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"Well, my responsibility – I take full blame for that. I told a bad joke. I told a joke that was beyond flawed, and my intent is completely meaningless compared to the perception. And since it was a joke I told, I feel that I need to do the right thing here and apologize for having told that joke. It’s not your fault that it was misunderstood, it’s my fault. That it was misunderstood.” (audience applauds) “Thank you. So I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the Governor and her...

JOHNNY CARSON is rolling over in his grave. Even the late Lenny Bruce is having a fit. While you were watching David Letterman -- a bitter guy who never saw a woman or a Republican he could stand -- trash Sarah Palin's 14-year-old daughter by "joking" that she was date-raped by Alex Rodriguez and stalked by Eliot Spitzer, you may have missed the memo. Dave's in good company. His struggling brother up the dial, Conan O'Brien, on Thursday night was having a blast slurring women and Jews -- two groups that may constitute the last permissible sick-comedy staples. Here's Conan:...

A diverse coalition of concerned citizens, whose website is www.FireDavidLetterman.com, today announced a Fire David Letterman Rally on Tuesday, June 16, from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm on the sidewalks outside the Ed Sullivan Theater, located at 1697 Broadway in New York City. CBS films the Late Show with David Letterman at the Ed Sullivan Theater. Tuesday’s show, hosted by Letterman, will be taped at 5:30 pm, and will feature guest Michelle Pfeiffer. Anna Barone, who worked for Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign, and later for Democrats for McCain, called on CBS CEO Les Moonves to fire David Letterman for his...

When David Letterman let loose with some sexist and crude cheap shots about the daughter of Sarah Palin, a lot of folks were asking, ”Where are the feminists? Well, it looks like even the National Organization of Women (NOW) can’t keep quiet any longer. In a move that pretty much has conservatives floored, NOW has placed Letterman in its Hall of Shame as an offender.

The governor has spent much of her public life in high-pitched feuds—but taking on late night’s prince shows a complete lack of political sophistication. Top 10 lists about Sarah Palin's attack on David Letterman are already being written but really there is only one reason Palin should relent—she’s not a good enough politician to play. Palin has spent much of her public life in feuds with the state legislature, with her ex-brother-in-law, with John McCain’s staff, with Levi Johnston’s family. An early fight with the chairman of Alaska’s Oil & Gas Commission paved the way to the governor’s office. She...

By way of Gateway Pundit: CBS compares Iran's Holocaust denier, womens right's abuser, America-hating radical to George W. Bush. CBS republishes vile New Republic article-- Meet Iran's George W. Bush On June 12, Iranian voters will choose among four leading candidates for president, but their real choice is singular: whether to continue on the course plotted by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This ought to be a no-brainer: Ahmadinejad has made a mess of the economy, clamped down on political dissent and social freedoms, militarized the state, and earned the enmity of much of the world. In large Iranian cities, even those...

David Letterman insists they're just jokes. But his attacks on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are much more than that. Indeed, the late-night comedian managed to anger all sides with his nasty mocking of the Palin family -- particularly his snotty wisecrack that while Palin was visiting New York, her daughter (age 14) was "knocked up" by a Yankees player: Both the conservative Concerned Women for America and the liberal National Organization of Women denounced the remark. Letterman's attempt at humor revealed a sorrowful remnant of the cavalier manner in which society used to regard young women. But something even bigger...

http://cancelthebee.blogspot.com/2009/06/cbs-airbrushes-lettermans-willow-palin.html CBS airbrushes Letterman's Willow Palin rape joke out of transcript Interesting -- the censors at CBS airbrushed Letterman's rape joke out of the transcript it sent to the media: The remark was aired live, but CBS removed it from the transcript it makes available to media, including the New York Times, which publishes Letterman’s opening monologue on its blog site.

If Sarah Palin wants to use David Letterman’s “poor taste” joke about her daughter getting knocked up by a New York Yankee to alter the cultural discord involving young women, that would be fine. In fact, it could be extraordinary. Palin spent the better part of three days demanding that Letterman apologize for “contributing to the kind of threat that is throughout our culture that makes it sound like it is OK to talk about young girls in a way, where it’s kind of OK, accepted and funny to talk about statutory rape,” she told NBC’s Matt Lauer. Letterman, in...

