This morning, Matt Lauer interviewed Sarah Palin on the Today Show and, of course, spent a great deal of time asking about David Letterman and his "joke" attacks on the Palin family. In that interview, Palin rejected Letterman's lame excuse that his cracks about the Palin's 14 year old daughter being raped were actually ok because he was talking about their 18 year old daughter instead. Indeed, Sarah Palin quite properly took Letterman to task for his offensive and unfunny remarks attacking her child.
Now, Yahoo news has headlined a story about the interview which it calls akward for the governor. According to yahoo, Palin, in essence, could not take a joke. What BS. I have two daughters, and I would not stand by while someone, even a famous person like Letterman, made a joke about one of them being raped. Imagine the outcry if the same joke were made about Obama's daughters! Or how about a joke in which Michelle Obama gets knocked up or is called slutty! It would be totally inappropriate. Just like it was inappropriate for the press to cover Chelsea Clinton in her teen years. Nevertheless, somehow the liberal press thinks that it is funny for a jerk like Letterman to make cracks about Willow being raped. To them shame is just a throwback to an earlier age. Today, anything goes -- nothing is wrong (unless it affects a Democrat).
Perhaps people should let CBS know that they will no longer watch Letterman unless and until he truly apologizes. Indeed, it would be perfectly proper for people to inform CBS that they will monitor who advetises on the Letterman show and then boycott the products of those advertisers. CBS would get the message very quickly if it started to lose revenues.
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