Leno, Letterman, Kimmel and O'Brien Weigh in on Palin-for-VP

Sarah, Get Your Gun! May Supplant "Annie, Get Your Gun!"

On the humorous side, the selection of a woman known for eating mooseburgers has been comic fodder for all the late night talk show hosts. Charges that Sarah Palin was the only candidate who could field dress a moose just seemed...well, ridiculous. Is there really a big demand for the Vice President to field dress moose? It was beginning to sound a little like a "whose is bigger?" contest. But the comic possibilities are endless.
David Letterman noted that the Palin family crisis was going to be solved. "The baby is being adopted by Angelina Jolie." Letterman also scored with, "You gotta' love this. Sarah Palin is an avid hunter. A vice president who likes guns? Well, what could go wrong there?" Another pundit had asked which was the better shot: Cheney or Palin. Another television pundit said, "The Palins like guns and they now will have their very own shot-gun wedding."
Jay Leno weighed in by telling the nation that "John McCain was helping out with the hurricane. To give you an idea what a passionate guy McCain is, he moved over 200,000 evacuees into some of his empty houses." Asked Jimmy Kimmel, ragging on McCain's age, "Sarah Palin's got a 4-month old of her own, she's about to become a grandmother, and she's partnered with 72-year-old John McCain. How many diapers can one woman possibly change?"
Conan O'Brien weighed in on the scarcity of black delegates to the RNC, saying, "True fact: this year there are only 36 black delegates at the convention in Minnesota. As a result, there are now 37 black people in Minnesota."
Many of the humorists tied John Edwards into the Bristol Palin teen-aged pregnancy, saying things like "We never should have introduced her to John Edwards. (Conan O'Brien).
Jay Leno, spoofing on beauty pageants, in general, said, "Back in 1984, Sarah Palin finished second in the Miss Alaska pageant. Now, she might be President. You know what that means? For the first time in history, a beauty-pageant contestant might actually bring about world peace."