| Name: |
Talullahhound
- 
|
|
| Subject: |
Sara Palin takes it too far
|
|
Date:
|
6/12/2009 7:38:56 PM
|
She has every right to be outraged as a mother, about what Letterman said. In fact, if she showed up in the studio and smacked him I would think she would be justified. But rather than being an outraged mother and leaving it at that, she has to drag it into the political arena. Now what does Obama have to do with something tasteless and totally wrong said by a television personality? Nothing.
And by dragging it into a political context it makes her look ridiculous. Which is why she has no future in national politics.
|
| Name: |
lotowner
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Sara Palin takes it too far
|
|
Date:
|
6/12/2009 8:52:09 PM
|
Come on! What would you do if Letterman said that your daughter got kn***d up by a Yankee ball player and she was 14 years old. As a father, I would want to smash his head against the wall.
There is a double standard and you and others know it. Palin's 14 year old daughter should be off limits just as Obama's two daughters should be off limits. Writers on Letterman's show as well as the major newspapers and major networks have demonstrated a bias during the election and it continues even now.
|
| Name: |
JustAGuy
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Sara Palin takes it too far
|
|
Date:
|
6/12/2009 10:17:49 PM
|
Letterman's "joke" was inappropriate and he should not have said it. No excuses for what Letterman said.
But, I agree, Palin is using this event for poliical fodder. Proving once again that she has absolutely no credibility as a national candidate.
Letterman was wrong, and so is Palin.
|
| Name: |
architect
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Sara Palin takes it too far
|
|
Date:
|
6/12/2009 10:37:04 PM
|
Well lot owner having read your post I invite your condemnation of Rush Limbaugh's comparison of 12 year old Chelsea Clinton with a dog in 1994. I have raised this Limbaugh comment on many occasions becaus I found it so far over the line of common decency. If you speak out against it you will be the 1st conservative poster on this forum to do so. I await you reply.
|
| Name: |
Talullahhound
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Finally
|
|
Date:
|
6/13/2009 12:09:43 AM
|
Someone actually got the point.
LETTERMAN was WRONG; Palin is right to be outraged as a mother.
But, she's attempting to use it as political fodder and it has nothing to do with politics.
|
| Name: |
water_watcher
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Now Hound ...
|
|
Date:
|
6/13/2009 6:24:12 AM
|
as a woman you should be outraged by the double standard of how the media treats her as a woman. the media does not treat male candidates that way in terms of attacking the children or family or questions if they should run for office because they are a father and have other responsibilities.
|
| Name: |
lotowner
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Sara Palin takes it too far
|
|
Date:
|
6/13/2009 6:32:19 AM
|
I make no disttinction whether it be Letterman, Limbaugh, or wwho ever. CHILDREN SHOULD BE OFF LIMITS.
I'm not including as children a son of Jimmy Carter who I'm guessing was 50 when he ran for US Senator in Nevada.
|
| Name: |
muddauber
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Now Hound ...
|
|
Date:
|
6/13/2009 6:49:47 AM
|
That's so true. In fact, many a male politician has been called a Ba$tard or SOB and not called for the person being fired, or their mother, which they really do have, getting all bent out of shape.
<grin>
Trying to make a joke out of this, which is what I think all Letterman was trying to do. Pushing the envelope for ratings as Leno has stepped down/been pushed out.
|
stay on topic ... what does a 1994 incident have to do with this? Rush was wrong back then and Letterman is wrong now. You are so so strange.
|
| Name: |
lotowner
-
|
|
| Subject: |
focus
|
|
Date:
|
6/13/2009 10:08:43 AM
|
WW
I'm assuming that you are talking to me. First, everyone on this forum is not stupid or strange. I know what the topic was and I think that I addressed Architect's comment about Rush's .
comment about Chelsey Clinton. I do not like smart A** comments from anyone about children of politicians.
I may totally dislike and abhor their parents but I do not hold the children guilty of what the parents said or did.
|
| Name: |
Talullahhound
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Okay Let me expand
|
|
Date:
|
6/13/2009 10:20:26 AM
|
I think ANY parent or really any adult should be OUTRAGED when someone makes a joke or a derrogatory remark at the expense of a child of a public figure (or any child really).
And on the flip side, I don't think public parents should put their kids on public display for effect.
I just didn't understand why Sarah Palin thought it necessary to turn it into political fodder.
|
| Name: |
architect
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Okay Let me expand
|
|
Date:
|
6/13/2009 12:17:45 PM
|
hAVE YOU EVER KNOWN A PUBLIC FIGURE TO DRAG HIS OR HER YOUNG CHILDREN AROUND AND PUT THEM ON DISPLAY FOR POLITICAL ADVANTAGE ANY MORE THAN GOV. PALIN? Compare her with Obama, Bush, Clinton,
Carter, Kennedy. I'm sure there are some but I can't think of a single President or other well known public figure, political or otherwise, who can match her. Most go to some effort to protect them from the spotlight. I don't think Sara Palin deserved what Letterman threw at her and certainley her daughters didn't, but there is a lot of common sense in that old "reap what you sow" advice. She should take it to heart, but I'm betting she doesn't because she wants to someday stand at the top of the Republican party even if it is a mound of wreckage lag=rgely of her creation.
|
| Name: |
lotowner
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Okay Let me expand
|
|
Date:
|
6/13/2009 1:58:10 PM
|
I have never seen a mother beaten up so much because of her defense of her 14 year old daughter. Sarah Palin appears to be a good wife to her husband and a good mother. Apparently she did a good job raising the oldest son. He was good enough to become a member of our armed forces, receives no special consideration, is in hostile countries, and place his life in jeapordy to serve his country.
