As to your second point, it doesn’t matter which daughter she had with her (except that it being Willow age 14 makes it marginally worse). His remark implied that either a 14 or 18 year old young lady is such a slut that she can’t manage to take a trip with her mother without having sex with a some guy she doesn’t even know. If he said that about either of my daughters, both of whom are over 18, I’d probably punch him right in his disgusting mouth.

As to your last two lines, let’s start with the first one, “Baseball player and governor and teenage girl.” Joking about two grown men having sex with a teenage girl, implying that the men are pedophiles (not indicated in either case as far as I know) or that the girl is, again, such a slut she can’t keep her legs closed is extremely poor taste to put it lightly.

As to why we’re not “complaining about baseball druggies or politicians’ public private lives”, it may be because neither of those has anything to do with the incident under discussion.

Golly, that makes it *so* much better.

Since you are frantic to change the subject … I seem to remember that George Allen lost the 2006 Senate election to a gun-smuggling psychopath. The issue that doomed Allen was “macaca” – a word that no one had ever heard of before. I also doubt that anyone has heard of “macaca” again since that election.

And how about Don Imus? If we cut a break for Letterman, why not him?

Another point is him saying that he meant the joke about BRISTOL Palin who is 18 rather than the 14 yeear old Willow. It’s okay to talk about a ball player who isn’t even acquainted with the young lady in question ‘knocking her up’ because she’s over 18? It’s okay to intimate that she’s that much of a slut? Or that A-Rod is so incapable of controlling himself (he is, after all, a horny minority type) that he can’t keep his zipper shut around young girls? And he can’t get his facts straight before he makes the joke? Bristol apparently wasn’t even on the trip, it was just Sarah and the 14 year old Willow. How can he say he meant the joke to be about Bristol when she wasn’t even there?

And the joke about Sarah Palin’s “slutty flight attendant look” – I’ve seen Sarah Palin many times on television at various different activities and venues and I have NEVER seen her dressed in way way that could be construed as ‘slutty’. Every time I have ever seen her, her clothing has been classy, proper and age appropriate for a woman her age. Apparently, if a woman doesn’t look like Nancy Pelosi she must be a slut in the eyes of the liberals. And they claim to be the people who respect women?

Maybe there’s hope for NOW yet.

Maybe they just need new kneepads.

Or maybe they are tired of endless Democrat misogyny. That would be change that I could believe in….