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Letterman hosts Aunt Pam

Tea Party leader a surprise hit on Letterman show (h/t Instapundit)

CBS “Late Show” host David Letterman, of all people, featured an interview with Pam Stout, the president of the Sandpoint, Idaho, group called the Tea Party Patriots. (By sheer coincidence, Sandpoint is also the birthplace of Tea Party icon Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska.)

Stout’s 15 minutes of late-night fame proved quite compelling TV viewing. Where other encounters between the media and Tea Partiers have erred strongly on the side of confrontation, the dominant tone of the Letterman exchange was actually kind of sweet. Letterman played up his image as a comparatively naïve follower of the political scene, announcing at the outset that “I know nothin’ about the Tea Party.” Stout responded patiently to Letterman’s queries, projecting an image of a wholesome, quiet-spoken Middle American activist.

How did she get on his show?

There must be a Tea Partier in the Letterman casting staff who’s not coming out of the closet.

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“Awkward” Palin? Judge for yourself

Gateway Pundit has the link to the Yahoo headline: Awkward Palin interview.

Here’s the interview (via Ace):

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Who’s the awkward one?

In related news, David Letterman is having an Imus moment

New York State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, a Republican, is calling on the CEO of CBS to fire David Letterman for crude comments he made about Sarah Palin and her daughter.

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NOW adds Letterman to their Media Hall of Shame

And not a moment too soon:
Letterman “Jokes” About Palin’s Daughter
Offender: David Letterman on “Late Show with David Letterman”

The sexualization of girls and women in the media is reaching new lows these days — it is exploitative and has a negative effect on how all women and girls are perceived and how they view themselves. Letterman also joked about what he called Palin’s “slutty flight attendant look” — yet another example of how the media love to focus on a woman politician’s appearance, especially as it relates to her sexual appeal to men. Someone of Letterman’s stature, who appears on what used to be known as “the Tiffany Network” (CBS), should be above wallowing in the juvenile, sexist mud that other comedians and broadcasters seem to prefer.

Hadn’t heard CBS referred to as “the Tiffany Network”, but at last they did the right thing.

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Video: Vile Letterman, “these people are upset”

Referring to Sarah and Todd Palin as “these people,” Letterman digs in and repeats the jokes,

David Letterman responds to flap over Sarah Palin jokes

“We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news and we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter [Bristol]… and now they’re upset with me…” Letterman says on tonight’s show. “These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl…. Am I guilty of poor taste? Yes. Did I suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No.” Saying he hopes he’s “cleared part of this up,” Letterman extended an invitation to Palin to come on the show as a guest.

Then he asked,

“would I do anything advocate or contribute to underage sexual abuse or misconduct? Absolutely not, not in a thousand years!”

But is he all for “advocating or contributing” to the sexual abuse of women over the age of eighteen.

So here we have it: Letterman believes himself justified in his “jokes”, because the jokes are about a different Palin teenager.

As I was asking yesterday, what is it with these impotent jerks and Palin’s children?

And, by the way,
CBS Altered Letterman Transcript, Not New York Times

UPDATE
This is American Sharia, *ssh*les.

1 more update,
Scott turns the tables on Letterman.

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Vile

Throughout mankind’s history, vile men have cast aspersions on women’s virtue for political purposes. The latest attacks on Republican and conservative women are just more on an ages-long trend. When you can’t defeat them with ideas, you diminish them through sex. My theory is that the mental impotence gets translated into sexual aggression, but then, that’s just a theory.

Now we have a new version of that trend, namely Playboy mag posting (and then deleting, but you can view the NOT SUITABLE FOR WORK article here) a 10-page, illustrated and cross-linked article about hatefu**ing (the new word for rape) 10 conservative women. The outrage in the media? None. Instead, Tommy Christopher got fired from AOL for condemning it.

The women Playboy picked are not the only ones. Carrie Prejean and a list of others have been targets because they are not liberals. That’s the only criteria.

So it’s hardly surprising that overripe gap-toothed comedians who didn’t get The Tonight Show come up with gems like this, saying that Sarah Palin’s “updated her slutty flight attendant look.”

But Letterman’s trying to be edgy while unfunny, so now he’s come up with this,

Attacking women for political purposes is an old story that is despicable and vile enough, but what is it with these impotent jerks and Palin’s children?

Just when you think they can’t stoop any lower: CBS has another jerk comparing Palin to an STD.

UPDATE
NSFW Dan Collins lets it rip.
Letterman in His Dotage

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