Right-wing America, and the Palin family itself, continues to enjoin talk show host David Letterman in the Four Year War. Suggestions that Dave is a pedophile highlighted the latest skirmish. Letterman fired the first volley Monday when he suggested in a monologue that baseball pistol Alex Rodriguez had an intimate moment with a Palin daughter during the seventh-inning stretch during a Sunday Yankees game the Alaska governor attended. The right sputtered: How dare Letterman say 14-year-old Willow Palin was having it off with ARod!? Letterman replied in a Wednesday monologue that his admittedly tasteless jibe was aimed at famous single...

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We have changed the date of the FIRE DAVID LETTERMAN RALLY from Monday, June 15 to Tuesday, June 16. The time and place remains the same: 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm on the sidewalks outside of the Ed Sullivan Theater, which is located at 1697 Broadway in New York City. If you live within a 4 hour drive of New York City, please make an effort to attend this event. You can RSVP on our Facebook Event, located at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?sid=fd6d71fa207c952b5bcc233e1bb63... 7311092&ref=search Please bring your own signs (be creative but PG rated!) to the event. Also, for the technologically oriented please...

Letterman has jumped the shark. The recent bad jokes about Palin and her daughter shows that Letterman has jumped the shark. A term used to describe a TV shows beginning of the end. This usually corresponds to the point where a show with falling ratings apparently becomes more desperate to draw in viewers. In the process of undergoing these changes, the TV or movie series loses its original appeal. Shows that have "jumped the shark" are typically deemed to have passed their peak. Face it if Letterman cannot or will not attack Obama or the Clintons so his show has...

David Letterman is scornful of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, which is certainly his right. That he continues to use the bully pulpit of his late-night talk show to crack wise about the former vice presidential contender is acceptable also, if not exactly cutting edge comedy. Clearly a public figure, Palin is fair game. But Letterman went beyond the pale with his recent jokes about Palin’s daughter being “knocked up” by a New York Yankee player while attending a recent game. Letterman claimed to be referring to Palin’s 18-year-old daughter, Bristol, who had a child out of wedlock. However, Bristol wasn’t...

Sarah Palin would no doubt be horrified by the idea, but there's a chance she could become the same boon to David Letterman's career that Hugh Grant was to Jay Leno's. Grant's 1995 appearance on NBC's "Tonight" show after a prostitution arrest, where Leno famously asked "what were you thinking?," was seen in retrospect as a turning point in the late-night race. It drew a huge audience and propelled Leno to the top of the ratings, a spot he would not relinquish. Letterman did not court last week's battle with Palin, who called him "perverted" for making a joke about...

Now in the good old days this is where Todd Palin, the child's father, gets to walk up to Letterman anytime in the near future and punch him in his foul mouth. http://crosshairs.archangelsandwitticism.com/2009/06/13/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-letterman.aspx

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals is headquartered in Madison, NJ and is one of the largest research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare product companies in the world. It is also, by way of Centrum vitamins, one of David Letterman’s sponsors for The Late Show with David Letterman. Every Centrum vitamin you buy helps keep the lights on in the Ed Sullivan Theater, where on June 8th 2009 David Letterman treated statutory rape as a laughing matter when he “joked” that 14 year-old Willow Palin, the only Palin daughter who attended a baseball game that day, was “knocked up” by 33 year-old Alex Rodriguez of the...

Republican New York State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb has written CBS CEO Les Moonves asking the network chief to fire David Letterman for the talk show host’s crude jokes he made at the expense of Governor Sarah Palin and her daughter. Kolb said his letter condemns Letterman for his “shockingly inappropriate” jokes:

But also not amused are flight attendents. Were they offended by Letterman's slur? "Yes – and I'm speaking as a MALE flight attendant here," said Ken Kyle, president of the 1,200-member Denver chapter of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA United Airlines. "We've fought the TV stereotype for so many years, and quite honestly, it's objectionable when you put it in light of (flight attendants' heroic actions during) 9/11 and more recently, the professionalism of the US Airways attendants during the emergency landing on the Hudson River." Jokes and sexual innuendos take a long-term toll, said Kyle."They desensitize the public to...

Don Imus apologized. Mel Gibson apologized. So did Michael Richards and the Greaseman (didn't do much good). Politicians do it all the time. Shock jocks, actors and athletes do. Even Bill O'Reilly has done it. So why can't David Letterman bring himself to apologize? In another one of those delicious, you-know-you-love-it-even-as-you-roll-your-eyes media flaps, Letterman has been fending off an aggrieved Sarah Palin after she took offense at several of his late-night cracks.