Fire David Letterman Rally today
David Letterman
Activists are keeping pressure on CBS and David Letterman following his recent comments about Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and her daughter. A “Fire David Letterman Rally” is planned for today (6/16) outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in Manhattan, where his show is taped.
The organization also has a website: firedavidletterman.com.
Anna Barone, who worked for Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign, and later for Democrats for McCain, called on CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves to fire Letterman for his “sexist insults” which aired on CBS’ “The Late Show.”
“David Letterman’s disgraceful comments were a violation of standards of common decency. They were as bad as the comments Don Imus made that caused CBS to fire him in 2007. CBS needs to apply the same standards to David Letterman they applied to Don Imus,” said Barone.
For his part, Letterman issued an apology on Monday. "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. 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," Letterman said.
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Gov.palens family is a joke.Her husband called Bristol kid a "mistake"All those "christian"wackos should go live in china.
Now Sarah is threatening to shoot him in the face. Let‘s be clear. The root cause of Letterman being able to make this joke is a) she has trotted out her daughters for her election campaign, and b) she did not manage to teach her daughters to keep their legs together. So, maybe a little self criticism would be in order.
Second, it should be clear to every moron that Letterman was referring to Bristol, the knocked-up older one. Still not very tasteful. In effect, however, Palin is suggesting that she believes that Alex Rodriguez would rape a 14-year old.
How about this: Letterman has apologized already. Now Palin should apologize to Alex Rodrigues for suggesting that he is a pedophile. Then George Steinbrenner apologizes for having bought A-Rod in the first place. Last, NBC apologizes for Conan.
Afterwards, everybody is banned from watching baseball for a year.
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Letterman should have NEVER even used her daughter to get at Palin. It doesn't matter what he said. The fact that said anything shows just how shallow he is.
Why should he? Current day comedians don't have near the talent of the afore-mentioned. Exception, Bill Cosby. While today's comedians depend on vulgarity for laughter, it shows how talentless they really are.
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