comment #1

George Prager says ...

Two girls, one Cupp

comment #2

Ray says ...

There are some people who really need to get a sense of humor once in a while.

comment #3

Josh Massey says ...

"They don't take orders or sing to the media from pre-prepared hymns."

YES WE CAN!

comment #4

mccool says ...

Jeffrey, sometimes you should ask yourself "does this sound like something that a 14-year-old would say when arguing with his friends?" before posting. If the world is so simple, so black and white, why are you so angry?

comment #5

JaySmack says ...

Okay so let me make sure I got this striaght:

Sarah Palin says Obama "pals around with terrorists," her husband is a member --oops, I mean FORMER member (allegedly!)-- of an all-white separatist group.
Palin is trying to incite already unstable reactionaries by telling them the country is falling into the iron grip of totalitarian socialists.

And now we've gotten two violent acts by right wingnuts who sound just like their political idols such as Palin.

And what's the big new story?

How sorry we need to feel for Palin because Letterman told a wry joke or two about her little brat.
No mention of whether Palin will aplogize for how her rhetoric has emboldened nuts like that Brun moron.

The party of no ideas realizes their on a sinking ship. The old "Keep 'em on the defensive by feigning offense non-stop" won't fly anymore.
Palin's a whackjob and she oughta get over it.

comment #6

Asokan says ...

plain ridiculous

comment #7

va says ...

Palin may be a nut, whack-job, all of the above - but if Letterman had made that crack about my daughter, 19 or 14 (and I have daughters older than 19), I'd widen that freakin' gap in his mouth....just saying......

comment #8

Josh Massey says ...

I just find it interesting that after a sweeping victory in November, liberals still can't stop talking about conservatives. It's attack attack attack - where is the spirited defense of Obama's performance so far?

comment #9

Teacher's Pets says ...

I support freedom of speech...unless it's used against me or someone I care about....

Maybe if she spent as much time educating her daughter about responsible sex as she does trying to burn Letterman in effigy for joking about it, this wouldn't be an issue...

comment #10

Teacher's Pets says ...

I find it interesting that after a crushing defeat in November, conservatives still can't stop talking about socialist liberals. It's attack attack attack - where is the attempt to rebuild the party or promote some new ideas?

comment #11

YRG says ...

You know the people that get all sensitive when you make a joke and take it the wrong way all the time? You've seen them. You don't make fun of them. Just smile and nod until you can get away, because they're like a fire alarm when they go off-- shrill and unpleasant to be around. Well, Palin is one of these folks. Just smile and nod until she goes away.

comment #12

JChasse says ...

Political Discourse 2009:

Person A: You guys are bad.
Person B: No, you guys are bad.
Person A: No, we're not. How can you say we're bad? That's mean.
Person B: Well, you said we were bad first.
Person A: Well, that's because you ARE bad.

comment #13

George Prager says ...

I suggest that those of you who are not man enough to read Jeff's blog (hello mccool!) should go elsewhere. (pardon the pun).

comment #14

btwnproductions says ...

I cannot believe how ridiculous this is....

comment #15

mccool says ...

What baffles me is that the Republican Party is, for argument's sake, a non-entity. The executive and legislative branches are controlled by the Democrats, and the face of the supreme court will slowly be taking form...yet the left can not stop obsessing over the right. The downfall. The missteps. How to resurrect....it goes on and on. We all know the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. So why so much hate? Why are so many so afraid of the right? Why not just let the right stew in its own insignificance. Is it that there is deep uncertainty about the course down which we are headed, leveraging our future to bandage today;s wounds? Enough unrest from the right will reveal this to the nation?

What? What is it?

comment #16

mccool says ...

Ah Prager, the class clown. Always quick with the jab, but always left out of the conversation...

comment #17

Sabina E says ...

silly cow.

comment #18

Mowkeka says ...

"Liberals wake up in the morning and decide what they're going to say and do on their own."

That's the silliest thing I've heard all week. Liberalism is largely based off of proving that "you get it." Saying and doing the "right" thing to please the "right" people. The entire political philosophy is based off of peer pressure.

comment #19

Teacher's Pets says ...

Maybe it's not uncertainty about where we're going, but slow-healing scars from the recent past that make us a bit touchy and, yes, paranoid about both the tactics and beliefs of the right....

