Dave Does The Right Thing
June 11th, 2009, 8:01 PM EDT
But where is the gracious acceptance by Palin of his apology for what he said? Of course, Dave apologized in his trademark humorous style, and added this serious statement.
“I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl,” he said, dropping his signature sarcasm. “I don’t think it’s funny. I would never think it was funny.”
The daughter jokes were obviously aimed at the older one, Bristol, but it was 14-year-old Willow who accompanied her mother to New York, hence the confusion. Here’s the video:
acceptance by Palin of his apology
I admit, I am bias on this one; I have a daughter myself. But I don’t see this as an apology.
deeznuts Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Tell us, what would be an acceptable apology?
I’m asking in all seriousness here, not trying to be snarky. I just would really like to know what people think counts as an apology in cases like these.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 2:53 am
an apology isn’t an apology if you qualify all the exceptions of why the joke was ok…basically he’s apologizing because you were offended…not because it was a bad joke…
and for the record, he shouldn’t have apologized at all.
Daddio Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 8:11 am
Exactly right Guido except I disagree with your last part where you say “he shouldn’t have apologized at all.”
This was no apology. He had to know which daughter was with Sarah. They had photo ops with Rudy. They were all over the news in NYC. Letterman is not stupid. He follows the news. He had to see which daughter was with Sarah. He had to know which daughter was at Yankee Stadium.
I SAW NO APOLOGY FROM LETTERMAN.
By the way, Letterman’s now wife was “knocked up” months before they were married. I think that happened during the 7th inning when A-Rod took a couple minutes to go into the stands to “knock her up”. Funny? I don’t think so. If Palin would have said that about Letterman’s wife she would have been hanged from the rafters by the msm and their liberal followers.
rafferclinton Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Looking back to Clinton era with his daughter, media and talk show hosts said nothing after the first rude comment about Chelsea in the first year. Nothing is ever said about her derogatorily in the media or talk shows now. Hmmmmmmm…and she was a “public figure” during the campaigning by Hillary as well. Double standards. Letterman would not “take” to such comments made about his son, now would he?
June 11th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Seems to me another overeaction to a COMEDIAN by prominent Republicans.
Comedians have always pushed it to and over the edge. Everything from God to Obama’s dog is on the table. There are very few taboo subjects in comedy. Lighten up, come on.
average james Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
That and I’ve always liked Letterman.
Um Cara Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Seems to me another overeaction to a COMEDIAN by prominent Republicans.
I have no idea how much press this has been getting, I would hope not much. I do think it logical that Palin would be irritated, and don’t blame her for speaking out on it (though her statement was fairly over the top), it looks like Letterman used it to fill 8 minutes of air time.
I think jokes about Palin are funnier than jokes about her kid (my favorite from the elections, on this blog, was calling her ‘Bible Spice’ – don’t remember which of the posters used that, but it cracked me up).
average james Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Bible spice, Hahahaha
That is a good one.
average james Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Apparently McCain has chimed in with the leave the Palins alone crowd.
Public figures have always been fair game with COMEDIANS.
June 11th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Sad women are still judged and demeaned on their looks rather than their skills more then men.
OldLefty Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
What’s it have to do with her looks?
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 2:55 am
one of the offending jokes was about updating her slutty flight attendent look.
which he didn’t apologize for…because it was hilarious.
flap Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
It’s okay to demean her since she’s against abortion.
She’s not really a woman, because no real woman would DARE be against the sacrosanct, straight-from-Heaven right to destroy human life!
deeznuts Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Do you really want to open up a discussion about “destroying human life”?
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 2:55 am
it’s flap…of course he does.
flap Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
I got six-packs of cans of whup ass I can open up as well.
I’m not threatening violence, but since I’m from the South I thought I’d throw that in.
I remember when I first heard that phrase “open up cans of whup ass” and I thought it was one of the stupidest, inane, redneck things ever. I still do, but I like it. :D
Rocky the Liberal Rottweiler Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 10:30 am
“Sad women are still judged and demeaned on their looks rather than their skills more then men.”
And mostly it IS the “sad women” who are judged and demeaned on their looks.
June 11th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
“I don’t understand why Letterman would say that about a young woman,” McCain said during a telephone interview on Thursday. “They (the Palins) deserve some kind of protection from being the butt of late-night hosts.”
So the answer to your question, Alan, about the McCain/Palin relationship is that McCain has at least a favorable view of Palin.
average james Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Is McCain espousing some sort of censorship, perhaps for public figures with children ???
