I’ve more or less quit watching Letterman because he’s become so partisan. I believe in equal opportunity comedy; Letterman, on the other hand, has begun to use his unique platform to bash McCain and Palin almost exclusively. The McCain camp decided to back out on a scheduled appearance on Letterman yesterday because, given the financial meltdown this country is facing, they just didn’t feel it was a ‘night for comedy’. Letterman’s inner moonbat was thus released…
NYPOST.COM – Mad About Letterman
…When Letterman discovered the Senator sitting down with Couric at the same time he was supposed to be taping “Late Night,” he unloaded on McCain.“I’m more than a little disappointed by this behavior,” Letterman told viewers. “This doesn’t smell right.”
“This is not the way a tested hero behaves. Somebody’s putting something in his Metamucil,” he said.
McCain probably could have handled this situation differently, but it is perfectly reasonable for a presidential candidate to put more urgent priorities ahead of inane banter with a hostile talk show host on the day our nation is facing a financial meltdown. Reasonable people would understand that, but not moonbat partisan hacks like Letterman…
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackMcCain shouldn’t have told Letterman he was on the way to the airport if he was sitting in a chair in Katie Couric’s studio.
Even moonbat, partisan, outdated, bitter, second-rate talk show hosts deserve some respect. Or their admins do anyway. He should have said “Dave, I’d love to be there, but I have to choose between you and a news story, and the situation we are in is not one to joke about at this time.”
I never watched Letterman. He more or less epitomizes the sort of “humor” that I don’t care for. He is sophomoric, self-congratulatory, sex-obsessed, partisan and quite frankly, dumb.
His interviews of people are inept and incoherent. His dependency on trite and tired “stunts” like “Stupid pet tricks” or the chronically brain-dead “Top Ten List” are just excuses to ridicule his favorite targets while he mugs for the camera like a middle-school class clown. He is pessimistic, peurile and condescending. He is the sort of person I would walk across the street to avoid if I saw him coming.
How do you know he’s all those things if you’ve never watched him? Not that I disagree. Just wondering.
I see that Cosmic revised and extended his remarks on Letterman.
I don’t watch Letterman anymore…mostly because I don’t usually survive the late local news. But for about 4 years I had an overnight job. I woke up about 8 pm, and got started about midnight. During those years I watched Letterman, and I really enjoyed his show.
I guess everyone has their own idea of what is funny, and entertaining. Obviously Cosmic didn’t find it to be either. But I did. In those days I found him to be pretty even-handed with politicians, celebrities, and stupid pets.
I understand that Leno cleans his clock by double digits in ratings consistently, and that Leno is a lib, too. I don’t watch Leno either.
But I do agree with Cosmic on one thing. McCain’s campaign dropped the ball. When you have an appointment to get your teeth cleaned and an emergency comes up at work…you call the Dentist’s office to apologize, explain, and reschedule. They have a business to run just like you do.
It is just good manners.
And by the way, it is a wise move not to tick off the appointment lady at the Dentist’s Office. You might have a blazing toothache one Wednesday afternoon and need her to squeeze you in before the 4 day Thanksgiving holiday.
Letterman seemed to me to be pretty juvenile about the whole thing for sure. Sometimes people shoot themselves in the foot…and McCain gave him the ammo to do it…but I hope that I would have handled it differently.
I’m gonna remember this event the next time I have to cancel an appearance on Late Night.
OK, clearly “never” is a superlative that is not literal. It is virtually impossible not to have seen SOME of David Letterman over the years, in part because I’ve had to endure his show because other people in the room preferred it to better options (like turning the TV off). So I’ve seen enough of David Letterman to last a lifetime, believe me.
Andy:
“Juvenile” more or less exactly describes my opinion of David Letterman.
Heh. As I said in the original post, I believe McCain could have and should have handled this much better. But I’m not sure it would have mattered. Letterbaby would still have thrown some kind of hissy fit and devoted his entire monologue to bashing McCain…
Oh…as I recall it was Letterman who pioneered what you call ‘trite’ stunts. In the beginning they were off-beat and often quite funny. In recent years, however, they have become tired, no doubt…
Before Letterman’s politics became so pathetically obvious I actually preferred his show over Leno by leaps and bounds. Leno’s a dweeb.
