david letterman apologizes, and maher makes desperate cry for attention
By American Girl in Italy on June 16, 2009 at 1:00 PM in Current Affairs, Hate Speech, Media Handling of Story, Obama Comrades, Political Correctness, Sara in Italy, Sarah Palin
David Letterman is still feeling the heat for his jokes attacking the Palin daughters, and finally decided to do the right thing, and apologize. And no, he didn’t apologize last week. He made excuses and covered his buttocks.
There is a web site called firedavidletterman.com that is organizing a rally to be held outside of his studio Tuesday night, demanding Dave be fired. I’m not sure if his apology is to thwart continued demands for his dismissal, or if he really truly gets it, now.
There were some articles written the last few days, pointing to jokes made by other late night comedians about the Palins, that were ignored by everyone, including the Palins. Dave’s jokes ignited a firestorm because he was downright vicious, and this was simply the final straw. Perhaps he is taking the heat for all of the abuse lobbed at the Palins, but it seems pretty well deserved.
Not only were the jokes about Willow and/or Bristol over the line, so was calling a sitting Governor a “slutty flight attendant”.
At this point, I am inclined to believe he did not mean to disparage Willow. That doesn’t make it ok to insult Bristol, either, but I do think she was the intended target of his joke.
Besides Dave’s continued assault on Palin, the most disturbing thing to come out of this whole debacle is the way the Left treated the issue. Many women and men, yet again, chose to knock Sarah Palin, blame her for the mess, and defend Letterman. And those who simply dismiss it as “utterly ridiculous” because Letterman “was joking”.
I used to be a huge Letterman fan. Over the years not so much. The past couple of years, not at all. He became too politically one sided, and bitter. I thought his Great Moments in Presidential Speeches was very funny, but like I said in my earlier post, instead of continuing with Obama and Biden (which he would have PLENTY of material), he chose to continue attacking Bush, and Palin.
So, am I a softy for thinking he perhaps has now made amends? Should Dave be let off the hook or should he be fired, like Don Imus was? Has he learned his lesson? Will he stop with the attacks on Palin? Was his apology sincere? If he is let off the hook will that prevent any lessons having been learned?
On one hand I think he was sincere, and should be given a second chance, but on the other, I can’t stop thinking about Don Imus. He was only joking after all, too.
(”He wouldn’t be working for me.” That’s kind of funny now, that he was fired, and msnbc pretty much works for Obama. I guess Imus isn’t working for Obama…)
Whether Letterman is let off the hook or not, personally, I think we have even bigger jackasses to fry.
Oh no you din’t!
UPDATE: Sarah Palin has accepted comedian David Letterman’s apology made during Monday night’s broadcast of “The Late Show” for crude jokes made about her and her teen daughters last week.
“Of course it’s accepted on behalf of young women, like my daughters, who hope men who ‘joke’ about public displays of sexual exploitation of girls will soon evolve.”
“Letterman certainly has the right to ‘joke’ about whatever he wants to, and thankfully we have the right to express our reaction,” Palin said. “This is all thanks to our U.S. Military women and men putting their lives on the line for us to secure America’s Right to Free Speech - in this case, may that right be used to promote equality and respect.”
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Fire Lettermn toooooday. He and his misogynistic minions male and female need a long, hard lesson.
Fire Maher tooooday. He’s vicious.
We have the boil the frog in cold water theory here. Over the years, both our civil liberties and our self-respect and respect for others has eroded due to our not speaking up and calling out this awful, largely male abusive treatment of women, and largely female acceptance of that abusive treatment.
Ladies and Gentlemen of all ages, are you ready to take your self-respect back????
Am I the only one that thinks his comment THE NEXT NIGHT about Eliot Spitzer and Willow was even more disgusting? Implying she was being prostituted? Certainly he can not use the “I didn’t know which daughter” two nights in a row! Don’t let David “Lecher-man” off the hook, hope his bypass grafts occlude.
Listing: Lecherman–LOL!
These Obama mouthpieces certainly love to talk about the daughters of politicians being prostituted. Shame on any Americans who laugh at this stuff and don’t get offended.
I agree, Listing Starboard. Although I think it’s significant that Palin herself said she accepted the apology, Letterman’s revised statement didn’t come until after the firestorm. And I’m sorry I don’t find calling any woman a slutty airline stewardess or insinuating that Spitzer might entertain pedophilia with Willow Palin is acceptable, comedy or not.
And it’s not simply Letterman. This blatant sexism has been running rampant since the primaries. The message needs to be sent: Stop it. Now!
Wait it gets better,ya think Palin raised his ratings, wait untill 9/21 when the “OLD QUEEN” Kevin spacey is on..talk about someone who lkies to spread his “political vomit” every where!!!!
I am glad to finally see that the disrespect given to women by Don Imus is finally being equated to the abuse lumped against Sarah Palin and her children.
