I honestly don’t remember either Amy Carter or Chelsea Clinton being attacked by the mainstream media or conservatives, but I was willing to give the commenter the benefit of the doubt. Just because I don’t remember it happening doesn’t mean it didn’t, but I really don’t know how I’d be able to quickly verify it (key word here is “quickly” – too much on my plate to want to spend more time researching it than the commenter did).

In this age of Internet, we can analyze a wide variety of news as it happens. Not so back during Carter’s or Clinton’s administration.

I do remember, though, Carter’s mispronunciation of the word “nuclear” (correct pronunciation: NOO-CLEE-UR) – he would say NU-QUOO-LER, making the middle syllable rhyme with “you,” and would tack the letter “L” on the last syllable rather than right after the letter “C”. My dad always groaned out loud when he did it, which is why I remember.

Thanks for the input, Ron! God bless.

(Admin edit: Only the first paragraph of this comment remains, for what it’s worth. Two paragraphs of vulgar, out of control bashing of Bristol and Sarah and Todd Palin for not being good sports about Letterman’s insults about their children have been deleted. Interesting note – commenter’s IP is in North Carolina (the originating IP of the comment), but the commenter claims above that he or she “hailed a cab” in New York outside the CBS studio… curious. Did he/she dash back to the Fayetteville area of NC to write this comment? Nah, this conservative blog isn’t that important to anyone flying in from New York to North Carolina. Just more deception and vicious, profane attacks on the Palin family from a hater. You’re a class act, Syntax. All future bashings of Palin should be directed to HuffPo or Daily Kos, because they won’t be tolerated here.)

That experience would prove essential to taking our country back out of bankruptcy, and halting the demise of the greatest country, and the the greatest economic philosophy the world has ever seen.

And Sarah would be right there, promoting AMERICA.

Rome failed from within.

Children today have many temptations, either biological, or technical.

The parents are there to establish some guidelines due to their own experience, and it gets harder for the parents to control their children because the parents are busy supporting the family.

Sarah Palin did not condone her daughter’s missteps, but I will guarantee her daughter had a good lecture.

Conservatives are great people, we love our country.

LOL – Jerk.

Based on what I know today, I’d be first in line to support a Romney/Palin ticket. Although, I’m also extremely impressed with Jim DeMint and his conservative stance. He doesn’t pussy-foot around. I believe he is also a Constitutionalist.

Palin did everything right, and still her daughter defied her. No daughter EVER did that, right? No guy EVER got a girl pregnant and didn’t want to marry her, right? ROFL – You’re a fool and a moron, James Dunn. Statists, you are losing this one and grasping at laughable straws, wanting to blame Palin on anyting you can. In your peanut brain, the problems in Iran and Norht Korea and Cuba are her fault, too, I bet.

Where is the hypocrisy of Sarah Palin? Snort – none. Glad you’re not running Congress… you would blame and castigate and denigrate mothers everywhere for anything their children did wrong. Hope you’ve been a perfect angel and followed everything your own mom taught you since you were a child… otherwise, you’d think your mother was also a hypocrite because YOU had made mistakes. That, in my mind, is childish and self-serving.

Sarah and Todd Palin tried to breakup Levi and Bristol for ages, even sending her away to live with Sarah’s sister for a year. Kids can be hopelessly romantic… and stubborn and stupid. But that does not make Sarah a hypocrite. In fact, she never denounced her daughter, forgave her for her transgression as Christ does for all Christians who ask for forgiveness, and continues to uphold her family values. She didn’t kick her daughter to the curb, as some parents do. How about you, James? If Bristol had been YOUR daughter, would you have kicked her to the curb for getting pregnant? How open-minded and forgiving are you, I wonder.

And speaking of young women pregnant out of wedlock, when did we shift back to the 1950s? I thought liberals embraced “free love” back in the 1960s. Or is that not for everyone? Another young woman who got pregnant out of wedlock was Barack Obama’s mother… any attacks on that one, James?

The children live in the house that their parents provide for them, and essentially have no control over what their parents do in in their professional/political lives.

For the media to attack the children of public officials with a political bias is wrong.

Biden’s daughter is 27, and an adult, Sarah’s family is young.

I think a Romney/Palin ticket might just play out in 2012.

What say you ??

Because the joke was about “a daughter” attending the Yankee baseball game with her mother on their trip to New York, and the daughter who came to New York and was attending the game with Sarah Palin was NOT Bristol, but 14-year-old Willow Palin, the joke was indeed condoning statutory rape of a minor by a major league baseball player, Alex Rodriguez.

Letterman came out a few days after the joke and has said he meant to say it was Bristol (like that makes it better)… but Bristol was in Alaska, nowhere near the game. He has a team of well-paid writers and researchers who either dropped the ball or went with the cheap, sexist, lecherous shot – don’t care. Call it what you want, Groucho, we all know what Letterman said directly related to Willow and not her sister, and what he is NOW trying to say to deflect and offset the negative press and sponsors that are dropping by the wayside. It took him a full week to actually issue a real apology (he initially came out a few days after the joke with an insulting “non-apology” apology, then made a joke about Bristol being a prostitute… no sincerity, no remorse, just concern that profits will be lost). So I’m not buying it. Too little, too late.

If Letterman had immediately given a real apology and shown a shred of genuine remorse, I would be more inclined to believe him.

However, this new “real” apology coincides with Embassy Suites canceling all advertising with CBS. Reeks of fear of losing viewers and sponsors rather than anything resembling sincerity. It’s damage control, nothing more.

Don Imus was fired for less about what he said on the radio, and he had publicly and sincerely apologized almost immediately. He was still fired.

And since when was “age 18″ of a politician’s child the age of “it’s OK to attack and make cruel jokes”? (Letterman was making despicable jokes and exaggerations about Bristol when she was just 17). VP Joe Biden’s own daughter Ashley has a cocaine/drug abuse problem and has been arrested several times… she’s 27 and has been active in her dad’s political career. No jokes from Letterman about a real problem there with Ashley and she’s much older than 18, plus she has chosen to be involved in public politics, so by Letterman’s own behavior, she would be fair game for nightly attacks on his show. But I would take issue with him attacking Ashley as well. Politician’s children are suppose to be left alone, and that’s only decent and right, since they have not chosen to be in the public arena… so he leaves politicians’ children alone, unless they’re Republicans’ children.

Letterman is scum on several levels here.

I can’t make up for my failings from several decades ago. I can take action now and protest. Because I, or anyone else, didn’t do it five, ten, twenty, thirty years ago is no reason to discount it today. That would be downright silly, don’t you think? To suggest that people have no right to change how they view the world, or to mature from their youth?

Did YOU protest Amy’s and Chelsea’s attacks back when they happened, Trudy? If so, bravo, and I’m proud that you did and commend you for your stance. Those attacks were wrong. If not, and you didn’t speak out and denounce them or write letters of protest, well… then your words of moral outrage ring pretty dang hollow.

Children of politicians being attacked by EITHER party is wrong. I thought I already said that several posts ago… Yes, actually I did. Are you trying to find some twisted way to show that you agree with Letterman and now Maher on attacking children? If so, you’re as pathetic as they are.

“Racist tripe” in my blog? BS… You’re insultingly mistaken. And I resent that you’d have the stupidity to infer that, Trudy.

I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about with Rush Limbaugh ringing bells nor laughing about AIDS victims… please cite your non-partisan source. I only started listening to him about a year ago.

“Rightwing outrage”… interesting that you’re attacking me for a period in time that I didn’t protest and at that time, I was a tree-hugging liberal, leftwing dreamer. Sweetly ironic, in fact. Like I said, I finally grew up…