You're offended by Letterman's failed jokes? What about these bastions of broadcasting?
By KARL FRISCH
MediaMatters
Last update: June 19, 2009
You won't find his byline on the opinion pages, discussing policy, but David Letterman is in hot water with conservatives. And justifiably so, for making some pretty vile jokes about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her family.
Letterman did the right thing in apologizing twice, finally noting that the intention of the jokes was meaningless when considering the way any rational person would perceive them. Still, the right's fury rages on.
Yet it is hard to take that anger seriously when each and every day real players in the rudderless conservative movement -- TV and radio hosts, pundits, columnists and bloggers -- throw aside the reasonable boundaries of a civil political discourse by using wickedly divisive, cruelly insensitive, misleading and downright hateful rhetoric.
(More here.)
MediaMatters
Last update: June 19, 2009
You won't find his byline on the opinion pages, discussing policy, but David Letterman is in hot water with conservatives. And justifiably so, for making some pretty vile jokes about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her family.
Letterman did the right thing in apologizing twice, finally noting that the intention of the jokes was meaningless when considering the way any rational person would perceive them. Still, the right's fury rages on.
Yet it is hard to take that anger seriously when each and every day real players in the rudderless conservative movement -- TV and radio hosts, pundits, columnists and bloggers -- throw aside the reasonable boundaries of a civil political discourse by using wickedly divisive, cruelly insensitive, misleading and downright hateful rhetoric.
(More here.)
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