David Letterman’s latest publicity stunt: You’re the Taliban
So, here’s what The Perv of Late Night CBS Comedy said last night:
“You know about the Taliban? Over here, we call them ‘healthcare protesters.’”
I wouldn’t get all wee-weed up about it, though.
It’s just another desperate David Letterman stunt. Ho-hum.
Guess there weren’t any teenage daughters of Republican politicians to pick on…
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So poor, had to have been written by The Perv himself. yawn………
This stinking moonbat should have been forced off the air years ago. He’s not even funny anymore!
So now everyday Americans are “taliban” to you, Letterman? Who the hell do you think tunes in to your creepy show?
That’s really weak. If we were the Taliban, or anything like them, we would have the media groveling before us. In fact, we would be pretty much running the country now.
Letterman is still around? Who knew!
Maybe the next time Letterman needs heart bypass surgery…we’ll be in the midst of Obama’s health care….and the Death Panel will turn him down.
I looked in the dictionary for David Letterman and it showed a picture of Bill Maher?
Well at least he didn’t claim we were having sex with A-rod! That would’ve really made me PO’d!
I use to watch DL just to see Will Lee play bass. Now, not so much.
What do you mean, anymore?
Is there another “David Letterman” who had actually been funny at some time in the past?
Somewhat relevant to this, I attended a Tea Party Wednesday night with a crowd of 7000.A reporter from the local rag, a reliably lefty New York Times wannabe (also on it’s death throes) was interviewing one the local organizers I happened to be seated next to.
One of her first questions was:
“So you’re against health care?”
Death Panels won’t apply to the elitist, water carries remember.
Letting Dave go was the only smart decision NBC as made in the last 25 years.
Wow Michelle comes in number #4 for Television Pundits. Karl Rove is ranked #1
http://www.mediaite.com/power-grid/category/?c=TV+Pundits
Not only is the “joke” not funny it doesn’t even make sense. Does he even know anything about the Taliban? DL is frankly a sad, pathetic old man trying to pretend he’s a relevant comedian.
Don’t know, I’ve never watched him, but I assumed that since he got the show to begin with, that was the reason!
What a brilliant example of the complete lack of brain-power on the left! It’s like asking, “do you still beat your wife?”!
You beat me to it!!
Just a reminder: David Letterman was hardly the first late night comedian to crack jokes about Bristol Palin’s pregnancy. SNL also did during the campaign, and Sarah Palin appeared on the show after that joke.
What did David Letterman do differently than the others? He said Sarah herself looked like a “slutty flight attendant.” So to Palin, apparently it’s OK if you poke fun at her daughters, but not at her.
Hey Dave, you know about the morons? Over here, we call them your fans.
Over the years, David Letterman has been effusive in thanking the team of heart surgeons who saved his life. Does he really think he’s not stabbing them in the back by supporting Obamacare? Or is he such an elitist that he really has no idea what he’s supporting?
Dave hasn’t been funny since he left NBC. He’s been a jerk every sense he lost out to Leno for the Tonight Show. Now he clearly wears his left wing ideology on sleeve and he just keeps getting meaner.
ever sense
ever since
Aw geez RSS! Are you really that obtuse?
Oh that Dave! What a card! But seriously, I don’t think he’d recognize the Taliban if they sawed his head off.
I had to laugh!
Congratulation Red State, a brand new low for you!
You must be proud, and not a parent.
What are ‘healthcare protesters’, Dave? No one I know is protesting that; what they disagree with are the so-called ‘reform’ packages before Congress.
The guy was never funny and I’ve never understood the appeal, irrespective of the monkey poo he likes to fling on occasion.
It really is way past time for Letterman to retire.His 15 minutes were up years ago,and his style of comedy(?) went out long ago.
david the letter man, you need to stop this cheap attempt at humor, you are not funny, pathetic yes, but not funny. this parasite should be paying someone to allow him to be on television, but then again since it is cbs, simply two losers supporting one another.
Why watch late night TV post-Carson. Get some sleep, friends.
I never like him. Only rarely would one of his “Top Ten” lists be funny.