A very wealthy dweeb…
Probably so Dadman. But Letterman knows the majority make-up of his audience. He’s running a business, and I’m sure that his mostly “juvenile” audience soaked it up like a sponge.
Re: Jay Leno vs. David Letterman.
Here’s my take.
Johnny Carson was one of the most brilliant comedians who ever lived. He was also uncannily canny (like that?) about how to appeal to a wide audience. He was never shy about touting his middle-America middle-class upbringing and he seemed to genuinely enjoy the company of “ordinary” Americans.
David Letterman has always been the prototype of the self-absorbed, condescending, pseudo-intellectual urbanite. His scorn for what is now called “Red State” America drips off his tongue like caustic acid.
Jay Leno may be a liberal, but he has always, to me, seemed to more like Johnny Carson in that down-home, middle-America way. He likes to tinker around with cars and get his hands all oily. He tools around on motorcycles and spends time in bars with motorcycle riders. He is generally affable and polite when he has an “ordinary” person on his show, unlike Letterman who turns to the audience or camera at key moments to make SURE the audience knows that he’s (and by extension they are) more clever than this rube…
I think that’s why Johnny chose Jay Leno. He knew that the key to sustainable ratings success was affability, not juvenile condescension.
“David Letterman has always been the prototype of the self-absorbed, condescending, pseudo-intellectual urbanite. His scorn for what is now called “Red State†America drips off his tongue like caustic acid.”
Yeah, Letterman is a typical modern liberal who is an integral part of the insanity parade…
Well, obviously Leno has been much more successful with the regular folks in his time slot. But Letterman knows his audience, and he is Letterman. He’s a middle-America guy too (Indiana, I think)…but querky.
You’re right about his turns to the audience to expose the rube. And his facial expressions can seem condescending. But I think that’s just his “shtick.” He’s developed that and lived on it (lived well) for a long, long time.
If I were forced to watch one or the other, I’d pick Leno. Thankfully, I have an “off” switch on the TV.
Man, I miss Johnny Carson…and President Reagan! Good days…never to be duplicated for sure.
Top 10 Reasons not to watch Letterman:
10) A “Will It Float?” test proves that his Airhead floats
9) He has the hots for Nancy Pelosi
8) He’s been wearing the same suit that he wore since his first episode.
7) If you stare at him during the episode, you can watch his Botox wear off, and his skin start sliding off.
6) He was last seen in a religious temple worshiping Obamessiah.
5) No number 5, Letterman fired the guy writing number 5 because he was Conservative
4) his stocks aren’t worth the toilet paper they are on.
3) He is the reason why the stock market crashed, not in 2008, but in 1929, when FDR was president (courtesy of Joe Biden)
2) three words: hairplugs, hairplugs, hairplugs
and the number 1 Reason not to watch Letterman
1) there is a better option at night: SLEEP
okay, my list is just as retarded as his, but its clever to me, so I went with it, just like Letterman.
Letterman is still on the air?
I thought he packed it in and married that Margaret Ray groupie.
There may have been some pre-historic period in which David Letterman was “hip” and “clever.” I never saw it. And I don’t think I would have seen it even when other people claim it existed. If I want “quirky” I’ll watch Conan O’Brian. His gags are just as stupid as Letterman’s but he doesn’t pretend they are brilliant and you are just too stupid to “get it.” He just shrugs his shoulders and says “I didn’t think that would work.”
Here’s my top ten list of what I like about David Letterman:
1.
Heh! Top 10 things I like about David Letterman:
1. Reminds me of Alfred E. Neuman
2. Had a bitchin’ ‘fro in the 70′s
3. Reminds me of Eddie Haskell
4. Has the Leon Spinks space in his front teeth
5. Is a friend of Biff
6.
Okay, so it should have been a “top 5″ list.
I still think my top ten list is the best…
Suggest argue, because only in a dispute born truth.
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