i see the pile on sarah palin shit parades are still popular….

It appears to me, that he doesn’t mean these entirely as jokes at all. He appears at least to me, and maybe I am misreading him, as I don’t watch him anymore as just another hateful, bitter, and judgmental old guy with an agenda. The larger concern, isn’t where is his conscience? But rather where is ours?

Calling Letterman representative of Hollywood/NY entertainers is also repugnant. My wife and I have long been members of “Hollywood” as actors and believe me, Letterman doesn’t represent us.

A pig is a pig is a pig no matter what area their job description comes in. Letterman is mere a symptom of the disease running amok in America. It’s called ignorance, mysogyny and sexism and it’s been practiced full bore by our illustrious jacka** in the white house. So why anyone would be surprised that it spills over as entertainment is beyond me.

Our politicians no longer practice discourse, they simply insult, blame and obfuscate. When a presidential candidate can “flip off” his challenger, put “bros before hos” t-shirts on his website, play “I’ve got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one” as his entrance music, just to name a few, why should we be surprised when that level of the gutter enters our lives?

Our standard nowdays only relate to celebrity. If you’re popular enough no one is going to hold you accountable. And if you’re black or Latina you can always play the race card for any sins. The biggest joke of it all is that these people all call themselves religious.

why is it that during the elections we kept hearing about the obama’s having class and blah blah. why are we not hearing the obama’s speaking out against this? i thought “the messiah” was going to heal hatred and division and etc.. etc… etc….

cahil- with all due respect. please do not insult the animal kingdom and call letterman and these pieces of crap; pigs. pigs and the rest of the animal kingdom are more evolved than these pieces of crap.

Sarah represents the newly Disenfranchised and the assault against traditional values which will result in the biggest backlash in History
When you hang Sarah in effigy…You are hanging me.
When you burn her church down…You burned mine down too.
When you attack Sarah’s family..You attack mine also.

If I were Todd, Letterman would have a dead horse in his bed by now.

I used to tolerate Letterman, but this is pathetic and should not be allowed. I think that we should start a letter of repudiation, maybe through PUMA.org website or Uppity woman or by simply calling the network (does anybody have the phone number?) I surely will contact the network.

I am hoping that Sarah takes Letterman up on his offer to appear on the show with her husband.

If I were her I would make one request and that is to have Letterman repeat those Top Ten to her face.

I don’t think he has the kahones to do it. But if her did he would have to agree to allow Sarah to say whatever she felt was appropriate without being cut off, and when he got to the A-Rod/Willow comment Letterman would have to agree to not press charges after Todd beats the living daylights out of him and gives him an even bigger gap in those teeth.

And where are all these self-righteous women’s groups? Hypocrisy at its worst.

Todd Palin released this statement:

“Nice attempt by Letterman to draw the heat away from himself; however, Willow was the only one at the Yankees game and the only Palin child included in the photo opportunities with the Giulianis, as was obvious. Regardless of which Palin daughter it was, Bristol, Willow or Piper, these sexually-perverted comments are outside the acceptance of mainstream America.”

Thank you American Girl in Italy.

As a mother I am appalled. I will never watch Letterman again. Joking about rape is not funny, regardless of the age of the female.

I am very sick and sad to see how comedy has evolved to be so evil and hateful.

I am sure, Letterman, would not be amused if some one joked about molesting his boy. I just do not understand how Letterman as a father agree to say that joke about Palin’s daughter

I got this list of Letterman’s sponsors from a poster (at Hillaryis44.com). Send your objections and complaints to CBS and to the following:

TV.com
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Direct CBS number to complain is 212-975-3247, there’s VM only until after 2 pm eastern.

I don’t watch Letterman. I never thought he was particularly “funny.” But this is just more evidence of intolerance and incivility. I think his retraction [he was slandering and 18 year old girl Bristol rather than the 14 year old Willow] is lame, an excuse for a thoughtless and disgusting remark about Palin’s family. There was a time when a politician’s family was out of bounds. No more apparently. Chelsea Clinton was indirectly called a prostitute during the 2008 primaries when a newscaster quipped that HRC was “pimping” her out.

