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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He is a degenerate old pervert.
That’s putting it nicely.
This type of rhetoric “knocking up her daughter” is UNACCEPTABLE on NATIONAL TV....and Palin is leading the charge in saying...THIS IS NOT CORRECT BEHAVIOR. God Bless her for doing so. The left and RINOs are HYPOCRITES.
I don’t pay him enough regard to hate him. He’s navel lint.
Win-Win is not the superlative of win.
Fine.
Let Babbleman win then, *Mark*.
What's it to you, pal.
Oh and Mark, 'bout last election? Your part in the *strategy* to/for/during Li'l Bush's 2 terms?
KMA, McKinnon.
Form letter, sent hoping that you will go away.
All the evidence that I need to see to know that Mark McKinnon is a complete jackass.
If conservatives, and Republicans don't start fiercely and frequently standing up to these kinds of attacks, they'll never get back into power. Whomever is Bob Schiefer's GOP guest (assuming there is one on Sunday), should go out of his/her way to belittle Schiefer about working for a company that brings us the likes of David Letterman.
If the left can bully Imus into retirement about an extemporaneous, live and on-air comment about ADULT women, equal pressure should be applied to Letterman for a written remark delivered ON TAPE yet still aired in it's entirety.
Where are Frum and Brooks decrying how intolerant conservatives are?
I can’t imagine NOT flying to NY to confront this pig head one had it been my daughter he spoke about.
OTOH, I can't downvote the reddit folks fast enough.
Everybody, please check out this page. You don't have to leave a comment if you don't want to, but down-vote the bad comments:
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/8s0g2/palins_continuing_vendetta_against_letterman/
Regardless of which daughter the joke was directed at, it was extremely tasteless. Don Imus lost his job over less, not that I condone what he said.
And a campaign against him would accomplish what again? I’m having a hard time imagining this doing anything except providing more laugh fodder for opposition ...
Oh, but he didn’t MEAN the 14 yr old, he was joking about the 18 yr old getting raped! To a liberal perv like Letterman, he thinks that makes a difference.
I bet McKinnon was one of the campaign staff backstabbers that tried to throw Governor Palin under bus on November 5, 2008.
Does that scream out loser or what?
Is David Letterman the new head of the Democrat Party?
Well, Edwards waited until his wife's cancer was in remission before he visited that other babe who had his kid.
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