“Ridicule on its face is a type of bullying.”

I presume I’m misreading this, so feel free to call me stupid, but are you saying that ANY ridicule constitutes bullying? Regardless of the time/placc/manner details? Bullying to such a dangerous and offensive level that a person should be hounded out of their job for engaging in it?

“I’m shocked I have to explain to anyone that what Letterman did is bullying.”

This might suprise you, but some people might take this sentence as passive-agressive ridicule (not me — I put on my big boy pants today so I’m only crying on the inside). Do you decry the Conservative voices that savage Obama? They are CLEARLY ridiculing him (his wife, their heritage, etc.), so do agree they should be boycotted and protested into obscurity?

If not, what makes Letterman so unique? I don’t want to come to the conclusion that this is a publicity stunt, but I am absolutely failing to grasp what made this comment rise to the level demanding public action.

If you are against uncivil discourse as a matter of courtesy, I am 100% behind you. However, given the coarseness of discourse in America today, engaged in by just about everybody, this individual example of rude humor doesn’t seem to have any distinguishing character except for two features: (1) it involves a Palin, and (2) it involves the media.

If this is the ONLY example of ridicule that moves you to such extreme behavior, then why? You aren’t swearing an oath to drive Rusty DePass out of his job for making jokes about Obama? Or Limbaugh? Or Coulter?

I mean it when I say I want to believe this is a principled stance, and not simply a publicity stunt. I truly do. But I’m not seeing it — open my eyes.

p.s.: as to “why aren’t more dudes clicking on the lesbian’s site” . . . well, if you added “with steamy les pics” to the name of the site, I think you’d not only get those jumpers, but also a pretty good answer to the first question.

So what? so does Obama. I recall those kids showing up on his big speech occassions.
That would never excuse someone making vile jokes about his kids.

And as #48 said, Palin was doing what most Moms and Dads do with their kids.

Joe, your hate-filled rant is not worth my reply. Pardon me while I scrape your essence from the bottom of my shoe.

Cynthia, you seem to have conveniently forgotten that Palin continues to use her children as political tools.

And you seem to have conveniently forgotten to explain the way in which Palin uses her children as political tools. Please show us how she does anything different from what any other politician does.

Also, Rick, this is addressed to your readers:

Judging from the almost total lack of referral links from this blog in my sitemeter, virtually none of you came over to “A Conservative Lesbian” to check out what I had to say. Huh? And yet, the word “lesbian” is baked right into my blog name! WTH, dudes, WTH?

Cynthia

Hey, just a possibility but I know I have been to your site several times in the last few days and never from a link from here. Maybe the majority of readers here have already been there.

Outstanding … ‘Old, angry, white men won’t win elections’. I only hope you are right. That means we get to get rid of Murtha, Kennedy, Shumer, Kerry, Baucus, Dodd, Frank, etc when they come up for re-election. As the saying goes … Please engage brain, before opening mouth. Have a great day :).

“Oww, owww, owww. Please stop.”

Judging from the almost total lack of referral links from this blog in my sitemeter, virtually none of you came over to “A Conservative Lesbian” to check out what I had to say. Huh? And yet, the word “lesbian” is baked right into my blog name! WTH, dudes, WTH?

Cynthia