Is it really comedy?

I don't care much about David Letterman; if I am awake when he is on, I am doing something other than watching tv. I didn't know about his crass comments about Sarah Palin and her daughter till I saw comments on various websites about it. How people can say "hey, it's just comedy" is beyond me.

I like Victor Davis Hanson's take:

Two of the rhetorical cornerstones of the feminist movement used to be zero-tolerance for sexual slurs by men alleging promiscuity ("slutty flight-attendant look"), and jokes about something as serious as rape (e.g., Palin's 14-year-old daughter "knocked up by Alex Rodriguez"). David Letterman, who has become ever more creepy in his dotage, on both counts proved a boor — and receives only silence?

Of course feminism isn't about all women, and never has been; just certain types of women - of which Palin is not.

What an ugly culture we have become. And using the excuse that "it's just comedy" is really, well, inexcusable.

Stupid celeb tricks: I pledge

MySpace Celebrity and Katalyst present The Presidential Pledge




So, was the eeevillll President Bush preventing them from doing all these things before?

See Breitbart's Big Hollywood for some good commentary.

Also see Iowahawk for a, um, transcript.

I know it's a holiday but

you really need to read this right now. Or tonight after fireworks. Or soon. "The Pledge We Can Believe In" for Obama's supporters in Hollywood. It is a classic work.

I still love this quote from 2004 attributed to Alice Cooper:

"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal."

Replace rock star with any celebrity. Like the black tv actor who thinks he "paved the way" for an Obama presidency because he played the Pres on a tv show. (I guess he's got the arrogance down pat.) Are people stupid enough to vote because of that? I despair.

Of course there are celebrities who are intelligent, well-read, and know what's going on. And they are as entitled to their opinions as anyone else. Unfortunately they have a grip on the minds of many people who will vote for someone simply because a star tells them to. And knowing that, celebrities should shut up.