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Originally Posted by ottyhotties
Chelsea was 18 at the time when McCain made that Janet Reno was Chelsea's father joke, I say that because people have been defending Letterman making Bristol Palin jokes, so if McCain is somehow to be mentioned as meaning anything in this debate I would imagine it would be from somebody calling for Letterman to apologize to Sarah Palin like McCain apologized to Bill Clinton for telling a joke about his adult daughter.
Two decades ago a person on Rush Limbaugh's television show staff got fired for inserting Chelsea's photograph, the photograph was supposed to be a photograph of a dog and not Chelsea. Should the joke writer on Dave Letterman's staff get fired to have similiar context?
Ashley Biden has been a campaign prop like the Palin children. She spoke to crowds for his campaigns as well and I suppose that means she lost her public figure status, yet when her drug abuse came to light after her father preached against illegal drugs his entire career it wasn't news. Same with Al Gore's son and whenever both men are mentioned their kid's mistakes aren't part of their biographies. That's a double standard.
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It isn't a total double standard. Remember when the Bush twins got in trouble for underage drinking. Bush was asked about it and he said it was nobody's business but he and his families and that was the end of it. When you mention Bush you don't talk about his kids doing things like this.
I think people mention Palin because she stands for abstinence only education and is living proof that it doesn't work yet she continues to stand by it.