The issue won’t go away, and who am I to shy away from a such a phony, overblown, media driven controversy?I am talking about the brouhaha going on over David Letterman’s jokes that he made last week about Gov. Sarah “Plain and Dull” Palin, and her daughter.
You see…
I found his jokes about A-Rod knocking up her daughter during the 7th inning stretch and trying to keep Eliot Spitzer away from her at the Yankees game, to be quite funny.
And…If anyone, including dim-bulb Palin, says that Letterman was talking about her 14 year old daughter, Willow, and not Palin’s, prematurely cultivated 18 year old daughter Bristol, they are being disingenuous.
See? If Letterman had meant the jokes to be directed at Palin’s 14 year old, they wouldn’t be funny. There’s no context or history to the joke.
Bristol however, much like the Cincinnati Reds have given up on fielding a competitive baseball team, gave up on her virginity long ago.
These joke makes sense (comedic or otherwise) in the context of Bristol’s history, and the histories of both A-Rod and Spitzer.
Of course, Palin has come out swinging (oops, is that a sexual connotation?) by saying that Letterman is a dirty old man who cannot be trusted in the company of 14 year old girls.
According to Gov. Sarah “I’ll Trot My Daughter And Her Illigetimate Baby Out Onto The National Scene” Palin, Letterman’s a deviant and he owes all underage girls across the country an apology.Letterman owes an apology to no one.
He’s a as much a sexual deviant as was Mother Teresa…Although I have heard rumors that she did have an affection for young Indian boys who suffered from cholera and tuberculosis.
Seriously though, about the only thing sexually deviant about Letterman is that I bet he still chuckles when he tells people that he graduated from BALL State. Hee. Hee.
Of course, it is not only Palin using this manufactured outrage in order to garner some TV face time.
In addition to the usual 24/7 Cable Outlet suspects, New York State Assemblyman, Brian Kolb-R, has called on CBS to fire Mr. Letterman.
“Hey Assemblyman Korn Kolb…Your call to a, Mr. National Relevance went through…don’t bother picking up, he’s reversing the charges.”
And of course there are “outraged” bloggers, such as some chick named Texas Darlin, who have lambasted Letterman for statutorily raping the Palins with his jokes.
Oh yeah, this Texas Darlin peapod is a peach. She has blog rules, ya know.
One of which is, if she doesn’t like and/or agree with your comment, she probably won’t post it. Love the discourse there, TD.
Anyhoo…Letterman is a comedian. He was doing his job. He makes jokes. That’s what he does.
Palin’s job on the other hand, is to be the Governor of Alaska, and yet she seemingly spends her time doing everything except for being the Chief Executive of the State of Alaska.
Her supporters will claim that she is busy promoting abstinence, making a name for a 2012 Presidential run, and educating people on conservative values.
Nah, Baby, Nah…What Palin is actually doing is busy becoming her own TV reality show, and she is shamelessly dragging her family into it right along with her.
She has become a scaled down, yet no less seedy, and mind numbingly horrid version of, Jon and Kate Plus 8.
Letterman did his job, and he did it well. He lived up to those immortal words of the late George Carlin…“I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.”
Damn straight…Rock on Mr. Letterman…Rock On.
Cheers!!
