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The Last Laugh
Townhall.com ^ | June 20, 2009 | Bill O'Reilly

Posted on 06/20/2009 4:42:55 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 06/20/2009 4:42:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
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If somebody had mocked President Obama's family that way, they would be destroyed.

And that is the whole truth in a nutshell that even the Left and the Liberal MSM knew could not be squashed.

2 posted on 06/20/2009 4:47:57 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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Many now consider Letterman a liberal guy

Boy, I can't imagine why. Captain Obvious to the rescue.

3 posted on 06/20/2009 4:49:02 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (I long for the days when advertisers didn't constantly ask about the health of my genital organs.)
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And so it was the mean-spirited perception that dunked Letterman.

No Riley, you don't get it. A joke about rape is purely disgusting and a joke about raping a minor is lower than disgusting. This has legs because our society is not completely degenerate. Yet.

4 posted on 06/20/2009 4:50:04 AM PDT by Raycpa
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Gee, Bill, not to challenge your ability to know it all, but are we allowed to perceive that his apology was not sincere and that that was evident and so he had to repeat it? And are we allowed to perceive that it was the so-called joke that was not only “mean-spirited” but exceedingly vicious? I believe that your perceptions are more indicative of your desire to defend your role as arbiter for “the folks” than they are accurate and that the center of gravity may be shifting slightly away from you after a long run?


5 posted on 06/20/2009 4:52:38 AM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: Raycpa

You really need to let go of your B.OR.DS. What is wrong with what he said?


6 posted on 06/20/2009 4:54:48 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for 0bama: One Bad Ass Mistake America)
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7 posted on 06/20/2009 5:04:12 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
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To hear the liberal pundits try to defend Letterman was something out of "The Twilight Zone."

Right. That's O'Reilly's job.

8 posted on 06/20/2009 5:12:04 AM PDT by BykrBayb (I'm thinking of stealing floriduh voter's tagline ~ Þ)
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A joke about raping a young girl is “mean spirited”?

BTW, I like him. I think he is great. However, he (and many others including Palin supporters) is not seeing the underlying reason this issue has taken hold. Hint: It is not about being mean. It is about disgust. There is a big difference.


9 posted on 06/20/2009 5:31:03 AM PDT by Raycpa
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It’s the double standard that I am sick of. One may say ANYTHING about a white, conservative, Christian, Republican and their family...but people like the Obamas are strickly off-limits.


10 posted on 06/20/2009 5:39:24 AM PDT by kjo
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This really shows the meanness of the liberals. One disgusting centrist gets fired and one flaming liberal gets to puff himself up in an “apology”!
11 posted on 06/20/2009 5:41:57 AM PDT by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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What liberal entertainers do not understand is that Obama was elected because the economy collapsed under a Republican president and a Democrat Legislative Branch.

There. I fixed it.

12 posted on 06/20/2009 5:51:04 AM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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“If Jay Leno had told the joke...” Wrong analogy. I do not believe Leno would ever have told the joke. He is a comedian. Letterman is a guttersnipe.


13 posted on 06/20/2009 6:00:01 AM PDT by Melchior
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If he had joked that way about Sachet and Malaria,they would not complain to his sponsers,they’d have burned the building down.


14 posted on 06/20/2009 6:06:29 AM PDT by pistolpetestoys (Outside of a dog a book is a mans best friend;inside a dog it's too dark to read.)
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If he had joked that way about Sachet and Malaria,they would not complain to his sponsers,they’d have burned the building down.

Why do you have to go after innocent children with those names? Maybe you are just an immature punk who finds it funny to use derogatory names, like the immature punk Letterman who likes to make sexual "jokes" about 14 year-olds. You also give fuel to the lefties who are monitoring this site. Please grow up.

15 posted on 06/20/2009 7:06:47 AM PDT by neocon1984
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To: SkyPilot
"If somebody had mocked President Obama's family that way, they would be destroyed.

I would consider the mockery contemptible no matter who was mocked. And I have nothing but contempt for Letterman and anyone amused by his mockery. I doubt that anything he might do would alter my opinion.

17 posted on 06/20/2009 7:12:23 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The Left is decadence. Hubris and denial lead to tragedy. Marxism is a Fools' Paradise.)
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Liberal hate is out of the closet. They no longer just disagree with us. Their logic is so flawed and feeble the only way they can respond is with violence, and it’s becoming more and more mainstream. When the first two amendments of the Bill of Rights are gone, and we can no longer worship, speak out or defend ourselves, the ‘hope and change’ of the leftist agenda will be complete.


18 posted on 06/20/2009 7:19:01 AM PDT by Spok (Proud father of a Marine in the 1/1.)
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To add insult to injury, the audience thought Letterman was ‘funny.’ Were they drunk or drugged?

Another apology needs to be made public . . . the apology of everyone in that audience who laughed at the ‘rape joke.’

Rape is about POWER and Letterman has so little that he has to use rape in what he calls a joke.

Letterman . . . you’re a sucking COWARD.

(just joking)NOT


19 posted on 06/20/2009 7:48:55 AM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann in 2012. With Liz Cheney as Secretary of State.)
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“What Letterman and his writers failed to see is the growing anger in America over personal attacks leveled against public people.”

Upstanding public officials.


20 posted on 06/20/2009 8:10:20 AM PDT by PROTESTBYPROXY (Conservatives must man up!!)
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