Posted here and at The Borg Conspiracy by guest blogger Locutisprime.
Did David Letterman go too far with Willow Palin joke?
Letterman owes women an apology
For the past week, the battle of words by David Letterman has been waged against Sarah Palin and her children. Once again I should say, as there always seems to be room enough for the crass and obnoxious, just as long as it is aimed at the right people. Or should I say, just as long as it is aimed at the people on the right. David Letterman is a pathetic excuse for a comic and has been for the last two decades IMO.
He wasn't that funny when those like Johnny Carson gave him his first big breaks in the business. And not a lot has changed in the past thirty years. The man's humor is more pathetic than funny and his renewed attacks against Sarah Palin just reinforce the reality of the sick minded angst that passes for humor on the left today. Even yesterday's pathetic mea culpa wasn't really an apology by Letterman.
More of a primer on why those like Sarah had somehow missed the grandiose points of humor so immediately graspable by the knowing elite. What a load of bull chips. The only good news of late as it concerns David Letterman, is that he is passing his shelf life and his network will soon be looking for something other than this stank anachronism of angst humor to pay the bills. Sarah Palin doesn't need defense against this lout, she handled him in the fashion that he should have been handled, as the filth minded diddler in insipid humor that he is. As a pervert of mind and politics and one more comfortable in the outhouse of humor than in the mainstream.
I appreciate that Sarah Palin has chosen to make this an issue. North American society has gotten so comfortable with locker-room talk and Letterman's joke has been serving as a good opportunity to re-examine that and hopefully, it will be the beginnings of people registering their own dis-satisfaction when it happens in their own circles.
Posted by: Leslie | Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 02:33 PM