We have got to stop as a society viewing women and girls as sports equipment to be used and abused by men and women and discarded.
I am not surprised. The left wing of the democratic party is unhinged. This is far worse than the republicans ever thought about doing…
Fine, apparently he actually apologized this time around. But now he’s parsing his “apology” into intent (no harm intended) vs. perception (we misunderstood him), which just dilutes the weight of a genuine apology. Sorry, Letterman, but you’ve really got to mean it.
The campaign to boycott his sponsors and to get him fire should continue. Letterman is a bully and misogynist pig who went beyond the pale with his “joke.” There are consequences and lessons to be learned here, so he should not be let off the hook. Don Imus made a genuine attempt to make amends to the basketball team of women he insulted with his racist and misogynistic joke. And Letterman’s invitation for Palin to appear as a consolation prize is self-serving and insulting.
While we were not looking, here’s what’s been going on..
The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn’t have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions. Despite Obama’s pledge to introduce a new era of transparency to Washington, and despite two rulings by a federal judge that the records are public………
ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.
How’s that ‘CHANGE’ working out for you obots?
Time for an update to the tea parties…
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One more thought. Wasnt bill mahr arrested for assaulting his ex-girlfriend?
(2004)
Political comic Bill Maher has been hit with a $9-million lawsuit from a former flight attendant who claims he broke promises to marry her, shook her at a party and offended her with “degrading” racial comments.
thank you john….i knew i was forgetting that
Mark no probs, I have contacted the sponsors of his show that larry provided the other day. We need to keep the heat on him. Think what would have happened if he said Michelle Obama was a Sl#t? We need a longer list of sponsors. Where can we find such a list?
Letterman should be fired.Sharpton and Jackson and Roker were not satisfied with the apologies from Imus, even when the young ladies from Rutger said they were and accepted the apologies. They created a precedent with Imus, now that the shoe is on the other foot the outcome should be the same. But I have a question for Megan and the other lady: where were you two last summer when nutcrackers and Bros before Hos T Shirts were sold during the Dems primaries? Selective outrage indeed…
I’m a Republican & a goodly number, if not most of us, didn’t really follow the Dem primaries (except, ironically, Limbaugh ditto heads who voted for Hillary to prolong the primaries) & all the under the radar (aka not covered by MSM) sexism against Hillary.
Intent vs perception huh Letterman?
Well your intent was to label an 18 yr old new mother as a cheap and easy slut!
This isn’t comedy, this is vile disgusting antics of a 62 yr old mentally challenged desperate for ratings has been!
Since the only reason for picking on Bristol as Letterman does is because she got pregnant and had a child out of wedlock is a right to cast such a label on her?……Wait a minute, 5 yrs ago Letterman had a child out of wedlock, so does that also make Harry’s mother a cheap and easy slut Letterman?
Yeah, why would he think making that joke on an 18 year old is ok?
Not a thing, short of locker room humor… old enough to go to the store… old enough to get bread… that kind of a thing. Palin is right about this, all the way around.
or what about Barack’s mother? She had him when she was a teenager but they wouldn’t dare make fun of her for that.
Very good point!
Lecherman’s joke was meant to brand Palin and her female children with a scarlet letter, but all he did was brand himself with the letter “M” for misogyny.
Just the mother? It makes LETTERMAN himself a slut and easy whore. He should be blaming himself for starters. Or he shouldn’t be insulting anyone at all.
It always amazes me that men will fuck anything that moves and worst yet force themseleves on females, but it’s only the women that get blamed for being sluts. This is what needs to stop. Guess we need an Equal Blame of Shame Amendment.
Thank you! I was hoping someone would make that point. I bet Letterman doesn’t even know the name of the father of Bristol’s baby.
What has really disturbed me during this whole controversy is the number of women who have defended Letterman and used every opportunity to blame and bash Palin. You may not agree with her politics, but it’s sickening to see women defend sexist, disrepectful, misogynist behavior to score political points and not looking at the big picture. This type of behavior demeans ALL women.
I agree 100%
Hear! Hear!
yes and also their families.
I agree. They are part of the problem.
Yes, this really is selective outrage.
By bringing up Spitzer, he was referring to Palin’s 14 yearold daughter as a prostitute, and he referred to a governor’s wardrobe as “slutty”.
He might not agree with Palin’s politics, I mean, I don’t either, but I would never disrespect her and the family like that. geeez.
Don’t stop at Letterman. His whole writing staff needs to go along with production. They are the ones who come up with the jokes and the give the okay to put them on the air
Letterman has spiraled down in the last couple of years and all Paul Schaeffer does is bray like a donkey at a series of lame jokes on each show.
But, to just get rid of Letterman is only shootin’ the piano player.
