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Updated with video from tonight’s “Fire David Letterman” rally (see below):
10. “David who?”
9. “Well, it was nice of CBS to provide the catering.”
8. “We should have done this years ago.”
7. “What idiot turned Broadway into a pedestrian mall?”
6. “Isn’t there always a crowd demanding Letterman be fired?”
5. “March around the potholes, people.”
4. “Can we also get CBS to bring back Gunsmoke?”
3. “When does Cheney get here with the waterboarding gear?”
2. “He should apologize for that hairpiece.”
1. “Thanks for coming, Regis.”
A few dozen protesters turned up to tonight’s “Fire David Letterman” rally outside the Ed Sullivan Theater. According to New York Magazine’s website, videographer Jonah Green learned that they watch Fox News, hate socialism, and think that Letterman “rapes children with his mouth.” Oh, and they really, really like Jay Leno:
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7. NBC already in talks to give him a 9 o’clock show.
7. Wow, this transparent ratings ploy is even better than the swine flu diversion that got the taxpayer-funded bailout/executive bonus payout story off the front page and Kathleen Sebelius confirmed by the Senate with lightning speed!
Dave doesn’t need to be fired. He just needs to retire like the rest of the people his age are doing. Time to enjoy his golden years in a Florida retirement home while some young whippersnapper in his 40s takes over. That’s how it works in the rest of the world.
Letterman rules
How perfect, there were a total of 15 protesters counted today and 37 media people were covering them. Like the whole Palin/Letterman episode, a total non-story stretched out day after day after day……
Good for Dave in getting some good jokes from the mindless drones who decided to stand outside his theater protesting.
I would love for just one person to actually say that when he told the admitedly dumb joke, they thought he was refering to a 14 year old girl……if I remember corectly, and I think I do, only one Palin-daughter has a history of getting knocked up in High School, and that would be the 18 year old girl, who is of legal age and is a “mature” parent of a little boy and, therefore, should be “mature” enough to take a joke, even in poor taste.
Please, someone, please…..claim that you honestly thought he was talking about the 14 year old girl. Prove that you actually exist, and take your public scorn for being among the foolish few who are looking for a reason, any reason, to keep Sarah Palin relevant.
Let me try, Mr. B.S.
Here’s the context of the joke. We start with Sarah Palin is “slutty.” Then we go, with joke #2, to Gov. Spitzer, who has a taste for whores, is a problem for Mrs. Palin and she has to worry about her daughter around him. Then we tell the audience, that Mrs. Palin took her daughter to a baseball game and the joke is, “During the seventh inning A. Rod knocks her up.”
So (and I’m a writer) here’s how you write the joke in your head before you write the lines: “The Palin females, one and all, are sluts and whores and particularly vulnerable to womanizers, particularly those who aren’t too discriminating about age and status. Give any one of these women an occasion — the cosmetics counter at Bloomingdale’s, a visit to New York’s wild and woolly streets, a seventh inning stretch — and they will reveal themselves to be whores at worst, ‘easy’ at best.”
Did the writer or writers of the joke articulate all that around the writer’s table? No, they didn’t have to. They, like you, know the party line, live it every day, unquestioningly.
As for saying my name, no thanks. I work in Hollywood.
Clearly Letterman is doing HIS job, as this firestorm is only happening because he is.
Letterman is still the King. If you’re at all interested, here’s the current order of pop culture relevance in the late night comedy world: Dave, Jon S., Maher, Conan, Colbert, Ferguson, Fallon, Handler and then all those other tools who should just go shit in the street.
But they are whores, especially the fourteen year old. I know this to be true because my sister’s neighbor’s brother in law’s younger cousin has a kid who tutors a boy in home-ec whose fraternal twin sister is in her gym class.
So there.
What a farce. Letterman made a JOKE. Some thought it was funny. (I did.) Some didn’t. But for Sarah Palin to use something so trifling and ephemeral as a transparent rallying cry to whip up conservative support for her inevitably doomed Presidential candidacy in 2012 is simply pathetic. That hypocrite should stop worrying about other people’s values and spend more time moralizing at home to her teenage daughter that had a baby out of wedlock.
BTW, I’m not a Democrat.
B.S. Factor.
