How Far We Have Fallen

Ah, the poor Palin clan. Target for every lunacy the fascist left can throw at them- including infamously limelighting the (statutory or otherwise) fantasy rape of one daughter or another. Under pressure, Letterman gave a non-apology. He REALLY was referring not to 14 year old Willow, but 18 year old Bristol. As if that made everything alright.

This is bad enough, but, what follows is worse.

Kathleen Parker, once a reliable fount of common sense, seems to have totally lost her moral bearings in the Obamanation. A few days ago she wrote a column that seemed to start out condemning Letterman's shtick. However, after a few lines, she matched his 'non-apology' with her 'non-condemnation.' She chided that we all need to remember that Letterman is a comedian (really?) and he was just doing what comedians do, after all---he just took it a step too far. And woe be to us, let's just stay away from censorship! After all, he was just taking two seemingly unassociated things ("as comedians often do") and putting them together for comic relief.

Sure. Right. Uh Huh.

Realizing , perhaps innately, that SHE was going too far, she was moved at one point to declaim (after pointing out that Bristol and Willow where being put "out there" by Governor Palin) that she was NOT saying they (Palins) "asked for it" (as in "rape victims are asking for it).

What intellectual poverty. What lack of common sense- and sensibility.

How sad...Kathleen Parker, a mainstream journalist, basically saying it's ok to have "humor" like this, on national television. Once upon a time, no one would even hint about a child being raped in front of her mother, at a baseball game, by a player---or even about a governor having a "slutty stewardess look"---I wonder how stewardesses feel about that?

Kathleen didn't say. Just another day in 2009 America.



M.C.