They can dish it out…

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1. Who the hell is the Letterman guy, anyway?
   I’ve been watching the much more funny Craig Ferguson for quite a while now. He is actually an entertainer that makes me laugh.
   If I recall, it was when Letterman and Matt Damon talked eachother into bursting a blood-vessel together last fall that caused me to “flick it.”
   Unreal… and scary, these Hollywood types.
   I hope reading books makes a comeback.

2. [quote]I still can’t believe some of you actually think your watching journalists, present you the news!!! Most of them haven’t been for at least 6 or 7 years.[/quote]
   Carl,
   If CBS needs cheap shot artists in order to survive… their loss…The only Madison Ave Buy-in will be from “Preparation H” , or the likes.
   There was a time when letterman would have found his teeth in a bag…and his sorry ass in the unemployment line. Now he & NBC/CNBC…(wait he came from NBC) are following in the path of the Morton Downey Show (from the Left)….. Where does the Downey audience go next?

3. This is absolutely unbelievable. Matt Lauer takes Palin to task for saying that Willow should be kept away from David Letterman!
   Even the Canadian media has standards better than this.

4. I hear Alaska has a seccessionist movement.
   After Western Canada declares independence from the East, to prevent us from 100% embracing Marxism… I suggest we ask Alaska if they would like to join us – and perhaps Hawaii too!
   I kinda like the Palin’s. They could pass for any number of neighbours I’ve had when I lived up North.
   Ya gotta love a woman who can shoot and gut a moose! I’ll bet she could whale on Letterman too. Todd needs only to stand by laughing while sipping on a beer. (Preferably a Canadian brand, eh?)
   http://www.republicofwesterncanada.com/index2.html

5. Sam Steele – You know why American Beer is like sex in a canoe?
   They’re both f*&%^#g close to water.

6. Black Mamba, Sam Steele was talking about American moose not bear.

7. I remember some pretty bad stuff, maybe they were meant as jokes, being said about Chelsea Clinton. This is the not the first time a politicians children have taken flak people. But hopefully it is the last.

8. Ha ha…..Soccer Mom used the words “professional” and “journalist” next to each other. There are damned few “professional journalists”. The majority of them are journalists simply because that is the only faculty they could get into in college.

9. Please if you’re a flight attendant, wipe your “slutty” ass with Dave’s on flight meal before pushing the cart.
   He’ll know “funny” when he tastes it.

10. Letterman did get married last year. He almost missed the wedding due to rutted roads from his ranch in Montana. His truck/car got stuck. The story was all over at the time.

11. Sam Steele
    Alberta, home of Ed the Red. In a one-party state, what’ya gonna do when the pemier is a liberal in tory clothing? It doesn’t just happen in Ontario my boy.

12. I second John Luft’s comment. Loudly!
    Nowadays, how can most any “journalist” legitimately use phrases like:
    – “journalistic ethics”
    – “professional journalist”
    – “unbiased journalism”
    The bias is SO THICK you’d practically need the Jaws of Life to spread it on some toast!
    Thanks to Matt, I was able to watch Michael Coren’s show last night. Black Beret Dude (Chris something?) made a comment to Rick McGinnis that at some point in the near future there would be a huge backlash against Barack Obama by the MSM. I just don’t see.
    Almost every single “journalist” (read “Democrat PR Hack”), be they male or female, has a specially adorned pair of “Barack Obama Kneepads” on 24/7 and is giving their Messiah the “royal” treatment every chance they get!
    The irony is, what I’ve written above is not irony.

13. Letterman did get married last year. He almost missed the wedding due to rutted roads from his ranch in Montana. His truck/car got stuck. The story was all over at the time.
    Slutty flight attendants and rutty roads; ah the sophistication and depth of celebrity coverage.

