I need to comment quickly on the Letterman vs. Palin stuff that’s blown up recently around the interwebs, even though I feel that by doing it, I may actually be legitimizing it in a way I shouldn’t. That said, in case you missed it, Letterman made a fairly standard late-night joke about Alex Rodriguez impregnating Bristol Palin when Sarah and daughter recently attended a Yankees game with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Here’s the video:

Anyhow, the problem with this joke was that Palin actually attended the baseball game with Giuliani and 14 year-old daughter Willow (yes, that is her name) Palin, not the 18 year-old and previously knocked up Bristol. Whoops, not a good mistake to make. But, intentional on Dave’s part? Me and everyone else with a brain are betting not, given that the joke only makes sense in the context of Bristol, the daughter made famous when her mother decided to make her and her unborn child and her unborn child’s father a part of a national Presidential campaign.

In light of that fact, you can see why the elder Palin wouldn’t want to use this unfortunate incident to turn her innocent 14 year-old daughter into a sex-fueled media event, and so, in response, Sarah promptly went on the Today Show to rant about how David Letterman was obviously intentionally commenting on raping her innocent little 14 year-old daughter, how it was just a convenient excuse that her older and of-age daughter happened to have been impregnated, which, again, we only know because she made Bristol a centerpiece of a national campaign, and went on and on about how horrible Dave is and people these days, etc. etc. Meanwhile, the right-wing values attack dogs, lead by feminist crusader John Ziegler, have answered the call of, uh, duty? and have organized petitions and boycotts and demonstrations against the stately TV host. Needless to say, the good conservative folk are outraged, OUTRAGED and the net boards are full of commenters using horrible spelling and worse grammar to trash that evil child molesting supporter Mr. Lette–Wait a minute. Feminist crusader John Ziegler? This John Ziegler? (Money: right around the 3:30 mark)

Right. So the card-carrying feminist shock jock brigade has taken charge and has now started a campaign to get Letterman fired, and wait a minute, not only are the failed-radio-host-turned-documentary-filmmakers involved, but now Republican New York State Assemblyman Brian Kolb, the Minority Leader representing a district approximately 223 miles from the Ed Sullivan Theater (Mr. Kolb has a lovely website, by the way), has deemed the event important enough to his constituents that he has taken up the call to have Letterman fired and has set up a website along with Ziegler.

Which raises the question: why, exactly is this an important issue to a New York State Assemblyman? Is there some agreement between the states of New York and Alaska that requires this kind of action that I’m unaware of? Perhaps more likely, could it be that the Republican party is in such a shambles that what passes for leadership in the GOP these days sees this as a national issue that could somehow save the party? And what’s more disgusting here, the fact that they’d dare demand that David Letterman, my favorite talk show host, be fired, or that they’d drag an innocent 14 year-old girl into a national debate on the false pretense that she was being used to make a rape joke to try to drum up controversy to get her mother back on the national political landscape, and moreover, use fake feminist outrage as a mantle to hide behind while they do it?

I’m just a humble blogger, I’ll let you decide.