Christ, this dumb cow still thinks she has a shot at high office. Also.

I predict the fRighties will see this as a victory over ... something and look for more opportunities to exhibit OUTRAGE. Much running around in clown shoes will ensue.

I’m actually far - FAR - more offended by Amy Siskind’s insipid post than I was by Caribou Barbie’s shit dribblings.  And as for Zeigler…Christ, he’s creepy.  He’s giving off this weird Trashcan Man “my life for you” vibe, diluted by a heavy dose of “looking for the one gesture that will finally get Sarah to fuck me”.  Gah.

Once again, the Republicans look like the montage at the end of The Benny Hill Show, running around at double-time with “Yackity Sax” playing in the background.

I thought Letterman’s apology very classy—and sincere and articulate (unlike a certain Governor’s). Thanks for posting the clip, Kevin K.

Ah yes, lip service supporting free speech couched in an obvious ignorance of/contempt for its implications.

And people say liberals and conservatives can’t agree on anything.

I’m a little shocked by this sudden civility.  Palin and her clan appear to be the type of people who simply live for this kind of drama.

And perhaps most revolutionary of all are the unlikely alliances being forged to fight against the words of David Letterman.

Yeah, remember how well that worked back when Andrea Dworkin and the religious right joined forces to fight pornography, and pornography was wiped from the face of the earth forever?

Allan—Yes, but then that dirty liberal Al Gore invented the Internet and ruined everything.

As for Palin’s “This is all thanks to our U.S. Military women and men…” spiel, she desperately needs to download some new talking points, or at least some subtler transitions to the old ones.  It could be hilarious to watch the Republicans (and T ‘n’ A) pretending to fight for women’s rights, but they need to step up their game to even do a credible parody.

New game for the Late Show: “Will the Protestors Float?”

Am now breathlessly awaiting Sarah Palin’s apologies to Sasha and Malia Obama for the way she whipped up crowds into a murderous frenzy against their father on the campaign trail last fall. But hey, what’s a mob screaming “Kill him!” and “Traitor!” in comparison to the horror of a late-night talk show host making a tasteless joke?

Letterman should be done now. He should get back to joking around and ignore that snowbilly drama addict.

The last time I saw a woman milk something this long and this hard with such cold, mechanical, insincerity, it had Swedish subtitles and a cameo appearance by Ron Jeremy.

I can’t wait to see how Letterman incorporates the protest outside his theater into his program tonight.  Be sure and tune in!

I’m now TIVOing Letterman even though I don’t usually watch him, in case that improves his ratings somehow…

Hope you’ve got lots of chips, dip and beer in the fridge Kevin.  You just got linked to at Wonkette!

Why does everyone kiss Caribou Barbie’s ass?  Palin thinks she’s the fucking queen of America, prancing around like nobody can insult her lest they face the wrath of the rest of the nation.  I can’t wait until some national figure tells Palin to fuck the hell off and fuck your apology, too.  That’s the least she deserves.

Hi Wonketeers!  You can’t see it, but right now I’m waggling my trucknutz with glee that you’re here.

Oh, and since Embassy Suites Hotels, who don’t actually advertise on the David Letterman Show, decided to pull their online advertising from CBS.com, thereby stupidly wading into a fray that doesn’t even concern them, I let them know that I won’t be exercising my HiltonHonors membership at any of the Hilton family hotels. 

I just want them to realize that making PR hay out of WATB nontroversies has a down-side too, in that it pisses off some of the people who actually patronize their businesses…

“This is all thanks to our U.S. Military women and men putting their lives on the line for us to secure America’s Right to Free Speech - in this case, may that right be used to promote equality and respect.”

Fuck you Palin, fuck you, your family, your supporters and your fucking dog as well. Fuck you for being an ignorant, hateful piece of shit. Fuck you three times over for your insincerity, your lack of class, your willingness to be a hatemongering tool of the most vicious sort.

Fuck anyone who condemns Letterman for a joke and pretends that somehow they are standing up for women’s rights in this world. Fuck anyone who can’t take a fucking joke and instead must make it a martyrs ceremony so false, so disingenuous that it makes a mockery of the real work men and women do in this country to make it a better place for all.

This piece of shit spent 6 months calling me a traitor, well you self-indulgent crackhead, I wore the uniforms of two branches of this nation’s military and I guarantee you one fucking thing, I didn’t serve to protect your right to call me a traitor.

Fuck you very much Governor, now go back home and teach your sons and daughters how to use a fucking condom so that future generations will be spared any further progeny of your loins.

Classless bitch.

Recruiting soldiers for the coming War on Jokes.

The military services are dear to the Palins; where else would they be able to send their juvenile delinquent children to learn the discipline and self-respect they weren’t taught at home?

At this rate, by the time 2012 rolls around, Sarah’s going to be such a wrung-out, one-trick celebrity self-parody she’ll be judging TV talent competitions alongside Triumph the Insult-Comic Dog and the ghost of Charles Nelson Reilly.

Fuck John Ziegler, too.

The link Kevin provided about the lovely and talented organizer of tonight’s protest, Mr. Ziegler, includes this remark by the great feminist:

“I realize talking about women and being rational is an oxymoron”,

That was part of the elegant behavior he exhibited while on a television dating show. His date’s decision to swallow a cyanide capsule rather than go on a second date was not even slightly hard to understand.

That was part of the elegant behavior he exhibited while on a television dating show.

I think I saw that - where he was a complete asshole from beginning to end bitching about how he hated women or something.  Actually I think I went on a couple of blind dates like that back in college.  I ran into one of they guys on campus a couple of months afterward (didn’t think I needed to iterate that there was no follow-up date) and he said “Long time, no see.”  To which I replied “That’s for damned sure!” and kept walking very fast.

Amy Siskind’s post is so full of fail I don’t know where to start. 

And perhaps most revolutionary of all are the unlikely alliances being forged to fight against the words of David Letterman.

Ah yes, “the words of David Letterman.”  I was unhappy with his tasteless joke and let it be known in another thread.  But when he apologized the other day it came off as genuine and he said he would not even try to defend the joke.  So to make “the words of David Letterman” some kind of pinnacle of misogynystic speech to the point that it’s generated a cultural revolution is just hogwash.

And to imply that The New Agenda aka PUMA Lite is in charge of defining the feminist movement today (and yes, it still is called feminism, Amy) is beyond hogwash.  All the way to idiocy.

Looks like Letterman did what any self-respecting comedian would do - use these opportunist idiots, astroturfers included, as comedy fodder.

Apology offered and accepted. Screeching about invented pedophilia from a dozen or so hire-a-crowders is an insult to those who’ve been working on that issue for a long time, never mind those who’ve actually been affected by it.