Fire David Letterman Rally Set for Tuesday

by Edmund Jenks | June 14, 2009 at 10:58 am
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OK!, So you are not the type to join in at a TEA Party ... how about a rally to have cultural civility be considered when one makes improper and lopsided political jabs during night time television broadcasts?!

'Fire David Letterman' is not a demand that many expected to be heard about David Letterman until this week. But Fire David Letterman rallies are starting to pop up in New York, as protesters hope to get David Letterman fired with their rally on Tuesday.

CBS would hardly be expected to fire David Letterman, since he just became king of late night ratings this week. But that may have been due to David Letterman's controversial jokes about the Palin family, which sparked the desire to fire David Letterman in the first place.

Fire David Letterman Rally Set for Tuesday!

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1
dunkelberg

"cultural civility"?
[chuckle]

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Edmund Jenks

Your sensibilities may think this is a funny standard to try to achieve ... until it comes to the ox that you cherish gets gored.

Actually, dunkleberg, I feel a bit insulted by your little snark and it just goes to prove how uncultured you really are - it really says more about you and what you believe than you think it says about yourself (hint: it is not positive).

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Dave Letterman

For those that can't make it to a rally, they can go to http://bringdowndave.com

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tikun

Finally. He has used more people for fodder then anyone on late night television. Harvey Pekard comes to mine.

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David Betterman

I'm pretty sure Letterman is a terrorist.

We should prosecute him for war crimes.



Yup.

I'm as crazy as you people.

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Edmund Jenks

... and after he is prosecuted for terrorist war crimes, he needs about 100 hours of sensitivity training classes!

Basically, David Letterman has morphed into an irrelevant, humorless 62 year old hateful progressive with nothing much else to say.

He said what he said - and it still isn't funny no matter which daughter accompanied Sarah Palin to the Yankee game.

Where is the outrage from Alex Rodriguez, the Yankee organization, CBS, and "so-called" Woman's Rights organizations ... not to mention Flight Attendants everywhere (male or female).

This situation is way beyond a double-standard ... it is the absence of standards and should repulse everyone who considers themselves civilized.

Don Imus paid a heavy price for an unscripted, off of the cuff remark whereas David Letterman had all of these comments planned out before the show, then placed on cue-cards, and the show was taped to be broadcast to all timezones - this was an intentional, hateful, and unprovoked attack. To suggest that any young female (14 years old) be the object of statuary RAPE and gets "Knocked-Up" should pay a heavy, heavy price as well.

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lefty_liberated

FREE SPEECH FREE SPEECH FREE SPEECH THIS ISN"T IRAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Tony J.

Free speech?  So you believe that it's OK to shout racial and ethnical epithets against people of certain races and ethnicities, right?  No, we call that hate crimes.  ...And you believe that as a joke, we can go into a movie theater and scream "FIRE!!!", and create a stampede of people flooding out of the theater, and some are injured, and some die, perhaps, and the person who does this is not culpable of any crime, right?  WRONG!  ...And if a person comes near your house, does not go on your property, and screams that he's going to kill your loved ones and set your house on fire, that's OK, right?  No, that's called Feloneous Assault.  Free speech is never absolute.  I'd like to see any idiot make a crack about your underaged daughter and joke about her being raped, and then come to this blog and tell me about your "Free Speech"! Hypocrite!

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CJaye

The whole thing is crazy, leave David Letterman alone. This Palin/Letterman thing is blown way out.

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expressin myself

thanks, well put CJaye.

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loretta D'angelo

If David Letterman had a daughter would he make the same joke or like some other comidian to make a joke about her.

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Edmund Jenks

Well, he did have a BASTARD son, you know, a son born out of wedlock, and with a woman he (knocked-up) did not marry until YEARS later ... just the facts.

I'll let nyctuber come up with a funny line about that one, I'm sure his heart will be in it!

