Flawed Letterman Did Something Thought Humanly Impossible, He Made Palin Look Good

The issue for me was never Bristol Palin and whether she heeded mama Palin's sanctimonious preachment of abstinence, nor was it what kind of parent mama Palin is. The issue was never mama Palin's preachments, let alone her. The issue was never whether Bristol was fair game for ridicule just because mama Palin is a ridiculous public figure herself. The issue was a stupid, insipid, deeply sexist, and derogatory unfunny crack from an on the make hack comedian who masquerades as a fount of wisdom late night talk show host and who's in an eternal hunt to get one-upmanship on his talk show rival Leno.

Letterman quickly saw the handwriting on the wall, or better still the picket signs out front of the studio, and apologized profusely for his idiotic crack, or as he lamely put it, flawed attempt at humor. Letterman in the process did something that I thought was humanly impossible; and that's make Palin look like the paragon of the unjust aggrieved mom and worse still a political victim, and even worse still, a gracious victim when she accepted the apology. Letterman, Letterman.