Back Atcha, David Letterman

In Guyland we don’t take too well to good women being defiled, repeatedly, publicly, no matter what their political persuasion. David Letterman and his recent escapades and borderline personality disorder fixation, given his incessant running down of Sarah Palin and her family, can best be explained by saying this: David Letterman is a punk.

He confirmed this in spades with a follow up segment some nights later that was a mealy-mouthed, disingenuous self-deprecation bit of self-promotion. In Guyland we also ‘own it’ – whatever ‘it’ is or we don’t. Letterman did neither.

We shouldn’t be surprised. Letterman has evolved to become a cranky, mean, leftist curmudgeon who has no regard for even the most basic tenants of human decency if a crude joke can be fashioned instead. It’s funny if Dave says it is, and, if it’s making perverted, vile comments about a conservative, especially if it’s the fourteen year-old daughter of the governor of Alaska, then it’s really funny. If there’s ever a remake of the 60’s sit-com “My Three Sons,” Letterman will be perfect for the role of cantankerous Uncle Charlie played by William Demarest. 

Cranky Uncle Charlie

 

Cranky David Letterman

 

 

The current flap has brought other pathetic-excuses-for-men to the forefront as well. Letterman defender Matt Lauer, who in an interview with Sarah Palin suggested that it was “in bad taste” for Palin to say that it would be wise to keep daughter Willow away from Letterman, couldn’t find his testes with an AWACS jet. MSNBC crackpot Keith Olbermann suggested that the Palins didn’t accept Letterman’s apology (the one Letterman never made) “so they can instead martyr themselves and their daughters on a fake cross of pedofilia.” Which explains why Olbermann’s ratings are as low and outside as a errant slider in a sandlot game. The guy is as crazy as an outhouse rat. Why mention them- they’re just a couple of lightweight sycophants of the same gospel. Amazing how these idiots defend submarine-skippering the level of public crudeness to even more despicable lows while self-anointing themselves as heros for doing so.

Alas, Letterman extended an invitation for the Palins to come on his show. It would be better ratings for Letterman to go visit the Palins in Alaska. Todd could meet him at the airport. Or behind the airport. And show him just how any real father would deal with dirty old men who would debase an adolescent daughter on national television in front of millions.

The obvious double-standard of the media when it comes to allowing the trashing of conservatives and their families but not that of any liberals is no surprise. Journalistic integrity goes by the wayside if you can use the image of an adult defiling a conservative politician’s child as a gag line. The thing that makes the Russian Mafiya (from an article in the Houston Chronicle) so heinous is that they will kill the enemy, his wife, his children, and his friends as a theatrical warning to competitors and for the sheer joy of tyrannical violence. Letterman seems to abide by the same credo when it comes to viciousness in the name of a cheap laugh.

According to Letterman we are to understand and accept that all decency is jettisoned in show biz if we can get mileage out of the lowest form of wit, cut-down humor. When did it become acceptable to take a kernel of fact and morph into a base, vicious, vile, hurtful, hateful caricature against children? Well, according to David Letterman, he’s been doing it for thirty years (so what’s the big deal?) One wonders if Letterman can take it as well as he can dish it out. Let’s find out.

The host of NBC’s Late Night With David Letterman and a child rapist walk into a bar. And that was just the first guy.

David Letterman and an adolescent girl are walking through a remote forest. After a while, the young girl gets very cold and frightened, and she says, “Mister, I’m scared and cold, please let me go.” Letterman cries out, “you think you’re scared? I have to walk home alone!”

A washed-up has-been late night television host is standing on a street corner when he’s approached by another old man and acquaintance. “I haven’t seen you in a while, Dave, where you been?” “Well,’ says Letterman, “I’ve been in jail.” “Jail?” asks the other old guy. “What’d you do, Dave?” Letterman answers, “Nothing. See, I was minding my business one day when all the sudden a pretty, little underage girl runs up to me pulling a policeman by the sleeve. She screams, ‘Officer, there he is, he is the one who raped me!’” “What? And you let her get away with it?” exclaimed the friend. “Well, I tell you,” says Letterman, “I felt so flattered, I admitted to it.”

How many David Lettermans does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, but it takes a whole team of surgeons to remove it.

Just like the foot that’s stuck in your mouth, Dave. You punk.