David Letterman in Sex Scandal (Rush Limbaugh, Reid, 18 year old, March)
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New only in the sense that we are being made aware of these matters. It's been this way all along, only now we hear about in the media. It's always been there despite everyone's wishful thinking that the good old days were all that good.
The political twist to all this is that religious right and the GOP became strange bedfellows back in the 1980s with a major party plank of "family values" and virtue of a biblical nature. For the past ten years we've been uncovering one sex scandal after another in the GOP, to the extent that family values is no longer a valid party plank. For this reason, any sex scandal now makes a big headline splash, no matter if the person is a politician or showbiz type.
America is now getting used to 2 inconvenient truths: men & women have sex & lots of it; and it always has been that way.
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I note that some of the same people who smear rush and hannity defend letterman. Since when do non-politicians like rush and hannity have to answer to anybody? Why did the white house today go on the offensive over a non-politician like hannity?
Chirp chirp.
Lying political commentators are not the same as late-night show comedians. I'm surprised you don't understand that.
How ironic that there are numerous comments about limbaugh's drug use despite the fact that he is no more a politician than letterman.
Not ironic at all.
Limbaugh has condemned illegal drug use. He's spoken against drug legalization. He's called drug use abhorrent. So when it was discovered he was addicted to pain medication, it was considered hypocritical - condemning in others what he himself was doing. (Personally, I hope it was a humbling lesson for him - that people can become addicts without being scum of the earth. I don't hold his addiction against him and hope he got help).
Letterman, on the other hand, wasn't condemning people. He used contemporary topics, things in the news, to make fun of. Whether is was a celebrity's odd behavior, a dumb statement by someone to the press, or in Palin's case, the fact Bristol got pregnant and the mom's a big abstinence-only advocate. I don't think he said Bristol, or Monica Lewinsky, were abhorrent people, or dregs of society. He didn't go on a campaign against unmarried sex. He didn't tell other people how to live their lives. He poked fun. Most people don't like to be the butt of a joke, however, so some people took it harder than others (like Madonna, Richard Simmons, and Sarah Palin).
Now I'm quite sure millions of Americans would agree that Letterman doing this:
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Originally Posted by GOPATTA2D
Letterman admits affairs, claims extortion - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tv_letterman_extortion - broken link)
Guess he better issue an apology to the Gov. of South Carolina.
would be RETARDED. Considering that:
1. The Governor of the State of South Carolina IS A PUBLIC OFFICIAL WHO MISUSED STATE TAXPAYER FUNDS
2. Letterman is a PRIVATE CITIZEN
3. The Governor was MARRIED AND HAD GROWN KIDS
4. Letterman wasn't MARRIED AND HAD NO KIDS
Look.. I don't agree with what Letterman did.. However, this visceral response from the "I love Jesus Ya'll" Republican Right against him is ridiculous.
The only person Letterman needs to apologize to.. is his wife..
I note that some of the same people who smear rush and hannity defend letterman. Since when do non-politicians like rush and hannity have to answer to anybody? Why did the white house today go on the offensive over a non-politician like hannity?
Chirp chirp.
Letterman is a COMEDIAN.
Rush and Hannity have an audience that actually believe that what they say.. is true... when it is quite the opposite.
Wait.. are you saying Rush and Hannity should be viewed as comical?
October 2, 2009 | [SIZE=5]11:03[/SIZE] am
The blackmail scandal is already having a beneficial effect on David Letterman's ratings.
On Thursday, numbers for "Late Show with David Letterman" surged 22% based on preliminary estimates, according to the Nielsen Company. Letterman spent part of the program discussing a recent $2-million blackmail attempt and admitted that he had had affairs with female staffers on his show.
The program scored a 4.4 rating/12 share in household "overnight" numbers, handily beating "Late Show's" 3.6 rating/9 share so far this season. (Complete numbers, including total-viewer figures, will not be available until later.)
However, the Thursday show did not come close to a record. On Sept. 21, with President Obama as the sole guest, "Late Show" delivered a 5.6 rating/14 share. And when Oprah Winfrey appeared Dec. 1, 2005, the program hit an all-time high of a 10.1 rating/24 share.
Well, well. David Letterman moves up to the big leagues. Guess he better issue an apology to the Gov. of South Carolina. He hammered away at him a few months ago.
I guess we agree because I view them both as entertainers and nothing more. Hannity is kinda funny if you ever really listen to him.
Hey I'll take it..
you find them entertaining in the best sense of the word
I find them comical in the worst sense of the word
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