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Fire David Letterman Protest To Held in New York Tuesday, June 16
NowPublic ^ | June 14, 2009 | Jon Azpiri

Posted on 06/14/2009 12:05:23 PM PDT by SolidWood

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To: AnotherUnixGeek
re: This is probably true in the short term. In the longer term, Letterman has done something late night hosts have traditionally avoided by identifying himself as an opponent of one side of the political/cultural divide. Carson, Leno and Letterman have always tried to portray themselves as equal opportunity ridiculers. There's no way this is going to work out in Letterman's favor unless he finds a way to de-escalate this issue - marginalizing himself by offending large swathes of the nation is not a strategy advertisers or the sad sacks at CBS are going to appreciate.)))

I think you are right--people aren't just protesting Letterman. They're sick of the kind of demeaning, degrading rants that pass themselves off as comedy. Time to return some insults. Let's see how much guts they have. I suspect they're sniveling cowards under all those f-bombs.

And it's smart Alinsky for our side. We've got to play a tougher game.

41 posted on 06/16/2009 1:10:47 PM PDT by Mamzelle (BRING CAMERA EQUIP TO TEA PARTIES--TAPE THE DISRUPTORS)
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CBS’s different reactions when David Feherty made anti-Obama comments and was made to appologize immediately. (And he was only a golf analyst)

Actually I think those comments were about Pelosi and Reid, and he said them on some obscure web site, not during a golf telecast.

42 posted on 06/17/2009 12:45:20 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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