Yesterday I decided that this recent Palin-Letterman controversy is an elaborate ruse on both the part of the Palin and Letterman camps.
Here's the thing: Letterman's ratings have probably been slipping, what with Jay leaving and Conan replacing him, so he needed a reason for people to tune into The Late Show, instead of the Shiny New Conan at the Tonight Show. Palin's been out of the national spotlight since the end of the election and, being the mediawhore she is, doesn't like it. So when Letterman's stupid 6-second-long joke aired, boom!, opportunity came a knockin'.
First of all, I would like to mention that the joke was a)not the funny and b) aimed at 18 year old Bristol, not the actual daughter who was at the Yankees game (the younger one). On the other hand, children of politician's really should be left alone, despite the inane things said children may do. (Bristol Palin being the spokeperson for Abstinence Only? ieieiei).
What Palin really wants is to bring herself into the daily news programs again and regain some of that attention that she was missing after the election. If she really cared about protecting her children, she wouldn't do over-the-top things like accuse Letterman of being a pedophile. She'd've accepted his apology and let the thing go, so as to limit the amount of time the public was talking about her 14 year old daughter. But, anyone with a brain has to know that she's not making this fuss to protect her children. She's doing it to exploit her children in order to be the subject of conversation, articles and -whoa, hey, look at this - blogs.
Letterman's camp probably don't care so much about this, since the people who are Palin supporters aren't the ones who tune into him at night. If anything, it's her biggest detractors who are his audience, the more Left-Wing or Don't Care people. And with him being attacked by someone they essentially loathe, it might prompt them to tune into him, in support of him, rather than flip over to Conan, as they had been doing.
So it's a win-win for just about everyone except for the poor, unfortunate kid who's the center of it all, Palin's 14-year-old daughter, Willow. It's already hard being a teenager, especially at 14 year old teenager (remember freshman year? ugh ugh ugh). I can't imagine what it's like being the 14 year old daughter of an exploitative dipshit mediahog mom who makes a mountain out of a molehill in order to further her own political career.
Sorry, Willow. I hope that this is forgotten by the time school starts next year and you don't have to face loser 9th grade boys asking you about A-Rod's schlong or something descpiable like that. You have to admit that if Sarah Palin never brought this up, not one of us would be talking about it. And now her daugher has to suffer the consequences of her loathsome mother. Poor thing.
But what a boon it is for Letterman ratings and Palin political exposure!
This is the best police report in the history of the world. Former Gainesville Georgia Mayor Mark Musselwhite was arrested for nudity. He was drunk and camping. Oh my giddy gumdrops. As I noted in my comments on the Wonkette, this makes me wanna go camping in Georgia real real bad.
I wanted to be an artist of some kind. He inspired my imagination and my creativity. I had a red jacket and a white glove and I would play my Thriller tape on my purple plastic tape player stereo and dance and sing for hours on end. My Thriller tape actually broke because I wore it out.
at least for the summer. He and I got together and did some Old School things, like take the train to the Other Side Cafe on Newbury St and walk the street to the Public Garden (which looks SO PRETTY right now) and then Boston Common, through Downtown Crossing to the train, where we parted ways. 
How do you like your ice cream? I usually like it in milk shake form and in the mint chocolate chip flavor. But if I have it in a dish, I like it a smidge soupy so each bite is part unmelted part soupy ice cream that way. It's tasty.
do some errands (we were in need of some TP here at Alham) and stopped to indulge in a small cup at iScreamWorks.
I just re-read Pride and Prejudice in preparation for reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which I hear, on NPR, is actually a clever spin off of the book. Some of the other spin-offs out there are dreadful beyond all belief. I read a Mr Darcy one last year. Turbull, jes turbull.
