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Third Time’s The Charm?

June 15, 2009 - 5:44 pm - by Ed Driscoll

David Letterman issues his second apology today, after Embassy Suites pulls their advertising from CBS’s Website. “A cynical man might guess these two facts are not entirely unrelated”, Ace of Spades writes, adding that Letterman’s second apology isn’t much of an improvement on his first attempt:

Actually, it seems more of the same. He continues saying it wasn’t his intent to make the joke he made, but that “perception” is more important here than “intention.”

He concedes what he already did concede — to wit, that even if he meant Bristol, the joke is still “coarse.”

I don’t see much here different than his old apology. Though his last apology was done as a joke-type thing. Maybe this one is more serious.

Thanks to DrewM. and Joshua.

Oh: I meant to link this a while ago. Jeri Thompson, your next damn Chairman of the RNC.

As Stacy McCain notes, “The GOP’s media operations are third-rate. Cynthia Yockey is running a one-woman campaign against Letterman. Where are the Republican Party media operatives lending her assistance and support? Nowhere.”

(Hat Tip: The Rhetorican.)

Update: The Professor has more Letterman links.

Filed under: Bobos In Paradise, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal, Hollywood, Interrupted, Liberal Fascism, Oh, That Liberal Media!, The New Puritans, The Return of the Primitive

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2 Comments, 2 Threads

  1. 1. ObamaIsTheNewHitler

    And how is this an apology?
    Did he apologize for being an ass?
    No.
    He apologized for a so-called joke, with the weasel phrase that he was responsible, implying he’s not to blame. Not really. *wink*wink.
    Did he apologize for the flight attendant crack?
    No.

    FIRE HIM NBC or those of us who haven’t already done so, will fire you.

    June 15, 2009 - 9:45 pm   Link to this Comment
  2. 2. brobin

    I read the text. It’s more of the same: wink, wink the audience will cheer and the fools will think I actually apologized.

    The substance is based on the obvious lie that he thought Palin was alone at the game. Which naturally led him to think it would be funny to make a rape joke about one of her daughters.

    The tone is of a rationalization wrapped in a faux apology.

    There’s a full paragraph there on how it’s not the “intent”, it’s the “perception” and it doesn’t matter that he was “misunderstood”.

    Which tells me that he thinks we rubes out here in outrage land are too dim to properly grasp his form of humor.

    “Apology. I don’t think that word means what you think it means.”

    June 16, 2009 - 5:21 am   Link to this Comment