But can you imagine anyone attacking Obama’s daughters? I’m not suggesting that they should; I’d be equally disgusted. But the “liberal” left has come to the conclusion that women in particular are fair game. Nothing off limits. So, calling Palin a slutty stewardess or Hillary Clinton an old hag is matched with comments about Sotomayor’s judicial competency when she’s “on the rag” by the far right.

Tit for tat, I guess.

We’re regressing at an alarming rate! Headed straight for the Dark Ages.

Good but disturbing piece, AGI.

I’m not defending Letterman, but I think it’s only fair to point out that he tapes at least two shows at a time, so it’s not like he made the first comments one day, then the second comments after reading the blowback from the first day. The jokes were probably written in the same session, and the two shows taped the same day.

Having said that, I stopped watching his show because of the negative political comments directed toward Hillary last spring. By the time Sarah was nominated, Letterman, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and in particular Bill Maher were off my list permanently!!

Davis Letterman is a SICK PERVERTED OLD MAN. The very sad thing about this jerk is that he lived with his girlfried for years, then they had a baby out of WEDLOCK and did not marry until (don’t quote me) I think the kid was five years old. NOW……I can understand a young girl making a mistake and having a baby , but an old fool who is old as dirt making such a comment is beyound the pail.
I haven’t watched his show in years because I did not find him to be funny and I certainly will not watch it again

Hey Letterman, how about a few Down’s syndrome jokes? Those are always a hoot, and rank right up there with Obama’s Special Olympics jabs.

The pass given to creeps like Letterman and Obama by the sycophantic left is a serious symptom of a growing cancer in our culture and society. Left unchecked, the desease may create a pervasive and corrosive attitude that will become unhinged from fundamental morality, and allow the afflicted to rationalize and justify even the most vile of activities as long as those activities are directed at increasingly discredited targets like Palin, pro-lifers, Christians, conservatives, women, and anyone else Like Palin that dare to advocate traditional American values. It wouldn’t be the first time that a massive cultural and moral decay led to the demise of nation. The absense of a large and general outrage over Letterman’s comments indicates that we are well on our way down that road.

Just wondering about Alex Rodriguez and Elliot Spitzer … I hope they, too, make a statement about Letterman linking them to rape/pedaphelia. These guys may be promiscuous, but to put the image out there in the American consciousness of them raping or molesting a child is beyond the pale and defamatory to their public image. As far as I know, neither of these two public figures had the reputations of being rapists or pedaphiles —- at least, not until now with Letterman’s jokes. I would like to see what these men have to say about the matter.

Also, I don’t think Sarah Palin should go on The Letterman Show, since this would give him over-the-top ratings and more legitimacy as a TV personality. Moreover, I’m so glad Todd Palin is calling Letterman on his perverted misogyny. Whoever made these jokes up — be it Letterman himself or his staff of writers — shows a sick and perverted mind at work.

Comment disappeared. I’m not popular because of my Obama dislike lately, which I thought was a rather common thread with commenters here. I guess not. I do not apologize though. I do despise Obama and nothing happening is changing that opinion, much as I’d welcome something, anything to change my mind.

I’ll just lurk.

What I also find distressing is whomever wrote that joke knew Palin was in NYC with her daughter. Rather then investigate which daughter it was so to make sure any joke made was based on correct information and/or appropriate, the writer assumed it was Bristol because she has traveled with her mother before. So it’s very possible they meant Bristol but due to their f*ck up, they didn’t realize that it was the 14 year old with her mother. Don’t forget SNL already joked that Todd Palin is the father of Bristol Palin’s baby and it was all crickets when that happened.

