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Letterman Admits He
Apologized to Palin So
He Could ‘Go Forward
Making Fun of Her’

Newsbusters, by Brent Baker

Original Article

Posted By:JoniTx, 1/7/2013 5:59:31 AM

Sounds like a personal vendetta ahead of genuine regret. CBS Late Show host David Letterman admitted to Oprah Winfrey, in an interview first aired Sunday night, that he backtracked after outrage erupted following a sex joke he told involving Sarah Palin’s then-14-year-old daughter Willow, not because it was highly inappropriate, but primarily so he could continue ridiculing Willow’s mother: I’ll tell you why I apologized. I felt like Sarah Palin was somebody I wanted to continue to be able to make fun of and I felt like if I don’t apologize, if I don’t sincerely express my regret,

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: LAW428, 1/7/2013 6:12:52 AM     (No. 9102561)

Letterman, you´re not even funny anymore; just a sour-faced, leftist, political hack not unlike Bill Maher.


Reply 2 - Posted by: Sfacheem, 1/7/2013 6:18:51 AM     (No. 9102571)

There´s just nothing funny about a fossil.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: leopardtwo, 1/7/2013 6:19:46 AM     (No. 9102573)

Letterman is pond scum.


Reply 4 - Posted by: srhcb, 1/7/2013 6:20:22 AM     (No. 9102576)

"David Letterman admitted to Oprah Winfrey..."

Quit reading.


Reply 5 - Posted by: JoElla Bee, 1/7/2013 6:22:09 AM     (No. 9102579)

Reprehensible, but more honest than some Republicans who attack her.


Reply 6 - Posted by: nina584, 1/7/2013 6:46:05 AM     (No. 9102610)

Pos


Reply 7 - Posted by: tocsin, 1/7/2013 6:46:27 AM     (No. 9102611)

Ditto! #5 on both points


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: NancyD, 1/7/2013 6:54:58 AM     (No. 9102618)

What an idiot. So he can make sick jokes about sex with a 14 year old, apologize so he can continue to attack the 14 year old´s mother?

That is the most demented reasoning I´ve ever read.

THIS is what is wrong with America, and that people tune in to watch this crap.


Reply 9 - Posted by: Keekng, 1/7/2013 7:04:38 AM     (No. 9102627)

Than space in his mouth where a tooth should be makes him look like, Melvin E, Newman, after a lobotomy.


Reply 10 - Posted by: stablemoney, 1/7/2013 7:09:42 AM     (No. 9102631)

Letterman apologized to his wife and CBS so he could go forward chasing the women on the staff.


Reply 11 - Posted by: Spidey, 1/7/2013 7:20:21 AM     (No. 9102650)

Remember when the left lectured us about Chelsea being off limits for jokes? Even worse than this the left really gets it´s jollys off making fun of Trig.


Reply 12 - Posted by: Crosscut, 1/7/2013 7:22:40 AM     (No. 9102654)

Stopped watching Letterman over thirty years ago. I guess I grew up.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Doodah, 1/7/2013 7:24:44 AM     (No. 9102659)

And the Kennedy Center just honored him! Folks, we live in an alternate universe. I wish there was some way people could boycott him and show that trashing Palin is not a good thing! wAIT, there is, we could not buy products that are on his show and NOT watch his show! Wish someone would organize a boycott!!


Reply 14 - Posted by: Keekng, 1/7/2013 7:24:52 AM     (No. 9102660)

Trig is smarter than at least two members of Congress, Hank Johnson, Ga and Sheila Jackson, Tx.


Reply 15 - Posted by: GringoinQuito, 1/7/2013 7:28:42 AM     (No. 9102665)

I am proud to say that I have never watched his show. Watching clips on the news is enough to make my skin crawl. From what I have seen he is an unfunny, no talent, gap toothed btard.


Reply 16 - Posted by: rinohunter, 1/7/2013 7:34:18 AM     (No. 9102669)

This imbecile of a clown doesn´t belong at the Ed Sullvan theater in New York but rather travelling under the big top with Barnum & Bailey introducing the world´s smallest giant and the world´s tallest midget (two averaged size individual of course)!
What a bucked toothed has been that never was. I´m similar to a previous poster in that I stopped watching this loser in about 1987.


Reply 17 - Posted by: dogbreath, 1/7/2013 7:36:56 AM     (No. 9102674)

Sorry, Dave. You are no longer loved or tolerated. Too late, bozo.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: TheMotherCO, 1/7/2013 7:38:22 AM     (No. 9102677)

Totally agree with posters above - of all people to open their yaps when letterman is probably the worst host ever. His morals, his mouth and what comes out of it should be ignored. He is stupid and not funny or witty.


