So I'm sitting here watching Letterman cop dueces ( that means apologize, scuse the lingo) for saying that Sarah Palins daughter got boned by A Rod, that's Alex Rodriguez, and not an actual rod. Palin and Mr. Sarah have their Arctic fleece onesy's all in a bind. They have pretty much accused Letterman of being a pedophile, or at least a creepy old guy. Letterman already apologized, explaining that he thought the oldest daughter was at the game, the one that got knocked up out of wedlock by the whiskey tango lumber jack. Turns out it was the younger one, who has not been knocked up by a lumberjack......yet. Hey its Alaska for christs sake, there ain't exactly a whole lot to do besides watch polar bears raid trash bins, spy on Russia from your back porch, and breed like minks. Yea I said it, so what.
I think the real story is the reaction of people with an agenda. From the drama queen wack job who blogs here in KC to a group of equally clueless frothing at the mouth morons who have started a website demanding that CBS fire Letterman, the real story is the way these people are reacting. They are calling on the ghost of Don Imus. The basic argument is that Don Imus got fired for calling a team of womens Basketball players "nappy headed ho's", so Letterman should be fired as well. The problem with their argument is that none of these people reacted with such fervor when Imus made those comments. In fact I can just about guarantee you that they reacted exactly opposite to the Imus incident. The level of hypocrisy is laughable. Our local Uber fruitcake had no fewer than a half dozen posts on her insipid blog defending free speech and the over reaction that resulted in Imus being fired, meanwhile she calls for Lettermans head. So the joke about one white girl clearly calls for firing, while cracking on a half dozen black girls, meh, not so much. Even more laughable, Embassy Suites, part of the Hilton Hotels Corp has pulled ads from CBS. That would be Hilton, as in super sloot, non panty wearing, bed hopping, Paris Hiltons family. It's a little disingenuous to cry foul over a couple of one liners from a late night talk show host, when one of the major beneficiaries of said corporation is influencing young girls through her own irresponsible behavior.
Look, I don't blame the Palins for being pissed off, the joke was directed at one of their children, that said they are public figures, and public figures lives are under a microscope. They knew that from the git go, but that hasn't stopped them from playing the melodramatic role of victim every single time someone mentions them or theirs in a less than flattering light. The reaction from conservative bloggers is also very telling. They rarely if ever address issues of real injustice when it is directed toward minorities, yet they go ballistic over a couple of jokes that were in poor taste simply because they were directed toward one of their own. Liberals do the same thing, so I'm not just bagging on conservatives. I just find it a tad bit hypocritical when these ass clowns jump on a bandwagon and express such self righteous indignation over a trivial matter, while they either remain mute or defend far worse.
