Who advertised on David Letterman last night?
Remember, we believe it’s most effective to direct letters and calls to three of Letterman’s big advertisers like Olive Garden, Mars Candy, and Kelloggs so they are inundated with complaints about their advertising — but each day in Open Thread it would be good to know who is still advertising on Letterman’s nightly pigfest.
What are the advertisers saying when you call them?
In particular, what response are we getting from Olive Garden, Mars, and Kelloggs — three companies whose products support the exploitation of minors and the statutory rape of 14 year olds by sponsoring David Letterman’s platform to brutalize underage girls on national television.
How do these companies justify their support for Letterman?
Contact:
And remember to keep asking yourself, “What would Al Sharpton do?”. Get Letterman’s sorry cracker ass fired lickity-split, that’s for damn sure.
Where are the signs standing up for women?
Why is it only the black community that can rally and organize to shut down people like Letterman who make disgusting, dangerous remarks on the air?
Who is standing up for rape victims and minors the way Al Sharpton stands up for blacks?
June 12, 2009 at 6:42 am
I didn’t watch Letterman last night, so I can’t tell you who his advertisers were.
I did hear his comment about Sarah though, thanks to Fox & Friends.
He actually told the audience (who laughed hysterically) that Sarah had called and invited him to go hunting with her.
He seems unreachable!
However, his advertisers are not.
I haven’t phoned anyone yet, but I’ve sent e-mails to those addresses you provided and am sending a few written letters also.
Keep up the great work.
And thanks.
June 12, 2009 at 9:51 am
That’s another sick aspect of this: What is with the audience?! What kind of sadists pay to see this man spew his venom? And then LAUGH about it?!?!?!?!?!
When Letterman said that “he wouldn’t ever make a joke about rape” (but we all know he did), the audience laughed!! These sickos find rape funny?!?!?!?! They should be ashamed of themselves.
June 12, 2009 at 10:10 am
Unfortunately, I think the tickets are free. I read on some entertainment mag that the Jonas Bros appeared on LNWDL..that sucks because they supposedly have morals..so they claim.
June 12, 2009 at 10:21 am
Most disturbing to me are the comments on blogs from young women saying they are now Letterman fans because of this.
There. Are. No. Words.
I just pray that they are paid O-bots. The alternative is too sick to think about.
June 12, 2009 at 10:26 am
Now this situation is being turned and Letterman is now the victim and Palin is being portrayed as relentless. Sad.
June 12, 2009 at 10:58 am
I don’t watch Letterman – haven’t for the past 6-8 yrs. But in the clips played on Greta VS last nite, hearing the audience laugh made me sick. I wonder if it’s a “laugh track”??? Also hearing that Paul whatever laughing in the background made me want to barf. Letterman appears to be treating this like a minor irritant – like swatting at a pesky fly. Not even significant enuf to really smack like a mosquito. Still making jokes about it. Bet if someone had referred to his wife as a slut, or made suggestive remarks about his son being raped by a school teacher or something, he’d come unglued. Did hear this a.m. that NOW has gotten involved.
June 12, 2009 at 6:47 am
I was only able to watch a few minutes of ads last night and here are the ones I saw:
bing.com
Saturn
Centrum Ultra Men’s
Samsung Jack Mobile
Oprah
Kings of Leon (concert & CD)
Slumberland
I am sending more letters today and look forward to other people posting additional advertisers from last night so I can send to those also.
June 12, 2009 at 9:31 am
Saturn
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo!
Crapity, crapity, crap crap crap!
Worse, they’re still part of Government Motors. Which means that’s our money going Davey…d’oh!
June 12, 2009 at 10:50 am
You won’t have to feel bad for too long….
Saturn is one of the few product lines of GM that is still profitable.
So, of course Prince Zero and his czar are shutting it down.
June 12, 2009 at 7:16 am
Don’t give up. Keep writing and phoning. Let’s see if Gutternam can handle 1/1000th of the heat that Sarah gets every day.
Thanks HillBuzz.
June 12, 2009 at 7:17 am
Gutterman! FIFY
June 12, 2009 at 10:04 am
You worded it good — this is nothing compared to what Sarah and her family have had to go through.
June 12, 2009 at 10:12 am
I don’t know if you believe in God or not…but even though Gov. and her family are going through this…she is going to be able to stay strong and make it (with our help) because I believe she has been placed her for such a time as this..her strength is not from this world..
June 12, 2009 at 10:12 am
here
June 12, 2009 at 5:54 pm
I believe that history will show that McCains choice for VP proved to be the greatest political decision he ever made. Once she becomes president the world will see it all fall into place, and know that a higher power is at work here lining her up to save this country and be our next president.
June 12, 2009 at 7:17 pm
I have always believed this is why she shows up as one of our country’s leaders at this time in history also.
Knew it as soon as I saw her enter the national political landscape last August.
And, I think the extreme libs recognize this too, albeit on an unconscious level and this is why they hate her so much.
June 12, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Denise
We are among many I think. Only time will tell, by I too felt something when she walked out onto that stage in Ohio.
June 12, 2009 at 7:30 am
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
June 12, 2009 at 10:41 am
The Chicago Tribune has a poll today asking if Letterman should apologize. Right now it’s about even for Yes & No voters.
Go and vote:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/
June 12, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Apologize? The @sshole should be fired.
June 12, 2009 at 2:54 pm
tarred and feathered and run outta town on a rusty rail!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 12, 2009 at 7:35 am
sorry guys trying to embed palins interview on the today show this morning…. can somebody else do it can’t seem to get it to paste. it’s on msnbc.ocm. she did great…
June 12, 2009 at 7:36 am
http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?AID=38499&CHID=36
Today’s must read. Don’t let up on Letterman!
June 12, 2009 at 7:54 am
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/31304942#31304942
I hope that works. Sarah Palin was fantastic in this interview! She really didn’t let that idiot Matt Lauer get away with the Letterman spin! If the link doesn’t work go to website directly and watch, well worth it!
June 12, 2009 at 10:14 am
Just curious…does anyone know if Matt Lauer has always been an idiot? I used to watch the Today Show every morning…I used to enjoy watching Katie and Matt..however, they both really changed. Do you think it is just for the job, for the money or are they really like that?
June 12, 2009 at 10:51 am
I did watch the interview…she really did a great job. I wish she was the president and not BO!
June 12, 2009 at 11:37 am
Yes, Sarah Palin was magnificent.
June 12, 2009 at 11:36 am
We reflect what we worship.
If one worships the spotlight, money and fame, this is reflected in the person’s attitudes and priories.
June 12, 2009 at 12:21 pm
To answer your question about Lauer: Yes, he’s always been an idiot. He’s a liberal hack posing as a journalist.
June 12, 2009 at 9:15 pm
He did seem to have a lot of respect for her at the end of the interview though… Sarah was magnificent….changing his mind about her maybe?
June 12, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Synopsis of Palin/Lauer interview:
NBC host Matt Lauer interviewed Sarah Palin on June 12, and defended comedian David Letterman and his joke about the statutory rape of Palin’s daughter by baseball player Alex Rodriguez.
When Palin began to condemn the joke as wildly inappropriate and offensive, Lauer defended Letterman: “Since David Letterman’s not here, let me just say that he did not mention Willow by name, and he then went on to say he was not referring to your 14-year-old daughter,” as though to Lauer the excuse diminished the vile nature of Letterman’s joke.
At the end of the segment, Lauer did admit that, “a lot of people feel the joke was in extremely bad taste, no matter which daughter of yours he was referring to,” but not before Palin pointed out that, “regardless, it was a degrading comment about a young woman,” and no joke of that nature should be tolerated, no matter how old the victim of the joke is.
Lauer noted, “At the end of your statement you said that ‘a joke like this contributes to the atrociously high rate of sexual exploitation of minors by older men who use and abuse others.’ Now, it was a joke. It was probably by most standards in bad taste.”
Leave aside the question of by which standards it was in good taste, Lauer the T.V. star feigned ignorance of the media’s influence on America’s culture when he asked Palin, “But can you really connect the dots to criminal activity the way you did in that statement?”
But Lauer was not done defending Letterman. Palin issued a statement refusing to appear on Letterman’s show stating, “it would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman.” Lauer asked, “Are you suggesting that David Letterman can’t be trusted around a 14-year-old girl …Well is that not perhaps in bad taste also, governor? If you’re, you know, suggesting that a 62-year-old man couldn’t be trusted?”