Reply 19 - Posted by: TunnelRat, 1/7/2013 7:40:49 AM     (No. 9102683)

I dunno, I´m with #5 on this one. He was wrong; he knows he was wrong; he apologized.

Not only so, but in his words to Oprah, he makes clear that he felt regret for his mistake in naming the wrong daughter. It´s hard to get a much better apology than that.

Now, is he still a jerk? Sure, but learn to tell the difference, and learn that even a jerk can do something right from time to time.


Reply 20 - Posted by: TruthAndJustice, 1/7/2013 7:45:37 AM     (No. 9102688)

An old puke...Oprah another America- hater


Reply 21 - Posted by: pineledger, 1/7/2013 7:48:50 AM     (No. 9102695)

Jerk.

Not funny.


Reply 22 - Posted by: gator, 1/7/2013 7:54:19 AM     (No. 9102705)

What kind of country have we become where a slime eel like this has a show and has fans?


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: knarfski, 1/7/2013 8:09:04 AM     (No. 9102730)

Letterman also rightly admits he "doesn´t know much."

... and he apologized for having affairs with woman on his staff..

Kind hearts excuse such things, mainly because Letterman plays Left.


Reply 24 - Posted by: Keekng, 1/7/2013 8:09:05 AM     (No. 9102731)

Whatta guy.....NOT!


Reply 25 - Posted by: jackburton, 1/7/2013 8:13:44 AM     (No. 9102737)

What?

Alfred had a brother??


Reply 26 - Posted by: ROLFnader, 1/7/2013 8:17:01 AM     (No. 9102745)

Stopped watching him after the original daytime show. He was kind of funny and edgy then. That was before he became liberal/mean.


Reply 27 - Posted by: O.S. Banker, 1/7/2013 8:25:48 AM     (No. 9102767)

I never really cared for him or his humor. I did like the top 10 list, but that was the work of his writers, not him. With the ´net I can get my top 10 fix occasionally, and not debase myself listening to this cretin.

It is a shame that nobody studies the style and manner of Johnny Carson.


Reply 28 - Posted by: borderboy, 1/7/2013 8:36:12 AM     (No. 9102784)

I am sure his mother is very proud of him.


Reply 29 - Posted by: Adam, 1/7/2013 8:41:13 AM     (No. 9102792)

this is to telegraph to all his fans (aka haters) that he didn´t really apologize. for me it´s a big yawn


Reply 30 - Posted by: Felixcat, 1/7/2013 8:42:16 AM     (No. 9102799)

I look forward to when he starts making jokes about Malia and Sasha....


Reply 31 - Posted by: Lonestar Jack, 1/7/2013 8:42:35 AM     (No. 9102801)

I didn´t realize that the low live was still on the air.


Reply 32 - Posted by: Judith, 1/7/2013 8:57:21 AM     (No. 9102831)

Knowing the difference between right and wrong is a healthy individual. Knowing the difference between getting CAUGHT and not getting caught is the sign of a mental disease....a perfect description for this creep.


Reply 33 - Posted by: donnaclaire, 1/7/2013 9:12:53 AM     (No. 9102857)

Used to love watching David Letterman, even when he was ´second banana´ on late night TV. Now that I know what lies underneath and behind that stupid grin of his, all his witty charm is not there anymore. Haven´t watched him in years - don´t plan to.


Reply 34 - Posted by: melman, 1/7/2013 9:23:13 AM     (No. 9102873)

What a cowpie.


Reply 35 - Posted by: Aria, 1/7/2013 9:37:25 AM     (No. 9102904)

Always thought he was an unfunny jerk but I was wrong. He´ worse. Haven´t watched him in many years anyway - he has all the couth of a disgusting 7th grade boy.


Reply 36 - Posted by: Holeymoses, 1/7/2013 9:37:50 AM     (No. 9102906)

He was a gapped tooth creep backin his hay day. Don´t know what you call a geezer creep.


Reply 37 - Posted by: 3rdjerseyman, 1/7/2013 9:43:52 AM     (No. 9102928)

And Obama gives this pervert Kennedy Center "honors?"


Reply 38 - Posted by: Happy Trails, 1/7/2013 9:45:38 AM     (No. 9102935)

Letterman is a phoney, assbreath, child abuser.