Then Donny Douche (Duetch) on Morning Joke this a.m. slams Palin for letting her daughter do publicity like People Maganize and says he’d never let his kids do something like that. Donny, Bristol Palin is 18 years old and legally an adult. If she wants to do an interview or speaking engagement, how is Mrs. Palin supposed to stop her? She can express her opinion that she doesn’t want Bristol to do something, but obviously Bristol will do what she wants to do. That’s how she got pregnant – she did want she wanted to do like 95% of teenagers at any one time.

His explanation made him look just as perverted. Apparently, since he meant it for the 18 year old, that would make rape ok, so long as the woman is 18 or older. He’s just bitter that he can’t ever host the tonight show since he ticked off GE’s Jack Welch and lost to Leno. He’s always going to be a B host till the day he dies.

I know he has a child. I just hope it’s not a daughter.

He’s always going to be a B host till the day he dies.

Letterman will only survive as long as there is a strong funny host on another channel that provides for the audience to switch channels.
As for standing alone at that time slot..Letterman is history if Conan fails…

So Lefty Loonves is busy on the phone calling in all of his favors – he KNOWS Letterman fk’d up (and the writing staff, editors and anyone else that approved those NON jokes)

It will be on the VIEW, LENO, every CBS news show from now til they deem the mess up is over

all with many woman saying – oh that’s not a big deal – that joke didn’t bother me at all!

Someone will pay the blonde on the VIEW to “not be offended” by the joke. Or tell her to stfu while whoopeedoo and the other brainless twits make it like it never happened!

Then THIS blog and those of us STILL OFFENDED will be tossed off as just a bunch of right wing zealots of some sort

all of the behind the scenes phone calls and text messages

“save US, letterman fk’d up, we need back up, quick”

sigh so pathetic
I’ll NOT forget

The ultimate leftist hypocrisy–It is okay to slam Brisol Palin because she is an 18 year old unwed mother who is Republican. It is taboo to slam Stanley Dunham who was an 18 year old unwed mother because she is Obama’s mother. The attacks on the Palin family are obscene.

Rush Limbaugh called Chelsea Clinton “the White House dog”. These sick, cowardly “entertainers” just don’t know when to quit. Letterman’s defense was pathetic and weak.

I would hate to be a politician’s child. I think all comments about any politician’s child should be off limits–except if the child is of legal age and does or says something of his/her own volition. I remember the nasty comments about Chelsea Clinton, Amy Carter, etc. It wasn’t until now that we have a MESSIAH in office that his children are fawned over.

And it wasn’t, however, until we had a younger group of “comedy” writers that just think there is no limit to the kind of dirty, sexist, off-color “joke” they are allowed to make. Look at the fact that O’s speech writer wasn’t disciplined for his joking fondling of Hillary’s image.

This type of low-life humor–on the part of right-wing conservatives and holier-than-thou progressives makes it impossible for me to watch most television any more. As a nation, we have lost all sense of propriety.

Letterman’s job would be to set some limits on his writers. To pass the buck and fire a writer is wrong. To make the weak, half-a@#ed apology he made is wrong also. It needed to be sincere. His offer to have her appear seems insincere to me also; he just knows her appearance would be a PR victory for him. She should just respond by saying she doesn’t trust him enough to appear on his show since he doesn’t seem to control his writers very well and didn’t like the tone of his apology anyway. She should rise above the fray and treat him like the no-account that he is.

So Letterman apology was that he was not speaking about the 14 yr old, he was thinking of the 18 yr old. I guess in his mind that make it alright to make sexual jokes on someone’s daughter.

His audience is just as sick because they all laughed and clapped as if it was the best joke of the century. People have to understand Obama also has two daughters and you never know what will be said in time to come about them.

These Obama supporters can keep it up, its going to be open season one day on the Obama’s and am sure they will not like it, pay back is always a bitch, and they will have no one else to blame but themselves because they opened the door to those attacks.

So Letterman apology was that he was not speaking about the 14 yr old, he was thinking of the 18 yr old.

Exactly. And what does he expect the reaction to be? “Oh, you meant the 18 year old, not the 14 year old. Well, that changes everything. 18 year old – funny. 14 year old – how DARE you.”

