Free Speech: BACK IT!

Recently, David Letterman told a tasteless joke about Sarah Palin, along the lines of Alex Rodriguez knocking up Sarah Palin's daughter. Sarah Palin shot back (rightfully), condemning him for talking about her 14 year old daughter in that manner, going as far as saying that he was condoning rape and underage sex.

Now, lets take a step back here a moment and analyze this whole confrontation piece by piece. Letterman is a comedian and tells what he considers to be jokes. His writers obviously messed up the daughters, and he should have been more sincere in his apology (he apologized, but basically made it into a joke). I don't blame Palin, since she has come under attack repeatedly when she is now not a major player. The election is over, people. Lay off her freakin' family. If I was her, and somebody was saying those things about my daughter, I'd do a lot more than give a strong public statement. I'd cuss him out dare him to have me on his show....but that's just me, I guess.

Now, the problem that I have is this: executives at CBS are talking seriously about pulling Letterman. As a conservative pundit (however minuscule a role I may play) I will/am condemning this action, and I hope to start hearing from more famous (much, much, much more famous) talking heads doing the same. Otherwise my interest in them will die very quickly. Especially when they were all complaining (rightfully) about the Fairness Doctrine. What does that show the people listening/watching those shows? They all talk about a double standard with the media, and I agree with that: now I surely hope that they don't do the same. Otherwise they WILL lose my ratings.