Letterman Apologizes Continues To Be A Jerk

The next chapter of Letterman's tasteless joke about Willow Palin being 'knocked up' is just a continuation of the first:

"We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news and we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter, the 18-year-old girl, who is - her name is Bristol, that's right, and so, then, now they're upset with me..."

"These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl. I mean, look at my record. It has never happened. I don't think it's funny. I would never think it was funny. I wouldn't put it in a joke..."

"...Governor Palin, if you're watching, I would like you to consider coming to New York City - you and Todd as my guests, or leave Todd at home - I'd love to have you on the show. It'd be exciting..."

"All right, so there, I hope I've cleared part of this up. Am I guilty of poor taste? Yes. Did I suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No."

Except that...he had to have been referring to Willow:

Inasmuch as only Willow accompanied her parents to New York--Bristol was back home in Alaska, evidently--Letterman's "joke" could only have related to Willow. Not that it makes a lot of difference; is Letterman suggesting the crack would have been just fine if made about an 18-year-old? He is, as Sarah Palin described him, "pathetic."

Don't look for any actual apology from Letterman. Class escapes him, as does integrity. I love Jim Treacher's description of the whole thing:

Apparently it’s confusing to some people, so let’s see if this helps explain why one of the jokes Letterman made the other night was a joke about raping a 14-year-old girl:

1. The only Palin daughter who went to the Yankees game that Letterman referred to was Willow.
2. In order for Alex Rodriguez to impregnate Willow Palin, as delineated in Letterman’s hilarious punch line, A-Rod would have to commit statutory rape.
3. Statutory rape is rape.

I realize I just threw a lot at you there, progressives, so feel free to take as much time as you need to sort through it.

[A long, long time passes]

All done? Think you’ve got it? Okay.

Now, during Letterman’s “part apology, part clarification” that neither apologized for nor clarified anything, he insisted that he wouldn’t make a joke about a kid getting knocked up because that would be sick, and he’s not sick. While this is truly a mighty fortress of logic, the fact remains that he spent eight full minutes on the topic last night without explaining why it wasn’t really a Willow Palin joke, even though Willow was the only Palin daughter at the event he was talking about.

“It doesn’t matter which Palin daughter got knocked up in that fictional scenario,” you cry. “It’s totally irrelevant to the joke!” Hey, don’t tell me. Tell Willow Palin. She’s the one who went to a baseball game with her mom and dad, and got slammed for it on national TV by a very wealthy and prominent older gentleman who has a history of problems dealing with women.

Something's wrong when this sort of thing has to be explained in such detail - anyone with a quarter of a working brain understands what's going on here. But that just tells you how much logic, reason, and common sense liberals have nowadays. This is yet another telling incident that proves it.

There's my two cents.