[Texas Eagle]

David Letterman is still alive?

[MNJohnnie]

Of course that Dave is only doing exactly what CBS and Viacom have done by backing Dick Clarke and Bob Woodward's anti-Bush books and publishing the Iraqi Prisoner photos seems to go right over these morons heads. Dave is doing EXACTLY what his Corporate Masters are telling him to do, Bash Bush. Of course that their rating are in the toilet seems to not bother CBS, or Dave, at all.

[Burkeman1]

Don't watch either. Frankly Leno and Letterman bore me. Conan is on too late but sometimes I catch the rebroadcast on Comedy Central.

[Hildy]

If Bush is such a dumb-ass, what does that make the Democrats? He beats them at every game they throw at him.

[Felis_irritable]

"...the White House was trying to make me look like a dope!"

Let that bitter old a-hole Dave do it himself. He's up to it.

And Dave...I watched Johnny Carson...You're no Johnny Carson. Didja really think you had a chance?

[Petronski]

Conan is the only funny guy on late night TV, and he can be an acquired taste.


Like Rush, one needs to see about six weeks to get up to speed, but once there, damn, that's good stuff.

Hat's off to Conan.

[RightthinkinAmerican]

Dave WAS my fave. No more - too obviously anti-Bush. Kerry is a complete idiot and even more ripe for making fun of, but Dave shows his political leaning with relentless Bush-only bashing. If it was for the sake of comedy, there's plenty of opportunities for Kerry fun-poking.

[Cicero]

The idea that Letterman is "brave" for bashing Bush is truly laughable.

[WOSG]

"When you cast your vote in November, just remember that the White House was trying to make me look like a dope!"

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oh, the irony... Dave tries to make the Prez look like a dope on a nightly basis, but that's fair game, and one riposte and he gets all prickly, eh?

I wont be voting for Dave with the remote anymore.

[Verginius Rufus]

She doesn't like Leno even though he's clearly a liberal Democrat because he isn't hateful.

Remember how Letterman had Hillary on during her Senate campaign and fed her the answers ahead of time to obscure questions about New York state (to help her overcome her "carpetbagger" image)...and the audience was warned they'd get it from the Secret Service if they made any noises that would make Hillary look bad. Then he had a "gotcha" phone interview with Bush (which Bush should have known better than to agree to).

[weegee]

Or, wearily listening to a business speech, nodding like a bobble-head doll and repeatedly checking his watch. (Déjà vu, anyone? Remember Daddy Bush checking his watch during the 1992 debates, a move that helped cost him the election?)

Bitch bitch bitch.

Here in Houston I saw some footage of President Bill Clinton at some meeting with Mayor Lee P. Brown (a former Clinton crony). It was being aired on public access in all its uncut glory. The mayor was babbling about issues that mattered not at all to Bill Clinton. He carefully grabbed a soda off the table and brought it below the table top. At first I wondered if he had a woman under the table and was just offering her a soda. No, he tried to open it quietly and so he's manipulating this can for something like 2 minutes before he has it open and then takes a drink. All the time he keeps nodding to what the mayor is saying, just waiting for him to show how much he "cares".

The left is desperate.

This "tape review" discussion shows what became apparent in the 2000 election. The Bush gaffes we heard were a prank by the press pool who followed Bush around. They confessed that they got bored hearing the same speech given in 3 locations in a day. They took joy in those moments he screwed up and those were what they aired.

He was governor of Texas and was never portrayed (even by his opponents) as someone who had trouble talking or was "dumb".

The big lie comes from lying liars.

[weegee]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING!

[kittymyrib]

Letterman is so pathetic he sees Hillary in his wet dreams.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Don't worry - be happy, Mon.

Dave will die before too long. Bad heart and too much Hollywood. No Mon can take all that life has to offer with a bankroll of 20,000,000.00 a year and live the life of a Saint.

Dave be see'in' the angels before Hillary run in 2008...

[adam_az]

David who?

[driftless]

It's not easy bashing Bush says this lib media liar in todays climate ? So he writes a column, bashing Bush to the extreme, about a tv personality who bashes the President of the U.S. during a war. This moron is full of himself and full of it. In short a typical, liberal media hack.

[an amused spectator]

I read up on this one. She's trouble:

Joe Shea writes LA Observed: This decision is a substantial one as to defamation, libel and slander issues, especially with respect to whether or not journalists are public figures. Under the same reasoning that was applied to Nikki's status, I probably would be deemed a public figure. That means people can make false statements about me with relative impunity. You can't make them about Nikki, though... and, generally, you can't make them about most reporters, thank God, because, as the court says, they don't have access to the media they write in to rebut such false or defamatory statements. Publishers and editors do. I think the journalists among us ought to read this decision with special care.