Will this end up being David Letterman’s Hugh Grant moment?
You know what I mean, the event that takes Letterman to number one, just like Hugh Grant did for Jay Leno?
Letterman’s ratings gift from his competitor, with help from the Sarah Palin crew and right-wing blogs, was concocted via Dave’s “Top Ten” list. CBS is all too happy to provide the YouTube. Memeorandum revealing the rage from the right, as they come to Sarah’s defense.
Then today, Contessa Brewer, in an interview with Jon Ziegler, who recently interviewed Gov. Palin on the Letterman issue, had a smack down in a brief “Palin vs. Letterman” segment that had HowObamaGotElected’s main man, Ziegler, confronting Brewer on all the things that annoy him about MSNBC.
The foundation of the right’s outrage? Sexism. I know, it’s hard to say that with a straight face. So excuse me if I find this not only hypocritical, but laugh out loud hilarious.
Seriously, outrage from conservatives over sexism? Over the treatment of a woman being targeted?
This from a crew who hounded and slandered Hillary Clinton throughout the 1990s, saying a lot worse than Letterman did this week, which was clearly a ratings publicity stunt.
Today, the conversation with Brewer got so testy, with Ziegler ticking off every charge on his MSNBC greatest hit list, including going after Olbermann for his coverage of the Palin’s speech kerfuffle regarding the charge that she “plagiarized” Gingrich, ended with a bang.
Brewer pulled a Bill O’Reilly, telling her booth crew to “cut the mike.”
Insert picture here of Dave Letterman giving high fives to his writing staff, with the producer laughing all the way to the advert bank.
That said, can anyone doubt what would have happened if Letterman had said the exact same thing about Hillary Clinton, let alone talking about A-Rod getting Chelsea pregnant?
Oh right, Clinton never appeared as a “flight attendant” at any time in her political career, let alone a “slutty” one. However, that didn’t keep the right from smearing Clinton in the 1990s using every profanity in the book.
What about the video screed made by David Bosse and timed for the Dem primaries that made it all the way to the Supreme Court, which eviscerates Clinton in every way possible?
As for Contessa Brewer, she nailed it when she asked Ziegler, “are you functioning now as her spokesperson?” All Ziegler is about is trying to make Palin relevant again.
The right can huff and puff, but they’ve got no standing whatsoever on defending against sexism (which includes their policies against women, equal pay, reproductive and contraceptive health care, etc.).
I’ll take the right seriously on sexism the day they do something about their gutless leader, Rush Limbaugh, who regularly calls females “feminazis,” “hags,” or “info-babes.” Until then, they’ve got no standing to whine over Sarah.
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