Keep In Mind, The Obama Children Were Off Limits.

Censored by Laurie · June 15, 2009

I'm glad that some good may actually come of this ugliness...God Bless David Letterman and please keep him and his family in your prayers as they struggle through these slanderous, difficult times.

UNT90 · June 16, 2009

Good news, gang.
http://www.firedavidletterman.com/

Just a little over the top. Have a hard time feeling sorry for Letterman, though. If he was a little more like Carson (made fun of every politician, no matter the party), he wouldn't be in this predicament. When you're percentage of jokes are 90/10 about one side of political issues, you are asking for trouble in a situation like this. (yes, the research into the 90/10 statement involved searching my memory for the 20 or so times I watched Letterman, very scientific).

Do any of the oldtimers on here remember Carson ever having to apologize for a joke?

Edited June 16, 2009 by UNT90

Quoner · June 16, 2009

Just a little over the top. Have a hard time feeling sorry for Letterman, though. If he was a little more like Carson (made fun of every politician, no matter the party), he wouldn't be in this predicament. When you're percentage of jokes are 90/10 about one side of political issues, you are asking for trouble in a situation like this. (yes, the research into the 90/10 statement involved searching my memory for the 20 or so times I watched Letterman, very scientific).
Do any of the oldtimers on here remember Carson ever having to apologize for a joke?

Luckily driving drunk was never as big a deal as a politicized joke, because no one ever mentions this: http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/91416/detail/

Edited June 16, 2009 by Quoner

UNTBill · June 16, 2009

Just a little over the top. Have a hard time feeling sorry for Letterman, though. If he was a little more like Carson (made fun of every politician, no matter the party), he wouldn't be in this predicament. When you're percentage of jokes are 90/10 about one side of political issues, you are asking for trouble in a situation like this. (yes, the research into the 90/10 statement involved searching my memory for the 20 or so times I watched Letterman, very scientific).
Do any of the oldtimers on here remember Carson ever having to apologize for a joke?

I may be wrong, but I believe Carson had to apologize to Zsa Zsa Gabor and to Mrs. Arnold Palmer.

Rudy · June 16, 2009

Ill tell you what, we can go ahead and drop the issue Letterman makes a crack about one of Obama's daughters being engaged to an adult.

Edited June 16, 2009 by Rudy

Censored by Laurie · June 16, 2009

Ill tell you what, we can go ahead and drop the issue Letterman makes a crack about one of Obama's daughters being engaged to an adult.

I thought the reason everybody was up in arms about this was out of moral indignation and how Letterman so vehemetly attacked a minor. How would doing it again resolve that?

Or is it just bitterness that he got the poor, reclusive Palin family involved?

Or perhaps when Sasha proves to be a harlot somebody will crack a joke. Just be patient.

Rudy · June 16, 2009

I still believe the ONLY reason he made the joke was due to Sarah Palin's party affliation. I personally think that kids are off limits. I'm just pointing out the double standard.

Censored by Laurie · June 16, 2009

I still believe the ONLY reason he made the joke was due to Sarah Palin's party affliation. I personally think that kids are off limits. I'm just pointing out the double standard.

Who was the other politician referenced in this joke series? What was his party affiliation?

Rudy · June 16, 2009

Unless I missed it, it must have been some no name who noone cares about and has no importance.

Quoner · June 16, 2009

Somewhere, Jimmy Carter's daughter is smiling.

Well, she would be if her smile wasn't so ugly it would break a mirror.

Rudy · June 16, 2009

Somewhere, Jimmy Carter's daughter is smiling.
Well, she would be if her smile wasn't so ugly it would break a mirror.

Easy there Dave.

Quoner · June 16, 2009

Easy there Dave.

I know sarcasm usually escapes you, so I'll try to help. This link doesn't do it justice, but that girl got mocked bad (and the other stuff in the article was just interesting in a non-partisan fashion): http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...DDGJO4EJ9U1.DTL

It was nothing, everyone agrees, like what faced little Amy Carter. Nine years old, with huge owlish glasses, Amy has become the gold standard for over- the-top press coverage of a first daughter. As presidential biographer Mark Rozell wrote, Amy was the subject of "relentless attention."
On one hand Amy was a normal kid who roller-skated in the White House ballrooms and had a tree house on the South Lawn. (Secret Service agents stayed on the ground while she held tea parties with her friends.)
But she also came across as irrepressibly geeky. When she told a friend that she wanted a chain saw for Christmas, there were howls of laughter all over the country. (White House officials claimed she said "train set," but the damage was done.) Ordered to go to boring state dinners by her father, she brought a book to read and was assailed for not showing the proper respect to heads of state.
A German reporter called her "a lamentably spoiled, perpetually tired, whining brat with miserable manners." (As opposed to German 9-year-olds, who presumably would have sat up and discussed foreign policy.)
Always self-righteous, Jimmy Carter insisted on putting Amy in a public school, which led to a famous photo of her marching to class, head down, surrounded by hordes of photographers. She looks miserable.
No one seems happier to be out of the public eye than Amy Carter. She married a ponytailed computer consultant, lives in Atlanta, has a son named Hugo and does not speak to the media.
After Amy, there weren't any children in the White House until the election of Bill Clinton. Chelsea Clinton is generally awarded the trophy for having the toughest time as a first daughter. It certainly isn't her fault that her hair tends to the unruly or that she is not drop-dead gorgeous. But, as a typical 13-year-old, when she turned on "Saturday Night Live," she didn't expect to hear the cast making fun of her looks. Myers not only sent a note of apology after a protest from the White House, but also the comments were cut out of the tape for replays.

Rudy · June 16, 2009

I know sarcasm usually escapes you, so I'll try to help. This link doesn't do it justice, but that girl got mocked bad (and the other stuff in the article was just interesting in a non-partisan fashion): http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...DDGJO4EJ9U1.DTL

Dude, I was joking around, no need to get offened.