Reply 39 - Posted by: LZK, 1/7/2013 9:54:15 AM     (No. 9102951)

It´s kinda like the abuser -- apologizing "after" he´s done the abusing.....not that he´s sorry -- only that he got caught.

Notice NO ONE "dare" say anything about the obama kids....

Wonder why.......

LZK


Reply 40 - Posted by: LZK, 1/7/2013 9:54:52 AM     (No. 9102954)

You got it -- it would be racist!!

LZK


Reply 41 - Posted by: Me?Opinionated?Nah!, 1/7/2013 9:55:30 AM     (No. 9102955)

The Late Show With David Letterman

The Late David Letterman

(Remember way back when he was likeable and funny? So do I.)


Reply 42 - Posted by: Jebediah, 1/7/2013 9:56:10 AM     (No. 9102956)

Live near the man, or did till he moved to a wildly palatial place further out, and he is a NASTY piece of work, the kind who closes local restaurants and then stints on tips.


Reply 43 - Posted by: joew9, 1/7/2013 10:23:02 AM     (No. 9103024)

#6 I must point out that your syntax is incorrect.
The proper usage should be all uppercase.
POS
See how much better that is?
And an even more appropriate syntax would be:
$^#&*% POS!!


Reply 44 - Posted by: realrep, 1/7/2013 10:35:52 AM     (No. 9103043)

Thanks #11 ´Than space in his mouth where a tooth should be makes him look like, Melvin E, Newman, after a lobotomy.´
and to all the other posters making nasty comments about being gapped-toothed.
I have a birth defect and am missing the two teeth that are beside my front teeth. Orthodontics could move my front teeth together but I would have spaces between my other teeth and alter my perfect bite.
So, family, my overbite and missing teeth make it easier for me to keep my mouth shut when I should be sensitive to the feelings of other people.


Reply 45 - Posted by: formerNYer, 1/7/2013 11:01:56 AM     (No. 9103091)

he´s so 1980s.


Reply 46 - Posted by: RancherJack, 1/7/2013 11:07:21 AM     (No. 9103100)

Letterman is a good argument for psychiatrique oversight


Reply 47 - Posted by: broken01, 1/7/2013 11:36:02 AM     (No. 9103164)

It is truly pathetic when low rent liberal hacks like Letterman are still on the air. This stinkweed has never been funny and his humor equates to that other hack Maher. Both of these gasbags also suffer from Palin Derangement Syndrome. The "jokes" about Palin is one thing but to attack her children especially Trig is beyond disgusting. These same liberal weasels would be up in arms if ever a joke was made about the "beautiful" Clinton spawn or the two Obamanation ewoks. Letterman and the other leftist "comedians all go and fly kites in a thunder storm.


Reply 48 - Posted by: Chiritwo, 1/7/2013 11:36:45 AM     (No. 9103166)

He´s still on?!


Reply 49 - Posted by: Penney, 1/7/2013 1:30:55 PM     (No. 9103379)

Throughout their PC performances, such theatrical leftists routinely target mainstream Americans for scorn, ...albeit with MUCH scripted sarcastic humor, while charging them for tickets to see their shows. WHENEVER accomplished & successful Americans step up and effectively express the principles of Liberty which have always united all Americans the entire radicalized statist dem media targets them for scorn because they represent the American spirit and heart of every one of us who love this country and that for which it stands! The PC leftists thus targeted Gov. Sarah Palin, just as they had others in the past, -Judge Bork, Justice Thomas, Dan Quayle, Pres. Readan, and on & on.

The irrational dem pols/hollyweird/alphabet TV puppets/etc. simply cannot stand the threat to their illusionary BIG Government house-of-cards which is presented by articulate, passionate, cheery & optimistic AMERICANS!!! God bless each and every authentic American patriot!...And help we the people, -the American voters, to discern the socialist counterfeit political scammers among us, for they do seem have the microphone in the arena right now.

´Separation of media & state,´ is needed for they have morphed into, ´OZ!´


Reply 50 - Posted by: xcenturion, 1/7/2013 1:41:31 PM     (No. 9103401)

Turned off Letterman years ago and I encourage others to do the same. Bitter old liberal that remains faithful to his ideology but not his wife!


Reply 51 - Posted by: rsgonner, 1/7/2013 1:48:56 PM     (No. 9103410)

A good old fashioned smack in the nose would do this man a world of good.


