Letterman and Palin

Governor Palin insists that David Letterman knowingly directed that A-Rod joke at her 14-year-old daughter. I don't believe that to be the case. I chalk it up to Letterman and his writers forgetting that besides Bristol, the governor and her hard-for-secession hubby have 200 other daughters. You know, like how President -- or to please the Fox News crowd -- Ayatollah Barack Obama probably has more than 200 burqa-clad wives? Letterman didn't mean the 14-year-old girl any more than Obama meant the governor with his now-notorious "lipstick on a pig" utterance.

Still, to paraphrase President Nixon: Letterman gave the Palins a sword, and they're sticking it in with relish.

Mother Palin is playing the martyr. Gotta say, I kind of admire her feistiness. She's one tough cookie. This became clear to me when she first entered the national stage and thanked Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary in an obvious attempt to siphon the votes of Clintonites who were aggravated that Madame Clinton was denied her supposed destiny. She is as ruthless as Hillary, just with less age, less skirt, and less brains.