Now Palin can’t milk it anymore
Where are the cries of “Fire David Letterman!” now, Palinites? Your noise (firedavidletterman.com) amounted to so much wind. A bad joke in bad taste does not equal a misguided political movement. The public is generally intelligent enough to spot a phony, and you’ve been spotted, Palin. Use cash advance in Louisianas and fast loans to buy a clue immediately.
Reuters reports that David Letterman has taken the high road. David Letterman apologizes for the Sarah Palin joke. Specifically, he has apologized for laying an egg of a joke about Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s teenage daughter Bristol. Knowing that their candidate will likely fall off the end of her Bridge to Nowhere without a little help from more competent handlers, the firedavidletterman.com people sought to keep some wind in Palin’s sails until 2012. Now even Palin knows that there’s nothing more to be gained from this tempest in a wolf-shooting barrel (Palin’s pastime, not mine).
“It’s my fault”
“I told a joke that was beyond flawed, and my intent is completely meaningless compared to the perception,” said Letterman. “And since it was a joke I told, I feel that I need to do the right thing here and apologize for having told that joke. It’s not your fault that it was misunderstood, it’s my fault.”
As a final refresher (because this story truly needs to die), David Letterman had joked that New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez had “knocked up” Sarah Palin’s daughter during a trip to a baseball game. Of course baseball fans know that to be impossible, as A-Rod may be permanently shriveled from his past pharmaceutical escapades. Yet the joke flew into the air and landed like a botched pop-up. Letterman’s joke was bad, too.
What enraged Palin is the mistaken notion that the joke was about her 14-year-old daughter Willow. Letterman explained that he meant Bristol, but Palinites had already begun to choke on their caribou meat, so it was game on against the 62-year-old and his “sexually perverted” comments.
Bad joke, to be sure
But an even bigger joke is why we care about Sarah Palin. I’m embarrassed as well, because yesterday I vowed I’d stop giving the flight attendant air. She can breathe on her own… I think…
“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. I’m sorry about it and I’ll try to do better in the future,” Letterman said.
According to Reuters, Palin protest organizers were planning to protest outside the “Late Show” recording studio. Republican New York State Assemblyman Brian Kolb stood behind the assertion that not only was Letterman’s joke “demeaning to women,” but that it was comparable to radio host Don Imus’s racially offensive comments that briefly got him fired from CBS radio. If you have half a brain, you know there’s no comparison between the two. Apparently Kolb wants to be Palin’s VP… of promotions at the Anchorage Dairy Queen.
Reports are that Palin has gone on record as saying that she accepts Letterman’s apology “on behalf of all young women.”
In other news, both Bristol and Willow called, with this to say:
“Mom, can we stop talking about this now? You’re embarrassing us. Please.”
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