LOL. Singed into law indeed. One of the best typos I've seen in a while.

I'm with Josh. Thanks for the smile of the day. Please don't fix this typo. It's priceless.

[You know what? You're right. I'm leaving that one alone. -Mod]

Getting Letterman fired. Doubt it. Republicans need to quit lashing out at everything. They need to sit back and come up with a responsible economic plan. Oops. I'm sorry. I'm talking about Republicans. Thinking isn't their strong suit.

A single obscure NY minority party Assemblyman (I am from NY) wants Letterman fired and that gets a full column on Politico? Insane !!!!

An obscure NY minority party Assemblyman (I am from NY) wants Letterman fired and that gets a full column on Politico? Insane !!!

Dude, you are surprised? The assignment editor of Politico might as well be Matt Drudge. Then read the comments. It's become the NYT of the far-right.

These Republicans want to use distraction and it is desperate. As if Letterman is the crisis.
Now the unstable Sarah Palin emerges, with her orange painted cheekbones,
looking every bit the fool--she who originally exposed her children.
These Republicans exist on an ever-declining base of support.

Rehab is the new junket?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/23150.html

Fire Letterman, really. Where are the cries to fire O'Reilly, Glen Beck and Fatty? Among the hoard of others...

I do believe we can amend Mark Twain's observation regarding Congressmen to this:

"Consider an idiot, then consider a Republican. Ah, but I repeat myself."

Score Brian Kolb 100 points for being the most moronic Republican fathead asswipe of the week for this (from Politico):

Kolb, who resides in the permanent GOP twilight that is Albany's lower chamber, dashed off a letter to CBS President Les Moonves calling for the host to step down in shame.

Outrage-dripping excerpts:

As the proud father of a daughter, and as a husband, I write to call attention to a shockingly inappropriate comment recently made by one of your employees about the 14-year-old daughter of the Governor of Alaska. The employee is David Letterman, host of the CBS “Late Show� who, as I am sure you are aware, made a vulgar comment about Governor Sarah Palin’s daughter Willow during his show on Monday, June 8. Mr. Letterman’s comment has ignited a media firestorm from outraged parents like me.

Mr. Moonves, as a proud father and husband yourself, I ask you to consider what sort of message is sent when an employee of the corporation you lead is allowed to make such disrespectful remarks about women? Furthermore, how can women who work at CBS not be demoralized by the fact that such inappropriate comments are permitted in a corporate workplace? Mr. Letterman should be fired for what he said. It is worth noting that he still has not apologized to Willow Palin or Governor Palin for his crude comments.

On behalf of parents across New York who are genuinely worried about a coarsening of our culture and are furious over Mr. Letterman’s rude behavior, I am calling on you take appropriate action and show that CBS will not tolerate demeaning and degrading comments about women being made by any of its employees, Mr. Letterman included.

What a pathetic bald fatboy in a bad suit this guy must be.

I'm not much of a David Letterman fan, but I have never got the sense that he was a pedophile, or that he promoted criminal sexual assault.

But this is what Sarah Palin is claiming. The only fact in Sarah's favor is the ambiguous nature of David's joke. But the ambiguous subjects/objects of his joke are not ambiguous if you follow the news. Which of Palin's daughters got pregnant? Which daughter is in the news? Which daughter talked about how not to get pregnant? Most important: who announced that Bristol Palin was pregnant? Who did not suggest Bristol should not appear with her baby on television, or on the cover of a magazine?

White trash, just like me.

And finally, if Pat Buchanan would at least pretend to be respectful of people who aren't white Christian men, I'd appreciate it.

Paging Michael Steele...Mr Michael Steele (R-Token), from Bitchslapped, USA...you have a call...

I love the post by the drooler who called CBS the "Communist Broadcasting System" and the other bimbo who was so outraged by Letterman that she's putting a block on her TV so "I never see this network again." What alternative universe do these people live in?

* Both sides have claimed victory in Iran's closely-watched presidential election. Iranian officials, for what it's worth, claim Ahmadinejad is well ahead.

Since Moussavi's side has warned that, should the elections be at all close, Ahmadinejad will be in the position to tip the results in his favour, you can take it that Ahmadinejad *is* the winner; all that's still lacking is the official statement to that effect. Shades of Florida and Ohio, I guess.

A chart like that one for the US would be helpful, too.

Then they'd realize there isn't much difference between us and them, except maybe that we don't have a supreme leader and our judiciary basically fills the same role.

Cupp is very clearly, severely retarded.. Where does Faux dig up the bimbos?

from themudflats.net in Alaska--a really great comment:

"I really think Letterman should make a Top-Ten list out of this. Perhaps something about Palin’s history of taking the “not so high road� in matters such as morality, respectability, and protocol. I’m sure AKM and Shannyn could add to it, but here’s a start:

#10 Hired a Commissioner of Public Safety who had received an official letter of reprimand from his previous employer for sexual harassment.

#9 As Mayor of Wasilla, (Sarah) supported women by instituting a new policy of charging for rape test kits

#8 Advocates self-esteem and empowerment of young girls and women by giving political speeches while wearing skin-tight skirts and red CFM heels.

#7 Teaches her 14 year old daughter about dignity and self esteem by allowing her to go on political tour wearing Daisy Duke short shorts.

