David Letterman: Tonight's Comments on Palin Crap

[Hissyspit]

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CBS Late Show w/ David Letterman - 15 June 2009: Latest from Dave on the Palin crap; watch it, don't watch it. I post it for informational purposes.

A reminder of Sarah 'Let Women Pay for their Own Rape Kits' Palin's idea of GOOD shock humor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_23HhsKOQQ

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. I saw it on the TeeVee and didn't like it. A cave in, to me.

[MADem]

5. I thought it was a sweet, gentle, stoops-to-conquer middle finger, myself.

If she doesn't accept THAT apology, SHE is an ASSHOLE.

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. But you know she won't. She can't. The right can't.

They will take what Letterman said tonight and find some way to endlessly twist it. Best thing for Letterman to do would have been to just go on and forget it. He keeps putting her name out there. We need the opposite!

[Pirate Smile]

11. He needed to do this and get it over with - it's done.

[GivePeaceAchance]

17. I don't agree there he's put it to rest they were making a lot of hay from this. He did the...

honorable thing.

[ColbertWatcher]

19. There may be more behind the scenes to this than anyone is able to discuss.

Palin has some very powerful people behind her and they seem to be involved in show business somehow.

This is just a hunch, but I suspect Palin may have the same kind of advisers that California's Embarrassment of a governor has.

[MADem]

32. She's in show business all right--she's a circus clown!

No offense to those circus clowns who do a respectable job at their chosen line of work....

[jhrobbins]

12. Exactly and I think that's the point of the apology - now if it keeps going

it will be because they are not done milking it.

[MrMickeysMom]

27. But, what do you expect from an asshole?

... but a predictable fart?

[baldguy]

23. Proves that if you go on long enough, putting on a act of being offended,

with enough small-minded people being fooled, and enough of the tame corporate media to promote it, you can make anyone cave on anything.

[Cha]

2. "Top 10 Reasons Sarah Palin's 'Outrage' is Misplaced and a Little Late"

More palin crap..but necessary to get the whole picture..

Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-15-09 02:05 PM
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"Top 10 Reasons Sarah Palin's 'Outrage' is Misplaced and a Little Late"

I posted this as a reply in another thread but it was suggested that I give it its own OP. This is from Shannyn Moore http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/top-10-rea... /


10) Last September, a skit on Saturday Night Live suggested incest in the Palin family. “What about the husband?” asked a mock Times reporter. “You know he’s doing those daughters. I mean, come on. It’s Alaska!” No outrage. Sarah Palin appeared on the show one month later in late October.

9) Days after the announcement of Bristol’s pregnancy, Conan O’Brien joked, “It’s true, John McCain’s running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, has revealed that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. Palin said, ‘We should never have introduced her to John Edwards.’” Where was the outrage? Was Conan promoting infidelity with an underage girl?

8 ) From two different Tonight Shows: “Governor Palin announced over the weekend that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is five months pregnant. Oh, boy, you thought John Edwards was in trouble before, now he’s really done it!” AND…“All the Republicans are heaping praise on Governor Palin. Fred Thompson said, as an actor, he could see them making a movie about Sarah Palin and her family. Didn’t they already make that movie? I think it was called ‘Knocked Up!’”–Jay Leno

<snip>

AND…The NUMBER 1 REASON Sarah Palin’s Outrage is Misplaced and A Little Late…

1) The “candidate who must be obeyed” was talking about Palin’s family when he said, “Kids are off limits.” Jake Tapper of ABC News interviewed then Candidate Obama, and asked, “Governor Palin and her husband issued a statement today saying their 17-year-old daughter Bristol, who is unmarried, is five months pregnant. Do you have any reaction?”

OBAMA: “I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people’s families are off-limits. And people’s children are especially off-limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Governor Palin’s performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know, my mother had me when she was 18. And, you know, how family deals with issues and — and, you know, teenaged children, that shouldn’t be the topic of — of our politics.”

The Palin children have been fodder for comedians since they were brought to the national stage. Incest isn’t funny. Ugly kid jokes aren’t funny. Many of the things said about public figures are just flat wrong. Being “knocked up” isn’t much fun. Racist comments hurt all of us. I exhausted the top 10 list before I ran out of outrageous instances ignored by the Palins.

The National Organization for Women named David Letterman to their Hall of Shame. Will Letterman be joining Jay Leno? Conan O’Brien? Craig Ferguson? Seth Myers? Rush Limbaugh? Or John McCain? Of course not! I guess N.O.W. didn’t bother checking Sarah Palin’s “feminist” credentials.

All across America, right wing radio and television talk show hosts feigned outrage in perfect synchronicity. The same people who back up Palin’s high drama assertions against Letterman ignored the connections between Bill O’Reilly’s irresponsible incitement and the murder of Dr. George Tiller. David Letterman, a late night entertainer, apologized. Fox New’s Bill O’Reilly has not.