So Lauer equated a disgusting sexual joke about a young woman with Palin’s statement, and then forced a mother to defend herself for wanting to protect her young daughter from a man who insulted and humiliated her with the joke.
June 12, 2009 at 7:56 am
Thank you Hillbuzz for staying on this. Even though Letterman still seems clueless and actually seems to be enjoying the attention, it’s getting MSM attention now. The above interview with SP on msnbc is awesome.
June 12, 2009 at 8:11 am
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/31304942#31304942
June 12, 2009 at 9:21 am
Now THAT was a woman who should run for President.
She stood her ground, she was articulate, and made her case.
GO SARAH GO !!!!
June 12, 2009 at 10:06 am
Love how unbiased that interview was *rolls eyes*. Her administration has made a tremendous accomplishment and Matt Lauer tries to belittle it. But she sounded great, as usual.
June 12, 2009 at 10:12 am
Love how Lauer tries to diminish her tremendous accomplishment. Gotta love NBC
June 12, 2009 at 11:18 am
Wow! All of that and……..no teleprompter!!!!!!!!!! How refressing that someone can be so well-spoken with not even so much as a note card in her hand. We could only be so lucky as to have her as the President rather than the Bobo we now have. Loved her statement about no one being “entitled” to anything and that people have to walk the walk as well as talk the talk and be accountable for their actions. Novel concept in this day & age when no one seems to be held accountable for a darn thing.
June 12, 2009 at 8:15 am
Palin’s interview was great…she handled herself well.
I loved the part when she referred to Backtrack as “the candidate who shall not be challenged”
June 12, 2009 at 10:33 am
Actually it was “the candidate who must be obeyed.”
Which the media absolutely do. To this day. Hence the constant Palin attacks. In a week in which she supported several worthy fundraisers and got the biggest energy company in the world to work with the biggest pipeline builder in the world. Sigh.
As she said Repubs have to “walk the walk … our accomplishments should speak for themselves.” She’s got ‘em. Wish the media would talk about ‘em.
She is the only politician who gets a dig in at the ONE in every interview. She finds a way to get it in there seamlessly. And, of course, the media ignore it, but at least for the first live interview, the dig is out there.
June 12, 2009 at 11:25 am
The media isn’t bright enough to pick up on her little digs. They’re all so in awe of Bobo that they’re pretty much “DUH” about anything she says.
June 12, 2009 at 8:25 am
With Letterman trashed and Palin vindicated, not to mention, now in the news more than ever, here’s what else is on my mind.
HEALTH CARE! This is a big one folks, the BIG one and ultimate goal of BO.
Please continue in WAR mode but with BO. We need to demand our senators vote no on obamacare. In addition to your state senators, we need to contact the three BIG defectors: Specter, Collins, and Snow. We need to remind them, we haven’t forgotten their votes that passed the porkulus and the mess our country’s in.
Judd Gregg has a proposal that makes sense and won’t further bankrupt this country.
We need to act now, BO et al will ram this thru sometime this summer.
Why Join the Fight Against Medicare For All?
1. Medicare for All will create shortages in healthcare services forcing providers to ration care and increase wait times for patients (12-18 month wait in other countries).
2. Currently, Americans do not pay taxes on employer provided health insurance benefits. If you have health insurance through your company, you are about to be taxed on those plans. The Government will require all Americans have health insurance and impose FINES on those who do not.
3. The REAL GOAL: Government insurance seeks to eventually squeeze out and eliminate private health insurance companies altogether, forcing Americans to become dependent on a “one plan fits no one” Medicare system.
4. The Government will have access to and control over your health records intruding into the privacy and confidentiality of the doctor patient relationship. We all know how the Government handles confidential information.
5. The current Medicare and Medicaid programs are flawed and full of corruption. What will happen when we add another 100 million Americans to the program?
6. The President’s current plan will add another TRILLION dollars to the deficit. Another government program on an already strained economy will bankrupt the United States.
7. How will Congress pay for their new plans? TAXES. The President campaigned that 95% of Americans would receive a tax cut. However Democrats are now planning to increase taxes on everything from sugar to cigarettes as well as creating new taxes, such as Value Added Tax.
8. No one in the country is currently denied access to healthcare so why is the President rushing a plan for socialized medicine without thoughtful debate and consideration? The Government should not be allowed to tell you what healthcare you are entitled to and how to live your life.
9. Government controlled heath care takes the decision making out of the hands of individuals and families and puts it in the hands of politicians in Washington.
10. What legal recourse will you have if the government denies you or a loved one medical care? None.
Help us win the fight against Medicare for All. Visit smartgirlpolitics.ning.com for more information.
June 12, 2009 at 9:24 am
I have been told about HR 1321 that has been sponsored. Is this the Medicare for all or is it a different bill? From what I have seen about it, it seems to be a good compromise. However, I may not be hearing about the other parts of the bill that ends up being the Medicare for all bill. I think it is being sponsored by blue dog democrats.
June 12, 2009 at 9:43 am
8. No one in the country is currently denied access to healthcare so why is the President rushing a plan for socialized medicine without thoughtful debate and consideration? The Government should not be allowed to tell you what healthcare you are entitled to and how to live your life.
That is NOT true. I personally know many people who were born with heart defects, had surgeries as children and as adults either can not get affordable health insurance because of preexisting conditions or IF they had a job with benifits they maxed out on the life time amount insurance will pay. They Can NOT get surgeries, testing ect they NEED, because they do not have and can not get insurance or IF they owe money they can not be treated until the old bill is paid. Hospitals can not throw you out of emergency rooms and must treat ER cases, but as soon as you are stable they are not required to do anything else like non emergency heart surgery (and MOST heart surgeies are considerred “elective” since you can schedual it and are not rushed from the ER like in the case of a heart attack ect.
I am not saying we need medicare for all, but we do need to proved affordable insurance for EVERY person. Right now the only way most people with preexisting conditions can get insurance they can AFFORD is thru their employer and as we all no with the economy benefits are always being cut.
June 12, 2009 at 9:59 am
lynn, I agree that we need affordable insurance for every person. The Repubs and Senator Gregg are trying to do that; but the Obamacrats will not listen. They are pushing a huge monstrosity and, so far, will not allow input. And, again, like the stimulus, so much of it is hidden. We must be suspicious. We must have time to have input. :)
June 12, 2009 at 10:13 am
Oh, I forgot to include with the Repubs and Senator Gregg that many Democrats are squeamish about this particular health care reform plan.
June 12, 2009 at 10:16 am
Oh I agree and do not trust anything Obama does, especially on healthcare since HE is the one with the damn Harry and Louise flyers, UHC is VERY important to me (One of the reasons I worked hard to get Hillary elceted) because I DO know many people who know fault of their own were born with heart problems and now have to suffer threw years with their hearts getting worse and worse, when a surgery would have had them back to “normal” or getting the test they need (my sons cardiac MRI alone was 13 grand, just the test, not the docs reading ect and he was one every 2 years along with other expensive tests) it is not just the kids born with heart defects, but millions of people have pre existing conditions and can not get insurance they can afford (I personaly believe Charity begins at home, and we should take care of OUR citizens before we give billions of dollars to other countries… but thats another story.) I also personally know parents from different support groups that were advised to get divorced so their child could get insurance, since they made too much for gov programs but not enough to pay for the costs of insurance with their child’s heart problems and certainly couldn’t afford to pay over 100,000s for 1 heart surgery.
I just think it hurts the entire argument against Obama’s ramming thru another costly thing that will not work, when you say no one is denied healthcare, since if people read or hear something that they know is NOT true, they tend to have doubts about the rest of the argument.
June 12, 2009 at 11:47 am
“That is NOT true. I personally know many people who were born with heart defects,…”
I disagree with your disagreement. I work in the health care field, and people with non emergent conditions and NO health insurance that would benefit from somewhat complicated outpatient therapy we refer to the local state hospital/clinic. Yes, the taxpapers suck up the costs for their health care, but they do get care. I second PVG’s assertion that no one is denied care. The people that don’t get care are the woe-is-me, I don’t got no insurance types that cannot inconvenience themselves to make an appointment and be COMPLIANT with follow up appointments at the local “free” clinic. Let’s face it, if you have an illness, it does take WORK on your part too to either become well or control your own disease. We live in an instant gratification society. There needs to be a one time pill to take away whatever the ailment is, otherwise, it’s not worth the bother.
