Letterman’s half-assed apology; Update: Palin accepts
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With protests planned and growing anger over his vulgar abuse of the Palin family, David “The Perv” Letterman attempts a belated, half-assed apology tonight on his increasingly unfunny show via TV Week:
It doesn’t make any difference what my intent was, it’s the perception. And, as they say about jokes, if you have to explain the joke, it’s not a very good joke. And I’m certainly – ” (audience applause) “- thank you. Well, my responsibility – I take full blame for that. I told a bad joke. I told a joke that was beyond flawed, and my intent is completely meaningless compared to the perception. And since it was a joke I told, I feel that I need to do the right thing here and apologize for having told that joke. It’s not your fault that it was misunderstood, it’s my fault. That it was misunderstood.” (audience applauds) “Thank you. So I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the Governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke. I’m sorry about it and I’ll try to do better in the future. Thank you very much.” (audience applause)
Notice that he’s apologizing for the execution of the joke. In other words: If only he had written it more clearly to take aim at Bristol instead of Willow, he wouldn’t have been misunderstood. And he wouldn’t be under the gun having to say he’s sorry for creating the wrong “perception.” He’s sorry he didn’t pull it off better.
His initial, impudent reaction is the honest one. And it won’t be forgotten.
Now, let’s change the channel permanently and pay The Perv no more mind.
Like I said last week, he needs therapy — not just for his Palin hatred, but for his chronic mockery of working- and middle-class women.
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Allahpundit: Why do reports keep saying Letterman’s apologizing “again” — when he didn’t apologize the first time?
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Scraping the bottom of the barrel: Desperate Bill Maher wants in on the lecherous old, unfunny Palin-hater award.
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Palin accepts Letterman’s “apology:”
In a statement to FOXNews.com early Tuesday, the Alaska governor said, “Of course it’s accepted on behalf of young women, like my daughters, who hope men who ‘joke’ about public displays of sexual exploitation of girls will soon evolve.”
I’m not saying I’m suddenly a Letterman fan again, but we need to accept his apology. Sarah has, and good for her. She was right to call him out on his phony apology, and she’s right to accept his real one.
Now maybe she can accept his invitation and take her message to Letterman’s audience. Maybe if he meets her face-to-face, he’ll realize she and her family are actual human beings and not just props in his game of Bash the Evil Conservatives to Keep Up with Stewart and Colbert. Heck, he might even listen to what she has to say. He might realize she has something to say.
My recommendation: Let’s just change the channel on Letterman. For good.
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He probably wants to apologize for not being a better Obambot.
If liberals and others want to support Letterman, they have every right to do so.
I’ll never waste another minute on Letterman, and I’m working on finding out sponsors. No more consumer purchases from me and mine
For kicks, check out http://www.firedavidletterman.com.
Something that really bothers me is the meme that an attack on Bristol is alright. For crying out loud—she was 17 and made a mistake. An air head on Hannity Fri. night kept insisting several times that the joke was funny because she (Bristol) got “knocked up.” Worthless Hannity doesn’t call her on it because he was looking at himself in a compact mirror. Hey airhead/bimbo–have you ever done anything stupid? Also, Letterman you are a little cs. jackass. Didn’t you “knock up your baby’s mama?
David Letterman is just a Nappy headed Ho thats all there is to it.
It’s funny that you ask, because I can, actually, if they were the sorts of teenage girls whose parents allowed sleep overs with their teenage boyfriends — whom said parents believe should only be taught abstinence — and then acted as if pregnancy were an unpredictable and surprise outcome (the Palins are clearly not much on biology), but then pretended to believe fornication and out-of-wedlock births were somehow okay because shotgun weddings magically redeem the social ills they purport to stand against (I’d add — as we all know — that the noted redeeming factor won’t be occurring). But Malia and Sasha are not and, thus, there is a serious and troubling lack of those types of jokes to be made. Facts do tend to get in the way, don’t they?
And anyway, the truth is, Sarah Palin’s philosophy is, essentially, that any publicity is good publicity. As long as they spell her (and her children’s — or her “props,” as she likely calls them in private) name(s) right, she’s quite pleased. She is opportunistic above all else. And when you don’t have other skills to rely on, PR will do, I suppose.
As a liberal, you cannot help but hope (desperately) that she runs for president in 2012. She is the dream that libs have been waiting for, for more than a decade.
