{"id":10460,"date":"2009-06-10T12:19:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T16:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/?p=10460"},"modified":"2017-03-15T18:22:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T18:22:44","slug":"lileks-on-letterman-on-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2009\/06\/10\/lileks-on-letterman-on-palin\/","title":{"rendered":"Lileks on Letterman on Palin – UPDATED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

If you have missed it<\/strong>, the old rule that you don\u2019t go after a politicians kids<\/a> (which has been strongly, and correctly<\/em>, in place under all Democrat presidents, and was even sometimes practiced about the Bush-twins) does not apply to Sarah Palin, and has never applied to Sarah Palin. You may get nagged at for observing that Michelle Obama looks like she is angry, but it\u2019s \u201cfunny pop-culture-coolness\u201d to suggest that Sarah Palin (who is a stoopit hick<\/em>, afterall) looks \u201clike a slutty flight attendant\u201d and her daughters are (interchangably) sluts as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Our tolerant, open-minded and compassionate, women-friendly<\/a> betters.<\/p>\n

I stopped watching David Letterman years ago because the guy seemed sour, bitter, humorless \u2013 stuck playing to the cynical instincts of 14 year-olds and too cowardly to stop.<\/p>\n

But Lileks says it much better than I<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[Pathetic.] People have used other words \u2013 disgusting, repellent, abominable, danker than the fetid breath of the nine-bladder\u2019d Arazon, Privy-Cleaner of Hell, et cetera \u2013 but pathetic is all I can muster.<\/em><\/p>\n

But no, it must be funny, because David is funny and hip. Right? Or maybe not; maybe he\u2019s actually a brackish, hermetically-souled guy who\u2019s spend the last twenty years going from table to table with a giant wooden grinder, asking anyone if they want some fresh-ground scorn with that. Say when. Or maybe he\u2019s about as edgy as a soccer ball, and exists only to remind people they were Edgy once, and hence must be ever-blessed with the gift of Wryness and Irony. With those shields we can never grow old, you know. We\u2019ll always be as sharp and perceptive as we were when we were sitting on a cast-off sofa in college, working through a midweek buzz, happily fellated by the preconceptions the TV so charitably provided.<\/p>\n

Or so I remember; haven\u2019t watched the show in years. I thought it was brilliant at first, but at some point early on Bill Wendell\u2019s introduction stopped being Bill Wendell as Don Pardo and became Bill Wendell Intentionally and Ironically Being Don Pardo for Your Ironic Enjoyment. The introductory graphics got slick. Paul Shaffer morphed into this eyeless homunculus yes-man, like Ed McMahon on painkillers converted into handy portable Idol form (really, sometimes I see a picture of this tiny fellow wearing shades, grinning at nothing, and he reminds me of something Indiana Jones would replace with a weighted bag of sand before he stole it.) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course you\u2019ll want to read it all<\/a>; it\u2019s Lileks!<\/p>\n

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If you have missed it, the old rule that you don\u2019t go after a politicians kids (which has been strongly, and correctly, in place under all Democrat presidents, and was even sometimes practiced about the Bush-twins) does not apply to Sarah Palin, and has never applied to Sarah Palin. 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