Letterman, Politics and Palin
Posted by johnhouk on Jun 11, 2009John R. Houk
© June 11, 2009
In case you live under a rock or only listen to the anti-Palin Left you may not have heard that sexagenarian David Letterman has called Sarah Palin a slut and made a kiddie porn comment about Palin’s 14 year old daughter being knocked up by Yankee player Alex Rodriguez.
Amazingly the
You can catch Governor Palin’s comment about David Letterman in an interview that radio talk radio man Ziegler did HERE.
There is a social blog network on Ning that has a group called Team Sarah.
Within that group is a blog post encouraging people to write to CBS to complain about Letterman’s inappropriate to kiddie porn comments. I encourage you to read it and participate according to the simple information made available to pummel CBS.
There is the sense that Letterman won’t be chastised by CBS because he is such a cash cow for the network. These people encourage a boycott of CBS or CBS sponsors to make a point. Personally I find it more cathartic to express my feelings. Which ever the case please do something to let Letterman know he stepped over the line.
I was watching FOX and Friends this morning and viewed what was supposed to be a Letterman apology.
"We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news and we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter, the 18-year-old girl, who is — her name is Bristol, that’s right, and so, then, now they’re upset with me," Letterman said. "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…"
"… Gov. Palin, if you’re watching, I would like you to consider coming to New York City — even Todd — as my guests, or leave Todd at home. I’d love to have you on the show. It’d be exciting. All right, so there, I hope I’ve cleared part of this up. Am I guilty of poor taste? Yes. Did I suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No." (FOX News)
Oops! Letterman is saying he didn’t mean the kiddie porn comment about Willow and Alex Rodriguez. NO! NO! Letterman meant that single unwed 19 year old mother Bristol Palin would be getting “knocked up” by Alex Rodriguez.
Did I miss something? Was this an apology? It sounds more like a justification for the “slut” comments about Governor Palin and inappropriate sex comments about the Palin’s daughter Bristol. So it is okay now to make crude sex comments about a politician’s daughter because she is over the age of 18?
I wonder what would happen if Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage any Conservative spokesman or comedian would make crude sex comments about President Obama’s girls?
I will tell you what would happen. There would be such a huge MSM clamor to end the careers of anyone that would dare to make sexual innuendos about the President’s children or his wife Michelle for that matter. Governor Palin may not be President BUT she is a Governor of a State in the Union of the United States of America.
Letterman needs to get a spank’ in!
JRH 6/11/09
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CBS, Letterman Join Partisan Smear Campaign Against Sarah Palin
Posted by Bill Collier (TS-CGA)
June 10, 2009 at 4:00pm
Team Sarah Blog
As talk of possible boycotts emerges over the CBS late night controversy involving a 60 year old man talking about sex with minors, will Mars, Embassy Suites, and Best Western pay a steep price in lost clients because their ad revenue supports the agit-prop of David Letterman?
Outrage is building over CBS's David Letterman for outbursts, disguised as comedy, against Governor Sarah Palin as well his targeting of one of Governor Palin's children in a comment that followed a previous a "top ten list" where the political partisan/comedian decided to accuse Sarah Palin of being racist, ignorant, and even a slut, among other things.
While some, including myself, are making their own "Top Ten" lists in response to the first night's comments, see here, the June 9, 2009 incident went
beyond this tasteless political hatchet job disguised as comedy.
In the broadcast for June 9, 2009 the CBS late night star made a derisivie (sic) remark about Sarah Palin's 14-year old daughter, joking that while at a baseball game the 14 year had been "knocked up" by A-Rod, a flamboyant baseball player.
You may contact CBS at (212)-975-4321, send a message via the online feedback form: http://www.cbs.com/info/user_services/fb_global_form.php
or mail your feedback to:
CBS Television Network
51 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
Efforts by some to attack the otherwise stellar reputation of Governor Palin, which she has earned through peerless devotion to her state, have been rooted in out and out untruths which, although consistently proven to be "factually challenged", continue to be presented by partisn (sic) hacks for the party in power who present themselves (sic) as news reporters, entertainers, and comedians without any shred of decency and fair play.
It is likely that as this sort of behavior is responded to and as more Americans see the crass unfairness and uncivility (sic) of certain media personalities who clearly show their partisan bias that the negative backlash will not only hurt their reputation and their ratings, but possibly the party they seem to be hoping to promote so strongly, even at the expense of any shred of decency or respect that the public may have thought these people actually had left in them.
UPDATE from LISA’S.
Team Sarah members - already many of you have emailed Team Sarah to ask for information about filing a complaint with the FCC. Here is the link for filing a formal complaint online (the FCC's recommended method):
http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm.
UPDATE 2- from HillBuzz
[SlantRight Editor: HillBuzz actually has a few posts about the Letterman porn comedy. The I like the best to date is: http://hillbuzz.org/2009/06/10/how-to-write-to-corporate-america-by-sebastian-gray-for-gray-matters/]
CBS Contact Info: (212) 975-4321
CBS Executives:
Nina Tassler = nina.tassler@cbs.com
Kelly Kahl = kelly.kahl@cbs.com
Kim Sartori = kim.sartori@cbs.com
Les Moonves = lmoonves@cbs.com
They recommend a boycott of three advertisers:
(1) M&M Mars
Contact
(2) Best Western
Contact
(3) Embassy Suites
Contact
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Letterman, Politics and Palin
John R. Houk
© June 11, 2009
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CBS, Letterman Join Partisan Smear Campaign Against Sarah Palin
Bill Collier’s Team Sarah Blog
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