The B-Cast A-Side: Letterman Has Suprisingly Pleasant Talk With Tea Party Member

Inlander: The interview was civil, sincere, and mostly serious. Letterman, who has spent the last six months in a teeth-bared battle with tea party darling Sarah Palin, showed gracious restraint with Stout, even when Stout mentioned that Palin might be a candidate for president in 2012. In fact, Letterman — who claimed (perhaps disingenuously) that he knew little of the movement — said he sympathized with the tea party sentiment that things weren’t going well in America.