Yesterday dave’s top ten was about the 40th Anniversary of the lunar landing and this is how he honored them with his #1:
Aldrin admitted taking one giant leap onto Armstrong’s wife.
How is that funny and to whom?
Then this tired sexist:
Paula Abdul may not be going back to American Idol, which means President Obama will have to nominate a new judge….If Paula does leave, that means the contestants will have to start sleeping with each other.
Today dave chats about barry’s mom jeans.
Fat joke:
President in tight jean was Al Gore’s campaign slogan.
Dyke joke (old standby – not Sotomayor):
Baggy Dad jeans a look popularized, of course, by Rosie O’Donnell.
Hillary joke:
In all honesty, if we’d have wanted a president who looked good in pants, we would have elected Hillary – you know what I mean?
Sexist:
This is Sarah Palin’s last week in office as Governor of Alaska….she’s going back to her old job as IHOP hostess.
Predictable:
Sunday’s a big day – that’s the day she plans to go out on her porch and wave goodbye to Russia….and she’ll run back inside and jiggle the handle.
Here is what the National Organization of Women (NOW) posted on their website. If you need background – follow the links below to catch it from the beginning.
NOW Analysis: After two nights of “jokes” at the expense of Palin and her family, Letterman tried to explain himself and offer something of an apology. On his June 10 show, Letterman said he was referring to Palin’s 18-year-old daughter, Bristol — not the 14-year-old daughter who actually accompanied Palin on her New York trip. Letterman said “I recognize that these are ugly” jokes. NOW agrees. Comedians in search of a laugh should really know better than to snicker about men having sex with teenage girls (or young women) less than half their age.
The sexualization of girls and women in the media is reaching new lows these days — it is exploitative and has a negative effect on how all women and girls are perceived and how they view themselves. Letterman also joked about what he called Palin’s “slutty flight attendant look” — yet another example of how the media love to focus on a woman politician’s appearance, especially as it relates to her sexual appeal to men. Someone of Letterman’s stature, who appears on what used to be known as “the Tiffany Network” (CBS), should be above wallowing in the juvenile, sexist mud that other comedians and broadcasters seem to prefer.
On that point, it’s important to note that when Chelsea Clinton was 13 years old she was the target of numerous insults based on her appearance. Rush Limbaugh even referred to her as the “White House dog.” NOW hopes that all the conservatives who are fired up about sexism in the media lately will join us in calling out sexism when it is directed at women who aren’t professed conservatives.
Well it’s nice to hear women’s group are finally speaking up. According FOX News — WENDY WRIGHT, whose group, CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA, advocates biblical values and family traditions, called on Letterman to issue a “real” apology, saying his comments were “worse than” merely poor taste. [Follow link below for NOW's statement.]
WENDY WRIGHT:
There’s a saying that out of the heart, the mouth speaks, and Letterman’s statement reveals a pretty ugly reflection of who Letterman may be.
When he said those things, they were thought through. He probably kicked them around with his writers who thought it was appropriate to say these reprehensible things.
The apology was inadequate and it was only about one of the statements. Letterman’s very poor view of women and minor girls is very disturbing, and he certainly needs to do more to change his own attitudes and then prove that his attitude has changed.
He needs to reach out to Sarah Palin. Apparently he feels threatened by the fact that she’s a beautiful conservative woman. He would’ve never said anything like that if Sarah Palin was a liberal. He needs to treat Sarah Palin with the respect and dignity she deserves.
DEBORAH DONOVAN RICE, executive director of STOP IT NOW, an organization aiming to prevent the sexual abuse of children, also denounced Letterman’s jokes and praised Palin’s response as “spot on.”
This wasn’t the usual fun, creative stuff I usually see on Letterman. This really dropped below the bar.
Matt Lauer speaks with Gov Palin. Talks about the natural gas pipeline, which she is in Texas discussing. Then about letterman and then about the future of the GOP.
Summary:
The barry network didn’t have a woman talk with Gov Palin
Lauer thought it was just a “joke” and a “feud”
He stood in defense of Letterman
He said Letterman didn’t say Willow [he talked about the game that Willow was at]
He attacked Gov Palin’s statements
He completely ignored the “joke about Gov Palin being called “slutty” or the kilo of crack comment.
Didn’t bring up: “The toughest part of her visit was keeping Eliot Spitzer away from her daughter.”
How could Letterman connect a 14 y/o (or even 18 y/o) girl with a man who was thrown out of office for having sex with numerous prostitutes? He was basically comparing her to potential prostitute. There was nothing remotely funny about it. And Matt did not mention it, nor did he read the Top Ten slutty comment that Dave “kind of liked” (laugh) or or the kilo of crack or the getting knocked up by A-Rod “joke”.
Didn’t say any of them out loud for the audience who might not have heard them and to make him repeat them in his own voice. Perhaps he wouldn’t have twice asked whether letterman needed to apologize.
If there are any female writers on Letterman’s staff they should be called out.
