Letterman Can't Let Palin Obsession Go

David Letterman has been trying to achieve the near impossible - he is making me actually want to watch Conan O'Brien. I consider Letterman to be the chief reason Leno went out on top.

Letterman has always been known to be completely one-sided in his political humor. While the man has his moments, most of his political schtick is off the mark and just plain not funny.

Now he has gove over the edge (again) by attacking Sarah Palin (again) and her teenage daughter and not even coming close to an apology.

In case you missed it, here's the background. Palin came to NYC for a visit and Letterman took the opportunity to savage her in his top ten list. Included was a comment that she was a crack whore and had a "slutty flight attendant look." I'll wait for you to stop chuckling over that example of humor.

Then, during his monologue, Letterman joked about Alex Rodriguez having sex with Palin's 14 year old daughter during the game and impregnating her. I know, hilarious, right? Yep, nothing quite so funny as jokes about politican's children having underage sex in public.

Then after Palin was rightfully upset over Letterman crossing the line of decency, he refused to apologize before performing a half-hearted apology that amounted to nothing. I say half-hearted although I would prefer to have used another part of the anatomy.

Some people are calling for Letterman to be fired. That obviously will never happen. What I would like to see, and equally will never happen, is for the mainstream media to stop giving lefties a free pass when they blatantly cross lines of decency when getting into personal attacks on conservatives.

Can you imagine the uproar if anyone made jokes about the Obama kids having sex? Can you imagine Letterman, or anyone else, joking about them smoking crack in the White House while BHO and Michelle were fouling up traffic in NYC for their date night?

No, you can't, and it would be wrong if they did. Just as this was wrong. Dead wrong.

Shame on David Letterman. Shame on the press for ignoring personal attacks on the children of people they hate.