Letterman's Fracking Rant

[G_j]

Last edited Thu Apr 17, 2014, 04:51 PM - Edit history (1)

It's from 20012, but still right on!

[TeeYiYi]

1. "...so, ladies and gentlemen, we're screwed!"

A righteous rant! k+r

TYY

[RiffRandell]

2. I'm going to miss him so much. nt

[Rhiannon12866]

3. K&R! Love Dave!

Saw his show in person back in 2008 and he couldn't have been more cordial to his audience...

[TBF]

4. He's sounding older -

but mind is still sharp as a tack. Great rant!

[underpants]

9. Sounds to me like guy who knows that "the suits" can't fire him

and he is just laying it out to everyone.

[The Blue Flower]

5. Looks like he's got a post-retirement cause

I hope he's getting ready to use his celebrity and his voice to make a difference. He'd be the perfect person to do so.

[WilliamPitt]

6. BOOKMARKED

for later.

[blkmusclmachine]

7. David Letterman versus Third Way "New DEM" DINO/Blue Dog Andy Cuomo

[pangaia]

12. "ANDY" is my governor.

Andy ain't his dad...

[Vashta Nerada]

8. That video was posted in 2012; however, he's right.

We're screwed.

[Auggie]

10. YAY DAVE!

[TNNurse]

11. Hope that he spends

The rest of his time on air saying what he thinks and not holding back a thing.

Go Dave!!!

[pangaia]

13. And the right wing shit dogs are worried about Colbert!

HA!!!!

[frylock]

18. laughable..

have they ever watched Letterman? dude is an unabashed liberal!

[pangaia]

19. O'Rielly (?) is a piece of toilet paper

with which Colbert has on numerous occasions wiped his ass.
"O'Reilly hates the guy.. Well, he's just jealous and that is how jealous little bullies behave. They go hide behind their momma's skirt, or their dada's trousers and yell taunts and spit and turn red in the face.

[frylock]

20. and then turn right around and call liberals crybabies

[pangaia]

21. Of course.

Bullies project. It's part if their defense mechanism. A way of hiding from facing themselves.

[valerief]

14. Great rant!!!! nt

[KT2000]

15. don't go Dave! n/t

[SmittynMo]

16. Sad that the audience clapped. WTF. Yes, we are screwed

It wasn't funny at all. Water is one of the most valuable resources on this planet. We cannot survive without it. To joke about it is hideous. Not to mention all the earthquakes associated with this process. Yes, we are screwed unless we do something about it. It must stop immediately. All the gas and oil companies think about are profits and screw the rest of us.

[stuffmatters]

17. The night he took Billbo apart for the indecency of attacking grieving mother, Ciindy Sheehan

was the first time I realized Letterman was a sincere, commonsense and effective voice for populism. He is able to message seriously Democratic issues in language that is both educating and inclusive. In the years since that initial O"Reilly visit and confrontation (I wish there were a video, it was almost as breathtaking as Colbert's Correspondents Dinner reality check on Bush) Letterman has been a
gifted high profile ally against the destructive, hypocritical and hateful policies of the Repubs. And these remarks, like his explanation of fracking here, are often barely couched in jokes. They are straightforward positions of disgust and despair.

Yes, he will be sorely missed on tv. Especially during the election in 2016. But hopefully retirement will allow Letterman to sound his political pragmatism even more frequently. I think it's his concern as a parent and plain speaking midwesterner that make his message so compelling. Letterman's "zetzes" are always wonderful, but it's these extemporaneous editorial moments that are the measure of his
comedic humanism.

[rhett o rick]

22. VODKA! I been sayin that for years. In 1967 tried to tell Benjamin aka. Dustin Hoffman "one word"

The one word was VODKA. Of course on edit it was change to something stupid like "plastic" or something like that.

Straight VODKA with no ice. It's the contaminated ice that will kill you.