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Georges Rosenmann

I wrote this to CBS re David Letterman's crude and crass comments:   First of all, the so-called "jokes" were tasteless, crude and insulting!  Furthermore, his later attempted "explanation" that he meant Sarah Palin's older daughter, when he was clearly talking about her younger daughter who was accompanying Mrs. Palin at the game, was rather lame - at best.  Even the dumbest hillbilly understood who he meant!  Maybe we should come up with our own jokes about his own robbing the cradle and creating bastard children?    Since I don't watch much from CBS to begin with, any threat of mine to stop watching is meaningless.  I stopped watching CBS news years ago, when Dan Rather hypocritically repulsed - almost violently - other journalists when they did the same him to him that he normally did to others.  I don't remember what the issue was, but, it was something for which Mr. Rather would have rather not done - pun intended!   What I can do, as an individual, is to recommend to my friends and all email contacts, and for them to forward the same notion, is to write to any and all advertisers on CBS that I will not buy their products until CBS fires this crass individual.    I can't understand how and why CBS has gone so far as to allow itself to become an elitist leftwing propagandizer!  CBS used to be reasonably honest in its reporting of news and reasonably respectful of people in office.  Now, it has joined the ranks of purveyors of yellow journalism, like the "New Yuck Times", whose motto is "all the crap we want to print - whether true or not".  When did the liberal media suddenly get the impression it was their duty to sully good people?  When did it become the "norm" to lead its audience in moral and ethical decay?   So, I strongly recommend you get rid of this character - David Letterman - and return the show to comedy/talent/whatever, in the same manner as it used to be conducted by Johnny Carson - clean impartial comedy.   

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alison neff

Since when is appropriate to launch verbal sexual attacks on a 14 yr. old girl?  Letterman's position as a comic ABSOLUTELY  does come with responsibility to protect children!!!  It is no longer comedy when he alludes to forcecd sexual activity with a child, what in the h---is wrong with this man's morals?  He has exhibited some sort of sick obsession with the Palin women for months, and this is absolutely not acceptable on any level.  Lettermanshould be fired.  Enough already.

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Harrison 2253

I'm no fan of David Letterman, he's a wise guy jerk and I didn't think he could sink any lower till last tuesday night but just like I didn't think Imus should have lost his job , I don't think Letterman should lose his either, a sincere apology from him and CBS would suffice but obviously thats not forth coming and if it does come eventually you know it means absolutely nothing so I'm not holding my breath. 

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carly Higgins

Letterman is a classless, moral-less, dried-up, unfunny, horny old man.

And, by the way, he "knocked-up" his girlfriend who had his child.

I agree that Todd Palin should ask Letterman to step outside.  I want to watch.

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Judy Anderson

Get rid of that loudmouth idiot and get a human being.

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Tntsgram

http://www.lifenews.com/nat4364.html

To nyctuber, get your facts straight.  You are deliberately spreading lies about Sarah Palin, particularly as regards the 'rape kit story.'  That's the thing about far left liberals, they simply do not care if what they say is true or not, if it sounds like what they WANT to hear, they will spew it to anyone that will listen.  You make me sick.


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Linda Proctor

I hope people show up by the thousands to protest idiot Letterman.  This idiotic, unfunny, senior citizen finds it funny to demean women and young girls.

He KNOCKED UP his girlfriend and apparently has no moral compass at all.

God bless Sarah Palin for defending her family. Children of people in the public eye should be off-limits.  Can you imagine what would happen in Obama's children were publically humiliated.  I remember that Chelsea Clinton was protected from media scrutiny and comments.

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Gabrielle Amodio

Don Imus got fired when he made inappropriate comments (and apologized) about the black basketball girls.

David Letterman gets a free pass because he made inappropriate comments (and NO apology) about a 14 yr. old white girl who's mother happens to be a conservative politician!

 

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J. Creath

Gov. Sarah Palin and Late Night host David Letterman traded jabs after a joke Letterman made about her daughter being impregnated by Yankee Alex Rodriguez. Claire Leka reports. Palin Vs. Letterman [CBS article]

Palin Vs. Letterman: He without sin, cast the first stone. Children of high profile people regardless of what their profession, should be off limits. A child should not be the focus of the attention and should not be brought into the media circus of reticule.

