that the whole point? A slathering follower of Obama is guilty of the same blind acceptance. For Pete's sake, you can like the guy but voicing an objection when he let's you down is the epitome of Patriotism. I voted for the man, but that doesn't keep me from remembering that he's narcissistic enough to thing he should rule the free world. I think that about all my Presidents. It was something the Founding Fathers asked of me when they handed me Free Speech on a platter.

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Caps
Jun 15, 09 4:46 PM CDT

Yell, shut up about Palin. This is what the bimbo wants, to be in the lime-light. Don't fire Dave, just tell the bimbo to shut the hell up, because we have heard enough of her whinning. Reply

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flame821
Jun 15, 09 10:24 PM CDT

Have to agree. She's looking for attention and jumped on this immediately. As for people whining that 'why are her children fair game and Obama's aren't - Palin brought her children into this front and center from the day she was brought in as VP. She used her own (at the time underaged) daughter's pregnancy as 'proof' that she was anti-choice...of course she is also pro-abstinence only education and you can see where that lead to. Its the irony of her 'beliefs' versus her 'reality' It is literally the ugly, old man living in a glass house and claiming that he alone knows the secret to fashion....he can believe that all he wants, but those of us forced to bear witness will call him on it every time.

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tim
Jun 15, 09 11:58 PM CDT

This has nothing to do with attention. What if Rush had called Hillary Cllinton a "bimbo" or told her to "shut the hell up." Civil dialog is based on respect, and Dave blew it here.

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prowlerzee
Jun 16, 09 2:38 PM CDT

I have an idea! Why doesn't underhung chauvenist Caps shut up from his incessant calling a woman governor "bimbo." She came to NYC for a fundraiser for autism. She didn't ask for Gutterman to call her daughter a whore, which he did for two nights running.

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kokuaguy
Jun 16, 09 7:09 PM CDT

This is the kind of conduct that should cost someone her/his job: http://www.commondreams.org/further/2009/06/15-3

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deebles
Jun 15, 09 4:52 PM CDT

As a former resident of the Volunteer State, the only strategy required in Tennessee is the that gets you out. Reply

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deebles
Jun 15, 09 5:01 PM CDT

Add one as a predicate noun, and subtract five for carelessness.

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deebles
Jun 15, 09 5:38 PM CDT

Again the thumbs? As someone who surfs through making comments or replies according to my self-absorbed whims, I don't get the thumb thing. It reminds me of driving by and whacking a mailbox with a baseball bat.

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kokuaguy
Jun 15, 09 8:36 PM CDT

Stop showing off deeb !!!

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kokuaguy
Jun 15, 09 8:56 PM CDT

You should know better than to mess with those Tennesseans.

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riffran
Jun 15, 09 5:00 PM CDT

Yes please shut up about 14 year olds getting knocked up by baseball players, oh gee I mean 18 year olds , Fire Dave, that was just as bad as Imus and the knappy headed ho's thing...(IMUS is rude and obnoxious also) Reply

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dolcevita
Jun 16, 09 6:20 PM CDT

riffran, get a clue or two.

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deebles
Jun 15, 09 5:11 PM CDT

As a human, I think Letterman and Imus are both guilty of bad jokes, stupidly made. As a woman, I love reaching a level of sameness in society where my rising gender equality, etc. finally opens me to the same slings and arrows enjoyed by men all these years. Reply

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kokuaguy
Jun 15, 09 8:46 PM CDT

Can you see Alaska from where you are?

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Reader64481089
Jun 15, 09 5:15 PM CDT

What Letterman did was nothing more than comedians have been doing since she was thrust into the national stage. Palin herself made her daughter a public target by tossing her child center stage and making her pregnancy a public talking point. The young lady is now 18 and as they say "legal" and her position as being a spokes person for the "Abstinence" side has also propelled her into the public frame so he violated no rules nor regulations. Palin needs to scurry back to her cave and hibernate till her turn to destroy the public trust as she has done so well in her home state. Reply

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godawgs
Jun 15, 09 5:38 PM CDT

what's her approval rating in Alaska again? the other question would be why is the president's family off limits but Palin's not?

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tim
Jun 16, 09 12:00 AM CDT

That argument didn't work for Inus (thank goodness).

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riffran
Jun 15, 09 5:16 PM CDT

dear atomick.....kiss my ( ! ) Reply

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luluzz
Jun 15, 09 6:14 PM CDT

What would David think if other comedians made that kind of jokes about his son and his long awaited "marriage". I'm not that upset about the jokes, they just show David's limited talent and need to get ugly about people he doesn't like. But the worst part is listening to people on sites like this call Palin a bimbo and much worse. She's a governor with five children with many challenges. She is very intelligent and courageous whether you like her or not.

