Is the following joke really that offensive?<\/p>\n

“One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game … during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.”<\/p>\n

I, like most of America, thought David Letterman was talking about Palin’s daughter Bristol who, at the age of 17, announced she was pregnant during her mother’s run for the vice presidency. Apparently it was Palin’s fourteen-year-old daughter who attended the baseball game. Whoops.<\/p>\n

Letterman’s joke doesn’t bother me. Palin’s response doesn’t bother me<\/a>. The people from FireDavidLetterman.com<\/a> who are protesting Letterman’s show, while silly, doesn’t bother me. What bothers me is that Letterman ultimately caved and apologized for the joke<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Are we really at a point where comedians will now have to apologize for every joke that offends someone? Doesn’t pretty much every joke offend somebody? George Carlin … Sam Kineson … Lenny Bruce … Richard Pryor … those guys had the right idea. <\/p>\n

Sorry, Dave. You slipped down a notch in my eyes this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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