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 Centrals Jon Stewart, on tonights Late Show David Letterman will go further than Ive ever heard him in revealing his derision for President Bushs decision to launch the Iraq war. I know this thanks to the Big Show Highlight," a two-minute streaming-only RealPlayer preview of tonights program, which is now featured on the Late Shows home page.
In the posted clip, Letterman mockingly tells guest Bill OReilly: "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 OReilly 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 OReilly 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/OReilly 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 OReilly: No.
Letterman: No, it was the intelligence gathered by his administration.
OReilly: 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] Theres no doubt about that. And I also agree that now were in it its going to take a long, long time. People who expect its going to be solved and wrapped up in a couple of years, unrealistic, its 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?
OReilly: If you want to question that, and then re-vamp an intelligence agency thats obviously flawed, the CIA, okay. But remember, MI-6 in Britain said the same thing. Putins people in Russia said the same thing, and so did Mubaraks intelligence agency in Egypt.
Letterman: Well then that makes it all right?
OReilly: No it doesnt make it right.
Letterman: That intelligence agencies across the board makes it alright that were there?
OReilly: It doesnt make it right.
Letterman: See, Im very concerned about people like yourself who dont have nothing but endless sympathy for a woman like Cindy Sheehan. Honest to Christ. [audience applause]
OReilly: No, Im sorry.
Letterman: Honest to Christ.
OReilly: No way. [waits for applause to die down] No way youre going to get me, no way that a terrorist who blows up women and children.
Letterman: Do you have children?
OReilly: 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: Im 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 dont know that for a fact. [more audience applause]
I thought I remembered him getting married and O'Reilly said they had sons the same age. Did he have a "love child"? I'll admit to not keeping up. I already know more about Letterman than I want to.
Me too. He spoke at a Jewish center here in Denver early last year. I was surprised by his talk because he does seem so calm on his radio program but he was really impassioned during his talk.
all those guys did die?!?
Yes, now the Gov, and all are commenting on the
communication snafu
As far as I know he never married the gal.
He has a 2 or 3 yr old by some young gal but not married.
Watching MSNBC right now--holy cow!
I'd love to get some of his tapes. He did one about GOD's hand on America. He may have played it over Thanksgiving this past year. It was really good. The man definitely knows his history.
Get lost, scummy DU troll.
I agree that he is brilliant. If he was a teacher in a class he would be perfect showing slides as he gave his lectures. That would be his perfect forum IMO.
Just tuned it in...oh man. How could they mess up so bad? Somebody should have been on top of this.
Heartbreaking....prayers to the families, so sad.
I think Letterman was trying to give O'Reilly a dose of "no spin" interviewing. O'Reilly knows that, when in doubt, stay cool and concede nothing. Agree with the obvious. You don't win the debate, but you don't lose it or look bad either. And there's always the possibility that your attacker's line of questioning will come across as petty and desperate.
Letterman is an over-the-hill jerk with a mean look and a lousy attitude. His fans are apparently liberal yuppies who think his brand of humor is wonderful. O'Rielly, in spite of his faults, is professional in the news field.
He is hated by libs because he exposes their stupidity. He
must be doing something right. He is the big dog of cable news.
Correct. NBC feared Letterman was too weird and edgy for an audience raised on Carson. But now Leno's heir apparent is Late Late Show's Conan O'Brien. Wait until Leno's audience gets a load of Triumph, The Insult Comic Dog, The Masturbating Bear, and the Robot On The Toilet.
Mr. Letterman will be the first to squeal if terrorists hit NYC again.
And he will blame it on the President.
I put my two cents in also. Every little bit will help.
I believe Rush is more sensitive than he lets on. When he was on Letterman years ago, he was clearly off-put by the scattered boos in the audience as he walked across the stage, which is unusual for Late Show. In fact, if I remember correctly, a Freeper who managed to get into the Letterman audience for a Hillary appearance related that the crowd was sternly warned that if they booed, they would be hustled out of the theatre post-haste. Someone may want to check on that. I'm going to say a prayer for the miners' families and go to bed.
I used to enjoy Letterman back when he used to be on in the middle of the night, which was, geez, ten to twenty years ago. Back then almost everything he said was scripted by his then-girlfriend and staff writer Merrill Markoe. He went downhill the minute she walked out of his life.
I haven't seen him in years. Is he perhaps getting senile? He's had a heart bypass operation. My father had one. Any doctors in the crowd? My understanding is that sometimes bypass operations affect the operation of the mind, oftentimes not in a good way. I think there are often issues of depression after a bypass, as well.
Or perhaps he's just an old jerk now?
Letterman= a failed 70's stand up comic...
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