The Palin-Letterman Brouhaha

Don’t you just love that word?

According to Wide World of Words:  The usual spelling is brouhaha, meaning an overexcited and noisy response, a commotion, hubbub or uproar. It’s a negative word for some unpleasant confusion; a more neutral alternative might be the equally odd-looking hubbub. We know the word came from the French word spelled the same way; it’s found in French from the sixteenth century on, but it only arrived in English at the end of the nineteenth century. It seems to have been used in French drama as a noise made by the devil, who cried brou, ha, ha!.

Whatever.  It’s a goody and an apt word to describe the flack over Letterman’s rather lame joke at Bristol Palin’s expense.

Personally I do love Dave Letterman and he’s welcome to say whatever he wants about Palin.

Didn’t Sarah Palin herself throw her family in front of the train?

As Robert Elisberg notes in his column:  ”What finally disgustipated me is that throughout the campaign, Sarah Palin whined regularly that her family was off-limits (which they should have been) – yet used them as circus props more than Barnum and Bailey. At every appearance, her new baby was hanging on her shoulder like it was an epaulet. To promote being a hockey “mom,” she dragged her youngest daughter to center ice. She hauled the pregnant Bristol with her all over, even making sure that the fake-fiancé was there for every disingenuous photo op. (If ever there was a new meaning for the term “forced labor,” this was it.) The only people surprised when the couple broke off their faux-engagement were those who thought Sarah Palin was actually a foreign policy expert because she could see Russia from the beach.”

Uh, yeah!

What always slays me about conservatives and Republicans is their continued preaching of “family values.”

Yet the examples that they continue to set have not exactly been exemplary.

I mean, would you rather have Bristol Palin for a daughter … or Chelsea Clinton?

And who sets a better example of “family values” than the current occupants of the White House?  Barack and Michelle Obama could write the book about family values and good parenting skills.

Perhaps Sarah Palin should spend more time at home.