Levi Johnston and the Middle-American Minstrel Show

Levi Johnston’s shameless exploitation by the liberal media is more than just a convenient cudgel for bashing Sarah Palin.  It’s a modern minstrel show, with “Middle American” substituted for “African-American” as Levi capers for his condescending media “friends” wearing figurative blackface. And just as the minstrel shows of the past were tools to reinforce prejudice, the Levi Johnston show is meant to reinforce the prejudices and smug sense of superiority of its elitist liberal audience.

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Levi is the Kevin Federline of American politics, a good-looking, not-too-bright guy catching a break by impregnating a rising star, or at least one’s daughter, then basking in the reflected glow.  When things went south with Bristol Palin, he found, in a mainstream media eager for anything that might derail the Sarah Palin express, an opportunity to go farther than he ever thought he could.  Movies, modeling, memoirs – anything was possible, they assured him.  Just tell us what we want to hear, Levi – the good stuff, the juicy stuff, the stuff too good to fact check.  Oh, and hand over your dignity while you’re at it. (more…)

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Tags: Bristol Palin, cbs, Celebrity Dysfunction Complex, GQ, Iraqi Freedom
Posted Oct 14th 2009 at 5:05 am in Featured Story, Politics | 24560295 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2009/10/14/levi-johnston-and-the-middle-american-minstrel-show/Levi+Johnston+and+the+Middle-American+Minstrel+Show2009-10-14+12%3A05%3A45Kurt+Schlichter

NBC’s Reality TV: To Catch a Terrorist

When I learned of a new NBC-TV series called “The Wanted,” about an elite investigative team tracking down terrorists-at-large, I naturally assumed the terrorists in question would be Homeland Security priorities: white Christian conservatives building abortion clinic bombs in church basements, anti-government Tea Partiers, and disgruntled military veterans, whose volatile mix of post-traumatic stress disorder and paranoia of big government could cause them to snap at any moment and take out the nearest Obama-appointed czar (after all, there are more czars than there are Secret Service agents to protect them).

Imagine my astonishment when I discovered that “the wanted” of the show’s first two recent episodes (you can see them here; four more have been produced but are not presently scheduled) were Islamic terrorists.  This is an encouraging new development, considering that Western governments and media have increasingly made taboo any reference to a connection between Islam and acts of terror (of course, the Islamists themselves never got that memo, because they insist on quoting Islamic theology to justify their murder and mayhem). And the left-leaning entertainment industry has virtually ceased pitting heroes against the real-world threat of jihadis, falling back instead on more fashionable stock bogeymen like corporate executives, Marvel Comics supervillains, and, well, corporate executives.  (more…)

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Tags: 9/11 hijackers, al qaeda, Ansar al-Islam, Bristol Palin, Czars
Posted Aug 7th 2009 at 5:03 am in Featured Story, Military, Politics, Reviews | 19910633 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mtapson/2009/08/07/to-catch-a-terrorist/NBC%27s+Reality+TV%3A+To+Catch+a+Terrorist2009-08-07+12%3A03%3A40Mark+Tapson

Inside the Letterman/Palin Flap

The fact that I’ve needed to correct the record every time I’m involved in some sort of media firestorm (about once a month since the election, it seems), probably says at least as much about the pathetic nature of our news media as anything I put in my documentary “Media Malpractice,” a film whose truth I’ve dedicated almost all of the last year of my life to. The most recent episode involving the controversy over David Letterman’s comments about Governor Sarah Palin and her family is certainly no exception.  

First, let me tell you what really happened, and then I can explain what we should all learn from this.  Here’s the timeline… 

Monday, June 8th: Letterman uses Palin’s trip to New York to unleash a torrent of  ”comic” attacks on her and her family. The entire “Top Ten” list is devoted to the Governor and includes cracks about her updating her “slutty” wardrobe and possessing illegal drugs. The monologue includes a “joke” about Palin’s “daughter” getting “knocked up” at a Yankees game by Alex Rodriquez during the 7th inning stretch while her mother and a stadium full of spectators presumably watched.   (more…)

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Tags: Bristol Palin, cbs, CBS Early Show, Contessa Brewer, firedavidletterman.com
Posted Jun 19th 2009 at 9:55 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 16495011 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jziegler/2009/06/19/inside-the-lettermanpalin-flap/Inside+the+Letterman%2FPalin+Flap+2009-06-19+16%3A55%3A30John+Ziegler

Lonewolf Diaries: Republicans Need to Grow a Sense of Humor

Yes, you’ve read correctly. To all of you GOP types playing the “offended” card on a daily basis… Prepare to have your feelings hurt, because according to my carefully calculated research… Republicans need to shut up and laugh a little.