WTF

I went to college with Amy Carter. She was a very private person and you could see she was very gunshy. Who wouldn’t be if they were publicly brutalized the way she was?

Shameful.

We need Johnny Carson. He was an entertainer with talent and decorum.

I’ve thought that Letterman’s writers were the bottom of the barrel for a long time. But, it was the audiences who disgusted me the most by actually laughing at what Letterman said both nights.

Letterman was probably trying to out do Jamie Foxx’s misogynist child abuse degenerate rant against Miley Cyrus: Foxx in his 40’s, Miley 16; Leterman in his 60’s, Willow 14.

I thought Silvio had a problem, at least he’s il cavaliere toward his young ones, not “criminal” in character like the statements by Foxx and Leterman. Has anyone told these old perverted bastards they aren’t funny.

Here are links to advertisers, CBS contacts, and the FCC complaint site:

Here is a link I found on Hillbuzz about Letterman’s advertisers.

http://hillbuzz.org/2009/06/10/list-of-david-lettermans-advertisers/

They pulled the info from Conservatives for Palin. Here is the direct link to them that also includes CBS contact info.

http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/06/letterman-makes-another-sex-joke-about.html

A link directly to the FCC complaint site:

http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm

There is a real sickness going on amongst so-called Democrats. I tried to see look at Huffington Post to see if they have a shred of deceny – NO.

How bad are things when Michelle Malkin’s posters call out feminists for remaining silent about this?

Just read the following comment on ABC site:

UPDATE: Per ABC News’ Kate Snow: Gov. Palin pushed back at Letterman again this morning, issuing a statement via Palin PAC spokesperson Meghan Stapelton.

“The Palins have no intention of providing a ratings boost for David Letterman by appearing on his show,” Stapelton said in an email to ABC News. “Plus, it would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman.”

CONTACT THE ADVERTISERS! And do it multiple times. See Hillbuzz if you need updated sponsor lists and/or phone numbers. If we let this go and move on, it will be tacit approval of this kind of behavior. We saw it in the election and since nothing was said (thanks Obama) it has now festured and continues unabated. You can help stop it.

This jackass thinks these crude jokes will endear him to the Obot crowd he is so fond of. And, sadly… THEY WILL.

But that doesn’t mean he can get away with them. As, there are more of us than them. When you take the GOP/ Conservatives and add to them the PUMA/ Moderates…. you have one hell of a LOUD bunch!

We are fed up…. and won’t take this sh** any more!

Dave is gonna have to do better than that.

Thank you for posting this.

This was my original letter to CBS

I’m sure it won’t surprise any of you after seeing the terrible ratings
you and CBS are receiving, that I, along with millions of others, don’t
watch you. So you will forgive my late note as it takes time to read
about in the real news of your irrational, biased, unfair and hateful
commenting you spew on the air, OUR public airwaves, that you like to
pretend is humor. Mmm, no wait, Couric is dreadful not humorous-oh yes,
we heard the sad news for CBS there too.

“While reading his top ten list Monday night, “Late Show” host David
Letterman said Gov. Sarah Palin bought makeup from Bloomingdale’s to
update her “slutty flight attendant” look. ” (and I won’t give him anymore
attentionn by posting video of his performance)

But still I felt the need to reinforce to you a reason why your raitings
will no doubt continue to fall as I know I will NEVER tune in to the Late
Show host, the sexist low-life pig with the name of David Letterman,
again. Just in case you thought that the smear attempts you all and
Couric made during election time last year would give you another bump to
better viewing ratings. Nope, no way, nada, foget-about-it. You have
made clear your intentions for operating on our airwaves and seem to think
your way to success is by attacking, slandering and lying about specific
individuals, usually of a political party beginning with an R and ending
with an n. I wonder how celebrities who are Conservative like the folks
Letterman is attacking feel and if they will be eager to appear on his
show again to give him a boost? And no, even if you bring on Hillary or
Sarah I won’t watch. Maybe, if announced in advance that David letterman
would make a public apology to GOVERNOR Sarah Palin and be stepping down
after apologizing to her live on the air for being an obvious lowlife,
only then would I watch.