Something interesting would be to find out the median age of his writing staff. Any bets it’s in the lovely 25 to 35 year old range? Yep, same as Obama’s speech writer.
Letterman does not say a word that is not scripted to high heaven. This is the continuation of the elite believing that they can do and say anything if their inferiors (women, children, poor, elderly, religious, middle class, some regions, rural, etc) do not keep their place. If they get out of line and run for VP or Prez they have to be slapped down. I used to think that the Letterman types just did not like Palin but she is a symbol, as was Hillary, and they do not want a change in the status quo. Only members of the club can have power, money, and a public voice. And they use dipsh!ts like Letterman to ridicule, humiliate, demean, marginalize, so the unacceptable will go away. They have been doing this for the entire primary and general election and it was apparently OK. The difference was they went after a 14 y.o. It was ok if it was a 17 y.o. unwed mother and a sitting governor.
I would love to see a picture of Dave’s wife. To see if she also has, what Dave calls, the slutty stewardess look.
no, she doesn’t.
http://freeoffertrial.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/regina-lasko-david-lettermans-wife-208×300.jpg
She probably has a great personality.
http://www.minutelynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/david-letterman-and-regina-lasko.jpg
bill maher is a sick screwed up angry person. He makes a comment about the republicans “fake outrage” as if he has never displayed this fake outrage himself? This is what his ‘new rules’ is all about…fake outrage. But of course all these asses, men and especially the idiotic women who obviously like being treated like gutter trash would have been screaming bloody murder if these disgusting jokes would have been directed at the obama kids and god forbid the angriest person in the world michelle oblahma. Oh can you imagine the cries of racism? These stupid tools think its perfectly ok to insult Sarah Palin cause she is a conservative and lets face it, she’s Caucasian. whites and hispanics are fair game for insults but don’t you dare insult a black person cause you are a racist or that is apparently what the left wants us to think. Personally I’m sick of being held hostage to this bullshit mentality, we ALL lose in the long run
thanks for the excellent rant, tex mex soup
It almost as though if Palin’s youngest daughter was 18 all would have been well. He needed to apologize without justification of himself for it to work. I think he failed, and he will retire from the show, short of actually being fired. He is damaged goods now. Besides, behaving like a bot at his age is like a 62 year old getting a navel piercing or a tattoo. It isn’t really age appropriate.
That woman talking about it’s just conservative women has selective memory…and that’s the problem.
Where were the Conservative women when Hillary Clinton was being savaged?
I can think of 2 off of the top of my head that were consistently defending Hillary during the election: Carly Fiorina and Ann Coulter.
I believe I recall Megyn discussing the sexism against Hillary too…
I recall Laura Ingraham talking about it on her radio program during the primaries, too.
And the conservative men were up in arms and more vocal; I remember O’Reilly going off one night about how horrible Hillary was treated. And that Kasich guy, the one who’s running for Gov. of Ohio; I recall he was very upset as to the sexism towards Hillary and he vocalized it during the primaries, too.
That may be true now, but the republicans definitely trashed Hillary in sexist terms throughout her career. For one thing, that’s where “cankles” started, way back with republicans.
Both sides, IMO, are guilty. Both sides need to do better in the future.
True. When I watched a video of Ann Coulter, of all people, saying that the attacks on Hillary had gone too far I knew we were in trouble.
John McCain defended Hillary as well saying she should be accorded the respect of a sitting Senator.
The so-called left/progressives reacted by bringing up Monica Lewinsky, Vince Foster, and every other accusation they once decried.
Sara Palin, agree with her politics or not, deserves the respect of a sitting Governor.
What I can’t understand is why the media and their surrogates are still attacking her. She’s not running for national office. There’s something about Palin that scares them. Interesting.
Miss Malevolent - They were in the same place many Democrats were when Hillary was savaged–oh wait, Democrats were some of the ones doing the savaging–who needs Republicans???
Looks like David Letterman and his wife need the fashion police…
Both need extreme makeovers!
OK, I didn’t put her photo there for people to pick on her…
thanks,she looks normal.
I’ll use the Letterman apologia: It was just a harmless joke … or my intent was never to … you just took it the wrong way.
So we’re going to move from chastising Dave for savaging Palin’s “look” to savaging Dave’s wife for hers?
Let’s not go there…especially if we don’t want to look like hypocrites.
I know I know, you’re right, Miss Malevolent. But I hope you do see the point we’re making in our juvenile tit-for-tat comments: If Palin and her children are fair game, then by Letterman’s logic so should his wife and child be fair game. For Letterman and his supporters not see the hypocrisy and double standard here is pathetic. Sometimes fighting fire with fire is the only way to drive home the point. Take Joy Behar, for example, and her about face on the matter. She is now appalled “as a mother” …. Her maternal instincts sure took their time to surface. My theory is that once she realized the Palin children were declared open game, that her own daughter could be a target from the Right. In other words, Behar is just covering her arse.
wow, I didn’t know that Joy Behar was doing an aboutface. Last time I saw her, she was laughing about Leno’s joke. I rarely watch the View, but I caught a clip of the women talking about this, how Barbara didn’t find it funny and I noticed how former teenage-mother Whoopie strangely silent about the issue.
