# 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:** 32
**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 16, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/621 "2009-06-16T15:21:24Z")
I’d bet my car against $100 that Letterman had no inkling which Palin daughter was at the game, and assumed the audience would understand that the joke was directed at the daughter who had the baby. (…and at horndog pro athletes.) And based on the fact that the joke was laughed at (mediocre though it was), the audience took it just that way. Mainstream audiences usually don’t appreciate sexual humor directed at 14yo girls. So, yeah, manufactured outrage. It’s also a decent bet that Letterman isn’t obsessed with the details of politics, and he liked John McCain until McCain blatantly lied to him. And based on his jokes during the campaign he understood that Palin was a small town ditz who had shouldn’t come near the presidency. Just like Christopher Buckley understood that, and most non-fanatics. Okay. That’s all for me. ---
**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 16, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/622 "2009-06-16T15:47:55Z")
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > Palin was a small town ditz who had shouldn’t come near the presidency. A “small town ditz?” Exactly my point! And you’re too stupid to even construct a grammatically correct sentence (see above). So are you saying that everyone from a small town is dumber than you? ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/623 "2009-06-16T16:00:19Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > What was the joke about Chelsea Clinton? I don’t remember. I don’t recall a Limbaugh joke about Chelsea but McCain made one in [1998](http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html). “Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.” There was a firestorm over that one. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/624 "2009-06-16T16:00:45Z")
No, no, no! She is a highly intelligent, sophisticated, and well educated woman who simply happens to reside in a small town. Ted Nugent with tits. She merely pretends to be a ditz in her relentless and ruthless pursuit of power. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/625 "2009-06-16T16:02:10Z")
It looks like we have whole new manufactured outrage. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/626 "2009-06-16T16:07:35Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Ted Nugent with tits. > > She merely pretends to be a ditz I think you’ve got the beginnings of a song there. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/627 "2009-06-16T16:08:34Z")
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > I’d bet my car against $100 that Letterman had no inkling which Palin daughter was at the game, and assumed the audience would understand that the joke was directed at the daughter who had the baby. (…and at horndog pro athletes.) And based on the fact that the joke was laughed at (mediocre though it was), the audience took it just that way. > > Mainstream audiences usually don’t appreciate sexual humor directed at 14yo girls. > > So, yeah, manufactured outrage. > > It’s also a decent bet that Letterman isn’t obsessed with the details of politics, and he liked John McCain until McCain blatantly lied to him. > > And based on his jokes during the campaign he understood that Palin was a small town ditz who had shouldn’t come near the presidency. Just like Christopher Buckley understood that, and most non-fanatics. > > Okay. That’s all for me. What has a small town got to do with anything? Would a big city ditz be more capable? You may want to rethink that or are you really so prejudiced against small town America? ---
**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 16, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/628 "2009-06-16T16:31:53Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > It looks like we have whole new manufactured outrage. I note that the new edition of the _CIA World Factbook_ lists US outrage output as having increased 77% since 2007, offsetting a steep decline in steel production. ---
**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 16, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/629 "2009-06-16T16:33:02Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > What has a small town got to do with anything? Would a big city ditz be more capable? > > You may want to rethink that or are you really so prejudiced against small town America? Palin got most of her political experience as mayor of a town of less than 10,000. The factions that need to be dealt with in a town of 10,000 are vastly different than the factions that need to be dealt with in a city with a million inhabitants. The complexity of school systems, race relations, unionism, corporate power, state vs local authority, law enforcement, emergency actions… Clear? I was raised in several towns of between 600–40,000 population and have nothing against small or big towns. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/630 "2009-06-16T16:36:35Z")
I love small towns. It’s the damned _people_… ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/631 "2009-06-16T16:36:46Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > I don’t recall a Limbaugh joke about Chelsea but McCain made one in [1998](http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html). > > “Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? > Because her father is Janet Reno.” > > There was a firestorm over that one. I remember that. McCain was drummed out of the party and never heard from again. I’m sure I have a quote someplace, but Palin was so angry that she refused to have anything to do with McCain in the future. It’s nice to see such strong advocates of feminism as Gov Palin. It shows that the GOP has a big tent. Big enough, in fact, that it can hold thousands of clowns. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/632 "2009-06-16T17:07:28Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > What has a small town got to do with anything? Would a big city ditz be more capable? > > You may want to rethink that or are you really so prejudiced against small town America? I am. I’ve been to a few small towns. Small town people are stupid. The only smart people you see in small towns are people that are from out of town. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/633 "2009-06-16T17:57:41Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I am. I’ve been to a few small towns. Small town people are stupid. The only smart people you see in small towns are people that are from out of town. So people in really big cities are smarter than people in cities? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/634 "2009-06-16T18:03:19Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I am. I’ve been to a few small towns. Small town people are stupid. The only smart people you see in small towns are people that are from out of town. Yes, like that idiot Bill Clinton, from Hope, AK. (Pop. 10,000 this year, much smaller when Clinton was there). What a maroon he was. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/635 "2009-06-16T18:19:56Z")
Clinton was only born in Hope. He grew up in Little Rock. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/636 "2009-06-16T18:22:07Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > So people in really big cities are smarter than people in cities? There is heavy density of stupid people everywhere, but the bigger the population, the more opportunity there is for intelligence to band together and thrive among the stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/637 "2009-06-16T18:26:13Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Clinton was only born in Hope. He grew up in Little Rock. How about Mohandas Gandhi? Born in Porbandar, Gujarat. Present population is 150,000, but much of the town’s economy is based around being Gandhiji’s birthplace, so it was probably an awful lot less in his time. ---
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> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Clinton was only born in Hope. He grew up in Little Rock. You’re even more ridiculous than I had previously thought, which is really amazing. He grew up in Hot Springs, not Little Rock. Can we get your rules on city population and IQ, so we can try to make sense of it all? I guess we would need to know the effect of dwelling time as well. Anyway, Hope - 10,467 Hot Springs - 37,847 Little Rock - 187,452 All 2005 numbers. What the fuck are you talking about? Is there a subject on which you don’t have an idiotic opinion? ---
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> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I am. I’ve been to a few small towns. Small town people are stupid. The only smart people you see in small towns are people that are from out of town. Aren’t you from, like, Chaska or some shit? ---
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