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Dirty Jokes
What kidding around about sexual predators and innocent teens says about us.
And them.
By Dahlia Lithwick
Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009, at 7:50 PM ET

[image: David 
Letterman.]<http://link.email.slate.com/r/7CWBQQ/IPY0/NBXKX/GUXA/43H9/E4/h>Anyone
who's been scoring *Letterman v. Palin* knows that it has been a ratings
boon to both sides: Last week, David Letterman told a tasteless
joke<http://link.email.slate.com/r/7CWBQQ/IPY0/NBXKX/GUXA/O5Y2/E4/h>.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin flipped
out<http://link.email.slate.com/r/7CWBQQ/IPY0/NBXKX/GUXA/2FL9/E4/h>.
Letterman 
apologized<http://link.email.slate.com/r/7CWBQQ/IPY0/NBXKX/GUXA/FOZG/E4/h>.
Palin went 
berserk<http://link.email.slate.com/r/7CWBQQ/IPY0/NBXKX/GUXA/IV50/E4/h>.
Letterman apologized
again<http://link.email.slate.com/r/7CWBQQ/IPY0/NBXKX/GUXA/SK9X/E4/h>.
Palin accepted his
apology<http://link.email.slate.com/r/7CWBQQ/IPY0/NBXKX/GUXA/6UGU/E4/h>on
behalf of "young women" everywhere. Letterman's ratings
skyrocketed <http://link.email.slate.com/r/7CWBQQ/IPY0/NBXKX/GUXA/8L6T/E4/h>.
And Palin is back in the
headlines<http://link.email.slate.com/r/7CWBQQ/IPY0/NBXKX/GUXA/LZXM/E4/h>.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

The pertinent facts: During his monologue on June 8, Letterman called Palin
a "slutty flight attendant" and joked about Palin's daughter being
propositioned by former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and "knocked up" by Alex
Rodriguez during a Yankees game. Letterman later insisted the joke was about
18-year-old teen mom Bristol, but the young Palin in attendance at Yankee
Stadium that night was 14-year-old Willow, allowing her mom to
rage<http://link.email.slate.com/r/7CWBQQ/IPY0/NBXKX/GUXA/P4IK/E4/h>that
the late-night talk-show host was contributing to a culture "that says
it's OK to talk about statutory rape" and offer up a counterjoke that "it
would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman."

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*Dahlia Lithwick is a Slate senior editor.*

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