Posted on 04/04/2014 8:31:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Late night television talk shows have become an important part of the national political conversation, a forum for digesting news and personalities of the day. Although their individual audiences number in the single digit millions, the political quips of the hosts are recycled the following day on morning TV, radio talks shows, and the internet. The crucial low information voting bloc, in whose hands the destiny of the Republic now perilously rests, tends to favor late night shows over hard news sources. So even though it is trivial, the retirement of David Letterman, announced last night on his television show (though leaked in advance of the broadcast) matters. A little bit, anyway.
I am glad to see Letterman going. I haven’t watched him in decades, and began to actively dislike the man when his humor turned mean and persecutorial toward conservatives. He can be clever and fast (though he does enjoy a team of writers to help him with those spontaneous clips), and way back when, before he seemed to become convinced that conservatives were an evil that needed eradication, I even laughed at his humor when I saw it.
Because I get up well before dawn, I don’t watch any of the late shows. So Letterman’s passing from the scene means even less to me than to most people. In addition to his political edge, the man had a nasty personal life as well, with a workplace sexual relationship complicating image, and his nasty crack about Sarah Palin’s 14 year old daughter cementing in my mind the notion that he is a bit of a perv.
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David who?
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/03/27/abortion-activist-laura-levites-says-pro-life-teen-should-be-murdered/
Used to watch him with Larry Budd Melman back in the 80’s.
I thought he died years ago...
He’s a mean old bastard. I will never watch his show as long as he is on.
Smug, pompous ass.
Good riddance.
I don’t trust anybody who doesn’t like animals.
I remember Carson used to have that lady from the San Diego Zoo on. She’d bring in all kinds of exotic critters, and Carson would let them crawl all over him, pee on him, etc. It was always a funny bit.
And the Jane Pauley interview was pretty funny (with helium voices). And in dentist chairs!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Z4dyVANA8
Turned out it a stupid pet trick alright. LOL
Letterman got down in a small dog's face and kept repeating, 'Hello, doggie' in a stupid falsetto voice- and the dog bit him on the nose! He showed up the next night with a big bandage on his nose. LOL
Wouldn't have missed that for the world. Anybody else catch this?
Ah yes, the the lovely Ms.Joan Embree.
In the 1980s his sort of humor was truly groundbreaking. Since then...
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