14. Jason,
    The way I figure it, they’re all a bunch of losers.
    But with our 1.5/couple birthrate, a debt through the roof and growing – even faster if the coalition of traitors has their way – and amortized over something like 230years – not to mention an unfunded pension liability of over $2 Trillion… well… we are screeeeewwwwwwed! Capitalism will die, or we will have to take in a bazillion 3rd world immigrants, until Canada is no longer Canada anymore. (All along Marxist guidelines, eh?) This is on the horizon – around the year 2030. If you are 40 or younger, odds are Canada will be nothing like it is today by the time you die. If you have children… well, what does their future look like?
    And, quite frankly, we don’t have the time to “undo Trudeaupia.” It took 40 years to screw us, but we have far less time to “unscrew us” because of our demographic problem. The leftards will fight us every step of the way.
    The easiest solution is to just separate, make a strong constitution, embrace a republican form of limited government, start fresh without Trudeaupian nonsense bogging us down… and then open up our borders to Anglophones from around the world and who share our values, and who are being attacked everywhere, and tell them to come here – bring you capital and your know-how. Voila, birthrate problem solved… Western Civilization and freedom survives, right here in Western Canada.
    There’s no other place on earth that can do it like we can.
    It’s a disgrace what Trudeau the Treacherous Traitor, and his subsequent Liberal Lackies, did to us.
    Let’s take Canada back while we still can.
    (Ontario people are Anglophones too! Just leave Jack Layton behind!)

15. “But it’s A-okay for Limbaugh to call Chelsea Clinton a “dog” and for McCain to call her “ugly”!”
    Again bleet misses the point.
    Were “professional” journalists surprised that Chelsea could be offended by such remarks? Were they circling the wagons around Limbaugh and McCain?
    What I found extremely funny about this clip is how Contessa completely deflects the question of how she felt after being labeled “slutty”, like it was nothing and yet she becomes offended when John attacks the class of those working for the network.

16. Hater = anyone who calls a leftist name-caller a name.

17. For me, the funniest line was Contessa’s reference to her colleagues and presumably to herself as “serious journalists”.
    The relentless hatred of conservatives, which the MSM doesn’t even bother to hide anymore, didn’t surprise me. What I found most disturbing were the comments that appeared under the video. Increasingly, America is becoming a cesspool in which profanity is considered an effective substitute for reasoned argument. I think we are witnessing the results of 40 years of steadily diluted education, in which teachers take emotion more seriously than either facts or reason and think that praise bestowed indiscriminately, rather than authentic achievement, engenders self-esteem. This, more than the momentary (I hope) reign of BO and his merry followers, endangers America’s future.

18. It wasn’t OK for Limbaugh to make fun of Chelsea, and he profusely and correctly apologized way back 15 years ago when it happened. Letterman doesn’t have to apologize because he is a liberal and Palin is the evil red-neck devil she beast making her 14 yr old daughter fair game. It is so clear, people, I can’t understand why you people have a problem with it.

19. Don’t worry, in behalf of all teenage girls, female public figures and hard working women like flight attendants will soon be vindicated by the ladies on The View……..NOT!…Those vicious feminist mag pies are a total disgrace for all women the world over.

20. If Contessa Brewer is that (expletive) stupid, then she shouldn’t be on television. Gee- do women like being sexualised and made fun of? Let me think about that for a minute. NO!
    I watched that interview and, frankly, Contessa Brewer reminded me of the female border guards on the US/Canada border. Given a uniform and a badge, they must be extra officious to show everyone how tough they are. Just like Brewer. Pathetic.

21. So she likes to think of herself as “common sense”? That’s just one more hallucination in an apparent never ending series. Her Johari window needs a significant tune up.
    What a dunce.