#6 Publically called for “Backlash� against Alaska citizens who question her questionable ethics. Immediately followed by public backlash against a former state personnel official who wrote a letter pointing out that cleavage-baring clothing is not appropriate office attire for state employees.

#5 Supports the rights of women by being publically “annointed� by an African preacher whose church’s doctrine focuses on “ridding the world of demons and witches.� After he declared that a local woman was a witch, she was stoned.

Of course, the funniest thing about this list is that it’s all true, and it might shed some light about the reality of Sarah to those who aren’t normally privy to the day-to-day whackjobbery."

hmmmmm

#6 Fires Beverly Wooley, Alaska Public Health Director on June 5,2009. Wooley was a strong advocate for women's health issues. Unexpectedly shows up in Seneca Falls NY on same day to praise Susan B. Anthony (or to bury her, perhaps).

Seven lies for seven CEOs...

NYT: In 1994, the chief executives of the nation’s seven largest tobacco companies appeared at a House hearing overseen by Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, and swore under oath that tobacco was not addictive and did not cause cancer.

Holy smokes... In 1994?

Looking to write a paper for a history class? Here you go: Who were the 7 CEOs? Where did they get their MBAs from? Did they take any business ethics classes at Yale or Harvard? Were the seven in any way punished for their lies under oath? Do any of them smoke?

Iranian officials have stated that it is not close. Barring any evidence of blatant election fraud, it would not be a surprise given that Ahmadinejad has very strong support with the working-class and small business people, not to mention the large number of the poor in the countrysides. He is seen by them as the reformer and anti-corruption candidate that his opponent claims to be.

If Ahmadinejad is returned to office, just how nutty is he going to get when he thinks his attitude and methods have been affirmed - especially when the opposition has been so widely expressed in public? It's a very frightening prospect.

Thanks, Mod.

> The administration came under fire today from the
> left for its defense in court of the Defense of
> Marriage Act. The Justice Department insists it
> didn't have any choice; the agency's attorneys
> are required to defend current law. Obama is on
> record supporting a repeal of DOMA.

I tend to love your summaries, but this...sucks. Honestly, my middle-of-the-road NPR station gave 3 seconds to this tonight and did a better job.

"the gays"? Aren't (just) mad that the Justice Department defended it -- we're horrified to see Obama's justice department comparing gay marriage to incest, sounding like Rush could have written it.

Think of the United States of America as a computer...and dangerous right-wing fanatics as malware.

Or think of the MSM as a computer...and Faux News and the Washington Times as both malware and scareware.

Or think of the Bush/Cheney administration as a computer...with what they did to the executive branch and so many federal agencies (malware), what they did before starting the Iraq War, along with their repeated invocation of 9/11 (scareware) and the illegal wiretapping of U.S. citizens and bypassing of FISA (spyware).

And, of course, when the Bush/Cheney administration decided to trash over two hundred years of American tradition, the Geneva Conventions and the International Convention Against Torture, as well as numerous federal anti-torture statutes, they created a new category...tortureware.

And who were these programmers who decided to reprogram America to fit their warped and twisted conservative vision, the neo-con Republicans with the help of both lapdog Republicans and conservative DLC Blue Dog Democrats...so the header over the Bush/Cheney administration's malware, scareware, spyware and tortureware activities should be neoconware, a really viral and often lethal "control" program.

Anyone have an anti-virus program that will help? Can we de-bug our democracy before it's too late, before more right-wingers go berserk and kill even more innocent citizens? Has the Republican Party and conservatives in general become so consumed and compromised by scareware, malware, tortureware and spyware that they are self-erasing before our very eyes? Will the culture of corruption, lies and greed Republican Party crash the computer (our country, our beloved democracy)?

Had Letterman only said that it was the mother with whom the seventh inning stretch interlude had occurred, wouldn't A-Rod have grounds for being accused of "slumming"?

Everyone: please read Charles Blow's column, "Hate in a Cocoon of Silence," in Saturday NYTIMES. He addresses eloquently how our culture of silence in the face of violence supports its continuance.

Does Rust Limpballs realize what he's just done to the entrepreneurs and other businesses in this country by saying that exercisers are to blame for skyrocketing medical costs? His "legions of followers" and dittoheads, by following his advise, will not be buying sports equipment, paying to join leagues, going out together after the game to celebrate, not buying home gym equipment to help them stay physically fit for their sport of choice, not buying sports clothing such as jogging shorts and running shoes, not buying aspirin to help with the day after aches from being out having fun on the court or field, etc. That hurts our economy and so hurts the U.S.A. Way to go Rust. Why are you promoting ideas the drive us further into the economic abyss? Why are you blaming non-drug addicted, non-corpulent, healthy, patriotic Americans for excessive medical bills, and then calling them schoolyard names like 'freaks'? Blaming, name calling and hating on our fellow Americans, finger-pointing, putting forth ideas that stifle our economy during a time of economic crisis, and generally hurting our country and it's businesses. Why do you hate America so much?

Pretty sick commentary. If the daughter had had an abortion, it wouldn't be slumming? No young person should be subjected to this kind of joke on national television. A mistake is a mistake and a lot of young people make them. She didn't ask for this kind of comment and didn't deserve it.