As far as Bristol’s concerned, she’s acknowledged the mistake of doing things out of order, and she revels in her kid. End of story.
That she’s used some of her media exposure to communicate a message that jumping into the sack at an early age isn’t the greatest idea should be roundly cheered. I simply can’t get my mind around the ridicule that’s been heaped on her for doing so. After all, how many recovering alcoholics do we have who speak against excessive drinking? How many drunken drivers do we have making presentations about the horrible consequences that can flow from drinking and driving? How many recovering drug addicts speak out against drug use? How many ex-cons and ex-gang bangers speak out against lawlessness and gangs?
Isn’t Bristol a young woman who can speak from experience about the problems of engaging in conduct when, though biologically ready, you’re not ready in other respects?
Screw Letterman.
Letterman has hit rock bottom …… and started to dig.
He can quit.
THAT would be funny.
According to FOX news:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526525,00.html
This sleazy, creepy old slime ball is not actually apologizing to Bristol; he seems to think its ok to do rape jokes—as long as she’s 18 or older. Quote:
He tries to defend the indefensible (laughingly, after saying it “can’t be defended”) by saying that he ‘thought’ he was talking about her all along. The sickness of the left is ever growing, thanks to the national cancer called BHO.
I tried. Learn how to write. You comment is incomprehensible. I suggest taking your lithium before commenting. Or consider a rigorous English text. I suggest anything by Martha Kolln.
That, and everything that follows, is a lie.
What a puke.
PATHETIC.
COWARDLY.
FACTUALLY INCORRECT.
CYA.
Letterman did not “guess” about Sarah Palin’s Daughter. This was a SCRIPTED comment, written by someone, the scripts are reviewed IN DETAIL by Dave and his Producer and Staff, any/all changes are done BEFORE being aired.
Letterman attacks those in which he believes he can “get away with it” (i.e. Whites, White Male, Christians, Conservatives, Jewish People, Southerners, etc.)…just like EVERY cowardly Liberal/Socialist/Communist/Democrat does.
They can’t MUSTER THE SPINE to say anything against ILLEGAL ALIENS, MUSLIM EXTREMISTS, and/or MUSLIM TERRORISTS yet these mindless minions can attack each of these groups 24/7 and get paid MILLIONS to do so.
I APPLAUD Sarah Palin and American Citizens for FINALLY saying…ENOUGH loud enough that even Letterman heard it.
These “groups” ALWAYS take the high road and never “squeak” (as the squeaky wheel gets the grease). Thus they are protrayed as WEAK and they NEVER stick together. It is just like in the movie “Bugs Life” where the Grasshoppers control the Ants knowing that IF the ants realized that they outnumbered them 100-1 they would/could WIN and chase their own destiny. FINALLY after almost 50 years on this Earth we are saying ENOUGH!
Great article Michelle and God Bless every American Citizen and every child born…and yet to be born.
Take care and God bless.
JEFF SCHREMBS, American Citizen has spoken
Apologize for the perception that others mistakenly took. Intent is everything, not the perception. Your intent is obvious you wanted to make a crude sexually disgusting joke about a vice-presidential candidate and her family which you hate and despise, so indeed your intent to denigrate matters. This was no apologize, not even “half-assed”.
nyk, your as sick as Letterman and his pal Bill…and you libs keep saying you hope she runs in 2012, well, so do most conservatives at this point. Once again your liberalism comes gushing out in your lies…you libs are scared $hit less of her and we all know it…if you weren’t you wouldn’t be so concerned about every little thing her and her family do.
Liberalism is an sickness, and you have it. Now take a pill if you jerk.
BuckeyeSam, you will find a complete listing of all Letterman’s advertisers, along with links to the corporate offices, at Hillbuzz.
Exactly, and I would suggest he change his name to, ‘nyuk-nyuk’, but that would be an insufferable insult to Curly. Still said, nyk is a knucklehead.
Thankfully I do not stay up late at night to watch the late night mouths.
Apology not accepted. In fact, he’s even more of a scum bag than before because of a forced apology for the sake of money. And that goes for the dirt bags that counseled him in what to say too.
