BFFs: Xenu Skipper & Caribou Barbie

Sarah Palin’s staunch supporter Greta Van Susteren–whose husband Joe Coale is one of the Alaskan governor’s closest advisors and runs her PAC from the behind the scenes, kind of a weird conflict of interest–leapt to Gov GILF’s support over David Letterman’s jokes about Palin from his Monday night broadcast. The teaser for Van Susteren’s show asked  if Letterman had

a problem with women…

because he used

the S-word

 to describe Greta’s BFF Sarah Palin. During her discussion of Letterman’s jokes, Greta smirked that she could say a few things about the comedian and his relationships, but wouldn’t. Awww, Greta, you overt tease. Don’t clam up on us….

Palin herself responded to Letterman’s Top Ten wisecrack

Bought makeup from Bloomingdale’s to update her "slutty flight attendant" look  

using her usual "awshucks, the media always gits it wrong" affect on John Zeigler’s radio show:

Good old David Letterman, you know–uh, what a commentary there. Too bad that he never–I never went to Bloomingdale’s. Very sad to not recognize the truth about what this trip was all about, attending an autism walk and helpin’ the independent living home for those with disabilities, just doing some good things here for some good people in New York. For him to pick up on such a thing, such a distortion that again is based on a slow news day evidentally, not havin’ anything to talk about, that’s pretty pathetic, good old David Letterman.

Tuesday Letterman joked that Sarah Palin hired a sightseeing helicopter and shot at rats, then went to a Yankees game with Rudy Guiliani and sat in the far, far right field. But the hardest part of Palin’s visit to New York?

Keeping Elliot Spitzer away from her daughter.