Desperate Doings

This is utterly ridiculous:

• Olive Garden yanks Letterman ads

I wanted to avoid all mention of the Letterman-Palin bout because I find her scarily dim and superfluous, but now that the overdone media coverage seems to be over......

I thought the entire Palin debacle with David Letterman was overkill in the first place. It was a simple ploy for media attention by the inept and fumbling governor of Alaska.

Can you imagine if Palin and her trigger-happy running mate McCain had won the election and were now running the country with their overreach and disingenuous ideals? I literally shudder at the nightmare scenario, not just for Americans but for people across the globe.

As for the Olive Garden going along with the idiocy, I was never much interested in their restaurants in the past and have no intention of frequenting them in the future.

One other tickler about this topic that has annoyed me was the assumption by Palin that her family should be treated in the same fashion as President Obama's. She said something along the lines of "if Letterman has spoken about President Obama's daughters the way he spoke about mine, everyone would have been up in arms."

First of all, Sarah Palin is not even the same realm as the President. Despite her celebrity, the woman is of no national importance. What is good for the goose is not good for the gander in this case. There is no comparison, frankly. I don't mean to appear as fanatical as the right wing about this, but in my mind Palin is extraneous.

And her faux outrage is just that – she is looking for opportunities to stay in the public eye and will use her own family to those ends in the process.