You had me, and then you lost me.
Jun. 12th, 2009 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apocalypsosThis ... kinda gets to the heart of my problem with the Palin/Letterman thing.
A quick summation for those who've missed it: Sarah Palin takes her daughter to a baseball game. Letterman then makes a tasteless, not-really-funny joke about A-Rod knocking up the daughter. Letterman thought she took Bristol except, oops, no, she took 14-year-old Willow. Palin calls him on it, and Letterman apologizes on his show.
If it had ended right then and there, I probably would have stayed on Palin's -- or at least her daughter's -- side.
But of course, we're talking about Sarah Palin here, and as you can tell in that article she went on the Today show this morning, took the opportunity to sarcastically call Obama "the candidate who must be obeyed," and also said this:
Host Matt Lauer questioned the Governor on the Letterman flap, pressing her on some of her more provocative statements about situation, asking, "Are you suggesting that David Letterman can't be trusted around a 14 year old girl?" Her response: "Take it how you want to take it."
Okay, putting aside the fact that Obama is not secretly writing jokes for Letterman's show and therefore has nothing to do with this particular instance of bad form, making some snotty comment that Letterman's probably some sort of pedophile is probably even more crass than what he said. Letterman made a joke -- a lame, awful sexist JOKE -- about A-Rod, in which your daughter was simply a prop. (The prop part is skeevy, I'm not going to deny that.) You went into an interview and implied in a flip manner that Letterman couldn't be trusted around pre-teen girls.
Do you have any idea how appalling that is?
You had me. You HAD me. For one blessed moment, I was like, "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm on Palin's side." A broken clock's right twice a day, right? Eventually you had to come up with something that wasn't completely tone-deaf and selfish.
And then you proceeded to do what you always do -- open your mouth and speak.
I'm surprised I expected anything better of you.
EDIT: RT @Kaydeb: someone is exploiting palin's daughter for publicity, but it ain't letterman... | Exactly. Exactly.
A quick summation for those who've missed it: Sarah Palin takes her daughter to a baseball game. Letterman then makes a tasteless, not-really-funny joke about A-Rod knocking up the daughter. Letterman thought she took Bristol except, oops, no, she took 14-year-old Willow. Palin calls him on it, and Letterman apologizes on his show.
If it had ended right then and there, I probably would have stayed on Palin's -- or at least her daughter's -- side.
But of course, we're talking about Sarah Palin here, and as you can tell in that article she went on the Today show this morning, took the opportunity to sarcastically call Obama "the candidate who must be obeyed," and also said this:
Host Matt Lauer questioned the Governor on the Letterman flap, pressing her on some of her more provocative statements about situation, asking, "Are you suggesting that David Letterman can't be trusted around a 14 year old girl?" Her response: "Take it how you want to take it."
Okay, putting aside the fact that Obama is not secretly writing jokes for Letterman's show and therefore has nothing to do with this particular instance of bad form, making some snotty comment that Letterman's probably some sort of pedophile is probably even more crass than what he said. Letterman made a joke -- a lame, awful sexist JOKE -- about A-Rod, in which your daughter was simply a prop. (The prop part is skeevy, I'm not going to deny that.) You went into an interview and implied in a flip manner that Letterman couldn't be trusted around pre-teen girls.
Do you have any idea how appalling that is?
You had me. You HAD me. For one blessed moment, I was like, "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm on Palin's side." A broken clock's right twice a day, right? Eventually you had to come up with something that wasn't completely tone-deaf and selfish.
And then you proceeded to do what you always do -- open your mouth and speak.
I'm surprised I expected anything better of you.
EDIT: RT @Kaydeb: someone is exploiting palin's daughter for publicity, but it ain't letterman... | Exactly. Exactly.