Don't pretend like the right is a "non-entity" because of two down election cycles, and don't pretend like it isn't prudent to try to stay a step ahead of one's political opponents. Republicans were pounding liberals for anti-Americanism and trying to ban Christmas at the height of the power in 2002-2003...

comment #20

George Prager says ...

All I'm saying is that some of you need to man up. Have you ever been in a fist fight? You lack intestinal fortitude. Where is Dale Dye when you really need him?

comment #21

Chicago48 says ...

Obama "allows" someone? She's ignorant. The President has too many important things to deal with, like nuclear proliferation to be caught up in this silly back and forth with Palin and Letterman. However, Palin does manage to get in the news somehow doesn't she? She spends more time down here in the 48s than she does up there.

comment #22

Circumvrent says ...

Just because you Republicans let a (drug-addled, philandering) entertainer be their figurehead, does not mean that us liberals necessarily hold David Letterman in the same regard (though most of us find him pretty damn hysterical and on-point).

My feeling is it's time for a second Stalinist purge.

comment #23

Rod32303 says ...

Really, Josh? Accomplishments in six months, while we still try and fix this fucking mess that your boys made in eight years?

Liberals still can't help talking about Conservatives? YES that's it! This idiot in this clip is a LIBERAL talking about a CONSERVATIVE. THe douche who compared Obama to Putin is a LIBERAL talking about a CONSERVATIVE. The disgraced former Miss California is a LIBERAL talking about a CONSERVATIVE. The shamed no-longer-in-power party complaining about a timely confirmation hearing for Obama's choice (which will be longer than the lightning fast Roberts confirmation) are LIBERALS talking about CONSERVATIVES.

Hilarious. Truly the best laugh I've had so far today. And I just saw "The Hangover."

comment #24

Gordie Lachance says ...

I've said this before, and I'll keep saying it: To everyone who buys into this whole Us vs. Them / Red vs. Blue bullshit: YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.

Everyone should be judged on their own merits.

Letterman is a comedian and a television icon who at this point is beyond criticism (because, he's 60+, rich, and doesn't give a fuck).

Palin is an embarrassingly under-educated down-home politician who needs to stay in the lime light while she decides whether to run again in 3 years or syndicate a talk show sooner instead.

Anyone (Fox News, blogs, etc) who keeps this story going is doing it because it the easiest way to keep the rubes tuned in so you can sell ad space.

Banal, but true.

comment #25

MilkMan says ...

Holy shit that girl is fucking hot. I'm starting to think that the Right Wingers have the hottest women. But what I don't understand is this: If everything is just a joke, just entertainment, all wink-wink and nudge nudge, then why do they always get so upset?

comment #26

Mowkeka says ...

"Really, Josh? Accomplishments in six months, while we still try and fix this fucking mess that your boys made in eight years?"

Well, you're doing a stellar job so far. Remember the promises Obama made? His stimulus was going to create 4 million new jobs and stop the unemployment rate at 8%.

Yes we can! Yes we can!

comment #27

Jay T. says ...

LOL... yeah, they'd *never* refer to Hillary Clinton as having a slutty flight attendant look. The right has said SO MUCH worse about her than that. You've got to be kidding.

comment #28

Jay T. says ...

On another note: it's called free speech you stupid bitch. It's not Obama's place to tell Letterman what he can and cannot say in a joke.

comment #29

DeeZee says ...

Josh: "I just find it interesting that after a sweeping victory in November, liberals still can't stop talking about conservatives"

Well, we still have to clean up your mess, so...

mccool: "So why so much hate? Why are so many so afraid of the right?"

Because you'll do anything to go back to nine years ago?

Mowkeka: "The entire political philosophy is based off of peer pressure."

Says the party to afraid to criticize Rush Limbaugh.

comment #30

Rod32303 says ...

Right. A stimulus package happens IMMEDIATELY. The unemployment rate will drop in six months. I don't ever remember him promising THAT time frame.

He is doing a stellar job. There will be new jobs created. The unemployment rate will drop.

Yes we motherfucking can and will. Wait and see.

And what are your boys doing on the other side? Bitching. Moaning. Scrambling. Using the quips from a talk show host as major talking points? Where's their stimulus plan? Their plan for health care? Their plan to create jobs?

Their plan for anything?

Please. Continue to be proud of them.

comment #31

Travis Crabtree says ...

Golly.

comment #32

Jonah says ...

