Letterman vs O'Lieley - Round One

[StrictlyRockers]

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This is from his appearance on The Late Show, January 5th of this year. O'Lieley is one of the most loathed people on television...and Dave is one of the most beloved. It's nice to see Mr. Ego with his No Humility Zone get slapped around by someone whose ratings dwarf his.

Dave - "You should be very careful with what you say, also."

(audience applause)

O'Lieley - "Give me an example. Give me an example."

Dave - "How can you POSSIBLY take exception with the motivation and the position of someone like Cindy Sheehan."

O'Lieley - (Spews viscious red herring to deflect from the issues she raises)

Dave - "Have you lost any family members in armed conflict?"

O'Lieley - "No I haven't."

Dave - "Well, then you can hardly speak for her, can you?"

O'Lieley - (Frowns. Blusters. Lies. Points finger repeatedly. Whines about how the soldiers' feelings get hurt by seeing their dead buddy's mother mourn. Gets pwned more by Dave when Dave responds with...)

Dave - "What about, why are we there in the first place?"

O'Lieley - "Blah, blah, blah...it's the CIA's fault and also all of the foreign intelligence services, including MI6..." (pronounced M ONE six by the colossally ignorant O'Lieley) :P

Dave - (upset, doesn't fall for bs) "See, I'm very concerned about people like yourself who don't have nothing but endless sympathy for a woman like Cindy Sheehan. Honest to Christ."

It is nice to see someone stand up to a bully. From the look on O'Lieley's face, he obviously doesn't like it, and he is not used to it. He does not handle it well. When he is on someone ELSE's show where he can't control things by cutting you off and talking over you, he has very weak king-fu. He is vile and loathsome. I have no respect for that man.

Dave, I like him a whole lot. I particulary like the part of this interview where he tell's O'Lieley that 60% of what he says is crap. It only took him a few months to decide that the figure was actually 100%. After his recent appearance, I will be very surprised if O'Lieley ever ventures onto Dave's set again.

Here's a transcript of the entire interview. There is a link to a video of the complete interview at the bottom. Use the CBS link, C&L is outdated.
http://farleft.blogspot.com/2006/01/david-lettermans-heated-discussion_04.html

SR

[TheMadMonk]

1. He's on right now here in Australia.

Burried in his opening monolougue was this little gem. War in Iraq is costing 4 Billion Dollars per week. a cool 400,000 dollars per minute.

Unfortunately He just put up what is suppoesed to be a satire of a Hillary '08 commercial, her vs. Obama.

Essentially it goes like this:

Screen: OBAMA. (Fills screen)
Voicover: "Look at this."
Screen: OSAMA repalces Obama in (I think) a subtly bigger font.
Screen: Hillary '08 Logo. (Flag + name)
Voicover: "Vote for Hillary Clinton. She is not one letter away from a terrorist."

Some satire. A blatant attempt to set up guilt by association. Flag patriotism trigger. Reinforcement.

And now he's taking O'leily apart while they call it a geme between friends. Yet at the same time, he's giving the "Iraq is bad" meme a serious hammering.

Is he schizoid(sp?) or Cleaning up the Republicans. Get this bunch sorted (ie. gone). But at the same time subtly altering perceptions in people's minds, (minds like ours) so if it ever comes down to a contest between the two, minds might have this niggling little feeling of disquiet when they see Obama's name.

Of the two, Hillary is the more easily defeated candidate, she raises a lot of hackles, while Obama is virtually a reincarnation of Honest Abe. Not perfect by any means, but a political paragon of virtue nonetheless. He might well prove to be an insurmountable problem to King George's replacement amongst the swing and observant/major issue voters.

In fact he might well be a disaster to the Republican party. A black candidate would arguably give a huge boost to African-American voter registration. Which would be huge boost to Democrats across the board.

And any widespread electoral "shenanigans" are likely to cause a certain amount of civil unrest AND if it looks like the presidency was stolen from a black man, I suspect Watts would pale into insignificance. So any race with Obama in it would have to be an honest one in an electoral sense however dirty in gets on the campaign trail. And Ford is showing that the Redneck vote can't swing it any more.

Obama might well be every Republican's nightmare. Possibly even moreso to the honest ones if the current leadership retains overall control of the party. He could easily grab a significant chunk of the Republican vote if the party fields any sort of warhawk, a highly probable occurence.