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]
Letterman should have quit years ago when he was still funny. Now he simply comes across as a bitter old man, and he'll end up being cancelled by CBS, when he could have left gracefully.
I'm not a big Hannity follower, but I know he's put on shows in support of the troops. I don't know if he's actually been over or not, but he's supported them with his time and money.
Bears repeating.
A Letterman nutcracker?! Oh, that's too funny! The size of his "brain" looks correct. ;-)
BOR is on at 6 & 8:00 & Brit Hume is on 3 & 9:00 pm
here on the left coast.
I will admit that O'Reilly, Limbaugh and Hannity may be annoying...but hate mongers?
I defy you to defend your statement.
Carson interview broadcast on ET, too bad you missed it. Also, Warren Littlefield, Stephen Galloway, Mary Murphy and Timothy Carlson. Carson was writing jokes for Letterman, not Leno, prior to his death. Feel free to cull google for other sources, Thomas.
It's funny how everyone on the left was scrambling to prove that GWB wasn't an authentic soldier during Vietnam when they went whole hog for a guy who wrote a letter thanking a Colonel for "saving me from the draft," adding that he wrote the letter "...in the hope that my telling [my] story will help you to understand more clearly how so many fine people have come to find themselves still loving their country but loathing the military..."
Letterman joined the flock of sheep that bought the idea that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were bought and paid for by the Bush campaign, and suggested that it was shameful for Bush to criticize Kerry's service. Bush never criticized Kerry's service, and had no control over what the Swift Vets said (see Amendment, First).
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau (Mr. Jane Pauley) went ape over the Swifties' ads, too, failing to disclose that he himself wrote strips in 1992 suggesting that George H.W. Bush's WWII medals for valor after being shot down were just a matter of him being a substandard pilot.
How about that overgrown peachfuzz on that face?
CA....
Excellent letter to CBS! (#107) God bless you and thank you so much for your service to our country.
I've told you many times my name isn't Thomas, but somehow you still doubt me.
Yeah, Hannity does put on a lot of shows and dedicates a ton of time and money to them and their families. O'Reilly also supports them 100%. Some people just shoot off at the mouth without having any knowledge, like Dave tonight.
Pay attention, Einstein. NBC wanted Leno. Carson wanted Letterman. NBC won in case you hadn't noticed.
Your mononongererering of mongererery is verererery tirereresome.
I mentioned Mavis was at the GWB White House. I give her
credit.
Wow, you're pretty damn abusive, chester.
How do you type with your mouth wrapped around Letterman's . . . press releases?
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