To A-Rod:
I definitely think Letterman has to apologize. To A-Rod. I mean, just because he used steroids doesn’t mean his judgment is so clouded that he’d actually consider having sex with a Palin.
Or an Alaskan.
Or a Republican.
Poor taste? Sexist? Politically incorrect? All I heard was a cheap toss-off wisecrack, common to the ranks of stand-ups and late night talk show hosts. It doesn’t have to be anything more than that unless one’s desperate to censor everybody to protect us with the immorality code they wish to impose on all of us because we’re so obviously in need of reforming.
Control freaks are like that.
From John Cole’s comments:
How exactly does someone make a joke about a woman and not be sexist? He couldn’t talk about her intelligence, that would be sexist (it would imply women are not as smart). He can’t talk about her looks, that would be sexist (it would imply women are sex objects). He can’t talk about her personality, that would be sexist (women are bitches, bimbos, etc). That is the fatal flaw of the feminist arguments against jokes, they have not presented a reasonable alternative.
Jokes are invariably negative, compliments aren’t funny. There are plentiful jokes about men that are every bit as offensive but for lacking the prism of victimhood, jokes that play off gender norms and the like. You tell me a joke about Sarah Palin that I cannot find a way to consider it sexist, and I’ll admit that Dave was out of line here.
That’s not happening anytime soon, is it?