Reply 52 - Posted by: globalwarmer, 1/7/2013 2:08:42 PM     (No. 9103451)

Obama, Biden, Feinstein, Reid, Pelosi, etc., offer so much more entertaining comedy than Sarah Palin. What a hack, to be sure.


Reply 53 - Posted by: jubal, 1/7/2013 2:16:10 PM     (No. 9103463)

I went to the online Oxford English Dictionary with over 600,000 words and entered aXX-hole.

It came back with a picture of Letterman.


Reply 54 - Posted by: Layne´s Soapbox, 1/7/2013 2:22:28 PM     (No. 9103476)

Who and who? I love Gov. Palin, but whoever this Dumbman and Oph are, they should be sued for libel and supporting child abuse.


Reply 55 - Posted by: Rafter, 1/7/2013 3:43:07 PM     (No. 9103602)

#56, good one!
You are far more eloquent (and charitable) than I.

Leper-man is the de facto ad hoc leader of a New Brigade...
he´s an A-Number-One A-hole, amateur version.

He´s an acolyte of our Peerless Leader...
The World´s Top Professional Nonstop A-hole.

Turds of a Feather...
mock America together.
May they retire soon to adjoining mansions just before their portion of Hawaii...
disappears under the rising ocean waters of Man Made Global Warming...
Glug! (& take alwhore with you)


Reply 56 - Posted by: Polecat49, 1/7/2013 4:29:52 PM     (No. 9103677)

#21, you sound just like someone who would lend a rope to a lynch mob for your own hanging.


Reply 57 - Posted by: lana720, 1/7/2013 5:46:34 PM     (No. 9103776)

I can´t believe he´s still on the air. Every once in a while, I surf by and see a gruesome figure and go right past. Ick!!!

It´s strange how info about Sarah being badly made fun of is now coming out. Is she being more forceful behind the scenes, as in filing suit?


Reply 58 - Posted by: mominNoCA, 1/7/2013 6:18:58 PM     (No. 9103816)

I think Sarah reminds that obnoxious, buck-toothed geek of the girl he couldn´t have in high school. Now, she´s grown to be the kind of girl who wouldn´t work on his staff because having to flirt with him as a job requirement would turn her stomach.

Darned right it´s personal. He needs therapy.


Reply 59 - Posted by: mominNoCA, 1/7/2013 6:38:04 PM     (No. 9103841)

#47,

My apologies. However, the disgust comes out when people like Letterman make a living attacking others and slap themselves on the back on t.v. for being "witty".

Some people with physical disabilities or differences are seldom mocked because they learn to compensate with friendly personalities and are generally likeable people. This doesn´t mean there aren´t jerks in the world looking to harp on the imperfections of others to boost their sagging, pathetic egos.

Although picking on Letterman´s appearance isn´t nice, lots of people feel justified in doing so because of his attacks against Sarah Palin and her children and his obnoxious treatment of the people in his own life. It´s not really right, but it´s easy to justify it.


Reply 60 - Posted by: skofla, 1/7/2013 6:42:55 PM     (No. 9103847)

I used to like him. I remember when he moved channels. The second or third night, Terry Bradshaw was his guest. Unbeknownst to Terry, Letterman played a clip of one a song Terry sang on some album in the 70´s (a la William Shatner doing "Lucy in the Sky). Terry laughed with embarrassment, and then slapped David´s face. David leapt to his feet, obviously fearful, as Terry kept laughing. TV gold. I can´t find that clip on You Tube.

After David´s heart surgery, he became a bitter, hateful, dried up husk of person. I´ve seen it happen to others after they have bypass surgery. Strange.


Reply 61 - Posted by: Dodge Boy, 1/7/2013 8:25:21 PM     (No. 9103951)

Jerk.



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Amerian Spectator, by Ross Kaminsky    Original Article
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If ponies rode men and grass ate cows, And cats were chased into holes by the mouse … If summer were spring and the other way round, Then all the world would be upside down. Once in a long while, an event evokes one of my favorite historical images: the British Army band, at Lord Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown which sealed the Americans’ revolutionary victory, playing “The World Turned Upside Down.” In this case, the event is the dramatic change over the past two weeks

Seattle to melt buyback guns
into peace bricks

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Associated Press, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: maggie2u- 5/7/2013 1:13:31 PM     Post Reply
The Seattle Police Department collected more than 700 guns during a buyback in January, and now city officials have a plan for what to do with them. Mayor Mike McGinn is expected to announce Tuesday that they´ll be melted into bricks carrying messages of peace, and the bricks will be placed around the city. The buyback program was announced a month after last December´s elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., by city leaders sick of hearing about gun violence. Private sponsors including Amazon.com contributed tens of thousands of dollars

