This sort of thing is why – even with TiVo – I have pretty much given up on late night TV: Letterman gets his yucks on with Our Girl Sarah (looking like a slutty flight attendant) and her 14-year old daughter getting knocked up by A-Rod.
Maybe it’s a matter of taste, but to me, this is to funny what horror shows are to drama. The latter may use provocative imagery to stress a point, but for the former the provocation is the point. And the audience gets what it came for.
It is kind of fun watching those who think that Treacher’s outrage is faux whip themselves into faux outrage at his faux-ness. And then get actually, you know: Outraged. When Treacher stops by to dance at their Outrage Party. Because, while it’s apparently OK to laugh at the image of a professional athlete “knocking up” an underage girl, objecting to that imagery is, well – a little obsessive.
Don’t you think?
Since we’re dabbling our toes in the fever swamps, might as well take a tour around Obsidian Wings, another of the “reality based” sites. A poster there considers the consequences of the CBO projection of infamy and is hectored for not sticking to the script. And Bush.
There you are.
Update: Demonstrating once again that class tells, Letterman explains that he’d never have joked about a politician’s 14-year old daughter getting knocked up. He meant the 18-year old.
Saying he hopes he’s “cleared part of this up,” Letterman extended an invitation to Palin to come on the show as a guest.
Who said that standards no longer obtain among the creepy, aging, late-night comic set?
Me. I said that.
Isn’t Letterman the aging dolt who fathered a bastard child? If so, why would anyone pay attention to his ranting and raving about someone’s legitimate child? What could he possibly know that would be of any value?
Kind of like taking military advice from Pelosi.
Sorry for all the question marks.
I saw the clip on Greta last night.
There once was a time when filth like that would result in the perp never appearing on TV or radio again. Sadly, that is not the case in these times if it is librul filth.
But just let someone say something like that about the DOTPOTUS. The shrill screams of outrage would echo around the world for weeks, and the NYSlimes would run page 1 above the fold condemnations again and again.
I’m surprised there weren’t any funny jokes to be made about the real reason for her visit to New York. Surely there must be something there … I mean, aren’t retard jokes always funny?
Good one Michelle.
Re: Letterman: With all of the available and worthy punching bags why act like a river bottom feeder…oh wait… nevermind.
Seems like these days EVERYbody’s outraged about some offense, real or imagined. And each subgroup’s sense of suitable humor and outrage in turn manages to offend other subgroups. (And I seem offended by people being offended) -:)
Maybe when Obama and our leaders in Congress “fix” our healthcare system, they can issue us all a prescription for chill pills.
George, Would you think those comments funny if it was your wife and daughter being maligned that way on national television?
Didn’t think so.
You sound like the “wrong” answers on the on-line training I just completed for work on workplace sexual harassment. I don’t think the “why the outrage” line works anymore on these subjects.
Scott/
Is your on-line tng questionnaire on sexual harassment capable of being printed out? And would you feel like sharing? I’d be interested in looking at it (identifying corporate info redacted, of course) just to get a feel for the “PC quotient” level in today’s corporate atmosphere.
(And I will completely understand on a number of levels if you say no, with no offense taken)
sorry, VX, it was a flash driven pop-up. Really well done, and quite costly I’m sure. The gist of it was that a supervisor is required to nip crap in the bud. And as we all know, offense is in the eye of the beholder. The peg hasn’t moved much in the past ten years, to my meter. The good news is that, at least in this state, “sexual orientation” isn’t one of the covered statusi.
But the next time I hear some whippersnapper make a crack about “ADWGs” – “almost dead white guys”, I will have the HR police on him like a hobo on a Quizno’s.
Scott,
According to the online workplace PC test that I had to take, you could be terminated because you dissed either the hobo or Quizno’s, or both.
Maybe I lost my sense of humor, but I quit watching late night comics ages ago. Not because I was offended, but because I was bored. The jokes weren’t that funny and I’d never heard of half the “stars” or music acts.
I had to go to a yearly seminar at work in which I was told I could get fired for offending anyone, even if I wasn’t talking to or about that person. The angle was that it’s not just about “sexual” harrassment anymore, it’s ANY sort of “offensive” behavior. It seems the lawyers and courts think there’s a constitutional right to never be offended for any reason.