We all remember Letterman’s performance of railing and attacking John
McCain for cancelling his appearance for Letterman during the economic
emergency last year. Yes, no doubt in Lettermans eyes a reason to
verbally attack a Senator and Presidential candidate. We see where his
importance and priorities lay, as he sits silent on the important issues
our country had and does face. He didn’t learn to stick his finger in
the…..WIND, yet.

If everyone acted like he, a sad place we would be.

You choose to continue to operate this way and I hope you pay for it.

And this was my response back to them after lastnights …excuses.

As your attempt of trying to minimize your comments with half truths and apologies for bad taste was probablly all you could muster, you further dug a whole by lying and claiming your jokes on the daughter (as if that made it ok) were on their now adult “18 year old Bristol”, as if to claim ‘WHERE IN THE WORLD WOULD THE PALINS THINK YOU WERE REFERRING TO THEIR 14 YEAR OLD, WILLOW’, when it was only their 14 year old daughter who was on the trip to New York.

Of course, we could assume that David didn’t even bother to find out facts, originally, but I would think he would look in to it further if he was going to attempt a correction of views on his comments, and he STILL continued to claim that the 18 year old was on this trip that he felt it was ok to make sexual jokes about, as opposed to the daughter who did travel with them, which of course Willow’s (the 14 year old) own parents KNEW.

Who knew Dave would try to spin the truth so much.

I would like to see, Palin, Rodrigez or Spitzer, tu sue Letterman for defamation. He is just disgusting. Children, of any politicians, should be out of rich. Don’t rob the for their childhood, teenegers or even adults. For any parent, their child are the most precious achievement of their life. Letterman and others who want to hurt Palin throught her children 14 or 18, doesn’t make any differents,are the most despicable human ??? creatures. How any parent can do that to a child.

To voice your protest against Letterman – here is the link to the FCC:

http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm

If he meant the 18 year old, Bristol, because of her pregnancy, would someone help me out here? Didn’t Stanley Ann Dunham, Barack’s mother, get pregnant by Barack senior when she was only 17? If I’m wrong, let me know. If I’m right, can anyone explain why late night comedians aren’t makign fun of Obama for this same thing?

Letterman is pathetic, and past his sell by date. Quite honestly, Gov. Palin is sharp, smart, honest, strong, and a whole host of other things that most people aren’t. The Obama machine is afraid of her, as is the beltway Republican establishment, and they are out to destroy her before she destroys them.

I hope all the bots realize Obama was born out of wedlock, just like Bristol`s child. I guess that gives me the right to call him a bastard.

Hey……. that`s pretty funny……right you friggin loons.

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Meanwhile Gov Palin is working

“A Big Step for Palin’s Pipeline Project” http://tinyurl.com/nzjrte

Big Step for Palin’s Pipeline Project

Back in March, I took a look at a Portfolio article on Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s plan for a natural-gas pipeline. Among the article’s criticisms of Palin was that she had effectively shut out the oil companies whose cooperation was necessary for completion of the project.

One of her defenders credited her plan for bringing “three of the four key players into alignment: the U.S. government, the Canadian government, and the state of Alaska,” adding, “the fourth player, the producers, are going to have to deal with that reality.”

Well, today TransCanada (the pipeline builders) and ExxonMobil (one of the producers) have reached an agreement to work together on an Alaska gas pipeline.

Apparently Dave is complaining that Governor Palin can’t take a joke. Who knew those hatefilled comments he was making were jokes.

”
June 11, 2009
Conan O’Brien’s ratings rise, dominates in demo; Letterman apologizes to Palin (video)

Conan O’Brien’s “Tonight Show” reversed its ratings decline and showed growth for the first time Wednesday night. Also, new ratings for O’Brien’s first week behind the “Tonight” desk give NBC a record-setting lead over CBS’ “Late Show” among adults 18-49.”

