Trump to Letterman: ‘Well, somebody knocked down the World Trade Center.’
by John Nolte—–
First off, David Letterman should never feel the need to remind us he’s ignorant.
And good for Donald Trump, who hits the nail on the head when he says that the Ground Zero Mosque builders would engender a tremendous amount of goodwill if they would, of their own volition, move someplace where — as Roger Ebert was good enough to remind us – the ashes of the dead don’t still lay.
Below the fold you’ll find a video of Letterman taking a shot at His One. This makes a total of two jokes (I’m aware of) Letterman’s told at the expense of chronic vacationer Barack Obama. Think about how divisive and biased Letterman is that the strange occasion of his making a joke about our sitting president is found worthy of a mention.
If memory serves, night after night, the great Johnny Carson was pretty scrupulous about making sure he went after Democrats and Republicans equally. The TV legend apparently understood that “The Tonight Show” wasn’t a political forum and that as an American entertainer his job was to make everyone laugh and not to grind his own personal partisan ax.
How far Letterman has fallen.
You never get the sense Letterman’s heart is in the jokes told at Obama’s expense. He certainly doesn’t relish them in the same way he does ripping on Sarah Palin’s family. In the video below, Letterman appears to be warning the President as much as teasing him, offering up a little friendly political advice in the hopes of helping the poor guy out:
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So this is about "Freedom of Religion," is it Dave? Well, let me check the First Amendment…yep, there it is: "No one is allowed to disagree with or criticize anything a Muslim does, ever."
Oh, and it goes on to say: "But Christians should not be allowed to pray at school or have memorial crosses on public land."
What I'm so amazed that is that Letterman knew that the pilgrims came here for religious freedom. He clearly escaped before the public school system completely ruined our history.
This makes a total of two jokes (I’m aware of) Letterman’s told at the expense of chronic vacationer Barack Obama.
So I guess that means he's officially a racist.
Welcome to the Tea Party Letterman.
Good luck with that with Arlington.
Yeah, he's fallen so far, he's the best joke on his show.
Excellent Donald. Bravo Donald. Keep in mind and I know you do, Letterman’s audience is tantamount to a Maher audience. And as such you received a scattered applause for representing your position on this which is congruent with the majority of America. Letterman’s ratings are falling as is the rest of media. It’s an anomaly of first order just from the business perspective alone. But just know cheers were heard across America in America’s living rooms. As you say, not one bucket of mud passes in Manhattan without the nod of those in the industry for the last 190 years. These people are tough, eyes, hair and teeth Catholics, wink friggen wink. With this in mind, this mosque will never be built.
Round and round the cobbler's bench
The Trump he chased the liberal,
The monkey thought 'twas all in fun
POP Goes the liberal!
REBUILD THE TOWERS YOU MISERABLE BUREAUCRATS!!! IF TRUMP WERE IN CHARGE, THEY'D BE BUILT ALREADY!!!
Trump to Letterman: ‘Well, somebody knocked down the World Trade Center.’
There MUST have been applause and cheering after that. Who cut it out?
Of course Dave would say he supports Muslims. After all look how much he hates Palin.
I bet if MUSLIM terrorists took out the building that houses his stupid dinosaur liberal network and his worthless has-been show, that arrogant gap-toothed jackass would be singing a different tune.
"chronic vacationer Barack Obama"
Now that's a funny line.
I tip my hat to you. Mr. Nolte.
Apparently Letterman remembers the Pilgrims but doesn't remember Rhode Island.
Not to say that we shouldn't go with Rhode Island's version of freedom of religion and certainly by the time we wrote up and codified religious freedom in this country that was the prevailing thought.
I sometimes think that it must be really hard for those who live in New York and were there to force themselves to take the PC route on this one. No matter how much "right" the mosque builders have, they are clearly the ones who are being insensitive. But the insane rules over who gets to claim offense are such that a "right thinking" person *has* to side with them on it.
At some point, it's all going to give. People aren't going to have any patience for the cognitive dissonance any more.
