Bill Maher Is Right!! (About Letterman and Palin)

[lizardman563]

I note a US soldier was killed in Iraq as evident by the update at 0:14 yet this letterman bullshit is somehow more important. Oh, it also says "Carter decries destruction in Gaza." Would you look at that. American media keeping that kind of info as low key as possible, yet loves to air media that ISN'T important. Fuck CNN. Fuck Israel government loving Maher. Palin IS an attention whore, fuck her too.

[bigbosscentral90]

david letterman is the most superb broadcaster

[imperator332]

Fuck Palin.

And her kids.

[KataVideo]

@53dumey wrong.

[mattyboy975]

@KataVideo agreed.

[Jose21Arroyo]

@KataVideo Yeah, I don't agree with 53dumey's comment either.

[AvengingDudikoff]

@53dumey Part of it is because Obama's kids aren't annoying. Secondly if you're a dem you're all for protection, if you're a repub you're for abstinence and hence Bristol falling short is what fueled such. I'm an independent so I'm partial.

[steelersguy74]

@AvengingDudikoff And Bristol Palin was already a legal adult when the joke was made. If Sarah Palin wants to get angry at someone about this, she should look in the mirror; she's the one constantly using her children as political props.

[70sRob]

@53dumey -Yeah you're stupid and WRONG

[2000bluecrow]

@53dumey  Definitely wrong!

[Erictheredd2]

@53dumey so wrong.

[ripcalwill]

@53dumey What could you possibly say that would be belittling the Obama children? They are two fine, intelligent young girls thrown in the spotlight and getting on with school and their lives!

You are a very cruel person to have to have such anger about anyone including two entertainers such as David Letterman and Bill Maher! Didn't your parents or pastor ever tell you that if you can't say anything nice about a person, be quiet? So start being nice. Treat others well!

[Prka01]

@53dumey Unlike Bristol "Is that even a fucking name" Palin, Obama's daughters don't have a problem keeping their leggs together.

[Ladiesman1447]

@53dumey

Obama's kids haven't done anything wrong. Bristol got pregnant before she was married, not that I care but it makes Sarah Palin a hypocrite considering how she promotes this whole idea of conservative family values and all that other stuff. I can gaurantee you that will never happen to Obama's kids, Barack and Michelle look like excellent parents.

[Geezyone]

Well said by Bill Maher

[scattershot1]

you see .. because she shoots animals from a helicopter in alaska and his name is WOLF

[rejectminority]

i support letterman, i just think palin didn't quite understand the joke and got worried just cause her daughter was mentioned. btw like letterman said, you can't defend the jokes...

[mavivirgie]

WHAT A UGLY PIECE OF DOGSHIT

[UltimateWeapon666]

SO true what he says about the media

[badtown88]

I don't like Letterman much at all, but these people protesting him were 100% INSANE. Possibly the dumbest people I've ever had the displeasure of listening to.

[Elbekkaoui]

that old prick makes jokes about everyone

only if he noticed the way he licks his lips when he comes in

he would've make a show joking about himself

or about that old freak who plays piano with him and say sensless bullshit from minute to minute

... a goddamn tragedy

[hgates101]

letterman is the man!!

[kaibybrunis]

The judgments you make say more about you than the subjects you attack with your negative screed.

[DrZaious]

Something is only negative if you take it in that way or understand it to be that way.

Sometimes instead of just becoming offensive or hurt, you should think if what the person is saying is the truth. Its called self growth and understand.

Not every joke or crtisism is ment to be negative or hurtful sometimes its just the truth.

[kcfromSeattle]

Thx for the video. I missed it on TV and this clarifies a lot. I agree with Maher that Letterman should NOT have apologized, at least all the furor boosted DL's ratings. Palin just threw ANOTHER of her own kids under the bus in seeking more attn for herself. Imagine what Willow's going to feel in going back to school next fall - with classmates snickering about 'rape' & 'pedophiles' swirling around her name.

[Learnthetruth100]

The only thing that is not clear, is the Joke of Palin useing her own kids for free publicity.

Palin is a lso a Joke as a leader , if a Joke sends her crying for people to defend her.

[sandroeleven]

Errr she was gov. you fool..being a gov makes you a leader...Seh freed the state of its debt also.

[KataVideo]

no you fucking moron. sarah failin was not a leader. a leader gets people working toward the same goal. she couldn't rally a majority of alaska repugnicunts to work with her. she couldn't work with the state legislature. the people who follow her are powerful, frustrated bigots and retards who don't wield any sort of electoral power.

she probably will never hold office again. just as well, because she's an idiot.