These “elective” heart surgeries will be VERY “elective” under government medicine, or I should say non-existent, wait until you die “elective”. People with unstable angina (pain from their heart from narrowed blood vessels) do not get discharged from a hospital without angioplasty or a bypass, whether they can afford it or not (unless they refuse it). I have never seen even one case of that EVER (and I see a lot of people).
I agree that the health insurance system is broken, but I also assert that government has done a lot to empower them. Today, the insurance companies run as quasi governmental agencies and free market has been taken out of the equation, driving up costs.
June 12, 2009 at 3:25 pm
My husband is in Healthcare Administration and he’s been saying what you’ve said, C Mill. The Ins. Co. are at the root of the problem. Their lobbyists are strong and they are the driving force behind everything in Healthcare. Deal with the Ins. Co.’s and take away their power and a good many of the problems will be resolved. Not all – it’s still an imperfect system – but heads & tails above what is being proposed in this new Healthacare plan. We need to scream & holler to anyone who will listen to keep that plan from happening.
June 12, 2009 at 9:49 am
Dems. dictating to doctors who they can’t listen to:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/06/democratic-leaders-warn-doctors-not-to.html
June 12, 2009 at 11:10 am
Hi, KR. Thank you. That is disgusting. Folks, understand that these people are trying to RULE us. They don’t want discussion. That means they are also afraid of us. They are afraid we are on to what they are doing.
“They said, ‘Republicans are having this meeting and you need to let all of your clients know if they have someone there, that will be viewed as a hostile act,’” said a Democratic lobbyist who attended the meeting.
A hostile act? People who are afraid of the Democrat health care bill and KNOW it is bad cannot even meet with Republicans?
This whole business of writing bills in a locked room, not allowing true debate, not reading bills, rushing through giant power grabbing bills has got to stop. Please, people, call and defend your rights. Tell them “No” to health care until they can have true and honest debate and get their act together on all the other failing massive programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security. If they can’t make these programs work, they can’t make the health care program work. Just common sense.
June 12, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Thanks, TXMom for elaborating. It is clear that the dems who are trying to push ObamaCare through really don’t want the best solution to healthcare in the US, they want total control.
June 12, 2009 at 9:49 am
Brilliant as usual, PVG. Take this fight where it will do the most good, because if BO’s version of nationalized heath care passes we are dead ducks.
On another note, please allow me to throw something out to you smart, caring and energetic people re: The Letterman-Palin dustup. Might it be in Sarah’s best interest to call a press conference and claim the high ground by saying something akin to:
Thank you for your support on behalf of me and my family, it is and will continue to be greatly appreciated. However, in the larger scheme of things, there are far more worthy and important topics than a late night TV host’s questionable taste, and it’s best that, as a nation, our attention be diverted there. What I am sure of, in this perilous economic climate, the last thing this country needs is a consumer boycott of any segment of
business, and that includes television networks, merchants and manufacturers that could — and very well would — translate into more lost jobs, more unemployment, more struggling families, hungry and homeless children …”
You get the picture. IMHO, she’d look like the bigger person (which she is, by a landslide), put the cranky old poop on CBS in his place without ever mentioning his name, slap the MSM around in the process, focus attention on the moribund economy … AND elevate herself in the minds of voters as the kind of politician who puts the nation ahead of personal distractions and pain. Sometimes it pays to know when to cease beating that dead horse. I value what you all think, so please, let the feedback begin.
June 12, 2009 at 10:18 am
I also read on hotair.com that the bill has a lot of “pork” in it…not really for health care as we think of it..but for bike paths, playgrounds, growth of farmers markets, etc. trying to make people into Obama’s image of who they should be. Now, I am all into being healthier, but the whole idea of freedom is that people have the right to make choices about what they eat if they exercise, etc.
June 12, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Farmers markets that only carry arugula?
June 12, 2009 at 6:10 pm
That bike path stuff was in the health care section of Obama’s platform on his website during the election. I thoroughly studied the health care portion of both Obama and McCain’s websites and neither one of them made a lick of sense. Obama’s had something about “safe sidewalks,” too. Mustn’t trip and break an ankle, I guess. Weird…..Chance to reward big concrete contributors???
June 12, 2009 at 11:28 pm
SDB,
I posted the “pork” below #39. Glad you asked.
June 12, 2009 at 11:05 am
Perfect, PVG.
With almost half of U.S. citizens saying the stimulus SHOULD NOT have been passed, and another 1/3 saying it’s NOT helping—can we see the similar, potential outcome of another Benito Boondoggle??
Things rushed through in the dead of night contain horrid surprises. If the plan is so good, then it needs the “transparency” Benito promised (that public website up yet??).
Universal health care—along with a a nice home, car and food on the table—is not a right guaranteed in the Constitution. PVG is right—look at Medicare, Medicaid—riddled with fraud and waste. Implementing another universal mandate is NOT the answer.
Yes, there are folks who choose to not get insurance or who can’t. I think the Republican plan addresses that. Blindly turning over still another industry to BO is not the answer. If we do healthcare, that puts a total of four huge industries in government control (banking, insurance, auto industry
the other three).
June 12, 2009 at 11:31 am
Wonder how much traction Bobo will get out of his lame-o “we need to do this right now because if we do nothing, it will be so much worse” crap. He said the same stupid thing about bailing out AIG, the auto industry and passage of the Stimulus pkg. Had to be done *right NOW* cuz to do nothing would be so much worse. Riiiiight! That’s why everything he’s touched has gone right down the toilet. His stimulus pkg hasn’t stimulated anything but the pockets of the people who got pork progects from the past 40 yrs paid for. And Chrysler still ended up filing for bankruptcy, didn’t it. Hopefully the rest of America will wake up, open their eyes and see this fake for the fraud that he is before he crams this Healthcare down our throat in a big rush like he did that other stuff.
June 12, 2009 at 8:29 am
Sarah was AMAZING during the Matt Lauer interview shown on msnbc.com. RISE UP!
I. LOVE. THIS. WOMAN!
I haven’t gotten responses yet from the advertisers I emailed. I could not stomach watching Letterman 2 nights in a row, so I don’t know who advertised Thurs. In fact, I had muted Wed.’s show so I didn’t hear his lame explanation/pretend apology until the next day online. But Sarah kicked butt during this recent interview. OMG!
June 12, 2009 at 8:31 am
The most notable national ads on the doofus show last night were:
Old Navy
Johnson & Johnson (Listerine)
Microsoft (Bing.com)
As well as repeats: Lexus, Wyeth (Centrum Vitamins), Pfizer (Zyrtec), Samsung and Touchstone Pictures (Disney)
The rest include: Chase, Saturn, T-Mobile, Mazda, and Ford
June 12, 2009 at 9:45 am
Please note I’m only listing the ads that are obviously national – not local ones.
June 12, 2009 at 9:56 am
BTW – Lancome (parent company is L’Oreal) had multiple banner ads on the Letterman pages of the CBS website for the past 2 days. I finally got screen shots.
June 12, 2009 at 10:11 am
Thank you for this info. I use a L’Oreal product and will be writing them. It will be very easy to switch to another line if they think it’s okay to advertise on DL after all this.
June 12, 2009 at 8:32 am
To hear Senator Gregg:
Use link, scroll down to the blue bar entitled daily clips.
http://club.tomsullivanradio.com/
LET’S ROLL!!
June 12, 2009 at 9:33 am
COUNT ME IN! Thanks.
June 12, 2009 at 2:58 pm
me too…..
June 12, 2009 at 8:35 am
Time to contact Disney!
June 12, 2009 at 8:50 am
Maybe Todd Palin should go Wayne Newton on Letterman’s bony old ass:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22043375/
June 12, 2009 at 8:51 am
Oops, I put this on yesterday’s thread. But it is a must see, so wanted to put it here:
Listen to the Behar bitch defend Letterman. Sick!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc6o7ulesrg
And I also want to add again. We need
“Another View” starring NeeNee, Ms Garlic and a couple of BuzzBoyz. Help us out here Tammy!
June 12, 2009 at 10:09 am
Behar is a disgrace to humanity. And now she’s getting her own vomit-inducing show. Baba Wawa doesn’t deserve to be called a journalist.
