David Letterman Vs Sarah Palin & Some Idiots: It’s (Still) On
Wolves, you’ve just earnt yourselves a respite. Sarah Palin is currently too busy to shoot you from a helicopter with a machinegun.
It’s all thanks to David Letterman. If you’ve been following the news, you’ve probably heard that David Letterman told a moderately funny joke last week, which Sarah Palin took offence to because she thought it was about the statutory rape of her 14-year-old daughter. Which it probably wasn’t. And now, somewhat inevitably, it’s war.
So God help David Letterman when Sarah Palin becomes president. Because if she doesn’t get him, one of those flying pigs definitely will.
If we were David Letterman right now, we’d want to kiss Sarah Palin right on the face. We wouldn’t actually kiss her, obviously, for fear that being an incomprehensible knee-jerk dimwit was both contagious and spread by the passing of saliva, but we’d want to kiss her nonetheless.
Why? Because thanks to Sarah Palin and her willingness to peg herself to whatever diluted form of moral outrage she can, provided it means that she’s kept in the limelight for a few seconds longer, David Letterman is big business again. After Jay Leno left The Tonight Show last month, it was feared that David Letterman would have to fight even harder for viewers, since it meant going up against Conan O’Brien – a man who is actually funny rather than just smug and chinny.
But that hasn’t happened, and for that he can thank Sarah Palin’s preposterously over the top reaction to a joke he told last week, suggesting that one of her daughters might get knocked up by Alex Rodruiguez if they stayed in New York too long. While it seems pretty clear that Letterman was referring to Bristol Palin – the Palin daughter who has a proven track record of underage pregnancies – Sarah Palin took it as a reference to her 14-year-old daughter, who’s called Willow or Shrub or Moon or Biro or Plap or something.
And now, despite his multiple apologies, Sarah Palin is still spouting off in the wrong direction about statutory rape and what a great big victim she is, and now her supporters want to get David Letterman fired, as the LA Times reports:
“I’m glad he’s acknowledged we’re right,” said John Ziegler, a creator of the film “Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted”. “I think it’s a good first step in the right direction, but I don’t think it’s enough.” … Ziegler said he was not sure what sanction Letterman should face, but options should include suspension and firing. Meanwhile, the group is still planning a rally Tuesday outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York, where Letterman tapes his show.
It sounds like all of this is getting awfully messy on the surface, but let’s not kid ourselves. After all, everyone’s benefiting from this argument. David Letterman’s getting more attention than he’s had in years, Sarah Palin has been given another rock to cling onto before she inevitably blows away into obscurity forever, we get to make several tired old jokes about Sarah Palin and Jay Leno in the space of a single post – and you?
Well, you get to leave a bunch of ill-informed, borderline illiterate comments that would appear to have been written by actual children below. What are you waiting for? It’s what you lot do best.
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Palin’s most rabid supporters are worshipping a mirage.
They are in total denial about Real Sarah – you know, the one we see bobbling her syntax on TV, the simple-minded but good-looking yokel who is always fightin’ some feud with somebody or other or whining about what a victim she is. This Real Sarah that we see is unknown to them. They see instead SuperSarah, a fictional character that they have created based on the surface characteristics of Real Sarah – she’s a mother, she’s conservative, she’s Christian, and so on. (Palinbots are great at seeing surfaces of things; substance, not so much.)
SuperSarah is the Perfect Conservative, even more Perfect than Reagan because she’s actually alive. She is also the Perfect Christian and the Perfect Mother. Everything they hear about and from Sarah is run through a filter. If it makes her look good, it becomes part of her Perfect Biography. If it makes her look bad, it is a despicable attack/insult/plot from the evil Satanic liberal communist media/politicians/pundits, leading to Perfectly Understandable Outrage and the immediate need to Fight Back. (Oh boy! Another feud!)
Of course the Palinbots love SuperSarah – she’s Perfect! Just like Jesus.
mwb970 – whatever happened to ill-informed, borderline illiteracy?
It’s still very early in the morning in Jesusland. Give it time, give it time…
I fully support Sarah Palins. David Lettermans should be thrown in a pit with all the gays.
LOL!!!!
Please support Dave against the right wing nutjobs by signing the petition at firejohnziegler.com.
I’m waiting for Letterman to make some jokes about the Obama daughters…suspect it’ll be along one.
You’re a moron. They’re 10 and 8. Bristol Palin is 18 and got knocked up by a redneck.
Illinformed, Yet not quite illiterate here. Am posting where I am very unsure whether you want readers to read, much less react to what your nasty, negative sign-off. You must spend a great deal of time reading here in bloglandplace, If you think others spend too much time here. Correct me, If I am wrong. You write and post on a blog, Others read and answer…Then you promptly insult them. Huh..Just checking to make sure I got it right. Are you suggesting now, The Late Show host should be grateful to lying politician for inferring, implying and misleading the ‘flock’ in a nasty, horror of a ruse? Now, that IS rude and cynical. I’d recommend you be fired, and protest you, If you had an audience, made a billion dollars and were important.
Mr. Heritage – I’m sure that you’re a nice young lad, trying very hard to keep your little job with the gossip page. However, if you would have dug just a little deeper, you would know that Letterman has lost significant sponsors in the past 2 weeks. CBS can ill-afford this, since they are paying his production company upwards of $30,000,000 per year to do the Late Show. Letterman has been losing to Leno for years, and will continue to lose to Conan. Now, Dave has alienated a huge portion of his audience, many of whom had been regular viewers. They’re in trouble, son, and they’re acutely aware of it. Otherwise, DL wouldn’t have apologized at all. He is, in his mind, above that.
I’m sure that nobody has ever accused you of being particularly intelligent, but you should do a little more homework before your irresponsible columns “go to press.” As a father of 5, and grandfather of many, it’s obvious to me that you are not a parent. Otherwise, you would have a basic parental instinct, and not support Letterman’s smug comments.
By the way, Palin is a governor, not an internet writer of a gossip column. Good luck with your career, young man.
What career, oh Venerable Mr Higgins and his Grandchildren Whom I hope Most Sincerely Don’t Think Like Him? You mean like, being a paid journalist for a commercial news site? As regards this whole sorry affair, I would refer you, sir, to the Fuck Sarah Palin And The Very Stupid Horse She Rode In On Act of 2008.
“da da da dee de blah blah, young man”
Holy shit, your dad sure is pissed off! Hope you don’t get grounded!
Darn too late to put my $ors worth in. I belive all you in the media are sheep, Run by the Ivy league machine. The young people that are fed this crap do not know any better. It is hip and popular to get behind the socialistic left. So was the case with Cuba UCCP China etc.
It starts out as a young peoples revolution a just cause with promise of change and it ends up with bread lines, discontent, defections, and ultimately censorship of the media. So smart ass keep up the good propaganda.