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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Those comments would have been inappropriate concerning an eighteen year old daughter too. Even NOW agrees with that. Letterman doesn’t have a leg to stand on here.
He’s going to force CBS into damage control, if he isn’t careful.
Why would anyonw even watch that pile of bull excretment that shouldn’t attract anything but maggots.
All the more reason to go after Letterman- just to watch this liberal turd throw a hissy fit.
The article is silly. The political right has had a tasty target since November 5th.
BS-The "tasty target is, will be, and has been, the Obamafuehrer. Letterman is a sideshow.
No he won't. Piper would kick his butt.
Yes, and here's the exclamation point to telling Mark McKinnon to STFU:
As for me, I refuse to let this kind of cruel attack go without some push-back.
I called NOW everyday this week; they have now added Letterman to their hall of shame. Yeah I know its NOW.
I called 14 Letterman sponsors and told them I'm through with their products as long as they advertise on his show.
I filed a complaint with FCC, and I have sent at least 6 emails to CBS.
It may or may not get him fired, but I'm doing my damnedest.
I'm a gambler, my friend. Wouldn't touch [that] wager with a 10 foot pole; but, I *would* wager you're absolutely correct.
These miserable Vichy quislings, these lice who've leaked, betrayed at every single turn have, are and will continue to OUT themselves each time they open their big mouths.
Sure do hope Steele & Co are taking names. /sarc ;^)
I’m not advocating that we roll over and play dead. I’m just not sure that anybody has defined goals for any of this and I’m leery of taking action in the absence of defined goals. I’m already short of time and energy.
Nobody will stand up for Conservatives. You have to fight fire with fire. Someone should cut a joke on Obama’s kids and then when they cry foul say Oh I was wondering where the voices were.
It just seems like a lot of uncoordinated activity though with no specific goals or hopes. I’m willing to devote time and energy to projects that have defined goals that have at least a small chance of success.
Well Tom, since you just got here, maybe you don’t realize that conservatives don’t take kindly to children and young ladies being attacked. If these were your daughters, would you “get it” then?
Okay, seriously, when are we going to get rid of “advisers” to McCain...and Bush for that matter? Rove is okay, but even he is so damned wishy washy and a true politician’s politician. Are they ever going to go away? Ever? Get real jobs? Do something productive?
Is David Letterman the new head of the Democrat Party?
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YES!!!!! (he, he ;-))
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/mccain.html
Mark McKinnon, true to vow, exits McCain team rather than fight Obama
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But he’s sticking by his vow that if the Democratic candidate was Obama, he would step off the McCain ad team because Obama’s election “would send a great message to the country and the world.”
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