De Niro Says Meant No Offense With First Lady Joke – NYTimes.com.
Good on De Niro for telling the joke. To me, what it says is that Michelle has been such an admirable first lady that people might find an elitist Republican, like Romney’s wife, who doesn’t think of herself as rich with 240 million in the bank and four luxurious houses, a little harder to take. I don’t know much about Santorum’s wife, but she seems a bit of a nullity.
I don’t see it as something he should have to apologize for.