Why would they deserve some sort of protection from comedians ?
Are they somehow special, better than the other people that get lambasted by comedians ?
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 2:58 am
I don’t think he’s saying anything about state sponsored censorship, except for maybe self-censorship, saying comediens should refrain from joking about politicians kids.
Which is funny since he is the one that told the Chelsea Clinton/Janet Reno joke.
Um Cara Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
You get that from that statement?
I’d say either (or both):
- McCain has a favorable view of young women
- McCain has a disfavorable view of men who impugn the honor of young women
Doesn’t say anything about his view of Palin, really.
Um Cara Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
My post was in response to Flap’s statement:
So the answer to your question, Alan, about the McCain/Palin relationship is that McCain has at least a favorable view of Palin.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
James, children in general deserve protection from “jokes” such as this. Even Letterman agrees with that. Quit trying to justify this and turn it on Sarah Palin. Letterman made a gross error, either in research or in judgment.
average james Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Bristol is how old ???
Deserve protection ?? From comedians ??
What sort of protection ??
Man, you righties are really looking hard for something to complain about these days. Such victims.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
I’m asking in all seriousness here, not trying to be snarky. I just would really like to know what people think counts as an apology in cases like these.
“I realized that I stepped over the line. Children, minor or adult, of political figures should be off limits. Mr. Obama requested that courtesy during the campaign, Mr, McCain requested that courtesy during the campaign. Further, we now realize that we made a gross error when we wrote the joke. Clearly we were targeting Bristol and didn’t know that it was Willow that attended the game with Gov Palin.
Again, this joke was in bad taste, over the line and we offer our full apology. Gov Palin, I am sorry.”
Deb Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
It’s not an apology. They just got too much negative feedback. Anyone with good sense or morals would not have said it about ANYONE. Dave Letterman’s show has been on a downward spiral for quite some time.
June 11th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Say it Alan. Very good. “He dealt with it in his own way.”
He very clearly didn’t apologize.
See, he said the joke again.
June 11th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
But he did make jokes about a 14 year old girl.
average james Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 9:26 am
He was making jokes about Bristol 18,
apparently unaware that the younger one was in town with Mom.
Anything to keep up the victim status, huh Sarah ?
June 11th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Nice apology. Every joke was repeated. He regrets them, but repeated them.
Nice.
4moreyears Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 2:11 am
Funny too Pino.
Don’t forget, 14 is the age of consent in the rape capital of the US,
Alaska…er um MY BAD
Maybe that is WHY it is the rape capital of the US.
JaredfromTexas Reply:
June 13th, 2009 at 2:19 am
4MORE,
Leave it to an over-zealous finger pointing lefty like you to bring something like this up.
First of all, you said it yourself…the joke was about Bristol…and not the younger daughter.
Secondly, I’m assuming you’re referring to an unverified “statistical representation” of violent rapes occuring in each state by Swivel.com?
But here’s where it gets intersting:
-no credit given to the source of the information…
-no explanation of the graphic…
and more importantly…
-what percentage of the population this occurred in.
Truly pathetic the extent you will go to in order to demonize the right.
psst…the age of consent in Alaska is 16
Please…tell more lies so I can shoot them down with facts…this kind of stuff makes my day!
June 11th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Yes he looks like he is trying to make trouble.
Yes, he made it sound like it was okay for his 14 year old to have sex.
June 11th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
It’s not an apology.
He should be fired or suspended. The left SHOULD be screaming about this. This is their wheel house.
But nope.
More important than principles is Vikings vs Packers.
Cool.
Rocky the Liberal Rottweiler Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 10:32 am
I’ll scream about Letterman as soon as Rushido Limbowel apologizes for all the rightwing insults hurled at Pelosi.
JaredfromTexas Reply:
June 13th, 2009 at 2:20 am
all the rightwing insults hurled at Pelosi
Such as…?
June 11th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
His apology was a joke. He contiuned to make jokes about his comments and then invite the Palins to come on his show. I’m sure Todd would like to have some face time with Dave to discuss how David made fun of his daughter on national TV. I would tune in for that show
June 11th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
I’m sure Todd would like to have some face time with Dave to discuss how David made fun of his daughter on national TV.
I am firmly aware of how I would treat any man, face to face, who said this about my daughter. And, not to be sexist, any woman for that matter.
June 12th, 2009 at 12:06 am
Bristol is over 18, that’s who Letterman was joking about.
