A Little Lunchtime Political Comedy

If it's one thing that Palin has done successfully, and continues to do, it provide great material for comedians. So I suppose in that regard she's helping some people keep their jobs.

Should The Question Even Be Asked

In which Dave gives us his Top 10 questions to ask yourself before you spend WAY too much money on dinner with Caribou Barbie



And while Palin is allegedly going to donate the money to a charity benefiting the American Military, I have to ask - why didn't the winning bidder just give the money to charity themselves? Is Palin really that important to these crazies that they have to sit across the table and watch her shove overcooked meat in her face?

Seder's On Site Reporting

It's not exactly the crowd that one would find protesting in Iran, gathering at Bonnaroo, or even at a Palin rally, but Sam Seder of Air America was there. He braved the multitudes of the media and managed to find the "tens" of people that were lambasting comedy that they thought would bring about rape, horror, and anti-Fox"News" rule across America.



In terms of the woman that quotes Mitch Hedberg, I find it rather funny that she thinks teen pregnancy is on par with buying pens that are far to expensive. But that's just me.

Raping With Your Mouth

I'm certain that all of Palin's pals over at Fox"News" were hoping that this protest was going to be massive in scope. It wasn't:

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.

And Bill Clinton Is Responsible For My Grandmother's Cancer

You have to wonder why conservatives keep demanding apologies from people when they are never going to accept them anyway.



S.E. Cupp seemed all too ready to give Hannity a handjob as she twitched and shrieked about how "outraged" she was that Barack Obama didn't stop what he was doing to tell David Letterman that his joke was in poor taste and probably shouldn't do it again.

They were jokes. Get over it.

Of course, people will say that "children" of politicians should be off-limits in discussions. I'll buy that. But, when you use your family for political gain, when you treat your children as set dressing for every photo-op that you can possible work your way into, when you attempt to create the aura of purity and Christian good will all while forcing your 18-year-old, unwed-mother to tell kids that "sex is bad, mmm'ka" what would you expect to happen?

People like David Letterman make their living off taking the piss out of people. There are far worse things that have been said and are going to be said. And he's already apologized, clarified, and done what was "proper" in order to rectify this non-issue of an issue.

But conservatives sure do love the red-meat moments.

They would rather create this elaborate scene where they are consistantly the victims of every slander, every smear, attack, and it's always the "liberal media's fault".

The Star Trek Top 10

In celebration of what I can only describe as the most palpable and well-done Star Trek film since 1982s Wrath Of Khan, here's Leonard Nimoy reading the Late Night Top Ten.

Letterman's Last Moments With Bush

Letterman, Bush, Top 10 - Nuff Said