I guess his parents had the wherewithal to teach him not to “knock up” anyone before his late, multi-millionnaire, 50s period (sage advice, and more effective than whatever Todd and Sarah said to Bristol, apparently). Further, his (now) wife also decided to skip the teen-pregnancy-with-an-unemployable-father routine. Kind of removes Mrs. Letterman from the “baby momma” pile you tried to put her in — the one which Bristol sits atop. (Ironically, despite your “baby momma” jokes, Letterman and his long-time girlfriend — who clearly decided on the timing for their child — are now married. Levi and Bristol, who were held up by the right as role models (despite that whole fornication thing)? Not headed to the altar. Guess the lib Dem trumps the self-proclaimed moralists — on their own grounds — here. It would be funny if weren’t so sad.)
And spare me the sudden and wholly disingenuous forgiveness. Conservatives begrudge any and everyone who has “done anything stupid,” that led them to a low point. If the daughter of a prominent female politican who so opposes abortion that she makes women pay for their own rape kits fails, then I expect to hear a lot of forgiveness from conservatives in the future for every woman with less access to resources.
That is not what I would call him.
I would also observe that pukes like that one use the anonymity of the internet to hide behind, which is a particularly noisome brand of cowardice.
They would never have the guts to say the kind of execrable things they do in front of actual men.
His lame ass apology is insincere. And he waited until he thought he had gotten out of the milage out of the situation before offering it. He STILL won’t admit he did anything wrongat all.
I always thought he was a dumb bast*** from years back for those stunts where he threw watermelons and TV’s off a roof.
This, in common with the other lies this poster tells, has been proven a falsehood.
So, what does it say about anyone who knowingly repeats a know falsehood?
Michelle, why is this poster here, stinking up the bandwidth?
“Me comment is incomprehensible?” I think I’ve spotted your problem, and I suggest an ESL course. Good luck with all that. (Valiant first effort, though!)
Um, no, I’m not trying any sort of diversionary tactic. Liberals like me really do hope — and this is a frequent topic of conversation and a shared desire — that she runs in 2012. I truly believe that, despite reading every paper in the country and attending more (community) colleges than you can shake a stick at, Sarah Palin will always appeal to those who think book learnin’ and foreign travelin’ and fancy ten cent words and such are bad things. It’s not reverse psychology. We really think she’s dumb (and so, too, do intellectual conservatives). And the more she talks, the more obvious it becomes (although, it’s been painfully obvious for some time now. Everything post-election has just been overkill and a bit of gimme for us Dems). As for her parading her children around, I just think that’s morally wrong. Some of us don’t think kids should be used as political paraphernalia. You and the Palins clearly disagree, and that’s your right as Americans.
Anyway, enjoy arguing about a late night comedy show amongst yourselves. Good night.
nyk—-lgm’s a-hole cousin.
Please cite your sources re. sleepovers at the Palin’s and the “right” holding Bristol and Levi up as role models. Last time I checked they were just kids. Nice try re. unmarrieds having kids if they are old enough and wealthy enough.
I love how you libs always change the rules depending on who you are behind. At least most of us right wing extremists are usually intellectually honest. Now isn’t it late on the east coast? I think your caregiver has your Dora the explorer feetie pjs all ready for your bed time.
Maybe he’s sincere.
The thing about the left is, they only consider themselves human, and folks like us are the spawn of the devil to be treated as rotten as they’d treat a cockroach. It’s as simple as that.
It has not, in fact, and here’s a point-by-point counter to your (and your fellow conservatives’) b.s. “proof.” At absolute best, she can be described as having allowed rape victims to be further traumatized by having to pay for their kits.
And if MM lets your uninformed lies stand, why not let my informed refutations remain? (I’ll let you consider my query for as long as you need to actually understand the question being posed. Also, while you ponder this, don’t pick up any shiny objects and try and eat them.)
http://jezebel.com/5054308/debunking-the-sarah-palin-rape-kit-debunkers
David Littleman is like a first grader with a crush. He wants to hit, he wants to poke, he wants to pull her hair, he wants to make contact in some way but being so clumsy and awkward at it he doesn’t know how.
He’s embarrassed when he’s around his crowd and afraid that they would turn him out and turn on him if they knew his true feelings. So he tries to make out like he doesn’t care and verbally attacks her and makes ‘jokes’ about her. But at least he can talk about, Sarah.
Classic first-crush stuff.
my post was blocked, didn’t even swear, always on guard not to do that here.