"Leave Dave ALONE!" ~sobs/tears~
Letterman and other Liberals are so anti-George Bush that they've decided to oppose everything single thing he ever stood for, even if that means plugging their ears and refusing to hear the truth. Letterman justs ignores Trump when he says, "Somebody blew those buildings up." Letterman acts like he doesn't know violent, extremist Muslims blew up the World Trade Center. And before that, before Bush was prez, they were blowing up ships and embassies all over the world. It's all come down to this: Letterman, Garofaolo, Mahr, Cusack, etc. are like high school bullies, picking on the good kids trying to do the right thing. But now, instead of seeming cool and funny, they are just starting to look like losers who don't get it. And anyone who supports Sharia Law anywhere is just a caveman.
Oh Sure Dave. You haven't read the Ko'ran but I assure you its just full of appeals to tolerance and peace just like you said.
Your first line says it all. Best quote of the week.
Exactly, Letterman. Your show has been dragging on for far too long. The first step is acknowledging it. The 2nd. step is to fix that problem, like ending it. Please, NOW! @sskissing socialist!
I'm very curious to see how that plays out.
Leave it to Trump to just lay it out there bluntly and simply. Nicely done.
"Not having read the Koran", – i.e. "Not having a clue regarding what I am about to speak of."
Thee isn't a sane politician in America who go near it with a twelve trillion foot pole.
I caught that too, TBL. Letterman really shouldn't opine when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about, but that's silly of me because he doesn't know what he's talking about on any subject.
And to think I used to find him funny!
EdSki, you're assuming that there is sanity in D.C. Banning crosses in public cemeteries is the logical conclusion to these insane policies.
Donald made a valid point, but he was a pussy about it. "Somebody" didn't knock down the towers. Islamic Jihadists knocked down the towers. Be a man, and call out the guilty.
Do you remember when Rudy Giuliani came out on Letterman's stage after the World Trade Center came down? Do you remember that? The applause? Letterman got it then. He was as horrified as anyone. He understood the wound to the city and the country. He cared.
Now, it's like he's not even thinking. He's just mimicing the party line. And when did terrorism become a liberal or conservative thing? Now Liberals aren't upset about the World Trade Center? Liberals can't figure out what the heck everyone is so danged upset about?
I like how after Trump said it would be a gesture of goodwill if they CHOSE to build the mosque somewhere else, Letterman resorted to the old liberal tactic of accusing him of infringing on their Freedom of Religion. Dave, it's only a Constitutional issue if the government prohibits them from practicing their religion. People stating opinions contrary to your own is not a violation of the 1st Amendment.
Trump didn't even go far enough, but he could.
I think he should have asked Letterman when he decided to go all out for Islam, when he's been trashing Palin and Bush for years regarding their religion. Why now??? Isn't he a hypocrite??
Incidentally, has anyone been watching Leno lately? His monologues the past few weeks have really been ripping on Obama. And he's been giving Republicans some needlers too, to keep it even. Letterman, are you taking notes? No, I don't suppose you are.
No, in his case it just means he doesn't understand what Obama's really doing and needs to be properly educated (or re-educated, as the case may be).
Johnny Carson told jokes about presidents from both parties but they were never mean spirited and were meticulously apolitical. He was a master. No one has come close since he left the Tonight Show. They should have retired the name.
Letterbum lost his edge years ago. F
I was wondering that too.
Dave has gone from interestingly sarcastic to irretrievably caustic. That's why he's chosen the liberal path. He fits right in with the Demosaurs who are angry at their impending extinction.
How far Letterman has fallen.
IMO the groundhogs have been delivering his mail for decades, so I am left to wonder at the harmless physics of falling from such a nadir of televised entertainment.
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Trump's right on target—-
exactly what everyone, who has opposed THAT particular site, has been saying.
The Libs are making it, about religion,
to avert the will of the majority of Americans, including the families of the fallen.
We give Trump permission to FIRE that court jester of a Mayor, for sheer stupidity.
Send him packing—- along with Letterman…….he is an insufferable drag !
too busy bangin the "fetch me my coffee" girl to notice, I suspect.
Either Letterman is completely uninformed on islam, or is is purposefully blustering a big fat lie about the peaceful words about islam. Someone should send him this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9rofXQl6w
Huh. I never thought I'd ever agree with Donald Trump on anything. Guess there's a first time for everything.