Now THAT’S funny.

This whole thing is outrageously offensive.

Letterman may have thought he was making a joke about Bristol, but got hoist on his own petard when people pointed out it was Willow at the game, not Bristol.

But then to respond that he was making cruel jokes about Bristol, so it’s okay, just offends me all over again.

It’s NOT okay. Bristol Palin is a young girl who got pregnant out of wedlock, and so she should be the brunt of cruel jokes about her integrity? Or be subjected to insinuations about rape?

Who ARE these people?!

Letterman’s offensive and obscene joke wasn’t funny, but as Treacher says, it was “cheap.”

It’s also offensive, and outrageous and cruel. It’s disgusting.

And, Sarah Palin is right to call it “perverted.”

sure act just like them

NOT

besides Letterman didn’t write those jokes alone
and he doesn’t OWN the station

can’t wish everyone dead or you’ll be all by urself

I know ur mad but don’t fall into the trap of being like THEM
(unless u are)

a plant perhaps

Several years ago the FBI foiled a kidnapping plot against Dave’s beloved son Harry.

Can anyone come up with a joke about that? Gee, it would be pretty funny, right Dave?

Johny was the best..they don’t make comedians like him anymore,shame too….

Hollywood and the media have this addiction to trashing Sarah Palin and her family. It finally bit Letterman in the ass. I just watched a clip of him trying to explin his way put of what he said and it was pathetic. Letterman is just a bitter an angry schmuck.

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If everyone (the media and apologist lefties) think this is humor and A OK, I’d like to hear them joke, lets say, well, “Michelle Obama doesn’t have to worry about David calling her a slutty Flight Attendant, but of course that doesn’t mean he won’t talk about her make up helping make her look like a Drag Queen.” Isn’t that just a knee slapper?

Happily, I stopped watching Letterman 8 months ago, when he first started his attacks on Sarah Palin. (And I was a lifelong Democrat.)

Unhappily, I see that he is still at it.

After 25 years of loyal viwership, I dropped him.

Now, it is time to write, call, and boycott his sponsers. His lame “apology” is not enough.

shame on david letterman. never cared for him or Leno; the last of the icons for night-time talk show was Johnny Carson. He had class. Sarah Palin is the governor of Alaska, she made a run as v.p., and that didn’t work out. She is a human being and a woman; and when a miscreant like letterman shouts out his sexist and misogynistic rattle it is mean and intentional.

I’d like to hear Alex Rodriguez speak out against being used by Letterman in his slimy “joke”. I have lodged a complaint with the FCC and will do what I can with the other options. Letterman deserves to have his career ended now on such a high (not) note. I’ve stopped watching most of the liberal talk show hosts – Maher especially. I used to love listening to them, but their feet have left the hull and they no longer live in reality. As their popularity fades, they become more and more desperate and mean by taking vicious shots at women to compensate for their failures (or small penises).
Thanks for a great post!!

I understand and accept that political jokes are part of the package when you’re running for office or else part of a scandal. But children should be off limits. Period.

Am I the only one who remembers last spring when That One scolded everyone to lay off attacks on his wife even though she was out there campaigning and flaying Hillary and Bill on a daily basis? I’m sick of celebrities ridiculing Sarah Palin and her family. I went to YouTube to comment on that clip and was lambasted and accused of being (horrors!) a Republican. When I replied that I was a lifelong Dem, I was then told I should lighten up and not be so serious.

Joking about sexually assaulting a teen by a man she’d never even met (A-Rod) is disgusting and perverted. And that includes all the numbnuts in his audience who laughed.

The silence of all the women’s rights groups in this country is deafening. They lost me when they failed to call Obama out on his sexist actions toward Hillary, and this silence regarding Pain and her family is just another nail in their coffins. Credibility is a funny thing, once it’s gone, it’s gone for a long, long time. If the Obama candidacy and presidency have taught me one thing, it’s that my party is a “party of the people” only as long as those same people cast a blind eye to vile, hateful behavior all in the name of keeping power in the hands of a few. Sorry, I think I’ll pass.