Micheal Leheay is doing right by fighting back with a demonstration tomorrow nite, we conservatives need to fight back and not keep taking that high road to no where. The Tea Parties was a good start now let it grow from there.
What ever psycho babble nyk was drooling, why is the left is so concerned about Gov. Palin if she’s nothing to worry about?
Let’s start with this very site, shall we? That’ll be fun. Why don’t you read through the numerous comments here praising Bristol and her beau for their “family values.” Get back to me after you know what you’re talking about.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/01/bristol-palin-chooses-life-now-leave-her-alone/comment-page-1/#comments
As for the sleepover bit, I can only rely on what Levi (the guy who was sleeping with her — based on the fact that they have a baby together; I think we can agree that’s not open to speculation) says. If you were there as well and have a different memory of the events, then I guess you’ll disagree. Tomato, to-mah-toe.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/sep/22/palin-rape-kit-controversy/
Or as the liar nyk stated it (”she makes women pay for their own rape kits”), a lie.
I’m concerned about her the way I’m concerned about a classic Seinfeld episode, or a really good Curb (Your Enthusiasm). She’s funny. (Although, in all fairness, those shows are much smarter). Really — I promise: NO ONE on the left considers SP a threat. We like talking about her because she gives us something to laugh about and she embodies the intellectual failings of contemporary conservatism. But that’s a lengthy discussion I’m too tired to get into.
ANYwho, gotta watch Letterman on the DVR. Have a good night.
Rush thinks the left is terrified of Sarah Palin and what she represents. Maybe that explains some of the anti-Palin vitriol, but good grief, the left is plainly nuts when it comes down to the Palins, Cheney and Bush. We on the right may have our anti-Obama feelings, and some comments are clearly out of line at times, but this hysteria over Sarah Palin and family is incomprehensible. I’d even say it’s got a level of spiritual evil to it.
According to these idiots, Reagan was a boob, at well.
It is simply one of the elitist memes that are used by people wallowing in the cess-pool of their own degeneracy.
Exemplified by seeBS.
Always good to know what the thrice divorced, unmarried, childless drug addict (and proponent of real family values) thinks.
You people are too funny.
Anyway, good night for real this time. Take care (and just say no, conservatives!)
Be careful, NYK, because you might get your wish and it may not go the way you want it.
Oh.. and by the way, big shot, a number of us conservatives have college degrees with math backgrounds who constantly marvel at the liberal mush that passes as ‘intelligent thinking’ on campuses.
The more fools like Letterman, Maher, etc. put their foots in their mouth, the better it gets for us….kind of like a Chinese finger puzzle
The two previous times were more lies…
Agreed again. Cowards that paint a broad brush over others that they have not even read their many previous posts are no less a craven turd. I have seen enough nyk’s punk posts (he/she is really not that much of a long-term poster, I believe) over the years of being a MM Blog follower/commenter. Recently, or more appropriately, the last several months I have been too busy to comment much here. Some (2) (those who are more new to the blog than I) have actually misinterpreted one of my recent comments and tried to paint me with the broad ‘lily-livered’ brush. One was a self-admitted clown/buffoon, the other a blind fool reminiscent of a Daily Kos commenter lacking the guts to read and reply to my response to their bizarre screed against me. They also would not have the courage to say such execrable things to my face. I am a true Reagan Republican and for anyone to call me otherwise is a flat out liar, and an ignorant one to-boot.
So, does the “slick” allusion refer to “not guns”…?
the only joke is Letterman himself . Has he been funny in the past 10 years ????
just another reason i wont turn on cbs evah
Saw Dave once about 15 years ago.
Got free tickets when he did his show in Burbank.
While that red light was on he was all smiles.
During commercial breaks he was a complete sour puss, you could tell he was a jerk, and he made some poor gal bring a lit cigar out to him and stand there while he puffed furiously on it until the breaks ended.
That’s a lie, why would you waste all the time on someone that isn’t a threat? Your “makes us laugh” doesn’t fly, your scared of her because you know damn good and well if not for the Gov. the elction would have been a land slide not nearly as close as it was.
Pervert jokes by a has been is not proper in anyway, now if you want to keep pushing her into the spot lite go for it, in fact please do,just keep it respectful, or bless you, if you happen to run into Todd in a dark alley.
