Actually, I love humor thats a bit edgy.
I’m just waiting to see what Letterman’s “edgy” humor will look like when he decides to go after the Obama family.
Which, I think, is the point. What most people are ticked about isn’t so much the fact that we’re the butt of someone’s jokes, but that there is a double standard. The same kind of humor directed at the Obama kids would be clearly out of line, and even a jerk like Letterman would be afraid to do it. But if you’re a conservative, you are fair game. Thats what gets under people’s skins.
As for me, I tuned Letterman out a decade ago. If he ever decides to get edgy with Mrs Obama or her kids, I’ll have to read about it here, because I simply haven’t watched him in years.
You got it - it’s not the joke in and of itself that ticks us off so much,
but the double standard applied to conservatives vs leftists, minorities vs whites, women vs men, all the groups that the left divides us on.