“I would like to see him apologize to young women across the country” for contributing to a culture “that says it’s OK to talk about statutory rape,” Palin told Matt Lauer on TODAY. “It's not cool; it's not funny.
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Palin told Lauer that she first heard about Letterman’s jokes while being interviewed on a radio show Tuesday — including one that alleged that the governor was in New York to pick up some “slutty flight attendant” lipstick.
“My first opinion was, ‘Don't disparage flight attendants,’ ” Palin told Lauer. “They work hard. We love ’em.” Only after that, she said, did she learn there was a joke “about statutory rape about my daughter, Willow.”
As for Letterman’s excuse that he didn’t realize Willow was at the game and not Bristol, “You and anybody else are extremely naive to believe their convenient excuse,” she told Lauer. “It took him a couple of days to think of that excuse. Regardless, it was a degrading comment about a young woman.
“During the campaign, Gov. Obama said family is off limits,” Palin told Lauer. “The ‘candidate who must be obeyed’ adhered to that,” she said. “But they haven't done that on the other side of the ticket. So that's a political double standard.”
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