Bravo Ed Schultz and Donny Deutsch: The Letterman-Palin controversy requiescat in pace
June 12, 2009
As I was about to sound off about the silliness of the Letterman-Palin brouhaha, I was watching “The Ed Show” on MSNBC. His first guest today (June 12) was Donny Deutsch. Mr. Deutsch’s comments were like a breath of fresh air in a murk of myopic persiflage. The question is not whether Letterman’s joke about Palin’s daughter was or was not in bad taste, but whether Palin herself is far more guilty of exploiting her own children than any late night talk show comedian/host. Palin has no one to blame for putting her children (and their liaisons) into the limelight but herself. Her crocodile tears over the alleged line overstepping by Letterman are the rankest pretense: they are a mask for another pallid attempt on her part to make herself a credible political candidate. Donny Deutsch ripped that mask off effectively, exposing Palin’s poverty when it comes to issues that matter and her hypocrisy when it comes to issues that are trivial. Her continued crusade against Letterman will do no more than diminish her stature even further, revealing her inarticulateness, her linguistic and cultural illiteracy, and her willingness to exploit the details of her private life in whatever way seems to be advantageous to herself without forcing her to discuss substantive issues with cogency and coherence.
As far as Letterman’s joke is concerned, if anyone is owed an apology, it is Alex Rodriguez.
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