I still can’t get over the name “Trig” Palin. Trig? That’s one class he’s not going to be taking anytime soon.
<Right wing noise machine>
How dare you! How can you make fun of a kid with Down’s syndrome!
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Snort!
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Videotaped evidence from as far back as the early 1980s suggests that David Letterman is kind of an asshole.
Years ago I went to a couple of his tapings. His utter contempt and dislike for the audience was palpable. I’ve never seen anyone so miserable while doing his job. During one of the bits his staff kept playing the wrong video after his introduction, and he went into a total meltdown. He was swearing up and down as if there weren’t 350 or so people sitting there watching. It was obvious from his staff’s reaction that this was not out of character for him; everyone basically tiptoed around the set, and it was fascinating to watch the ‘Letterman hierarchy’ in action. Only his female producer and some other guy were allowed to speak directly to Dave; all messages to him from the staff had to pass through the correct channels.
Anyway, he and Paul kept re-doing their little banter before Dave’s intro and, finally, the correct video played. Home viewers must have been puzzled by the huge audience reaction to the rather lame bit; they were applauding the fact that they finally got it right. Letterman still looked mightily pissed throughout the rest of the show, but on TV it just came across as ‘sarcastic,’ I guess.
He really hates doing that show
I got your back for a second, at least.
I believe the misery of sitting through tapings of Dave’s show has been mentioned before. Someone I know who attended a recent taping had a fine time and didn’t mention any hatred on Dave’s part of doing the show. Maybe he’s calmed down since he became a father. And what does any of this have to do with the topic? Dave just reads the jokes, he doesn’t sit there in meetings fermenting hatred just for the heck of it.
Oh, and whether Palin’s daughters are 14 or 18 or whatever, I imagine it’ll only be a matter of time before they get knocked up, too, seeing as how their birth control method will be Abstinence. (A-Rod won’t be involved, Palin, calm down. Just look around the nearest meth lab in the nearest trailer park for a babydaddy.)
This has been going on for two days, now, and it’s gotten really, really tiresome. It wasn’t worth discussing in the first place, frankly. A bad joke that didn’t really hit its target properly, and just another opportunity for Caribou Barbie to try to pretend that she’s something other than Arctic Trailer Trash.
Haven’t the right-wingnuts come up with a new Manufactured Outrage de Jour, yet? Did our usual suspects miss the memo?
But Bristol is still a tramp…
You know, for my money, nothing makes a joke funnier than 200 or so pickings apart of its construction.
Have you given any thought to maybe applying for a writing job on the Letterman show? You’re really good. :rolleyes:
By the way, I’m mildly surprised at the amount of heat Letterman is taking from all sides in the media. I think it will be a long, long time before he even thinks about trying out another Sarah Palin joke on his show.
I wouldn’t bet on that. She keeps providing new material.
Her latest schtick, which consists of accusing the Democrats of fear-mongering, reaches new heights of hilarity, in light of the events of the last eight years.
For some reason, she also reminds me of Pastor Melissa Scott. Attractive, with the same voice, and just as opportunistic. Both are given to rambling incoherently, and both have real-life stories that make their public pronouncements utterly risible. Separated at birth?
Letterman needs to retire…it was a tasteless joke and to see him twist and turn and backpedal about it just proves to me what a loser he is. I used to love watching his show, but over the years his brand of humor is getting extremely lame.
Dave’s such a moron. His apology sounds sincere enough, but all his groveling is just adding fuel to the fire. He’s playing right into the Pubbies’ hands (which is what they want, naturally) and doesn’t even know it. I almost feel sorry for him, the poor patsy.
Seriously, does anyone believe there’d be this much outrage if the joke was about anyone EXCEPT Sarah Palin? It’s almost as if the right-wingers are stuck in an advanced state of denial, and they can’t accept the fact that their most promising rising star is an ignorant, psychotic, witch-burning harpy with at least one teenage whore for a daughter.
It’s a fair interpretation to say that the joke is about Bristol, for the obvious reasons. But it’s just as fair to say that the joke was focused on Willow (especially since she was the one in nY and at the game), meaning, as one poster pointed out, “Palin just can’t keep her kids from getting knocked up”.
I’m a big Letterman fan, even in these waning years, but I was disappointed how he handled the “explanation”. It furthered the “joke” at the Sarah and Willow’s expense and came off to me as mean spirited. I really wish he would have said something like, “The joke was about Bristol Palin. I thought that was clear, for obvious reasons. In hindsight, it seems that because Willow was actually at the game, some people took it to refer to her, a 14-year-old. If I had foreseen that that was a possible way to construe the joke, I wouldn’t have said it. And the fact is, since so many people did take it that way, it was possible, and I shouldn’t have told the joke. In the end, that’s my fault. Period. For that, I’d like to personally apologize to Willow Palin, Sarah, and the whole Palin family. Now, let’s see what I can screw up tonight…”
All is forgiven. Letterman looks like a gentleman, and Palin probably appears on his show down the road. Not that he needs her. But this hurts him.
She was saying that Willow is likely to kick his ass if she gets too close to him. How could you miss that?
By the way, did anyone tune in to his show tonight? I was curious as how he’d address the situation, but, man…does that show suck! Letterman really does need to hang it up.
A possible tipping point:
http://www.now.org/issues/media/hall-of-shame/
in which NOW enters Letterman in its Media Hall of Shame.
Do all the comments aimed at knuckle-dragging conservatives now apply to them also? If so, let’s hear it. If not, why not?
Yeah, me, for one. I think that if it was said about the child of a Democrat there would have been much more outrage. And, BTW, I think it would have been justified.
But the joke would have been even further off-target in that case, since the Democrats aren’t the ones pushing abstinence as a suitable birth-control method, and they’re not the ones screaming about “family values” while their own families are disaster areas. The joke, lame as it was, relied to some degree on the hypocrisy of the Palinites.
You’re not kidding. Remember the outrage during the campaign when MSNBC reporter David Shuster speculated that Chelsea Clinton was being “pimped out” by her parents? By the way, Chelsea must be well into her 30s by now. Shuster was suspended by the network. (Don’t hold your breath for a Letterman suspension!)
Here’s what Hillary said about it:
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“I found the remarks incredibly offensive."
“Nothing justifies the kind of debasing language that David Shuster used and no temporary suspension or half-hearted apology is sufficient,” Clinton wrote to NBC News President Steve Capus, who apparently had already called Clinton to personally apologize.
“I would urge you to look at the pattern of behavior on your network that seems to repeatedly lead to this sort of degrading language”*
Hell, even liberal moonbat blowhard and ratings basement-dweller Keith Olbermann apologized on-air on behalf of the entire network…and he didn’t even make the comment!