Bristol is now a public figure as she’s a spokesperson for ‘Abstinence Only’ sex ed., even though it doesn’t work.
goliath43 Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 2:51 am
What difference does it make who the butt of his stupid joke was or how old they are. Jokes about the Gov. the Pres fine but leave the children alone of either party
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 3:00 am
if you actually abstain it has a 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999% effective rate.
Mary being the only exception.
June 12th, 2009 at 1:59 am
Bristol is over 18, that’s who Letterman was joking about.
But, you know, this whole truth and facts thing, SHE wasn’t at the game!
Funny that. A liberal just kinda ignoring, ya know, truth and facts.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 3:00 am
but he thought she was…
average james Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 9:29 am
COMEDIAN,
Letterman is a
COMEDIAN, not a journalist,
Daddio Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 9:33 am
So Rush uses comedy in his show, but he is excoriated everytime he makes a joke or a parody about Obama, Biden, Barney Fwank, Nancy Pelosi or any other liberal.
Rush is a commentator, not a journalist.
Rocky the Liberal Rottweiler Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Rush is a dork, and you’re a gay basher.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:12 am
Don’t forget David ALSO maybe sorta apologized for Palin being in NY to go to Marshall Field’s (NEVER Mocey’s) and replace her “slutty stewardess wardrobe”…
DIdn’t the RNC and McCranky pay for that? Outrageous. Cheap?
June 12th, 2009 at 2:15 am
Don’t forget, 14 is the age of consent in the rape capital of the US,
Alaska…er um MY BAD
You sure? Check your facts again.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 3:06 am
it’s actually 16…except for some exceptions…which sound more like incest than anything but could include foster parents or other adults that reside with the 16-18 year old. , I just read the entire code on the matter.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:22 am
DIdn’t the RNC and McCranky pay for that?
Who paid for Michele Obama’s food and travel for the campaign? Or, for that matter, Obama’s?
June 12th, 2009 at 2:31 am
I seen the bit and I didnt laugh. I felt sorry for the girl actually. The same feeling for Chelsey and the Bush girls also when they were the butt of jokes. But my sense of humor has changed over the years. Then again I still find family guy hilarious.
Yeah as a parent Im sure that my reaction would of been the same as Gov. Palin’s. Shes sticking up for her child, no objection here.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:39 am
David Letterman’s utterly sleazy attempt to pretend that the joke he told about Sarah Palin’s daughter at the baseball game WASN’T about the daughter who was at the baseball game was worthy of the sleaziest politicians he’s ever tried to mock.
And he calls his mealy-mouthed attempt to squirm out of it an “apology”, and naturally Alan Colmes (with other Letterman worshippers)swallows it (”did the right thing” – now THAT’S funny!). Some apology: “If my gross, crude remark obviously about your 14-year-old offended you, then let’s just say I was talking about your 18-year-old. Doesn’t that make it all better?”
As long as we’re on the subject of children, and as Letterman seems to feel that’s fair territory, then alright, picture this scenario….
Mr. David Letterman comes home at night, and his son comes running to greet him. His son asks, “Daddy, what kind of work do you do?” Letterman replies, “Well, sonny dear, I take gratuitous, scurrilous and depraved shots at people who’ve never done me harm – yes, lad, even at their children – in order to get cheap laughs from an audience of mindless sycophants who’ll laugh at anything I say because I’m famous and they think it makes them really cool. (They’re so dumb they don’t even know when they’re not supposed to laugh.) Wouldn’t you like to be just like your ol’ pop when you grow up, sonny boy? Sonny? … Sonny?”
A 62-year-old man still cracking junior-high-school jokes for a living…. yeah, that’s really something to look up to. Something for his son to be “proud of”.
Palin was right: PATHETIC.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 4:56 am
you apparently have no sense of humor…so perhaps you should stay out of the comedy discussion.
Many people think David Letterman is funny, enough people thinks he’s funny that CBS just extended his contract 3 years, and he’s made millions of dollars doing sophomoric crap. He’s never changed, don’t expect him to.
Every single one of his shows should offend someone, if he isn’t offending someone every show he isn’t doing his job. His Tony award Top 10 was blatantly offensive to homosexuals…no one said a damn thing. So stop feigning outrage over this non-issue.
goliath43 Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 5:57 am
Sense of humor or a sense of taste big difference. Make fun of politcal people make fun of people in the abstract but to actually call out someones 14 year old child and say what he did is just over the line.
