Archive for June, 2009

Palin, Letterman now its official

Posted: June 16, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Governor Palin has accepted the new revised apology offered by David Letterman.

There will still be a fire Letterman rally today as some think this too little too late:

The New York Times story also claims that protests aimed at pressuring CBS to fire Letterman have not yet had any effect:

CBS executives said Monday that they had exercised no pressure on the late-night star to offer any apology and that they had seen no real impact on advertisers from the protests.

This is why the campaign to get CBS to fire David Letterman must continue and expand with more and more people sending letters and e-mails of protest to CBS, Letterman’s sponsors and the sponsors of Letterman’s racing team to notify them that their products will be boycotted until Letterman is fired. It also will be important to send letters and e-mails of protest to anyone who appears on Letterman’s show to impress them that doing so will put a long-term stink on their careers.

CBS is still playing the “This will all blow over” card. No. It. Won’t.

Persistent, consistent effort on our part will persuade sponsors to drop Letterman’s show and CBS to fire David Letterman.

If we don’t take out this bully, we’ll be swarmed by the millions who will follow his example.

Read Ms. Yockey’s entire post, I can see her point and the idea of not giving up the advantage. It’s a legit position, it’s just not mine.

To me this whole thing is a question of honor The Governor was offended and called Letterman on it. Letterman’s response was insufficient so the Governor and her supporters persisted. Now Mr. Letterman has issued a 2nd apology and the Governor has accepted. As far as she is concerned honor is satisfied so the matter is closed. Who am I to say otherwise?

My goal wasn’t a scalp. My goal was to have the same rules applied to defend the honor of conservative woman in general and Governor Palin that would be applied if a a liberal woman’s honor was outraged.

We’ve shown that conservatives would not sit back and take it and believe me it’s been noticed by Mr. Letterman et/al. I don’t think we need a scalp to prove it.

Laura is with Cynthia on this one. Conservatives 4 Palin is with me and thus gets the last word:

So what did we learn from this past week? I think that the events of the last week have proven that conservatives need to fight back when they are slandered in the public arena; put the people making those claims or telling sick “jokes” on the defensive. Mr. Letterman was clearly in a deep hole, one he dug for himself. Now, clearly people can continue to pressure Letterman if they so choose. It is the right of the people to express their dismay with another citizen.

You know by now that I am a fan of quotes from Ronald Reagan. Here is one that I believe sums up this whole situation nicely:

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Supporters of Governor Palin and women all across the country made David Letterman feel the heat and forced an apology.

Yup.

Update: Treacher and the Captain are with me too.

P minus 6 can counting

Posted: June 15, 2009 by datechguy in personal
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Blogging will be hit and miss a bit this week, the graduation party is 6 days away, the back door is not in, the stuff from the porch where the door is going on is in the dining room and the ceiling tiles and rugs can’t go in until they are done.

This will be a busy and crazy week.

Palin Letterman: Cause and effect

Posted: June 15, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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The Letterman stuff gives a great example of the rules of cause of effect:

Cause: pressure on advertisers by people outraged by the hit on Palin’s daughter.

Effect: Embassy Suites pulls their ads from CBS.

TVGuide.com is reporting that Embassy Suites – part of the Hilton Hotels Corp. based in McLean, Va. – has pulled its advertising from CBS’s Web site to protest David’s Letterman’s joke about one of Sarah Palin’s daughters.

Company spokeswoman Kendra Walker says the decision was made after receiving a flood of complaints.

“We received lots of e-mails from concerned guests and we assessed that the statement that he made was offensive enough to our guests and prospective guests that we elected to take the ads down,” Walker told the Web site. She said the company does not advertise on his talk show.

Cause: The Embassy Suites ads are pulled

Effect: Letterman apologizes only this time for real:

“And then I was watching the Jim Lehrer ‘Newshour’ – this commentator, the columnist Mark Shields, was talking about how I had made this indefensible joke about the 14-year-old girl, and I thought, ‘Oh, boy, now I’m beginning to understand what the problem is here. It’s the perception rather than the intent.’

The whole thing is worth reading. Hotair asks the relevant question:

Does this mean the “Fire Letterman” protest tomorrow is canceled?

Good question.

Althouse explains why fighting back matters

Posted: June 15, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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The “fighting back” meme wasn’t her actual topic but her reaction to the poll that shows 40% of America Conservative vs 21% liberal encompasses the entire point of my argument:

But what would work better — defining and promoting the conservative brand or signaling moderation? Looking at the last election, I’d say: Be forthrightly conservative. Tell us what it is and stand by it. You only need to win over less than a third of the moderates: Convince us it’s better to trust conservatives than liberals. The Obama administration and Congress are giving you so much material to work that theme.

She references her post on How McCain lost me:

1. He did not understand economics, the most important issue.

2. He lost the ability to make the experience argument.

3. He never defined himself as a principled conservative. (emphasis mine)

4. Erratic and incoherent, he lacked sufficient mental capacity.

This is the reason why the media tries to define or leaders and diminish actual conservative leaders. It is the reason why they attempt to demoralize us. We only have to convince 2 out of every 7 moderates to reach 50%. Once that is understood everything the media does against us makes sense.

So I say again fight, fight and keep fighting. These guys are a house of cards waiting to fall. As long as the conversation is about reality we can win.

Update: Rush supports me again. He must be reading my mind from long distance today.

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