David Letterman is Awesome

I haven't watched the Late Show in years (as you know, I'm a grandma) but I've always loved David Letterman, and this clip just reminded me why.

Seems Dave got himself into trouble recently because made some jokes about Sarah Palin's family trip to New York. He said that the toughest part for them was keeping Eliot Spitzer away from their daughter, and said that Alex Rodriguez knocked their daughter up during the 7th inning stretch of a Yankee game.

The Palin's find out about it, and issued these blistering statements about how Letterman was joking about child rape and stuff.

So Letterman goes on the air to apologize, as only he can. You have to watch it to get the full affect, but I just think he handles it perfectly. See, the real problem was, the Palin's took their 14-year-old daughter on the trip with them, not the 18-year-old one that everyone knows about, the one with the baby. But all that aside (and politics aside: this really has nothing to do with the Palins as people or politicians) I think Letterman does a really good job of pointing out some of the absurdity of the whole "I say something controversial, you freak out, I apologize, someone else says something controversial, and on and on and on" thing that goes on nowadays, but without actually coming out and saying it, you know?



By the way, can he please get rid of Paul Shaffer?