Letterman is just the latest celebrity who thinks that because he's got camera time, he's earned the right to express his political views the way those who are known exclusively for their views earned it. He in essence has a captive audience for whatever he wants to say, and who can resist the urge to say Serious Things?
I don't know why anyone wastes their time on Letterman or the witless Leno when there are so many good books to read.
I used to love Letterman back in the NBC days when he was on at 12:30, had cool bands on, had funny skits with guys like Chris Elliot and Larry bud Melman. As far as I'm concerned, he totally jumped the shark when he went to CBS and moved to 11:30. I probably have watched the show 3 times since he made that move. The show sux. Leno sux, too. I never liked the Tonight show, even with Carson. What a snoozefest. The late shows like Conan have hip bands on from time to time. Other than that, who wants to watch interviews with actors/actresses, who are the boringest, lamest people on the planet? As for the antiwar crap, virtually every single "creative" person in America is an unhinged antiwar freak these days. They hate Bush. They hate Fox news. They hate Bill O Reilly. They have a totally ignorant conception of who OReilly is and what he represents. They are angry, intolerant, and ignorant.
I just saw that.
It was pretty disgusting, but expected. Letterman has been bashing Bush constantly in the last year or two. It's clearly gone beyond just usual humor at the President's expense as has been the case up until then with Clinton and GW. Letterman is expressing a deep dislike if not hatred for the President.
I used to prefer Letterman to Leno. Now I don't watch either of them. Because neither are funny anymore and Letterman allows his politics to take over many shows.
Can't wait until Conan takes over the tonight show.
O'Reilly did ok for himself dealing with an uninformed jackass talking out of his arse with a New York liberal crowd 100% on Letterman's side.
As arrogant as O'Reilly can be sometimes, I'm glad he stuck to his guns. He certainly had a lot more class than Letterman. He really exposed Letterman's liberalism.
You could tell by the way that Letterman was announcing him as a guest, that he was going to be nasty to O'Reilly.
BTW, what kind of a bubble do you have to live in to not realize that there's a PC campaign against Christmas in this country?
I saw that bit. I do believe O'Reilly should've answered back to his stupid question "Why in the hell are we there?" with the very simple answer. "We are there because a murderous dictator who had used chemical weapons and invaded his neighbors was not fully cooperating with UN inspections and was aiding terrorists and circumventing sanctions and trying to purchase additional nuclear material and rebuild his weapons programs. Dave Letterman was an ass like typical liberals who ask questions they should already have figured out the answers to if they were really as smart as they think they are.
Please tell me that Bill let this AQ-sympathising POS have it with both barrels...this transcript makes it sound like Letterman was unloading and getting the upper hand???
RealPlayer? Isn't that kind of giving your registry a dose of coolwebsearch?
Top 10 things Letterman should have done tonight or so it sounds
10. STFU
9. STFU
8. STFU
7. STFU
6. STFU
5. STFU
4. STFU
3. STFU
2. STFU
1. STFU
Letterboy is just another liberal punk who would shit all over himself if he ever had to lace up a pair of combat boots and jump off a chopper into a combat zone.
And a debate about war and combat between O'Reilly(another MIA during the Viet Nam war) and Letterboy is laughable.
I guess Letterboy and his fans would have preferred if my fellow Marines had found the WMD in their laps when they entered Baghdad! As far as I'm concerned, we FOUND THE WMD the day we captured Saddass Hussein!
Every FReeper knows that the Draft Dodger Clinton and the rest of the Lefties are on record for removing Saddass Hussein; so let's not try and rewrite history here...
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Way to treat a GUEST Letterman - stick your pencil in their coffee before they come out, act rude, dismissive and call them a liar. What an A-Hole.
It is clear that Letterman has not take the trouble to read or listen to what Sheehan says in her speaches. If he had he would hear talking points and left wing bromides.
Someone should remind Letterman that his hero Johnny Carson was never politically biased on his show. I suspect he was a lib but he was pretty fair I thought.
Carson had class
Letterman will never be close to as good as Johnny.
Some CBS contact info- in addition to the feedback option at the bottom of their website:
212-975-4321
212-975-4114
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Milesrepublican:Co,bining your post with mine to get the contact info out there.
Please everybody, let them know!
If Iraq turns out to be a strong viable democracy, Bush's decision will be seen as a stroke of genius. The MSM will credit Klinton or Carter and you'll never read it in the NYT.
i noticed that during the exchange the audience was a little inconsistent. they applauded letterman on the cindy sheehan issue but also applauded o'rielly when he said he'd never refer to iraqi terrorists as freedon fighters, as she did.