David Letterman's comments about Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin and one of her daughters has prompted a hotel chain to pull its advertising on CBS' website — and spawned a campaign to fire the
Late Show host that includes a planned protest outside his studio.
Letterman joked last week about Palin's daughter being "knocked up" by Alex Rodriguez during a New York Yankees game. He later clarified that he was referring to 18-year-old Bristol Palin — who, he said "was knocked up." But the Palin family and Letterman critics said he was referring to the governor's 14-year-old daughter, Willow, who attended the Yankees game with her mother.
"It's a disgraceful comment and it needs to be stopped," said Michael Patrick Leahy, one of the organizers of the "
Fire David Letterman" campaign. "It is totally inappropriate and disgraceful for a 62-year-old man to sexually insult a 14-year-old girl, period. These comments are more egregious than those of
Don Imus, and CBS fired him for those comments."
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