If you’re not as ugly as your comment, you too were probably having sex in high school. You might or might not have accidentally gotten your girlfriend pregnant, based on chance. Getting pregnant is not a scarlet letter and all of you hypocrites who had pre-marital sex need to shut it. Also, in case you missed sex ed, it takes TWO to get pregnant. Interesting how it’s always the woman who is vilified. Palin’s daughter is not in the public eye. She did not drag her kids around, and her family was no more in the public eye than any other candidate (nor did she do a cheesy Entertainment Tonight family special like Obama.) Setting up a foundation to help teens does not mean you are choosing to be a celebrity. Has the world grown so perverse that helping others becomes an easy excuse for the torch-bearing masses to have their mob fun.
The slut and knocked up joke simply weren’t funny. It was facile and sexist and hateful, and reveals much about the juvenile and depleted creative powers of the writing staff, and about Letterman for parroting it, and about CBS for airing it. Are you people capable of making fun of a woman without sexualizing her? It’s a sickness.
Letterman has been waaaay over the top vicious about Palin since the campaign, far more vicious than he’s ever been towards anyone. To the point of pathological.
Women are fed f—ing up with it, day in and day out, the endless sexist garbage layered into everything. It’s just too bad that it’s become a conservative side show.
“Liberal” women, shame on you for not speaking out against it because you know full well the above is spot on. You fight against the sexist spray every day. You are making it convenient to dismiss by allowing it to become a political football. Palin’s political views are not defensible, but criticize and mock on THAT basis, and leave the kids out of it.
David Letterman remains the best in the late night comedy genre.
Letterman lost Embassy Suites as an advertiser off his website. He may have lost on-air sponsors too, hence the apology.
Fewer people than ever watch TV. Ad rates are dropping. It’s a recession. Dave’s habit of catering to the NY/Hollywood “bubble” has bit him in the behind.
He’s gutless (won’t take on Obama who is hilarious with his polygamous relatives, half-brother who’s refused admittance into the UK over a rape charge … of a 13 year old girl, his Lady McBeth Wife, lunatic preacher, general weakness before dictators, etc). Yet goes after a non-issue Middle American Pol’s 14 year old daughter. Which is stupid … nobody, not Dave, not Conan, not Kimmel, can afford to lose viewers. And it’s not as if we’re getting lots of young people either, or at least White ones. [Hispanics watch Spanish language TV, go to Nielsen's site and check it out.]
Dave’s problem is he thinks it’s 1985, a booming economy, lots of young people, and ad rates going up. His potential viewers are so small, and advertisers so spooked, he can’t afford to tick off significant segments of them. YEah only 15 protesters. But imagine the calls and pressure to get EMbassy Suites to drop out. In short, it’s the demographics dummy!
It was a bad joke.
The way you can tell is that it’s part of the Palin saga, which itself has been nothing but one long, bad joke.
None of them fit the key demo, who cares what they think?
Did Palin not whore herself out to McCain and her/his collective Republican party? WINK! Did she not appeal to the lowest common denominator, hence, whore-ing herself out to every Joe Six Pack? WINK!
Does she not hunt endangered species, namely WOLVES, whilst armed via a most convenient vantage point– aboard a helicopter?
WINK!
WINKY. WINKY. WINKY….all the way home.
Palin would be insufferable were she not so fantastically laughable. WINK. Where is Ann Coulter?
I got to start watching Letterman more, cause if these crazy hate filled loons hate him, I love him!
Okay, take a look at the video at about 1:53 and the only thing of brilliance in all of this is Howard Stern’s cohorts, Richard Christy and Sal The Stockbroker, engaging in a little male mouth-to-mouth for the benefit of the camera.
Obvious, here is the real truth about your false prophet Palin. I don’t work in Hollywood. I live in Alaska. Just like your false prophet. Here in Alaska, she is doing her damnedest to overturn Alaska’s constitution to limit civil liberties. Why? It’s obvious, Obvious – she’s Jesus’ personal messenger. She truly believes that. She lies – she says one thing and then does something completely different. She’s also vindictive as hell. I can just imagine how many people will be jailed or shot to death under a President Palin regime of terror (I’m exaggerating of course; at least, I hope I am).
