Who is Sarah Palin to complain about tastelessness?
Paul Mulshine’s June 21 column has some hilarious and also devastating commentary on Sarah Palin, especially this: The joke [that David Letterman told about Palin’s daughter] may have been tasteless. But taste is not Palin’s strength. She first came to prominence parading her pregnant daughter and the daughter’s soon-to-be-ex-fiance around the national Republican convention. When I read this my head exploded at the rightness of Mulshine’s point. And I wondered how I could have failed to make the connection myself, given my fierce condemnation last September of Sarah Palin and John McCain for displaying the pregnant Bristol and her boyfriend together at the GOP convention, thus legitimizing out of wedlock pregnancy at the highest level of our national life and essentially destroying social conservatism. Compared to the cultural and moral damage that Palin wreaked then, Letterman’s joke was nothing. How dare Palin and her “conservative” champions complain about Letterman’s joke, when wha
