Quite frankly, I couldn't care less if he gets fired. It's time for him to retire anyway. And the joke was tasteless, no matter which daughter it was aimed for.
I just think when we critique people we should do it fairly, without jumping into extreme positions, lest we also look like wacko extremists. And personally, I've said some stupid things in my lifetime, things I didn't always think through very well until after they were flying through the air.
As for the content of his show--he doesn't use any rougher language than Rush Limbaugh or Neal Boortz, so if that qualifies as "sleaze", you should probably turn off talk radio.
The points that I would AGREE with are those of several feminist groups who have been attacking DL because of his remarks--but to address misogyny would be to malign most of television, which is sadly chock full of slurs and images that continue to devalue and sexualize women in our culture. That is a much bigger battle to fight, and DL is not the one leading the assault.
We live in a country where breastfeeding a child in public can be seen as overtly sexual in nature, and offensive to puritanical (and liberal!) minds everywhere, but SNL can make a skit about Bristol Palin having sex with her own father, and no one writes letters about firing the entire cast of SNL!!!!!
I'm with those who object to foul jokes and slurs about women, and those who want to restore normalcy to
normal bodily functions and family relationships. I have no problem at all putting DL into the group with the rest of those perpetrators who demean women with tasteless, crude jokes.
But I'm simply not going to call the man a pedophile if he's not. It's disingenuous, hysterical and completely irrelevant from the conversation.
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