…let me go to youtube so I can see Joy try to save her own behind..
Yeah, Thinker, the Behar about-face was recently featured on the Megan Fox Show. (I stopped watching the View at the end of the primaries last year when they turned on HRC and began their worship of Mr & Mrs Spamelot).
About the View last week, Sherry (?), Barbara, and Elizabeth realized the joke was beyond the pale; Behar defended it (”it’s only a joke! [although as a comedian she has always defended the joke per se]); Whoopi was strangely silent for the most part, but I got the feeling that the operative word for her was “public”, meaning that she was quietly building the case that once Bristol went public with her abstinence campaign that she was fair game. If this is the case then she is taking Bristol as Lecherman’s target and not Palin’s younger daughter. This really disturbs me since any female targeted in this manner is wrong on so many levels. I don’t know if Whoopi has since changed her views on the matter.
Thanks for the recap.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one that noticed how quiet Whoopie was about this issue.
She was a teenage mother, and I’m guessing she didn’t want any questions raised about her own background?
But feel the same way you do. I stopped watching on a regular basis when they fell for that one.
sorry, meant to say Letterman.
I’m sure that Joy Behar’s about face has nothing to do with her new 9pm HLN show (ala Larry King) in the fall?
She has already gone on record that she would like to have Sarah Palin as a guest on her show.
I saw a clip where they had changed their tune, and it struck me that they didn’t “get it”, until after it was clear that the public was outraged.
Or his writer’s wives and children being FairGame/EasyPrey. The New Agenda put up a post yesterday doing deeper research than I had time for a few days ago when wondering why his writers were getting a free pass.
Shocking what turned up. One of them, Steve Young, having his own 14 year old daughter on a picket line with him. Justin Stangel made two Youtubes with his little girl in them during the writers strike. (His brother Eric Stangel is also a writer on staff)
Lord knows what can be dug up on another writer Bill Scheft as he’s the oldest of the lot. I made a point of sending 2 Twitters yesterday to the guy with the firedavidletterman.com site to point that link out since Letterman’s writers are completely missing on that site.
WOW! Just wow!
Of course, no one should go after these children, but when you turn the tables around hypothetically, I think the point is driven home. Anyway, this abuse of women of any age is unacceptable. (And Letterman’s wife is probably a very nice woman–and a saint, apparently, for putting up with Letterman’s underlying misogyny and mean spiritedness. I wish her the best.)
Yea, it would be nice if people lived by the golden rule & treated others the way they wish to be treated.
I’m just shocked that maher didn’t get nailed first. Next to Maher, Letterman likes women.
Maher is clearly the filthiest misgoynist pig on the air waves, barring none. I shall feel great joy on the day he is tarred and feathered for going too far, considering c*nt man has already gone too far plenty of times. Frankly, I think he hates women because in his deepest darkest moments, heis pissed that he isn’t one. His mother probably wishes she had gone for the oral instead.
Uppity, no way, Maher’s mother is thankful she didn’t do oral, because then she’d have the disgusting taste of the sperm that produced him with her for the rest of her life!
Instead she only had to carry the pig for 9 months and then dump him on the world to make sick!
Maybe it’s because Maher’s show is on HBO? He’s already been fired from ABC for stupid ass comments about 911.
In the video, Bill Maher, giving the setup that Governor Palin took David Letterman up on his invitation and brought 14-year-old to the show, then pretended he was DL and simulated having sex with Willow, all to prove his ‘point’ how ridiculous was SP’s comment, she wouldn’t bring her daughter anywhere near DL.
What’s with all of these BO sycophants - Wright, Maher… - publicly simulating ‘humping’ the women or, the children of the women they hate?
I think it would be harder to get Maher, because he’s on cable. They don’t have advertisers/sponsors whose attention you can get by threatening to never buy their product again. They just have subscribers.
I’ve seen some people write that they have cancelled HBO becasue of Maher, but cancelling HBO means cancelling a lot more than just Maher, and that might be hard for many people. And I’d really miss Big Love, In treatment, and the Number One Ladies Detective Agency! I just stopped watching Maher last year, and kept the rest. But I’m not sure if they know - I don’t know how premium channels tell how many are watching.
Then again, maybe they don’t care. Not only do they have Maher “beating up” on women, they have boxing on ALL the time - and I’m someone who thinks boxing should be illegal - violence for the sake of violence - I don’t get it, myself.
