David Letterman Vs Sarah Palin & Some Idiots: It's (Still) On

Wolves, you've just earnt yourselves a respite. Sarah Palin is currently too busy to shoot you from a helicopter with a machinegun.

It's all thanks to David Letterman. If you've been following the news, you've probably heard that David Letterman told a moderately funny joke last week, which Sarah Palin took offence to because she thought it was about the statutory rape of her 14-year-old daughter. Which it probably wasn't. And now, somewhat inevitably, it's war.

So God help David Letterman when Sarah Palin becomes president. Because if she doesn't get him, one of those flying pigs definitely will.

If we were David Letterman right now, we'd want to kiss Sarah Palin right on the face. We wouldn't actually kiss her, obviously, for fear that being an incomprehensible knee-jerk dimwit was both contagious and spread by the passing of saliva, but we'd want to kiss her nonetheless.

Why? Because thanks to Sarah Palin and her willingness to peg herself to whatever diluted form of moral outrage she can, provided it means that she's kept in the limelight for a few seconds longer, David Letterman is big business again. After Jay Leno left The Tonight Show last month, it was feared that David Letterman would have to fight even harder for viewers, since it meant going up against Conan O'Brien - a man who is actually funny rather than just smug and chinny.

But that hasn't happened, and for that he can thank Sarah Palin's preposterously over the top reaction to a joke he told last week, suggesting that one of her daughters might get knocked up by Alex Rodruiguez if they stayed in New York too long. While it seems pretty clear that Letterman was referring to Bristol Palin - the Palin daughter who has a proven track record of underage pregnancies - Sarah Palin took it as a reference to her 14-year-old daughter, who's called Willow or Shrub or Moon or Biro or Plap or something.

And now, despite his multiple apologies, Sarah Palin is still spouting off in the wrong direction about statutory rape and what a great big victim she is, and now her supporters want to get David Letterman fired, as the LA Times reports:

'I'm glad he's acknowledged we're right,' said John Ziegler, a creator of the film 'Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted'. 'I think it's a good first step in the right direction, but I don't think it's enough.' … Ziegler said he was not sure what sanction Letterman should face, but options should include suspension and firing. Meanwhile, the group is still planning a rally Tuesday outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York, where Letterman tapes his show.

It sounds like all of this is getting awfully messy on the surface, but let's not kid ourselves. After all, everyone's benefiting from this argument. David Letterman's getting more attention than he's had in years, Sarah Palin has been given another rock to cling onto before she inevitably blows away into obscurity forever, we get to make several tired old jokes about Sarah Palin and Jay Leno in the space of a single post - and you?

Well, you get to leave a bunch of ill-informed, borderline illiterate comments that would appear to have been written by actual children below. What are you waiting for? It's what you lot do best.

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