NEW YORK — Talk show host David Letterman directly apologized to Gov. Sarah Palin and her daughters on his program Monday night, saying he took responsibility for a joke that had offended Palin, her family and her supporters.
Letterman said he wanted to say he was sorry “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.”
Two weeks ago on his “Late Show” program on CBS, he had joked about Gov. Palin attending a Yankees game with her daughter. The joke, in which Letterman seemingly confused Willow, who is 14 and attended a Yankees game that week, with Bristol, who is 18 and an unwed mother, had to do with Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez impregnating Palin’s daughter. The New York Times; Associated press file photo