The Letterman affair illustrates the double-standard when it comes to the treatment of Gov. Palin. When Imus went inappropriate with the Rutgers players, Al Sharpton was farther up his intestine than a colonoscopy. When Michael Richards went off the res, there was hell to pay. But Gov. Palin is fair game for all rude, boorish, insulting commentary under the guise of “comedy.” Where’s Sharpton now, eh? No Comedy, No Peace!
As if Letterman is some paragon of virtue… Dave, your glass house has a large crack in it, pal. Letterman has the freedom to make an ass of himself on national tv. I have the freedom to watch Law and Order reruns. I truly hope Moonves is paying attention.
Sharpton on Palin/Letterman
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526661,00.html
Not all things are equal. Imus’s show for years had included the most base offensive racial sterotypes guised as humor. The Sharpton crowd had been after him for years, but because the stereotypes usually were aimed at Mike Tyson, Al Sharpton, Ray Nagin etc. the protests gained no real traction since the targets were public figures.
The Rutgers incident was a question of timing and victims. A women’s college basketball team may play in public, but the players are looked at as fairly anonymous since the public doesn’t know them and they generally play to a small crowd of enthusiasts. The Rutgers women were seen as innocent victims minding their own business and that allowed Imus’ long list of detractors to have a real opening to come after him.
Come on, Doc
On top of everything else, Sarah Palin does
NOT
resemble the RUTGERS PLAYERS……
Maher certainly demonstrated that he has a problem with women. I always found it ironic that he rails against women for this or that, but the women he dates (i.e. breast-implanted, play-boy bunny types) are the type of women he is always railing against or demeaning in some way or the other. He suffers from the good-woman/bad- woman complex, but always dates the “bad” types. By the way didn’t he once shack up with a “slutty- airline-stewardess” type [I think she tried suing him for patrimony]? Bill Maher, like Lecherman, need therapy big time.
i.e. needs….
Yep and he loves to be “entertained” by Strippers.
So, it’s perpetual. HE views women as his sex toy and entertainment and he conducts himself that way all the time.
trixta: Bill Maher’s girlfriend is Ann Coulter. Both total frauds.
I don’t think they’re going out now….? I think they slept together once or twice, but it was in the past.
He also is a big supporter of lesbians - Not. His whole interest of them is that he wants to watch them having sex together, and join in.
You know - “real” lesbians - the ones who wear high heels to bed (ie, the straight actresses in his porn magazines).
i.e. palimony
Yeah, Coulter and Maher probably deserve each other, but he doesn’t date women who have public standing or fall short of the Playboy bunny type. (And I have nothing against Playboy bunnies.) I always thought he and Arianna Huffington should get together, but I think he would consider her too old, although they’re about the same age. He’s always making ageist remarks about women who fall within his age group (e.g. Madonna).
I say Dave did it to protect his butt. I don’t believe he really felt he should apologize, but willingly did it with hopes to stop the outcry, because he STILL needed to say WE misunderstood his joke. If he felt the joke was wrong, he wouldn’t have said that.
And of course, he didn’t apologize for his “slutty flight attendant look” comment about the Governor.
No, he is to sexist to get it apparently.
And Gov Palin made a very classy and strong response.
Did he apologize to flight attendants?
NOPE!
or A,ROD?????????
Honestly, I am surprised the Yankees have not demanded some form of a public retraction. The Yankees as a brand is worth a lot.
and I trust no MLBP will ever set foot on his shoddy show again.
If A-Rod gets a call I hope he tells him what he feels. Not only did he insult all women he made out top players are sluts too.
Apreciate the reminder.
Two small steps for womenkind /////
first Embassy Suites
now this one
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Keep it up we are making a difference
WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE, MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
“Two small steps for womenkind”
LOL I like that!
Good work American Girl. I’m glad you’ve been nailing this Bozo.
I find myself watching very little television since the election: no more news (get it from the internet); no more late night talk shows (I’m just not amused anymore). I do still watch reruns of old sitcoms (like Mash, Cheers, Frasier, I Love Lucy, Everybody Loves Raymond) though by now I’ve pretty much seen them all more than once. This cable TV connection is increasingly expensive. Bye Bye Dave et al, you’re no longer welcome here. I just don’t want to let you into my home again.
Totally off topic, but I can’t find any site today mentioning NBC News Chief Medical Editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman this morning talking on Morning Joe about rationing health-care. This is the first I actually heard anyone using these words saying that this may have to happen to reform healthcare. Go to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/#31384343, and listen to the “snyderman weighs in on Obama’s AMA speech” clip. It comes around the 5:30-5:29 mark. Sorry for being OT.
obamaphobe: Yes, Obama has been saying this since he got in the WH. I’ve hard him say that older people will have give up some Medicare benefits and they will be denied treatments that are costly and may not keep them alive, something like that. So, if you have cancer and the doctor thinks it’s most likey terminal, you don’t get treatment for it.
