A crowd of 15 protesters upset with the late night comic held signs and occasionally shouted as they stood across the street from Letterman's studio.
But they were often hidden from view by the more than 35 members of the media there to cover the protest, and out-shouted by a few very vocal counter-protesters.
Yes, the media and non-affiliated crowd outnumbered the protesters. No doubt this was because of the massive, liberal, bias that was eminating from within the Ed Sullivan Theatre.
Seems that there were some "tea-baggers" that infiltrated the Letterman protest.
I haven't laughed this hard all year.
Having discussed Letterman - and by extention, comedy as a whole - with several co-workers, the discussion ultimately turned to the likes of Don Imus. Even though Imus' racists speech and Letterman's comedy are two divergent things, there was a large portion of people that I spoke with that believe that Letterman should face the same fate.
But this is far from over. John Zeigler has his hands in the pie too. He loves to beat a dead horse until his knuckles are bloody or he drives people crazy with his punch-drunk blathering:
...the Los Angeles talk radio host behind the group firedavidletterman.com told The Times that Letterman's apology falls short.
"I'm glad he's acknowledged we're right," said John Ziegler, a creator of the film "Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted" and who this month began a new show on KGIL. "I think it's a good first step in the right direction, but I don't think it's enough." Part of the problem, he added, is that Letterman made a "horrendous attempt at an apology" last week, when he devoted several relatively light-hearted minutes to the controversy, invited Palin on his program and repeated the joke.
People are still watching though. Letterman saw a huge uptick in viewers after his apology:
Monday night, when Mr. Letterman offered his extended apology to Governor Palin and her family, he had his best night yet in the continuing late-night competition against NBC’s new “Tonight” show star, Conan O’Brien. In preliminary national ratings, Mr. Letterman pulled in 700,000 more viewers than Mr. O’Brien Monday night, 3.9 million to 3.2 million, his biggest margin yet over his new competitor. Mr. Letterman routinely trailed the former “Tonight” host Jay Leno by a million viewers or more.
Of course, this doesn't mean that all that were watching him accepted the apology or even like the show. People are drawn to controversy, even when it's highly manufactured.
I'm guessing Embassy Suites will be coming back to The Late Show soon enough if Dave's ratings continue to rise.
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