Doesn’t this whole situation kind of falls in the area of “adult bullying” of a child?

Being a child of a high profile person already has enough inherent emotional and security concerns from having to have body guards, risk of kidnappings, paparazzi stockings, and false media stories, to deal with. When do ratings of a TV show rise above human cruelty? How far will a TV station go before they think ratings are more important than human decency and fairness? Why is there such a double standard in the media, of who can say what about whoever, depending on their political point of view? When is enough, enough? Not judging…just asking!

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rosemary

I find david letterman vuglar and I never understood how he became so popular. I remember watching his first show and all that was watching with us said the same thing."This show is not even funny, it won't last" I don't find him the least bit entertaining. CBS----FIRE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Disenchanted

Where's the FIRE BARNEY FRANK website?? Letterman must GO!

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Mikeyhatesit

I've watched Dave since he had 15 minute snippets during the noontime hour.  I've watched him exclusively since Johnny Carson retired.  BUT - what is his problem.  Since - as he says - he's "just a comedian", and it's all in fun, he's not a spitefull person.  Bull!  I'm done watching him, and I'm not a fan of Konan  ( is that spelled with a "C"? I really don't care).   Dave has not had an origional skit in in 4 years, except when a new political personality appears, he goes off the deep end and tries to make fodder out of him/her - then has the audacity to cry"I'm just a comedian!!!"  Give me a break. No better yet give Dave a break  - perminately.

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Marjorie Finn

As a mother, daughter, sister, grandmother & human being I am appauled and sickened by David Letterman's comments regarding anyone's daughter.  He should be fired immediately.   

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Barb Wells

Everyone knows David Letterman will not be fired, just as everyone knows that if Shawn Hannity, Rush Limbaugh or any other conservative man said this about ANY well known liberal's daughter WOULD be brought down and chastised for weeks by mainstream media and the like.  That's not the point for this protest.  The guy who started this knows that.  The point is, liberals need to be held to the same standard and should be held accountable for their words and actions and those that feel that they aren’t should boycott, protest in rallies, speak up in public….another words, do what the far left does (to a point).  The media will not cover it or will minimize it but that shouldn’t stop anyone that feels strongly about the bias and double standard, do it anyway, pound as hard on issues as the left.  Make Letterman squirm, it might do him some good, he needs a taste of his own medicine and so do others like him. 

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georigapeach

Shame on David Letterman the wroters, and producers of that show. They are all just another example of men in this world that are lost. May they get the help they desparately need.

Under age sex is not a joke. It does not matter who's daughter, niece, granddaughter or cousin it is.

It is not funny. He should and needs to apologize respectfully.

 

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jean marx

David Letterman has strayed a long way from his mid-western Indiana roots.  I am embarrassed for his Mother, who raised this Yahoo.  His Palin remarks were crude, tasteless, and unfunny.  There must be other comedians out there who would do a better job at his late night TV stint---give one of them a shot.  Time to send Dave back home again to Indiana!!

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A caring consumer

We as consumers should boycott the advertiser of the David Letterman show.  Hit them where it hurts in the pocketbooks.  Shame on the New York Yankees for not coming to the defense of Alex Rodriguez.  Yes, he has had his problems but the remark against him and Willow Pallen was as nasty as you can get.  Also, where is the FCC in all of this.  They sure did jump on the Janet Jackson situation at the Super Bowl.  I would put this remark one step ahead of the Janet Jackson situation.  And above all, how would Letterman fill if this remark would have been made about his wife (before they were married) and his son.  Shame on you Letterman and no apology can undo what you have done.  Shame on CBS for airing such garbage.

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K Ballenger

For all the ones who feel comedy in any circumstance is OK,if that is what you call this,read and please for everyones sake answer yourself truthfully.Lets turn the tide back on each of us.Put your sister,daughter,cousin,niece or even girlfriend in Palin's situation.Are you really going to let the comment slide?If you are then I really pity the ones in your posse.Why can't we defend what is right any more in this country?This is the main reaso this once great country is in a roller coaster slide.

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