How Will the World Continue to Spin Post David Letterman's Jokes About Sarah Palin?

I don't really watch The Late Show with David Letterman much — because I don't live twenty years ago* — so I missed these incredibly controversial jokes he made about Sarah Palin's recent trip to New York…

[C]onservative pundits and personalities are in an uproar over David Letterman's jokes about Sarah Palin's daughter getting "knocked up" at a Yankee ballgame and a reference to Sarah Palin's "slutty flight attendant look" in his nightly Top 10 list.

The jokes weren't the least lazy jokes about Sarah Palin ever written, but they were definitely pretty close. And I probably would have shied away from cracking jokes about her 14-year-old daughter Willow — who was with her at the Yankee's game — even though the one in question was obviously directed at Bristol's abstinence only education crusade.

Palin's response, I think, was even-keeled and classy…

"What a commentary there," Palin said of the comment during an interview on conservative host's John Ziegler's Los Angeles-based radio show. "That's pretty pathetic, good ole David Letterman."

Luckily, there was the entirety of the right-wing Internet to give the matter the appropriate amount of outrageously overblown outrage and overblowiness…

* "David Letterman is a Sexist Pervert" [Conservatives 4 Palin]

* "That's right: A state governor went to a baseball game with her underage daughter, and a national talk show host made a joke about the girl being sexually assaulted by one of the players." [Hot Air]

* "David Letterman jokes about Alex Rodriguez raping Willow Palin." [Moe Lane]

Ah, that's better. Now I feel that this very important issue has been put into the proper context.

^{* To be fair, I don't watch Late Night with Jimmy Fallon either, because it stars Jimmy Fallon.}