Get with the program; no one was particularly concerned with ‘slutty flight attendant look’, (I’m honest enough to admit that I kind of like it …).
No, it was NOT that – it was inference of STATUTORY RAPE of the Palins’ 14 year old daughter, (14 year old Willow was the daughter they has with them at the game that night) and a further vulgar inference he made that I shouldn’t have to even explain:
.. not mentioning the insult to Alex Rodriguez.
Redskep – Tell us how YOU would feel if a national TV talk show host made ‘fun’ saying YOU raped an underage child?
Oh such fun..
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. – Will Rogers
I’m still wondering when he’s going to realize he’s gay and come out of the closet. What a wuss.
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. – Will Rogers
Obama sends them a Happy Ramadan candygram and health care protesters are the ones who are like the Taliban?
Good Lord, Dave! You need new writers like Obummer needs a new teleprompter.
“Taliban” is used to describe the protesters simply because the left is running out of derisive, derogatory labels that haven’t already been used.
What passes for creativity among such people is coming up with new names to call those who disagree with them. It’s easy to envision Letterman’s writers pacing back and forth:
“Lemme see: brown-shirts… Nazis… un-American… traitors… treasonous… racists… astroturfers… Republican plants… insurance company shills… angry mobsters… Dang! I have to think of something original! Wait! I know! Taliban! Taliban!! Nobody’s thought of that yet! Eureka!!”
Hannity and other TV personalities can call Obama Hitler, but heaven forbid someone should criticize the helpless townhall disruptors.
I hate to burst your Palin Bubble, but not everyone gives a crap about which Palin daughter is which, or even that she has more than one. I know you love nothing more than to be outraged, but Letterman clearly assumed it was the one who had already gotten knocked up.
And are you seriously standing up for Alex Rodriguez’s honor?
The so-called “town hall disruptors” do not look so helpless
They look to be a growing contingent.
They are not the people running to hide behind the skirt of their union benefactors.
lgm, a quick lookup of bush and nazi shows over 7 1/2 million hits from 2000 to present. stfu.
no2pcbs1, I fixed it for you!
Who was it that went off crying with faux outrage at a photoshopped picture of him as Hitler?
lgm #39
Those ‘helpless townhall disruptors’ are American citizens with every right to assemble. Since they still enjoy freedom of speech, for the moment at least, I fail to understand the argument they should not question those they elected?
It’s probably a good thing someone (emphasis on 1) watches this drek-meister. Otherwise, how would we know he talked crap?
Letterman himself said “the joke really, in and of itself, can’t be defended” with regards to the botched Willow Palin joke.
Personally, I believe that the children of all politicians should be off-limits (excepting cases where they have directly involved themselves in politics).
The comparison of the protesters to the Taliban is just lame. It doesn’t hurt or scare the protesters, mostly because it simply doesn’t make sense and doesn’t have comedic legs. It’s just sort of pathetic.
JS Ragman–I’m still laughing.
Is it the same guy that launches ad hominems on the hostess that removed BlindMule for that picture?
the same one who launches verbal ass-rats into the air
Says who?
And we’re still waiting for your reply
chirp..chirp..
The same one who makes ridiculous claims, but can never cite his source?
Whoo! Funny! Thanks for the quote and for helping to keep things in perspective. All the name calling is designed to silence dissent and/or to keep people from listening to it. I did my bit for freedom and choice years ago, re: DL, by not watching anymore.
Remember the nine most dreaded words in the English language: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
I still say that lgm could put his time to better use by computing the odds of getting a Royal Fizzbin.
lgm – please go read –
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson082009.html
VDH nails it.
That proves that Letterman is an idiot. What does your defense of the idiot prove?
ECS
I found it insulting. Obviously there are 2 standards with the media. But, we knew that already. I suppose, to him, the Founding Fathers were the Al Qaida of their day. I wonder if he called Americans, “nappy headed”, that would be acceptable too….
How wonderful it is to have you all hanging on my every word.
