Posted on 06/13/2009 2:36:17 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Don Imus apologized. Mel Gibson apologized. So did Michael Richards and the Greaseman (didn't do much good). Politicians do it all the time. Shock jocks, actors and athletes do. Even Bill O'Reilly has done it. So why can't David Letterman bring himself to apologize? In another one of those delicious, you-know-you-love-it-even-as-you-roll-your-eyes media flaps, Letterman has been fending off an aggrieved Sarah Palin after she took offense at several of his late-night cracks.
Palin didn't rise to the bait when Letterman derided the Alaska governor's "slutty flight attendant look" on Monday's show. But she did object when Letterman, satirizing the Palin family's visit to New York and a Yankees game, said: "There was one awkward moment during the seventh inning stretch. Her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez."
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All we have to do to get Letterman to make an apology is for each and every one of us to not watch his show. Well, watch it “one more time” and while doing so, make a list of his sponsors. Then, write each one and inform them that you will not watch Letterman nor will you purchase their products until Letterman makes a sincere apology to Palin’s daughter and to flight attendants. If we should actually do these things he will make an apology very soon I think.
At least Richard Simmons is a respectable, decent guy.
His net contribution to the health and well being of American women can’t be discounted. He’s changed many lives for the better.
His net contribution to the health and well being of American women can’t be discounted. He’s changed many lives for the better.
Well, he has his standard issue Ø kneepads on and he swallows. He and the rest of the SRM are deathly afraid of Gov Palin and are trying to ruin her.
Letterman is pathetic. He can only “prove” his importance by demeaning a woman of real intelligence.
Also pathetic is that the liberal movement encourages the reenactment of a typical domestic psychological abuse situation, while believing they are the champions of the “victim”(which Palin will never be!).
Liberals are hypocrites.
You are 100% correct.
Letterman is certainly a shining example of the pot calling the kettle black.
old man Letterman has been shacked up with his own babymomma (half his age?) for the last 8 of the 23 years he ‘dated’ her, has a 6yo son, but has been married to the former Regina Lasko less than three months. Speaking about his Justice-of-the-Peace marriage, he bragged openly:
“I had avoided getting married pretty good for, like, 23 years, and I - honestly, whether this happened or not - I secretly felt that men who were married admired me…like I was the last of the real gunslingers, you know what I’m saying?… “
> There will never be a letup. For - why would they stop, if it makes us change our candidates?
There’s alot to be said for that.
The rationale with letting them tire themselves out on Palin is that the opposition can build all their strategies against fighting her. A last minute switch to someone like, say, Ollie, would leave them with the wrong strategy against the wrong candidate. Shifting the ground rules is an age-old sales strategy, and it is one that is best deployed at the very last minute, as it gives the opposition less time to recover.
With this suggested strategy you put Palin as VP, and thus have the benefit of her in office for potentially sixteen years (8 as VP and 8 as POTUS).
Action Step: In your next conversation with the person next door, plan a conversation to convince them to vote and think differently, or at least shed doubt on what's happening today. (Don't yell and shout, just talk.) That's the task we should be focusing upon TODAY. Make it a daily goal ... one person ... one new thought ... one changed mind. You see, it is "up to you and me." Not "somebody else."
We hear people asking, "yes, but what can I do?" Well there it is.
Action Step: In your next conversation with the person next door, plan a conversation to convince them to vote and think differently, or at least shed doubt on what's happening today. (Don't yell and shout, just talk.) That's the task we should be focusing upon TODAY. Make it a daily goal ... one person ... one new thought ... one changed mind. You see, it is "up to you and me." Not "somebody else."
We hear people asking, "yes, but what can I do?" Well there it is.
The “in” people don't have to apologize to the cultural “outs”.
Letterman knows he can't make a rape joke about Obama's daughters. Just like he knows he can make a rape joke about a conservative's daughter.
He's a pig.
Then he should be given about a half hour, private, off the record "interview" with Todd Palin (or Sarah for that matter).
My guess is after that, he would not be making any more jokes about the Palin's children.
What Sarah did was much more effective.
She deftly transferred the "knock up" joke to "Letterman is a dirty old pervert who lusts for 14 year old girls" when he stupidly didn't notice that it was Willow at the ball game not, Bristol.
Then he componded his idiocy by trying to explain that he was really talking about Bristol not Willow. And then inviting them onto his show.
Sarah then drove in the knife when she said "I won't let Willow go near that man". OUCH!!!
This is a shot across the bow of all liberals. This momma bear has fangs.
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