Posted by
EWRoss on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:00:00 PM
Last night David Letterman apologized, on his program for his bad jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter. No doubt all the heat he was taking because of them played a big part in his decision. At least one advertiser is reported to have pulled its ads from the program in response to protests. Tonight protesters plan to picket outside his studio, calling for CBS to fire him. Nevertheless, an apology is an apology. We can only hope that it was sincere. I'm sure Sarah Palin will graciously accept it and everyone will move on.
What will be interesting to watch going forward is how this incident will affect the jokes others make about Palin and her family. If they lighten up a bit and avoid the stupid jokes intended to demean and degrade the governor, then some good will have come out of this affair. Palin will remain a target of the left, but that's politics.
Palin got the best of this round, but she needs get the focus off of her personality and her family. When people see or hear her or stories about her, they need to be on policy issues they care about if she ever wants to win the Republican Party's nomination for president.