Personally I think it was in poor taste, but I don’t really give a crap, assuming that he was referring to the older one. And neither did Palin, since she did SNL after they took the same shot in poor taste… and signed on as the running mate of John McCain who took a far worse swipe at Chelsea Clinton.
Bristol Palin is a public figure for doing that bullsh*t abstinence campaign, and given that she did that after saying that abstinence is unrealistic, I really don’t give a crap about someone mocking her.
Well, here are a few problems with your “analysis”:
1) saying someone is using tactics reminscent of, say, Hitler, is not the same as saying Obama IS Hitler. And again, please cite your outrage at the ad hominem being directed at Bush.
2) protesters at town hall meetings are not public figures, just citizens. Denigrating them as terrorists is both inane and foolish. Neither should the children of politicians or other celebrities be used or considered as public figures unless they choose to become so.
If Letterman considers honest citizens to be terrorists, I wonder what his opinion is of the union thugs that are out there beating them up or otherwise intimidating/threatening them?
What is Letterman’s opinion of the New Black Panther “poll watchers” that were arrested then released by AG Holder?
Funny how those people slip by the Letterman rader, but young girls and honest citizens are fair game.
Nice.
If Letterman spoke in the woods, would anybody hear him?
(Narcissus gazes at his reflection in the pool.)
Oh my God. Please. Who cares what ( attempted )joke lettermen said. If I cared, I’d watch his show.
“publicity stunt”! A one line joke (correction, attempted joke)in the middle of a monolog is a publicity stunt. You’re reading the only publicity to come from it.
Shouldn’t we be concerned with more important things, like, How much weight can Carrot Top bench press?
You can call me anything you want. However, when I quote chapter and verse from the proposed legislation and ask a question directly related to that section, I expect a substative answer.
And that, my dear lgm, is where your side is falling on its single point of contact. Your leaders INCLUDING the Dear Leader cannot answer one interpretive question about what is in black and white in THEIR bill.
If it’s so wonderful, then defend its substance.
Letterman = Irrelevant.
SNL never made rape jokes about any of Palin’s daughters.
Were you in a coma doing this whole thing or what?
The MSM and Letterman can unfairly attack townhall participants, but heaven forbid someone should criticize Obama.
I’d rather know if his eyebrows were tattooed on, or if he draws them on every day.
Carrot Top! Ha! Now he’s funny! In carnival freak show kind of way.
You know those pathetic puny old men who have never grown up, and consistently act like hapless ignorant clowns just for attention?
Over here we call them late night talk show hosts.
Careful, corkie. RSS doesn’t like it when people “insult” him online, because he can’t kick their buts through the screen.
‘course, it’s debateable whether or not he can in person….
David Letterman: Ian Anderson’s inspiration for “Agualung”.
Something tasteless and yet completely irrelevant.
Ha ha. Yeah, I noticed that yesterday.
The irony is that he wasn’t insulted at all. Someone merely highlighted his mistake. Was that you?
by Grabthar’s hammer… by the Sons of Warvan… you shall be… avenged.
Yeah, I questioned his ability to research. But I wasn’t the only one to point out his error. We piled on him pretty good about that. I just seem to be the one that drew his ire, and he inferred something about thinking I would get my butt kicked if I did it in person.
I have to agree with you, for most poeple it was an insult, but for him…..?
Never give up, never surrender!
ECS
Yep-that’s the one, and I have been the most vocal about getting our namblaesque lgm banned since his comments have been far worse than any conservative (and a few trolls) have ever been.
GSP
“Dissent is Patriotic-hrc”
A sign of pending health care savings…LGM is back off his meds.
Who watches Letterman? He gets a ton of press for his salty over rated jokes but his sense of humor in the past few years is that of an older guy that has lost a step.
The family uncle that bores everyone at Thanksgiving.
As for the wee wee One, this guy has over played the cool dude demeanor. Let’s never forget he was a copy writer on Wall Street, an opportunistic organizer in a bad neighborhood, a part time lecturer at a college and claimed domestic terrorists as friends. He’s fake cool, an egoist with a phony resume.
2012 cannot come soon enough.
