JD did it ever occur to you that when the national dialogue is this vulgar that more than a few of our best and brightest women (and men) would decide not to expose their family to it?

Second hand information… Some time back I believe L tried to make a joke about Obama something wherein the punch line was, “…a black cat in the Whitehouse.” That was booed by L’s self-selecting audience. No jokes about an adult political figure holding a lightening rod position but a governor can be referred to as a “slut” and her children targeted? What “fun.”

I personally like Palin. I was getting ready to get out of my car to shop when her acceptance speech came on the radio. I stayed and listened past store closing. I thought her’s was the only authentic American voice I heard in the whole campaign. But she is a creationist and creationists have, in my mind, no place on the national level.

Lenny Bruce pushed societal limits but he was never so desperate as to skewer anyone’s children for a “laugh” although I’d give a dollar to hear what Lenny would have said to Letterman after hearing the comment.

Anyhow, what excuse? There is no need to make an excuse. I’m defending comedy and the first amendment. This country likes to forget that it exists when they don’t agree with something said. I don’t want to even compare Letterman to Lenny Bruce, but you people are on some moral witch-hunt. Like the saying goes “those who can be offended should be.”

P.S. That joke was still better than 90% of anything Dane Cook, Carlos Mencia or the Larry the Cable Guy has ever crapped out/stolen.

To really understand this you have to realize that the Left doesn’t just have a different view of things, their view is morally superior to everyone else’s; more virtuous in the way they eat, drive, live, etc. Anyone who disagrees is fair game.

Robespierre said that terror is the natural emanation of virtue.