David Letterman Apologizes for Joke and Sarah Palin Accepts His Apology
David Letterman Apologizes for Joke and Sarah Palin Accepts His Apology – Late night talk show host, David Letterman, explained on Monday night’s show, that his joke that Sarah Palin and others thought targeted daughter, Willow, 14, was actually referring to 18-year-old Bristol Palin.
Letterman said: “It was a coarse joke, a bad joke. But I never thought it was about anybody other than the oldest daughter, and before the show, I checked to make sure, in fact, that she is of legal age, 18.” He went on to say, “The joke, really, in and of itself, can’t be defended.” He apologized to Sarah Palin, both daughters, her family and anyone else who was offended by the joke. “I’m sorry about it” he said “I’ll try to do better in the future.
David Letterman Apologizes for Joke
Sarah Palin had accused Letterman of “sexually perverted comments made by a 62-year-old male celebrity.” And Todd Palin issued a statement last week saying, “Any joke about raping my 14-year-old despicable.” This following a joke Letterman made about one of Palin’s daughters being knocked-up by Alex Rodrigues.
On Tuesday, the Alaska governor said she accepted David Letterman’s apology for the joke about her daughter. In a statement she said that the apology was accepted “on behalf of young women like my daughters who hope men who ‘joke’ about public displays of sexual exploitation of girls will soon evolve.”
