Why are the republicans pushing the Letterman thing so hard...rush

They just do not get it. They got pantsed because of limbaugh, who is playing leader of their party. We have had a field day with that pointing it out to the media etc.. and people understand. Limbaugh's whole stick is politics.

Ta da.. Letterman made a joke about the older daughter and a ball player. It was a joke as much about the ballplayer as it was the daughter.. but that is neither here nor there.

What transpired next, was a morphing of the rude joke, by the palins into rape of a 14 year old.. and the injured mother bear scenario..

But most of all, the republicans in their limited understanding of America, think that they now have on us Letterman, the way we are toasting them on rush.

This is going to start to grate on the nerves of even the media who love to tear down the democrats to make themselves look unbiased. (which really grates on my last nerve, since they rarely go after the republicans in the same manner).

what do I win?

See aren't you glad you played!! :hi: yep they have nothing of substance.

that he doesn't attend rehersals. He DEPENDS on the censors to check out stuff like this, and they had time to cut the whole segment, fill in with Paul doing a number, and didn't. People should be fired, not Letterman.

Over one joke? You're kidding, right?

:crazy:

I heard the top 10 that night, and wasn't shocked by these jokes but I thought to myself that I wouldn't have said anything about Palin's kids. They did put the older one out on camera to do some TV, but the 14-year old is the one who went to the game - 14 is Off Limits.

Maybe the censor did not know who went to the game and didn't check to see who did, but the censor's judgment IS his job. Dave did not ad-lib and just put his trust in the writers..

It was a judgment call. How could you ever hire anyone for that kind of job if the moment somebody didn't like a joke they get fired for it?

It was crude but it wasn't all that bad that somebody should get fired over it.

Dave was really strong for Obama during the campaign, and has been since he became President...I appreciate that.

Dave and President Obama are my two favorite people at this time in my life. It's more or less a habit to watch Olberman, Maddow and Dave Letterman almost daily. I love Letterman...

I felt that the President should find some way to show some appreciation to Dave for his extreme loyalty - AT LEAST BEFORE THIS HAPPENED - he's been on Leno and he taped a segment for Colbert. So I was thinking that somehow and some way, the President might do something nice for David.

But since the Palin affair, it would be difficult for Obama to call or visit or send a tape to David without seeming to support the remarks about the Palins, and before long, he'd be accused of David's "crime" too.

I hate what hurts Dave. The censor hurt Dave. It's like a babysitter giving harmful substances to a baby. The censor has a responsibility to protect the star. If he didn't know, he should have known which Palin went to the game. Either daughter would have been tacky - 18 or 14.

The other thing that really irks me is Sarah taking advantage. She is so enjoying playing the wounded hurt angry mother protecting her child and drawing on the gullibility of people who believe that Palin isn't ecstatic about this and the publicity she has gained.

I say fire him/her/them.

attention from being focused on the important issues where they have nothing constructive to add to the debate.

Arkansas!

back when it mattered. Now the neogoofs are giving David a hard time? boo hoo hoo
(why on earth isn't limbah-humbug off the air, at least? how much damage is $50 TRILLION lost from global economy, which limbahhumbug helped happen? Are the big tough guys running the cops/military all cowardly little yahoos? Can't they see the obvious?)

and, of course, the media is playing the game with Palin's marked deck ...

Like any other RW (faux) outrage, they take the story, change the facts to lies, and then scream about the lies ... Letterman heard "Palin and daughter at NY ballgame" ... assumes eldest daughter ... makes joke ... Palin gets the media to call Letterman a pedophile, and the heat is on ...

It's the same reason they thought people would care more about the Weather Underground than their jobs and the war. Same reason they thought we all wanted to become Terry Schiavo's husband.

between GOP (Palin specifically) and right wing extremism acts of terrorism, like the Holocaust Museum shooter, who was a huge fan of Palin's and whose rhetoric was VERY close to that of Palin, Rush, Billo, et al.

Deflect, deny, dazzle with bs.

It's hyperbole on steroids which shows the true desperation and rage they're feeling as they watch their power shrinking to nothing again.

Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber woke up a segment of the American population who are not only truly ignorant but who are bigoted, practically illiterate ('moran' etc.) and at the lower scale of intelligence. They substitute emotions, especially the lower gut reactions of rage and hate for thought. Their passion is great, but it's also blind and meaningless and quite easily manipulated by the degenerate Limbaugh types who fancy themselves as better than everyone but who are just a slightly more coniving version of their followers.

It's the same thing with Dan Rather and the TANG affair.

They had nothing - but they invented a lie and managed to get a major news personality fired over it. And they loved it.

because they don't have anything substantial to say about anything, but they want to stay in the limelight. It would have been smarter to have laid low for a while and rebuilt the party, but they just can't handle being obscure and irrelevant. That's what happens when a party has had too much power for too long, they just can't let it go.

Every day is Opposite Day in Republicanland, and the enormous corporate forces they represent dominate every facet of our lives.

Therefore, they have to play the helpless victims of oppression. When Republican leaders claim x, you can bet on not-x. The only good thing about American fascism is that they've made it easy to spot.

He sees this as an opportunity to raise money and increase his power and influence over the republican base.

to realize how little they have to look forward to. They are losing ground every day, and they are starting to actually understand that.

Their own kids hate them - they are probably at their peak right now for the forseeable future. They thought Obama's election would signal a huge white uprising in the US and they are stunned that it didn't happen. Some of them are on suicide missions to try to start it, some just bitching about everything "liberal" they see in society, including Letterman.

mark

Their holding of talismans is cute. They think they are safe. Idiots.

To them, any news keeps her name in play for a 2012 run.

They're attacking a well-known entertainment figure who's so entrenched and so popular that everything they throw at him is like water off a duck's back.

This, of course, infuriates them, so they throw even more shit.

They think their Social Engineering shit brain washing still works wonders....

No Longer....peeps have smelled the coffee and use Super VISINE

The Pubs went overboard in their arrogance....

Now look....Young Republicans in Universities have drastically declined in Numbers.

Independent numbers going up while Pubs going down...

Its a Whig Party coming soon to your city....