As a life-long fan of Richard Pryor I’ll never forget what he had to say about rape. He said that no one has a right to take away someone’s humanity like that.

Richard could be pretty blue but there was always an element of pathos and pity in his jokes.

Richard Pryor had more empathy for the terrible things that could happen to women. He even made self-deprecating jokes about why his wives left him. He took the blame.

Richard Pryor was a real comedian. He could be funny without being cruel. David Letterman? Not fit to wear Pryor’s shoes.

I have been so outraged about this. I disagree with the premise that saying it about the 18 year old would have some how been less offensive. For anyone to make this kind of misogynistic crude remark about a politician’s daughter (regardless of age) is so beyond the pale. The fact that it was really about Willow and Letterman tried to pretend it was about Bristol only further illuminates what a true dirtball he is. I am waiting for the media to go after him or NOW or some child advocacy group. Imus got canned for his bad remarks…where is the outrage? Where are the repercussions?

Isn’t it interesting how these guys project…! After all, he “knocked up” his girl friend and that’s how he got his only kid. I don’t think they ever married….So, it’s OK for him, but not for anyone else!

Also, these guys got away with overt sexism during the election and now they are on a roll….Violence against women in on the rise. It all comes down to respect for women–which guys like DL don’t have….

Every day in America, 17- and 18-year old girls in a steady relationship – with hormones (they can barely comprehend) raging – engage in sexual activities with their boyfriends.

Every day in America, a few hundred (or thousand) lose the roll of the dice and become pregnant.

Some families, confronted with a daughter’s undesired pregnancy, opt for an abortion.

Other families, although equally anguished, do not believe in abortion for religious or moral reasons and opt to let the pregnancy continue.

Some families give the baby up for adoption, others cannot bear to part with the own family member and opt to keep and raise it.

In those cases, a heavy burden falls on the girl who is now still a teen-ager, with all the desire to be free to have fun that most teenagers have. But they soon learn that is all over for them and it is now time to take care of the baby 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

What might seem “adult” and/or somewhat glamorous to other teens – having a baby of one’s own – is anything but. It is hard work and long hours. Oh yes, there is the joy of the darling baby, but it is still long hours and hard work.

I can imagine how difficult it must be to be that young, not married, not even planning to marry any time soon, but trapped by biology.

You see, the young man who did the impregnating is still foot loose and fancy free to go on with his life, untouched by the scandal and unburdened by the responsibility of caring for the baby all day every day.

Bristol Palin has had the frightening experience of having a sexual encounter result in the birth of a baby; she clearly loves the child dearly but is also painfully aware that it is hard work and not glamorous. So, she has set a task for herself that is to be admired: she is using her experience to talk to other teen girls and alert them to the possible consequences of engaging in sex. She is telling them that the only safe way to avoid a pregnancy is to avoid engaging in intercourse.

I applaud her efforts. Her life has been permanently altered by this pregnancy. She is urging other young women and girls to think hard about their choices when it comes to sex and relationships. As a woman, I am very familiar with the pressure put on young girls to “prove” their love for their partner. Bristol Palin is trying to open the eyes of girls to the possible price they may have to pay for “proving” their love for their male partner by engaging in intercourse.

That is hardly something to condemn Bristol Palin for doing … nor should it be cause to make her the butt of tasteless jokes by dirty old men, who tell their jokes to get rich and famous without any concern for those whom they have ridiculed mercilessly.

At this moment in time, the best thing David Letterman could do for humanity would be to devote one entire show to hosting a serious discussion of teenage pregnancy and how it affects the lives of those caught in an unplanned-for teenage pregnancy.

In any contest, right now, between Bristol Palin and David Letterman as to which one is trying harder to do a good thing, Bristol wins hands down.

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