No you aren't.
What number of deferment was this taken during, Dave?
Posted on 01/03/2006 9:20:35 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Displaying a hostility to President Bush and the Iraq war similar to that expressed by Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart, on tonight’s Late Show David Letterman will go further than I’ve ever heard him in revealing his derision for President Bush’s decision to launch the Iraq war. I know this thanks to the “Big Show Highlight," a two-minute streaming-only RealPlayer preview of tonight’s program, which is now featured on the Late Show’s home page.
In the posted clip, Letterman mockingly tells guest Bill O’Reilly: "The President himself, less than a month ago said we are there because of a mistake made in intelligence. Well, whose intelligence? It was just somebody just get off a bus and handed it to him?" Letterman demands: “Why the Hell are we there to begin with?" When O’Reilly points out that the British, Russians and Egyptians also presumed Iraq had WMD, Letterman retorts: “Well then that makes it all right?" Turning unusually serious, Letterman soon lectures: “I'm very concerned about people like yourself who don't have nothing but endless sympathy for a woman like Cindy Sheehan. Honest to Christ. Honest to Christ." That prompts O’Reilly to contend: “No way a terrorist who blows up women and children is going to be called a ‘freedom fighter' on my program." To which Letterman fires back: “I have the feeling about 60 percent of what you say is crap.” After the show airs in an hour, I will update this item with more from the Letterman/O’Reilly exchange, including a video clip. (Transcript of RealPlayer excerpt follows.)
It took me a while, but I managed to take down this transcript from the two-minute streaming RealPlayer “Big Show Highlight” video clip on the Late Show home page:
David Letterman: “The President himself, less than a month ago said we are there because of a mistake made in intelligence. Well, whose intelligence? It was just somebody just get off a bus and handed it to him?”
Bill O’Reilly: “No.”
Letterman: “No, it was the intelligence gathered by his administration.”
O’Reilly: “By the CIA.”
Letterman: “Yeah, so why are we there in the first place? I agree to you, with you that we have to support the troops. They are there, they are the best and the brightest of this country. [audience applause] There’s no doubt about that. And I also agree that now we’re in it it’s going to take a long, long time. People who expect it’s going to be solved and wrapped up in a couple of years, unrealistic, it’s not going to happen. However, however, that does not eliminate the legitimate speculation and concern and questioning of ‘Why the Hell are we there to begin with?’”
O’Reilly: “If you want to question that, and then re-vamp an intelligence agency that’s obviously flawed, the CIA, okay. But remember, MI-6 in Britain said the same thing. Putin’s people in Russia said the same thing, and so did Mubarak’s intelligence agency in Egypt.”
Letterman: “Well then that makes it all right?”
O’Reilly: “No it doesn’t make it right.”
Letterman: “That intelligence agencies across the board makes it alright that we’re there?”
O’Reilly: “It doesn’t make it right.”
Letterman: “See, I’m very concerned about people like yourself who don’t have nothing but endless sympathy for a woman like Cindy Sheehan. Honest to Christ.” [audience applause]
O’Reilly: “No, I’m sorry.”
Letterman: “Honest to Christ.”
“O’Reilly: “No way. [waits for applause to die down] No way you’re going to get me, no way that a terrorist who blows up women and children.”
Letterman: “Do you have children?”
O’Reilly: “Yes I do. I have a son the same age as yours. No way a terrorist who blows up women and children is going to be called a ‘freedom fighter’ on my program.” [mild audience applause]
Letterman: “I’m not smart enough to debate you point to point on this, but I have the feeling, I have the feeling about 60 percent of what you say is crap. [audience laughter] But I don’t know that for a fact. [more audience applause]
"Jump The Shark" Bump!!!
Quite frankly, I was never surprised that Letterman was a liberal. But now he's outed himself for sure. Bye, bye ratings.
:)
You're right. Letterman doesn't even make it as a comedian let alone a political scientist. His viewers are composed primarily of some moronic subculture.
Letterman even admitted that he was no match for Bill O'Rielly on the facts of the debate, and BO jumped all over him for that screw up.
Another Liberal goes down in flames :-)
amen
No you aren't.
What number of deferment was this taken during, Dave?
David Letterman has finally crossed the line with this evening's broadcast. His political bias and outright mean-spirited attacks on our President have forced me to not watch your channel again. I will ask my colleagues to do the same- I have about 2,000 fellow soldiers in my command. Regardless of Mr. Letterman's personal views, the fact is we are at war and my soldiers are in harms way while he provides our enemies propoganda with his attacks on President Bush. Shameful.
I loved Letterman for years and have always thought he's hilarious. But, of late, I've noticed more and more jabs at Bush, and not the kind that are delivered against any politician. I've also grown very very weary of more and more bleeps because of GDs, f-words, etc., being used in the program, not by Letterman by himself, but by crewmembers in their brief appearances, etc. It's as if he just can't suppress his liberalism anymore.
This news about does him in for me.
MM
I'm on the west coast, haven't seen it yet, doubt I will watch.
Letterman is a third rate hack, a complete moron, what a punk.
I won't watch Letterman again. Now, he is extremely funny. Self congratulations seems to trump all other virtues with the Hollywood idiots. Is this some sort of long range debilitation from Sixties habits? Leno is probably as naive as Letterman, but he tends to remain apolitical.
David Letterman - The Mennonite Years!
The problem with Letterman is he does the same routine he's been doing for 25 years. When he was in his 30's it was cute...but it's just kinda creepy when a 60 year old man throws a watermelon off a roof. IT'S NOT FUNNY ANYMORE. I kinda cringe when I watch him...which is practically never now. When I was in college, we used to watch him every single night. He was so refreshing...now, he's just old.
Letterman has always come across as an inadequately educated smart-ass.
David who?
How did the audience react??
Yes, Leno's a lib, but it's interesting to remember that his wife Mavis has for years been an activist for the women of Afghanistan, since long before our recent involvement there.
I wonder how that all worked out in the Leno household, after the fall of the Taliban. Is Mavis a supporter of the current admin? Or does she join her husband in his apparent opinion of GWB?
Would be interesting to know.
I just saw the interview, quite frankly, Letterman got owned.
Completely classless comment .. typical lib .. can't argue the issue, go with personal attacks.
I NEVER thought Letterman was funny....and Leno has gotten less so over the years.
I didn't realize that. Thought he would have had more influence in the decision about his own successor.
Surprising.
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