It’s like Obama’s nonsense about “Cadillac healthcare.” If some people get full coverage from work, they’ll have to pay big taxes on it so people who don’t choose to work will be covered. This is the leveling side of Obama. It’s not really socialistic or communistic because it doesn’t offer an image of an equal society. His ideas just punish people for working hard and being successful.
Where are we going to go to die cheaply?
What’s this about “Cadillac Healthcare.” I guess that since GM is bankrupt, “Cadillac” healthcare will no longer be available. I hope we can still find a little bit of “Fiat” healthcare.
Cadillac healthcare is just healthcare that is a benefit of your job. Of course, employees pay for it, they just don’t pay the entire cost. Well, ours is through the state and we paid half while we were working. Also, our salary was cut back because the benefits were considered part of our salary package. Now, the Democrats in Congress claim our benefits should be calculated as salary and taxed. See, even though they’ve already been treated as salary by your employer Obama is going to tax you on them again. Sounds Reaganistic to me, but then, The One love Reagan.
actually benefits come out pre-tax. At least mine do, I thought everyone’s was that way.
We paid a portion of the healthcare coverage when we were working. And as I mentioned, in state jobs that carried good health coverage, people made lower salaries because they got those benefits. So, actually they have already been treated as part of your salary. Now, Obama wants to say they should be re-calculated as part of your salary and taxed accordingly.\
The state doesn’t just give you that healthcare, you pay a portion of it. In our state, they are now considering a system where our healthcare that we paid into during our careers will start costing us hundreds of dollars a month because the legislature has squandered the money in that fund and in the retirement fund. I believe it’s actually violating the contract we had with the state when we worked in those jobs.
Any way you slice it, we’re being punished for working hard and succeeding.
Hopefully this is only the beginning. The sole purpose of the joke was to be cool with the coveted youth crowd that so adores Obama. As the shining halo dims over Obama’s head, he’s becoming uncool. The TeeVee people can’t keep up and they’ll be reeling soon as more and more people find this kind of joking intolerable. BTW, this was not a joke
I believe Helman’s Mayonaise just pulled out their sponsorship from The Letterman Show. Did Embassy Suites pull theirs too?
They sure did.
Thanks, Ani.
As for Real Time w/ Bill Maher, when I canceled my subscription to HBO last year I let them know why.
Someone told me Letterman has all male writers- that would be interesting to find out- If that is the case-it’s kind of like Faveau the groper crowd at the White House- the word as parsed through exclusively a male eye(s).
shouldn’t thast be asshole eyes?
Letterman’s second “apology” is not a sincere apology. Blathering on and on about how he thought he was referencing the “of age” Bristol is not credible. Moreover, the ‘joke’ is not made acceptable were 18 yr old Bristol the reference.
His preposterous attempt to make a meaningful distinction between his “intention” and the public’s “perception” is unpersuasive and phony. Letterman is merely unnerved by the quickly rising tide of condemnation. His ‘too cool for school’ attitude is not insulating him. He’s worried. Fine by me.
He gave a lengthy apology when all he needed to say was, “I’m sorry I crossed the line and hurt all women with my remark.’ Instead as all megalomaniacs do he couldn’t resist going on and on and then saying (unbelievably)that it was PBS’s commentator that made him see the light. Oh brother, I say CBS better let him go.This is an example of outright sexism as bad as Don Imus, no question.
Thanks AGI for another great article, even if I did have to watch Letterman and Maher clips. I want to floss my brain every time I hear them speak.
Organized sponsor boycotts have often been used by Republicans and they always seem to work. They were also used successfully by Democrats to prevent the broadcast of a loaded program against Kerry in 2004. I’ve often wondered why such boycotts against NBC, MSNBC, and CNN weren’t used more forcefully during the Dem primary.
Oh and Dave also lied. See, he claimed he didn’t even know her daughter was with her on the trip to New York, lastnight in his Mea Culpa, but last week when he repeated the jokes on Wed announcing the Palins were upset, he said differently.
And, as he repeated the two sex jokes about Gov Palins daughter that he SAID “accompaied her to New York” (too bad he didn’t say why-attending Autism event), he repeated his poor joke claiming Gov Palin was updating her “slutty flight attendant look” and said he liked that one.
I wish someone would air all of his clips to show the loser he is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X6FUwBmclo
Gee, I wonder if Bill Maher is upset with Dave, because his former girlfriend Coco said she used to be a flight attendant before Bill asked her to quit and move in with him.
wasnt it in one of his excuses he said he researched which palin daughter it was in NY?
I was highly insulted by David Letterman.
you should have been.