[KataVideo]

"seh" didn't free any state from anything. the oil companies pay alaska to drill the oil. that money pays the state budget and the excess has been distributed to citizens for DECADES. failin' palin didn't do jack fucking shit, and I'll thank you not to stain my pages again without know what the fuck you're talking about.

[12sabu]

@KataVideo ouch!

[Learnthetruth100]

Fool being governor does not make you a leader. Palin was a fraud and joke and no real leader would use their own kids for free publicity and then quit their job in the middle of their term.

she was nothing but a fraud and a quitter. Look at her history of lies and quitting jobs.

[jjason55740]

@sandroeleven

lol alaska doesn't have debt because it gets billion of dollars from it's lease agreement of northern Alaska to the oil companies. There is no budget that Palin had to manage. Alaska's budget is spend and spend more because it's not the tax payers money being spent but the oil company. I know I use to live in Alaska

[jabronis33]

Wolf Blitzer really challenges his guests! Wow! He should just sit on Bill Mahers lap. I dont think Letterman should have apologized and they should not try to fire him. But where were these when Imus was fired. Imus made a general statement. Letterman pointed out a 14 year old girl at a Yankee game. I dont think any of us would want someone saying that about our kids. Way to go Wolf! You really challenged him!

[KataVideo]

Well, letterman really has made it clear, and I think the joke was obvious, that he was referring to the 18 year old who has been knocked up (at least once, see my "who is baby trigg's mother" vid)... I mean, who knew the palin's guest list at the yankees game? no one outside their circle of course.

it was todd and scarah who first brought up the younger daughter, they brought up the word rape which letterman NEVER mentioned.

but yeah, wolf can be a sycophant.

[jabronis33]

No the joke was not clear. I had heard that she was there with their 14 year old daughter. He was handed a joke with wrong info. Lettermans ratings are in the toilet and probably had a little intention of boosting them. Leno is better anyway.

[KataVideo]

the joke was perfectly clear. not my fault if you're a retard.

and because of the palin thing, Letterman's ratings are way up and he beat conan. you're trolling. usually I ban trolls, but in your case, I'm banning you for saying Leno is better. enjoy your miracle whip and velveeta sammich.

[TomFromJersey]

Couldn't have said it better myself

[KataVideo]

I had to turn the thumbs off, some organized conservatards came through and started to red thumb everyone

[Zuul030]

I love Bill Maher... and this proves why I do. I lost a LOT of respect for Letterman when he gave an apology to Palin... it just set a precedent... now anyone he makes fun of.. or harasses can just be like Palin... whine about it... and Letterman will retract it.

Letterman should just retire.

I love "Real Time with Bill Maher"... because he does tell it like it is.

[canadablonde23]

Letterman was essentially forced to and it was so half hearted, he clearly wasnt "really" giving in. He was basically like, "sure fine you want an apology? Then Im sorry you can't take a joke"

[OniLinkSword]

Um... No. That's nothing near why he said.

"...I told a bad joke. I told a joke that was beyond flawed, and my intent is completely meaningless compared to the perception. And since it was a joke I told, I feel that I need to do the right thing here and apologize for having told that joke. It's not your fault that it was misunderstood, it's my fault. That it was misunderstood."

Do so research first.

[canadablonde23]

Actually Im going to disagree.

a) Mine is clearly not a direct qoute - its a sum up (err DUH?)

b)Anyone who saw his apology could see that he was so not apologizing for his comedy, but for the firestorm it started. As the media dragged it on, he made a second apology AFTER (like I say, he was basically media-pressured into it) and I think its incredibly clear from what he INITIALLY said what his true feelings are.

Learn to read between the lines....

[OniLinkSword]

I am.

I'm reading that he his apologizing for something he shouldn't have to apologize for. He made a bad joke. So what? Does that make him a pervert and child molester? Hell no.

The fact that he put himself out there (pressured or not) shows him trying to make amends. Your "sum up" is flawed as to that isn't what he said nor meant.

Other people, like me, are saying that S. Palin can't take a joke. She was pissy that people were still talking about her a week after the elections.

[canadablonde23]

I don't think we are disagreeing then.... and I don't think its wrong to say Letterman's apology was (rightfully) disingenious cause he knew it was much ado about nothing.

[KataVideo]

I think letterman's first statement was the reaction to knowing this was much ado about nothing. the second apology came because he saw some lilly-livered wusses on our side whining about the joke.. and let's face it, the Liberal movement is far from perfect. we have people who can't take a friggin joke.

since then, maher and other SMARTER people have said letterman had nothing to apologize for, and I think they're right. letterman is a class act, he'd rather this stays where it is.

[canadablonde23]

agreed.

[KataVideo]

that would be the first apology, before he had a weekend off to think it over

[Lissabon]

I don't always agree with Maher, but here he is spot on!