22. Palin has been making mincemeat of Letterman… even on the state-controlled media. It’s high time that Letterman gets it in spades. He has been crudely disparaging people on the right for many years.
    You know, a lot of people think they’re tough until they run into someone who really is tough.
    Something no one has mentioned is that Palin was invited to the ball game by Mayor Guiliani. We can conjecture that Guiliani may have even invited Todd and Sarah to New York in order to conspicuously demonstrate their association of friendship and mutual respect.
    Giuliani is enormously admired throughout all sides of the political spectrum in New York. And this conspicuous display of friendship with the acknowledged king of New York says something about Sarah’s place in the pecking order.
    The left is trying to disparage her in every way they can simply because they understand that she has conservatives rallying around her like no one else. Grassroots conservatism is very excited about her as a possible presidential candidate, and the left is afraid of what would happen should she get into a position of presidential candidate.
    Personally, what I would have enjoyed seeing is Todd (who you will recall won the Iditarod 5 times, once with a broken arm) invite Letterman to come up and allow him to show Letterman the Alaskan wilderness. And then when they were alone, Letterman could look him in the eye and tell him that joke, and then see what happens. I would find that quite fulfilling.

23. That’s some pretty funny stuff there,Letterman.How about this one,What’s the difference between Letterman’s wife and a Rolls Royce? Not everyone has been in a Rolls Royce.Every time Letterman smiles I suddenly get the urge to kick a field goal,sure is fun making fun of one’s appearance. Although I can’t bring myself to make fun of his child,I can only imagine what would have happened if it were Obama’s kids Letterman had smeared,he’d be fired yesterday.

24. RHTT @2:04PM – “…the ladies on The View… those vicious feminist mag pies are a total disgrace for women the world over”.
    No they’re not. I’m not responsible for that gaggle of shrill dipsticks, never mind some woman in Zambia who doesn’t own a TV.
    I’m sure you weren’t trying to be insulting (to some 52% of the world’s population), but nevertheless… how can a girl not object to a thing like that?

25. And who names their daughter Contessa, anyway?

26. “The left is trying to disparage her in every way they can simply because they understand that she has conservatives rallying around her like no one else.” — Greg
    I agree. When Palin gave that speech at the convention, it was one of those moments you’ll never forget, one of those rare live moments where it’s undeniable that something historic is happening, that a real force has been unleashed. You just had to know at that point that the opposing forces would go to any lengths to disparage her, and to then portray their own vicious narrative as an “everybody-knows” done-deal.
    The assumption — presumption — of so much of the media that they’re deciding what the national narrative is for “the people” is going to turn around and bite them in the ass at some point. I think it’s inevitable. Just look at the misshapen, moving goalposts of MSNBC’s Ziegler: she insisted on reiterating Letterman’s insult and asking a rhetorical weapon-question, and insisted that this be the topic; when Ziegler said, in effect, “Yeah, okay, have at it,” she said — and try to parse the logic of — this:
    “So in this case, (the topic is) comedy, so talk about (Palin’s) real itinerary in New York — it’s kinda serious, not really funny — why did she take such offense — she called him pathetic, so she obviously took offense — why was she so offended by David Letterman?”
    Huh?
    Inanity, contempt, partisan hatred and and non-accountability. I think more people can see through that than Ms. Brewer and the MSNBC producers and execs — clearly — assume.

27. [quote]Something no one has mentioned is that Palin was invited to the ball game by Mayor Guiliani. [/quote]
    So letterman is pissed at NY Baseball… I guess he doesn’t want anyone to know that Derek Jetter is 50/50, but has yet to play the race card…maybe Palin was just showing her daughter that all 50/50’s are not fake.
    Do you find it odd that GE is advertising medical systems… while using MSNBC and Keith Oberman as the face of corporate ethical values… There was a time that such values, displayed by GE, would disqualify them for a Gov’t RFQ (request for quotation)
    Jack Welsh stood for honesty & integrity and built GE to reflect his values at every level. The present CEO is a skid mark on white porcelain.. and it shows

28. As a matter of fact, Limbaugh apologizes for that Chelsea thing again each time it comes up, and says again that he shouldn’t have done it, even though it was 15 years ago. So if we are comparing Letterman to Limbaugh, why is Letterman held to a lower standard?