Palin had it right, these guys Maher and Letterman are total sexist perverts. And this latest apology was so lame, all he had to say was “I’m sorry, I crossed the line and I’m sorry to all women.” No, he goes on and on and then unbelievably says he saw the light when PBS came on and their commentator made him understand the “perception” not the truth the ‘perception.’ This guy needs to go away like Don Imus, this sexism is as horrible as racism. Fire Dave Letterman.
Yeah, well my perception is that if Letterman is not fired, CBS condones his sick humor.
I guess Dave needed a man to explain to him & his staff that promoting statutory rape is inappropriate. Gov Palin & NOW’s statements didn’t penetrate Dave’s skull, but finally when a person with a Y chromosome tells him to stop being a pig, he finally gets it.
KEEP IT UP AND WRITE TO THE ADVERTISERS. WE NEED TO GET MORE TO PULL OUT! Kudos to Embassy Suites!
That apology was almost as bad as his first one. Cant Letterman talk without seriously without throwing out jokes….
how does any one get away with what Bill Mahner said, even on cable TV. He was actually sick…Very Sick I couldnt even watch it all.
In the article I read, Letterman mostly said people misinterpreted the joke and he would never make such a sick joke. I never read anywhere that he apologized for calling Governor Palin a slut. It wasn’t even mentioned.
Does anyone have any information on the rally today in NYC?
Here is Olive Garden’s response. A bit more tepid, but promising:
Thank you for expressing your concerns about Olive Garden and allowing us an opportunity to respond.
We understand your concern about Mr. Letterman’s inappropriate comments. Olive Garden screens network television programs whenever possible. Some shows, like The David Letterman Show, are taped on a daily basis and there is not an opportunity to review the content prior to airing. The content of the dialogue on the June 8th show is not consistent with Olive Garden’s standards and values. We have joined many of our valued guests in voicing our concern to CBS, and we will adjust our plans accordingly as we have done in the past when such situations occur.
Going forward, guest feedback, such as yours, will certainly be taken into consideration as we review our future advertising schedule.
Again, thank you for contacting us with your comments, and we hope you will continue to think of Olive Garden as a place to visit with your family and friends.
Sherri Bruen
Guest Relations Manager
Just found this article; about 50 people showed up. Picture of Betty Jean Kling (puma) with sign…
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/06/16/2009-06-16_fire_dave_crowd_lines_up_to_protest_lettermans_palin_joke.html
So, this article stated only a dozen showed up:
“Still, more than a dozen protesters held up banners”
I wonder what the real numbers were &/if the media is down playing the event.
Give this PATHETIC PEDO-PERV the same treatment Don IMUS got for his vile racist remarks: FIRE THE JERK.
Lettercrap is clearly advocating and INCITING SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST GIRLS. He is beyond firing. He should be INCARCERATED for inciting sexual assault of a minor in the presence of her mother whom, having been called ’slut’, would be receiving equal treatment.
Hillary was viciously attacked duirng the primary. Now Palin is coming around to realizing that Hillary’s decades-long fight for Equal Rights was justified. and Feminism is not a leftwinger’s joke. Now, Palin can help thousands of girls who would suffer from diminishing self-respect in the hands of neanderthal criminals like Letterman, and from possible and very likely violence.
Society will be evolved after this….Now let’s go after the Advertisers.
Funny?: No. Criminal? Yes.
I stopped watching both of these jerks last year. Letterman because he isn’t funny, only mean.
Maher is so revolting in his attitudes about women I almost get sick whenever I see his face. He’s a mean-spirited, ugly throwback and I hold no hope that he’ll wake up. He’s one of those guys so thick, so asleep that he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. I’d love it if he was not renewed by HBO and had to depend on people buying tickets to see him. At least the general public would be spared. He’s also a poster child for those too drug addled to understand that they’ve become a one trick pony. No growth in oh, so long so take your bong, BM (great initials, like BO) and go off someplace to contemplate your navel and admire your overinflated ego.
A friend of ours on another blog said something I totally agreed with, since I advocate capital punishment for Letterman just like Imus. He said Letterman is human garbage and needs to spend some time in an emergency room seeing what real rape victims go through. Not that it would do any good because the man is incureable in my estimation. Mahr should suffer the same fate. He has been fired before. This time he needs to be blacklisted. Letterman apologized because three sponsors pulled out and that concerns CBS executives.
This is a copy of my letter to CBS.
To CBS:
The media attack against women has reached
Sharia proportions Even though we have a sexist
president with a vulgar middle finger who is in agreement with this, most Americans are not. There are 17 women in my family and we are contacting all of your sponsors and informing them of our boycott.
Although Letterman’s vitriol was directed towards the Palin women it was a directive to all American women to stay out of political service or “media rape” is to follow. -Either to them directly or to their family members including vulnerable underage female children.
FYI: I am an independent and was equally disgusted by CBS denigration of Hilary Clinton.
