CBS airbrushes Letterman's Willow Palin rape joke out of transcript

McClatchy Watch | June 11, 2009

[grundle]

http://cancelthebee.blogspot.com/2009/06/cbs-airbrushes-lettermans-willow-palin.html

CBS airbrushes Letterman's Willow Palin rape joke out of transcript

Interesting -- the censors at CBS airbrushed Letterman's rape joke out of the transcript it sent to the media:

The remark was aired live, but CBS removed it from the transcript it makes available to media, including the New York Times, which publishes Letterman’s opening monologue on its blog site.

[GBA]

Just like little children caught in a lie.

[hometoroost]

"Too late....once on the net, always on the net."

Till the one gets his way and can regulate content so that the Internet can be airbrushed too.

[Ticonderoga34]

Coming soon....Jumping the Shark by David (Slimeball) Letterman

David (Slimeball) Loserman jumped the shark in 1987.

[curth]

Wow CBS finally took action . (sarc)

[cubreporter]

they can airbrush all they want.

He said what he said and he meant it.

He said what he said about an young 14 year old girl.

He said what he said about flight attendants and the Governor of Alaska.

They can airbrush all they want. The information is out there and he cannot deny it.

He is a bitter little man evidently and his nasty remarks and hatred this time toward someone much less a 14 year old girl is going to hurt him badly. I hope it does.

He is a man void of class and common decency.

[KarlInOhio]

Down the memory hole.

late night 8.6.09 letterman monologue doubleplusunfunny statutory rape rectify

[LibLieSlayer]

STATE owned and run media ala TASS and PRAVDA.

LLS

[Gator113]

Dan Rather, hey Dan Rather, are you out there Dan?

[TribalPrincess2U]

Please let it be on the Tube.

Someone has to have the evidence
just to show See BS they screwed up (AGAIN)

[goodnesswins]

Gee...if it’s that easy....can we airbrush a certain President out of our lives?

[llmc1]

Speaking of airbrushing, in today’s Parade, in the newspaper, they covered Obama’s normally blue lips with red. It looks like lipstick.

[Don Corleone]

This surprises who?????

[DejaJude]

"The transcript we received omitted the joke referred to in the comments below, presumably for reasons of taste. Had the transcript included the joke, we would not have run it. Monologue jokes are routinely edited for taste and brevity."

So we only have the NYT saying they didn't receive this? And if they had, they would have suppressed it? Do they not have access to the internet or have no one on their staff that actually watches Letterman to see what was said? And do they think this type of sexism was not worth reporting? What about Palin and the "slutty flight attendant"? Was that OK? You know what Letterman reminds me of? The Taliban. If a woman arouses lust in a man, it's her fault, she's a slut, even if she covers every part of her body, but her heals click too loudly or her voice is too loud, it's her fault.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“HUGH surprise, there.”

Were you as stuned by this as I was?

[Radix]

I read 1984 when I was a teenager.

It is astonishing still just how amazing Orwell was in his forecasts.

[Fu-fu2]

Bumping your #26. Thanks for the links to Letterman sponsors. I already emailed CBS. I’ll do the sponsors too. Stephy made me mad this morning on This Week, when he commented that this whole incident is not really causing a very big fuss.

[TXnMA]

"CBS: Fake but accurate...it’s not just for the news division anymore."

Nicely done!

[marktwain]

This is actually worthwhile, because it exposes CBS as having no credibility at all. As was stated about Nixon, and many times after; it is not the initial action as much as it is the coverup.

[ak267]

they they’ll just offloaded it on other sources outside the US.

[hometoroost]

I hope there’s always a work-around but there’s always monitoring what you watch and which web sites you visit. Remember Big Barry is watching.