NYTIMES: LETTERMAN'S PALIN JOKE WAS TASTELESS; THEY WOULD NOT PUBLISH

GATEWAY:

Shocker!

The New York Times and CBS airbrushed David Letterman's Willow Palin sex jokes from their website: [Click over to Gateway to see the cleaned-up version they printed - it opmits the Bristol Palin rape joke.]

... NYTIMES:

"The transcript we received omitted the joke referred to in the comments below, presumably for reasons of taste. Had the transcript included the joke, we would not have run it. Monologue jokes are routinely edited for taste and brevity."

ESSENTIALLY THE NYTIMES SAID THEY WERE TASTELESS JOKES - BENEATH THEM.

APPARENTLY THEY'RE NOT BENEATH CBS - THE TIFFANY NETWORK!

LETTERMAN SHOULD BE FIRED - LIKE IMUS WAS.