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Cat-Lover
Jun 15, 09 5:27 PM CDT

In my humble opinion, any prominent elected official who is as strongly opposed to unprotected teenage sex as Palin, and opposes a woman's right to choose, and has a teenaged daughter who not only thrashes that but gets dumped by the father (or vice versa...) is in no position to say what is "pretty perverted...." Reply

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JonmarkP
Jun 16, 09 4:03 AM CDT

It's protected sex that Palin is against. Well, that and everything else.

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prowlerzee
Jun 16, 09 2:45 PM CDT

Gee, Cat-lover, that pretty much describes Obama's knocked up teen mother who "married" the already married foreign Muslim man who dumped her and their child, too. Maybe Obama should stfu, too, when he says families are off-limits. So, in all the "humble" opinions here, Obama's dead mother is fair game to call whore.

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markhebert42
Jun 15, 09 5:42 PM CDT

It was a joke, but Palin doesn't get jokes...remember the one where the GOP trotted her out there as VP? Reply

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godawgs
Jun 15, 09 6:07 PM CDT

Fights are started over jokes like that, if it's so funny lets talk about your sister getting knocked up or you mom being a slut....and she isn't any more of a joke the Sheriff Joe.

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Observer
Jun 15, 09 6:35 PM CDT

Palin has only one thing going for her and it is superficial good looks and someone else's $300,000 wardrobe. She needs to get back to the woods and mate with the grizzlies again. Reply

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justme
Jun 15, 09 6:43 PM CDT

I guess I can take this remark to mean that you are a slam anything Republican kind of person. Hope you don't chock on the kool aid. Obama has spiked it a lot lately.

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deebles
Jun 15, 09 7:47 PM CDT

You know what justme? I wish the world were truly as black or white as you want it to be. I actually envy your certainty. That our world is gray and getting dimmer, doesn't seem to bother you. You have swallowed the worst kool aid of all: that we have the time for simple games of who's right and who's wrong.

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prowlerzee
Jun 16, 09 2:48 PM CDT

"She needs to get back to the woods and mate with the grizzlies again." And this differs from the Republican who just made the "joke" about Michelle and gorillas...how? Observer, you are the backwoods pig you pretend to be on the other side of the aisle from.

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TerrifiedCitizen
Jun 15, 09 8:38 PM CDT

Hmm, hard to fire a guy who owns his own show. Worldwide Pants Inc. Reply

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kokuaguy
Jun 15, 09 8:52 PM CDT

And who has a contract that no doubt allows great license with respect to opinions expressed-- unless he gets the network fined by the FCC I'm sure he's safe. Imus on the other hand did have FCC rulings against him and he engaged in racist and sexist hate speech repeatedly and promised not to do it again. Reply

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luluzz
Jun 16, 09 3:22 AM CDT

It was the racist remarks that got Imus taken down, but in tvland it's okay to be a sexist. But in tvland commercials and shows are now making men look stupid, which to me is sexist as well. But no one seems to care. But make a racial slur or joke and it means war.

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Shannonals
Jun 15, 09 11:01 PM CDT

Funny how Govenor Palin never made mention of the comments made by Jay Leno back during the election. You can't have it both ways, you can't accuse one man of being a perverted old man without making statements against another Reply

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prowlerzee
Jun 16, 09 2:50 PM CDT

You should really learn to think for yourself Shannonals, instead of regurgitating poor parallels brought to you by the woman-bshers running the national media.

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Reader70343417
Jun 16, 09 12:57 AM CDT

love your palin jokes!..how about some obama jokes,or are you scared Reply

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kokuaguy
Jun 16, 09 2:27 PM CDT

If in the future one of the Obama daughters were to become an unwed mother while her parent were advocating abstinence only sex education then there would be comparable jokes. In the meantime you have racist "humor" everywhere about the Obamas and no one is getting fired over it.

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prowlerzee
Jun 16, 09 2:55 PM CDT

kokuaguy, get your facts straight. Palin does not advocate "abstinence only." That is just you regurgitating the lies you've been fed without fact-checking them yourself. Palin belongs to Feminists for Life, which endorses birth control. Palin also nominated a pro-choice woman for Alaska's Supreme Court, while Fraudbama appointed a prolifer to head the DNC and a pro-lifer to head his newly expanded faith-based office. And Obama has already said "families are off limits" so it is on behalf of his daughters, not to mention his own knocked-up teen mother, that you all should get a clue already and stop defending sexist attacks on politicians' daughters.

