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David Letterman: Perv

By Michelle Malkin • June 12, 2009 04:32 AM

My syndicated column today fixes the spotlight on David “The Perv” Letterman’s contempt for women. Yesterday morning, I noted the silence of the feminists. Last night, NOW finally spoke up — but not without taking a holier-than-thou potshot of its own. I suggest they all review the Four Stages of Conservative Female Abuse before wagging their tired old fingers again and lecturing us “inauthentic” women about not doing enough to combat sexism.

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Dear Dave Letterman
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009

Dear David Letterman,

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 daughters “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 openly 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 which daughter you were mocking.

Fourteen-year-old Willow was the one who accompanied Gov. Palin during her trip this week, not 18-year-old Bristol, 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 another 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/hitman has a deranged obsession with Sarah 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 infomercial lady who says she made $64,000 a month flipping condos.”

“[S]he 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 Gov. Palin.

In March 2009, Letterman attacked Bristol Palin and snickered about her being “knocked up” again.

You know, David Letterman reminds me of the lecher at the school bus stop.

Or the aging creep lurking in the dirty magazine section at the 7-11.

Attention, CBS: Get him help now.

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#723287

On June 17th, 2009 at 4:52 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

On June 17th, 2009 at 4:47 pm, zeroangel said:

My boy is a newborn so he can’t poop in the correct place much less be old enough to watch “Home Alone 3.” *smile*

Oh, Congrats! Is he your first? We have three boys, aged 17, 14, and 12. I’ll look for your response later…
#723354

On June 17th, 2009 at 6:46 pm, zeroangel said:

Jet:

Yup, first. 17 days old as of today. I’m heading to the video store soon (just got home from shopping).
#723709

On June 18th, 2009 at 12:54 pm, zeroangel said:

Yay! My first chance to use this thread as a dumping thead:

WE82:

“atheism has murdered 100 million or more in the last century.”

…and presumably, Yahweh tossed a great deal of those victims into a furnace for not following the correct religion. I guess that makes your deity as bad as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao combined.
#725853

On June 22nd, 2009 at 11:46 am, Politicalguano said:

Letterman has gotten so creepy, his guest chairs are so sticky and slimey it looks like the creature from “Alien” has slimed on them.
Or… His guest chairs have more DNA splattered on them than former Prez. Clinton’s Oval Office Carpet. Guests are requesting bio-hazard suits!
Anyone want to combine this theme with BO’s command to, “suck it up?”
#725938

On June 22nd, 2009 at 1:13 pm, Rorschach said:

Just out of curiosity, who is that giving turdface a table dance in the pic? (I never watch the show so how would I know?)
#726348

On June 22nd, 2009 at 11:18 pm, zeroangel said:

Hey? What are you guys doing? This is my dumping thread!

*smile*
#726762

On June 23rd, 2009 at 2:41 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

Zero,
Have you seen Marcello Mastrantonioni?

Pretty funny stuff!
#734059

On June 30th, 2009 at 9:07 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

Zero,
Are you there?
#734427

On July 1st, 2009 at 11:05 am, zeroangel said:

Jet:

Hey bro. Sorry I was taking a break from MM’s site and hanging out at my other favorite blog lately.

I can’t view that link from here. Do you have another? Otherwise it will have to wait until later.
#734671

On July 1st, 2009 at 1:57 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

zero,
It’s a youtube link, so your work probably blocks it.