Posted by
EWRoss on Friday, June 12, 2009 8:00:00 AM
The left will continue to attack Sarah Palin because they want to damage her and make her unelectable in 2012. Despite her stumbles during the 2008 election campaign, her lack of foreign policy experience, and her folksy, down-home style that turns some city people off, liberals understand the appeal she has to voters. They don’t want to take any chances that her conservative, pro-life, pro-gun ideas might catch on.
Palin is certainly fair game for political humor as is any politician; even if a good bit of that humor is deliberately intended damage her image. That’s nothing new. When a comedian does what David Letterman did Monday night, however, he crosses the line. Referring to Palin’s “slutty flight attendant look” and saying her daughter was “knocked up by Alex Rodriguez” at a Yankee’s game weren’t intended to be humorous at Palin and her daughter’s expense, they were intended to demean and degrade them.
Left-wing bloggers have said worse about Palin, but only like-minded people pay attention to them. When a media personality of Letterman’s stature engages in this kind of behavior fair-minded people should condemn it so that others who might follow his example will understand this is unacceptable. Letterman should apologize.