George P,
I suffer from the same loss of sense of humor, at least for the current “comic” crowd.
But I know I still have a sense of humor, since I find old Red Skelton and Johny Carson skits funny. The contrast with what passes for humor today is astonishing.
With the no longer-funny Saturday Night Live long past its prime, Bill Cosby focused on social change and Letterman and others so darn political and contrived that 50% of the audience no longer watches ” just because” and the totally un-funny MTV Music Awards shock comics wasting our time – the funny based on life in general, has gone out of the world. But, Jeff Dunham, Peanut, Walter, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, et al – make me think there is still some hope.
I need ligaments!
I love Jeff Dunham. Achmed is the funniest character created in the past 20 years.
Achmed is a hoot. Serious belly laughs when I watch those characters.
Mr. Dunham is darned good. Made his act even funnier for me by people who complain about him offending “Muslim” sensibilities .
Just when you think it can be getting any lower a new standard is set as acceptable. No one is permitted their dignity nor human respect. Now that the inmates are in charge at the national level, pretty much across the board, the culture is in freefall into the abyss.
Once upon a time in my country someone saying those things about someone’s wife could and often would get knocked on their ass with loose or missing teeth to go with it. And most people would approve. It did a lot to improve people’s civility. But that was then.
This is why Palin needs to accept Lettermans invite….but send her husband Todd…first knockout on TV…what I would do if Letterman was talking about my daughter….Hell Letterman would get his ratings too!
I think a strong argument could be made to make dueling legal again.
” Slutty Flight Attendants?”
I must be flying on the wrong airlines-that’s hardly the term I would use for the ones I see.
Prolly you’re just not flying in the same class as “Classy” Dave Letterman.
Posted on both these. The comments at Obsidian Wings are classic leftist intolerance. Treacher surprises me, actually, jumping in the comment thread. Oh, well, I do it to sometimes …
If sweet Sarah accepts any invitations, any invitations at all, from that freak in the double breasted suit, she’s not the woman I think she is.
Marianne
She’s not the woman you think she is.
And never has been.
Skippy, she’s a politician. I’m under no illusion that she’s the second coming…. (unlike our current President!). But really, do we need to go after 14 year old girls to either make our political points or achieve some mediocre humor?
I know your marriage (and divorce) was an unhappy one, but not all are piles of shit. Some people, incredibly, are happy with their families, warts and all.
Sounds like special knowledge – do dish!
For, you know: The under-informed among us.
Usually when a marriage goes bust, both sides have had a hand in stirring that pot.
The Palins, on the other hand, appear to have a very healthy and loving marriage. And they are the self-reliant, pioneer type that created this country in the first place. That is why they are viewed with such revulsion and fear by the librul crowd.
Go for it Skippy!
Tell us just how she has screwed up Alaska under her watch. You know you’re dying to reach into your helmet bag and pull out all the leaflets, pamphlets and other factoids and hector us with your factual point/counterpoint analysis of her total and complete failure as a mayor and governor so GET TO IT and stop teasing us. She screwed up the following things in Alaska: (this, skippy, is where you start writing) and don’t be all bashful and stand around clutching your little fingers like a school girl getting schooled by A-rod; just, you know, start writing how she screwed Alaskans and Alaska and screwed Wasilla natives while serving as Mayor. Just write until your fingers get tired.
Some noses one can just fantasize about bustin’…sigh.
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Skip, Just the typical nasty comment you make that pushes you to the fringe…and ignored.
I just don’t see Sarah Palin the same way you all do. That comment had nothing to do with her marriage (or anyone else’s either) her kids or anything else. Politically-she is not the “great white hope” everyone makes her out to be.
She’s just another ambitious politician trying to manufacture an image. The fact that there is plenty of factual evidence to belie that image seems to be convieniently ignored.
Same thing most of you accuse Obama supporters of doing.
I would rather have her in the White House than either Obama or the Hair Plug.
And I wouldn’t.
Even if Obama and Hair Plug are 100% wrong-she’s not the solution.
There is much better talent within the confines of the Republican party today.
It didn’t come across that way as the gist of this thread had to do with a decided absence of class and respect by Letterman mascarading as humor. Within that context, your comment appeared extremely rude to Marianne.