Sanford gets second chance:
On political scrapheap 4 years ago,
ex-governor wins 1st district seat

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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Glenn Smith*    Original Article
Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/8/2013 12:59:28 AM     Post Reply
Former Gov. Mark Sanford completed the trail to political redemption Tuesday with a win over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch to reclaim his old seat in Congress. Sanford defeated Colbert Busch 54 percent to 45 percent, according to full unofficial results. Turnout was heavier than expected, with about 32 percent of the district’s 455,702 registered voters casting ballots. Sanford, who has never lost an election, returns to the 1st District seat he held for three terms from 1995-2001. It’s a remarkable comeback for a man many pundits had written off after his highly publicized affair with an Argentine

A new ‘Dawn’ at ABC:
Newsman becomes newswoman

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New York Post, by Tara Palmeri    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/8/2013 11:26:11 AM     Post Reply
Top ABC News editor Don Ennis walked into his Manhattan office on Friday in a “little black dress” and a brunette bobbed wig and announced to colleagues that from now on, he would like to be known as Dawn. The 49-year-old father of three said he’s splitting from his wife of 17 years to become a woman, or Dawn Stacey Ennis, as she is now known on her governmental records. “Today I begin anew,” she wrote on her Facebook timeline, where she debuted a flirty new profile picture. “Please understand: This is not a game of

Dem Congressman At Benghazi
Hearing: "Death Is A Part Of Life"

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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/8/2013 2:27:15 PM     Post Reply
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, tells Benghazi witnesses that "death is a part of life." CUMMINGS: And, as I listen to your testimony I could not help but think of something that I said very recently -- two years ago now -- in a eulogy for a relative. I said that death is a part of life, so often we have to find a way to make life a part of death. And, I guess the reason why I´m saying that, going back to something Mr. Nordstrom said, he wanted,

Benghazi: Incompetence,
but no cover-up

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National Journal, by Michael Hirsh    Original Article
Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 5/8/2013 6:04:54 PM     Post Reply
There was tragic incompetence, plainly, in the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi attacks, and even possibly some political calculation. It is a record that may well come to haunt Hillary Clinton, the first Secretary of State to lose an ambassador in the field in more than three decades, if she runs for president in 2016. But the obvious Republican effort to turn this inquiry into the Democratic (Obama) version of the Iraq intelligence scandal that has tarred the GOP since the George W. Bush years -- led by that least-credible of champions, the almost-always-wrong Darrell Issa --

The High Cost of Rush: Talker
Bleeds Millions From His Carriers
as Toxic Talk Slumps, Cumulus Seems
Set to Part Ways With Rush Limbaugh

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Daily Beast, by John Avlon    Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/8/2013 5:41:29 AM     Post Reply
“We´ve had a tough go of it this last year,” Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey said Tuesday morning. “The facts are indisputable regarding the impact certain things have had on ad dollars." Dickey told analysts on the earnings call that his radio empire’s revenue was down $5.6 million in the first quarter of 2013 on top of a boatload of debt. Why? Parse the weasel words (“the impact of certain things”) and you’ll see that Dickey is blaming one man for the precipitous decline of right-wing talk radio’s profitability: Rush Limbaugh. El Rushbo is still a giant in the industry,

Fox Analyst Shreds ‘Cowardly,
Duplicitous’ Admin Over Benghazi:
‘Sacrificed American Lives For Politics’

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Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/8/2013 11:47:07 AM     Post Reply
Ahead of the Benghazi hearings in which three witnesses are set to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade invited Fox News analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters to discuss the issue. Peters was unflinching in his criticism of the “cowardly” Obama administration — and the “establishment media” that aids it. “Is this a national security coverup?” Kilmeade asking, explaining that the witness testimony is expected to say the administration was deceitful in its handling of the situation. “The administration, facing the election, went into panic mode, wanted to contain it,”

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Constitution
implies a right to health care, education

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Washington Times, by Douglas Ernst    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/7/2013 8:22:18 PM     Post Reply
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to the House floor Monday night and implied that the right to health care and education exists in the Constitution. Ms. Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, also made the case that the moral authority for such services is also derived from the Declaration of Independence. “One might argue that education and health care fall into those provisions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” she said. Ms. Jackson Lee added, “I think that what should be continuously emphasized is the president’s leadership on one single point: that although health care was not


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