What an amazing situation. And all in the name of...what ?...Publicity, I guess. It certainly isn't decency, that's for sure.
I saw the jokes about Governor Palin's daughter when they first aired. I felt it was fairly obvious that he was making a joke about Bristol Palin(The "knocked up" joke anyway.I think the joke about Spitzer was actually more about Spitzer, than about any of Palin's daughters, really), who has made herself a public figure by speaking on behalf of Teen Abstinence, after being paraded around by Governor Palin during the campaign.
Governor Palin and her husband brought their 14 year old daughter into the equation. I think that is in pretty poor taste.
Here's one thing I have been thinking...Shouldn't she really be above this ? I mean, she IS the Governor of Alaska, and she clearly has higher political aspirations, shouldn't she have more important things to worry about than what a talk show host is aying about her or her family ? I would hope that if she does ascend to higher office(and God help us all if that happens), she will not spend all of her time responding to jokes made about her or her family.
Another thing I have been thinking, is that even after Dave offered the explanation above for the jokes, people are still claiming that he supports "rape". That is irresponsible, inflammatory and also untrue.
I also don't thing that any of this has as much to do with politics as people seem to want to believe. I read a comment on the Late Show Facebook page where someone said Dave was making these comments for "political gain"...Huh ? What political gain ? Is he running for office ? it would seem to me that Governor Palin is the one using the situation for political gain. Which I think is pretty clear in her mention of the "Hollywood/N.Y entertainers".
Dave has definitely been rougher on Republicans than Democrats, but if I'm not mistaken, Spitzer is a Democrat, and hell, Dave still makes jokes about Bill Clinton. I guess he has not made enough jokes about Obama, but I sorta figure that will come in time.
And of course, there are now all the calls for firings and boycotts, mostly based on erroneous assumptions about the whole situation.
Okay, I don't really know that I have anything left to say about this, I just kinda wanted to add my two cents.
