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Tangerine said:
What has Palin done to "poke her head up?" She's a sitting Governor. Like the sitting President you adored so much, shouldn't her family be afforded the same level of respect and kept off limits? Or is her family fair game just because you don't like her?

So what you're saying is that when Letterman insults her family - unprovoked, she deserves it, and should just take it. If she responds - then she's just "putting herself in the spotlight" - which in turn opens her up for more ridicule because she "poked her head up." Your logic is very confusing.

Out of curiosity - I wonder how people would have responded if Bill O Reilly had cracked a joke about Melia Obama getting "knocked up" by a stranger at a basketball game?
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I've answered that question (what has she done to poke her head up) already.

I have also stated I don't think families are fair game.

Letterman made a very bad joke in my opinion. If I haven't said that here, I am now. As I previously said, she could have ignored it, as Clinton did McCain's retched joke, or she could have deftly back handed him. Instead she ramped up the drama and kept it going.

Please do no be so disingenuous as to say that joke was about Willow. It wasn't. It isn't logical or honest to assume it was. Bristol has been pregnant, Willow has not. So with regard to Malia, aside from it being wholly reprehensible, it would not be logical either.
 
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Margene said:
I've answered that question (what has she done to poke her head up) already.

I have also stated I don't think families are fair game.

Letterman made a very bad joke in my opinion. If I haven't said that here, I am now. As I previously said, she could have ignored it, as Clinton did McCain's retched joke, or she could have deftly back handed him. Instead she ramped up the drama and kept it going.

Please do no be so disingenuous as to say that joke was about Willow. It wasn't. It isn't logical or honest to assume it was. Bristol has been pregnant, Willow has not. So with regard to Malia, aside from it being wholly reprehensible, it would not be logical either.
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Except Bristol was not AT the basketball game. Willow was. How more logical and honest could it be when you joke about Palin's daughter "going to a basketball game and getting knocked up" when only ONE daughter went to the game? Whoever wrote that joke should've known that and found a different way to use that punchline that didn't appear to target the 15-yr old. If that had happened, I think this entire thing would have never happened.

And what you said was that she "poked her head up" by engaging Letterman after the joke. But what did she do to "poke her head up" to BE the target for the joke in the first place?
 
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Tangerine said:
Except Bristol was not AT the basketball game. Willow was.
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It was a baseball game and Letterman didn't know it was Willow. He said so. I had no clue it was Willow either. I don't care enough to know and it still does not work logically. Bristol is the daughter associated with pregnancy. Bristol=preganant Palin daughter.
 
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Margene said:
It was a baseball game and Letterman didn't know it was Willow. He said so. I had no clue it was Willow either. I don't care enough to know and it still does not work logically. Bristol is the daughter associated with pregnancy. Bristol=preganant Palin daughter.
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Now that is utterly ridiculous and dowright disingenuous of YOU to defend Letterman in this case. He's paid MILLIONS of dollars to tell jokes. He has a team of writers who are paid huge salaries as well. If that's their fucking JOB - then at the bare minimum the should have some basic facts before they go on their air with something potentially slanderous. The obviously knew that Palen was at the game with one of her daughters. It wouldn't have taken a whole lot of research to discover WHICH daughter it was. They put their foot squarely in their mouths and you think they deserve a free pass because you don't like Palin.
 
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Now that is utterly ridiculous and dowright disingenuous of YOU to defend Letterman in this case. He's paid MILLIONS of dollars to tell jokes. He has a team of writers who are paid huge salaries as well. If that's their fucking JOB - then at the bare minimum the should have some basic facts before they go on their air with something potentially slanderous. The obviously knew that Palen was at the game with one of her daughters. It wouldn't have taken a whole lot of research to discover WHICH daughter it was. They put their foot squarely in their mouths and you think they deserve a free pass because you don't like Palin.
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I am not defending Letterman. I am only speaking up for logic and the truth. His writers are comedians, not journalists, but Letterman admitted he should have gotten his facts right. I agree. As I said before, I thought the joke in very bad taste as well as the airline hostess comment.
 
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Tangerine said:
What Bill Clinton did when he was in office was quietly warn all media (using his pit bull Rahm Emmanuel as the mouthpiece) that Chelsea was off limits. They were bluntly told that writing/printing/reporting anything about her would result in being barred from the White House press corps, Air Force One and other Washington connections. Any derogatory press about Chelsea would lead to "a living hell" for any news organization that dared go down that path. (* My source: I worked for Cox Media during all the years of the Clinton White House. It was commonly discussed among the media)
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Could you imagine what the morons acting as reporters would be saying if Palin had done this.

Another thing that was out of line was people claiming Palin paraded around with the youngest. Good grief I guess if you run for Veep you are supposed to drop off the family at the house and keep em locked up till the election is over.
 
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Last I heard is that Palin might be running for President next time round. For your sake I hope she dosen't! :willy_nilly:
 
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So what's the latest news on Ms Wasilla? She still fishing with todd?

All I can say is, thank god for MJ dominating the news cycle. I think I would have gone crazy if Ms Wasilla was being covered 24/7
 
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Don't worry, she never had a chance to be VP and she'll never be president.
 
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RecklessTim said:
Don't worry, she never had a chance to be VP and she'll never be president.
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Stranger things have happened

After all enough of the idiots with voting cards did elect a black man with no experience. ;)

Hooray for us to get beyond the race issue

Boo for us being dumb enough to be conned by somebody with no experience.

God I love this country :D
 
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Let me guess... if you had the choice between voting for Obama or Palin, you would vote Palin in, wouldn't you? :24:
 
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Alien Allen said:
Not if Ron Paul was on the ballot;)

Why are you liberals so afraid of her anyway :D
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I'm not afraid of her, not at all. I'm afraid of the absolutely idiotic voters that would vote her into office... you know, the same ones that voted Bush into office twice. The ones that would rather have someone they could see themselves "having a beer with" in office or trailer trash than someone who is actually intelligent enough to do the job.

And make no mistakes, Palin is nothing more than uneducated white trailer trash. She has no business in politics, hell, half the ass clowns in office have no business in politics. At least the other half have law degrees or real world experience. She's an illiterate community college beauty queen with a vocabulary as well rounded as a two bit whore.
 
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RecklessTim said:
I'm not afraid of her, not at all. I'm afraid of the absolutely idiotic voters that would vote her into office... you know, the same ones that voted Bush into office twice. The ones that would rather have someone they could see themselves "having a beer with" in office or trailer trash than someone who is actually intelligent enough to do the job.

And make no mistakes, Palin is nothing more than uneducated white trailer trash. She has no business in politics, hell, half the ass clowns in office have no business in politics. At least the other half have law degrees or real world experience. She's an illiterate community college beauty queen with a vocabulary as well rounded as a two bit whore.
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Yet she has far more experience in politics and executive level management than the guy we just voted into office for no other reason than he gives empassioned speeches that make us feel "hope."

I personally think it's equally as idiotic for some to base their decision on who to vote for because of their public speaking abilties.
 
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Tangerine said:
Yet she has far more experience in politics and executive level management than the guy we just voted into office for no other reason than he gives empassioned speeches that make us feel "hope."

I personally think it's equally as idiotic for some to base their decision on who to vote for because of their public speaking abilties.
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