when NOW feels they can’t just pretend like they didn’t happen

I agree.
They have no credibility on this and are only trying to appear relevant .

They couldn’t care less about Sarah Palin as this is like the 1,000th time she has been attacked in this way. All they have done is issue a very weak statement so they don’t look like the complete DNC advocacy groups that they are.
If the tables were reversed and it was a conservative on the hot seat like Rush Limbaugh these people would be on every T.V. network every day for a week screaming bloody murder.

I would assume you’re probably correct in your assumption.

But there will be a penalty for doing that – Letterman now will lose access to any right-of-center guests (granted, he has almost none of those to begin with anyway), and he’ll also start to lose any principled Hollywood feminists as guests too (granted, there aren’t many of those either).

Also, it can be assumed that right-of-center viewers will now abandon Letterman permanently for Conan O’Brien. (Granted, I don’t think there were too many of those left watching Letterman these days either – I know I haven’t watched his show in over a decade…)

And it may cost Letterman advertisers which, when push comes to shove, are more important than viewers.

It will also cause CBS to take a prestige hit, which may start to bother Les Moonves.

Ratings are only a proxy for what CBS really cares about and that’s advertising revenue. If the Letterman show becomes a vehicle to lose one third of your customers in hopes of gaining some marginal business, then most advertisers are going to walk.

Anyway, at some point, this “no publicity is bad publicity” is going to wear off. Letterman will be back to being boring old Dave. Once his ratings settle back to their steady-state, he’ll be without a third of his pre-joke audience.

All of my liberal friends and colleagues not only dislike Palin. They flat out loathe her to the point where they almost seem enraptured by their disdain for her. I’ve heard her called everything from a trophy bimbo, an idiot, even ugly. When I point out that Palin has more in common with them than any Clinton or Obama (such as she didn’t go to an elite school, she’s self-made, self sufficient, and successful in the private sector with a husband who is a union member) they go ballistic. I haven’t seen this much vitriol since Ronald Reagan ran for President in 1980.

Remember that Reagan was portrayed by the media as being a moronic, uncultured, classless, clueless buffoon who would make nuclear armageddon imminent. Don’t think for a second that the general voting public won’t give Palin another look, especially after unemployment reaches 15%, an overseas adversary embarrasses America in an international incident, and gas becomes $10 a gallon. All the Obama adulation and Bush hatred in the world won’t save him from his incompetence.

This Obama love-in is the big shindig before the hangover. When everything gets blown to hell, America will seriously consider a Mormon or even a governor from Alaska for that matter.

Look, this won’t change liberal minds … but Independent minds are another matter altogether. Where do you think the bulk of swing voters get most of their exposure to politics? Entertainment.

The issue here is that most liberal entertainers and media personalities have long felt no compunction about smearing and attacking Republicans, their families and their supporters. e.g. take a look at Megan Fox’s recent spewing of idiocy at middle America.

Mushies absorb this on a daily basis.

Liberals don’t see Conservatives as human … and unfortunately this has bled out into popular entertainment with no protest from the Right. David Letterman thinks it’s funny to joke about a 14 year old girl engaging in sexual congress with an adult man in a stadium. Playboy thinks it’s funny to run an article by a disturbed beta male fantasizing about raping ten women.

And all on account of politics.

Imagine if a talk show host were to make a joke of Ashley Biden’s video-taped snorting of cocaine? Would his house not be surrounded by sneering and jeering “reporters” even at this moment?

To me, David Letterman deserves to be hit with more than a boycott – which often fizzle out within a week. I would want the Palins to go nuclear. An advertising campaign against Letterman would be a start – I’d bet contributions to see it done would cross the million mark within two weeks.

Conservatives have to stop taking these types of body blows and start delivering some of our own.

Will this, by itself, change the political balance? No.

Did any individual repeating of the “failed policies of the Bush administration” meme change the political balance? Likely not. Did the endless repetition? Undoubtedly. When prior to the election I would press someone that said they were voting Democratic or for Obama, the answer would normally be along the lines of “It’s gotta be better.”

Conservatives have to fight for the subconcious of the American voter punch by punch.

(Oh, and I was very surprised to see NOW come out against Letterman. NOW places leftist power way before defending women. I suppose it’s just a sign of the egregious unacceptability of Letterman’s joke that NOW condemned it.)

Unless and until we are ready to push back and fight back on any and every count, we are done. Being polite and being grown-up about stuff like this never got us anywhere. We have to learn to stop it when we hear it, because if we don’t, they’ll only get worse the next time.

Recent history should have taught us that lesson.

weren’t so great either. Wasn’t the right to vote movement a way to divide the family? I heard this from someone but don’t know where he got it from. I have never heard of F Douglass.