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Smug, hip David Letterman offered a smirky non-apology about his ongoing class and sexist slurs against the Palins, his apparent social inferiors. "We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news and we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter, the 18-year-old girl, who is — her name is Bristol, that's right, and so, then, now they're upset with me . . .""These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl. I mean, look at...

Every once in a while, someone who builds their career through a lifetime of decent, honest, hard work…blows it in a moment of seething hatred and bitterness. In Dan Rather’s case, it was his blind acceptance as true of a document ostensibly proving President Bush missed a Texas Air National Guard physical examination due to his father’s influence. Instead of adhering to a main tenet of journalistic probity, that is; verify, verify, verify; Mr. Rather quickly and blindly accepted the document as genuine, and then taunted his critics to “prove it isn’t real!” In that moment Dan Rather forever tainted...

There's been quite a stink over David Letterman's ill-judged and offensive joke about Sarah Palin's daughter getting "knocked up" by Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees. I initially took it as a reference to Bristol Palin, who is now 18 and has a young baby. Turns out though that the daughter who did accompany Governor Palin to the Yankees was Bristol Palin, who's 14. Letterman has taken a lot of flak and few, even on the Left, have been prepared to stick up for him with any conviction. So Dave has apologised. Kind of. Sort of. Well, hardly at...