Just when you thought your disgust-o-meter had redlined so hard it broke, another old and busted progressive lefty hauls himself up from the mire and lobs another handful of feces at another undeserving target to gales of laughter from his audience.
Only this time he lobbed his attack at a 14 year-old girl.
Har-dee-har-har, huh? That’s some sure good comedy right there. Nothing brings out the yuks like a joke about a professional baseball player raping and impregnating Sarah Palin’s underaged daughter.
Well, I mean, you could make a joke that she’s a whore, too. That would really slay ‘em, wouldn’t it?
I bet it would be just as funny if we started making jokes about the President’s half-brother who can’t get into the UK because he gave the police a false name after they locked him up for trying to have sex with a 13 year-old girl. That joke would just kill on Letterman, provided he had the stones to tell it, which he doesn’t because he’s an ass-kissing coward who only attacks little girls.
So, here’s my question to the left: do you really want to go down this road?
I mean, can you progressive folk really want to declare open season on the children of politicians? You have to know that there’s no way that will end well. You have to know that it will drive even more good people out of public service. You have to know it will cause damage that will be nigh-impossible to repair.
So give us over here on the right some hints. What are we to do about this? Do we assume those unwritten rules about keeping a politician’s family off-limits (which, by the way, didn’t apply to the past couple Republican Presidents or Sarah Palin) are null and void? Do you seriously expect us to sit back and enjoy the attacks? Give us some freaking clue here. We’re waiting for you to decide how you want this to go.
And please don’t tell me that David Letterman’s not a fully-fledged man of the left. Of course he is. He may be a bitter and unfunny hack, but he knows his audience. He’s not about to tell a joke that he’s not reasonably sure will get big laughs from his fans. The only reason David Letterman felt comfortable telling a statutory rape joke is because he had a reasonable expectation that it would make his mostly left-wing audience laugh.
I’m warning — no, begging — the left here. Do. Not. Do. This. There is no way that what you are doing can possibly end well for you. If you declare open season on women and little girls, it will cost you dearly. Why? Let Little Miss Attila explain.
If you are giving women and girls the “gift” of not being badgered for being female, and threatened with misogyny and sexual assault, they are not truly free—only living in a state of grace, contingent upon performing the right tricks, spouting leftist verbiage like seals at Sea World, balancing balls on their noses in the hopes of getting fish thrown into their mouths.
And any woman who doesn’t understand this fundamental truth about the misogynists living among them could be in for a rude awakening at any point, because that attitude will infect those who harbor it . . . . .
You guys on the left can’t possibly want this can of worms opened up all the way. I guarantee it will cost you dearly in more ways than you can imagine right now.
You have a chance to end this and return to at least the semblance of civility. All it will cost you is David Letterman. That’s practically nothing. Kick him in the balls (rhetorically or otherwise, what do I care?) until he sincerely apologizes and we’ll call it even. Heck, we’re willing to ignore all the crap you guys threw at the Bush daughters for eight years and at a pregnant teenager for a few months. Just end this now, before it gets out of hand.
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UPDATE: Linked by Cynthia Yockey, who thinks that Letterman should go. I’m haven’t really decided what I think about Letterman’s continued employment, but I’d say that if the modern feminist movement’s guardians want to stay consistent, they have to demand his resignation.
Tags: Progressives, Sarah Palin
What, and expect some intellectual honesty from the left? Or, failing that, following the same standard they hold for themselves and their children?
What are you thinking, man?! How dare you even suggest that they stop using a double standard when making suggestive comments about politicians and their families?!
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“And please don’t tell me that David Letterman’s not a fully-fledged man of the left.”
Compared to you, everyone is on the left. The last person not in jail who was to the right of you is now in police custody for shooting up the Holocaust Museum. You want to blame me and other progressives for what David Letterman says? Fine. I’ll blame you for the recent right wing terrorist attacks. So I’ve got some jokes made in poor taste on my hands, you have the real blood of murdered humans on yours. When you people stop killing those you disagree with, I might take your crocodile tears seriously.
No he’s not blaming you and other progressives for David Letterman. He’s stating that Letterman is a liberal and that claims to the contrary are just deflection. It doesn’t surprise me that you didn’t quite catch that.
And you don’t want to open the can of worms the Left has as far as ‘blood on their hands.’ Communism, Socialism, and Fascism are responsible for millions of deaths, and those are entirely left wing spawn.
I guess you also forgot about the left’s pet religion Islam, and the man who said he was justified in gunning down the fresh-out-of-bootcamp soldiers in front of a recruiting station because the crimes American soldiers are ‘allegedly’ committing. Or is that counter-productive to the ‘killing people conservatives disagree with’ narrative?
OK Letterman apologized for the inappropriate jokes. It’s obvious he didn’t realize that Sarah Palin took her 14 yo daughter to the baseball game and not her unsuccessfully abstinent 18 yo. He should apologize for that. As for the slutty flight attendant comment — well — he didn’t apologize for that – and said he rather liked the joke. I agree with him. I would definitely pay extra to have Sarah Palin serving me on the Anchorage to Bangkok route.
He didn’t apologize, actually. He “explained”, which is his weasely way of saying he stands by all the jokes.
I love how the right twists things. Rape jokes? How did you get to that? Oh, because you think maybe he was talking about the younger one, rather than the older one who actually did get knocked up in real life? And sex with minors is statuatory rape. I get it. Quite a leap, and even if you make that leap, you still can’t call it “rape jokes” just because it’s technically rape, since the joke had nothing to do with rape, it had to do with getting knocked up. But continue with your fake outrage.
Adam, he was talking about the younger one because she was the one who was there. It was a rape joke because it was a joke about sex between an adult and a 14 year-old girl which is, in fact, rape.
It’s not a leap. It is fact. Your dislike of the facts does not actually matter.
Your contortions to excuse the jokes as no big deal, however, does matter. It shows you to be pretty despicable in your quest to absolve your ideological pals of any wrongdoing.
oh, this adam, who is easy to pick on, you’ll respond to, but you leave me — your own neighbor! — without a sparring partner