June 12, 2009 at 11:36 am
Super cheers to Elizibeth Hassleback for how she handled Behar, though. She got right in Joy’s face a couple times to point where Walter’s needed to jump in & cool things off a bit.
Couldn’t believe how Behar kept going on & on about Bristol Palin with her baby in her arms and then doing the arm gesture of someone holding a baby. What in the world???? So, a mother should hold her baby? Then she’d criticize that & tell her she should be at home holing her baby. Can’t win with these stupid people!
June 12, 2009 at 10:33 am
Can’t stand Behar’s screeching at any time. I’m mystified why anyone watches “The View” and how this show stays on.
June 12, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Yeah…I don’t know why (except for the money) that Hasselback stays because they roll over her every day anyhow…she can hardly get a word in..it’s just not the right place for her..
June 12, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Maybe *she* should be the host of “Another View”. Put it on Fox News and watch the Glenn Beck affect replicate. It would be interesting to hear what she has to say if given a chance to complete a sentence.
June 12, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Hasselbeck is biding her time till she can be President Palin’s Press Secretary!
(Megyn Kelly would be even better!)
June 12, 2009 at 3:01 pm
I have never watched that stupid show.hearing about it is enough for me..
June 12, 2009 at 7:23 pm
I’m with you foxy, I tried for 2 minutes a while back and nearly had a panic attack listening to all the back and forth about a whole lotta nothin.
June 12, 2009 at 8:55 am
Thank you to those of you who sit through his show to spot the advertisers – it’s been extremely helpful. I’ll continue my rounds of writing today.
June 12, 2009 at 9:43 am
Oh yuck. I don’t sit through the show or actually watch it. The amazing miracle technology called Tivo lets me record the show, then fast-foward through it so I can just watch the commercials. LOL!
June 12, 2009 at 9:11 am
What about putting pressure on the show’s guests? Sandra Bullock is on the show tonight hyping her movie “The Proposal” Rated PG-13. Do you think she is going to feel comfortable promoting it on a show that endorses an old man joking about 14 or 18 year old girls in a sexual context?
June 12, 2009 at 9:53 am
To be fair, Letterman’s Friday shows are usually taped on Monday, so this would have been taped before Dave’s repulsive “jokes.” Ms. Bullock should get a pass on this one, but no one after this should.
June 12, 2009 at 10:05 am
I think that is a good idea, if there is a way to contact them, that we know they actually will see it.
June 12, 2009 at 9:28 am
Scarborough and Peggy Noonan were at it again on Morning Joe. Didn’t say one word about the pipeline deal, instead attacking Palin, calling her “unthoughtful” and (Noonan’s word) “yappy.”
Mika’s defense was tepid at best (“I like the CONCEPT of Sarah Palin”) WTF is that?
June 12, 2009 at 10:15 am
When is someone going to call that bitch Noonan out for what she is: A Washington butt kisser who can’t stand the thought of NOT being invited to parties thrown by the elite?
I told you guys. Letterman is pathetic, but we’re now hearing “conservative” women tearing down another woman.
We will NEVER have a female President as long as idiots like Noonan have a platform.
June 12, 2009 at 11:57 am
I refuse to read Noonan or Parker. They are not Conservative. They are elitist snobs who look down their priggish noses at regular women who work our butts every day of our lives.
Every time they slam Sarah Palin they are scorning every woman I know. Because I don’t know any women that those two snobs would find worthy of their presence.
June 12, 2009 at 11:38 am
I’d take “yappy” anyday over the TOTUS with his head going back & forth between the telepromter screens and losing his place and having to stop and have someone reset it. Sarah can “yap” without teleprompter or even note cards. What a novel concept!
June 12, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Noonan should just shut her own yap. Better yet she should take her Dr. Utopia-worshipping butt over to the Liberals and stop calling herself a Conservative. She can take Gen. Colin Iscariot Powell with her!
June 12, 2009 at 9:47 am
Liberals attack a strong,beautiful,REAL woman and she has the temerity to hit back?NOT FAIR!NOT FAIR!
June 12, 2009 at 10:00 am
Folks, let’s face it. Our nation is bankrupt and Obama, with the full support of the Obamacrats, is seeking the largest power grab of our private sector (nationalization of 19% of the economy-Levin) than ever before in our history; he will also have power over the individual, you and me. Do not forget that things are now run in the WH by him and his czars. I ask myself why would they not fix Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security(which they have ruined by mismanangement and stealing the funds) BEFORE they attempt nationalizing healthcare?
The National Healthcare Reform, written in a closed room without input from most Democrats and all Republicans, is being pushed through as quickly as possible. They are hurrying, as they did with the stimulus bill, because they do not want the public to know the details; and they do not want you to know that Obama, with all his lies, cannot be trusted. The subject is vast; we should consider just one aspect of it at this time.
The following excerpts, along with my additions and paraphrasing, are from a study, Downgrading American Medical Care by Betsy McCaughey, PhD., a health policy expert, patient advocate, and former Lt. Governor of New York. Please read entire article at :
http://www.defendyourhealthcare.us/images/McCaughey_060809.pdf
In March, President Obama appointed Dr. David Blumenthal to head the system of computer-guided medical care as the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology. Just days later, he settled a debate on whether the system will control doctors’ treatment decisons. In the New England Journal of Medicine (April 9, 2009), he stressed that the REAL importance of computers is to deliver “embedded clinical decision support,” a euphemism for computers telling doctors what to do.” He PETITIONED CONGRESS TO CHANGE THE LAW. Of course, they did not.
Also slipped into the emergency stimulus legislation was funding for a Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research. Studying which medication or device works best is a good thing, but comparative effectiveness research is code for LIMITING CARE BASED ON PATIENT’S AGE. The cost of a treatment is divided by the number of years (called QALYS or QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS) the patient is likely to benefit. The formula leads to denying treatments for age-related diseases because older patients have a denominator problem — fewer years to benefit than younger patients with other diseases. McCaughey offers example. NOTE: Daschel applauds this system in his writings on healthcare.
When comparative effectiveness research appeared in the stimulus bill, Rep. Charles Boustany Jr., a Louisiana heart surgeon, warned to no avail that it would lead to “denying seniors and the disabled lifesaving care.” Sen. Jon Kyl introduced an unsuccessful amendment to bar the government from this type of action. Comparative effectiveness is now the law and Obama recently appointed Dr. Emanuel to the Council.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of Rahm Emanuel, says that the usual recommendations for cutting costs (often urged by Obama) are just window dressing: “Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records, and improving quality are merely “LIPSTICK” COST CONTROL, more for SHOW and PUBLIC RELATIONS than for true change.” (Health Affairs, Feb. 27, 2008.) The CBO report confirms that NONE of these strategies will yield much savings.
Are we understanding these lies that Obama and MSM are giving us better now?
As Glenn Beck says, get out the duct tape because the following is going to make your head explode.
True change, writes Emanuel, must include REASSESSING THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH. Amazingly, Emanuel criticizes the Hippocratic Oath as partly to blame for the “overuse” of medial care: “Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness,” he wrote. Physicians take the “Hippocratic Oath’s admonition to ‘use my power to help the sick to the best of my ability and judgment’ as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.”
(Journal of the American Medical Association, June 18, 2008.) Of course, this is what patients hope their doctors will do.
Emanuel wants doctors to look BEYOND the NEEDS of the patient and consider social justice. He wants the doctor to consider whether the money being spent on his patient could be better spent elsewhere. (Does redistribution sound familiar?) This idea horrifies most doctors who believe the doctor’s job is to achieve social justice one patient at a time.
Emanuel also questions American’s high standards like (1) hospital rooms offering more privacy and (2) physicians’ offices are typically more conveniently located and have more attractive waiting rooms. (Journal of the American Medical Association, June 18, 2008).
They intend to dictate everything from band-aids to heart surgery.
Members of Congress who oppose an overhaul of American healthcare don’t have much time to woo public support. The president’s advisors have urged him to hurry his health agenda through. “Speed is essential”, to quote Dr. Blumenthal, to ram this monster upon us before the people awaken to the damage done to us and our country.
Beware of Obama’s crafty double-speak. He says you will be allowed to keep your insurance; he speaks of “public option”.” Advocates argue that such a plan can compete fairly with private health insurance, and that this competition would “keep insurers honest”, you can keep your doctor and have more choices. WRONG. Please read http://keithhennessey.com/2009/06/11/the-belt-and-suspenders-of-the-kennedy-dodd-health-care-bill/
Why would we give the people who ran Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the housing industry, banking, and even our currency into the ground, all this power over our lives? Why would we let these people plan, without our input, this most important issue? Do they think we are stupid? Do they think we are sheep? Do they think we just EXIST to fund, with OUR money, their massive plans for dictatorial power over us?