All those blue-haired octogenarians booing at town hall meetings sure trigger images of the screaming Daniel Pearl in my mind. You too Dave?
You know, if our illustrious hostess didn’t tell us what Letterman was up to, I’d never know – and I’m not sure I really care. To me he’s like an a gnat, annoying, but when it comes right down to it, he can’t do any real harm.
Lgm – in case you didnt get it – Letterman’s lame attempt at humor masks his even sicker attempt to draw a moral equivalence. For you to be on this thread and implicitly defend him makes me wonder about your sanity. IF Hannity called Obama Hitler then he shoud be roundly condemned as well. IT DOESN’T LET LETTERMAN OFF THE HOOK.
I have a cousin and friend and a former boss who voted for Obama. I don’t even want to have anything to do with these people now. They will not converse at all about what is going on. This is going to be a big fight to get people to think for themselves.
Wayf – it matters because he has a platform and the moral equivalence he tries to sell as humor – is evil.
Taliban??
Dave, please retire already.
David Letterman is still on the air? I thought he died years ago.
I stopped watching this idiot. I know funny and he ain’t it.
Yesterday you didn’t know that the cars being turned in for CfC had to be destroyed so weren’t available to be sold as used cars. Today you don’t know that Letterman’s joke wasn’t about Bristol Palin, but about her younger 14 year old sister.
You don’t get around much, do you?
FIFY, Nancy-boy.
That would be an assumption on your part.
It might surprise Letterman to know that the majority of people find him irrelevant.
The one thing that I find disgusting about him is that he isn’t man enough to own his remarks. The libs want us to believe his comments were all in jest and about the older daughter rather than the young. But basically, he is a coward, not man enough to stand up for his beliefs. Isn’t that typical of many left minded people?
David who?
I think NBC was involved in a plot to keep Letterman on the air by putting Conad O’Brain on the Tonight Show opposite him.
That hack is still on the air?
People must really love mindless TV.
D.L. another spineless, mindless lefty…would you expect anything more?
Liberalism is a disease and it does kill.
Way back in 1984 or 1985, Bryant Gumble was interviewed and he gave alot of insight into how Letterman works. Mr. Gumble said he had no use for Letterman because Letterman’s humor was an “I’m cool and your’e not” type of humor that revolved around ridiculing peoplewho were not rich or famous. Letterman’s staff once tricked a young woman who was “Miss Petite New York” onto his program and then Letterman ridiculed the young woman and reduced her to tears. Later, Letterman would say that he was “miunderstood” as he would do with Sarah Palin years later. It is his favorite stunt. When he ridicules someone and that gets a bad reaction, Letterman just says that the stupid people just aren’t smart enough to get my ironic style of humor. But then Letterman sucks up to every minor celebrity and actor who shows up on his program. A few months ago, Dave had as a guest one of the children of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis. Letterman sucked up so much and went on at such length about how he he is a personal friend of Bruce Willis that I actually started to feel sorry for Letterman. It was just pathetic for a 62 year old man to have to suck up so visibly to an 18 year old daughter of a Hollywood A lister.
Who would have thunk it, even womanizing racists diss Letterman?
We see in David Littleman an irrelevant old person who, every night, has to try again to stay relevant to a crowd of people half his age.
His life is nothing. He has done nothing meaningful with it.
His greatest fear is that he will still be suffering his existence when people will be asking questions like: David who? And: Why should I care what he said?
The celebrity/beautiful people don’t like us as they are all so more sophisticated and aware. As with all too many of our elected officials and Grand PooBahs of Government they just can not stand the the proletariat in the Flyover making noise unless it is undying adoration.
The Latin term for such Beautiful People, elected officials and Grand PooBahs of Government is Jerk from the root word “dipstick“. Don’t get caught up in the “Old Person” simcoe: I imagine Letterman was a jerk (from the root word “dipstick“) when he was young.
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Old guys
CreakRock!ArizonaNeanderthal said:
My Latin is rusty. I thought is was Beautiful People = Knobs from the root, S— Heels. I apologize for my loss of memory. On the other side, us older folks do rock.