Posted on 06/12/2009 2:23:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The week-long scuffle between Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and late-night comedian David Letterman has given many on the political right something they've lacked in recent months — a tasty target.
By cracking wise with references to Palin's "slutty flight attendant look" and her imaginary need to keep her daughter away from Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, the "Late Show" host set off a significant political tempest.
Experts and observers of politics and the media see two larger expediencies present: the funnyman's need to break through the late-night giggle chamber, particularly with Conan O'Brien's new gig on "The Tonight Show," and conservatives' need to find a foil.
Indeed, the Letterman-Palin feud has prompted a question: Can Ball State University's most famous alum become the right's version of Rush Limbaugh — their new public enemy number one?
Brent Bozell, president of the conservative Media Research Center, says the Letterman flap "underscores everything that conservatives are saying. If Rush Limbaugh had made a joke about Barack Obama's daughter, he wouldn't finish the sentence before they were calling for him to be fired. It is beyond a double standard. It is a rank hypocrisy and everyone sees it."
RNC Chairman Michael Steele has advocated a "Late Show" ban, saying in a statement that, "when Letterman starts making tasteless jokes about kids, it's time to turn the channel."
However, as the Limbaugh-Letterman comparisons proliferate across the web and cable news shows, some Republican strategists question the wisdom of trying to make a political target out of the 62-year-old comedian. "If the right goes after Letterman they make him look big and themselves small," says Mark McKinnon, a campaign adviser to George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. "It's win-win for Letterman."
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Letterman has crossed the line from 'tasteless' to 'hateful' here.
Mark McKinnon, so you know, I ain’t voting for anymore RINOs, so advise them with care.
Why believe anything a McCain advisor says? They’re incompetent and they LOST!
No credibility in my house. Losers!
Send Dave Gutterman to the Maherchive.
He most certainly is a g_d d__n mole. The GOP is in a sorry state of affairs if they listen to this so-called adviser.
Yes, that’s right. That’s why his explanation was so lame. And there wasn’t any apology. He was just sorry WE misinterpreted his comments. Heck, we’re the ones who screwed up, not him. (according to him)
Letterman is CBS.
Why is it supposed to matter which daughter he was talking about?
Then WTH was the louse doing anywhere NEAR the Bush administration, never-mind a "strategist" for McLame.
Has the entire hierarchy of the American right lost their minds, or what. Disgusting.
Clueless, yes; BUT, this McKinnon creep's much more than that. The ahole was a "strategist" for Bush II and McLame.
Gee whiz McKinnon's a REGISTERED 'RAT. Wonder where those timely inside the WH leaks TO insideous outfits like The NYSlimes et al ad nauseum come from I wonder?
Even bigger shock McLame lost, and lost to a Chicago politician. One with a Muslim name. Who's only claim to fame is that of a community activist?? One who in all likelihood is not even a damned US citizen, to boot?!
The Republican Party has gone totally mad, what else can explain this traitorous SOB so close to the seat of power?
NOW "advising" the right what to do??
HA!!
"I couldn’t stand Letterman the first time I saw him as a sub for Johnny Carson and my attitude towards that slimy used condom salesman has only become more negative as the years have gone by."
That one, funny he's not.
He *is* vile, though.
"And the “vichy quislings” RINOs need to stop trying to herd me into their corral."
They've a mission, to split the base cleanly in two.
Republicans better understand this is getting clear enough to see, beyond the realm of tin foil hat conspiracy stuff. No longer will loses be attributed to the "political process" in lieu of the real reason: it was fixed *and* thrown.
~eh FBD, Crazyhorse is a fellow Oregonian.
I got the same response. I emailed ‘em back, saying that theirs was one of the greatest non-answers of all time.
Then, I repeated what I stated in my original email:
“You stop advertising on The Late Show with David Letterman.
I resume purchasing your products.”
Not sure fascists give a whit 'bout the Republic, though. Never-mind those who've made a career pissing on it.
Sure he's a leftist tool, a quisling.
But consider It is a quisling who's PAID by the GOP to "strategize" for US, for our Republic??
I swear, an in depth investigation into the backgrounds of these lice needs to be implemented, immediately.
Those responsible for bringing the filth into the party are, to me, more important than the lice themselves.
The rot must go awfully deep.
No wonder things have gone as they have since Y2K.
All the while we IDIOTS sit around scratching our heads wondering WTH the safe that fell outa the air onto our heads came? Nuts, just nuts.
And lest I forget: KMA, McKinnon.
No, but in the same way the Left tries to install Rush as the head of the GOP we can declare him as their disgusting mouthpiece.
Send him that map and a map with the Reagan victories.
That’s good to know. I sent them an nasty-gram too and I got the same response as someone else posted up-thread. So hopefully Mars is putting their foot down.
This comes out a win for Letterman, only if Palin continues to make the event an issue. She should back off and let others carry the ball here.
Let’s not forget the other comments he made that night regarding Jews and Flight Attendants..
Funny, I didn't see anything similar in the paper when the knives came out for Don Imus
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