Is it time for the Letterman/Palin flap to end?

CNN's political ticker reports that a protest Tuesday afternoon outside of the Ed Sullivan Theater, where David Letterman tapes his late night CBS talk show, mustered only 15 protesters who 'held signs and occasionally shouted' from across the street. The group was outnumbered by more than 35 members of the media 'and out-shouted by a few very vocal counter-protesters,' the site claims.

The group was picketing Letterman because of an off-color joke the television personality made about a sexual relationship between Yankees player Alex Rodriguez and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's daughter. The quip has cost CBS at least one advertiser and spurred a complaint to the Federal Communications Commission from Austinite Russell Korman, owner of Russell Korman's Fine Jewelry & Watches.

Meanwhile, fellow comic and HBO talk show host Bill Maher defended Letterman to CNN's Wolf Blitzer:

'It was an easy and obvious joke to make. It was funny. It was not offensive in any way,' Maher said of the joke, for which Letterman apologized on his show Monday — an apology Palin has accepted. 'And they made it sound like he said something completely different. So he's apologizing for something he never meant, never thought, and never said.'

Here's Letterman apology. Palin has accepted it. Is it time for this to end? Tell us what you think: