Michael Steel has jack shit to say about war & economy but has time to issue David Letterman fatwa

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Michael Steele On Letterman: "Time To Turn The Channel"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner
First Posted: 06-11-09 06:13 PM | Updated: 06-11-09 06:31 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/11/michael-steele-on-letterm_n_214573.html



Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele has suggested tuning out David Letterman over his jokes about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Letterman made a Top 10 list out of Palin's recent trip to New York in which he described her look as "slutty flight attendant" and made a joke about her daughter getting knocked at a baseball game. Palin responded by calling the late night host "pathetic" and his jokes "disgusting" and "sexually perverted." She said Letterman was particularly wrong to make a sexual joke about her 14-year-old daughter, Willow.

Letterman responded that Bristol Palin, not Willow, was the target of the joke. "Am I guilty of poor taste?" he said. "Yes. Did I suggest that it was OK for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No."

Steele wasn't impressed. "Letterman's joke about Sarah and Todd Palin's daughter was thoughtless and tacky," Steele said in a statement to The Hill. "I saw his explanation for the joke, but sometimes the easiest thing to do is simply say 'I'm sorry.'"

"When Letterman starts making tasteless jokes about kids, it's time to turn the channel," he added.

Todd Herman, who runs new media for the Republican National Committee, tweeted in response, "Steele suggests boycott of Letterman. New RNC chairman, NOW!"

[liberalmuse]

1. Like what right wingnut watches 'Letterman' anyway?

His ratings are merely going to increase now. Steele is a tool, but he's a tool that serves Democrats very well. I hope the Republicans are stupid enough to keep him. What am I saying? If they dumped him then I'd start to worry that they were rising from the dead again.

[tridim]

2. This is starting to get into slander territory IMO.

[imdjh]

3. Bristol Palin is not a kid. nt

[gratuitous]

4. Aren't we still operating under the Limbaugh Rule?

Whenever Rush starts tasting his own shoe leather, mocking 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton or having a go at Parkinson's sufferer Michael J. Fox, it's "Hey folks, whoa! Limbaugh's just an entertainer! No need to get all huffy about these things. Where's your sense of humor?"

As usual, the Republicans again prove themselves far more adept at dishing it out than taking it.