It Just Ain't Funny!

In an article titled "Why Dave's Not Funny," Kathlenn Parker of the Washington Post says:
No, the Palins don't deserve protection from late-night hosts. No one does. But children deserve protection from adults who have lost sight of their responsibility to be wardens of the innocent. And parents are the best guardians of their children. . . .
The Palin jokes, for lack of a better term, were merely the latest in a string of recent hostile treatments of women -- conservative women in particular. The Playboy magazine Web site listing conservative women whom men would like to have "hate" sex with was beyond the pale. The harsh treatment of poor Miss California USA (since dethroned) when she expressed her opinion that marriage should be between a man and a woman was simply unfair.
And this from Paul Farhi, also writing in the Washington Post:
Don Imus apologized.
Mel Gibson apologized. So did Michael Richards and the Greaseman (didn't do much good).
Politicians do it all the time. Shock jocks, actors and athletes do. Even Bill O'Reilly has done it.
So why can't David Letterman bring himself to apologize? . . .
Letterman strayed into dangerous territory when he decided to poke fun at a public figure's child.