Okay, just a quick jot since it’s been a week since I posted anything. But I’m currently getting a big kick out of Sarah Palin’s reaction to David Letterman’s little joke about her daughter getting knocked up.

For those that don’t know (although I don’t know how, since this story’s kinda all over the place) Letterman made a little joke on his show “One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game, during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.”

Rather kicked off a fuss.

Now the thing is here that Letterman has said the joke was aimed at 18-year-old daughter Bristol. But since he didn’t name anyone in particular in the joke and Palin was with her 14-year-old daughter Willow at the time and not Bristol…

Well, you can see how that might cause a fuss.

Palin said it took Letterman time to think of the “convenient excuse” that he was talking about Bristol instead of Willow. Now, to be fair I think it’s much more likely the joke really was aimed at Bristol and the folks on Letterman’s staff who come up with those jokes for him just didn’t do their homework. Probably got too excited at the prospect of hacking on Palin to be bothered with such things.

PalinPAC spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton said Wednesday, “The Palins have no intention of providing a ratings boost for David Letterman by appearing on his show. Plus, it would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman.”

That last comment caused a bit of a stir as well, though Palin largely just shrugged it off. She even inferred that maybe her spokeswoman meant it would be best to keep Willow away from Letterman…for Letterman’s sake. Which I thought was high-larious and was exactly what I would have said as well.

Palin herself has said, “I would like to see him apologize to young women across the country for contributing to kind of that thread that is throughout our culture that makes it sound like it is OK to talk about young girls in that way, where it’s kind of OK, accepted and funny to talk about statutory rape,” she said. “It’s not cool. It’s not funny.”

She also read right from her BlackBerry a comment she received, “Every male organization. . . should rise up and shout in defense of their daughters, their sisters, their mothers.”

I got a real kick out of that one. You never hear feminists say that sort of thing, which I really think is a shame. I’ve always been convinced that if feminists (real feminists, not the current fascist man-hating unshorn lesbo pro-abortion club we call the feminist movement) were to shame men more often on their failure to stand up and defend their daughters, sisters and mothers we would accomplish twice as much as we do. We might even put those other so-called feminists out of business finally.

Men (real men) can’t stand the implication that they haven’t lived up to their real man status and will literally knocked down mountains to defend that. How we could possibly missed this incredibly effect means of rallying the most fanatical support to any particular cause I’ll never understand.

But all in all I find the whole thing just makes me want to stand up and cheer. We never see mothers step up and just go off when their daughters are insulted in this way anymore. I see Letterman making a tasteless joke at the expense of Palin’s daughter (whether 18 year-old Bristol or 14 year-old Willow, both deserve the same general response in my opinion) and Palin pulling out all the stops to just plain make him sorry he opened his big, dumb mouth.

That’s awesome. We really should see that more often.

Now if Bristol and Willow’s dad had come on TV and gone red-faced, bulged a vein or two in his forehead and threatened to call out Letterman to the parking lot I’d probably throw a party. But, as I’ve hopefully implied, we seem to have forgotten who’s job it’s supposed to be to defend our daughters.

Oh, well. Missed the mark but hit the tree.