"I just find it interesting that after a sweeping victory in November, liberals still can't stop talking about conservatives. It's attack attack attack - where is the spirited defense of Obama's performance so far?"

Who was talking about conservatives here? I thought this was a conservative talking about Obama. As for the "attack, attack, attack"...have you not been listening to Limbaugh and Gingrich and Hannity and Beck?

All the Republicans do these days is attack, as their own party is falling apart.

C'mon Spin Dr. Massey. You can do better than that. Stay on point.

"Well, you're doing a stellar job so far. Remember the promises Obama made? His stimulus was going to create 4 million new jobs and stop the unemployment rate at 8%."

It took Bush eight years (although he didn't really need all eight to do it) to destroy this country from within. Yet you give Obama four and a half months to fix it.

Interesting.

I used to work a job where I was one of the managers, but the two managers above me had pretty much called it a day, effort wise. The place was falling apart, the staff gave a half assed effort, and things did not look good. This went on before I had been there, at least a couple of years from what I gathered.

A new GM was hired, he fired a bunch of people, eventually that place became a lot better. It didn't happen in a few months.

comment #33

Jonah says ...

This conservative woman is saying Letterman acted foolishly because he was influenced by a handful of comments coming from Obama's surrogates. A handful of comments made over a couple of months time six or seven months ago.

Yet conservatives don't believe that the hateful words of a Coulter or Limbaugh, repeated day after day week after week year after year can inspire an extremist nutjob to act out violently.

Strange.

comment #34

mccool says ...

Whoa, wait, I'm far from conservative. I'm just tired of the everyone on the left being preoccupied with the right, mostly because the only thing stopping us from moving forward is the compulsion by many on the left keep picking at the scab. Just leave it alone.

One can use the nouns "left," "right," or "liberal" or "conservative" while identifying with any of them (or none of them). It's about keeping an argument clear and concise within the constraints of a 100 word argument. I say "liberal" and then "you" not because I'm a republican but because my idea of liberalism doesn't include an obsession with your opponents, while it feels like a very large segment of the left wants to dwell in the right. I don't identify with that.

Regardless, so far Gordie has been the only voice of reason. Blue, red, bullshit, the common thread is intolerance.

comment #35

Josh Massey says ...

For the record, I didn't vote McCain/Palin, I see zero possibility of ever voting for her in any capacity, and I think the Republicans are a pathetic bunch right now.

However, it's always in a minority's interest to bitch about who's in charge (although I wish the Republicans had better ideas to back up their attacks). When the folks in charge are constantly sniping about the ones that aren't - well, that's when it reeks of desperation and self-doubt.

comment #36

George Prager says ...

I don't see how Wells and HE commenters are the "folks in charge" but never mind.

Now we need someone to film some college guys in their dorms watching Two Girls, One Cupp.

comment #37

CitizenKanedforChewingGum says ...

Letterman is a COMEDIAN, he tells JOKES. Is Sarah Palin even aware of his profession? This is what he does to political figures, movie stars, and celebrities that are PUBLIC FIGURES.

She had her chance to stay outta the limelight, but when she put herself (AND her family) on center stage for the '08 election she opened up the door for public scrutiny and humor at her expense. There's no going back now, baby. It's not like she has even tried to disappear since then, either...her life is basically a really bad media soap opera forcefully unfolding before all of our eyes.

This is all quite silly, and I'd personally find it all a lot more amusing if the person in question wasn't interested in running for one of the two highest offices in the country four years from now. Anyone who "likes" Sarah -- or even considered casting a vote for her last year -- I implore you to remember this behavior (and undoubtedly plenty more of it in the coming year or two).

It is petty, but more importantly, it shows a fundamental and complete lack of understanding of some of the very basic principles this country was founded on.

comment #38

CitizenKanedforChewingGum says ...

"When the folks in charge are constantly sniping about the ones that aren't - well, that's when it reeks of desperation and self-doubt."

If Bushie Jr. would have had a l'il bit of that "awful" self-doubt, we most likely would be in much better shape as a country right now...

comment #39

Travis Crabtree says ...

"If Bushie Jr. would have had a l'il bit of that "awful" self-doubt, we most likely would be in much better shape as a country right now..."

...but you don't "hate" Bushie Jr. ...... because that would be hate.

comment #40

CitizenKanedforChewingGum says ...

