Letterman: a Hall of Shamer or a Clown Manifesting his Shadow

Interesting opinion piece, QueensHart! Thank you for posting!

I think this event is a permutation of the the policy of "political correctness" and the substitution of absolute morals and ethics with situational/conditional morals and ethics.

Like the punishment of a beauty contestant for not answering in a political correct manner that that venue wanted, Ms. Palin is being punished for opposing the Democrats.(by the way I happen to be ambivalent toward gay marriage and for Pro-Choice).  Political Correctness is a disgusting manifestation of suppression of freedom of speech and freedom of thought. What a sad state of affairs when you want to suppress thought and speech for the benefit of whatever political party you are aligned with.

In reference to absolute vs situational/conditions morals and ethics, I mean the following;  If something is amoral or unethical, such as an affair; how we judge the perpetrator should not be dependent on whether they share our political views/affiliations or not.  If it is wrong it is wrong, period. And, in the case of the law, it should take the same amount of evidence to convict a person in court or the court of public opinion, whether or not they share our political views/affiliations or not.

I myself was criticized by the staff of NowPublic for referring to someone as a party person, yet I see no outcry from those same people of them over David Letterman's reprehensible statements. (And I like a lot of Letterman's humor) Let me reemphasize that I was taken to task for telling somebody it was morally wrong for them to be more loyal to their political party than their own principals and/or their own country, yet I have yet to see where they have posted editorial content chastising David Letterman.  And in short, this entire Letterman episode is a reflection of certain persons placing party over principle and country.

I don't think this incident is as big a flap as some would make it, but others sharing Mr. Letterman's political inclinations, make it an even bigger flap when they do not politely pull him to the side and chastise him; indeed they should ask him to apologize for a comment Ms Palin realistically is entitled to take offense to. I do not know how any woman cannot not think her principals regarding the status of women has not been violated. Do not your personal principals of maintaining women's status as "equals" and your desires not to be seen as "sex objects" not trump any political affiliations and considerations.

If not, I weep for all of American womanhood.   Still further, if not, it is then apparebt that you place party loyalty over country and your own principles. Or am I misunderstanding this "women as equals"  principle?

What a sad state of affairs when any American women will submit to such cuckholding as a form of loyalty to any Political Party or Political Affiliation.

Those were my thoughts.

Respectfully,

Don Mashak
The Cyncial Patriot

Guest “Dr. Phil” on Wednesday night chastised David Letterman's misunderstanding of teenage sexual behavior and parental influence after Letterman sarcastically complained that if a President McCain “drops dead...don't you want your President to have had the presence of mind to have chatted to her teenaged kids for five minutes about birth control?” (Letterman delivered the same belittling joke the night before too.)

Referring to Letterman's almost five-year-old son, daytime TV host Phil McGraw, aka “Dr. Phil,” informed Letterman:

Let me tell you something, new dad. If you are under the misapprehension that when Harry is 17 that you are going to have even a remote influence on what he decides in the back seat of a Chevy on a Saturday night -- I don't think old Dave's going to be popping in his mind at that point. It's not a 15-minute conversation. It's a dialogue that you need to have starting when he's about eight or nine.
Undeterred from his contempt for Sarah Palin, Letterman asked: “Then why didn't they have the dialogue?” McGraw suggested: “Maybe they did. But when children get that age, at 17 -- see, here's the thing. The body's grown but the brain is not.” Letterman soon sneered: “They don't sell Trojans in Alaska? Come on,” prompting McGraw to point out: “Wasn't Barack's mother like 18 when he was born?” Indeed she was.

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Using Dr. Phil to let Letterman be informed as to the nature of this thing called, "Free Will", was a good choice, QH.

She won't have another baby. Her behavior was normal. Even one-third of Puritan girls were pregnant at the time of marriage.

The brain's reason center doesn't reach the emotional centers until the person is about 30 years old, the age that Greeks considered you an adult.

That is exactly what Dr. Phil is talking about.

No one said that there were no Trojans for sale in Alaska. I do recommend abstinence but I recommend responsibility even more. If not abstaining, then use the condom.

Letterman was out of line and the National Organization of Women thought so, too. That is the news.

Thank you Cynical Patriot,Jazzy, Roy and Rhonda! 

Bristol Palin should be given this year’s hero award for bearing up with a pregnancy unmarried at such a young age and having the courage to go through it by herself — something people like Letterman could not even begin to understand — even as the world watched. And this, while the cute and the immature Lettermans mocked and shamed and taunted mother and child for almost a year now on the airwaves.

She is clearly a girl with sturdy character.

But the Palins should not let this end here. I do not believe that the high level of scorn politicians like Sarah Palin are allowed to sustain by pundits and public comedians applies to children. It certainly should not. I have never in my life seen underage or teenage children of presidents — not with Kennedy, not with Nixon, not with Carter, not with Obama — treated so shamefully.

This should come to a dead stop right here. The Palins should sue on behalf of their daughters.

Bernie Quigley The Hills PunditsThis comment says it all from The Hills Pundits Picture this scene: Mr. David Letterman comes home at night, and his son comes running to greet him. His son asks, "Daddy, what kind of work do you do?" Letterman replies, "Well, sonny dear, I take gratuitous, scurrilous and depraved shots at people who've never done me harm - yes, lad, even at their children - in order to get cheap laughs from an audience of mindless sycophants who'll laugh at anything I say because I'm famous and they think it makes them really cool. (They're so dumb they don't even know when they're not supposed to laugh.) Wouldn't you like to be just like your ol' pop when you grow up, sonny boy? Sonny? … Sonny?"

A 62-year-old man still cracking junior-high-school jokes for a living…. yeah, that's really something to look up to.

Comment by Ken Sears — June 12, 2009 @ 3:48 am

Exactly, and where is Alex Rodriquez, CBS, the Obama Administration, most of the Mainstream Media, and for that matter, Airline Attendants (male or female) in their asking that David Letterman pay the same price as Don Imus for his unscripted - off the cuff remark!

Afterall - David Letterman's remarks were scripted, reviewed, placed on cue cards for him to read, and taped for later broadcast in EVERY timezone!

This was clearly an act of intentional HATE and ABUSE.