Letterman attacks on Sarah Palin are nothing new

NewsBuster's Brent Baker reminds us that cheap shot attacks on Gov. Palin by Dave Lecherman are nothing new. Baker reviewed the NewsBuster archives and documented that the late night talk show host has been lashing out at the governor since shortly after she became the GOP's vice presidenital candidate last year:

Last September, Letterman sarcastically complained that if a President McCain "drops dead...don't you want your President to have had the presence of mind to have chatted to her teenaged kids for five minutes about birth control?" He soon sneered: "They don't sell Trojans in Alaska? Come on." In October, without recognizing any irony given Barack Obama's inexperience, Letterman wondered if the nation can risk "a beginner in the passenger seat" and, in a sexist cheap shot, imitated Palin adjusting her hair during a 9/11 crisis as he impersonated her voice: "How's my hair?"

We did a little research of our own and found two more instances of the aging clown's mean-spirited attacks on Sarah Palin. In November, Creepy Dave revealed himself as a pervert who views women as sexual objects:

"Essentially out of nowhere, here she is, can't name a newspaper, wants to be vice president, the first vice-presidential candidate that I found myself being aroused about."

In December, the no-class jerk even joked about the arson attack on the church Sarah Palin attends in Wasilla:

"Now here's something that gives you a pause for thought. Over the weekend, a church that Sarah Palin attended was burned. Somebody set fire to the church. Very serious, disturbing. As a matter of fact, they are looking for a guy. And they think it's Joe the Arsonist. That's who they are looking for."

We doubt that the women who were inside the building with their children at the time the church was torched see the humor in that one. By the grace of God, they were all able to escape serious injury or worse.

- JP