You’d think after the deletion of last week’s Playboy article fantasizing about raping ten conservative women, liberals in the entertainment world would get the message.
Yoy thought wrong. On Monday, David Letterman joked about fourteen year-old Willow Palin being “knocked up by NY Yankee Alex Rodriguez.” And his audience laughed.
Why? Just … why?
The righto-sphere is all over this one like flies on a rib roast. Jim Treacher at Hot Air comments:
I realize I’m just an inbred backwoods moron who can’t abide by any criticism of Sarah Palin whatsoever, but is this really the precedent we want to set for our politicians and their families?
After all, Samson Obama, one of the president’s many half-brothers, isn’t allowed in the UK because he tried to assault a 13-year-old girl. Are we to impose the Letterman standard there? Is it okay to make a joke like this?
“How come the First Family never invites Uncle Samson to visit? Because whenever Sasha and Malia sit on his knee, it takes six Secret Service guys to pry them off!”
Or how about this?
“Joe Biden keeps saying he’s not really sure where all that stimulus money is going. In other news, Ashley Biden’s coke dealer just bought Luxembourg.”
Hey, I didn’t say they were good jokes. But are they really worse than what Letterman just got away with on national TV? If so, why?
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