If the GOP wonders why it has an image problem, this is why: its most public figures - elected or otherwise - come off as uptight, humorless whiners every time they open their mouths. When someone on television mentions you in a joke, the best thing to do is run with it and be a good sport or not respond at all. Why can't these people figure that out?
The only criticism I have of Letterman's response to Palin's whining is that he didn't make it clear that the Spitzer and A-Rod jokes were made at the expense of Spitzer and A-Rod more than anyone else. That's obvious to anyone of even average intelligence; unfortunately, too many Americans (some of them holding public office) are suffering from an acute irony deficiency and need to have jokes explained to them.
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