Where do you get that reference? Say, “huh”? You never heard of ‘ol Slick Willy’? Wow. Why the attack? Explain please. Oh, btw, I am a gun owning hunting, home-protecting SOB.
Johnny Carson made sure Letterman was not going to be his replacement…he wanted The Tonite Show to remain a class program, not go class less with Letterman.
Yep. A typical liberal “man of the people”.
Like BIG BRO and Shellie, Babs Streisand, Alec Balwin, etc, etc, etc.
They go into the he-bi-jebies if actual people get anywhere near them.
How do you think it made Mrs. Letterman feel when, after Baldwin said he was going to get a mail-order bride, big man Dave chimed in with, “Get one for me, for later”?
Come on, guys. Seriously? And you accuse the left of being hypersensitive. I’m all about catching the leftist media and the leftist bias in showbusiness, but this one is a weak complaint. It was clearly a jab at the hypocritical Bristol, not a joke about Willow. The pathetic part is the way Palin is milking it for publicity, but it’s even more pathetic how you guys are lapping it all up. There are vastly more important, and real, threats than this one. Don’t participate in the dog and pony show.
Oh, no, slick! No attack intended!
I was thinking of what gunship drivers call non-gunships…slicks. As in any helicopter without guns.
In the oil field, we also referred to non-winch trucks as “slick-backs”.
I had completely forgotten about the Slick Willie appellation.
Oh, one more thing. I’m by no means a liberal, and I absolutely hate what the left has been doing since the shams that FDR put through. But having said that, it’s a mistake if you think that Palin (or someone like her) has any chance at all of winning an election. Policy wise, she’s the worst kind of person that the Republicans could put on the ticket in 2012, and would pretty much guarantee another miserable 4 years of Obama.
I don’t dislike Palin as a person, but her policies and politics are awful. If the Republicans want to get some success, they need economic conservatives that believe in small government and individual rights. Not the big government social conservatives like we had with Bush (and who are all over Congress now). When it comes to big government and spending, Obama is just taking Bush’s policies to the next level. If the Republicans want to differentiate themselves, then it’s going to be on economics, not on time-wasters like the social issues. You rightly lost on abortion, and within a decade will have rightly lost on gay marriage. Give it up and focus on the important stuff like keeping government small. You can’t talk about small government from one side of your mouth, then want all kinds of government regulation with the other.
Which are exactly what you then go on to describe as “game winners”.
“YOU rightly lost on abortion…”
I think YOU just gave yourself away, kid.
Fallible
I was about to bring that up because nobody ever disparaged a “slick” that ever needed one, and yet—nobody ever needed ‘ol Slick, and he is rightfully disparaged to this day (gleefully by me).
I’ve been on MM’s blog for too long to be misinterpreted and attacked as I was the other day by what I would call, ‘newbies’. Sorry if I overreacted to your comment.
Not at all…I was obscure. I thought that your nom-de-keyboard meant you flew guns; hence, not a slick fan. And, yes, Mr. Slick (with the rotary wing) could be a very welcomed sight…
nyk wrote:
Yes, they do. Here’s a fact right now, nyk: Bristol’s problems are ones that Malia and Sasha will likely never have, because Papa Barack has raised them with no respect for the life of unborn children. Remember, in his words:
Now, it’s true that quote was given in the context of his schpiel on the topic of sex education, but it’s also a matter of record that he is not only a fierce defender of abortion (or as they say, “abortion rights,”) he is a fierce defender of the right of an abortionist to leave a infant born alive by mistake to die of neglect so as not to “burden the original decision of the woman of the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion.”
One of the reasons Sarah Palin is so beloved is because in a situation in which it would have been easy for her to compromise her principles, she walked her talk. She could have aborted Trig as soon as the amniocentesis results showed that he would be developmentally disabled, and nobody would have known but an ObGyn who would be sworn to the same level of secrecy as the people who are guarding BHO’s original birth certificate. That gives Palin authenticity few politicians can match.
It’s not uncommon for liberals to claim to want BHO to face Palin in ‘12. Some of the things Palin predicted in her VP nomination acceptance speech are coming true less than half a year afterward. I say, be careful what you wish for — at the current rate, the state of Alaska under Palin will be in much better shape than the U.S. as a whole.
FIFY.
On June 16th, 2009 at 2:09 am, infallible said:
Actually, I’m just an Axelturfer concern troll.
