Posted on 05/10/2009 2:28:08 PM PDT by Justaham
The proudest moment in his career, Late Show writer Bill Scheft boasted at a Friday comedy writer panel held at Washington, DC's Newseum, was when he got David Letterman to try to undermine guest John McCain's Bill Ayers talking point by raising McCain's relationship with G. Gordon Liddy -- as if a political dirty trickster were the equivalent of a terrorist involved with bombings which killed people, could have killed hundreds more if his attempts worked and remains unrepentant. At the event, organized by the Writers Guild of America, East, and shown Saturday night on C-SPAN, Scheft declared of his effort to discredit an anti-Obama point: “I'm more proud of that than any single joke that I've written.” That earned applause from the audience.
Don’t tell me.
He won an award for this particular show of journalism.
But there’s no such thing as media bias, and stop saying there is.
Please forward this article to every as-clown “republican” who thinks that they need to go on late night television.
as-clown = ass-clown.
What do you expect from bottom-feeding scum-scukers?
Well, I guess when Jimmy Fallon’s kicking your ass in the ratings you have to find something to brag about.
Letterman is a left winger. McCain was stupid to go on his show. I don’t know what is with these RINO Geezers. No amount of conciliation with the left will make them cool or make them friends.
I have grown to truly hate Letterman.
Leno is a liberal, also. But at least he is a decent human being, polite, reasonably intelligent, and makes some attempt at even handedness.
Agreed regarding Jay Leno. He pokes fun at himself more effectively.
David Letterman is simply grating 100% of the time. He is utterly one-dimensional.
Fallon isn’t competing with Letterman. He’s competing with Craig Ferguson (and and the second half of Kimmmel’s show).
Of course, all of these shows tend to profitable for their networks. They’re cheap to produce and advertisers like them for their ability to reach younger demographics.
Given Obama's continuing litany of screwups, I wonder if he still feels that way, and if he does, how long it will be before reality works its way through his granite skull.
And how many Freepers continue to watch Letterman?
Obama is the least competent person to occupy the Oval Office in anyone's memory. In one year, he's provided more joke material than any politician has in an entire career. The MSM just shields and covers for him, and acts like the rich, rich mother lode of gaffes and joke material isn't there.
His bizarre reliance on the teleprompter alone provides an ongoing source of jokes, and then the long trail of gaffes.
As long as his media buddies can keep up the illusion, you bet he'll still feel that way.
What'll be interesting is what happens as the bubble bursts. It happened with Carter. There was really no one epiphany, though. The MSM just sort of silently withdrew their support. They didn't have the energy to cheer for him. Of course, things were pretty bad for the ordinary Joe, too. If they had kept up the cheerleading, they would have looked stupid. I mean, more stupid.
Well, that's kind of my point. I see hints that the "withdrawal" process has already started. Certainly the media is not nearly as uniformly ga-ga as originally.
I fervently hope you're right. I stay away from the media for health reasons, so I don't know what the current zeitgeist is. I have heard, in this forum, that the hatred of Fox News has reached unprecedented levels of frenzy among it's competitors.
Does ANYONE with an IQ over eighty watch Letterman anymore?
Letterman is pathetic, unfunny, and his show sucks. Other than that, he is a miserable POS. His ratings, ever on the decline, are all the proof you need that what I say is true.
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