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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.

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.

I think we’ve won

Posted: June 13, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Looking at the Letterman situation I have to come to the conclusion that no matter what happens next we have won this round and won it big.

Item: NOW after several days of waffling came out to attack David Letterman for his misogynistic remarks. The days of “She’s not a woman she’s a republican” may not be gone but it’s hard to put it back in the basket.

Item: Both the Today show and CNN, interviewed Governor Palin. In both interviews were solid dealing with substantial issues such as her recent success in the Palin pipeline project.

These two interviews were important breakthrough moments:

First: The myth that she can not handle herself in an interview that is not conducted by FOX or John Ziegler was dispelled. Like the Rush CPAC speech it’s hard to put the ditz label on when people who would normally see her filtered actually hear her speak. Instead of reruns of Katie Couric you have the image of a strong confident Palin handling solid interviews.

Second: The timing caused the networks to cover a key energy project not only at the moment of success, but at a time when the need for jobs and rising gas prices are in the news. The MSN would not have covered this otherwise.

Third: The Letterman issue is something any parent of daughters can understand. The weak spin that both Wolf and Matt tried to use defending Letterman could not change something that people get.

Fourth: It puts those who want to attack her on the defensive and forces those attackers from MSNBC and CNN to use footage from a positive interview as a backdrop.

Fifth: It plays NBC and CNN off of CBS. Katie is now in the position that she either has to as a woman defend Letterman or Palin

Item: Out of the woodwork come people who would normally not defend Sarah Palin. Megan McCain, Norah O’Donnell for example and the View Crew. These are all people that the media have anointed as credible. This creates instant credibility and keeps the patter going on.

Item: I already covered MSNBC’s Morning Joe openly admitting that they saw a rabidness in the attacks on the Governor. Not only can that never be unsaid but it gives people like Mika Brzezinski (who I think really wants to support this woman) the cover to openly defend her without being dismissed. It may seem a small thing but its importance in the long run can’t be overestimated.

Item The story has grown over the news cycles and as time goes on Palin grows stronger and her attackers grow weaker. It was the news cycle that drove NOW and continues to drive her attackers to cover.

Even if it all stops today this is a win. The game has changed and you ain’t seen nothing yet!

Update: Hotair Agrees

Maybe its because I’m looking for work…

Posted: June 12, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…but even though it would be politically advantageous to push Letterman to the brink I’m not inclined to force him out, but I’ll tell you this…

…Every day that the mainstream media defends Letterman they lose credibility, and if the sponsors eventually force a stronger apology, a suspension or even a firing it will show the MSN for the paper tiger it is.

Cripes even MSNBC’s Morning Joe came out and said out loud what everyone already knew:

BRZEZINSKI: I’m telling you that when she came out on the scene I was– thought it was refreshing. I thought it was exciting. I thought it was interesting. And I also saw a lot of people behind the scenes looking for ways to find a way to bring her down because of her ideology. And I was excited by her ideology because I thought, wow, a very interesting, forty-something, my generation, working woman with five kids on the national stage could really inject something into this conversation about things like abortion.

She goes on:

BRZEZINSKI: What I hated was, what I saw happening behind the scenes, among my colleagues in the media, where there was this rabidness.

Peggy Noonan expands on this:

NOONAN: Yeah, they– Palin from the moment she came out, people looked at her kids and sort of went after the kids. It was vicious. It was offensive. It made me use in a column a word I wouldn’t normally use, rhymes with witch, talking about the people in the media who had just decided to gun for these kids. I mean, it was just awful.

This is being said openly on MSNBC! We even get it from Norah O’Donnell today. Even Megan McCain is defending Palin now.

This is Ted Williams playing Tee ball. As long as they keep putting the ball on the tee it will end up over the fence.

Update: Ace and Pursuing Holiness (via the green room) are still in a fighting room.