Never has the GOP’s lack of funnybone been on sharper display than the last 5 months. For a party that claims to “shun political correctness,” we’ve certainly done a good job of embracing it. Over the past 150 days there have been three “media-worthy” politically incorrect moments related to this administration and Republicans have managed to jump on each one of them for political gain. All to no avail. Let us examine:

Exhibit A

Barack Obama’s Special Olympics comment on Leno. – On air, President B. Hussein Obama made a self-deprecating joke in regards to his bowling abilities. He made the implication that he was so bad at bowling that his skill level resembled that of a mentally challenged athlete. Twas a surprisingly funny, off-handed moment for a generally very unfunny president.

Republicans, however, decided to act as though they were appalled by this and ran with the “you can’t make fun of retards” theme. (I’m paraphrasing here of course, but you get the picture.) I believe that somewhere in the middle, Sarah Palin and her son Trigg were tied into the whole fiasco. The media took little notice and sharp comedians like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert managed to successfully lampoon Conservatives for being humorless old bags. That’s one for you, Democrats… (more…)

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Tags: Alex Rodriguez, Bristol Palin, Colbert, David Letterman, jon stewart
Posted Jun 16th 2009 at 5:58 pm in Featured Story, Lone Wolf Diaries | 16289015 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/06/16/lonewolf-diaries-hey-republicans-grow-a-sense-of-humor/Lonewolf+Diaries%3A+Republicans+Need+to+Grow+a+Sense+of+Humor2009-06-17+00%3A58%3A34Steven+Crowder

The Imus Standard: Should Letterman Be Fired?

A friend of mine sent a link to a website that advocates CBS firing late-night host David Letterman for his over-the-top jokes about Sarah Palin and her children. The site tells readers what they can do to help make this firing happen.

But should Letterman be fired?

His so-called jokes were crass and tasteless. Not only did he refer to Palin herself as being “slutty,” but he used a crude sexual reference to Palin’s 14-year-old daughter Willow, whose only sins are the fact that she is a Palin and she attended a Yankees game with her mother in NYC. (more…)

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Tags: Al Sharpton, Bill Maher, Bristol Palin, cbs, David Letterman
Posted Jun 16th 2009 at 10:13 am in Entertainment, Politics | 16175410 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pmeister/2009/06/16/should-david-letterman-be-fired-over-jokes-about-palin-and-family/The+Imus+Standard%3A+Should+Letterman+Be+Fired%3F2009-06-16+17%3A13%3A19Pam+Meister

Governor Palin Accepts Letterman’s Apology

From Fox News:

Sarah Palin has accepted comedian David Letterman’s apology made during Monday night’s broadcast of “The Late Show” for crude jokes made about her and her teen daughters last week.

In a statement to FOXNews.com early Tuesday, the Alaska governor said, “Of course it’s accepted on behalf of young women, like my daughters, who hope men who ‘joke’ about public displays of sexual exploitation of girls will soon evolve.”

“Letterman certainly has the right to ‘joke’ about whatever he wants to, and thankfully we have the right to express our reaction,” Palin said. “This is all thanks to our U.S. Military women and men putting their lives on the line for us to secure America’s Right to Free Speech – in this case, may that right be used to promote equality and respect.”

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Tags: Bristol Palin, David Letterman, Lettermna, palin, sarah palin
Posted Jun 16th 2009 at 7:02 am in Entertainment, Politics | 1629062 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/06/16/governor-palin-accepts-lettermans-apology/Governor+Palin+Accepts+Letterman%27s+Apology2009-06-16+14%3A02%3A12Big+Hollywood

Letterman Apologizes to Palin Family

UPDATE: Video after jump.

Full text of Letterman’s explanation, which will air on tonight’s show:

“All right, here – I’ve been thinking about this situation with Governor Palin and her family now for about a week – it was a week ago tonight, and maybe you know about it, maybe you don’t know about it.  But there was a joke that I told, and I thought I was telling it about the older daughter being at Yankee Stadium. And it was kind of a coarse joke. There’s no getting around it, but I never thought it was anybody other than the older daughter, and before the show, I checked to make sure in fact that she is of legal age, 18. Yeah. But the joke really, in and of itself, can’t be defended. The next day, people are outraged. They’re angry at me because they said, ‘How could you make a lousy joke like that about the 14-year-old girl who was at the ball game?’  And I had, honestly, no idea that the 14-year-old girl, I had no idea that anybody was at the ball game except the governor and I was told at the time she was there with Rudy Giuliani … and I really should have made the joke about Rudy …” (audience applauds) “But I didn’t, and now people are getting angry and they’re saying, ‘Well, how can you say something like that about a 14-year-old girl, and does that make you feel good to make those horrible jokes about a kid who’s completely innocent, minding her own business,’ and, turns out, she was at the ball game. I had no idea she was there. So she’s now at the ball game, and people think that I made the joke about her. And, but still, I’m wondering, ‘Well, what can I do to help people understand that I would never make a joke like this?’ I’ve never made jokes like this as long as we’ve been on the air, 30 long years, and you can’t really be doing jokes like that. And I understand, of course, why people are upset. I would be upset myself. (more…)

