The Limbaugh reel is just to make sure people get angry :) It kind of jumps into the story like a jack in thebox - "Boo!"

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Letterman, Maher, Garafola, and countless others spew such hatred for the last eight years ... Bush is a murderer, Palin is a slut, we're all racists ....

... but they have the nerve to blame these shootings on conservatives on the excuse that we're creating a climate of hate?

Mirror, please! Look in the mirror!

You can't take cheap shots at political opponents and then tell the opponents that they have to tone down their rhetoric.

I've about had it with this crap.

Who has such an awful life that they sit still to watch Letterman?

Liberalism is a convenient lie.

NOW has finally condemned Letterman.

"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......

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.  -Bart Simpson

Was Dr Phil making a veiled reference to Letterman when he said "the body's grown but the brain is not" ? Freudian Slip maybe?

 Didn't Dave fater an out of wedlock child?  What a moron.

This larger point is that David Letterman and CBS are cowards.  Letterman would never joke about Sarah Palin being a slut or Willow Palin being raped in front of Sarah's husband and fourteen-year-old Willow's father, Todd Palin.  Todd Palin would mop the floor with him and put him out of his creepy misery.  He would also give CBS a shot at some decent late night ratings. But I digress.

This is exactly what is wrong with the wacko loony left.  They think these jokes are okay, because their jokes.  See Jon Stewart or Bill Maher.  But if someone made a joke about the much less than attractive woman Letterman married being a slut or his child getting raped by a pro athlete, there would be outrage.  And rightly so.  Only liberals can get away with this sort of vitriol and have it excused as humor.  Ask Carrie Prejean.

Will CBS fire him as they should?  No.  You see Letterman is fortunate enough to work at a network where being a left wing nut is enough.  If he worked for any network where ratings mattered he'd have been gone long ago.  Katie Couric has the lowest ratings in the history of ratings.  Literally.  Enough said.

Dr Phil really nailed it when he said “Wasn't Barack's mother like 18 when he was born?”

 I realize there is a double standard, but everything they say about the Palins is true about Dear Leader and his Mom.  Her birthday is November 29th and he was born just over 8 months after she turned 18.  If it was a full 9 month pregnancy, she would have been 17 when she got pregnant.  This would also mean that his dad is guilty of statutory rape if this happened in the US.  Of course, without a birth certificate and the only witness's to his birth saying that he was born in Kenya, this might be totally legal in Dear Leaders birth country.

The politics of identity is killing this country. The problem is not conservatives, it is liberals. The liberals' divide and conquer strategy has paid dividends, but their hypocrisy is starting to show.

The Letterman joke is the latest example that the left instrumentally wields sexism against their enemies, but do not apply the same rules to themselves. The double standard of the left is transparent; thus the hasty retorts from liberals at conservative protestation that we all need "to grow up" and move past what is argued to be a comedian's indiscretion.  If Michelle Obama and her daughters were attacked in the same manner as Sarah Palin and her daughter, the left would not be accepting conservatives' advice to "grow up" and "move on."

The left is ultimately unable to live according to their own rules, and this is by design.  They know they cannot live by them, and they don't even try.  Instead, they use the Alinsky tactic of demanding others live by impossible rules and then make them feel guilty if and when they fail. Liberals brandish political correctness against conservatives routinely, and absolve themselves when it comes to making jokes about whites, women, blacks and Latinos if they happen to be conservative.  Liberals can also be quite vicious when joking about gays and Jews, regardless of their ideological affiliation.

The accumulation of millions of petty jabs taken at conservatives, such as Letterman's, and small but accepted distortions of the truth by liberals is slowly bringing this country toward "crisis."  Crisis promotes the demand for control; this is a prime mover behind
the media's incessant pitting of one identity group against another. Fostering a "crisis" was obviously not the goal behind the joke Letterman made of Palin (stoking fading ratings was), but such divisive angry attacks taken at conservatives' expense have become such standard practice on the left that liberals may not even be aware that they are furthering "the cause."

Jokes by "comedians" like David Letterman, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are nestled in a cocoon of systematic and widespread left-biased news coverage, so they appear to many to be "mainstream" and acceptable. Every "newsworthy" event, such as the recent shooting at the Holocaust museum, is portrayed as committed by a"right-wing extremist."  No mention that the shooter was an anti-Semite by the mainstream media in their headlines and leads; instead he was a "racist."  This narrative plays to the advantage of Obama, so he can again claim victimization.  Other victims, such as the military recruiter who was shot by a Muslim extremist, is forgotten about by the media nearly as soon as the story breaks.  

David Letterman's jokes of Sarah Palin would also be soon forgotten if outlets like Fox News did not press the issue. Fighting over such seemingly small points can pay off if conservatives display tenacity when liberals feign to give up on a "small" issue.  The National Organization of Women even noticed the degrading nature of Letterman's jokes and has condemned them.  Moral consistency for both conservatives and liberals would be some form of progress.

The hypocrisy that the left displays when they play their mind games with conservatives must not go unchallenged; and conservatives must not be silenced by the predictable ridicule they will provoke from liberals when they call their bluff.

David Letterman has never been funny.  I stopped watching him when he called Bill O'Reilly an "asshole" on camera.  No talk show host should treat guests like he does.  His making jokes about the statutory rape of a young girl just do not surprize me, as he has always gone for an attempt at a cheap laugh.  I seem to recall a radio personallity that lost his job over offensive comments like this.  The same should happen to Letterman.  AND he should give a full, public apology BEFORE he is taken off the air.

I am wondering if alex R has come out with a statement, not only did letterman, stick it to the palins, he also basically said alex is a pedofile child rapist, just sayin

It's always sad to see someone have to leave their job kicking and screaming. Carson and many others had the good sense to retire at the top of his game. Letterman has no class and sooner or later he will be fired by CBS and leave in disgrace. Why does he stay? He has more money than he can ever spend and he has family he can devote himself to.

It's a combination of anti-right bias, sexism, and tastelessness that has frayed a lot of people's last nerve.  He ought to come up with much better apology because the last one didn't cut it.

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