Have you heard? I'm sure you have. Letterman made an off-color joke about Sarah Palin's daughter whether it was the 14-year-old or 18-year-old and Alex Rodriquez and who else can we throw in the pot, Matt Lauer asking Palin questions on the Today show and all the myriad media people who've fanned the flames on this one?
So, I'll add a name to the pot. An innocent bystander who probably caused the whole dang thang like Mrs. O'Leary's cow burning down Chicago.
Conan O'Brien!
Seems to this old-time PR maven that Letterman deftly and cunningly swept all attention away from Conan a mere week after O'Brien's Tonight Show host debut.
Imagine the writers at a conference table. "What'll we do? It's gotta be BIG. Shoot! Conan had Pearl Jam with an album debut exclusively through Target."
Some guy in the back like Robert Shaw scratching the blackboard in Jaws said, "Palin's in town." Talk about a target.
Hey, it worked for Tina Fey. A Star is Born. Bingo.
But everyone and their mother got on the conservative vs. liberal, feminist soap box about the rights of women (which I whole-heartedly agree, behave boys.) And we got down to where were you when you heard? As representatives of the right or left wing or women's rights why didn't you step up, protect our daughters? (again yes we should) But to me, folks, it seems that everyone's talking about Letterman and not the other late-night guy. As Trump has proven time and time again, ANY publicity is good publicity.
Let's move on, shall we. They both got a whole hell of a lot of publicity off all of us, including me.
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