It's okay Jeff, the left has proven they will lie through their teeth about everything anyway, so what difference does it make? They are proud of themselves for propping this goofball up, and endorsing the stupidity which flowed from his lips. It all fits nicely with the double-standards they hold for everything else.
To the left, this is about throwing something up in MY face, to defame ME, because I said Letterman's career was over, and they believe I was wrong. But here's the dirty little secret they won't tell you... Letterman took a huge hit, that was why his network made him apologize profusely, including a personal apology to the governor herself. Even after that, his show lost one of their biggest sponsors, Olive Garden declined to renew their contract with Letterman. Several other sponsors have also said they would not renew contracts with Letterman's show. His ratings dropped like a rock when he did this, and they have never recovered. Sure, his show still remains popular, just not to the extent it was before, and it never will be again. But that won't stop the liberals from lying, they have this inner need to constantly lie about something, so this is the perfect kind of thing to lie about!
Let's take this whole episode under the microscope of scrutiny... A left-wing comedian made an inappropriate sexual joke about the minor child of a political figure. After the dust settles and he issues two public apologies and one personal apology to the governor, the leftist nit wits are lauding him as a hero who overcame the right wing attempts to bring him down! So in essence, even Letterman admits it was wrong for him to do what he did, but the left wants to cheer from the sidelines... Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah... Letterman got away with it!! I say, that is fine with me... let them applaud Letterman, let them cheer for him and condone what he did! Let them even rub it in MY face that he is still on the air! The more the left takes this sort of immature and irresponsible angle, the more they completely bury their left-wing ideology, because most NORMAL people know that WRONG is WRONG!