I really wonder what happened to David Letterman. I remember his first show back after 9-11, and it was, in a word, inspiring. I very clearly remember him saying that the word "courage" invokes all other noble things, and that if going out and "pretending to be courageous is the best we can do for now, then by God, that's what we'll do." He got it. He really understood how everybody was feeling. Now, it's like he forgot how he felt and what he went through. It's sad to watch.
Reminds you of "Well, the Harvard police acted stupidly" doesn't it?
Ah well, other than the fact that Humor is good and Progressivism is bad, there's not really much of a correlation between humor and politics. If Letterman's funny, that's all well and good, , but he and his other Liberal comedy cohort's should try to dabble in more serious business if they aren't informed of the facts.
So wrong…and yet so true.
Guessing the ABC editors, on loan from the Country Music Awards.
Sarah Nicole is right! On his first show back after 9/11, Letterman had some extremely harsh words for the reptiles who brought down the twin towers and someone needs to remind him of that — maybe by sending him a Youtube link to his own show from that night (assuming one even exists).
My take on Letterman is the one I have for many liberals: How can someone so bright (and he's incredibly bright, folks) be so clueless?
You are right. The protesters have every right to be there. Every single one of them has the right to be there protesting that Mosque. Its why this country is great. But for the government to actually prevent them from building it is also a violation of that same right. We can tell them no all we want, but our constitution states very clearly "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
The government simply can't not allow the Mosque (double negatives are fun).
I wish people would stop saying that the problem with the mosque is that it is insensitive. That's like saying the problem with the deficit is we might run out of money to fund more research projects on the mating rituals of gnats.
It's the least of our worries.
The problem with the mosque is this:
A large percent of the LEADERS, the people with all the power and money within the Muslim religion and Muslim states, believe that all people should be Muslim and that infidels should be put to death. They believe in utter totalitarian control over the lives of all individuals. They also believe in conquering other states for Islam. Most of the average Muslims don't subscribe to this, but they are not the ones with the power.
In order for the people building this mosque, (not the average joe going there to worship) to practice their version of Islam, they have to rob other people of their religious freedom.
That's the problem in a nut shell. Convince the American people that you need this mosque to peacefully and privately practice Islam, and that your intent is not to rob anyone else of their religious freedom.
But the goal is to forward Sharia law and to change America to an Islamic nation….that's why they need a mosque at ground zero. That's the whole point. It's a Trojan horse. This has nothing to do with freedom to practice religion, it is about conquering.
I didn't know they banned crosses in public cemeteries! Can you link me to an article explaining this further?
Regressive libs have decided that the Islamic cause helps their agenda. It's the enemy of my enemy is my friend thing. If Islam can help the Dems bring this country down to it's knees, than so be it. They'll take it any way they can get it.
PLUS…..they are all two of a kind. Like the two sides of a penny.
Regressive libs love tyrants (see Castro, Chavez, and the like) Any government or religion who controls the masses with an iron fist can't be all bad in their book.
You honestly believe that The United States of America, the greatest of all nations, would be conquered from the inside by a mosque? How can a mosque at ground zero change the laws of this country. I can't think of any possible way that Sharia law could wiggle its way into our laws because of this mosque.
Maybe reading comprehension is lost on today's youth, but boris is suggesting the logic used to remove any religious (mainly Christian) symbols from all public spaces will eventually target crosses at public cemeteries.
That was a bit mean. A bit unwarranted too. But the original comment by Jimmy also is suggesting that they are removing crosses form public land. Thats what I want to know about.
How so clueless…because his Ideology clouds his sense of truth and his common sense. It trumps "No Bun Intended '…Everything.
p.s. I remember his after 9/11 show too.
i remember Johnny Carson making jokes about a Mayor Yorty and I remember my Mom and Dad laughing at them and we had never lived in LA or the west coast for that matter. His humor concerning politicians was universally funny.
Andrew, marcosamine has it right, I was taking the removal of memorial crosses from public land to its ultimate ( idiotic ) conclusion. I am not suggesting that they are about to do that, but if you follow the prog/lib thinking to its end, that could be the ultimate outcome.
