God bless the mute button

I had the Today show on to find out the weather. I'm not really sure why because they drone on so much that I tune out and never actually find out what the weather is supposed to be like. I was wandering in and out of the kitchen, but it seemed to me that the frightening Sarah P. was on the show for about half an hour. No doubt she was whining about David Letterman being so mean and perhaps a sexual deviant for his joke about her excellent daughter, but I don't know because when I hear her voice my hand automatically hits the mute button. I am not sure why they think she is worthy of so much morning air time, but after all this is the same Matt Lauer who conducted one of my favorite interviews. Matt to a father who's son was attacked by an alligator - When did you realize that your son was in trouble? Dad - Uhh I guess when I saw the alligator eating him. Now that is news. The press is being very tisk tisk about the joke, which is pretty ironic considering they thought it was hilarious when people said horrible things about Chelsea Clinton. I don't condone kid bashing and do feel that politician's children should be left alone, but Mistress Sarah used her children as props throughout the campaign, and it is somewhat disingenous to get so worked up about a tasteless joke. What would you rather be accused of - having sex with A-rod or being the love child of Hillary and Janet Reno?