Comments on: What Do You Think? http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/06/17/what-do-you-think/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-do-you-think @TAC Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:36:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeremiah Whitmoore http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/06/17/what-do-you-think/comment-page-1/#comment-7316 Jeremiah Whitmoore Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:03:35 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?p=1914#comment-7316 Didn't David Letterman "knock someone up" outside of wedlock? Didn’t David Letterman “knock someone up” outside of wedlock?

]]> By: Steve http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/06/17/what-do-you-think/comment-page-1/#comment-7306 Steve Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:25:54 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?p=1914#comment-7306 Thank God for the Onion! Thank God for the Onion!

]]> By: MattSwartz http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/06/17/what-do-you-think/comment-page-1/#comment-7303 MattSwartz Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:28:16 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?p=1914#comment-7303 I hope I can say this without raving or sounding bitter, but Letterman's joke really was garbage. Sarah Palin may be keenly aware of her image and how to manipulate it, but she didn't exactly invent that practice, and she and her family are being savaged in an unprecedented way, I think. I am all for mean-spirited jokes about public figures, so long as they're actually <i>about</i> the public figures. Sarah Palin put herself out there, so she's fair game. Her daughter, who is a child, didn't. She's dealing with adolescence, which is presumably hard enough for the daughter of a public figure (and new aunt) without David "I was funny in the 90's" Letterman making jokes about her sex life. I hope I can say this without raving or sounding bitter, but Letterman’s joke really was garbage. Sarah Palin may be keenly aware of her image and how to manipulate it, but she didn’t exactly invent that practice, and she and her family are being savaged in an unprecedented way, I think.

I am all for mean-spirited jokes about public figures, so long as they’re actually about the public figures. Sarah Palin put herself out there, so she’s fair game. Her daughter, who is a child, didn’t. She’s dealing with adolescence, which is presumably hard enough for the daughter of a public figure (and new aunt) without David “I was funny in the 90′s” Letterman making jokes about her sex life.

]]>