So by now we’ve all heard of the kerfuffle over David Letterman’s tasteless joke about Bristol Palin. I’m not going to link to it here because, besides behing a pretty bad joke, I also find it extremely slimly for him to go after a young woman who made a mistake.
As one might expect, an attack on Saint Sarah of Wasilla has caused much of the right-wing blogosphere to go completely batshit insane. Now let me be clear, this was a terrible joke made in very poor taste and Letterman should not have made it.
But, rape? Are you kidding me? Anyone with any sense of humor would understand that this joke was a reference to Bristol Palin – still a joke in poor taste, but there is no way Letterman would joke about a 14 year old having sex with a 30 year old. Oh HEY he said so himself.
And in the end Letterman has admitted his mistake, unlike some other popular entertainers we know.
Posted by Jamie in Pop Culture Is Filth