Bristol Palin's Pregnancy Covered Lightly By Late-Night Hosts

NEW YORK — The pregnancy of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's unwed daughter was fair game for late-night comics on Monday, but they tread lightly. Three of the comics, in fact, made Democrat John Edwards the butt of their jokes about the situation. Edwards, the former presidential candidate, admitted this summer to an affair after first denying it. "Governor Palin announced over the weekend that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is five months' pregnant," Jay Leno said near the top of his "Tonight" show monologue. "And you thought John Edwards was in trouble before! Now he has really done it." Both Craig Ferguson and Conan O'Brien, who compete against each other in the early morning hours, went down the same road. "I don't think that a young lady getting pregnant should even be news," said Ferguson, of CBS' "Late Late Show." "Unless John Edwards is the father. Then that is kinda news." NBC's O'Brien joked that Palin said that "we should never have ... (link)