Ouch:
…Letterman also invited the Alaska governor to come on his show.
UPDATE: Per ABC News’ Kate Snow: Gov. Palin pushed back at Letterman again this morning, issuing a statement via Palin PAC spokesperson Meghan Stapelton.
“The Palins have no intention of providing a ratings boost for David Letterman by appearing on his show,” Stapelton said in an email to ABC News. “Plus, it would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman.”
I’ve long enjoyed David Letterman’s show but the fact that such a joke could make it out of the writer’s office indicates a severe lack of judgment all too common for media elites like Letterman. In the back and forth of creative writing for a show like Letterman’s, there are probably a lot of jokes which don’t make it on air for reasons of simple decency – this one slithered out of the gate, and David Letterman is fully responsible for it as he is the man who ultimately picks which jokes to use. How would Letterman like it for someone to make jokes about his son spending the night at Michael Jackson’s place?
For reasons unfathomable to regular folks, the political left and the media elite have developed an unreasoning, visceral hatred of Sarah Palin and her family. I believe this is because Sarah Palin and her family – united by love and clearly having a ball as they live their regular-folks life – are a standing indictment of the shallowness, cruelty and infidelity commonly found especially in the lives and alleged families of the media elite. The clear self-donation between the Palins and their devoted love for their children are in stark contrast to Letterman’s only recent marriage to the woman who bore his child and, it seems, he lived with for many years prior to marriage – something in the Palins struck a cruel chord in Letterman’s make up and he lashed out in what he may, indeed, thought of as a funny joke but which was actually the slur one expects from a gossip, or a bully.
The best thing for Letterman to do is ponder what he did, why it caused pain and what is the duty of a man who has achieved vast wealth and great fame towards others in the world.
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