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/08/tenth-circui...
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/08/appeals-court-...
These are just 2 of many articles.
Peace.
There are two cases where crosses used as memorials have been taken down from public land…
the first case is….The 14 crosses erected along Utah roads to commemorate fallen state Highway Patrol troopers convey a state preference for Christianity and are a violation of the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.
http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/24693896/detail.ht...
the second case….Authorities say a Mojave Desert war memorial cross that replaced one that was stolen is illegal and must come down.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/20/authorities-...
By the inside is just about the only way they can conquer us. What do you think the Regressives are doing?
Wake up, there are already huge pushes for Sharia law in America. Just like it is already happening all over Europe.
(Obama administration's, Harold Koh, sees no reason why Sharia law cannot be applied to disputes in American courts.)
Do you understand the concept of a Trojan horse?
Do you take everything at face value and trust everyone? Even someone who has sworn to destroy you?
Listen to what these people say. You will see exactly what their plans are. Stop being so naive.
This mosque is a symbol and a call. It means something to the people building it, and it's purpose is to embolden and encourage terrorists.
Are you so naive that you can't see after all the terrorist attacks that the leaders and powerful in Islam want to destroy us (the great Satan?) Do you honestly believe that a mosque built on the site of their biggest victory over us would not encourage them?
Interesting. The first case I can understand though. The government isn't allowed to endorse any specific religion, and the police are obviously part of the government.
Sad that in the second case some low life would go to steal a cross. But as far as putting a new one up, it technically can't be done until the case is settled, which I am sure will have the cross be put back up.
This really doesn't seem like evidence that they will ban crosses in public mediums. They just can't have state or federal endorsement of them, as its against the constitution.
You want to know how old I am? I remember when Letterman was funny.
Building the mosque may embolden terrorists, but its also a slight against peaceful Muslims. Are you familiar with the quote that it is better for one hundred guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer?
Peaceful Muslims are not the ones building this mosque. That's the point. The ones giving money to Hamas are.
Wake up, your being played.
And no one has done a single solitary thing to stop any American Muslim from practicing their religion, or to even make it harder for them in any way. They are all currently practicing at some mosque somewhere else. This is not a legitimate, peaceful, attempt at exercising religious freedom……this is a call to war.
They are using our own freedoms and liberties to destroy us. They have us between a rock and a hard place and they know it.
I am the first person to stand up for Constitutional rights, but I also detest being deceived.
The bottom line is they will have to convince Americans that building this mosque is not going to help to rob and destroy the liberties of other Americans.
In this country, the only time you cannot be free to practice your God given rights is when you use them to destroy someone else's rights.
If the builders of this mosque have given money to blow up innocent people, then they have forfeited their liberties. We didn't do it to them, they did it to themselves.
Additionally, doesn't the irony just crack you up? The irony of a religion that is the total antithesis of liberty and freedom demanding their liberty and freedom?
And just for the record, I never said that they should be legally prevented from building the mosque.
I simply said we need to start articulating the real problem and threat, and not just say it's insensitive, like the whole problem isn't emboldened terrorists, it's just our hurt feelings.
We need to make it well known that we are all very well aware we are risking our lives and freedom and living in a more dangerous country so that we don't infringe on any one else's freedom. If we are going to do it, we should at least do it somberly with our eyes wide open. After all, it is most likely that Americans will die for this mosque.
Yeah, I guess we must be the same age then, Carolyn. I used to be a huuuuge David Letterman fan. In additon to his amazing wit and command of language, he used to have (or appeared to have) a real knack for skewering pretension and seeing through other people's b.s. — a knack that seems to have desserted him. Kind of a shame, actually.
I do too, the caveat being that most of that time I was either drunk, high, or both at the time.
in geneeral, the people who don't despise Islam are usually the ones who don't know what is actually in the Koran. What a coincidence.