Let me ask you something. If Palin can’t handle a stupid joke about her daughter, then how the hell is she supposed to handle things if our country is ever attacked?
You may support Palin but, if you truly work in Hollywood, then she doesn’t support you. Hollywood represents what is “wrong with America” (her words). How does it feel supporting someone who wants you to fail?
If you’re a conservative, there are other choices out there. Be careful who you worship. Otherwise, the only thing you’ll be writing is your resume as you look for that next temp job.
Obvious-
You’re a writer? Get another line line of work. I fell asleep halfway into your explanation. Get over Sarah Palin. She’s not going to be anything more than the ex-Governor of Alaska. Letterman did his job. Nothing more, nothing less. Bristol Palin was fair game the moment she was pushed into the spotlight by her Pageant Mom.
[quote]How perfect, there were a total of 15 protesters counted today and 37 media people were covering them. Like the whole Palin/Letterman episode, a total non-story stretched out day after day after day……[/quote]
Then, we get Sarah Palin on the Late Show which scores 20 million viewers while Conan’s only viewers are the population of Cleveland…
North Dakota.
Dave turned this PR tempest in a teapot created by Michael P Leahy (dude’s on Twitter @michaelpleahy and is a self-proclaimed ‘top conservative on Twitter’) into comedy gold last night on the show…amusing running gags galore.
If you look at Leahy’s blog he’s got a book coming out soon that he needs to pimp. He’s a ‘conservative’ (whatever the hell that means these days) desperate for media attention & the other ‘supposed to be inflammatory’ posts he writes (Alinsky’s rules rewritten for conservatives or why Colin Powell is no longer a ‘real’ conservative, anyone?) clearly weren’t working for him so he should thank God/Jesus Dave made a dumb joke about Sarah Palin he could use to get in front of the press in the first place. Of course Leahy better make the book plug soon because the clock is running on the general public interest factor for this event.
The almost funny thing were the protestors in that NY Magazine video, but in good conscience it’s hard to laugh at them because clearly they were ignorant of a lot of things (I’m pretty clueless about sports but A-Rod plays basketball? Seriously?), the most pathetic thing being the ringleader of this PR stunt will sooner or later hit them up to buy his book. It’s sad that the protestors got caught up in this faux activism (I’d like to see the petition with the 40,000 names on it to fire Dave, where is it?) but that’s what comes of corporate media controlled by an oligarchy…Fox News clearly had a grand time using them as a mini unpaid reality freak show, a flash-in-the-pan mob if you will. So did New York Magazine who I guess wants us to laugh at the ignorant protestors (while Fox just wants its audience to get angry at something insignificant instead of putting energy into working on real problems our country faces or noticing them firing people at Myspace etc)
By the way the ‘Howard Stern’ guys snogging behind Ranty Conservative Lady Protestor is getting to be more tiresome than rickrolling…it might have been funny if this weren’t the umpteen-millionth time I’ve seen it. We’ve already seen that joke guys, you got all the laughs you’re going to get from it, now move on & come with some other jokes please.
Should Leahy chance to read this, extreme conservatives are called ‘reactionaries’…’radical’ applies to an extreme liberal. ‘Radical’ & ‘conservative’ don’t go together just like a bad David Letterman joke the rest of us have let go and a book plug we’re not interested in hearing.
The lesson here is..you don’t make fun of someone else daughter..no matter how funny it is.
If you do, then be prepared to pay the price.
So yes, he deserves what’s coming, period!
I think the biggest problem in all of this is that instead of using this situation to say something positive and productive–Sarah Palin easily could have come out and said she was upset by the inappropriate jokes that Letterman made and noted that it points to a larger problem in our society, where it’s become okay or even encouraged to be as denigrating as possible with little regard for the person on the receiving end of the joke, even to the point that we’re now throwing young girls under the bus (which, IMO, would have been a fine response even though I personally don’t think the joke was that terrible), but instead she made a statement that was completely inflammatory, taking a vague & yeah, probably misguided, comment and reacting as if Letterman had said “haha, wouldn’t it be funny if Sarah Palin’s 14-year-old got raped, cause, you know, that family’s a big old bunch of whores.” And now there are legions of crazies banding together based on something that was never even said . . . sigh.