There are approximately 800,000 stories about late-night talk shows today, with most of them being about Letterman beating Conan O’Brien in the ratings last night.  CBS basically laid low and let Conan have his honeymoon last week, then booked big-ratings guests like Howard Stern and Julia Roberts this week.  In addition, Conan’s primetime lead-in was hockey, so it’s not like this some kind of death-knell for the new “Tonight Show” — not that that stopped Nikki Finke from demanding everyone at NBC resign for everything.

The other thing is Dave’s Top Ten List about Sarah Palin’s trip to New York (video above).  Number two on the list was about Palin getting makeup at Bloomingdale’s to “update her slutty flight attendant look,” and the Alaskan governor naturally had a good sense of humor about it.  Oh wait.  No.  The opposite of that.

“What a commentary there,” Palin said of the comment during an interview on conservative host John Ziegler’s Los Angeles-based radio show. “That’s pretty pathetic, good ole David Letterman.” [...] Palin grouped Letterman in with media outlets “where everything is commentary and facts don’t matter anymore.”

Good call by Palin to respond to something a late-night host said.  Arnold Schwarzenegger should really release a statement making it clear that he never actually appeared on the video screen when Conan hosted “Late Night.”  Man, I hate it when facts don’t matter on late-night shows.  The Masturbating Bear isn’t even a real bear!