Posted on 06/11/2009 4:42:46 PM PDT by tobyhill
Whew! Everything’s okay now, folks, because David Letterman has publicly apologized for cruelly mocking the teenaged children of a politician he doesn’t like:
You can tell this is an apology because at no point does he actually apologize. Just because it’s an angry, insincere, self-pitying (“Get yourself a talk show, folks”), self-justifying whine, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t just drop the whole thing already. They’re only jokes, right? First Amendment! You wingnuts do it too! Etc. So now we’re supposed to accept that Letterman wasn’t lashing out at Sarah Palin through her 14-year-old daughter — which would be totally sick, after all — but through her 18-year-old daughter. He was just too lazy to make sure he was publicly humiliating the correct offspring of the person he clearly loathes, right? And we’re also supposed to accept that even though he was joking about Bristol being a slut — not Willow, honest! — it’s okay because after all, Bristol is an unwed teen mother. It wasn’t a rape joke, silly, it was a whore joke. This is the substance of Letterman’s “apology.”
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Well, if Mr. Letterman set out to make a flap to boost his sagging ratings, he sure did...the flap part that is.
Actually, I expect Letterman and his writers to double down on the anti-Palin snark and vitriol.It’s their culture and MO.
IMO, he’s toast and his show is toast. His sponsors can take the heat with him. Half this country didn’t vote for the Liberal garbage going on and a good chunk of the rest has buyer’s remorse. Liberals are not the majority in this country; they never will be.
Letterman is on broadcast TV. The FCC should fine him several million dollars for sexual remarks about a minor.
Letterman likes to see little girls get raped and joke about it. CBS is off permanently at the house, local, national and internet.
As much as it physically sickens me to think it, I agree. Letterman has become more brazen with each passing year. He has, as they say, FU money.
CBS/Viacom is the company that brings us MTV, Comedy Central, 60 Minutes and Rock-The-Vote. It's clear that they put politics before profit, and no one can convince me otherwise.
Don’t watch any of those.
I’ve emailed many of his sponsors, and they all write back saying that they have gotten inundated with responses from people who are very upset with what Letterman said..so I hope that they all drop Letterman, because at the end, they all care about one thing..MONEY..and if they are losing money they won’t want anything to do with him
See what I mean?
The snarkey bastard is under pressure. F. U. letterman, and i wont be buying from sponsors.
words mean something, like voting does
What I don’t understand is why there hasn’t been an outcry from airline stewardesses....for the comment slutty airline stewardess.....or from A-Rod...who is now identified as a child rapist. Why are these people not taking offense as well?
True. What they won't expect is for us NOT to give up and let it go. If we fight we win. They don't think we will. Will we?
The Jonas Brothers are scheduled to be on his show tonight so earlier I sent them an e-mail letting them know of the increased chances they may lose some fan base for appearing on his perverted show.
wasn’t another celebrity recently fired for calling some girls ‘nappy headed ho’s ‘
That comment had to be written by one of his 20ish female writers.....who else would be jealous of a pretty flight attendant? A man would never call one “slutty”.
Buttafuoco.
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