The government isn't allowed to endorse any specific religion…..
lets look at this statement a little…The Constitution states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…in other words Congress cannot say "Religion X" is the official religion of the US…Many people are surprised to learn that the United States Capitol regularly served as a church building; a practice that began even before Congress officially moved into the building and lasted until well after the Civil War. The approval of the Capitol for church was given by both the House and the Senate, …with the Senate approval being given by the President of the Senate, Thomas Jefferson….The term "wall of separation" was first used in an informal letter by President Thomas Jefferson in 1802 …so if people are telling me that by Jefferson using the term "wall of separation" or the "separation of church and state" confirms that the government of the United States was specifically intended to be religiously neutral…then why would he approve the Capitol to be used as a church….
Second that. Also, the left sees a lot of itself in the Islamic view of how things should be: a handful of self-appointed elities ruling over everyone else's lives while robbing and murdering those who don't share their views. It's almost a mirror image of the democrat platform.
Good stuff. Trumps plays him well.
Its a little thing called subtlety, a concept lost on the curent generation of libs.
Allow me to refer to the classic show SWAT Kats and refer to him as David Litterbin.
"Ubiddy, uh, uh, I haven't read the Koran or anything, but…"
But he does live in NY. He does know who did it and why. He does know the builders of the mosque claim to want to provide a bridge across religious divide and promote understanding… on the site where their extremists killed our innocents?
Sorry bud. It does not compute.
the people screaming islamaphobia are the ones who say all priests are pedophiles and anyone who refers to Jesus or God is a right wing zealot.
I went to see the show 3 times when he was at NBC. Now I cringe.
Carson would be making fun of the ''Jack-Ass Muslims''.. .. .. and ''Park 51''.. Matthews and Olberman would be carved up like a Christmas Turkey…
I must be young then, because I've never really found him funny.
Trump was polite and his arguments were forceful and spot-on.
It is Dave's mindset…Hey Dave, there is no law against it but, you are not supposed to sleep with your employees or cheat on your wife either Dave. I guess in Dave's world there is no Law against making sexual demeaning jokes about the children of politicians…so that's why he does that too…What P.O.S. Dave is!!! I never watch him anymore….never will or buy anything I know is advertised on his show!
Dave, you're fired
The guy who's sitting opposite Trump. Can't have approval of criticism of the lack of activity of Ground Zero on the show. At least criticism that doesn't fit the liberal narrative. Hmm, wonder how that Mosque's doing?…
Well Dave……….
READ THE KORAN……….
There's no such thing as a Conservative, Moderate, or Jihadist Muslim……….
THEY'RE ALL MUSLIMS……….
Learn the TRUTH before it's too late……….
THERE ARE PLENTY OF ENGLISH, GERMAN, OR FRENCH TRANSLATIONS OF THE KORAN ON THE WEB.
I think this new poster Andrew8907 is very Moslem friendly. Too friendly. And not very skilled. ESL?
Yeah – sounds extreme, but I don't like the content of his comments. Very trollesque.
Troll or sympathizer?
Which one is it 'Andrewmahoofi'?
These people are in their own little fantasy world. Something we don't need in America.
Dave: "… I've never read the Koran, but I DON'T THINK…" – Exactly, Dave. You don't think.
I don't claim to have read the whole thing either, but I have read enough and studied enough about Islam to know that the goal is world domination. They have said as much and anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves.
Thomas Jefferson knew too. Here is an excerpt from a piece called "What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Muslim book of jihad" By Ted Sampley.
"There is no doubt Ellison was right about Jefferson believing wisdom could be "gleaned" from the Muslim Quran. At the time Jefferson owned the book, he needed to know everything possible about Muslims because he was about to advocate war against the Islamic "Barbary" states of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Tripoli."
http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan07/jeff_quran.htm
P.S. Donald should be our next economic advisor IMHO
Kudos to Trump for being honest.
Yep, he is.
Thank you imsailing2 for your continuing clarification of very dangerous waters.
Letterman is an arrogant, pompous, ego-maniacal jerk. The man left his wife for another woman by whom he had a child; then an extortionist threatened to out him over his multitudinous affairs with female staff members. So what does he do? He bravely goes on his program and "bares his soul" to his audience. And he's treated as some sort of hero.
Letterman is indicative of the liberal mentality, which is that they can do anything they want & get away with it. Letterman is a disgrace. Not just for his numerous affairs. He's not funny. As an interviewer he's mundane at best. As a personality he somehow believes all the hype his "YES PEOPLE" say about him. If this were another era of television, he'd have been gone a long time ago.
