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2009-06-16 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Steve White 2009-06-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 "Oh, no no: I'm not really a bitter, crankly old leftist. You peasants just aren't sophisticated enough to understand my jokes. Sorry about that."

Does that sum it up well enough?

Posted by Secret Master 2009-06-16 00:45|| 2009-06-16 00:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Might as well print the apology, fewer now will watch that Libtard clown on tv.

Posted by Muggsy Glink 2009-06-16 01:00|| 2009-06-16 01:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Instapundit credits the righteous anger of AlfonZo Rachel. Or maybe Dr Socks. for the apology.

Posted by tipper 2009-06-16 02:51|| 2009-06-16 02:51|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't care if the joke was about her 15 or 18 year old daughter, the joke crossed way over the line and shame on the MSM for not sticking up for the young ladies. But what would one expect when they are "reporting" on the child of some with an "R" after their title.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2009-06-16 06:55|| 2009-06-16 06:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Has A-Rod ever had a comment? I don't think he'd like being the subject of the joke to any underage object...

Posted by eLarson 2009-06-16 07:27|| 2009-06-16 07:27|| Front Page Top

#6 He is only sorry that it hit his ad revenue.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-06-16 07:48|| 2009-06-16 07:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Follow the money:

Letterman's Palin Joke Costs CBS an Advertiser, Spawns Campaign for His Firing.

David Letterman's comments about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and one of her daughters has prompted a hotel chain to pull its advertising on CBS' website and spawned a campaign to fire the Late Show host that includes a planned protest outside his studio.

Embassy Suites, part of the Hilton Hotels Corp., pulled advertising on CBS' site because of complaints, company spokeswoman Kendra Walker told TVGuide.com. The company was not an advertiser on Letterman's show.

"We received lots of e-mails from concerned guests and we assessed that the statement that he made was offensive enough to our guests and prospective guests that we elected to take the ads down," Walker said. She declined to release the cost of the ads.

CBS declined to comment Tuesday.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-06-16 08:45|| 2009-06-16 08:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, he kinda had to apologize. NOW even said that the jokes were indefensible. (Hey, they even waited until the third paragraph before they dusted off some old complaints about Rush Limbaugh, so you can tell the outrage was more or less genuine.)

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-06-16 10:12|| 2009-06-16 10:12|| Front Page Top

#9 The people hit them where it counts, in the advertising pocket. The bigger insult that they will never understand is to Letterman. He is a puppet and stage prop where Palin is an elected official. He has no real value to CBS when the advertisers walk. He will say anything CBS tells him to, hell, Miss California has more integrity than he does.

Posted by 49 Pan 2009-06-16 11:11|| 2009-06-16 11:11|| Front Page Top

#10 I still think he's a creep who thinks that making jokes about the rape of a 14 (or 18) year old is funny.

You have to wonder what goes through his head to even dream up such a joke (or think its funny if one if his writers actually thought it up).

Creepy.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-06-16 12:26|| 2009-06-16 12:26|| Front Page Top

#11 I don't wonder at all what was going through his head. He wanted to smear Sarah Palin. He thought it would be cool and hip. He still does. He's just that kind of a guy.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-06-16 12:53|| 2009-06-16 12:53|| Front Page Top

#12 One CBS advertiser reportedly pulled its ads in response to the protests, some of which have demanded that CBS fire Letterman. The network is on the verge of giving Letterman a two-year contract extension that will keep him on the air through 2012. ... the real reason for an apology - $$$$$$$.

Posted by Clise Munster5537 2009-06-16 15:10|| 2009-06-16 15:10|| Front Page Top

#13 Hope the Dem staffer who wrote the "jokes" for Letterman gets fired too.

Posted by Iblis 2009-06-16 16:28|| 2009-06-16 16:28|| Front Page Top

#14 I don't wonder at all what was going through his head

Not just Dave, but also the staff of writers who probably came up with the joke.

Worth noting that the apology was an actual apology and not one of those 'sorry you were offended' jobs. Plus it made Dave + Writers look stupid as well as slimy for not knowing who was at the baseball game - riffing on current events being a staple of late monologues.

Posted by SteveS 2009-06-16 17:21|| 2009-06-16 17:21|| Front Page Top

#15 Hope the Dem staffer who wrote the "jokes" for Letterman gets fired too

At least he'll still have an income as WH Chief of Staff.

Posted by DMFD 2009-06-16 18:48|| 2009-06-16 18:48|| Front Page Top

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