Sarah Palin, appearing on NBC’s Today Show Friday morning, inched a little closer to crazy, arguing that David Letterman owes women an apology for “contributing to the kind of that thread that is throughout our culture that makes it sound like it is OK to talk about young girls in that way, where it’s kind of OK, accepted and funny to talk about statutory rape,” adding that “It’s not cool. It’s not funny.” Palin said that it is time to rise up against Letterman’s brand of humor.
Sarah Palin’s point about Letterman’s humor, whatever it once was, is now lost for a number of reasons, the most obvious that she and her “team” are using this as way to bring back the Alaskan Governor into the daily news cycle – a political maneuver once more at the expense of her children, the very children she claims to be eager to protect from the harsh spotlight of society.
It is horrid, her kind of cynicism masquerading as concern, and ought to serve as a reminder that the middle-class mainstream deportment of Sarah Palin is a rather conveniently contrived act meant to collect political currency and absolutely nothing more. Letterman, whom by his own admission, makes jokes that are often not funny and cannot be defended, offered an apology, a rather stunning gesture by a comedian given that comedian rarely, if ever at all admit to be contrite about an attack, and rather than accept it, which would have been to Palin’s credit, she uses it to distract the public not only from the Republican party that is now a ghost of what it once was, and her own political missteps, one – charges of plagiarism for stealing something Newt Gingrich said, as recent as late last week. Letterman’s jokes may have been ugly, but it is Sarah Palin’s character that is clearly ugly.
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