David Letterman's For-Real-This-Time Apology to Sarah Palin

Believe it or not, but that moronic, lazy joke that David Letterman told about Sarah Palin's daughter is still fucking in the news. Because, clearly, this is an important thing to talk about.

Anyway, Letterman must have been genuinely concerned that his ass was gonna get Imused, because last night he delivered another, less-cocky, more-make-believe-sincere apology to the Palins…

Letterman said he had no idea Palin was at the Yankees game with her 14-year-old daughter, Willow, when he joked about her getting "knocked up" by player Alex Rodriguez last week.

"I had, honestly, no idea that the 14-year-old girl, I had no idea that anybody was at the ball game except the governor, and I was told at the time she was there with Rudy Giuliani," Letterman said. "It’s not your fault that it was misunderstood, it’s my fault… So I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke."

I really hope this is the end of this story*, because I stopped caring about it several posts ago.

^{* I know it's not.}