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re: Letterman sold out
Posted on 9/19/12 at 12:28 am to Shiftyplus1
Posted on 9/19/12 at 12:28 am to Shiftyplus1
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Dave's been mailing it in for years.
Decades.
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Posted on 9/19/12 at 1:44 am to jacks40
quote:You tell me.
What is it like to have politics influence every thing you watch?
Everything is politics.
Posted on 9/19/12 at 5:41 am to yankeelover
Letterman has been a shill for a long long long time. I used to love the guy's show until he decided he would just use the damn show to attack anyone conservative while tossing fat pitches to the libs.
Posted on 9/19/12 at 7:38 am to Tiger Authority
One thing to be political, but he is a shill for Obama. This is why the GOP has to raise for money bc the media and entertainment equal free coverage. suckup
No need to listen to interview. Just look at the fawning. If I were Romney I would not even accept being on his show. Why go to a show where you are ridiculed and who is behind your opponent?
No need to listen to interview. Just look at the fawning. If I were Romney I would not even accept being on his show. Why go to a show where you are ridiculed and who is behind your opponent?
This post was edited on 9/19/12 at 7:48 am
Posted on 9/19/12 at 8:04 am to yankeelover
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he mailed it in and now has becone a shill for the liberal agenda. I no longer watch him because comedians who become poiltical are not funny. Bill Maher is not a comic. He is an agitator.
Agree about Maher but man Religulous was funny.
Posted on 9/19/12 at 8:12 am to CP3LSU25
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what are these hollywood f*** drinking to make them this way.
It's a mindset.. people that do entertainment are the "artsy fartsy" type people, who lean towards the hippie agenda.. it's just what it is. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way. So most of them end up supporting the democratic candidate.
The Libertarian movement as of late has made a lot of inroads with these individuals.. but for the most part, most of them are still very much liberal.. not progressive per say.. but liberal, very very liberal.
(I know this, because i went to college with all of these people.. you would have thought we had won WW2 when Obama was elected, I kid you not)
Posted on 9/19/12 at 8:36 am to BaddestAndvari
Obama won because a lot of people felt as if they were more enlightened than you for voting for the black guy. They wanted to be part of history and bought into the messiah "post-racial" ideals he put forth.
Posted on 9/19/12 at 8:40 am to BaddestAndvari
I'm curious if the OP flipped out like this when W appeared on Letterman's show in 2000 to answer softball questions. Or was he keeping it real then?
To answer another question: OF COURSE he's "sold out". He makes $20 million a year or something to host a show on a Big Four network. They don't let "alternative comics" do that, for rather obvious reasons. He has to shill for crappy movies that aim for the middle because that's his job. He's a pitchman. You don't get much more establishment than hosting a network TV show which exists to hype other people's projects.
To answer another question: OF COURSE he's "sold out". He makes $20 million a year or something to host a show on a Big Four network. They don't let "alternative comics" do that, for rather obvious reasons. He has to shill for crappy movies that aim for the middle because that's his job. He's a pitchman. You don't get much more establishment than hosting a network TV show which exists to hype other people's projects.
Posted on 9/19/12 at 8:46 am to TIGERSTORM
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What is it like to have politics influence every thing you watch? I don't watch any late night talk show but I've also never watched any comedian/movie/tv show that wasn't political in nature and then be pissed bc it presented a political view I didn't agree with.
fricking this.
I prefer Letterman to Leno because he's funnier and I watch the Daily Show because it's funny. The idea that I could be so put off by someone else's pov that it would bother me as much as it bothers some of you seems so off to me.
All of this. And comedians have been making political jokes way before most of this board was born.
Posted on 9/19/12 at 8:47 am to TigerMyth36
quote:this
Letterman has been a shill for a long long long time. I used to love the guy's show until he decided he would just use the damn show to attack anyone conservative while tossing fat pitches to the libs.
