Reply #35: To begin with, Letterman is NEVER funny. [View All]

[tomreedtoon]

Like his current competitors Kimmel and Leno, he's a fratboy who makes snotty remarks about whatever displeases him, be it a fat girl or a guy who sort-of looks gay.

He modeled himself, like Kimmel and Leno, after Johnny Carson. But Carson always at least feigned surprise that his remarks would be taken so badly. Letterman doesn't. He smirks and sneers.

Second, all those "hypocrisy" jokes were told during the election, when they were pertinent. Letterman was just recycling them, the same way that Leno continues to tell blowjob jokes against Bill Clinton years after they ceased being funny. Letterman and his writers - writers whom he works with intimately, so he can't foist the blame off on them - were being lazy and telling cheap jokes.

Third, Palin was within her right to be upset about having her child picked upon. This is not the child she paraded in front of the nation as an example of anti-abortion. Palin may have learned something from her inability to raise her older daughter. She shouldn't have been beaten up about that.

Finally, Letterman's apology came off insincere. But what's new about that? He is one of the most insincere entertainers to rise to national fame. Not as bad as Limbaugh, but not anywhere near honorable.