Comments | fsf_rapier: Letterman should lose his job too

fsf_rapier

Letterman should lose his job too

Jun 10, 2009 22:19

Don Imus was vilified for weeks and ended up losing his job over an offhand remark about some "nappy-headed ho's". I didn't completely agree with that, but I had no problem with some serious mea culpas, but that being the case, how can those same people not be all over this?

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william_mackean June 12 2009, 01:53:44 UTC

Not what he meant and everyone knows it. People need to get over it already!

If that's your stand, then Rush should be fired, too for his comments about Chelsea Clinton back in the day when Rush still had his TV show. Chelsea was younger than the Palin daughter that the Palins claim he was talking about.

fsf_rapier June 12 2009, 03:16:08 UTC

Oh, he meant to call an 18 year-old a whore? Yeah, that's SO much more tasteful. So why bring up Bristol? Because she had a child out of wedlock? Wait, didn't David Letterman himself have a child out of wedlock? I guess I'm not "sophisticated" enough to understand that humor ( ... )

A talking point back at ya fsf_rapier June 12 2009, 03:56:40 UTC

Another point:
Here is a list of the newspapers that didn't even bother to cover this story.
New York Times
LA Times
USA Today
Wall Street Journal
Philadelphia Enquirer
Houston Chronicle
Detroit News
Dallas Morning News
Boston Globe
Denver Post
Newark Star-Ledger

What do you think the result would be for either of the two jokes above, hmmmm????? Think those newspapers would have covered that???