Just What Do You Think You’re Doing, Dave?
AllahPundit has the videos of David Letterman trying to out-Sullivan Andrew Sullivan:
I bet Ashley Herzog’s bummed he didn’t pull this a day earlier, huh? It would have made a sweet addition to her latest column. The best part: Letterman wondering why Slutty Flight Attendant didn’t stop by the show.
I guess if you can’t make ‘em laugh anymore, you might as well make ‘em wince. You missed your calling as a writer for Playboy, Dave.
The vicious, personal, obscene and highly unfunny attack on a young woman who is NOT a public figure should draw serious fire from everyone.
Bristol Palin is not a politician, not a media star, not anything other than an 18-year old young woman being attacked by a multi-millionaire media “star” of a late night television show. Her only “sin” that drew Letterman’s vitriol is that she happens to be related to someone Letterman wanted to humiliate. (Who happens to be another woman, but at this point, who’s counting the misogyny disguised as “cutting edge” humor any more?)
The network deserves letters and phone calls on this.
I will not hold my breath waiting for outrage from the left that claims to champion women.
But at least we now know why Letterman’s production company is called Worldwide Pants.
It takes really, really, really big pants to hold an ass the size of Letterman.
(Yeah, I used that line here at the Crabitat. It needed to be said, despite the comment policy. Sorry for the 2001: A Space Odyssey reference that started the post. I needed a title.)
UPDATE: Jim Treacher just caught this, something I had missed. The daughter Sarah Palin took to the baseball game was NOT Bristol. It was Willow.
Who is 14.
Got that? 14 years old. A little girl. Not a public official, not a public figure.
And Letterman made a “joke” about Sarah Palin’s daughter getting “knocked up” during the game.
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This crossed a line and CBS – and Letterman – need their feet held to the fire on this. CBS needs to apologize and Letterman – an even bigger ass than I originally thought – needs to be fired. Publicly.
UPDATE: Via Memeorandum. Exactly one blog I would consider left-leaning, John Cole’s Balloon Juice, has weighed in thus far on Letterman – calling him a “Cad”. While I think that is pretty mild, I applaud at least the recognition that Letterman crossed a line here.
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Maggie's Farm — June 10, 2009 @ 1:09 pm
By Jim Treacher, June 9, 2009 @ 7:25 pm
Bristol wasn’t at the game. The joke was about Willow. She’s 14.
By Gaius, June 9, 2009 @ 7:44 pm
Yeah, I just linked you on that, in fact.
This is beyond disgusting. This is over the line. This should be over the line for even the left.
Don’t hold your breath on that, though, Jim.
By John Strauss, June 9, 2009 @ 11:38 pm
HEY ! What about A-rod? Did he ever think that he would be exposed as a child molester? Is he a child molester? Mr. Letterman seems to think so and said so on national network TV. Isn’t this slander?.. or just a wardrobe malfunction … big-bucks lawsuit?… or Katie working a double shift to cover Dave’s rehab stint down at WKOP in Cincinnati?
By J.D. Walz, June 10, 2009 @ 7:09 am
Let them joke away. Little by little it chips away at the thin veneer of hypocrisy which the left has always espoused. Political correctness is an alternative universe to begin with, and for the hard left, it is alternative reality, a hallucinigen which pretends that humor is always good when it is done by those whose intentions are (supposedly) known to all. Dave is a good guy, right? After all, you can’t trash a teenager UNLESS you are one of the “good” guys. Sheesh.
By MAS1916, June 10, 2009 @ 8:23 am
And where is Letterman on that paragon of intellect – Joe Biden? Biden’s ability to embarrass the country is beyond compare. Now, the Obama team is trying to keep ol Joe locked away somewhere. Too bad.. an interview with Biden would at least be entertaining (http://firstconservative.com/blog/political-humor/political-humor-what-would-biden-say )
Letterman’s usual diatribes are only funny to the same small group of people that laughed at the same ‘Bush is stupid’ jokes for eight years.
By martian, June 10, 2009 @ 12:43 pm
But you don’t understand. It’s OKAY if a liberal says something like that, especially if he’s talking about a nasty Republican or even a family member of that Republican who is too young to have any political affiliation. It doesn’t matter that the attack was against a woman and her daughter, Republican women don’t really count as women, you know. Why should he be fired for making a joke about an underage child getting pregnant (which would constitute statutory rape, by the way)? She’s only a lowly Republican child – not one who really counts.