Do not pose as an expert or insult other people when you are the one who is wrong. McCain is alleged to have made a joke in 1986. When I wrote “The one told by his fundraiser,” I was referring to Clayton Williams.

You do not have the level of decency, intelligence and intellectual integrity to get further comments approved here.

Cynthia

I was never talking about recalling McCain, or mounting a protest… wouldn’t want to steal any of your glory. I was talking about your over-the-top outrage with Letterman, and whether you were similarly outraged with McCain for taking the money. I guess you’re not.

I never said anything about Obama. Nice try in trying to draw me into a debate about him. Fail. This isn’t about Obama. This is about you.

As for the slutty flight attendant remark. I just watched Betty White and Chelsea Lately call each other sluts. Do you want to knock them off the air too? No of course not, they were joking. Which is exactly what Letterman was doing.

By the way, I suggest you not watch Bill Maher. You’d have to mount a crusade every other week. Which would be exhausting.
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OK, so you aren’t a woman.

I agree the rape joke McCain is alleged to have told in 1986 is repugnant. The one told by his fundraiser is actually so common an expression, “might as well lie back and enjoy it,” that I’m not very worried about it. McCain has done plenty to redeem himself. Here’s just one example: McCain had far more women on his staff during the presidential campaign, working at high levels of the campaign, and earning more than their male peers, than Obama did. HillBuzz has the rundown on Obama’s long history of sexism. McCain AND Palin both had more openly gay people serving on their campaign staff than Obama, too. Plus, Obama campaigned with an ex-gay and currently is doing more damage to the cause of gay equality than anyone ever has before.

You seem to feel Obama does not need to return any of the hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign money he got illegally from overseas donors, or the millions received from donors with fake names like “Good Will” and fake addresses. He obtained this money by having the address verification system turned off for his online donation page. Conservative bloggers were posting screen captures proving they had donated money from such names and addresses as “Saddam Hussein, Spider Hole, Tikrit.” I’m pretty sure I can persuade Sen. McCain to return that $300,000 if you can persuade Obama to go to jail for his campaign finance violations and return all the money he obtained illegally.

If McCain really told that joke in 1986, his record with humor and women certainly improved enough to give him absolution. However, Letterman is an unrepentant, serial offender. Letterman told the “rape Willow” joke and “slutty flight attendant joke” both on Monday, June 8. His reaction to the objections was to joke that Willow was a prostitute the next night. The following night was a phony apology played totally for laughs. And last night’s apology addressed only his rape joke. He is a sexist who viciously attacks women he hates, claiming it is comedy. His objective is to destroy their lives and/or careers. And he wants to intimidate any girl or woman who might follow in their footsteps. That is why Letterman’s career is over. He is a survivor of a quintuple-bypass and he should quit or be fired so he can spend his twilight years with the five-year-old son he sired out-of-wedlock and his son’s mother, whom he only recently deigned to marry (on March 19).

Also, how is it possible you do not understand that because McCain is one of Arizona’s senators, it is that state’s voters who have power to remove him by electing someone else in his place? If you feel justice will be served by mounting a protest against McCain with the aim of punishing him for a joke he told in 1986 and a joke a campaign donor told in 2008, knock yourself out.

Cynthia

“…it is up to the people of Arizona to decide” Yockey, what a cop out. He was running for POTUS at the time, and that’s what the money was used for. And he kept it. So it went well beyond the people of Arizona. But I’m sure, as a conservative, it’s much easier for you to forgive McCain, that to forgive Letterman.

By the way… I am not a woman.
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No. Its not clear. Whats clear is thats their excuse

but to her 18 year old,

So rape jokes about 18 year old girls are better than rape jokes about 14 year olds? Thats your defense? Less pathetic is still pathetic.

That he has apologized, without pressure from CBS, albeit grudgingly

Again, you claim knowledge unavailable to the public. How do you know he wasn’t pressured by CBS? His language sure has alot of lawyer-speak in it. Do you work for CBS? Part of their PR team?

And for such a low-intensity issue, you sure seem invested in it.

I am glad Gov. Palin did the gracious thing and accepted Letterman’s fake apology. However, Letterman’s vile remarks affect ALL women, and he is a serial offender who has put all women on notice that he will stop at nothing to tear them down. So Gov. Palin’s graciousness cannot save him.

Since you are spreading the rape kit libel, I suspect you are a woman and like me, got most of the lying anti-Palin e-mails that feminist groups propagated in the fall of 2008 in their maniacal and self-serving campaign to keep their pro-abortion money flowing into their coffers. As I pointed out in my post, “Save the wolves! Palin for president!” the Down syndrome baby is their best boogey-fetus to scare women into supporting abortion. Personally, I support abortion for up to the first four months of pregnancy because I think if we do not have the sole determining power to decide whether the fetus lives or dies in that time, we become the property of a religion or the state as baby makers. But so-called women’s rights groups were out of their minds with the fear that Gov. Palin’s happiness with her Down syndrome child and public success in rearing him would reduce their income from pro-abortion fundraising. There was no lie they would not tell.

Now it appears there is no joke Letterman won’t tell to destroy people he hates. Let him do it in his own living room — but not on the public airwaves.

As for McCain, it is up to the people of Arizona to decide whether he keeps his job.

Cynthia