I don’t watch his show because I don’t think he’s funny. But if you enjoy his dry humor knock yourself out but don’t compare what he said about Bristol to comedy or a the lack of a sense of humor.
Ken Sears Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 7:01 am
Exactly. Thank you.
Ken Sears Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 7:05 am
It’s always the response of a person who has no argument to say, “If you don’t like it, don’t: (choose one)
a) watch it
b) say anything about it, or,
c) you don’t get it.”
It’s also the argument of an argumentless person to simply dismiss out of hand the sincerity of the other person’s views. I do congratulate you, however, Guido, for looking up a big word like “feigning” and remembering to include the first “g”.
Hey, if you didn’t like my comment, why didn’t you try just not saying anything, instead of “feigning outrage over it”, Guido? Don’t you have anything better to do?
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 8:27 am
would it surprise you even more if I told you I didn’t even look it up…
and I’m not saying I didn’t like your comment…I do disagree with it… but it’s a legitimate comment and I hold no ill will towards it. and I’m not feigning outrage as my feeling is sincere, your feeling I don’t think is as sincere, because I sense on the flip side you wouldn’t defend the Clintons if the joke was about Hillary and Chelsea, if I assessed incorrectly accept my apologies.
My outrage is with the collective being “outraged” when a comedian tells a joke, this is a long held stance I’ve had. The jokes were funny and that is that, we should stop being overly sensitive over jokes told by comediens.
You would know if it was a bad joke by the audience in the moment. You would hear audible gasps and/or silence if it was truly a bad joke. However the audience laughed, very loudly at that, which means it struck a funny nerve with a group of people. The people that go to Dave’s show know who Dave is, this was not an unexpected thing.
A lot of this so called outrage is because he was telling a sex joke involving a minor…but nobody even mentioned that until it was pointed out after the fact that it was the minor Willow that was at the game. Everyone…everyone assumed the joke was about Bristol, the joke only works if it’s about Bristol.
I imagine you could watch the time on the posts about this, and then see the marked contrast of peoples examples from the first mention that it was Willow at the game with the level of vitriol in the remarks before and after.
average james Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 9:31 am
COMEDIAN—for sure
Pathetic—perhaps
Ratings booster—oh yeah
TDro319 Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
I have to agree, AJ. I’ve heard a lot of what I thought were cheap shots directed at Obama by late night hosts. But then I remembered – they’re comedians. That’s what they do.
June 12th, 2009 at 4:03 am
so was he joking about the 14 year old (willow) or the 18 year old Bristol? you can’t seem to make up your mind.
The joke is obviously directed toward the child we know has a chastity problem (Bristol the 18 year old)
In my experience people with taste don’t have a sense of humor.
Every joke is at the expense of someone or some group (ostensibly or obliquely)
Even why the chicken crossed the road is potentially offensive to PETA.
Unless you are going to take offense at every joke, I find it best to not take offense at any joke…unless of course it’s not funny, which is the only offensive joke…the joke that isn’t funny.
Ken Sears Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 7:15 am
What a riot: “people with taste have no sense of humor”. That’s the biggest chunk of absurdity I’ve ever heard.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 8:07 am
what’s absurd about it.
If you laugh at any joke, you have offended someone or something, because all jokes are about the deficiency of someone or something.
If you have taste, you would refuse to laugh at anything that would offend someone else. ergo, if you have taste you don’t have a sense of humor.
of course by “taste” you mean it’s ok to make fun of anyone except people and things you like.
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things people say when they have no argument
D) it’s absurd…
Daddio Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Guido, this was a joke about someone being raped. I don’t care if the person is 14, 18 or 45. It was a totally ignorant thing Letterman said.
Ken Sears Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 8:30 am
The theory that nobody with “taste” ever laughs at a joke is hardly likely to make it into the scientific journals, but I do commend you on your extraordinary imagination, Guido. Maybe into the abdsurdity journals.
Anyway, you’ve got me laughing now, because your theory is a hoot.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 8:32 am
in no way is this a rape joke…(unless you want to go through the argument of who the subject of the joke was…which I’ve already gone through, it’s about Bristol in which case it would be statuatory rape)
never is the word rape used…and this may surprise you but the term knocked up generally refers to consensual sex.
this is the feigned outrage I’m talking about…blowing the joke out of proportion, saying it’s about things that it clearly is not.
reminds me of the monkey that was shot cartoon…people took 6 major leaps of logics and knew…just knew it was about Obama when the cartoon said nothing about it.
and ….and….and Daddio/Willy I believe you were on the side saying the monkey cartoon was fine.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 8:39 am
do you care to refute it…or are you just going to dismiss it…because according to you, that’s what people do when they have no argument.
