# Fuck David Letterman and all misogynistic leftists who support him on this **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 10, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287 "2009-06-10T01:51:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/401 "2009-06-13T11:08:26Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > So, if someone tries AA, but falls off the wagon, but seeing the error of his ways, advocates for AA, is he, too, a hypocrite? Uh. Yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/402 "2009-06-13T11:14:13Z")
> [@Indistinguishable](#): > > Why do people keep saying “Brisket” instead of “Bristol”? Because it’s funny…We could also call her “Bristle” or “Bisquick” (my personal favorite). I, too, have a non-traditional name. That’s why they call me Kalhoun. It’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![Weston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8797f3/32.png) [@Weston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weston)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/403 "2009-06-13T11:15:02Z")
Why are the longest Pit threads always about the _stupidest_ bullshit ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/404 "2009-06-13T11:19:37Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > As for the “knocked up” remark, even Letterman has distanced himself from it, calling it in “bad taste” and admitting that he “probably” regrets saying it. There’s really nothing to defend here, yet you go on as if the joke is some priceless witticism that might have been heard around the Algonquin Round Table or something. I don’t know if you’re a die-hard Letterman fan or a drooling Palin-hater, but, really…you might want to give this one a rest. He hasn’t distanced himself from it at all. He admitted it was “bad taste” because that’s what he does for a living. Bad taste is expected and he’s paid well for it. There are very few comedians who \*don’t \*use “bad taste” as the cornerstone of their act. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/405 "2009-06-13T12:04:29Z")
> [@Weston](#): > > Why are the longest Pit threads always about the _stupidest_ bullshit ☹ Because they’re the ones that most people can understand and connect with? ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/406 "2009-06-13T12:34:33Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > He hasn’t distanced himself from it at all. He admitted it was “bad taste” because that’s what he does for a living. Bad taste is expected and he’s paid well for it. There are very few comedians who \*don’t \*use “bad taste” as the cornerstone of their act. Which is why Bob Saget’s television career is so well regarded! And, yes, **magellan** , she is a fucking hypocrite. Should Dick Cheney be giving gun safety lectures? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/407 "2009-06-13T12:59:39Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Because they’re the ones that most people can understand and connect with? Sad but true… ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/408 "2009-06-13T13:03:06Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Still, this situation pleases me. Now the whole country gets a chance to see just how petty, hateful, intolerant and viscious late-night lefties and their audiences really are, and that will only help Palin and conservatism in the long run. If nothing else, this event has been a teaching experience: for 20-odd years I had no idea that Letterman was a notorious leftist, let alone a paragon of the movement. I’m not a professional tactician, but by defining your enemy so broadly, don’t you simply ensure that you will always be massively outnumbered? ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/409 "2009-06-13T13:50:55Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > If nothing else, this event has been a teaching experience: for 20-odd years I had no idea that Letterman was a notorious leftist, let alone a paragon of the movement. > > I’m not a professional tactician, but by defining your enemy so broadly, don’t you simply ensure that you will always be massively outnumbered? Don’t you see? **Starving Pinhead** once again shows us that.. This is just the break the McCain campaign has been waiting for! -Joe ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/410 "2009-06-13T14:08:21Z")
OH, good, **Starving Artist** has brought his mighty intellect to bear on this thread. I do hope he sets aside a little time to lecture us on how much more civil everyone was in the '50s. I never get tired of that. Here, I’ll get things started: Jack Parr or Johnny Carson would never have suggested that baseball players and the daughters of politicians would be getting it on in the dugout, dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/411 "2009-06-13T14:40:48Z")
Can’t we all come together and agree that Bristol is a stupid slut? Isn’t that enough common ground for us? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/412 "2009-06-13T14:40:55Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > See? Even her _mom_ knows she’s a little whore. A little late on the response here, but I found that very funny. (_sarcasm_) BUT!! It was only funny because it was specifically about Willow Palin, age 14, brown hair, brown eyes, favorite food: sausage tacos, pet-peeve: mosquito bites on her scalp. It just wouldn’t be funny if it was about an abstract daughter of a meathead, fundamentalist politician.(_/sarcasm_) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/413 "2009-06-13T15:12:18Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Here, I’ll get things started: Jack Parr or Johnny Carson would never have suggested that baseball players and the daughters of politicians would be getting it on in the dugout, dammit. I should hope not! They’re above such things. Why, just the other night Parr told a charming story about a wayside chapel. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/414 "2009-06-13T15:33:16Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Because it’s funny…We could also call her “Bristle” or “Bisquick” (my personal favorite). > > I, too, have a non-traditional name. That’s why they call me Kalhoun. It’s funny. It’s interesting. In another thread awhile ago I repeatedly referred to Obama as ‘Hussein,’ which is his actual given name. This got the libs all riled up, and I promised to stop doing it. Nice to see that it’s apparently OK to simply make up a name…as long as it’s about the child of a conservative Republican. Liberal hypocrisy is really quite breath-taking sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/415 "2009-06-13T15:44:29Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > It’s interesting. In another thread awhile ago I repeatedly referred to Obama as ‘Hussein,’ which is his actual given name. This got the libs all riled up, and I promised to stop doing it. > > Nice to see that it’s apparently OK to simply make up a name…as long as it’s about the child of a conservative Republican. Liberal hypocrisy is really quite breath-taking sometimes. \*Hussein \*is an attempt to race bait. \*Brisket \*is an attempt to laugh at a stupid, uneducated slut. Please try to keep up. Sometimes I think conservatives have a superior capacity for outrage. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/416 "2009-06-13T15:49:20Z")
Well, OK, why? Did you call GeeDubya “Walker”? Call his Dad “Herbert”? Did you call Horndog Billy “Jeff”? Call Sarah Palin “Whore of Babylon”? (OK, I made that last one up.) ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/417 "2009-06-13T15:53:23Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Sometimes I think conservatives have a superior capacity for outrage. Not superior–just more liberal. ---
**Author:** ![Plan\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Plan\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plan_B)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/418 "2009-06-13T16:02:20Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > \*Hussein \*is an attempt to race bait. \*Brisket \*is an attempt to laugh at a stupid, uneducated slut. Does anyone have any evidence that she’s stupid or uneducated? I think we’ve established that if you are an extreme social conservative then she might be labeled as a slut because she had sex before marriage and while in her teens. BTW, I assume that everyone who referred to her as a slut is in agreement with the following statement: Every teenager, male or female, who has sex before marriage is a slut. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/419 "2009-06-13T16:10:45Z")
> [@Plan\_B](#): > > Does anyone have any evidence that she’s stupid or uneducated? > > I think we’ve established that if you are an extreme social conservative then she might be labeled as a slut because she had sex before marriage and while in her teens. > > BTW, I assume that everyone who referred to her as a slut is in agreement with the following statement: Every teenager, male or female, who has sex before marriage is a slut. Yes, I do happen to have evidence she isn’t educated. She didn’t seem to know that allowing an unwrapped pee pee in her junk can make her pregnant. She’s also a hypocrite because she’s parroting abstinence only sex ed as viable. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/420 "2009-06-13T16:10:48Z")
Whatever Merriam Webster says it’s obvious the people who use wreck havoc are doing so in the firm belief that the word is identical to that in train wreck, etc. Ignorance rather than differing pronunciation is at the root of it. It’s been recognized by some dictionaries because the misuse has become so widespread that it now qualifies as an alternative (although very, very few educated people would spell or pronounce it thus). Anybody here care to put up their hand and say quite honestly that they use _wreck havoc_ rather than _wreak havoc_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287.md?page=22)