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Tags: Bristol Palin, David Letterman, Jim Lehrer, Palin Family, Rudy Giuliani
Posted Jun 15th 2009 at 5:21 pm in Celebrity News, Entertainment, Featured Story, Media Criticism, News, Political Humor | 16239417 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/06/15/letterman-apologizes-to-palin-family/Letterman+Apologizes+to+Palin+Family2009-06-16+00%3A21%3A40Big+Hollywood

Real Time, Real Man: Maher Takes His Shot at Palin

Here we go again. 

During his opening monologue on ‘Real Time’ Friday night, Bill Maher, couldn’t resist piling on to the David Letterman controversy and the sex jokes made by him earlier in the week regarding Sarah Palin’s daughter. 

In defending his friend, Maher thought Republicans had over reacted and this was just a case of ‘fake’ outrage. Much ado about nothing. He then went on talking about how Letterman had invited Sarah Palin and her young daughter, Willow, to appear as guests on his show but the Governor declined because she thought it would be wise to keep her daughter away from him. Said Maher, “…that’s right, he’s 62 years old, he’s gonna fuck her right there on stage…it would be very wise to keep her, very wise, yes. You know, I’d worry a little more about the 18-year old hockey players who knock up your daughters.” To which his audience of trained seals laughed and clapped and had a good old time.  (more…)

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Tags: Bill Maher, Bristol Palin, David Letterman, Real Time with Bill Maher, sarah palin
Posted Jun 15th 2009 at 1:39 pm in Entertainment, Politics | 16154618 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jarone/2009/06/15/bill-maher-real-time-real-man/Real+Time%2C+Real+Man%3A+Maher+Takes+His+Shot+at+Palin2009-06-15+20%3A39%3A52Jimmy+Arone

Daily Gut: Letterman’s Obsession with Sarah Palin

Here’s my take on Letterman’s obsession with Sarah Palin:

-ideology clouds what you find funny. If you’re a lefty, then a Palin joke is priceless. If you’re a righty, it’s lame. That’s just the way it is.

-Letterman is a comedian, and he tells jokes, and he shouldn’t have to apologize for them. If they’re not funny, or in poor taste, or horribly offensive – the marketplace will deal with it. That’s free enterprise. (more…)

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Tags: Bristol Palin, Chris Elliott, greg gutfeld, letterman, palin
Posted Jun 11th 2009 at 1:35 pm in Daily Gut | 15803420 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/06/11/daily-gut-lettermans-obsession-with-sarah-palin/Daily+Gut%3A+Letterman%27s+Obsession+with+Sarah+Palin2009-06-11+20%3A35%3A09Greg+Gutfeld

Dear Dave

Dear David Letterman,

I am writing this to you as a man who has been a fan of yours for 25 years, who does not go to sleep until I see the Top 10 List. I cracked up when you came to Los Angeles, and threw tacos at people on the 405 Freeway. I loved it when you sent two guys dressed as bunny rabbits into an H and R Block on April 14th one year, only to see them get screamed at by stressed out accountants. Only you would be crazy enough to have a guy dress as a bear, stop traffic, and ask a New York City cab driver to dance the waltz.

Dave, for a long time you were the best. You joked about “mailing it in,” but I never thought you did. When ABC and CBS were in a tug of war, you told Paul Schaffer, “Can you believe two networks are fighting over this cr@p?”

Yet something has happened to you Dave. You are getting snarkier, and not in a fun way. You are becoming a grumpy old man. Ironically enough, you have made a career out of painting Republican presidential candidates this way. Yes, it was hilarious when you said, “Some people see the glass as half empty or half full. Bob Dole sees the glass as a great place to put his teeth.” Yet politically speaking, you are letting your ideology get in the way of your show. (more…)

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Tags: Bristol Palin, george w. bush, jay leno, jon stewart, Late Nigh comedy
Posted Apr 10th 2009 at 8:03 am in Entertainment, Political Humor, Politics | 101018No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/egolub/2009/04/10/dear-david-letterman/Dear+Dave2009-04-10+15%3A03%3A09Eric+Golub