Why did the Palins assume Letterman was joking about Willow?

[Believing Is Art]

[Dave From Canada]

1. Because Willow was the only daughter at the Yankee game with her.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. And they took Dave literally instead of extrapolating he meant their 18 year old

whose chastity has come and gone.

[Jack Rabbit]

18. Ditto

However, not knowing that, I assumed Letterman was talking about Bristol. It was still poor taste.

[Yupster]

23. Seems pretty non-controversial

Someone jokes about your daughter at the game and you only have one daughter at the game.

Fair bet you assume they're talking about that daughter. Doesn't seem too hard to figure out.

[Bandit]

32. But Brystol is the only daughter that got knocked up

The joke was about getting knocked up not about being at a baseball game. Why would anyone assume anything different?

[FLDCVADem]

2. None of the above

Probably because Willow was the daughter that was at the baseball game.

[Believing Is Art]

14. I think that would fall under vanity

I saw the segment and it never crossed my mind that the joke could be about Willow until the Palins released a statement. Yes, the jokes were off color, but it's pretty vain to think Letterman and most people watching pay close enough attention to her family's activities to know which daughter they took to the game. I didn't even know the Palins were even in New York until I saw that segment. It was a joke about a Palin daughter getting knocked up and most people would think Bristol because she was the previously pregnant daughter.

One could argue that using the Palins as the butt of so many jokes would lead them to believe everyone was obsessed with them. It's an explanation but not a justification. Just plain vanity.

[valerief]

3. They have dirty minds. nt

[AllieB]

22. That's what I thought too.

Hypocrites.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

4. Because they thought the Dave's staff was professional enough to have done some research.

[MadMaddie]

5. Because they heard it from somone else

they didn't actually listen to Letterman.

[pink-o]

6. They didn't assume anything. They just wanted to wring their hands in sanctimonious outrage.

Granted, it was Willow who went to the Yanks game with them, not Bristol. So ostensibly A-Rod would've been in proximity to her. But Todd and Sarah know better, they're just publicity and attention nymphos.

[Ian David]

8. Other: We're about to find out that Trig is really Willow's baby. n/t

[TriplD]

9. Other: Because of Sarah's stubborn adherence...

to her belief in "abstinence only" sex ed, Willow is now pregnant, and Sarah's a little touchy about it right now. She reacted before she realized that it wasn't public knowledge yet.

[kentuck]

10. Same reason they said it was statutory rape...

Because if they were 18 or older, it could have been described as consensual.

[stanwyck]

31. Bristol was 17 when she became pregnant

Not much talk about statutory rape then.

[lpbk2713]

11. Other: There was no assumption on their part.

They are just tools anyway and fairly dumb tools at that. They acted on advice from rethuglican strategists who saw the opportunity to get good mileage and a lot of free press out of this, so that is why they did what they did. Failin has always used her kids as props and she always will.

[mitchum]

12. Because they are opportunistic white trash grifters

[Greybnk48]

27. #12 wins the prize! n/t

[sniffa]

13. Todd's fantasies

[mitchum]

15. That's what I have heard also

[sniffa]

29. Possibly his flashbacks

you never know.

[Crabby Appleton]

16. Because he was

[Va Lefty]

17. Because the governor of Alaska is an "attention whore"

[brettdale]

19. me thinks they protest too much

Also the right has gone to town on this.

As i write this, Huckabee and hannity are spewing all some of vomit on this, its disgusting.

[TheCowsCameHome]

20. They want A-Rod for a son-in-law.

[Raine]

21. It's BS, as stupid as Palin is she is not

stupid enough to really believe it was about Willow, she's just using it for all she's worth. x(

[MADem]

24. Other--That's how THEIR SICK MINDS roll, see?

The obvious daughter--the one who "got up the pole"--was an obvious and plain choice for anyone who has followed both the Palin family Oops-But-We-Do-Like-Abstinence saga and the History of A-Rod and his propensity for screwing anything that moves.

Only people who are STUPID and LITERAL and PERVERTED would try to fit the little kid into the picture.

They also have no sense of humor. With Bristol, Queen of Abstinence Education, as a subject of the joke, it's funny. With the other kid, it's just not. Letterman may be crude, but he's funny.

[Captain Hilts]

25. Because she was the one at the ballgame. nt

[Bandit]

33. The joke was about getting knocked up and Brystol was the only daughter to do that.

Thge joke was not about being at the baseball game. It was about getting knocked up. The fifteen year old daughter hasn't done that...yet..

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

35. You're wrong. The joke about A-Rod had him knocking up Palin's kid during the 7th inning stretch.

Dave and or his staff screwed up. They mistook Willow for Bristol. Bristol IMHO is fair game.

[Blue_In_AK]

26. Incidentally, I think it needs to be pointed out

that Sarah's "14-year-old" daughter Willow is in reality 15-1/2. She doesn't even know how old her own kid is, or is she saying Willow is 14 for effect?

[AlexanderProgressive]

28. Because Willow was the only daughter who attended the game Letterman referred to n/t

[mitchum]

30. Y'know, you have posted more defenses of Palin's poutrage than anything else...

during your short tenure here.
You are fooling no one.

[CoffeeCat]

34. Sarah Palin will use anyone (including her daughter)...

...as an excuse to get up on her soapbox and give some "I'm holier than thou, the rest of the
world is a bunch of amoral pigs" because that's what her base wants to hear.

She's not making the news anymore. She's slowly reverting to irrelevant, has-been status.

She was waiting on her toes, for an opportunity like this.

Everyone knows Dave was talking about Bristol. The other little girl hasn't even been mentioned in the news since
the presidential election, but Bristol and her mother had made sure that Bristol has been all over the news in the
past year.

The sick thing, is that Sarah Palin will rip anyone to shreds to further herself. She doesn't care about childhood
sexual abuse. Her state has the highest rate of childhood sexual abuse and alcoholism, and she doesn't do a damn
thing to decrease it. She also makes rape victims pay for their own rape kits.

She's a bully. Using the horrors of sexual abuse and pedophilia--against David Letterman---just so she can appeal
to her base and keep herself relevant. She actually said yesterday on GMA, that David Letterman shouldn't be around
14-year old girls.

She's a snake and a sociopath.

[madmom]

36. Because they will jump at any chance to be in the news. Good, bad or indifferent, they want to be in

the lime light. I seriously think that they jump at any idea any body throws at them if it will keep them in the headlines.

[SmileyRose]

37. Rush told them to.

[CitizenPatriot]

38. no pictures of Willow at the game

only pictures are of her in short shorts on the stage at the autism talk. willow is also 15, not 14. Chalk that up to another Palin lie.

Palin also lied about the Ziegler interview.

I wrote to ABC to ask why Matt didn't correct her re Obama's statement about family during the election. While typing, I realized the answer. She lies so much, no one can keep up. They have to pick and choose what they're going to correct.

They chose to pretend Lettermen meant Willow and to say she was 14 when she is 15. Odd. I don't get it.