I’ll give you a challenge. Find me a funny joke that doesn’t put someone or something in a lesser light, and I’ll back off that claim.
My point is that nobody has taste, because they all laugh at jokes, so the idea that anyone can feign outrage over a joke they don’t agree with laughable.
and you’d be surprised what they put in scientific journals…
Daddio Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 8:41 am
I don’t remember what I wrote about that monkey cartoon to be honest with you Guido.
Anyway, we are just going to agree to disagree on this one. Good debate though. Thanks.
Daddio Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 9:04 am
This doesn’t meet your challenge Guido but I got a chuckle from it. It is a quip of Reagan humor.
Reagan speaking to the White House News Photographers Association:
“It’s not easy having so many photographers around….For instance, I told everybody–my right side is my good side. My far right side. Keeping my right side to the cameras is no problem when I walk home from the Oval Office in the evening. Morning’s a different thing. You know waht it’s like to start the day by walking to the office backwards?”
Just one from Reagan’s quick wit. Hope you like it.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 9:11 am
it’s kinda funny. If I was a photographer, I would probably find it more humorous, at the venue I’m sure it got a good response.
June 12th, 2009 at 6:23 am
ONLY Alan Colmes could have thought a statement that amounted to, “I didn’t do it, and what I did wasn’t that bad, and even if it was bad – hey, it’s my living” was an apology. Says something about the wiring in Colmes’ brain.
average james Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Awfully sensitive, hair trigger, right wingers are ready to pounce on any real or percieved slight.
Even a slight from a COMEDIAN will do for some attention.
Ken Sears Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 9:52 am
It takes extraordinary imagination – or wilfull obtuseness – to take the suggestion that a 14-year-old girl is enjoy a quickie with a baseball player during the seventh inning stretch as a “slight”… “real or perceived”. Average James, you seem to have no sense of proportion.
Why do I suspect your sense of proportion would suddenly be blown to astronomical proportions had Letterman’s joke gone, “You know, folks, Michelle Obama was at the Yankee game with her girls the other day, and guess what happened….”
But then, I’m sure your sense of outrage would only come from your being a left winger, and therefore ought not to be given a moment’s serious consideration. It’s only common… average… sense. Of a sort. Well, of your sort.
Ken Sears Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 10:26 am
But then, if you really are as young as the photo suggests, your lack of perspective and sense of proportion is to be tolerated.
Maybe it will help if you have a daughter some day.
Tiny typo (slip of the typing finger); it should have been, “suggestion that a 14-year-old girl enjoyed…”
Anyway, whether you are extraordinarily imaginative, or wilfully obtuse, I do suggest you get, at least, a sense of proportion. It might help to start by looking up the word “slight” in your Webster’s, average James.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 11:54 am
again ken…the joke wasn’t about a minor having sex…the joke was about Bristol…Who is being willfully obtuse?
the argument about it being about the Obama daughters isn’t anywhere near the same ballpark…as the oldest Obama is 8…that would be sick, and I doubt anyone would laugh at that.
Again…go through the context of the joke in real time. The first person that comes to mind is Bristol, the joke is about Bristol the 18 year old adult.
average james Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Ken,
Dude, switch to decaf.
I have a 29yr old daughter.
My girlfriend’s dughter is 12.
Bristol is 18.
Letterman is a COMEDIAN.
craig7120 Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
exactly AJ, ‘a comedian’. was it funny to me, nah to some? yeah. Palin would do well not to take on Letterman imo, he has a huge platform. A simple poor taste comment or ‘Im just defending my daughter’ would of carried alot of weight. It does give her (Palin) air time which I suppose she will run with.
average james Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Ken,
Look up slight ???
Did you just slight me with that comment ???
It sure reads as a slight from here.
June 12th, 2009 at 7:13 am
See, Mr. Guido, that’s where you’re just plain w-r-o-n-g, as w-r-o-n-g as w-r-o-n-g can be. You seem to be adept at arguing by projection of random fantasies on whomever the mood suits you. So, knowing nothing about me, you presumed (because it makes it easier for you to argue) that 1) my “outrage” (though I never used that word) was “feigned”, and 2)that I wouldn’t be bothered in the least by Letterman jokes implying the rape or abuse of the children of liberal politicians. I guess, in your world, Guido, it’s a whole lot easier to argue with imaginary characters as you’d prefer them to be than to deal with real live people. That, too, is pathetic. Really!
