Posted on 06/12/2009 4:13:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
Will you teach your son to talk about women and girls the way you talk about Sarah Palin and her daughters?
You called the married 45-year-old mother, grandmother and Alaska governor a "slutty flight attendant" on your national TV talk show because she happens to be a tall, beautiful and dynamic public figure who doesn't look, walk or talk the way you think she should.
You joked on national television about Palin's teenage daughter "getting knocked up" by professional baseball player Alex Rodriguez or solicited by the prostitute-addicted former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer because it's acceptable in your social and professional circles to sneer at the children of politicians you despise.
You admitted that your attacks on Palin's family were in "poor taste," but cackled while acknowledging your sophomoric judgment.
You expressed moral indignation at being misconstrued, yet you purposely omitted the name of the daughter you were mocking.
Fourteen-year-old Willow Palin was the daughter who accompanied Gov. Palin on her trip this week, not 18-year-old Bristol Palin, whom you now claim was the target of your feckless smear -- a smear you still insist is perfectly defensible. Look at yourself, Dave. Look at how lame your excuse-making was on your Wednesday night show:
"These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl. I mean, look at my record. It has never happened. I don't think it's funny. I would never think it was funny. I wouldn't put it in a joke..."
Tell us, great comic genius, how tacking on four years to the target daughter makes it funny? We unenlightened dim bulbs who live outside of Manhattan's boundaries don't get the joke.
Will you be able to explain it to your son?
Face it: David Letterman, late-night entertainer turned partisan hack and hit man, has a deranged obsession with Palin and her family that has crossed into rank bigotry and hatred. If the CBS network cares about basic standards of decency on public airwaves and if it cares at all about bolstering its shrinking audience, the network honchos will get Letterman a therapist pronto.
Over the past year, Letterman has displayed his sexist, elitist stripes in jibe after jibe aimed at Palin. Taken cumulatively, Letterman's mockery is about much more than expressing contempt for the popular GOP governor. It's a handy device to deride a broad class of working-class and middle-class women he holds in contempt:
"You know, she reminds me, she looks like the flight attendant who won't give you a second can of Pepsi. No, you've had enough. We're landing. Looks like the waitress at the coffee shop who draws a little smiley face on your check. Have a nice day."
"She looks like the dip sample lady at Safeway. She looks like the nurse who weighs you and then makes you sit alone in your underwear for 20 minutes. She looks like the Olive Garden hostess who says, 'I'm sorry, your table isn't ready yet.' She looks like the infomercial lady who says she made $64,000 a month flipping condos."
"She looks like the lady at the bakery who yells out '44! 45!' She looks like a real estate agent whose picture you see on the bus stop bench. That's who she looks like. She looks like the lady who has a chain of cupcake stores…"
In November 2008, Letterman told tanking CBS News anchor Katie Couric that he was "aroused" by Palin. In March 2009, Letterman attacked Bristol and snickered about her being "knocked up" again.
Letterman reminds me of the lecher at the school bus stop. Or the aging creep lurking in the dirty magazine section at the 7-Eleven. Attention, CBS: Get him help now.
All those ladies she resembles are nice ladies with real, productive jobs. Note she doesn’t look like the community organizer who registers you to vote six times, or the lawyer who prosecutes enlisted men for doing their duty.
We established in another thread that she, and perhaps not his mother, is the dirty whore in the family who does not appear on TV.
Imagine that man taking Johnny Carson’s place! They were having none of it!
“Help him get off the TV.”
Imus’ nappie headed ho comment was far less offensive in content.
Cost him his job at CBS.
"I thought Mayor Guiliani cleaned upt NYC from all the demented old pervs and drunks. Looks like he missed one."
Suburbanite daughters get drunk, tattooed and screwed at the same rate as “rednecks” or the “lumpenprole”. Remember that stupid suburbanites voted Obama into office, to feel good.
Sarah will run as Sarah, if she’s smart. This is her strong suit.
The press won’t give up savaging her, no matter what. Don’t forget the Sinatra/Nancy Davis stories, but have you seen any Chappiquiddick stories of late?
Hey! I sing along with that song and I'll put my "sophistication" up against yours any day...Oh wait, I don't' have any tattoos....never-mind :)
I agree with everything you said except: “Red Neck Woman” is a really catchy tune. It’s very hard not to sing along with it and Sarah is no Minnie Pearl.
I agree with you. I used to count the number of Bush vs Gore/Clinton jokes Leno used in his opening monologues. It came out about even most nights. There was a time that I wasn't totally convinced that Leno was a Lib. because of it (naive, I know).
I stopped watching him many years ago so I don't know how much he changed since.
Sarah has to learn to speak to a larger electorate to show competance and disprove all of her naysayers a la Ronaldus Magnus. Reagan had a very hostile media too, but he was able to project competance, charm, and strength that went way over the heads of the Dan Rathers of the world and straight to the mass of Americans, whether in New Jersey, Alabama, or California.
At least your grandparents could speak something resembling English. ;)
Looking forward to seeing clips of the Palin interview on Today.
Letterman is like George Carlin: funny for a long time but then got old and angry...and out of ideas. His time on the national scene is over. He should leave while he’s near the bottom. Of course his rear-end is already scraping the bottom of the garbage pile.
But my orientation is toward betterment not toward the least common denominator.
I maintain that NBC did FAR better with Leno than they would have with Letterman.
I don't recall contesting that. But you win the hypothetical, Leno was less crappy than perhaps Letterman.
Sometimes the least common denominator is the best we can hope for. Is that our best aspiration? Not at all. Is it the face of reality more often than not? Unfortunately so.
The best answer of all is to turn off the TV, cut off the power cord (the only part actually worthy of salvage) and throw the bug-eyed monster into the trash.
Or off the tallest building you can find after shouting “Look out below!” ;)
It’s my understanding that when the choice for the successor to Johnny Carson was still unresolved, that Letterman seemed to think he had a birthright to take over the show due to his many years of holding down the late late night position, but the numbers that Leno produced both as a comic and as Carson’s permanent guest host suggested to NBC that Leno had a wider appeal.
To his credit, Carson reportedly refused to take sides and would not endorse one potential successor over the other although he apparently emphathized with Letterman over what appeared to be a deliberate shafting by NBC.
In the end, NBC was right to do so and lost nothing by Letterman flying the coop.
It’s a good thing he did not call Palin a “nappy headed ho” or he’s be in real trouble!
Almost, except he was never as funny and ran out of ideas a lot sooner.
Rahal Letterman Racing did participate in the Indianapolis 500 this year. When the announcer pointed him out on the big screens (since he’s a celebrity), the crowds weren’t overly impressed with him (not much cheering).....and Letterman is actually from Indiana. Florence Henderson and Jim Nabors received lots of cheering. Go figure.
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