29. EBD and Slap Shot,
    here’s another interesting plausibility.
    It’s very possible that Mayor Giuliani (thought to be a shoo-in for governor next election) and his staff are helping the Palins craft responses to Letterman.
    I have never seen someone take a slam against them and turn it around so quickly to a moral force based on principle.
    Giuliani’s familiarity with New York politics (remember, he was busting guys like John Gotti and other high-level mobsters who would kill you in the blink of an eye and refused personal bodyguards when he was a prosecutor) would make him very instrumental in figuring out how to escalate Sarah’s position into a national call for children’s protection.

30. What worries me is the constant inability for the MSM to tell fantasy from truth. The bias is so open their now cutting people off. It become like children who don’t like what they haer. The Children just put their fingers in ears & yell not to listen to anything that might upset them. So to the MSM. It no longer even hides its ugly side. Nor its hates, now that they have a messiah.
    Expect more christian bashing with Conservatives equated as worse than terrorists.
    JMO

31. The joke, classless as it may have been, was clearly about Palin’s 18 year old daughter – the one who actually was ‘knocked up’ out of wedlock, despite her mom’s stance of ‘abstinence only’ for everyone else’s daughter…
    The joke simply makes no sense in the way Palin & her surrogates are disingenuously trying to portray it.
    But one might wonder why Palin, even today, subjects her 14 year old daughter to further unsavory attention through her dishonest misrepresentation of Letterman’s joke – simply in order to score political points for herself.
    To continually serve up the falsehood that a latenite comedian was advocating the rape of her 14 year old daughter only to massage her ‘false outrage of the day’ constituency, and to keep her name in the press – well, that’s pretty disgraceful parenting, isn’t it?
    Naturally, you-all are glad to be accessories to it.
    But have at it! The false outrage you guys dishonestly tried to get happening through your disingenuous misrepresentation of the “lipstick on a pig” comment sure worked for ya didn’t it? Brought McCain/Palin into the White House in a landslide! ;P

32. Being offended by a joke made on national television about your 14-year old daughter being knocked-up by a baseball player in the middle of Yankee Stadium is “disgusting parenting”, bleet? And a mother who expresses her anger and disgust that such a joke would be made is “(subjecting her) daughter to…unsavory attention?”
    You’ve got it all backwards. Give your head a good shake.

33. Greg and EBD:
    Agreed. It’s extremely rare for me to watch political events, speeches, etc. as I much prefer the written word, but I had heard good things about Sarah Palin so decided to tune into the convention. To say I was not disappointed is certainly an understatement.
    She had her stumbles during the campaign (which were obviously amplified by a hostile press) but if she hasn’t been completely disgusted by the political process and popular culture that continue to put her and her family through the wringer, she will emerge as a powerful candidate. And she doesn’t strike me as someone who backs down from a fight.
    The hostile reaction to her during the campaign was disgusting enough, and I won’t even bother commenting on Letterman’s asshattery, but these experiences will turn her into one hell of a candidate.

34. Bleet, how should the joke be explained to you?
    It was a cheap, terrible crack and it wouldn’t be tolerated if it was about anyone else.

35. Can’t read, EDB?
    The joke makes no sense unless it’s about the 18 year old daughter, as has been explained.
    Whatever you think of Letterman, he didn’t get where he is telling jokes that make no sense.
    Palin chooses to misrepresent that it’s about her 14 yr old daughter to score political points, and for publicity. She’s choosing to subject her daughter to this tawdry attention for her own gain. That’s sick.
    In addition: she had the moral upper hand for a split second, when Letterman admitted his joke was ugly and that he shouldn’t have made it in any circumstance. But then she blew it with her snarky smear of Letterman as a pedophile.
    That’s exactly the type of low-minded stupidity which disqualifies her from ascending any higher in the political spectrum.

36. Bleet, you’ve proven you’re an idiot. Not that anyone here was in any doubt but it’s good to see it confirmed in black and white.