[thatisabigten4]

Letterman didnt even say the joke! his writers did. man...Sarah Palin needs to get the Alaskan Sand next to the bridge to Nowhere out of her twat. I wish ever american can be like Bill Maher.

[thatisabigten4]

Bill Maher is the man!

[jokingkong]

haha! David Letterman did apologize though and not try to explain himself off any... so maybe in fact he did know that the joke was aimed at Willow. To hell with Letterman and to hell with that unfunny douchebag Bill Maher, I mean who really gives a crap what that scumbag thinks? I hope Dave's stupid ass show is finaly canceled!

[KataVideo]

joke, the apology was unnecessary; it was thoroughly explained; clearly he did not know willow was at the game, and the joke was clearly aimed at the one who's been knocked up at least once; you collect memorabilia about children, perhaps YOU'RE a pedophile; maher's audience increased after leaving abc, letterman's ratings are up. sucks to be you.

[classicallady]

Very well said Kata.....Kudos. This imbecile joking is a toal joke

[KyanPace]

joker-not, i think letterman and maher are hilarious. obviously, you are a humorless conservatard and stupid as hell if you think CBS will cancel the goldmine they have in letterman. dumb in business much?

"i mean who really gives a crap what scumbag thinks"

we agree there! i don't give a flying fuck what that scumbag sarah palin thinks either!!

[KataVideo]

Kyan, I guess only the mentally ill screachers who follow scarah failin gives a shit what she thinks

[KyanPace]

kata, unfortunately her kids will be leading that elitist pack of "searchers" she's pimped them out so often!

[talkingpie99]

Maher hit the nail on the head on how the right wingers will twist a misunderstanding into a truth disguised as a lie (statutory) to suit them.

[drwilliamson169]

Whell ... I simply have to agree. The context was fabricated and Letterman was only doing what he does: tell jokes. Give the guy a break and don't make something out of it that it isn't -- like we always like to do anymore.

[mccainisthrough]

Great video. Maher is great, so is Letterman. palin is a moron trying to use anything she can for notoriety. If she thought she could gain attention by eating her children, she'd do it before you could say "just kidding."

[eeedel]

Palin is like Freddy Kruger... we give her power by acknowledging her presence.

[KataVideo]

quarantine fax news!

[Learnthetruth100]

I agree with that.

[tomitstube]

of course Bill Maher is right. i was surprised about the apology because Letterman has this reputation of being tough on people, McCain, Phoenix, etc. why he caved is perplexing.

speaking of caving, Maher's also right about Obama trying to include repubs and groups hostile to him on certain bills. sucking up to the AMA for universal health care? it's like Maher said, Obama has the numbers right now to get a lot done, it's why he won, he may lose this window of opportunity.

[tomitstube]

not to belabor the point, but why the fuck wasn't todd palin's comment about his "14 year old daughter was being raped", exposed? he clearly knew they weren't talking about her specifically. what, because it's alex rodriguez, that implies rape? the only one implying rape is her own father, how is that not disgusting on several levels?

[KataVideo]

and why did scarah palin have a big smile on her face on the today show discussing this, using the "r" word and her daughter's name and smiling? wtf?

[tomitstube]

you're kidding?! palin is on some victory tour about this nonsense? what a bunch of hillbillies. is that vid worth posting?

[Learnthetruth100]

Palin was smiling because the repugs are believing her crap and supporting her using her own kids for political gain.

[Th1mastermike]

LMAO, good one!

[rip2shred]

Hell yeah, Bill Maher is right. Though that stupid Palin doesn't have to apologize to Obama for calling him a "terrorist" Conservative? How about hypocrite? Heck the Neoturds are more PC than the libs. Damn crybabies.

[spock8585]

Thanks to  MrBushWacker for sharing this great video with me.

[jonathanwindham]

Letterman's joke was clearly about Bristol, Letterman clearified that and apologized twice.

Sarah palin is an attention whore and I am sick and tired of seeing and hearing about her.

[WakeUpDreamers77]

And imagine if she was President (awful thought) and a foreign leader criticized her for something petty, and she came out enraged...good lord....

[WakeUpDreamers77]

I agree with Bill. He shouldn't have apologized. Bill makes worse comments about Palin...and she doesn't go into an uproar.

15 protestors showed to his studio...15! hahahahaha. And then Ziegler says 2,000 were supposed to show up. And Ziegler wants Letterman fired. For a freakin' joke? LOL. So its ok for Palin to keep HER job despite Troopergate, 17k in back taxes, aerial hunting of wolves, and her husband being a secessionist. gees. hahahaha.

[Th1mastermike]

And don't forget she spies on Russia from her house and can't name what she reads.

