I just saw that.
It was pretty disgusting, but expected. Letterman has been bashing Bush constantly in the last year or two. It's clearly gone beyond just usual humor at the President's expense as has been the case up until then with Clinton and GW. Letterman is expressing a deep dislike if not hatred for the President.
I used to prefer Letterman to Leno. Now I don't watch either of them. Because neither are funny anymore and Letterman allows his politics to take over many shows.
Can't wait until Conan takes over the tonight show.
O'Reilly did ok for himself dealing with an uninformed jackass talking out of his arse with a New York liberal crowd 100% on Letterman's side.
He has been doing so for about two years now, and I've never seen anything like it. What Dave has been up to lately is different than barbs at Johnson and/or Nixon over the Vietnam War by the Smothers Brothers (although they were shocking at the time), nor are they typical Saturday Night Live potshots taken at the current President because he's the President. This stuff is vicious, nastier than anything that Jon Stewart would say. It's closer to Bill Maher territory.
A quick example: When this whole NSA business started up, Dave set up a bit by saying (to the best of my memory) that the President was wiretapping without warrants, but mentioning the purpose of trying to catch Al Qaida communications with American operatives. Then came a shot of Biff Henderson on a phone saying, "Hey, Bush! Mind your own f-BLEEP-ing business, dumbass!"
I meant, "WITHOUT mentioning the purpose of trying to catch Al Qaida communications with American operatives."
When this whole NSA business started up, Dave set up a bit by saying (to the best of my memory) that the President was wiretapping without warrants, but mentioning the purpose of trying to catch Al Qaida communications with American operatives. Then came a shot of Biff Henderson on a phone saying, "Hey, Bush! Mind your own f-BLEEP-ing business, dumbass!"