Johnny Carson was irreplaceable. Too, he was wrapped up in his own ego, but he was funny, not against making a joke of himself, a great interviewer, and philanthropist of sorts. To paraphrase former heavyweight boxing champ Larry Holmes: "David Letterman isn't worthy of holding Johnny Carson's jock."
The only joke on Letterman's show is Letterman himself.
So putting up a memorial cross is, all by itself, "endorsing a specific religion?" I guess that means that the Red Cross should change their logo, since they're obviously endorsing Christianity too, and they wouldn't want to offend any non-Christians.
Give me a break.
Good job, Mr. Trump.
The Pilgrims and the Puritans were not perfect role models of religious freedom; they wanted it for themselves, but woe betide the Anabaptist who tried to settle among them. But at least it's been an area of continuous progress in Western civilization. Of course, what Muslim Sharia and jihad are all about is the blatant opposite of religious freedom.
Maybe Janet Napolitano and Kathleen Sibelius can dress up as dominatrixes to "re-educate" him; he'd like that.
Letterman is a G-D moron. He doesn't have a clue about what Islam wants, and yet he's there spouting complete inaccuracies. Someone give this guy the hook so he can just retire in anonimity…..
Letterman kept bringing up religious freedom, I'm sitting yelling to Trump to say "RELIGIOUS FREEDOM HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS YOU IDIOT!!"
Jesus H. Christ liberals are stupid….
It's very simple, really. would these same "liberal losers" have been as open minded about a mosque being built at the same location 1 month, 6 months, or 1 year after the attack??!! Hell, "to the no.". So why is it ok now? "First you're against it, now you're for it."…..All that is needed, is to pose that question to them. Watch them squirm. I wish "Trump" would have posed that question to Letterman. He would have probably asked to go to commercial break trying to figure out all of the possible sequences and repercussion based on his answer. It would have been so cerebral, it would have blown his mind.
I know nothing about the NYC real estate market, but maybe the Donald could answer this question. Is there any way the mosque could possibly be any closer to Ground Zero? Is there any suitable property available? If not, then it's obvious the people behind the proposed mosque got it as close as they could to where the Trade Center used to be.
No, he would still not bother educating himself about islam and would continue kissing its collective ass. Also, people like Letterman can't deal with reality, it's really a drag.
Don't forget, Trump IS the guy who fired Carrie Prejean for saying she was for traditional marriage.
Considering that his casinos once went into Chapter 11, I disargee with the last sentence.
Have you ever seen anyone as uncomfortable as Letterman was in trying to argue with Donald Trump on this subject? Even Letterman's audience was with Trump and against Letterman, who struggled to make his point and failed.
Liberals struggle so hard because they cannot say what the really believe. Letterman would be off the air in a week if he did.
Trust me, politicians in DC are a lot more saner than it appears on the surface. Why do you think so many of them get re-elected? Because they're focused on that, not simply governing.
And there is nothing that would guarantee that wouldn't happen more than messing Arlington. You might find a few moon bats from the San Francisco are that might sign on. But that's only because it would help them get re-elected.
I predict, even if the 9th Circus Court of Appeals ruled it, Congress would never consider funding it, and even if they did, it would be the equivalent of a resignation for a President to sign it.
You think turn out at tea parties is big now, imagine if the left tried to screw with Arlington.
No, the majority on the left aren't that stupid. They may not pay attention to details like debt to GDP ratio, and federal reserve policy. But they know what Arlington is and what it represents.
Normally this is just the type of issue I would love to bash the left with. But Arlington deserves more respect than to be used as a political bat. It's America's cemetery.
I don't believe any one has officially registered objections to crosses in public cemeteries. I think Boris is just extrapolating to the logical conclusion if the removal of any religious symbol from public space were pushed to its limit.
Cemeteries are going to be the line the left doesn't have the onions to cross. (No pun intended.)
They're removing impromptu road side memorials for traffic accident victims in NY, but they're doing it because they say it creates a hazard because it distracts drivers.
And I do think they have a point there.
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