Posted on 9/19/12 at 8:49 am to BaddestAndvari
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(I know this, because i went to college with all of these people..
Jesus your student loan bill must be tremendous when you add the costs of those schools.
Posted on 9/19/12 at 9:06 am to Shiftyplus1
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Dave's been mailing it in for years.
At least two decades. His show was damn funny in the early/mid 80's. He has become what he used to mock.
Posted on 9/19/12 at 9:16 am to DanglingFury
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If Letterman had Ann Coulter's views, would he be a sell out?
He would be the only one. It's pretty obvious that most of the entertainment industry leans to the left. There's a point though where it becomes too much.
This post was edited on 9/19/12 at 9:17 am
Posted on 9/19/12 at 9:24 am to KingofthePoint
yet no one has stopped watching.
You guys really showed him.
You guys really showed him.
Posted on 9/19/12 at 9:41 am to piggidyphish
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yet no one has stopped watching.
Um, yeah, I stopped around 1988. In his heyday I taped his show every night on my Betamax.
Since then I've seen very little of his show but what I've seen is pretty depressing considering how good it used to be.
Posted on 9/19/12 at 9:43 am to Tigris
I don't watch late night talk shows for the reasons I stated. They are pitchmen, and I don't seek out advertising.
I will watch the Daily Show and Colbert the next day. Sometimes. If I remember. Or I don't have something better to do.
I will watch the Daily Show and Colbert the next day. Sometimes. If I remember. Or I don't have something better to do.
Posted on 9/19/12 at 9:49 am to VOR
quote:True, but the way it used to be was making fun of politics, period. Regardless of political affiliation.
comedians have been making political jokes way before most of this board was born.
Making fun of Reagan, Bush, Sr, and Bill Clinton was funny because it wasn't with an agenda. Today's political humor has an agenda behind it - to pump up party affiliation in an obvious manner. That completely takes the humor out of it.
It's like listening to a comic trying to pull off a joke but you can tell he has personal feelings attached - and the humor is lost at that point because it just becomes awkward. That's how I feel about David Letterman.
And he wasn't always that way. His whole schtick which made him famous was that he was an immature bachelor from the midwest that did goofy things and didn't care, still talked to his mom, etc.
This post was edited on 9/19/12 at 9:59 am
Posted on 9/19/12 at 9:50 am to Baloo
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I'm curious if the OP flipped out like this when W appeared on Letterman's show in 2000 to answer softball questions. Or was he keeping it real then?
Umm no offense but this statement is really stupid. The difference is so obvious I feel dumb even having to spell it out: George W. Bush was not an ACTING PRESIDENT IN MIDST OF A TERRORIST ATTACK while simultaneously refusing to meet with the prime minister of our closest ally in the ME who is mulling a large strike nationwide against another terrorist sponsoring country.
Really?
Posted on 9/19/12 at 9:58 am to theunknownknight
So... having a Democrat running for president to boost his electoral chances is selling out but having a Republican running for president to boost his electoral chances is not remotely the same thing?
Got it.
Do you just go to sleep each night trying to think up shite to be angry about or are you just prone to violent outburst naturally?
Also, if we are "IN MIDST OF A TERRORIST ATTACK" as you say, shouldn't we all be rallying behind the president? Or are we only supposed to rally around political figures you approve of?
Letterman is a fluffy TV host. His show has all of the depth of a rain puddle. Getting upset over who Letterman has on as guests is just being angry to be angry.
Got it.
Do you just go to sleep each night trying to think up shite to be angry about or are you just prone to violent outburst naturally?
Also, if we are "IN MIDST OF A TERRORIST ATTACK" as you say, shouldn't we all be rallying behind the president? Or are we only supposed to rally around political figures you approve of?
Letterman is a fluffy TV host. His show has all of the depth of a rain puddle. Getting upset over who Letterman has on as guests is just being angry to be angry.
Posted on 9/19/12 at 9:59 am to yankeelover
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Letterman sold out
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