Please make this horrific healthcare reform a priority and write, e-mail, fax Congress. I understand we have a chance to stop it if the Democrats, who are unhappy with this bill, and ALL the Republicans stick together. We must contact Snow, Specter, and Collins, the RINO’s, and remind them what a disaster the stimulus was and to vote no. We also need to contact our state Senators and Congressmen, especially if they are Democrat, as well. It is our duty to hound these people daily, to oppose this reform at this time. Your survival and our nation’s economic survival are at stake.
The following is McCaughey’s speech at the Manhattan Institute with questioning at the end. It is 40 minutes long; but is highly informative.
Video: http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/includes/templates/library/flash_popup.php?pID=286802-1&clipStart=0&clipStop=2700
June 12, 2009 at 11:27 am
This plan stinks.
Please take time to read TX Mom’s outstanding piece of research! All of us will be affected—through change in coverage, doctor availability AND additional taxes.
June 12, 2009 at 2:24 pm
awesome txmama!
June 12, 2009 at 3:20 pm
This is an excellent piece. Good job, TXMom!!! We need this information. As important as the boycott of Letterman & his sponsors is, we all need to get on this Healthcare reform thing with the same zeal. If everyone who is rallying around Sarah Palin on this Letterman issue does as much contacting of Congress to get this abomination of a bill STOPPED – we will have had a fantastic week indeed in showing that “we the People* are still a force to be reckoned with!!!
June 12, 2009 at 5:32 pm
We The People! Yeah!
June 12, 2009 at 10:08 am
I don’t know who Michael Patrick Leahy is, but he has a petition up to fire David Letterman.
http://www.firedavidletterman.com/
He also suggests contacting local affiliates, and calling and boycotting local sponsors.
June 12, 2009 at 10:14 am
Done. He needs to be fired. Thank you.
June 12, 2009 at 10:35 am
I signed up too.
Don’t know if it will help, but it’s worth a try.
Thanks Palindemocrat
June 12, 2009 at 10:08 am
First time posting, long time lurker. We are having an effect with calls, emails, letters. Just got off the phone with Olive Garden, was told they will be issuing a statement hopefully today. M&M Mars when the phone was answered and you’re given the menu of choices, the first option was “If you’re calling to complain about the David Letterman show”. The lady told me they have received “some” calls and she chuckled when she said that, implying that some was more like ALOT. The lady I spoke with at Kelloggs said she wasn’t aware of this situation. Keep up the pressure, telling them you are withholding buying their products until advertising is pulled seems to really make a point.
June 12, 2009 at 11:22 am
Great news about Olive Garden!
June 12, 2009 at 11:31 am
Excellent news, doubledown!
June 12, 2009 at 2:25 pm
welcome doubledown and thanks for the update!
June 12, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Hi, doubledown. Just got a response from Mars.
“While we do not “sponsor” television shows, we do contract for commercial time months in advance for those programs which we feel effectively reach our consumers. As a matter of policy we make every effort to avoid programs containing exploitative examples of ethnic, racial, religious or sexual stereotyping. We apologize if we were unsuccessful in this instance. Have a great day!”
That is called “weaseling out” AND a little snooty!
These MARS PEOPLE NEED TO BE HIT HARD!
June 12, 2009 at 5:11 pm
TXMom and everyone:
As Sebastian and the boys have pointed out I am one of those Republicans that have never done anything like this. They are advising us to keep writing, I would just add that we need to genuinely boycott these companies financially as well. Did not get my email from the Darden restaurant employee regarding the press release, maybe he was misleading me? I will not stop, as the boys stated the other day, right now I am a Palin! I’m just a simple mailman but on Mon I will be passing out the phone numbers to alot of my customers, Sarah is quite popular on my route. Keep up the pressure.
June 12, 2009 at 10:09 am
It is too difuse to boycott the three highest profiled advertisers. Better idea: Boycott the FIRST advertiser each night. You will have one letter to write and who knows, just maybe that corporation will get the message and shun that spot. Concentrate your outrage… LB.
June 12, 2009 at 10:47 am
Last night I watched Conan O’Brien and will make sure I watch it every night until David Letterman is fired. I think we also need to make it clear that we aren’t just boycotting Letterman but that we are making the choice to make sure our tv is tuned to the other late night show.
June 12, 2009 at 10:51 am
Awesome news, DoubleDown. Wonder why Kellogg’s in denial??? Let’s Give’Em More Pressure!
PS: I posted a link in the Kellogg thread from AOL that suggested that Palin is using this to raise money for her Presidental campaign…bastards!
June 12, 2009 at 11:05 am
A poster on the pumapac site referred to CBS as Child Brothel Services. Use that in your subject line when you write to them–we can make it go viral!!
June 12, 2009 at 11:20 am
For those writing letters – just a suggestion:
Include a coupon from that advertiser RIPPED IN HALF. These companies have coupons in Sunday papers or go right to their websites and print one to rip up…
June 12, 2009 at 11:25 am
Rush had a brilliant monologue on this Obama Healthcare bill yesterday. Obama was in Green Bay, WI speaking. Excerpts below:
RUSH: “Conservatives for Patients’ Rights is a group that’s stopping Obama, and they’ve got a post on their website today that cracks are forming around public opinion and government-run health care.
OBAMA: One of the options in the exchange should be a public insurance option. (applause) Now — and the reason is not because we want a government takeover of health care. I’ve already said, if you’ve got a private plan that works for you, that’s great, but we want some competition. If the private insurance companies have to compete with a public option, it will keep ‘em honest and it will keep — (applause) — help keep their prices down.
RUSH: My friends, There will be no private insurance once they get a public option. That’s the dirty little secret. There will be no competition. That’s the dirty little secret.
Once a public option is in place, the insurance companies are not going to be able to compete. They’re not even going to try. The insurance companies are going to try to off-load. Once there is a public option you’re going to see the insurance companies get out of it and get on board the government plan for a whole host of reasons. The dirty little secret here is that the idea of a public option is to end up with a single payer, and that’s the federal government.
OBAMA: I’ll be honest, even with these savings reform will require some additional up-front resources. And that’s why I’ve proposed that we scale back how much the highest-income Americans can deduct on their tax — taxes, back — take it back to the rate that existed under the Reagan years. And we could use some of that money to help finance health care reform.
RUSH: We scale back how much highest-income Americans can deduct on their taxes, take us back to the rate that existed under the Reagan years. Well, now, there were many rates that existed under the Reagan years. This is also designed to fool you because everybody associates Reagan with tax cutting, properly so. Do you know what the top marginal rate was when Ronald Reagan took office? Seventy percent. The top marginal rate when Ronald Reagan left office was 28%. But it took eight years to lower those rates, so what rate is he talking about here? Seventy percent? Fifty percent? What rate’s he talking about? He doesn’t specify. He just wants more taxes on the rich and somehow this is magically going to pay for health care and all these people are going to get it for free. That’s the impression he’s trying to leave. Here’s the next one.
OBAMA: Socialized medicine would mean that the government would basically run all of health care, they would, you know, hire the doctors; they would run hospitals; they just run the whole thing. Great Britain has a system of socialized medicine. Nobody’s talking about doing that, all right? So when you hear people saying, socialized medicine, understand, I don’t know anybody in Washington who is proposing that, certainly not me. Socialized medicine is different from a single-payer plan.
RUSH: Stop, stop. No, it’s not. Have you not heard what Senator Kennedy is working on? Nobody in Washington is talking about what he’s — look, I don’t like being in this position of having to call the president of the United States a liar, but I’m given no choice. Even if there is a private option in health care, you’re still going to have to pay for the government option. You’re going to pay it in taxes; you’re going to pay it any number of ways.
OBAMA: The more we are incentivizing high quality primary care, prevention, wellness, management of chronic illnesses — I mean one of the things that it turns out is that about 20% of the patients account for 80% of the care and the costs of the health care system. And if we can get somebody first of all who is overweight to lose weight so that they don’t become diabetic, we save tons of money
RUSH: Obama’s health care is the ball game. If he gets this, this never gets rolled back. If he gets this, virtually every behavior that we engage in could be subject to regulation based on its cost to health care.
