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'Nervous' Letterman Brushes Off Protesters
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Posted on 06/16/2009 4:42:14 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

'Nervous' Letterman Brushes Off Protesters Late Show Host Jokes About Flap With Former VP Candidate Palin, Unveils "Top Ten Things Overheard At Fire Dave Rally" NEW YORK (CBS) ―

While angry protesters called for CBS to fire longtime Late Show host David Letterman after his flap with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the comic brushed off the hate with a slew of jokes and a Top Ten List aimed at those calling for his head.

In fact, the very first thing he said to his audience was a rib for those rallying:

"Now when I call your name, please come forward and pick up your apology. [Laughter, applause] I wanna get through this as quickly as possibly so you folks can get to the 'Fire Dave Rally.' [Cheering] It's nice that people hate me who are no longer just part of my immediate family. My son, he's telling everybody at school that his father is Conan!"

He later touched on his apology to Palin for making a distasteful joke about her daughter Bristol having sex with Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez. Many believed the joke was actually aimed at her 14-year-old daughter Willow and were appalled. Palin eventually accepted an apology from Letterman.

"The good news is Sarah Palin has accepted my apology. She also accepted a $500 gift certificate from Lens Crafters. I thought that was a nice touch," he said. "I tell you, I was quite nervous about this whole thing, and I was really nervous about an apology to Sarah Palin, so when I did get my confidence up and my nerves to settle down, I rehearsed by apologizing to Tina Fey. That helped. That was a big help. [Applause]"

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bitterlibtard; cbs; letterman; palin
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full of himself......
1 posted on 06/16/2009 4:42:14 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Still waiting for the first mean jokes about obama and/or his children...


2 posted on 06/16/2009 4:44:00 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Sub-Driver

Seill sounds like he don’t get it.


3 posted on 06/16/2009 4:45:08 PM PDT by oldbill
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This schmuck still doesn’t get it does he..He knows he has the full backing of CBS, they will never fire him. They would rather collapse around him then ever fire him. That is how devoted they are to him and to Obama


4 posted on 06/16/2009 4:46:14 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sub-Driver

David the Sincere //sarc//


5 posted on 06/16/2009 4:46:46 PM PDT by BAW (Fire David Letterman)
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To: Sub-Driver

I’m waiting for the jokes about his own out-of-wedlock child.
And he was in his fifties when he had it, not a confused teenager.


6 posted on 06/16/2009 4:47:05 PM PDT by oldbill
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To: Sub-Driver

He can kiss my *ss in Macy’s window. He is a dreadful semi-human being, to whom, if I were a mean guy like the lefties, would wish that his bypass failed. But, since I am not a mean-spirited person, I will not wish him ill.


7 posted on 06/16/2009 4:47:11 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Who ever thought we would long for the days of the Clinton administration...)
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comic brushed off the hate...

You are going to see a lot of this "hate" stuff. Think the guy's a sleeze...you're a hater

Disagree with Ozero's policies...you're a hater. It's so easy.

8 posted on 06/16/2009 4:48:37 PM PDT by Bahbah
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He’s still disgusting but then I was never a fan.


9 posted on 06/16/2009 4:49:04 PM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: oldbill

Are you saying Harry’s mother is a slut?


10 posted on 06/16/2009 4:49:36 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

A contract is a contract. If they try to can him he sues for big $$


11 posted on 06/16/2009 4:50:17 PM PDT by Sub-Driver (Proud member of the Republican wing of the Republican Party)
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To: oldbill
I’m waiting for the jokes about his own out-of-wedlock child. And he was in his fifties when he had it, not a confused teenager

You mean he had SEX? I thought the kid was artificially inseminated. Will wonders never cease.....

12 posted on 06/16/2009 4:50:20 PM PDT by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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To: Sub-Driver
What is disgusting excuse for a human being.

Letterman's joke about statutory rape was the lowest of the low.

13 posted on 06/16/2009 4:50:58 PM PDT by daivid
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So let me see if I have this correct: He apologizes and then makes a joke about it:
“The good news is Sarah Palin has accepted my apology. She also accepted a $500 gift certificate from Lens Crafters. I thought that was a nice touch,” he said. “I tell you, I was quite nervous about this whole thing,..”
So then there was really no apology, keep the heat on CBS!
Fire Him!


14 posted on 06/16/2009 4:50:59 PM PDT by blueyon (It is worth taking a stand even if you are standing alone!)
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I read this on TeamSarah..this time it’s a Texas Rally to fire Letterman..

Please Join The American Conservative Alliance for the following event:

Fire David Letterman Rally

Saturday, June 20th

10:00 AM till Noon

Meet in front of:
CBS affiliate KBTX-TV Channel 3
4141 E. 29th Street
Bryan, TX 77802
(Less than 5 minutes from the Texas A&M University Campus.)

For more information contact Mark Gillar
mark@americanconservativealliance.org

If you can’t make the Rally, at least log on to our Email Blaster
and let Letterman’s advertisers know how you feel:

Please also visit our other website:
Liberal Madness to view related videos.


15 posted on 06/16/2009 4:52:01 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sub-Driver

Read the story, and it was even mildly humorous, particularly the part where Perv’s kid was claiming Conan was his real dad.


16 posted on 06/16/2009 4:52:14 PM PDT by Mamzelle (BRING CAMERA EQUIP TO TEA PARTIES--TAPE THE DISRUPTORS)
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To: Sub-Driver

Letterman has been cut some slack by O’Reilly and others who seem to have forgotten Letterman said the same thing about Bristol in the spring. Letterman seems to have an unhealthy obsession about the Palin family, especially Sarah, in that he uses them with unvarnished hate in his “jokes”. The man was and is way out of line. His remark was Hate Speak in my view.


17 posted on 06/16/2009 4:52:51 PM PDT by yoe (Marxism has replaced Democracy without a shot fired......)
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To: LaineyDee

Well the president is the result of a white trash whore who slept with the town drunk...


18 posted on 06/16/2009 4:53:46 PM PDT by freebird5850 (O-Bomba is not the Messia. Jesus was a carpenter and could build a cabinet!)
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To: lonestar

Ah! YEP! ABSOLUTELY! Look WHO She Shacked UP WITH! and how she allowed Her Son to endure being a Bastard for his first six years of Life while Living in Filthy Rich Wealth and Luxury! YUK!


19 posted on 06/16/2009 4:54:55 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (GOD BLESS AMERICA and Our Last Great President George W. Bush)
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To: Sub-Driver

They can take him off the air, and still pay his contract.


20 posted on 06/16/2009 4:54:58 PM PDT by Boiling Pots (Barack Obama: The final turd George W. Bush laid on America)
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