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Ken,
Have you ever laughed at a joke about any of the following Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Barack Obama, George Bush I or II, Sarah Palin, Henry Kissinger, Pollacks, Blacks, Hispanics, Rednecks, blondes, brunettes, women, men, gays, straights?
My outrage is at the hypocrisy of people in general. They will laugh at things they agree with and feign outrage when the butt of the joke is someone they are sympathetic with.
At this I have pure outrage, and not feigned.
Comedy is what it is, either you find it funny or not, but being outraged over what someone says in a comedy show is hypocritical in the highest form.
Did you think the top ten list from the previous day that said “you know you have a bad host for the Tony’s when ‘He’s straight’” offensive? Are you outraged over that?
Ken Sears Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 8:52 am
No, I wasn’t ‘outraged’, because I didn’t see it. Never heard anything about it. I don’t even own or watch a television, and I don’t live in the United States, and my life is about much bigger things than the latest idiocy fed to the collective idiot known as the popular culture.
I happened to hear about Letterman’s cracks via the news reports.
How funny, Guido, that you’re defending your outrage as real and not feigned. Okay, I believe you, but let’s roll back the tape a moment, shall we, to the spot where it was YOU, not me, who gratuitously made vacuous accusation of feigned outrage. Didn’t you understand that that was my POINT? Not that I didn’t believe you, but how DUMB it was to make such baseless, dreamed-up accusation IN THE FIRST PLACE?
June 12th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Damn that left-wing, statist, elite, government-owned, propagandic media!!!! Comedians need to stop joking around!!! Augh.
…..
Augh!!!
flap Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Thanks for losing the game, you blockhead!
June 12th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
While I do agree that we as a society enjoy being offended and outraged by JOKES that aren’t meant to be taken seriously, I agree that Letterman’s jokes were in poor taste. That doesn’t mean that he needs to be hanged over the way that Don Imus was, and I do think that the reaction is predictably over the top.
flap Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
There is a difference…Imus was fired and there were calls for it. I don’t think there’s been one call to fire Dave.
Dave is more powerful than Imus, anyway.
I do think he’s a little left-wing but he did speak about the truth when he said parenthetically “you try hosting a late-night show” or something to that extent. Poor taste, granted, but he’s gotta come up with jokes on essentially a daily basis. So, some are ribald.
average james Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Flap,
Hat’s off to you for the use of the word ribald. You so rarely see that word used, it was very cool.
flap Reply:
June 13th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
I try to flex my vocabulary muscle whenever I can…makes me look smart.
Since I’m from the South I need to compensate all the time. :-P
June 12th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
[...] mind that Dave apologized (even though it was ungraciously not accepted by Sarah Palin, who continued to attack him on the [...]
June 12th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Michelle Malkin has done a terrific column detailing David Lecherman’s crude obsession with Palin over the last year. I had no idea (because I don’t watch him) that this latest bit of pathetic moronism was only the tip of the iceberg. Lecherman has been comparing Palin to every brand of female tawdriness (why the feminists love him anyway is beyond me – well, not really, feminism ISN’T “feminism”, it’s just the lapdog of Leftism) – as I was saying, Lecherman has been getting all hot, aroused and crude over Palin with predictable frequency, recounting all the things she “reminds” him of.
Malkin’s conclusion is great:
“Letterman reminds me of the lecher at the school bus stop. Or the aging creep lurking in the dirty magazine section at the 7-Eleven.
And finally, once again, just IMAGINE how these hypocrites would be roaring in artery-busting rage if ol’ Lecherman’s crack had started, “Say, folks, I heard Michelle and the girls were at the Yankees game yesterday. And you’ll ne-e-ver guess what happened in the seventh inning stretch….” Because they don’t hate the Obamas. They hate Palin. That’s the criterion, pure and simple. This is a sick, sick layer of the human race.
June 13th, 2009 at 4:13 am
PS And with that, I bid Colmes’s “Liberaland” a less than fond farewell. It’s now officially boring.
Unsubscribed.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 13th, 2009 at 4:41 am
oh don’t go…..no wait, the phone it’s for you…it’s Sean Hannity, he say you start work monday…no on your bike…
10,000 bonus points to whoever knows the reference.
June 13th, 2009 at 4:15 am