General thought for the night:
If the left doesn’t take Sarah Palin seriously, then why waste the vitriol on someone who was part of a losing ticket? It would be like wasting energy on beating a dead horse…
Sarah Palin’s strength is that she has the ability to connect with independent voters, and on that issue alone she can compete with Obama, if unhindered.
More to the point is that she, unlike G.W. Bush (our last President), John McCain, and other RINOs has no problem getting in the face of prominent libs when they cross the line. She will fight, and that is refreshing.
This is the real reason, I believe, she has invoked such obtuse negative attention from the dems…the only other logical alternative is that the left -more so than the right- has become so brutal and coarse in what should be discourse, that their reaction would qualify as irrational in and of itself.
This is what the liberals say any time they want to discourage people to stand up for themselves and fight. For you to say this and then claim to not be a liberal is dishonest.
Letterman is a horses ass. Had He spoken about my Daughter like that, his Major Medical Insurance would be red lined big time.
Accidents will happen.
Ummm…you do realize that you have the Presidency, both houses of Congress and (I believe) a majority of governorships? What more do you want?
Seriously, when was the last time that so much attention was paid to the VP candidate of the losing ticket? Edwards, Lieberman, Kemp…they all went back to relative obscurity (as obscure as members of Congress can be) after the election was over. There IS something about Palin that libs despise or fear or something…otherwise they’d just let her go back to Alaska and ignore her.
I’m not much of a Palin fan, and can’t put my finger on why. But to continue to savage her, and her family, shows a lack of civility of incredible proportions. I don’t remember political family members ever being fair game for ridicule, particularly crude sexual ridicule, previously in my 31 years.
He finished with “I’m sorry an I’ll try to do better in the future”.
He could start by retiring.
If you have to explain the apology it’s not a very good apology.
No, you had your dream, America’s nightmare, when the The Messiah conned his way into playing president.
We can agree on one thing, I too hope Sarah Palin runs in 2012.
Letterman’s so-called apology was just an attempt to keep his ratings up. It was instructive that he did not really reject the subject matter of the joke, just the perception that it was aimed at a 14-year-old instead of her older sister. (It’s instructive that this occurred to him only while watching liberal commentator Mark Shields on PBS.) He said he even checked before the show to verify that Bristol was 18. No question about what he intended to do, just that he made a boneheaded mistake in misidentification, right? So last night he again justified making the comment against an 18-year-old guilty of bad judgment. And for this, nyk wants us to exalt Letterman and put a scarlet letter on Bristol’s dress? And we’re supposed to believe that “conservatives” are unyielding and unforgiving? In psychology 101, that’s called transference, attributing to someone else the failings you have in yourself. It’s a common liberal illness.
Rags:
FYI:
The poster with whom you were exchanging posts blogged here in the past…and then was gone.
During that individual’s (her, I believe) hiatus, I noticed the appearance of your posts.
Now, that individual (she, I believe – and an attorney, if I remember correctly) has reappeared.
After one translates her comments into English, one actually has to pity her because of her worldview.
Letterman didn’t apologize. An apology doesn’t require all that convoluted BS about misunderstanding and perception.
“I was wrong. I am sorry for what I did.”
That is an apology. Compare that to a transcript of Letterman’s lie about apologizing.
When are all the dipsticks going to apologize for electing Oduffus?
This is curious and I hope to eventually find the consistentcy.
Pres Obama never used the words ‘apologize’ or ’sorry’ in the speaches he gave overseas, yet his trips have been referred to the ‘apology tours’.
Letterman uses the words ‘apology’ and ’sorry’ and his apology is called into question.
What exactly is required in an apology?
Seems to me that you are an elitist snob. Liberals profess to be compassionate when in fact they hate anything and everything that doesn’t think like them.
It’s the sad truth.
granite, I appreciate your information.
I can see that a lot of what you said could be true.
And, as you say, what a pitiable, cankered thing it is, to be sure. Very much a part of the same hypocritical and degenerate New York faux hip culture as Letterman.
Speaking of whom, I wonder if he still has much interest in World-Wide Pants, his production company.
Non-apology.
“It’s not your fault that conservatives are idiots. It’s my fault for not making sure I told a simple enough joke.”