No, no, I actually do hate him.

comment #41

Travis Crabtree says ...

You're so filled with hate. Do you listen to hate radio while driving your hate car to a hate restaurant to eat your hate lunch?

comment #42

corey3rd says ...

Palin is still bitter since it was Letterman that screwed the McCain-Palin ticket when he exposed McCain as a guy who wasn't even close to straight talk as he lied about why he had to blow off Letterman.

The jokes aren't nearly that offensive. But Palin has to make herself a victim so she can raise fast cash for her 2012 campaign. Does anyone remember any of Dave's jokes from last week? They're yesterday's fish wrappers. But Palin can't let it die - mainly cause she does look like a slutty stewardess.

And she completely steps over the line with her campaign to paint Letterman as a child molester.

comment #43

Travis Crabtree says ...

I agree in the sense that Palin is WAY over-playing this. It smells of opportunism.

However, I don't think McCain's Letterman curffufle is exactly Watergate-like.

And I do think the joke about A-Rod was bit over the line. Doesn't keep me awake though.

But could you honestly say that if Dennis Miller made the same type of joke but instead aimed it one of Obama's daughters you wouldn't be screaming foul? (you would)

comment #44

bents75 says ...

Mccool - you are definition of ASS CLOWN.

How is that for conversation?

No, but seriously, I've been dying to know - are you the tool bag previously known as Dirty Harry? Because you sound just like him. Otherwise, Is anyone else around these parts previously know as Dirty Harry? - because I loved to hate that guy, and I want know if he still roams these lands - I assumed he was part of the Stalinish purge but that shouldn't have enough to stop his feisty spriit.

Mccool, you claim not to be conservative, and yet you profess their same weak ass arguments disguised as "Fair and Balanced!".

We all know the opposite of love is not indifference? Who is we?

You sound like a fucking fortune cookie.

comment #45

bents75 says ...

"shouldn't have been enough to stop his feisty spriit..." - that's what i mean to say.

My apologies for the gramatical errors, I've had one too many belgian beers this evening.

comment #46

alynch says ...

"But could you honestly say that if Dennis Miller made the same type of joke but instead aimed it one of Obama's daughters you wouldn't be screaming foul? (you would)"

Well, there's a pretty key difference in that Bristol is 18, while the Obama girls are 8 & 10.

comment #47

CitizenKanedforChewingGum says ...

I really don't understand what telling jokes has to do with politics. If Dennis Miller would make a funny underage sex joke, I'd laugh.

Unfortunately, dude hasn't been funny in fucking forever...almost since when Sarah Palin was underage.

comment #48

actionlover says ...

What you meant to say was, Dennis Miller hasn't been funny since you found out he was a Republican.

."Well, there's a pretty key difference in that Bristol is 18, while the Obama girls are 8 & 10."

Ooooohhhhhh. I see.

In that case, here's a knee-slapper-

Why did the chicken cross the road?
Because Chelsea Clinton is a dog-faced whore!
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

comment #49

/3rtfu11 says ...

http://www.wistv.com/global/story.asp?s=10526195

comment #50

CitizenKanedforChewingGum says ...

Apparently actionlover is one of dem right-wing douches.

No wonder actionmam is a lot funnier...

comment #51

Travis Crabtree says ...

Did you make sure to put actionlover on "The List"?

You're fucked, actionlover!

comment #52

poseidon72 says ...

These conservative women who go on Fox seem like characters out of The Stepford Wives. Its like a mentall ilness. People please understand Fox contributors and Elisabeth Hasselbeck make a living out of spewing there hate. They have become salesman. I doubt they believe everything they say but they know there is market for it and they run with the ball. That ball lines there bank account. Amazing that these haters claim to be the religious party. quite STUNNING and sad to boot!

comment #53

Travis Crabtree says ...

Wow, poseidon72.... that was an amazingly well though-out piece ...
just curious.... how old are you?

(marking poseidon72 on the list of people not to take seriously)

comment #54

George Prager says ...

Crabtree is now the king of this sandbox.

comment #55

Travis Crabtree says ...

Hate = Opinion you disagree with

comment #56

CitizenKanedforChewingGum says ...

Who the hell are you talking to?

comment #57

COCO says ...

As Americans...I think we can all agree that the
forced ''call to prayer'' or mushroom clouds over
Denver are not what the country needs to have happen.