BTW I wonder how hardworking airline staff feel about Letterman’s depiction of Stewardesses as “slutty.” Of course denigration of working Americans is perfectly acceptable to the extreme left.
As you may have noticed your ratings have been in the toilet due to the masturbatory perseverations of several key pundits and it’s exactly what you deserve.
It’s time to cut down on the viagra and return to standards of ethical, media professionalism. Shame on each and every one of you who have allowed, enabled and encouraged this devolvement of American culture and rampant abuse of the women of this country.
If you don’t fire Letterman I am perfectly happy to boycott your sponsors permanently, as well as the infomercials on your network that pass for journalism.
I could only sit thru a couple of minutes of the maher clip. He’s a repulsive toad.
My letter to Best Buy:
Because of Best Buy’s sponsorship of the Letterman show, I’m sorry but I can no longer use Best Buy as my ‘go to’ vendor for computer supplies and electronics. By sponsoring David Letterman–a man who thinks child rape fantasies are funny–Best Buy unintentionally shares the blame for polluting the public airways with David Letterman’s ‘inner thoughts.’
In a nutshell, I don’t want my money ending up in David Letterman’s pocket through Best Buy’s ad budget.
In just the past year, I’ve purchased from Best Buy: a DVD player, a Digital Video Recorder, two digital converter boxes, two USB thumb drives, ethernet cables, 2 DVD media stacks, 2 CD stacks and a lens cleaning kit. At least half of my DVD collection is from Best Buy.
Just this week I’m looking to buy a spare laptop battery, a tripod and a DVD-VCR combo (to transfer hundreds of VHS tapes to more DVD media.) I’m also in the market for a battery-operated digital TV, an FM transmitter, and a terabyte external hard drive. Normally, I would go right over to my neighborhood Best Buy. Unfortunately, I now have to make these purchases elsewhere.
Letterman’s multiple apologies change nothing. A self-serving apology cannot cure Mr. Letterman.
Obviously, if Best Buy had anything in common with David Letterman’s anti-social fantasies, I would have never picked Best Buy as my vendor-of-choice in the first place. You should consider spending your ad budget only on TV shows that do not soil Best Buy’s image.
Also, please consider that your ad dollars come from consumer purchases. Out of respect to your customers, please do not transfer our spending dollars to the likes of David Letterman.
Sincerely,
Conan has been bringing his A game to the Tonight Show, so why is anybody watching this bitter old has-been. Let him die of slow rot.
Letterman isn’t sorry about the comments, he regrets that he didn’t consider that us rubes wouldn’t get his oh so hip irony.
I’d love to watch Dave or his fanboys facing Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
Olive Garden pulls Letterman ads
AP
Andy Barr –
1 hr 45 mins ago
July 18, 2009
Following a week of back and forth between CBS late night comic David Letterman and Sarah Palin over a crude joke he told about the Alaska Republican governor’s daughter, the Olive Garden restaurant says it is cancelling all of its scheduled ads on Letterman’s “Late Show” for the rest of the year.
In an email to a Letterman critic obtained by POLITICO, a spokeswoman for the Italian restaurant chain wrote that “there will be no more Olive Garden ads scheduled for ‘The Late Show’ with David Letterman in this year’s broadcast schedule,” citing the talk show host’s “inappropriate comments.”
“We apologize that Mr. Letterman’s mistake, which was not consistent with our standards and values, left you with a bad impression of Olive Garden,” wrote Sherri Bruen, the company’s guest relations manager.
Bruen said the company “screens network television programs whenever possible,” but explained that “telecasts, such as ‘The Late Show’ with David Letterman, are taped on a daily basis, preventing advertisers from reviewing the content prior to airing.”
A spokesman for the company confirmed Thursday that for now it has cancelled all its remaining scheduled ads on the CBS program for the rest of the year.
Conservative radio host John Ziegler, who previously interviewed Palin for his film “Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted,” organized a lightly attended protest Tuesday outside the “Late Show” studio.
Ziegler has listed contact information for 14 advertisers on Letterman’s show, including Olive Garden, on his website dedicated to the comedian’s firing. He called the news an “obvious victory” but vowed to continue “our quest for some sense of accountability for Letterman in this matter.”
Letterman has apologized for his comment last week about Palin’s daughter getting “knocked up by Alex Rodriguez” during the governor’s recent visit to a Yankees baseball game. Palin attended the game as part of a trip to New York.
“I told a joke that was beyond flawed, and my intent is completely meaningless compared to the perception,” Letterman said. “And since it was a joke I told, I feel that I need to do the right thing here and apologize for having told that joke.”
After repeatedly blasting the late night comic in statements and interviews last week, Palin accepted Letterman’s apology on Tuesday.
“Letterman certainly has the right to ‘joke’ about whatever he wants to, and thankfully we have the right to express our reaction,” she said in a statement.