I apologize for the repetitiveness. It has been a beast of a day. Related to the world of television, one of the reasons why I had a bad day was due to Glenn Beck and his band of merry idiots getting all up in my business (as the kids say). I'd say more, but, hand to God, I'd probably get fired.
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:00 PM, PGage<[email protected]> wrote: > There is a good argument to make that Dave should not have made the > second apology - you have made it well in the past. Dave has also made > a good argument for why the second apology was in order. But you are > wrong if you mean by the above that Dave has only recently started > making jokes about Palin again. He has consistently made the same > kinds of jokes about Palin, before and after "The Incident". His > apology had nothing to do with "standing up" or "backing down" from > Palin - he did not, for example, apologize for the slutty stewardess > (or whatever it was) joke. He simply came to the conclusion that if > most of the mainstream national community was under the impression > taht he had told a sex joke about a minor (I think he used Mark > Shields on NewsHour as his example) then he must have told a joke that > was too close to the line for his comfort zone as a broadcaster. If it > were me I would not have made the second apology, but then I am not a > master broadcaster like Dave. I know you read this as Dave caving in > to the bullying of Palin and ultra-conservatives, but on that you are > just wrong. > > > > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
