re: #284 theheat

Letterman’s joke was in poor taste. It wasn’t even remotely funny, even if he’d referred to the right daughter. I’m not in disagreement about that. It was plain stupid and tasteless.

However, Palin ran with that to say that Letterman was advocating this baseball player to rape her underage daughter, when clearly that was not what he meant.

It was 100% stupid, any way you cut it. He apologized, she said he was advocating rape of a minor. Yes, that’s exaggerating. A lot.

The exaggeration was completely deliberate. Palin doesn’t care about credibility — she’s going for the red meat base, and that’s why she flat-out lied about what Letterman said.

If I ever had a shred of respect for her, it’s completely gone now.