37. Miss Contessa: Naked News is hiring. They’re more your speed.

38. Some up here have been trying to suggest that the outrage over Letterman’s comments should be minimized.
    The basis for this astounding idea is that Letterman didn’t really mean that a 14 year old girl should be raped, but rather an 18 year old girl should be raped.
    Furthermore, the 18 year old girl is already a mother, and therefore, presumably it is not wrong to joke that young mothers should be raped.
    When this is the kind of moral equivalency that is supposed to elevate leftist opinion over the right’s, one can only shudder at the lack of humanity and ideological blindness this suggests.

39. Bleet, you’re obviously stupid. The joke was that AT THE GAME THEY WERE ATTENDING IN NEW YORK THAT EVENING, Palin’s daughter was sexually-molested by Alex Rodriguez. The only daughter that was at the game was Willow, the 14 year old.
    Duh! Brainless twit.
    Explain to me exactly how we could misinterpret that.

40. The host is on a network that gets fewer viewers than the NHL does in the US. Although, one has to ask what the response would be if instead of Palin, it was Obama. Although sooner or later the Obama jokes will come, as they did with Clinton, because the short attention span theatre media will become bored with Barack.

41. David letterman. Welcome to the new Peewee’s Playhouse with you as the new incarnation of Peewee Herman. You just tanked your own livelihood. Spite will do that. Besides you can only hide some things for a while. Eventually ones own perfidity will catch you up. That he thought such a joke was funny, shows his real mind & heart.
    JMO

42. Palin attended the game, and was seen on camera, with her 14-year old daughter; David Letterman joked about the daughter being knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.
    Bleet: “The joke makes no sense unless it’s about the 18 year old daughter….Palin chooses to misrepresent that it’s about her 14 year old daughter.”
    Unhhh.

43. Sorry bleet it’s you that has the comprehension problem.
    The joke was about Willow not Bristol.
    Letterman may have intended the joke to be about Bristol and may have mistaken Willow for Bristol, but he clearly references the daughter in New York. In both the Spitzer and A-Rod bits.

44. I agree with Sam Steele except for one point. PET isn’t the “bad guy” he’s just the figure head. The “bad guy(s)” are the citizens that went along with the rape of western Canada and western values.

45. Greg in dallas–
    Why would you presume that the joke about the 18 year old daughter would be about her being “raped”?
    Was she “raped” when she had the unwed sex that produced her child? No. It was consensual. Letterman’s joke was about an “abstinence only”-preacher’s daughter not heeding the ‘abstinence only’ teachings of her mother.
    Then again, her mother didn’t heed those teaching either – her first child was born eight months after her marriage. Cheers.

46. “Why would you presume that the joke about the 18-year old daughter would be about her being raped.”
    Sorry bleet, but it’s futile; there’s clearly a couple of wires in your head that aren’t quite connecting. Palin attended the game, and was seen on camera, with her *14-year old* daughter. Do you understand that? Letterman made a joke about the daughter Palin took to the game — her 14-year old daughter.
    Sex with a 14-year old is statutory rape. No presumption required.

47. A good interview of Sarah Palin by John Zeigler. She waffles a bit when Zeigler presses her on the meaning behind her “keep Willow away from Letterman” comment. I’m sure there’s a lot of parents who probably thought the same thing.
    http://howobamagotelected.com/sarah-palin-interview.asp

48. bleety is on a tear eh?
    Tell me bleety baby, would it be ok if I said Hillary Clinton looked like an armadillo’s butt and made reference to Chelsea being knocked up by some sports player at some game Hillary and Chelsea attended?
    bleety has no answer, because bleety exists only to vex and annoy.
    You are failing, bleety. I am amused by your poo flinging antics. Please, continue!

49. CUT THE MIC!!!!! PLEASE !!!!!
    HAR!

50. bleet are we to assume that you are a 60 year old virgin? Your obsession with “jokes” about young girls getting pregnant would indicate you are bitter and jealous.
    Don’t worry bleet not all of us are fortunate enough to pass along our genes.