Letterman: "Great Moments" Ends Tomorrow
Letterman fans know well this on-going feature that's called "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches." I do believe it's run all eight years of the Bush presidency (and in case you think Letterman was picking on W, Clinton got much, much worse over his two terms.) Anyway, this feature will officially end tomorrow night with a three-minute send-off.
A shame. What will Dave do for Obama? (Or should I ask, what will Dave do TO Obama?)
CBS didn't get us the clip, so I dug one up myself. Here's a nice one indeed...
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What a joke. Letterman was never tougher on Clinton.
What he did was portray him as a horndog.
Pretty much simply a loveable rouge.
With Bush, Letterman goes after him as if he was a combination
of evil and fool. And he always took on Republicans for scorn.
The only Democrats he ever went after were the Dems already
headed out of office, like the Governors of New York and New
Jersey.
The reporter on this is as in the bag for Obama as Letterman.
He is as objective as the Washington Post who clapped for
their Messiah when came to visit them today.
Letterman is simply a snarky old man who has latched onto the
genius political sense of Hollywood whose stars know so much
more than we common people.
What a joke. Letterman was never tougher on Clinton.
What he did was portray him as a horndog.
Pretty much simply a loveable rouge.
With Bush, Letterman goes after him as if he was a combination
of evil and fool. And he always took on Republicans for scorn.
The only Democrats he ever went after were the Dems already
headed out of office, like the Governors of New York and New
Jersey.
The reporter on this is as in the bag for Obama as Letterman.
He is as objective as the Washington Post who clapped for
their Messiah when came to visit them today.
Letterman is simply a snarky old man who has latched onto the
genius political sense of Hollywood whose stars know so much
more than we common people.
Hey Tim in Phoenix...
Thanks for the note and you may well be right about Letterman being a snarky old man - but he did go after Clinton, and went after him every single night. And not just the horndog business, though that was certainly the bulk of it. Plus Hillary. He goes after Bush as - to use your word - a "fool" but I don't quite get the "evil" part of your equation.
And may the Cards go down in flames this weekend...
V
I was a loyal Dave viewer almost from the very beginning of his NBC late night tenure. But the relentless hatefulenss of the same gag night after night after night drove me away from the show a couple years ago.
And now that the bit could easily continue with Obama - ever notice what a poor speaker he is when he doesn;t have a teleprompter to read? - he chooses to end the bit.
I left you, Dave, a couple years ago and I'm never coming back.
Back in the '90s, Dave Clinton-bashed to the point that I thought he was getting more conservative in his old age. I think Dave's first preachy moments came back during the Lewinsky scandal. So yeah, when Dave gets genuinely outraged, he can't hide it any longer, no matter which party is involved.
Is it relentless hatefulness that the Bush gags take place night after night, or is it simply amazing that there has been such a neverending supply of them?? These are all Bush gaffes from his own mouth. Amazing.
And I would argue that showing Bush as a hopeless, lovable word-mangler and malapropist makes his as charming and harmless as the lovable-rogue-horndog Clinton portrayal.
Turk,
Why don't you write this blog?
That was perfect - I wished I coulda said it as well, but I'm in a malaprop kinda frame of mind, so I'll leave it to you.
Perfect.
V
First off, Letterman did indeed lay into Clinton. Frankly, it was worse than what's he's done with George W. Bush. Jabs at Clinton (who certainly deserved them) usually filled the majority of Letterman's monologues. Bush has been basically relegated to these "Great Moments..." bits, and the jokes come straight out of Bush's own mouth.
The fact is, and I do mean "FACT": George W. Bush is an inarticulate imbecile. Nothing more than a spoiled frat boy who has had everything handed to him his entire life - including the Presidency of the United States. His parents should be ashamed of themselves for unleashing this stubborn-minded jackass, incapable of a rational thought, upon our unsuspecting nation.
If Barrack Obama - one of the most truly thoughtful and articulate persons I have ever been lucky enough to have been in the presence of - has any real guts, the first executive order he should put into action is the handing over of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney to the International court to be put on trial for war crimes against humanity.
Now that I'm through with that little rant: David Letterman is still hysterical! I know he could fill up an entire hour (if not several hours) with nothing more than the idiotic statements made by Bush in all his "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches" segments. I'm looking forward to how he takes on Barrack Obama - if it becomes necessary!
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