# 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:** 37
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/721 "2009-06-17T15:28:21Z")
Letterman’s latest show: Top Ten Things Overheard At The “Fire David Letterman” Rally. As I said they gave him his opening but this was post Palin apology and certainly qualifies as not shutting the fuck up about it. ---
**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 17, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/722 "2009-06-17T15:52:11Z")
It sounds like he was responding to other people who wouldn’t shut up. He didn’t say anything about Palin in that Top Ten list anyway, only about the idiots with signs outside the theater. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/723 "2009-06-17T16:08:16Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > It sounds like he was responding to other people who wouldn’t shut up. He didn’t say anything about Palin in that Top Ten list anyway, only about the idiots with signs outside the theater. Fair point. I should instead have referenced the monolog from that same show. > [@](#): > > While the jokes were primarily directed at himself he did make some jokes about Sarah Palin saying that Palin accepted his apology and “she also accepted a $500 gift certificate from Lens Crafters.” He said he was nervous about the apology to Sarah Palin so to get his confidence up he rehearsed by apologizing to Tina Fey. [Link](http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=8936) Mild stuff, certainly, but he couldn’t resist a few last digs. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/724 "2009-06-17T16:14:27Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Mild stuff, certainly, but he couldn’t resist a few last digs. Who said they’re the last? He’s a fucking comedian. Is he supposed to always consider Palin (who’s something like a goddamn fountain of gold to political comedians) offlimits forever? He can’t make jokes about SARAH Palin anymore because one of his jokes about who he assumed was her adult daughter was misinterpreted? Boy, the rightwing really doesn’t have a sense of humor, does it? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/725 "2009-06-17T16:16:55Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Mild stuff, certainly, but he couldn’t resist a few last digs. How is the one with Tina Fey a dig at Palin? If anything, it is self-deprecating. ---
**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 17, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/726 "2009-06-17T16:25:52Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > How is the one with Tina Fey a dig at Palin? If anything, it is self-deprecating. That. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/727 "2009-06-17T16:39:57Z")
So, Letterman’s “digs” are that she wears glasses, and that she resembles a popular comedian? Gosh, what a jerk. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/728 "2009-06-17T16:43:47Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Boy, the rightwing really doesn’t have a sense of humor, does it? Are you kidding? Check out this awesome zinger by Rusty DePass, GOP activist from South Carolina: [cite](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/06/14/2009-06-14_pol_gorilla_is_related_to_first_lady.html) > [@](#): > > Commenting on a report posted to Facebook about a gorilla escape at a zoo in Columbia, S.C., Friday, longtime GOP activist Rusty DePass wrote, “I’m sure it’s just one of Michelle’s ancestors - probably harmless.” > > Busted by South Carolina political blogger Will Folks on his FITNEWS blog, DePass told WIS-TV in Columbia, “I am as sorry as I can be if I offended anyone. The comment was clearly in jest.” > > Then he added, “The comment was hers, not mine,” claiming Michelle Obama made a recent remark about humans descending from apes. The Daily News could find no such comment. They’re a laugh-a-minute, I tells ya! ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/729 "2009-06-17T17:13:22Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Boy, the rightwing really doesn’t have a sense of humor, does it? Self-righteous people never have a sense of humor about themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/730 "2009-06-17T17:58:42Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > He was not a political activist. He was a community organizer. Those are not the same occupations. In his case I believe they were. His voter drive had a very specific mandate. Regardless, the fact is that he had a fair undistinguished career as an actual politician with less responsibility than Palin had as Governor of Alaska. He kept his head down and mouth shut in Chicago and basically did what he was told. Now you may not like Palin (well, clearly to don’t) but her political career was at least as distinguished or undistinguished as Obama’s 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 17, 2009, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/731 "2009-06-17T18:12:40Z")
There was nothing political about the voter drive mandate. Registering people to vote is civic minded, but not political. He wasn’t telling anybody who to vote for. And there is more responsibility to supervising the swing shift at Arby’s than there is in governing the state of Alaska. ---
**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 17, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/732 "2009-06-17T18:16:08Z")
By the way, George Washington had no political experience at all before getting elected President. Political experience is not the sole measure of qualifications (even though Obama’s political experience was far more extensive and significant than Palin’s was). His non-political CV blows her out of the water. Also, he’s obviously smart and she’s obviously a moron. That counts too. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/733 "2009-06-17T18:17:06Z")
> [@Lochdale](#): > > [Obama] kept his head down and mouth shut in Chicago and basically did what he was told. This is a highly inaccurate statement. In any case, the election’s over. Palin lost, Og be praised. Why are we still arguing about this? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/734 "2009-06-17T18:18:07Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > There was nothing political about the voter drive mandate. Registering people to vote is civic minded, but not political. He wasn’t telling anybody who to vote for. > > And there is more responsibility to supervising the swing shift at Arby’s than there is in governing the state of Alaska. No, but there’s a definite political impetus in deciding WHERE to focus voter registration efforts. ---
**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 17, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/735 "2009-06-17T18:24:33Z")
He was focusing it where people weren’t registered. Where else should he have focused it? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/736 "2009-06-17T18:34:09Z")
He was encouraging the poor and disenfranchised to aspirations quite above their station, in service to the insidious agenda of equality and justice. ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/737 "2009-06-17T18:34:27Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > This is a highly inaccurate statement. How so? Walk me through what he did as an Illinois State Senator? ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/738 "2009-06-17T18:35:48Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > By the way, George Washington had no political experience at all before getting elected President. Political experience is not the sole measure of qualifications (even though Obama’s political experience was far more extensive and significant than Palin’s was). His non-political CV blows her out of the water. > > Also, he’s obviously smart and she’s obviously a moron. That counts too. Er…sure. Are you what, 12? And the budget of Alaska is significantly greater than the power that an Illinois State Senator has over, well anything. And Obama’s registration drive seems counter prodcutive given that in his own race the voters actually never had a choice. ---
**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 17, 2009, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/739 "2009-06-17T18:42:35Z")
It wasn’t his fault nobody opposed him. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287/740 "2009-06-17T18:43:49Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > Self-righteous people never have a sense of humor about themselves. I resent that remark. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287.md?page=36) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-david-letterman-and-all-misogynistic-leftists-who-support-him-on-this/499287.md?page=38)