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The Letterman stuff gives a great example of the rules of cause of effect:

Cause: pressure on advertisers by people outraged by the hit on Palin’s daughter.

Effect: Embassy Suites pulls their ads from CBS.

TVGuide.com is reporting that Embassy Suites – part of the Hilton Hotels Corp. based in McLean, Va. – has pulled its advertising from CBS’s Web site to protest David’s Letterman’s joke about one of Sarah Palin’s daughters.

Company spokeswoman Kendra Walker says the decision was made after receiving a flood of complaints.

“We received lots of e-mails from concerned guests and we assessed that the statement that he made was offensive enough to our guests and prospective guests that we elected to take the ads down,” Walker told the Web site. She said the company does not advertise on his talk show.

Cause: The Embassy Suites ads are pulled

Effect: Letterman apologizes only this time for real:

“And then I was watching the Jim Lehrer ‘Newshour’ – this commentator, the columnist Mark Shields, was talking about how I had made this indefensible joke about the 14-year-old girl, and I thought, ‘Oh, boy, now I’m beginning to understand what the problem is here. It’s the perception rather than the intent.’

The whole thing is worth reading. Hotair asks the relevant question:

Does this mean the “Fire Letterman” protest tomorrow is canceled?

Good question.