AP Somehow Equates Jindal, Perry, and Palin to Sanford Affair
In their latest article analyzing the extramarital affairs of the deplorable Governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, the Associated Press demonstrates once again that the word ‘logic’ has somehow become lost in translation.In a piece entitled, Sanford’s extramarital affair a problem for GOP, the AP gleefully discusses the topic of Sanford’s misdeeds and their potential effect on the Republican…
Chris Matthews on Air America: McCain Hitting 'Idiot Button'; Mocks Pa
MSNBC's Chris Matthews appeared on Montel Williams' Air America radio show on Wednesday to slam John McCain: "I think McCain put his finger on the idiot button." The Hardball host fumed about McCain's criticism of how Barack Obama has handled the response to Iran's disputed election. He also unflatteringly compared the Senator to Sarah Palin. After getting a laugh from the Montel Across America…
Schultz: Palin 'Nothing But Political Slime
David Letterman "jokes" about Sarah Palin's teenage daughter having sex with A-Rod during a baseball game. For good measure he suggests the daughter would be of interest to Eliot Spitzer, infamous for soliciting a prostitute.If Ed Schultz condemned Letterman, I missed it.But let Sarah Palin's acceptance of Letterman's belated apology include thanks to the US military for making freedom of speech…
Bill Maher: Obama's 'Not Even a Liberal;' Blames Media For Lack of Lef
[Update, 9:00 pm EDT: Audio and video clips added.] President Obama isn't nearly liberal enough for HBO's Bill Maher. On Tuesday’s Situation Room on CNN, Maher repeated the focus of his rant on his show last Friday night about how Obama hasn't been adequately aggressive. When Wolf Blitzer asked what he was most disappointed about with President Obama, the HBO host went into full denial mode: “…
Matthews: McCain Pushing Same 'Idiot Button' Palin Pushes
An outraged Chris Matthews scolded John McCain, on Tuesday's "Hardball," for criticizing Obama's stance on Iran's elections as the MSNBC host exclaimed: "The difference between the President, who is being very calm and not jumping up and down, and those on the right who are hitting the idiot button right now. And the idiot button is the one often pushed by Sarah Palin, but this week by John…
Real Time, Real Man: Maher Takes His Shot at Palin
Here we go again. During his opening monologue on ‘Real Time’ Friday night, Bill Maher, couldn’t resist piling on to the David Letterman controversy and the sex jokes made by him earlier in the week regarding Sarah Palin’s daughter. In defending his friend, Maher thought Republicans had over reacted and this was just a case of ‘fake’ outrage. Much ado about nothing. He then went on talking about…
MRC's Bozell: Letterman 'Apology' is Slippery and Clintonian
Last night's "apology" to Gov. Palin by comedian David Letterman "is slippery and Clintonian" but Gov. Sarah Palin "was right to rise above it and accept it," Media Research Center President Brent Bozell noted in a statement released today. While the CBS "Late Show" host issued what many are calling a full and complete apology to Gov. Palin, Mr. Bozell argued it is far from an unequivocal apology…
Open Thread
We'll give you a topic to start off. Was last night's apology by David Letterman sincere? Was it good enough for you or did it strike you too little too late?
Letterman to Make Full Apology Tonight for Joke About Palin's Daughter
“David Letterman is making a full-throated apology for his controversial joke about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter,” TV Week reported a short while ago. “During a taping of tonight's [Monday 6/15] edition of his CBS Late Show, Letterman went much further than his last explanation of the joke, in which he quipped that a baseball player had 'knocked up' Palin's daughter,” Josef Adalian wrote.…
'The View' Attacks Palin’s Letterman Response; Behar Backs Palin…K
The ladies of the ‘View' cannot seem to make up their minds. After Sarah Palin released her response to the tasteless David Letterman joke about her daughter, Joy Behar made an astonishing comment June 15 in support of the Vice-Presidential nominee: "You know, I have to say that I'm on her side this time. Not because I didn't think it was sort of ok because comedians make jokes. But as a parent,…
MRC’s Motley Assesses Media Coverage of Palin/Letterman Row on FNC
Media Research Center Director of Communications Seton Motley appeared Sunday morning on Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters" to discuss comedian David Letterman's inappropriate joke about Gov. Sarah Palin's 14-year-old daughter Willow. Motley noted a marked difference with the now infamous Don Imus joke about the Rutgers women's basketball team. While both Letterman and Imus made…
AP: Could Palin Flap Help Letterman's Ratings
Has America become such a sex-crazed, debauched nation that telling disgusting rape jokes about a political figure's daughter could make you more popular?Such was posed Saturday by the Associated Press's David Bauder in a piece titled "Could Palin flap be Letterman's Hugh Grant?"Strap yourselves in tightly before proceeding, and please do so with caution:
NY Lawmakers Call for Letterman to be Fired Over Palin Remarks
Should CBS fire "Late Show" host David Letterman over his disgusting remarks about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her daughter?A couple of New York state lawmakers believe so.As reported by MyFoxChattanooga.com Saturday: New York State Assembleymen [sic] Gary D. Finch and Brian Kolb have called upon CBS executives to fire David Letterman after the late-night talk show host made jokes about the…