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Abdulsamadabdul
Jun 16, 09 1:06 AM CDT

Hey crew, I think anglo-saxon profanity is a very useful and expressive part of the English language. It can convey anger, disappointment, incredulity quite well. However it requires more than modicum of intellect and/or rhetorical artistry to use profanity in discourse such as this. I went to discern either in the above comments. Reply

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Abdulsamadabdul
Jun 16, 09 1:08 AM CDT

excuse me crew, typo there..... I have yet to discern either in the above comments. After something such as that fuck-up, maybe I should shut the fuck up. My bad for sure! Reply

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sache
Jun 16, 09 10:31 AM CDT

Agree with Tucker. Anything to make Palin go away and deprive her of the spotlight she craves. Reply

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DeniseVB
Jun 16, 09 10:54 AM CDT

The sad part of all this is that Dave has no room to "joke" about anyone's sex life, especially teenagers. Look how he's treated his own lady in his life.....knocked her up, as an adult mind you, and pulled a Levi Johnson for 5 years. He should know better. Not funny Dave. Fail. Reply

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prowlerzee
Jun 16, 09 2:59 PM CDT

Valiant try, Denise, but all the pigs like Fegelah who like to call women "Bitch" will negative rate anyone calling them on their internalized sexism. Seeing as even Letterman's mom sides with the Palins, I'm going to give all the pigs' mothers here the benefit of the doubt that they tried to raise their offspring right...but sadly failed.

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Reader83157734
Jun 16, 09 2:06 PM CDT

Attention whore. Not Palin, the Republican Party. Faux outrage. They HAVE called Obamas everything but Jigaboo and Spook. What about the watermelon jokes and the cartoons with monster lips, like it's 1959. Anyhow, the issue with Palin is not vapid celebrity-hood, nor whining, nor stupidity. It's her association with and mentoring by a white supremacist "patriot" Joe Vogler who tried to get help from the UN and the Islamic Republic of IRAN to separate Alaska from America, and her association with and mentoring by the Council for National Policy which are working hard for a Theocracy in the USA. CNP was started by the guy who did the Left Behind movie about End Times and war on non-Christians in NYC, Tim LaHaye. Reply

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prowlerzee
Jun 16, 09 3:02 PM CDT

Reader, I would be more worried about the Trojan Ass who is actually in the White House, if I were you. Where are you on the fact that Fraudbama has not only expanded Bush's Faith-based office but has actually made it a part of policy, now under Health and Human Services? And he's appointing prolife activists there and elsewhere. If Theocracy is something that bothers you, sober up off the Hopium and get to work!

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LiberalJesus
Jun 16, 09 4:37 PM CDT

Palin is stupid and deserves all the ridicule she has been given. All the jokes were courtesy of her ignorance right out of the gates from Alaska and her own blabbering mouth. She has no policies and yet the gop far right love this kook. She paraded her children all over the place and made them props in her campaign in 2008. And why does a woman who hates NY City, Yankees and the east coast show up for a Yankees game? Why is all the other jokes by Leno, O'Brien, Ferguson and on and on get no scrutiny. Do we need to remember that MCain called Chelsea the spawn of Janet Reno? Right wingers and their phoney outrage is just so over done these days...Ever heard of the boy who cried wolf? Palin and to a greater extent the gop are just throwing anything they can to get some kind of publicity. And they still havent figured out that McCain and the gop lost badly . And now they are trying to re write history and claim the Nazi Party was a left wing group......how far out and out of the solar system are these twits? And isnt it the right wing members who tout the use of guns to get their way if they cant win at the ballot boxes? The new gop is even more hatefilled, violent, racist and anti American than it was 8 years ago. Who knew it would get worse? Go home Palin, take your Nazis with you and give it a rest! Reply

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NewserScooter
Jun 16, 09 11:42 PM CDT

You really don't have a good grasp on reality do you?

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kokuaguy
Jun 16, 09 7:11 PM CDT

Here is the kind of conduct that should cause someone her/his job: http://www.commondreams.org/further/2009/06/15-3 Reply

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Reader83301266
Jun 17, 09 10:40 AM CDT

Tim - Rush DID call Hillary Clinton a bimbo and told her to "shut the hell up". And worse. David Letterman's jokes were much milder than the bile that Rush spews. The Right can dish it out, but they sure can't take it. I'm tired of their whining - they're always claiming they're being picked on. Bunch of girlie-girls. Reply

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