Now, this statistic, 20% of the patients account for 80% of the care. Would he care to tell us the age of that 20%? Because I will guarantee you that the bulk of that 20% are people who have fewer years ahead of them than they have lived. I’m not being insulting here. I’m just saying most of our expensive health care comes as we approach the end of life. Fact of life. That ought to tell us right there where we need to stop spending money on health care. This public option versus the private option, look, all they’re going to do is be expanding Medicare. That’s all they’re going to do, folks, is Medicare is going to be expanded to where everybody has to use it, even if you have a private option, even if you’re able to go out and buy private insurance, you’re still going to have to opt into the Medicare program. That’s the objective.
June 12, 2009 at 11:26 am
Check out this link about Government Motors and their pay to play request. BTW, Bredesen is a democrat.
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090612/BUSINESS01/906120362&s=a
June 12, 2009 at 11:53 am
Benito does not want socialized medicine.
Yeah, right.
One of his first acts upon taking office was to provide $1.1 billion through the Porkulus bill for a national health care board. Did you know that? It was designed to oversee the effectiveness of health services modeled after the UK’s National Institute for Clinical Excellence. Over a billion dollars of taxpayer money to imitate lousy British health care!!
As the bill (Porkulus) was passed without legislators reading it—let alone studying it—many concerns have been raised since about this “study.” Exactly what and who will this comparative effectiveness research analyze and how will those results be implemented or enforced??
The bottom line: he’s already set up a socialized medicine health care board in the Porkulus bill modeled after the UK, which he admitted is a socialist system, socialized medicine. How can you describe what this man wants to do other than to call it socialized medicine??
Single payer socialized medicine. And it’s all about control. It’s not about cost. Benito doesn’t care what anything costs. Indebting our country to the tune of $12 trillion in debt over the next ten years, doesn’t rattle him one bit. In strict financial terms as a country, we are insolvent. We don’t have the money.
Also, there are currently 1,901 mandates regarding insurance. That’s an average of 38 per state. What is a mandate? State mandates require insurance companies to cover a variety of specialized medical services.
Some examples of mandates that some states now require to be covered by health insurance:
* in vitro fertilization
* marriage therapy
* smoking cessation classes
* hormone replacement therapy
* chiropractor visits
Mandates raise costs to insurance companies. If you’re going to force them to cover marriage therapy or alcohol and drug abuse, if you’re going to force them to cover that, what do you think is going to happen to the premiums? They have to go up.
Once this whole universal healthcare system is passed, everything will be mandated and covered.
Who will pay?? You and I—American taxpayers. Even if we actually use little in the way of healthcare services, we WILL be footing the bill for this. In a way, like we all pay taxes that go to support education. Except, hold on—Benito plans to take over public education, too. Why should public schools in Iowa be better than public schools in Alabama?? Let’s make them all EQUALLY mediocre.
Hillbuzzers, I’m as upset about the Palin/Letterman flap as all of you. But you need to set aside some time to get on this Healthcare issue!!! Maybe the Boyz can use their “in” with Sarah to get her to speak out on The One’s Healthcare Solution . . .
June 12, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Hi, Neenee. I wrote my Senators and Congressmen about the health care bill.
Also called Pelosi about NOT releasing the pictures of the terrorists.
Also, wrote Mars, Kellogg’s, and Olive Garden. AND called my local Olive Garden.
I am now going to have a whole pot of coffee. lol
June 12, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Off-topic, but curious thing:
When I tried to open Hillbuzz on My Favorites list today, “Word Press” site came up instead. I had to click on what I knew was a Hillbuzz article and then click “home.”
Of course, this is on my antique Windows Dell HP 2002 computer AND on the antiquated telephone company dial up. High speed home computer was fine earlier.
June 12, 2009 at 1:18 pm
That happened to me too, NeeNee. Seems OK now.
June 12, 2009 at 1:10 pm
“Did David Letterman Get A Free Pass?”
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/06/12/letterman_palin/index.html
June 12, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Rush Limbaugh just said, among other things defending Sarah, that Letterman used to be creative; but he has degenerated into an angry old man filled with cynicism and no humor. Great slap by Rush!
June 12, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Anyone for a nonpolitical personal issue?
Just need an opinion, so here goes.
Finally able to move out of Illinobama and go to a red state down south. Kids need to be with grandma. So here goes:
1. Have an interview and another job lined up and should be working by end of the month in southern location. Both job opportunities would mean that I would be unable to purchase a home for up to two years. (5 additional people at grandma’s for two years.)
2. Got hired here in Illinobama, great job, but family will have to move without me. I can crash at cousins house and send money down south.
Which path would you all follow.
Thanks in advance.
john
June 12, 2009 at 1:39 pm
John, I’m confused.
Is Grandma in Illinois or in another state between “south” & IL??
Do you have a choice of two jobs in the “south?” Or one in the south, and one in Illinois? You state that you “got hired here in Illinobama, but family would have to move without me.” But previously you said you’d “be working by the end of the month” in the south.
My advice depends on all these actual locations.
June 12, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Sorry,
I have a job and an interview down south.
I have a great job to start, up north.
Family must move south.
June 12, 2009 at 2:51 pm
John,
Based on this bare-bones information, as a mom & woman I say go south.
If all of you can be together at Grandma’s—albeit for two years—financially & family-wise, that makes the most sense. Family is far and away your top priority. You NEED to be together.
Make sure you pay Grandma some rent & partial utilities. And spring for a lot of groceries. If she won’t accept rent, then you pick up entire food tab. Figure out a “floor plan” of her home (sleeping arrangements) that’s the least disruptive to her lifestyle. If kids are old enough, sit them down and explain the new arrangement. They need to be respectful of Grandma & have chores to help pay their keep.
Homes in smaller southern cities may cost less than northern counterparts. Living in the south usually means less cash outlay for heating bills. And many times, cheaper property taxes, too. Not to mention more security from crime.
Check out parks, libraries, etc. for no-cost recreation. Find a church to become your second family. God will take care of you, John!
June 12, 2009 at 3:00 pm
I say move south and be with family too.
June 12, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Granma wont take anything, but that wont stop us from picking up tabs.
My gut tells me that we should all go south, as we would be in a position to be debt free and have a substantial savings in place.
But, this is my luck. I get a dream job up north the same week that my house is to close in Illinois. The job is garranteed 60k plus. Don’t have that garrantee down south. Couple that with no debt, on paper it fits.
Flip the coin again, I’ll still have to find a job, someday, down south.
I also have a two year old, four year old, and eleven year old. You know from other posts that my wife is my best friend, so I guess I can’t loose. That’s what makes the choices hard.
June 12, 2009 at 6:15 pm
John,
It’s going to come down to this:
Food.
Shelter.
Utilities.
Transportation. (maybe)
Also, since you have two smaller children, I’d really work on a separate “letting off steam” area for them in Grandma’s home. I’m sure you will all get along just fine.
But debt free is the way to go, since you have a choice.
Blessings! NeeNee
June 12, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Thanks Neenee,
Debt free is the way to go, and we’ll have savings too boot. Granma has been wanting this for forever, plus it is our job to take care of her and her husband should it be needed. There is plenty of room for failure, so a dream job isn’t necessary. One and a half jobs should do just nicely. Thanks again.
john
June 12, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Hi, john.
“…plus it is our job to take care of her and her husband should it be needed.”
You are an honorable man. God Bless.
June 12, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Txmom,
Thank you. I don’t know about honorable, my inlaws are awesome. Quite honestly, the Gulf coast is a different culture from this Chicago boy. I think, on the one hand, it’s beyond money…that will always come if I do the right thing. On the other hand, the Chicago part of me never wants to give up a bird in the hand, so to speak.
As a side note. My wife left everything behind to live with me almost twenty years ago. I picked her up at the airport and all she had was a cat and twenty dollars in her pocket. I knew her for only sixty days, and all she had was a promise from me. Not much to go on from her stand point, but she trusted me. Before my father died, man, (had some wine tonight, rambling, sorry). She did things that really made me proud to have married her. She’s awsome. So it is my turn to do right by her family. Strong woman.
My father used to say that if you ever need a favor, don’t ask a friend. Ask the busiest woman you know. They will always find time for you.
I should let her know that.
Thanks guys, for confirming my thoughts.
