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Posts under ‘Wrong’
Dear Washington Week/Washington Post:
More Letterman.
Oh, the circus:
Ziegler could not confirm how many of the more than 2,000 people he originally indicated would be attending had canceled. The rally’s page on Facebook has approximately 200 confirmed guests. 1,383 have declined the invitation since the Letterman apology.
A significant number of the people who are attending list their residence as out of [...]
Letterman Apologizes:
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This covers almost some of the exact same ground we covered in our ‘letter’ to the Washington Post.
Dear Washington Post:
Come on, now. David Letterman is not Don Imus, Mel Gibson, Michael Richards, a politician, shock jock, or Bill O’Reilly. He is David Letterman — he is himself, not a one of these spurious analogies — the inheritor of Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, and Ernie Kovacs.
I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere, but if I was [...]
Wrong #2
Continuing our posts regarding people getting comedy wrong, here’s the latest:
Letterman even allowing the possibility of some of the jokes being off is a very, very generous stance to take.
Moreover — to cry, ‘Rape!’ in a situation like this is an offense to those who take the word seriously.
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Previously: Dear Videogum.
Dear Videogum:
You’re in your 40’s. Stop writing like this:
He’s gawky and odd and seems happy to take on the mantle of the Other in a way that Letterman has never quite had to do.
Because — and I know it’s incredibly hard to burst an either/or dichotomy — what do you call this?
Or this?
Stop becoming the People [...]