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Last night, on The Late Show, I think it set a precedent for Dave.
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Fantastic!! I could watch that over and over again! Well done, Dave
Sounds like Dave is throwing caution to the wind…and why shouldn’t he? He’s reconciled his place in the late-night ratings “war” and, following the McCain snub, looks like he’s heading down a WTF path.
David Letterman?
Oh, yeah! That guy who used to be funny.
Signed,
The other 60% of the viewing public.
I think McCain’s lie was the last straw for Dave. He’s come out swinging about the idiocy that is this current administration and party. After all, there’s lots of material to choose from!
Lesson to McCain and Republicans: Don’t piss Dave off. He doesn’t forget.
The sad thing is that this piece by Letterman went nowhere near far enough. Any cursory review of the speeches Bush made in the 2000 debates will reveal dozens of disgusting promises that he broke.
1) “I don’t believe that our country should engage in nation-building.” – Texas Governor’s debate in 1998
2) “As a country, we should project strength without arrogance. If we’re an arrogant nation, we’ll be viewed that way, but if we’re a humble nation we’ll be respected.” – Oct 11th, 2000, in a debate against Gore.
3) “I think what we need to do is convince people who live in the lands they live in to build the nations. Maybe I’m missing something here. I mean, we’re going to have kind of a nation building core from America? Absolutely not. Our military is meant to fight and win war. That’s what it’s meant to do. And when it gets overextended, morale drops.” — Oct 11, 2000 versus Gore
4) “I think both (Gore) and I care a lot about the environment.” – Oct 11th, 2000
5) “I don’t believe, like the vice president does, in huge government. I believe in limited government. By having a limited government and a focused government, we can send some of the money back to the people who pay the bills.” – Oct 11, 2000
6) “I’ll lower the price of oil.” – June 2000
7) “I’m a uniter, not a divider.”
It goes on, and on, and on…..
Letterman used to be funny. Now he’s just ignorant and repetitive.
I can understand if republicans think this might be a low blow, but I guess the truth hurts.
I’d respect Republicans more if they just up and admitted, “Hey, we thought the guy would work out, and it ended up a disaster, I’m still a Republican and I still hold fast to the core ideals of the Republican party, it just seems they’ve been distorted over the last eight years…but, I look forward to the emergence of a strong Republican candidate who follows the principles I hold dear, perhaps in the next election…until then, I hope we can all come together and help this country to get back on its feet.”
The problem is, most of the Republicans (conservatives) I hear or read tend to just lash out with insulting, acerbic rhetoric that doesn’t do anything but pull this country further apart. Too bad.
Bill Maher said it great on The Daily Show last night. Parts of America offer this cool, progressive, European kind of country to live in. But it can’t be fully born or get off the ground because of the redneck part of America.
Some of the pro-Bush comments on here are proof that this other-America, the cool one a lot of us would love to live in, will never exist. Thanks, Rednecks and Bush, for putting a stop to our nation’s evolution and making us a global laughing stock.
Get ‘em Dave. That fuck-wit Bush deserves MUCH worse than that.
Wow. It’s like The Daily Show, only without the actual jokes.
I predict David Letterman will see a temporary bump in the ratings as folks turn in to find out “what’s Dave gonna say next?” but he will end up losing audience after the election (regardless of who wins) and he has probably already lost the “casual” viewer who turns in at bedtime to watch the clown make him or her laugh before going to sleep. A sizeable chunk of his audience isn’t going to want to watch programming that gets its blood boiling when they are trying to drift off to sleep.
I don’t think for a minute that David Letterman cares what people think anyway. I think he’s tired of the daily grind and would just as soon retire.
Anytime someone tells the truth, Republicans are in serious trouble, that’s why they make a habit of shooting the messenger.
No matter what you think of whichever politician being bashed, don’t these celebs know better than to basically kick half their fan base in the face by this bashing?
I know I refuse to see certain actors’ films or shows now that they’ve run their mouths off (and come across as ignorant in the process).
This Letterman thing wasn’t even funny. In fact, the guy hasn’t been funny in a very long time. He’s just cranky.
