Olive Garden pulls Letterman ads

drjekyllus · Jun 18, 2009

Quote from BSAM:

Uh....okay.....So, let's all exercise our Constitutional Right of Freedom of Speech and let's all stop trying to be the United States of Speech Police. Let Letterman say what Letterman says and Palin say what Palin says. Hey, let's even let the "people" say what the "people" say.

You are the one trying to be the speech police. You are the one trying to shut people up. If someone wants to call Letterman out for being a knucklehead why should they be prevented. You have freedom of speech to say things and others are allowed to comment on the things you say. I thought that was supposed to be how it worked.

FeenixRizin · Jun 18, 2009

Quote from drjekyllus:

You are the one trying to be the speech police. You are the one trying to shut people up. If someone wants to call Letterman out for being a knucklehead why should they be prevented. You have freedom of speech to say things and others are allowed to comment on the things you say. I thought that was supposed to be how it worked.

touche'

i agree letterman shouldn't be fired as a result of this...

it's just a good opportunity to expose these people as the vicious, vile people they are

BSAM · Jun 18, 2009

Quote from drjekyllus:

You are the one trying to be the speech police. You are the one trying to shut people up. If someone wants to call Letterman out for being a knucklehead why should they be prevented. You have freedom of speech to say things and others are allowed to comment on the things you say. I thought that was supposed to be how it worked.

(Rolls eyes while lol.) Sleep well child.

FeenixRizin · Jun 18, 2009

Quote from BSAM:

(Rolls eyes while lol.) Sleep well child.

question:

if you were a popular figure, after years of attacks, a major media figure, ... (shit the face of CBS, besides katie couric) ... made such a joke about your 14 year old, what would your reaction be?

it's funny how this episode has exposed all the indecent cockroaches , except they aren't scurrying ... their dancing in that bright light

keep it up

AAAintheBeltway · Jun 18, 2009

Quote from ByLoSellHi:

I'm going to have to disagree with you here.

First, it was at least arguably ambiguous which daughter Letterman was referring to. As has been reported, Palin was attending the Yankees game with her younger, 14 year old daughter, Willow, and not her older, 18 year old daughter (Bristol; the one that had became pregnant while not married), so the context issue gets turned on its head.

Also, I think there's much merit to the claim that had the exact same joke been made about one of Obama's daughters, assuming they were much older, there'd be a furious uproar.

His joke was in bad taste. He obviously meant Bristol, and not Willow when uttering it.

He apologized belatedly which caused most of the uproar.

The far right should tread carefully and not beat this dead horse for further political gain.

Most americans dislike Palin because she's an intellectual lightweight (see my 'Who Is This Dumb Bitch' thread I started the day McCain nominated her as his VP choice, which shocked me, but where my commentary had great predictive value). She's already milked the sympathy train from her supporters as much as she's going to get.

I just want to point out the unintentional irony of you calling Palin an intellectual lightweight.

gigsup · Jun 18, 2009

Quote from Misthos:

Who the hell eats at Olive Garden anyway?

I'll tell you - the same Jesus Luvin - "rightwing" redneck conservative hicks that kicked out the Goldwater philosophy and replaced it with plutocracy and "Christianity" and ultimately brought down the Republican Party with their idiot GWB.

These are the types that go to The Olive Garden to feel "cultured" while relishing EYE-TAL-YUN food.

Goldwater wasn't right wing? Religion aside, he was pretty conservative.

ByLoSellHi · Jun 18, 2009

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

I just want to point out the unintentional irony of you calling Palin an intellectual lightweight.

You and 'I'd suck W's boner' jfcquete are probably the two least intelligent posters in P&R.

That's objectively true.

reiser999 · Jun 18, 2009

Quote from gigsup:

Goldwater wasn't right wing? Religion aside, he was pretty conservative.

Goldwater was a self-deprecating jew, who literally would have been spat upon by (especially upper class) western europeans just a couple decades prior.

AAAintheBeltway · Jun 18, 2009

Quote from ByLoSellHi:

You and 'I'd suck W's boner' jfcquete are probably the two least intelligent posters in P&R.

That's objectively true.

Are you going to start calling me a bitch like you do Palin? That really is the mark of an intellectual giant.

ByLoSellHi · Jun 18, 2009

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

Are you going to start calling me a bitch like you do Palin? That really is the mark of an intellectual giant.

I called her a 'stupid bitch.' The adjectives are complementary in that context.

I don't know you well enough to know if you're a bitch or not, but I wouldn't rule the possibility out.

I do know that you make some stupid comments on a regular basis. You blindly defend Bush II, like jfuckette, EVERY time a criticism arises. That'd be as bad as me had I not criticized Letterman for a tasteless joke.

But only you and a select few others are true dogmatic loyalists, unwilling to criticize Dubya for ANYTHING. You guys are a dying breed. Congrats.