[CelticLady44]

Palin was more than willing to trot out her family like trophies during the campaign. But now they are off limits? Bill Maher is not someone who just goes with the flow. Palin changes with the wind!

Maher hits every nail on the head! Palin? well, let's just say she needs another handler. One who can put a bit in her mouth!

[chachieb]

I'm sure he would be just as pissed off if someone drew a cartoon about shooting a monkey that escaped a zoo.

[EarthsFinalConflict]

Bill Maher said something these asshole conservatards are missing.. that Letterman is a midwesterner.. along the same lines of Johnny Carson. He certainly isn't an elitist and he dishes it out to Democrats when they screw up as well. On a positive note, Letterman still Joked about Palin last night.

[FKASG9SSM]

"don't let sarah palin shoot you from a helicopter, wolf" --- LOL!

i never skip an episode of "real time" because bill is incredibly gifted at distilling conservatardation to simple terms in a way that is just so beautifully ironic, and this interview is just one more prime example.

thanks, katavideo

[Yankhadenough]

Don't the Palins want to keep their grandchild out of the spotlight?

[KataVideo]

nah, the palin's will use this one as campaign set-dressing. just as they used each of their kids from the time that scarah dragged little track around in his red wagon going door to door for her first wasilla town council election. even though her mother and todd's mother were both right there, in town, and available for babysitting. they're trash.

[3slimdog]

Mayer is the man!! Tell it like it is. Palin did not deserve an apology.

[armyveteran101st]

I completely agree with Maher, but CBS is still a major network, vulnerable to political correctness. I'd be willing to bet that Letterman didn't have any intentions of apologizing, (and I think he shouldn't have), but he must have had the network and its fear of economic boycotts so far up his butt he never had a choice. It all boils down to money, folks, whether we like it or not. Having said that, I'll say that the ones that looked like the idiots they truly are were the Palins, not Dave.

[MrBushWacker]

Learnthetruth100, Palin can have all the free publicity she wants. When I talk my laura into running for President in 2012, Palin will be history. She will go back on her little snowmachines and kill more wolfs to show us what she really thinks of us.

[MrBushWacker]

I once asked Bill Mayer to let me on his show to clear my name. The jerk wanted Laura instead. Why Americans hold a burr in their ass over me is something they will have to live with. Laura will not appear on Mayers show. At least not untill I talk that bitch into running for President.

[60DemocratsHappyDay]

Hmmmm maybe I missed it since I block FOX news on all my TV's... but did Sarah Palin apologize for the hate speech she so freely let spew at her rallies during the campaign?

[Learnthetruth100]

Palin is just her own kids just to get a little free publicity. Palin also shows us what a poor leader she would be by spending so much time crying  over a joke.

[KyanPace]

that should be vicious lies AND calling for letterman to be fired!! WTF? go to hell

[KyanPace]

i think bill hit it~! there was absolutely no need for letterman to apologize! the conservatards were bolstered with the great manipulation of palin to get in a frenzy and imply or say vious lies about letterman because of 1 joke!

plain pushed her sorry ass into the public's face again as if to say "remember me?" and it made me sick when she tacked on her bullshit about the troops after dave's apology. she alone exploited her kids so suck it up bitch!!

[60DemocratsHappyDay]

That's what Letterman should have said ''I'm sorry Sarah, that you and your family are so ass backwards that your perverted minds went THERE when I told a simple joke. I'm sorry you're such mouth breathing skoal spitting rednecks that you can't hear a joke & somehow inject pediphilia into it.'' More appropriate apology. In other words, let's all apologize to the Palin family, because of their stupidity, they just dont get it.

[KyanPace]

60dems, omg, that is such a good comment and so true. now real americans are expected to apologize to a stone age hillbilly psycho who hates her own gender and wants to take EVERYBODY'S rights away cause they don't believe what she does!!

AND smart old you 60dems, cause when, and i mean when?? did palin ever aplogize for all the groups of ppl she hurt and exploited??? she should be apologizing to her kids constantly but instead she's pimping them out again!! GAG!

[silver6kraid]

when all else fails you know Bill Maher will speak the truth and call the bull shit, I love that man, he's an inspiration,and he's right, Sarah Palin has become an attention starved leech who is trying to make the world look at her, and we're looking, but the thing is, I'm not look on her too kindly...I never thought I could hate that woman even more than I did before, but clearly I was wrong.

[spock8585]

Thanks for the great video and Thanks to Bill for speaking out.

[Th1mastermike]

Bill Maher rocks! Sarah Palin sucks!

[crimsong19]

A pat on the back for Bill!

[Voodooray007]

Bill Maher...THANK YOU!