Damage Control

Pretty good damage control by the Perry camp yesterday!  I thought the Letterman appearance was brilliant and Perry carried it off with charm and affability.  Hey, if you can't laugh at yourself, well...you've just got to have a sense of humor. 



Clip is via the LATimes who also pointed out that Perry was "played on and off to Meat Loaf's Two Out of Three Ain't Bad."  Heh!

Cynthia Says Boycott Letterman! Get Letterman Fired!

I've stayed out of the Letterman/Palin feud but Cynthia Yockey is not. In fact, she's madder than ever and I've got to admire her persistence.

Cynthia is running a campaign to boycott Letterman and has been going strong on it ever since he told the ill fated "joke."

One her blog, Cynthia wrote, "A commenter here pointed out that there are lots of other problems in the world that ought to have priority, so we should let go of getting Letterman fired. No, no, no — and Eric Hoffer, author of The True Believer, explains why: because 'fault-finding men of words' like Letterman are what bring down capitalistic and democratic societies where individuals are free and clear the way for totalitariam mass movements."

I've never been a Letterman fan and have often thought his humor was snarky and had a cruel edge to it. Oh, every once in a while he'd say something humorous, but as a rule, I never cared for him. I don't think you have to be mean to be funny. I saw a clip from The View where Joy Behar was actually on Palin's side but at the same time defended Letterman saying, "That's what comediens do, we tell jokes." True enough, but they don't HAVE to be mean.

Sarah wrote about this issue on her blog, also. She said, "If a man can't understand what is wrong with making very public jokes about raping a 14 year old girl (or any girl for that matter) and can't understand why that girl's parents are rightfully disgusted, then there is quite obviously something wrong with that man."

At any rate, Cynthia isn't accepting Dave's apology (either one of them) and points out that Republicans just give up too easily too often. Little Miss Attila has drawn her ire for putting down the fight as has Dan Collins at Protein Wisdom. (I don't think she's noticed yet that GatorDoug gave up, too.)

Robert Stacy McCain wrote about Cynthia's relentlessness, saying "You can't beat a man who refuses to admit defeat. You can kill a man like that, but you cannot defeat him otherwise, because he has gotten it in his mind to keep fighting, whatever happens." He goes on to compare her efforts to those virtues of the ancient Spartans!

Cynthia isn't giving up. And as RSM pointed out, she needs reinforcements. She's got all the information on the Boycott Letterman effort and the Get Letterman Fired effort.

Stop on over there and check things out!

WTF?

Mr. Obama to Mr. Letterman:

"Just calling [ideas] change, calling them different doesn't make it better, hence lipstick on a pig," Obama said.

He then clarified his statements even more.

"Keep in mind, technically, had I meant it this way, [Palin] would be the lipstick. The failed policies of John McCain would be the pig, just following the logic of this illogical situation," Obama said.

So, she's not a pig, she's lipstick. This is supposed to be better?

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