By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist

Admit it: Sarah Palin seems pretty prescient when it comes to David Letterman's creepy talk about sex.

Palin excoriated Letterman last June after Letterman joked that one of Palin's daughters had been "knocked up" by New York Yankee player Alex Rodriguez.

At the time, Palin said of Letterman:

I would like to see him apologize to young women across the country for contributing to kind of that thread that is throughout our culture that makes it sound like it is OK to talk about young girls in that way, where it's kind of OK, accepted and funny to talk about statutory rape. It's not cool. It's not funny.

Now comes news that the married Letterman, who is 62, has been having sex with female office staffers at his late-night show.

He revealed the information during his Thursday night show, along with the news he had been the target of an extortion plot over his participation in office sex.

After Palin's blast at him in June, Letterman said on the air that he had been "guilty of poor taste."

But Palin was especially correct, it turns out, in being unamused by Letterman's using sex and young women as a joking matter.

No wonder young girls especially have such low self-esteem in America when we think it's funny for a so-called comedian to get away with such a remark as he did. I don't think that's acceptable.

Speaking of being prescient, check out the National Organization for Women.

During the Palin-Letterman feud, it put the talk-show host in its "media hall of shame."

Comedians in search of a laugh should really know better than to snicker about men having sex with teenage girls or young women half their age.