See how she cares for her baby son. She is not ashamed of him. Gene Stallings got accolades from the media when he refused to place his special needs son in a dark room and hide him from the public. Both were gifts from God. Might it be that the "illegimate" grandchild also is a gift and God has ssomething planned for him.
Also, put down the sticks and stop beating the 18 year old mother/daughter because she made a mistake and got pregnanat. Is she now a good mother? Is the grandchild being loved and cared for? Get over it and move on.
We have gone from everyone agreeing that Letterman was a jerk to Rush not being criticized for what was said in 1994 to how sorry Palin is for showing her family to the public during her run for office. What about the blogs trying to convince the voters that this child was really Sarah Palins. How cruel can we be including some on this forum.
There have been many pictures of the Kennedy childre and others in the media. They were treated as icons. Obama has used his children very effectively. The difference - the media hates Palin and loves Obama. Sarah Palin could raise someone from the dead and still the media and some on this forum would beat the craap out of her. She can't win.
|
| Name: |
architect
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Okay Let me expand
|
|
Date:
|
6/13/2009 3:10:39 PM
|
Obama's kids were rarely seen day to day on the campaign trail. They stayed home with the grandma. In contrast Palins kids were part of the show appearing at campaign stops Trigg, the expectant mom and often the now disinvited "baby daddy". I hope you can see there is a difference. A difference that continues even today with Palin playing the gift of the idiotic comments of Letterman like a Blue Ridge Mountain fiddle.
|
| Name: |
Talullahhound
-
|
|
| Subject: |
I don't think you get it
|
|
Date:
|
6/13/2009 4:01:44 PM
|
I'm not condeming Palin for sticking up for her daughter. I don't blame her for making an issue of it with David Letterman. I don't necessarily agree with her views about it impacting young women's self esteem everywhere, but hey, that's her right as a Mom.
What I don't understand is why she is trying to use it as political fodder. Making a comment that because Obama told the press to leave his children alone, that they don't pick on them. This has nothing to do with Obama, but that hasn't been done "for the other side".
And I'm simply saying that ANY adult in public life should not use their children or let anyone else use their children . These kids are not in public life (except Palin's daughter that had the baby -- she seems to be using her mother's position for a public platform), and they should not be the brunt of public jokes, discussion or photo ops. They should just be allowed to be kids.
|
| Name: |
lotowner
-
|
|
| Subject: |
I don't think you get it
|
|
Date:
|
6/13/2009 7:24:13 PM
|
Amen!
|
| Name: |
architect
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Do you finally get it?
|
|
Date:
|
6/13/2009 9:27:28 PM
|
Good grief Lot Owner, with that "Amen" it sounds like you have had a road to Damascus experience. Have you in fact seen the light on Palin's politicizing her kids? Has Hound converted you?
|
| Name: |
lotowner
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Do you finally get it?
|
|
Date:
|
6/14/2009 7:18:19 AM
|
No! I don't think that she is politizing her children anymore than other politicians that I have seen, locally and nationally. This is a hate thing against Palin by the media, day one. I don't think that she was a good choice but neither did I think McCain was a good choice. But her children do not deserve to be bashed. She apparently has a good reputation in Alaska.
|
| Name: |
architect
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Do you finally get it?
|
|
Date:
|
6/14/2009 2:03:33 PM
|
Sorry, either you haven't followed Hound's excellent and common sense observations closely enough, or your concept of what an "AMEN" response means is very different from mine.
|
| Name: |
MartiniMan
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Yawn....old point
|
|
Date:
|
6/14/2009 2:55:11 PM
|
Archie: You seem to be a one trick pony with the Rush analogy. Seems to work for you under any circumstances but is old and tired for the rest of us.
|
| Name: |
MartiniMan
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Archie the apologist
|
|
Date:
|
6/14/2009 3:30:42 PM
|
We can always count on Archie to defend any liberal and take offense at any conservative. At least he is consistent......
As for Palin, I don't blame her for wanting to take Letterman down. He is an unmitigated hypocrite. He defended his constant potshots at Bush by saying his job is to skewer politicians, particularly the President. When it comes to Obama he is a sniveling sycophant like the rest of the media and probably agrees with Evan Thomas of Newsweek that the Messiah is a god. If Letterman wants to make politicians the butt of his jokes then he should be a man and take the political heat when he acts like a coward and makes fun of a 14 year old girl (Please Archie, we have already gone over the Rush thing.....it is so yesterday). He is like so many other entertainers that want to be able to say whatever they want but as soon as the gun is pointed back at them everyone rushes to their defense and starts whining about the politician going too far, or whatever. What a whining leftist, baby...... Archie's kind of guy!
|
No ... it was to architect. notice how it indents when i reply to you. that is how you know who it is responding to.
|
| Name: |
Swimmer27
-
|
|
| Subject: |
And it is NOT EVEN TRUE!!
|
|
Date:
|
6/14/2009 4:19:13 PM
|
The comment he is refering too was made by Rush as the Clinton's was crossing the South Lawn. I don't remember exactly the quote but he said something about Clinton walking HER DOG. Referring to Hillary as walking Bill. Chelsea was present, but was NOT the topic of the comments. I heard it live, and have seen it repeated ad nausem. It was just after he had been impeached and was retuning from somewhere (Camp David I think) so it was not even close to '94 and had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH CHELSEA. Yes, he did refer to BILL as a dog, but he is, so whats the point?
Archie get a grip. Join us in the 21st Century.
|
|
New Post
Search
Off-Topic Forum
Reply
»
Texas Lakes
»
Lake Meredith
Login
|
Home
