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]
Isn't it coming up to a year now since he passed away? For some reason I had a dream about Carson the other night. Strange who will pop up in one's dreams.
That's my impression too. He know's his ratings are crap and aren't going to get better. He'd rather hang around the track and watch his race cars run around in circles.
I guess it takes one to know one.
Maybe he better have Oprah on once a month to get the numbers up.
Leno mentioned they both thought the same thing would happen with W but the White House returned their call immediately. And your right on the money - Mavis Leno has been doing work on behalf of the women of Afghanistan for years. Its not some flash in the pan interest of hers.
Wow, this is interesting... I had no idea. I have new respect for Mavis Leno.
OK, sitting in front of the TV ready to bear witness to David finishing off his career.
LOL! That typo will be funny loooong after his beeber is stuned.
just watched it at the Political Teen.
Not quite as bad it reads in the transcript and O'Reilly handled himself fairly well under the circumstances.
But, Letterman pissed me off. He was way out of line and I won't watch again.
Did you catch how, right before he introduced O'Reilly, Letterman had a pencil he was drumming to the beat and then used it to stir what was in O'Reilly's coffee mug.
It takes a hatemonger to think he knows a hatemonger.
He calls O'R a big bag of gas before the guest ever comes out.
Said the President started the new year off hitting the ground bungling.
A correction... the transcript posted on this thread is a PARTIAL transcript of O'Reilly's appearance on the 1/3/06 Late Show with David Letterman (aka The End of David Letterman's Career" LOL). You may want to check out The Political Teen site to download the video: The Political Teen
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In previous years, he had come across as more conservative and nuanced in his views.
No longer. He is addicted to the appeaser Kool-Aid...
"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]"
Sounds like Letterman just got massively owned.
I don't know what Mavis looks like, but I don't think that matters with Clinton anyway. Maybe she should have included a revealing picture of herself with the correspondence and then Clinton would have taken notice.
Letterman has lost his mind and has been an open leftist nutbag the last few years.
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