Now, I don't agree with David Letterman's recent jokes about Sarah Palin's daughter but I do think everyone ought to back off and leave Letterman alone.
The reason is because nobody cared, and quite a few laughed, when every comedian on Earth made jokes about Michael Jackson getting little boys drunk and raping them. Now, everyone is somehow freaking out by two jokes that were not even about rape or about a child. Letterman claims he was talking about Sarah Palin's 18 year old daughter, not her 14 year old. And, I heard the jokes. They were not about rape or child molestation. They were about consensual sex, one with somebody named A-Rod (whoever that is) and the other about Eliot Spitzer.
No, I do not think the jokes were even remotely appropriate. They outrage me just like the media attacks on Sarah Palin and her family during the presidential campaign outraged me. I just think some consistency and sanity are in order here.
If it is an outrage to joke about consensual sex then why isn't anyone outraged by jokes about drugging and raping little boys?
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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