The liberal establishment continues to amaze and strike itself in the rump when necessary. For starters, it's liberals like Letterman who transcend the desire of liberals to over-sexualize children at very young ages. This is why liberals want condoms passed out to kindergarteners and want to demonstrate how to use them on a banana when most kids should be in PE burning off calories. Is it any surprise they are defending Letterman? I mean, look at the red-headed fella in the photo holding the sign. Look at Letterman himself. The fact is, the average liberal man would have to turn to perversion to get their kicks. Finally, liberals and GLADD started a campaign against Dr. Laura in 2000 and had sponsors ripped from her show because she stated that she believed homosexuality was a "biological error." She also fought vigorously to have an article yanked from the APA that belittled the long-term effects of pedophilia and was successful at it. Liberals wanted her gone and now are annoyed that others that disagree with them want to use THE SAME platform/structure that they worked so hard to build? The same one that says "we cant destroy someone we disagree with!" Get real. If you can use it to support pedophilia, we can use it to fight it.

Holding a Sarah Palin sign. Transitions lenses. National exposure with your mom. So glad I'm not that 13 year old kid.

Am I the only one with a job to go to? And by the way, who gives a flying fuck what Letterman or Palin say!!

Think of the smug self-satisfied grins on all those faces on the bus back to Wichita.

Please, loonies, go away. Start your own country. Never have any abortions, never have any sex, smoke all you want, walk around with guns, drive SUVs. But PUHLEEAZE, get out of NYC. Kansas is waiting with open arms.

"I think Letterman should have waited a couple weeks to be sure she really wasn't impregnated at the game.”

Karen Borden,

Technical Illustrator

Thank you, The Onion, for coming up with the appropriate response.

And no, we're not all the Palins--some of us are not intellectually-meager white trash.

I can't believe people bring their children to protests like this. Those kids don't even know what they're protesting--they just want to be on TV.

Schmuck means "Friend" in Yiddish.

thanks, i didn't realize how many people viewed me as their friend.

14 years olds are children.

Is that the guy from the Verizon commercials holding up the counter-protest sign?

"I only watch FOX News Channel"...

"a slut for a wife"...

"close the borders"...

So, if this is a representational slice, anyone wonder why the GOP LOST the last election?

Won't Someone Please Think of the Children!

These people should be working, or reading, or educating themselves.

Letterman cleared this up. These morons have decided to be pissed whether it's a legitimate gripe or not.

Figures that Palin supporters are as insane as Sarah Palin herself is.

"I can see shitheads from my house"

Dave's a creep but the protester's are just as disingenuous.

Gothamist...seriously, using your site's background tag as ad space is... obnoxious.

Mom???

Palin and her supporters apparently aren't familiar with the first amendment. All public figures become the butt of jokes and sometimes those jokes are harsh... Grow up and deal with it.

Can someone please send Palin a Dummies Guide to the U.S. Constitution: http://www.amazon.com/Constitution-Dummies-History-Biography-Politics/dp/0764587803

Swing. . . and a miss.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The First Amendment doesn't protect you from private individuals protesting what you say or trying to shut you up or drown you out.

At the 1:55 mark on the New York video (first video), two guys are standing behind the woman screaming that Letterman is a mouth rapist, mocking her, it's hilarious!

I was referring Letterman's right to say whatever he damn well pleases.