Take Care.
john
June 13, 2009 at 12:17 am
john, Your father was a wise man. TIP FOR THE SOUTH: Wear Lots Of Sunscreen! LOL
June 14, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Had a long talk with aunts and cousins last night. They agree, bring the family south and lead them on….
PS: Does the Mobile/Pensacola area have any good Italian food locations? I’ve got a hunch my days of prosciutto and capacola are over.
Thanks again. See ya in Dixie.
June 12, 2009 at 1:27 pm
NOW issues a statement (in other breaking news, Hell freezes over)
A word about the last sentence: I happened to be listening to Rush Limbaugh on the day in question. What really happened was that Rush got tongue-tied discussing the then-new White House dog (Millie) and made a very poor joke about Chelsea. If you heard it live like I did, it was not intentional. This doesn’t excuse what he said. HOWEVER, Rush the minute it came out of his mouth was sorry and immediately apologized. He didn’t need to be boycotted, he didn’t need anyone to tell him it was wrong, he knew it and he apologized immediately. Not excusing him, just giving the facts.
The statement from NOW, because I believe in giving credit where its due:
“Comedians in search of a laugh should really know better than to snicker about men having sex with teenage girls (or young women) less than half their age.
The sexualization of girls and women in the media is reaching new lows these days — it is exploitative and has a negative effect on how all women and girls are perceived and how they view themselves. Letterman also joked about what he called Palin’s “slutty flight attendant look” — yet another example of how the media love to focus on a woman politician’s appearance, especially as it relates to her sexual appeal to men. Someone of Letterman’s stature, who appears on what used to be known as “the Tiffany Network” (CBS), should be above wallowing in the juvenile, sexist mud that other comedians and broadcasters seem to prefer.
On that point, it’s important to note that when Chelsea Clinton was 13 years old she was the target of numerous insults based on her appearance. Rush Limbaugh even referred to her as the “White House dog.” NOW hopes that all the conservatives who are fired up about sexism in the media lately will join us in calling out sexism when it is directed at women who aren’t professed conservatives.”
June 12, 2009 at 1:36 pm
As for a different matter, I was wondering there will be a fund set up to bailout Sharpton: http://www.nypost.com/seven/06122009/news/regionalnews/tennessee_hotel_sues_sharpton_over_unpai_173937.htm
June 12, 2009 at 1:49 pm
In his Healthcare pitch in Green Bay yesterday, Benito mentioned preventive care, losing weight, avoiding diabetes, etc.
This leads me to believe the Food Nazis will be on the march in the near future. . .
Rush predicted years ago that Powers That Be (way before Benito) would be dictating every morsel that goes in our mouths.
Certainly an over-intake of processed & fatty foods aren’t good for us. But what happens when Twinkies are outlawed?? Or if we’re issued credit cards loaded with x-amount of Twinkies over a six-month period?? (kinda like gas & sugar rationing cards during WWII)
I have a solution. Big Guv’mint might outlaw our favorite things. But what’s to stop us from *gasp* BAKING OUR OWN SWEETS??? I see an underground group of Food Nazi Resistors who exchange recipes & swap goodies.
I’ll bet TX Mom has a great pecan pie recipe!
Just an off-topic thought to bring a smile while we call/fax/email our reps re: healthcare bill & Letterman sponsors. :=)
June 12, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Pecan Pie? Than I do. And they better not lay hands on it! LOL
Earlier,when I hit submit, WordPress came up also. Apologies if there is a second post.
June 12, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Health Care Porkulus
What’s in the Fine Print? Sidewalks, Grocery Stores, and Jungle Gyms
HELP Committee Democrats’ Bill Chock-full of Wasteful Spending
Washington, D.C. –U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and the Senate’s
only accountant, today criticized wasteful spending in a health care reform bill released
by HELP Committee Democrats this week.
“The Kennedy-Dodd bill will pave sidewalks, build jungle gyms, and open grocery
stores, but it won’t bring down health care costs or make quality coverage more
affordable,” Enzi said. “In a time of record debt and deficits, how can Democrats justify
the wasteful spending in this bill?
“We need to root out the waste, fraud and abuse that is driving up health care
costs – not create a whole slew of new wasteful programs,” said Enzi, the only Senator
to serve on the HELP, Finance and Budget Committees, which share jurisdiction over
health care reform.
The HELP Committee Democrats’ bill would:
Establish a “Community Makeover Program” to spend billions to beautify streets,
up to $10 per person in selected communities;
Fund a federal government program to build new sidewalks and bike paths, and
put up street lights;
Finance new grocery stores and farmers’ markets;
Revoke employers rights to provide free wellness benefits to employees;
Mandate that a new Washington health police bureaucracy dictate what local
restaurants can offer their customers; and,
Subsidize community projects like building jungle gyms in parks.
“Some of these programs may have value, but this is the wrong bill at the wrong
time,” Enzi said. “With our nation’s health and economy at stake, this bill must not turn
into a Christmas list for every partisan interest group in Washington.”
June 13, 2009 at 11:32 am
They having been fulfilling their Christmas list for months now. Are people going to wake up and say, “NO”? We cannot trust these people who are insane with greed and power right now with our lives. Do we not hear the lies they speak and see the actions they take?
June 12, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Just copied this from usmagazine.com:
Whose side are you on?
Sarah Palin 76.22%
33279 votes
David Letterman 23.78%
10385 votes
43664 votes
June 12, 2009 at 3:37 pm
I know this doesn’t seem like an important poll; however, a LOT of Obama lovers over there..so I thought it was a tiny bit significant the results so far..
June 12, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Here’s the link for those interested. Sarah has over 90% of the vote.
June 12, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Oops
http://www.usmagazine.com/
June 12, 2009 at 2:07 pm
“US government securities seized from Japanese nationals.”
So what? It’s the subtitle that really catches a person’s attention:
“Bonds worth US$ 134.5 billion are seized.” This is the largest financial smuggling case in history.
But are they real? Concern over ‘funny money’ or counterfeit securities is spreading in Asia. The international press is silent.
So why should you care if someone is counterfeiting money? The reason is because when some group is creating currency out of thin air it debases all other existing money. It robs from everyone.
Of course, the Federal Reserve does that every day and doesn’t bother to hide it.
The story goes like this: two Japanese nationals in their 50s were stopped by Italian police in the town of Chiasso while trying to cross into Switzerland.
In a suitcase with a false bottom they were trying to hide 249 U.S. Treasury bonds, each worth $500 million, plus 10 Kennedy bonds each worth $1 Billion.
Italian authorities have not yet determined whether they are real or fake, but if they are real the attempt to take them into Switzerland would be the largest financial smuggling operation in history; if they are fake, the matter would be even more mind-boggling because the quality of the counterfeit work is such that the fake bonds are undistinguishable from the real ones.
We are talking about counterfeiting enough cash to crash the economy of a medium-sized nation, and doing it in such a way that no one could tell the difference.
How much has been printed and smuggled and no one caught it? A Google search turns up no American news outlets reporting this, only blogs.
International organized crime has gotten more professional in their counterfeiting activities of late, and American dollars are the default choice.
June 12, 2009 at 2:15 pm
I wrote this specifically to CBS:
I am a Democrat. I am a businesswoman. I am a fan of “CSI”, “Two-and-a-half Men” and “Big Bang Theory.”
While people may disagree politically with eachother, I must strenuously protest when a supposed comedian attacks a young family member of a political candidate — and preparing a joke that includes a reference to statutory rape of a young girl who is targeted because of her mother’s career.
I stopped watching all of CBS News shows after “RatherGate”. I think it high time your people take a good, hard look at your staff and consider that insulting a larger core of the American audience is not going to create a successful business model.
I am applying the “Imus” standard to you right now. If you need a refresher, please click here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/12/national/main2675273.shtml
I will no longer watch any CBS show until Letterman is fired. Period. No negotiation.
You will find many woman, and many Democrats, will not tolerate such disgraceful behavior. Enduring trite, condescending, and ill-informed remarks by the New York and Hollywood glitterati about Sarah Palin is annoying enough. Those about her young family, which seemingly target Gov. Palin because she is an effective American patriot, go beyond the bounds of decency — to the point I feel it is my civic duty to take action.
The day Letterman is gone is the day I will start watching again. Letterman stopped being funny years ago; surely, your team can come up with fresh new talent.
