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By Roy Edroso, Monday, Jun. 15 2009 @ 10:17PM
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Categories: Exploring the Right Wing Blogosphere, Media, TV, The Arts
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The latest development in this inappropriate joke mishegas is that Letterman came up with an even longer and more obsequious apology, and a fat lot of good it did him. Dan Collins declares himself done with the subject (whew), but others still want him expunged from CBS. "It's still not clear that he understands what he's apologizing for," says Allahpundit; apparently Letterman needs re-education. "Sooner or later," says Puma PAC with stars in its eyes, "it WILL become as unacceptable to make jokes about slutty flight attendants and sexual assault as it is to make 'jokes' about watermelon and gorillas." You can bet that's not the entirety of their list of proscribed subjects, either. Little Miss Attila traces Letterman's war against women to his earlier, funnier show and an attack upon the dignity of Joan Collins. The Fire David Letterman rally is still on for tomorrow afternoon.

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Apsaras says:

When will the president stop ignoring this issue? I'm calling for a bi-partisan, independent joke commission to hold hearings on the boundaries of acceptable humor wordsmithery. Senator Liebermann may finally have a chance of uncovering just why everyone has been comparing him to Droopy Dog.

Posted On: Tuesday, Jun. 16 2009 @ 8:00AM
Apsaras says:

I'm calling for a 9-11 style bipartisan comission hearing to look into this "humor" stuff. Call Jeff Dunham's puppets to the stand! Force Stephen Colbert to admit that he doesn't really think Republicans are all that great! This nation deserves answers. At last, Senator Liebermann can uncover why everyone keeps comparing him to Droopy Dog, and John Boehner can ask what everyone thinks is so damn funny about his last name.

Posted On: Tuesday, Jun. 16 2009 @ 9:47AM
Matty B says:

Then, when impetuous political humor is exposed for the social menace it is, and finally outlawed by our moral and corageous statesmen, we can set our sights on other art that involves the ghastly topic of sex and adolescents! Who's up for a book-burning party in my backyard? I'll bring Lolita!

Posted On: Tuesday, Jun. 16 2009 @ 11:46AM
Dahlia says:

While it may seem like nonsense on the surface, there are deeply rooted politcal intentions in fanning these flames, which is why this is blowing all out of proportion. That aside, there is an amazing amount of mysogny in television and I am sure the writing staff of Letterman's show is primarily made up of men who routinely think very little of disparaging women. If you have ever been in a writer's room you will know what I am talking about, and unfortunately, women writers also fall into that "trap" because they want to keep their jobs and fit in. The only way things will change is when we get active and get vocal about mysogny to the t.v. executives, (network and cable) and their advertisers, and pull our pursestrings close until there is real change.

Posted On: Tuesday, Jun. 16 2009 @ 1:54PM
David Sham says:

Either directly or indirectly, many big and small people have been the butt of David Letterman's jokes, e.g., the ridicule he heaped on business executives during the crisis in the financial markets. Thus, some may have some ability to empathize with mothers and fathers who were deeply offended and appalled at the crass, base, and mean comments David Letterman made about Governor's Palin's child.

I understand David Letterman is a comedian and in our society we tolerate such entertainers use of comedy to offer perspectives on issues of current interest. Thus, crude and base jokes about politicians who voluntarily step into the public arena are tolerated as parody designed to cause us to think more deeply about a politician's character. But even in such arena there are limits, e.g., I expect David Letterman would have been strongly censured, if not fired, if he used a racially sensitive joke to ridicule President Obama.

The comments about Govenors' Palins' child exceeded all bounds. The comments attacked a child, not a public figure voluntarily in the arena. Beyond sexist, the comments were perverted and amoral.

I have come to believe these comments expose cruel and demented aspects of David Letterman's and his writer's character. My overdue realization of the nature of these aspects have caused me to conclude the perverted and amoral nature of such "comedy" was there all along and that I demean and sully myself by exposure to it.

No more the fool, I will never again watch David Letterman's show. When I have a choice, I will boycott the products and services advertised on the show.


David Sham

Posted On: Friday, Jun. 19 2009 @ 12:07AM
Frank says:

And yet, few of these rightbloggers had any qualms about making misogynistic comments about Hillary Clinton.

Posted On: Wednesday, Jun. 24 2009 @ 2:02PM

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