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speakmymind02 [hand transcribed]
MATT LAUER:
Can we talk about some of the other ways you’ve been in the news lately – and you know about this. There’s been this feud this week with Late Show host, David Letterman–
GOV PALIN: If we must.
MATT:
I know. There’s been a feud this week with David Letterman over some comments he made about your family, some jokes about your daughter in particular. I’m just curious, how did you find out about them? Were you watching or did someone tell you about them?
GOV PALIN:
No, the next day I had an interview with John Ziegler on his new radio show and he asked me about a comment David Letterman had made regarding my appearance as a slutty flight attendant, and my first thought was, ‘Hey, don’t disparage flight attendants. They work hard – we love them. How condemning of them. Don’t say such a thing.’ And then I found out later the comment that was made about statutory rape of my 14 year-old daughter, Willow. Knowing that crossed the line and then others chiming in on other comments that Letterman has made. Quite, I think, a sad commentary on where we are as a culture, as a society to chuckle and laugh through comments such as he had made the other night. I think it’s quite unfortunate.
MATT:
Since David Letterman is not here – let me just say he did not mention Willow by name and then he went on to say he was not referring to your 14 year-old daughter, I do want to read this statement –
GOV PALIN: And Matt –
MATT: Go ahead –
GOV PALIN:
Matt, I would say that you and anybody else are extremely naive to believe that very convenient excuse of David Letterman’s. It took him a couple of days to think of that excuse. Uh…no, he wasn’t talking about my daughter who was there with me at the game – the 14 year-old. He was talking about some other daughter. I think that is a weak excuse and regardless – it was a degrading comment about a young woman. And I would hope that people really start rising up and decide it’s not at all acceptable.
No wonder young girls, especially, have such low self-esteem in America, when we think that it’s funny for a so-called comedian to get away with being able to make such a remark as he did –
MATT: You issued a statement–
GOV PALIN: And think that’s not acceptable.
MATT:
Governor – at the end if your statement you said that:
a joke like this contributes to the atrociously high rate of sexual exploitation of minors by older men who use and abuse others.
Now, it was a joke. It was probably by most standards in bad taste but can you really [incredulous] connect the dots to criminal activity the way you did in that statement?
GOV PALIN:
I connect the dots to a degrading statement made about young women and that does contribute to some acceptance of abuse of young women. Let me read to you something I received in the middle of the night – an email – not from a known feminist, not someone who is an activist, but this I think speaks to this issue. This woman wrote that the women organizations across America are starting to rise up and say enough is enough and that it was a ridiculous comment. And, yeah, it was a so-called joke, but it wasn’t funny.
This email says:
Every male organization civic, religious, etc should rise up and shout in defense of their daighters, their sisters, their mopthers/ We’re in a position to encourage the whole country to take a stand against the disrespect shown to females. No wonder why girsl have such low self-esteem when people laugh at the innuendos and downright crudeness of comments to and about them. Shame on all of us–
MATT: When you-
GOV PALIN:
And haven’t had the nerve to walk out or at least boo when a so-called comedian makes such a comment.
MATT:
When you were asked about if you might appear on David Letterman’s Show to hash all of this out, your spokesperson issued a statement that said:
The Palins have no intention of proving a ratings boost by appearing on his show. Plus it would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman.
[Angry] I would like you to explain what that meant. Are you suggesting that David Letterman can’t be trusted around a 14 year-old girl?
GOV PALIN:
Hey, take it however you want to take it. It is a comment that came from the heart. Willow, no doubt, would want to stay away from David Letterman after he made such a comment. And you can interpret that however you want to interpret it.
MATT:
Well, but is that not perhaps in bad taste, also, Governor, if you’re-if you’re, you know, suggesting that a 62 y/o man–
GOV PALIN: No, it’s not in bad taste.
MATT: –couldn’t be trusted.
GOV PALIN:
No, it’s not in bad taste. Hey maybe he couldn’t be trusted because Willow’s had enough of these types of comments, and maybe Willow would want to react it him in a way that maybe would catch off guard. That’s one way to interpret such a comment.
MATT:
He’s tried to explain this. Does he owe you an apology?
Where did he explain it? Where did he begin to apologize? “He said I think I might regret…but” He doesn’t even regret.
GOV PALIN:
Here’s the problem, Matt – the double standard that has been applied here. One, let’s talk politically, the double standard. First, remember in the campaign, Barack Obama said the family’s off-limits – you don’t talk about my family. And the candidate who must be obeyed – everybody adhered to that and left his family. They haven’t done that on the other side of the ticket, and it has continued to this day. So that’s a political double standard. But here again, the double standard when it comes to acceptance of a celebrity being able to get way with a disparaging comment that does erode a young girl’s self-esteem and does contribute to some of the problems that we have in society.
This so-called humor I don’t find it humorous. I think a lot of Americans don’t think that it’s–
MATT:
And I would agree. I’m not so sure–I’m not sure that you can be so easy say that he’s gotten away with it. I think he will pay some sort of a price for this, Governor, because I do think that a lot of people feel the joke was in extremely bad taste – no matter which daughter of yours he was referring to.
