Posted on 10/24/2012 1:48:38 PM PDT by Justaham
Alternate headline: Even Late Night Comedy Shows Must Interview Obama Off the Record. Noel Sheppard picks up David Letterman’s belated realization that Barack Obama — one of his favorite guests — has misrepresented Mitt Romney’s position on GM and the auto bailout for months. Letterman tells MSNBCs Rachel Maddow that he finds it disappointing when a challenger proves to be more honest than an incumbent President:
DAVID LETTERMAN, HOST: Here’s what upset me last night, this playing fast and loose with facts. And the President Obama cites the op-ed piece that Romney wrote about Detroit, “Let them go bankrupt, let them go bankrupt,” and last night he brings it up again. “Oh, no, Governor, you said let them go bankrupt, blah blah blah, let them go bankrupt.” And Mitt said, “No, no, check the thing, check the thing, check the thing.”
Now, I don’t care whether you’re Republican or Democrat, you want your president to be telling the truth; you want the contender to be lying. And so what we found out today or soon thereafter that, in fact, the President Obama was not telling the truth about what was excerpted from that op-ed piece. I felt discouraged.
RACHEL MADDOW: Because the “Let Detroit go bankrupt” headline you feel like was inappropriate?
LETTERMAN: Well, the fact the President is invoking it and swearing that he was right and that Romney was wrong and I thought, well, he’s the president of course he’s right. Well, it turned out no, he was taking liberties with that.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
People don’t like being lied to.
“you want the contender to be lying”
Um, not really.
Obama was lying, not just “taking liberties with that.”
It’s what he does.
If Obama’s lost David Letterman he’s lost Middle America. ;-)
No credibility remains for this evil bastard..
His attack on Bristol Palin is a millstone around his neck..
His attack on Piper Palin is evil..
His attack on Sarah Palin was corrupt well thought out and damning.. most of all wrong..
Letterman was, is and will remain the prophylactic for the democrat party's scum..
Benghazi will become synonymous with the Fall of the House of Obama.
I think Letterman was thinking not so much “contender” - but “the guy I don’t like”, and to be the one CAUGHT in a lie. Interesting that Letterman was talking about his - I wonder if his meds were wearing off.
Benghazi will become synonymous with the Fall of the House of Obama.
That’s because Obama is part liar part economics ignoramus. I don’t what part is bigger than the other.
Maybe there is hope that some of the “honest”?? libs will see the _resident for what he is. A marxist fraud.
***** “_resident for what he is. A marxist fraud.” *****
Think he is more of a Trojan Horse... see my Tag
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Letterman wakes up and he's what, sixty years old? And his confessor is Rachel Maddow? And you want the contender to be lying? Gawd how does such an idiot get a network talk show? (in this instance I mean Letterman; Maddow is for another discussion!)
Don’t care what this degenerate vermin thinks either today or yesterday about his beloved marxist messiah. Ever since his vile attacks on Palin and the “rape” joke targeting her underage daughter, I’m just looking forward to the day that bastard’s ticker quits. He can then rot in hell where he belongs.
If they’ve lost Letterman, they’ve lost Middle America
BLL beat me to it...Arrrrgh!
Is this the first hint that Letterman got that he could be on the side of the losers?
Kinda. Ya think? Mr kiss obamass. Took you long enough
I’m with you 100%
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