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So recently David Letterman, who I usually LOVE, got into some hot water for making a joke about  the daughter of former Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin, who I usually can't stand. He deserves all of it and more.

The other night, Letterman made a crack about the Palins' visit to New York City saying, "during the seventh inning [of a Yankees game], her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez." 

Letterman claims that the joke was about the 18-year-old Bristol, who recently appeared on the cover with her newborn baby boy. The problem was, the only Palin daughter at the game was Willow, 14.

The Palins were pissed, rightfully, at first thinking it was aimed at Willow, Letterman later claimed the joke was about Bristol, but the Palins said it didn't matter-- the joke was sick, inappropriate and wrong to tell about any of their daughters. And they're right. You NEVER make fun of the kids, no matter how old they are. It's meesed up and wrong.And this got me thinking.

When Al Gore's son got busted for drugs, the media backed off. You never hear any jokes about Ted Kennedy's nephew being an alleged rapist. But you hear this joke about Palin's daughter. A few years ago people made fun of the Bush twins for partying.

You could say that it's because the media is biased toward the Democrats, so a comedian can get away with making jokes about Republican kids and people can

get away with  pulling Republican kids into the spotlight, but not Democrat ones and I realize that that isn't totally true either.

Beanie Baby made Dolls out of the Obama girls. And yeara and years ago when the Clintons were in the White House, people targetted Chelsea Clinton, criticizing and making fun of her for not being pretty enough (seriously). And I notice, there seems to be more acceptance of focussing inappropriate attention on daughters than there is of boys. When it's a young man, the media backs off. When it's a girl, well, one toe out of line and it's ridiculous. And it crosses party lines!

In fact, it's always okay to pull daughters into the spotlight, to call them skanks and trainwrecks when they party or write tabloid stories about them. It doesn't matter how old they are.

Let's face it, how many tabloid stories have you seen chronicling the life of Suri Cruise? She's THREE. Or Shiloh-Jolie Pitt. There are more stories focussing directly on Shiloh than any of her other siblings. We're hearing more and more stories about Madonna's daughter,Lourdes, every day. WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO LEAVING THE KIDS ALONE. AND WHY IS IT ALWAYS THE GIRLS?

It's messed up. We need to leave the kids alone, no matter how old, no matter what sex.

WHat is it that makes girls so vulnerable to this?