Nevermind that he’s lying. He told the joke about Gov. Palin’s 14 year old daughter. That WAS his intent. The problem he has now is he didn’t realize he wouldn’t get away with it.
Take a hike Letterman. And stay away from our children.
Look up the terms “apology” and “apologist”. That will be a start.
You need to see someone about that “consistency” tick you have.
Really.
Now – fire the hack.
She accepted. This thing is over in my books, fake apology or not.
I haven’t seen any of the late night shows for years because:
A) I work and
B) I live on the East coast.
I certainly won’t be watching Letterman now.
The Left attacks Palin personally because they know they can’t attack on issues. This is their entire strategy.
They know there’s a large percent of the population that votes based on their impression of the candidate and by constant negative press, people will get the impression that the candidate is bad an d vote for the one they hear positive things about. More than anything else, this is why news organizations need to be impartial.
Look at Karl Rove. People think he’s evil, but nobody can tell you why.
I’ll bet the apology was made as an attenpt to provide a spike in his ratings. But what of the corporate entity which pays his salarly, CBS? No statement from them?
I didn’t know letterman was still on the air as I rarely watch anything on cbs, nbc or abc.
You don’t have to use the word apology or sorry to present a message that is an apologetic one.
These are all apologies. He is saying these things won’t happen under his watch. But of course since he’s a politician and he knows that he would be savaged in the press if he used the word “apology”, he avoid it, but sent the same contrite message.
Dave thinks it’s sooooo funny to mock Bristol Palin for being one of the thousands of young girls who get pregnant out of wedlock…
Why Haven’t we heard any jokes from him about Obama’s mommy who got knocked up when she was like 17 or something out of wedlock. and her baby daddy stuck around to marry her (probably for the green card) then split.
Now THAT’s a knee slappah !
When I choose to watch something late, I watch O’Reilly at 11pm and/or Sean Hannity at midnight. I’d skip Letterman regardless of who his guest was. And I can’t stomach Terry Moron of Nightline.
I agree with that on some levels. Letterman is a dead issue, and a dead career.
But the larger issue here is one that is extremely important for our civil future.
When we raise the stakes for really good people to enter public service, such that no good man or woman will expose themselves…and their loved ones…to the kind of venom typified in this incident, we have pre-selected who will run for office.
They will be pathological personalities like the Clintons, John Edwards, Chris Dodd, etc. Some of these people are literally psychopaths, and the fact that our nation suffers under them is deplorable, but predictable given what we are discussing.
So, this incident really does have some very big, very important implications.
I’m sick and tired of media lefties describing the Palin and the right’s response to Letterman as “Rage.” There’s no rage. (dictionary-dot-com: “angry fury; violent anger”) there is anger, there is disapproval, but no one is furious, much less violent.
Using the word “rage” promotes the left’s meme of right-wingers being violent and dangerous.
Comedic attacks on SP’s kids are outright wrong.
Attacks on SP, well ok.
I would suggest equal comedic time for Biden, TOTUS, William Jefferson, Laura Richardson, Dem. tax evaders and OMG Pelosi! ….hint, hint SNL!
Whatever implications that incident may have will pale before the implications of what another blogger posted over at the Obamacare III thread, if it proves to be true:
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashaot.htm
For an apology to be relevant and sincere, it must be timely and without applause from anyone. Letterman’s apology is, on its face, insincere – and that is the relevant aspect of his apology. Further, he should have asked the audience to refrain from any reaction, particularly applause. Palin has handled this entire situation with both dignity and a surprising amount of intelligence in the construction of her comments. This woman scares the heck out of the left because she is far too smart for them. (To have twisted the radical feminists and lesbians that run NOW into actually attacking Letterman, but not defending Palin, was a real accomplishment.)
This reminds me of Sen. “Turban” Durbin’s response when he was count slandering the troops on the Senate floor while troops were dying in Iraq. He was only sorry that he was caught. He has yet to truly apologize, and no one has ever forced him to do so.
Yeah, granite. I saw that, too.
One of a piece, in my mind.
But ObamaCare is readily defeatable.
“We can’t afford it…”
The American people understand that. The polling shows that Americans know we are in deep spit, and BIG BRO has his track-hoe working over-time.
“We can’t afford it…” Another TRILLION dollars, and it won’t, in fact, provide universal health care.
People are waking up. But we need to write ABC…