And just for good measure, in case you all missed it during the campaign, here is Sarah Palin giggling at local shock jocks calling former state congresswoman Republican Lyda Green a "bitch" and calling her a "cancer," when everyone knows she is a cancer survivor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9AIDRGzUAw

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5854002

[tomm2thumbs]

22. worth reading - thanks for posting it

[Cha]

34. You're welcome..thanks for

for taking the time to read it.:)

[trthnd4jstc]

3. Fact of the matter is that Sarah Palin is milking it. Dave has to apologize. If he doesn't the

show would suffer in the ratings.

[GivePeaceAchance]

16. Exactly as well as that it was very political he's done an tremendous thing...

This was gonna be milked into a poltical storm. Now if he is further attacked it will rightly seem cruel and harsh. He made a mistake but it's so hard seeing good folks get beat up on when so many bad folks get away with stuff. He just needs to be more gender sensitive and maybe a few more gags at his own expense or folks that don't mind too much. Always works for Mr. Bean.

[ColbertWatcher]

21. Another way to threaten him is by withholding guests.

People affiliated with Palin (or her manager/agents/fellows, etc) could boycott his show because she was "insulted."

[avaistheone1]

4. Dave is still cool.

:smoke:

[gtar100]

6. Good on Dave. Takes a person of great character to own up to their affect and not just their intent.

A straight-forward apology. If Palin or others still want to pursue further reprecussions, they are just being vindictive and petty. I don't hold out too much hope for her to accept the apology with dignity. But we'll see. Nobody is required to like each other or what happened.

[Pirate Smile]

8. I thought it was kind and understanding. Now everyone can move on and if they don't then they are

the asshole. Dave essentially took himself out of the equation.

[Hulk]

9. Explanation and apology accepted. It happens....move on.

I think Dave Letterman is a class act. He certainly wouldn't have made the joke if he thought it would be attached to the 14 year old daughter....Willow? So, it was probably the most sincere and honest mistake I've seen an apology for in a loooong time.

Wouldn't it be great now if the repugs could do that .....just once? Maybe for the war they started? Maybe for the way they pulled this country's reputation into the gutter for the rest of my life with the last eight years of crime and torturing the Constitution almost to death???

THAT, I probably won't get over.

[fadedrose]

10. R nt

[lib2DaBone]

13. There was no mistaking the joke.. Dave is first class and Palin is...Palin.

[masuki bance]

14. "I really should have made the joke about Rudy".. ?

ARod knocking up Rudy would have been funnier?

Or

Rudy mounting the daughter would have been more appropriate?

[Celtic Merlin]

15. THIS is the apology that Dave should have issued the first time.

Had he done this instead of the wacky one he issued last week, this would all be relegated to ancient history by now.

This is the end of it. Anything else will be the Palins' doing and their responsibility. Dave has now done all that needed to be done. He need not address this issue ever again.

It's over. Sarah's gonna have to find some other drama to jack the spotlight onto herself.

Celtic Merlin
Carlinist

[ejpoeta]

24. i doubt no matter what he said it would not be over. palin WANTED it to keep going.

[Necon-Be-Gone]

18. He should have used my joke

Rudy & Palin attended a ball game at Yankee Stadium during which Rudy advised Palin on the latest women fashion and beautification tips.

[Pirate Smile]

20. Perhaps something on how jealous Rudy must be of Palin's RNC paid shopping trips for dresses,make-up

etc. He could flash up Rudy's many in drag stylings. Oh, well.

[MrMickeysMom]

28. Hoo!

bah-da-BOOM!

[tclambert]

25. He should have defused the whole issue by apologizing to A-Rod.

The real punch-line will come later, when Willow announces that she IS pregnant.

[MrMickeysMom]

29. Hopefully, not...

Willow has an awful lot to measure up to...

An AWFUL lot, aren't they?

[underpants]

26. That was great

Dave seems like an okay guy.

I have been a fan for a long time.

[Dollface]

30. Republicons take heed! That is what an actual apology sounds like. Not the old "I'm sorry if it

offended you" nonapolgy. People make mistakes. Good people apologize for them. It is basic courtesy.

[braunfels]

31. Dave caved

To the right wing scream machine. He should know that they will never accept his apology, and will use him as an example of what's "wrong with America". He meant well, but he'll live to regret this, I'm afraid.

[scottgmen]

33. If i was letterman

I would declare war on palin. He made his apology. He should watch palin very closely and attack her for every mistake she makes. When ever she says something stupid he should attack. I would do many top tens on that nutbag.

[braunfels]

35. That's not going to happen

He and other talk show personalities will be afraid to "offend" her and her "real American" family. She has scored big time with this and Dave will regret trying to do the right thing.

[The_Commonist]

36. My favorite part was...

...the Intro and Outro music.

"I'm a Man"

Because Dave is man enough to own up to making a dumb joke.

"Fooled Around and Fell in Love"

A nice little dig after the apology, if you think about it...