Does he owe you an apology as opposed to just the explanation he’s issued?
GOV PALIN:
He doesn’t have to apologize to me.
I would like to see him apologize to young women across the country for contributing to that–kind of that thread that is throughout our culture that makes it sound like that it’s okay to talk about young girls in that way. Where it’s kind of okay and accepted and funny to talk about statutory rape. It’s not cool. It’s not funny.
MATT: Let me move on.
Then they discussed the future of the GOP, where he tried unsuccessfully to get her to say she was it.
Dave looked awfully embarrassed when he came out but it didn’t last long. I never watch him. Does his whole schtick revolve around sex jokes? I was angry and disgusted when I started watching him from his previous comments and as he went along I realized that he is a pathetic aging comic that relies on sexism and just rude sex jokes to get laughs. His entire monologue – if you found the predictable sex jokes about Paris Hilton and Miss California and the ageism joke about Senator John McCain humorless – there wasn’t anything else funny. Here’s what his monologue consisted of. One wonders if they had a lot more Palin jokes meant to be used that they couldn’t.
Monologue recap…where’s the humor He made fun of Senator McCain – the old ageism that’s guaranteed to get a laugh. Then Broadway being a pedestrian mall and pot holes so big there’s a gift shop…Midtown Tunnel with picnic table and putting green. Then the woman who stuffed her mattress with cash – JOKE: leave off the last ’s’ for stupid. Then Paris Hilton and her sex life – how her most recent boyfriend was just using her for sex. Man who invented salad bar – JOKE: casket had a sneeze shield. Ahmadinejad – looking like a pervert. Not funny – true. And then on to Miss California followed by Gov Palin – no he didn’t apologize- JOKE: she’s taking him out hunting. Not a bad idea. How about a few jokes about a 43 y/o mother of five field dressing an over the hill senior citizen trying to do comedy and coming off as an old pervert who never went on dates? Descending to his level – how she needed a microscope to find his shrunken testicles. And then he finishes with Judge Sotomayor and her broken ankle and cuts to a clip of a lady falling off a rope bridge in a “jungle”. Not funny.
MONOLOGUE:
I’m Dave Letterman making friends wherever I go.
Discusses the switch over to digital from analog.
John McCain is confused. He wanted to know if after the conversion will his TV dinners still work.
Paris Hilton and her breakup with latest boyfriend.
He’s a former minor league baseball player and she apparently is sending him back and calling up a lefthander.
Paris Hilton got rid of the guy because he was just using her for publicity.
He says, no, that’s not true – I was just using her for sex.
Then on to another woman to trash with sex jokes.
Remember Miss California? Got herself in trouble for shooting her mouth off? Gee, I wonder what that’s like. (smiles)
(laughter & applause)
She got fired. She has to turn in her crown, turn in her sash…and she also turns in her implants.
Miss California is a beautiful woman…in fact when Donald Trump had to go in and fire her that thing on his head started panting. That’s how beautiful she is.
What’s his son going to think of granddad’s humor?
On to Gov Palin, who he cannot even refer to by her title.
Well it’s busy week here on the Late Show.
Early in the week I made some jokes that upset Sarah Palin. And I was telling jokes about her family and stuff and she got really upset and I think everything’s fine now. I think everything’s gonna be great because she called today and invited to take me hunting.
(laughter & applause)
She got upset. Not I was wrong…they were ugly…they were borderline and inappropriate sexual jokes about her 14 y/o daughter and she was justified in her anger. They were inappropriate about her 18 y/o daughter as well. It appears CBS is not going to do anything so why should he swallow his pride and admit he was wrong? Wonder what the Women’s Media Center is saying? They said nothing about sexims in the presidential election until the very end when it appeared Micelle Obama was going to get some scrutiny as the new First Lady.
And then on to Judge Sotomayor which had no comedic value.
Ladies and gentlemen. I don’t know where you’re going to find a better show than we have here tonite…if you take me out of the equation, that is.
Then he talks with Denzel Washington. Before the Jonas Brothers perform – he says these interesting comments.
I don’t know if you know anything about television…and well neither do I. On this show — I can’t speak for other shows – nothing is left to chance. There are no accidents – no coincidences on this show.
Kind of admits that he meant what he said and fully intended to say it.
(2-8-09) 60 Minutes - Katie Couric gets the first [Sullenberger] interview, portions of which could air on "The CBS Evening News" this week.
(2-9-09) The Early Show -- Sullenberger talks to Harry Smith and will be joined by family and flight crew: First Officer Jeffrey Skiles, and flight attendants Donna Dent, Doreen Welsh and Sheila Dail .
(2-10-09) Late Show With David Letterman - Sullenberger and flight crew.
Notice no NBC. Matt Lauer is pouting and putting his ego before the heroics of the crew and his audience.
2-1-09 Honored at the Super Bowl - wasn't this enough?
