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Letterman/Palin fallout continued

One of the reasons we took issue with the apology issued by David Letterman the other night was that it seemed… inadequate. And, as things turned out, it did little to quell the rage out there.

Would a better apology have done so? Yes. That’s what we’ve contended all along and that was the point of our posting (scroll down).

A sincere apology, copping to a giant screw up, a swallowing of pride might (we say, “might”) have stopped the entire controversy in its tracks.

Now we have statements from Palin, on rival network NBC’s Today:

“Palin said Friday that it was time for people to rise up against Letterman’s form of humor.

“No wonder young girls especially have such low self-esteem in America when we think it’s funny for a so-called comedian to get away with such a remark as he did,” she said. “I don’t think that’s acceptable.”