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Yesterday, the much-ballyhooed gathering to demand that CBS fire talk show host David Letterman after his questionable jokes about Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's daughter (namely how A-Rod impregnated her by the 7th inning of a Yankees game and how Eliot Spitzer should be kept at bay) drew a few dozen protesters outside the Ed Sullivan Theater. Estimates are as high as 50 and as low as 15. But there was a lot of passion: Josephine Sarnok, carrying a "Over the Line, Dave" sign told Entertainment Weekly, “I’m outraged. It was a low blow. I’m insulted for women. I’m insulted for children. I’m insulted for families. I’m insulted."
Protester Robert Gretczko told MTV News that Letterman's apology—and Palin's acceptance of it—"doesn't matter. Don Imus was still fired for his comments." But then one bystander told EW, "[Palin] should be thankful that Dave or anybody said anything about her to keep her name in the papers.... I think she should keep her mouth shut, go back to Alaska, and maybe take a few of the Republicans that are here back with her."
Some videos of the protest after the jump. And Letterman poked fun at the protest, by way of a Top Ten List of Things Overheard at the Protest: "7. What idiot turned Broadway into a pedestrian mall?”
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Right wing nutjobs need something to do. At least they're not out shooting people like they lean towards.
"We Are All The Palins"
Then we are *all* screwed.
something something the midwest something something
Hehehe. I work near there, and the number of morons protesting probably started at almost 50, and dwindled through the afternoon. The best part was when a mounted cop rode up to them, and started yelling at them with a megaphone. Shut em up right quickly, you betcha.
While Fox news was all over it, I saw CNN's van, and they looked bored to tears, wishing they were covering real news.
Chances that little kid holding the sign impregnates a 14 year old because his parents believe in abstinence? SUPER HIGH
mock outrage.
Those signs make me want to hurl.
I heard Letterman's ratings were through the roof, killing Conan in the same time slot. There is no such thing as bad publicity.
Definitely out of towners.
of course, they're out of towners,
though most of DL's audience is from out of town.
look it, they're using paint from a crafts store.
definitely out of town.
Hahaha, the signs outside the Fox News truck are classic.
Speaking as a woman, I'm offended that she's offended as a woman. Not to mention my beef with sex with teens being classified as pedophilia. Pervy yes, pedo no - pedo involves children, not young adults.
Ya gotta love Noo Yawk.
"rapes children with his mouth". is that like "i want to give you a handjob with my mouth"?
Did you HAVE to bring up the Hipster Grifter?
Now Gothamist is going to run another story on her!
Why wasn't A-Rod offended? Now, this may be a stretch, but I'm willing to bet he KNEW IT WAS A JOKE.
i like to feel insulted as much as the next nutjob, but i'm not about to go to midtown when i don't have to.
Well, at least the words are all spelled correctly on the signs...
At least nobody drew a picture of a chimp getting shot. Now THAT is over the line.
Poor little Dave ate shit...twice.
I see what you did there.
Where are the slutty stewardesses? They're the ones that should be outraged! Comparing them to Palin! The nerve!
Hey SR...do you have a 14 year old girl? If you do, I would like to fuck her while she is bent over the toilet in your house, while you are downstairs watching Oprah.
Or..would you not like that? Come on, its just a joke. I dont really want to ram my dick in her ass..lighten up. In case you havent graduated from oh..5th grade, a 14 year old is a child.
Wait you're comparing graphic descriptions of sexual acts to Letterman's joke?
Get a brain, morans!
silly, it's that little red reply button that you're looking for. and doesn't your lewd passage make you just as bad as the person you are bitching about?
No, a 14-year-old is a young adult. It's time we acknowledged that on a biological level, the evident youthful fertility of young people, and young teenage girls in particular, is highly attractive. That doesn't make it right for girls that young to be having sex - but by trying to pretend that they are children we are just fooling ourselves. We'd be better off teaching our children about reality, and teaching them to stay away from sketchy adults who want to have sex with their hot young selves. People used to get married at that age - now our culture wants us to get married later, and the tradeoff is that young people will still have sex. They key is keeping them safe and healthy, not pretending they're still babies.
nicemarmot:
A breath of fresh air and sense. One of the most intelligent comments ever of Gothamist.
I'd prefer it if you didn't teach my daughter anything. The liberal hypocrisy is astounding on this issue. Letterman's 'joke' was scripted, vetted, and rehearsed - Imus went off the cuff, and got thrown under a bus.
Haaaahahahaha, you're comparing Imus's "nappy headed hoes" remark to a Letterman late night joke?
Liberal Hypocrisy? LOL
Your avatar is John Cleese, who said famously: "No one has the right not to be offended." That includes right-wing cranks.
You make me laugh more than he does. Actually, we laugh WITH him. We laugh AT you.
But Imus made a RACIAL remark - that's why he got criticized...and deservedly so.
As for "teaching your daughter" - REALITY CHECK your daughter's own sex drive is what will make her want to have sex with boys and young men, not the "liberals".
Best bet - the pill, and some condoms - unless you are in a big hurry to have grandkids.
Rolltide, you read way too far into my comment. Just so you know:
Do I think the joke was tasteless? Yes.
Do I think he was joking about her 14 year old daughter? No.
Do I think that the protest was nothing more than grandstanding that will get nothing accomplished? Hell yes.
Letterman apologized; Palin accepted. End of story.
14 year olds are Young Adults - and if you've ever been around them, they are sexual.
So yes, 14 year old girls do have sex (although hopefully not bent over a toilet - couches are much more comfortable for that) - hopefully, it's their peers bending them over, rather than old men, but indeed teens do have sex.
Just ask Bristol Palin.
**beating dead horse mercilessly**
who the ef is willow? that's why this is mock outrage.
when one think's of the palin children it's the knocked up and preggy one. not the other kids. except for the kookoo one and even he's not around maybe because mom is out of the spotlight and can't use him as a prop anymore.
re: willow
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096446/
Letterman should also apologize for the past 15 years of his tired act.
14 year olds girls are children, however Letterman did not refer to the 14 year old. HIs joke was tasteless but these persons in the demo are fox nutjobs. I was offended by Snoopy's remark about his desire to screw his 14 year old hottie neighbor but this letterman's joke was not offensive but the media coverage is so overblown,
ok, thats enough... while the joke was in poor taste and was directed at the palin who just had a baby... there is no reason to OVER blow this...
Dave sucked it up and apologized and we should all move on!
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.
I was referring Letterman's right to say whatever he damn well pleases.
I was referring Letterman's right to say whatever he damn well pleases.
And he did. I don't mean to be overly critical but it's a pet peeve of mine when people incorrectly try to bring up the First Amendment. If the government pulled the plug on his show it would be a First Amendment issue. Ten people standing on the sidewalk are not violating his rights.
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!
Mom???
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.
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"
Won't Someone Please Think of the Children!
"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?
Is that the guy from the Verizon commercials holding up the counter-protest sign?
14 years olds are children.
Schmuck means "Friend" in Yiddish.
thanks, i didn't realize how many people viewed me as their friend.
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.
"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.
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.
Think of the smug self-satisfied grins on all those faces on the bus back to Wichita.
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!!
Holding a Sarah Palin sign. Transitions lenses. National exposure with your mom. So glad I'm not that 13 year old kid.
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.