PS I also sent it to the shows I mentioned too — they might want to consider the potential fallout. You can use the form below to send it.
http://www.cbs.com/info/user_services/fb_global_form.php
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June 12, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Excellent letter. Thank you for the link.
June 12, 2009 at 3:00 pm
[...] can start HERE, which is a solid summary post on their BOYCOTT LETTERMAN [...]
June 12, 2009 at 3:16 pm
[...] way and demand action be taken against Letterman (the new “nappy headed ho” Imus) HERE HERE and HERE for the sexism and misogyny in open display by Big Media (a.k.a. the Frat House [...]
June 12, 2009 at 3:33 pm
HW doin’ it again! George H.W. Bush will once again celebrate his birthday with a parachute jump this weekend, in a tandem jump with Robin Meade.
I’ve laways wanted to do a jump, it looks like such fun!
“HLN anchor Robin Meade is going to jump out of a perfectly good airplane alongside former president George H.W. Bush.
Meade, who anchors “Morning Express” will participate in a tandem parachute jump with President Bush this Friday in Kennebunkport, Maine. The U.S. Army Parachute Team, the “Golden Knights,” will be conducting the jump which will take place near the Bush family compound as the family gathers to celebrate the former president’s 85th birthday.
“It’s not every day one gets the chance to tandem jump alongside a former president, with the Army’s Golden Knights; it is both a thrill and an honor,” said Meade.
CNN, HLN, and CNN.com will all feature coverage of the jump, including an exclusive interview Meade will conduct with former President Bush before the jump.”
June 12, 2009 at 5:45 pm
“A rollback on national health care is going to be almost impossible, because it’s going to permeate at virtually every level of our society. I’m not saying it couldn’t be done, but when you’re talking something as massive as national health care with tentacles that go as deep into the strata of our society as possible, rolling all that back would be major.” -Rush
June 12, 2009 at 5:57 pm
I wrote to Mars, and they replied:
“While we do not “sponsor” television shows, we do contract for commercial time
months in advance for those programs which we feel effectively reach our
consumers. As a matter of policy we make every effort to avoid programs
containing exploitative examples of ethnic, racial, religious or sexual
stereotyping. We apologize if we were unsuccessful in this instance, and we
will share your comments with our advertising agencies.”
Well, I hope they take our complaints seriously and stop advertising during this show. Need to keep writing more letters.
June 12, 2009 at 8:34 pm
http://unitethefight.blogspot.com/2009/06/obamas-defense-of-doma-invokes-incest.html
found this over at perezhilton…
June 13, 2009 at 1:19 am
How to Stop Socialized Health Care
Five arguments Republicans must make.
By KARL ROVE
It was a sobering breakfast with one of the smartest Republicans on Capitol Hill. We can fix a lot of bad stuff President Barack Obama might do, he told me. But if Mr. Obama signs into law a “public option,” government-run insurance program as part of health-care reform we won’t be able to undo the damage.
I’d go the Republican member of Congress one further: If Democrats enact a public-option health-insurance program, America is on the way to becoming a European-style welfare state. To prevent this from happening, there are five arguments Republicans must make.
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The first is it’s unnecessary. Advocates say a government-run insurance program is needed to provide competition for private health insurance. But 1,300 companies sell health insurance plans. That’s competition enough. The results of robust private competition to provide the Medicare drug benefit underscore this. When it was approved, the Congressional Budget Office estimated it would cost $74 billion a year by 2008. Nearly 100 providers deliver the drug benefit, competing on better benefits, more choices, and lower prices. So the actual cost was $44 billion in 2008 — nearly 41% less than predicted. No government plan was needed to guarantee competition’s benefits.
Second, a public option will undercut private insurers and pass the tab to taxpayers and health providers just as it does in existing government-run programs. For example, Medicare pays hospitals 71% and doctors 81% of what private insurers pay.
About Karl Rove
Karl Rove served as Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush from 2000–2007 and Deputy Chief of Staff from 2004–2007. At the White House he oversaw the Offices of Strategic Initiatives, Political Affairs, Public Liaison, and Intergovernmental Affairs and was Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, coordinating the White House policy making process.
Before Karl became known as “The Architect” of President Bush’s 2000 and 2004 campaigns, he was president of Karl Rove + Company, an Austin-based public affairs firm that worked for Republican candidates, nonpartisan causes, and nonprofit groups. His clients included over 75 Republican U.S. Senate, Congressional and gubernatorial candidates in 24 states, as well as the Moderate Party of Sweden.
Karl writes a weekly op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, is a Newsweek columnist and is now writing a book to be published by Simon & Schuster. Email the author at Karl@Rove.com or visit him on the web at Rove.com.
Or, you can send him a Tweet @karlrove.
Who covers the rest? Government passes the bill for the outstanding balance to providers and families not covered by government programs. This cost-shifting amounts to a forced subsidy. Families pay about $1,800 more a year for someone else’s health care as a result, according to a recent study by Milliman Inc. It’s also why many doctors limit how many Medicare patients they take: They can afford only so much charity care.
Fixing prices at less than market rates will continue under any public option. Sen. Edward Kennedy’s proposal, for example, has Washington paying providers what Medicare does plus 10%. That will lead to health providers offering less care.
Third, government-run health insurance would crater the private insurance market, forcing most Americans onto the government plan. The Lewin Group estimates 70% of people with private insurance — 120 million Americans — will quickly lose what they now get from private companies and be forced onto the government-run rolls as businesses decide it is more cost-effective for them to drop coverage. They’d be happy to shift some of the expense — and all of the administration headaches — to Washington. And once the private insurance market has been dismantled it will be gone.
Fourth, the public option is far too expensive. The cost of Medicare — the purest form of a government-run “public choice” for seniors — will start exceeding its payroll-tax “trust fund” in 2017. The Obama administration estimates its health reforms will cost as much as $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years. It is no coincidence the Obama budget nearly triples the national debt over that same period.
Medicare and Medicaid cost much more than estimated when they were adopted. One reason is there’s no competition for these government-run insurance programs. In the same way, Americans can expect a public option to cost far more than the Obama administration’s rosy estimates.
Fifth, the public option puts government firmly in the middle of the relationship between patients and their doctors. If you think insurance companies are bad, imagine what happens when government is the insurance carrier, with little or no competition and no concern you’ll change to another company.
In other words, the public option is just phony. It’s a bait-and-switch tactic meant to reassure people that the president’s goals are less radical than they are. Mr. Obama’s real aim, as some candid Democrats admit, is a single-payer, government-run health-care system.
Health care desperately needs far-reaching reforms that put patients and their doctors in charge, bring the benefits of competition and market forces to bear, and ensure access to affordable and portable health care for every American. Republicans have plans to achieve this, and they must make their case for reform in every available forum.
Defeating the public option should be a top priority for the GOP this year. Otherwise, our nation will be changed in damaging ways almost impossible to reverse.
June 13, 2009 at 11:53 am
Great post. Thanks, PVG
Keith Hennessey agrees that defeating the public option is definitely necessary; but he also warns that, even if the public option is taken out, the Kennedy-Dodd bill has requirements built into the bill that will do the same thing as the “public option”. He said they deny it, but he read the bill. We must tell them to refuse this plan.
Rep. Tom Price says, “The central question that rises above everything else to guide our efforts: Who do we empower to provide the highest quality healthcare — patients and doctors, or the federal government?
The truth is out that a “public option” is nothing more than a back-door path to a government takeover of personal and private healthcare. As a physician, I know firsthand that GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION HAS A HARMFUL effect.”
People want health care reform so badly, they are willing to jump in blindly. If we do not like what the government has done to the best health care in the world (which we won’t), it will take us decades to undo all the damage and suffering. Oh, wait!. We cannot undo “suffering and death”. Yes, it IS that serious.
June 13, 2009 at 8:31 am
First advertiser on Letterman last night was Microsoft. I am contacting them today to inform them that I boycott first Letterman ad nightly. Boycotting all advertisers cannot work simply because there are too many of them. Who has the time to contact all of them? Or even boycott all of them. If everyone on this board concentrated their effort on the one first ad it would have a chance at success. In a perfect world no advertiser would want to be first and that would be an unqualified success. LB.
June 13, 2009 at 9:47 am
From Fox News: U.S.: Iran’s Election
Results ‘Not Credible’
Are you kidding me? No matter if we don’t like the leader of Iran…it’s none of the US business who was elected really…like Obama’s election was “credible”..