Posted on 07/17/2024 9:00:09 AM PDT by DallasBiff
CRAIG Kilborn’s show is in hot water over an offensive George W. Bush joke last week.
On last Friday’s “The Late Late Show,” a graphic reading “Snipers Wanted” appeared briefly over a tape of Bush’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention.
The joke was part of the satiric “In the News” segment of the late night show.
Yesterday, CBS and the show’s producers, David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants, apologized for the graphic
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Sorry date should be 8/10/00
Imagine the left’s reaction if there were a comedy skit with a Richard Widmark lookalike pushing wheelchaired granny down the stairs as in “Kiss of Death,” except it’s FDR...
I know from almost 24 years ago, but the lefts hatred has been going on for a long time.
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A looong time.
GWB got lampooned constantly. To this day you can still remember ‘mis-remember’, or ‘strategery’ because the media would blow-torch everything the guy said. Compare and contrast that to the purely hands-off treatment Biden has got for his terrible speaking the last 3+ years.
But that doesn’t go back far enough.
I remember Reagan was the favorite target of comedians. Both stand-up type as well as late-night. The MSM wasn’t easy on him either but for people in the entertainment world, Reagan had the figurative bullseye on him. It was constant.
And both Reagan and GWB had their fair share of innuendo about assassination against them. Reagan actually got shot, and the guy who shot him had mental problems, but it’s hard not to surmise that a culture that stokes the minimization of your president didn’t contribute to his mental state in the moment.
In my lifetime the only prominent Republican who wasn’t called a Nazi was the one who *beat* the Nazis: Eisenhower.
And almost no one tried these stunts with Barack Obama for fear of being labeled racist.
The left are then ones encouraging this violence.
And this sort of thing proves it.
Identity politics has been around since the 50s but the first dems to make it a pillar of their campaign in 1992 were a couple of grifters from arkansas!
Far too long, I’d say.
You can’t say about Biden 1/4th of the things said about GWB without being “visited”. Political free speech for American citizens no longer exist *if it speech against a DEM*.
-PJ
“And almost no one tried these stunts with Barack Obama for fear of being labeled racist.“
Anyone remember when we were told not to say his middle name or make fun of his ears???
I’m glad you noted that. There are many who believe that wasn’t the case.
I saw an article yesterday that detailed, with examples, Democrats calling every Republican Presidential since Thomas Dewey ran against Harry Truman Nazis. So..... (yawns)
The left went ballistic over a rodeo clown in a 0bama mask. Least we forget.
NYPost article 8/10/2000 mentions Free Republic.
Anyone have that link?
I was recording the David Letterman show for my wife, and the VHS tape ran long.
It caught the first few minutes of the Craig Kilborn show, and I realized that the next day while we were talking about it on FR.
I sent the VHS tape to fellow freeper Registered, and he was able to transfer that part of the tape to a screenshot, and he posted it here on FR.
Thusly, Kilborn ended up with a visit. 
Thanks for that background info! I had forgotten. Hopefully the post in question can be rediscovered.
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