Letterman Apologizes to Palin: ‘The Joke…Can’t Be Defended’

Letterman re-addresses Palin: 'I had no idea [Willow] was there' Letterman said he had no idea Palin was at the Yankees game with her 14-year-old daughter, Willow, when he joked about her getting "knocked up" by player Alex Rodriguez last week. "I had, honestly, no idea that the 14-year-old girl, I had no idea that anybody was at the ball game except the governor, and I was told at the time sh More..e was there with Rudy Giuliani," Letterman said (direct video link). "It’s not your fault that it was misunderstood, it’s my fault. ... So I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke." The comedian’s jokes about Palin's family have caused an uproar, with Palin doing several interviews last week criticizing the talk show host. One CBS advertiser reportedly pulled its ads in response to the protests, some of which have demanded that CBS fire Letterman. The network is on the verge of giving Letterman a two-year contract extension that will keep him on the air through 2012. "I understand, of course, why people are upset; I would be upset myself," Letterman said. "I’m sorry about it and I’ll try to do better in the future." Below is the video of Letterman's apology, followed by the full text. And here's a video from last week where Letterman addressed the Palin controversy for the first time. “All right, here – I’ve been thinking about this situation with Governor Palin and her family now for about a week – it was a week ago tonight, and maybe you know about it, maybe you don’t know about it. But there was a joke that I told, and I thought I was telling it about the older daughter being at Yankee Stadium. And it was kind of a coarse joke. There’s no getting around it, but I never thought it was anybody other than the older daughter, and before the show, I checked to make sure in fact that she is of legal age, 18. Yeah. But th...

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