Re: Letterman Apologizes to Palin

Greg has posted Letterman's televised apology below. Obviously, there are many bigger fish to fry today, from Iran to health care, but I can't resist just summing up the apology from Letterman:

I made a coarse and cruel joke that was misconstrued as suggesting that a defenseless 14 year old -- who's become a target only because her mother is in politics -- is a slut. Please forgive me. What I really meant to do is make a coarse and cruel joke suggesting that a defenseless 18 year old, with a child out of wedlock -- who's become a target only because her mother is in politics -- is a slut. My apologies.

You'd never catch Carson, Hope -- or Leno, for that matter -- ever having to issue such an apology, or issuing it that way. Class tells.