Palin, Letterman gained from flap

I find myself in awe of two recent events.

First;, the incredible timing of David Letterman's writers to come up with extremely sophomoric, crude, unfunny jokes about Sarah Palin, and her daughter just at the time that Conan O'Brien took over the Tonight Show and took about half of Letterman's audience, even if it was temporarily because of their curiosity.

Second, as sophomoric, crude and unfunny as they were that Sarah Palin reacted as vehemently as she did.

Letterman got pages of print and hours of airtime publicity all for free. He probably got that audience back and many more due to that same curiosity. Palin didn't do too badly as far as free publicity is concerned, at this stage of her career, bad publicity is better than no publicity.

I also find myself quite curious as to whether those writers are extremely clever in knowing that Palin would react as she did, are they extremely lucky that their lack of writing ability worked as well as it did, or was the whole thing planned between the staffs of Letterman and Palin? As reluctant as I am to accuse Palin of being clever and/or underhanded enough to realize the advantages of the flap almost certainly there is someone on her staff who is.

David Lackowski

Wheeling