I think it was one of the SNL writers that coined the term … clapter. Noted that Letterman isn’t really funny but his audience is polite so the result to most of Dave’s bits is .. Clapter. A few chuckles that turns to just applause.
Lordy I miss the Dave of old.
This is just ol Dave’s producers trying very late in the game to catch up to what The Daily Show has been doing very well, thank you, for the last decade or so….
It made me LAUGH! Proof POSITIVE- ALL politician’s LIE!
Johnny Carson must be spinning in his grave. Letterman is the antithesis of Carson, Merv and Mike Douglas, yet he wants us all to believe that Johnny was his mentor. Dave wanted the ‘Tonight Show’ because he felt it was due him and him alone. Instead, he has morphed into an old, bitter, unfunny poop thrower, something Jay Leno left behind long ago.
As time wears on, and CBS is stuck with this left-wing goon, Jay’s new digs at ABC or Fox will be #1. Conan will be #2 and Kimmel #3. And old Dave – it won’t matter.
Letterman’s still got it. I am proud of him and think Johnny Carson would be too. The sad thing is that the bit only stated the obvious. The sadder thing is that some of you out there find that offensive. The truth hurts, doesn’t it?
I wonder when Letterman is going to joke about Barney Frank and the democrats who did everything to stop anyone from fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over the last 8 years Or Joe Bidens son the lobbyist who got daddy to vote his way on the bankruptcy bill. Or all the Millionare Fannie Mac and Freddie Mac people on Obamas campaign. Leftwingers seem to be mean nasty people towards anyone who disagrees with them.
Hollywood is blacklisting conservatives in Hollywood.
when Leftist stars like Matt Damion make stupid remarks
its ignored –I don’t watch Letterman anymore because he is a bitter unfunny man. The people who say he is
funny are people who just agree with his mean spirited political jokes its not humor its hate. The moderator of the Debate tomorrow has a book coming out talking about how great Obama is…Would the media let the debate be
run by someone who wrote a book saying how great McCain is?–NO
People are starting to see how biased the major networks are. Not that it will ever change.
If anyone wants to see why the last 30 years of American politics has been so horribly divisive, see the new documentary “Boogeyman” about how Lee Atwater and his protegee Karl Rove sold their souls by stirring every ugly pot we have to turn us against each other . It’s an eyeful and there are more Republicans talking to the camera than journalists and Democrats. It’s a must see for anyone who wonders just how we sunk to where we are now.
If the Republicans would have spent half as much venom checking their own party’s actions instead of getting ripped up over crap like this that doesn’t really matter, maybe this country wouldn’t be so screwed up.
You reap what you sow.
oh please…
if bush has aged, letterman is ready for the cremation incinerator and an urn on top of Devil’s Tower mountain summit in Montana. Really nothing to see here that we dont already know. dave is just pissed that a republican used him as a departing-from-nyc foot mat. really.
bush is hardly a president who i would defend from criticism so fire away, but he is in big company with a whole lot of other presidents who have sucked since World War II, including FDR, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Bush 1&2 and Clinton. …and lets not forget Harding and Hoover.
o fkin well
Bush sucks, the Republican party sucks, and if you want confirmation of both of these indisputable FACTS please watch TV on 11/4/08. Thank you and goodbye.
–A Member Of The “Reality Based” Community
Hey Jane,
Have you looked at a mirror lately?
The reflection will show you as the hater. Hating Peace (Iraq) Hating the Earth (drilling in the wildlife preserves) Politics (Do you really want a moose shooting hockey mom with a B.A from U. of Idaho being a heartbeat from the Presidency? Do you? really?
It sounds like a really bad Disney film to me. Let’s not make it a reality.
Also… can you really argue the facts that underlie Letterman’s sketch. You’d have to spin yourself dizzy with delusionto do it.
Don’t make fun of obama because all of america will come down on you. How does anyone blame bush for the wall street crash.
SUB PRIME
everyone gets a house, doesn’t matter if they can pay for it or not
we are fucked