Greg Belfrage - No, your opinion doesn’t matter, either!
Topic: David Letterman’s Apology to Sarah Palin. So, this guy on Greg Belfrage stated that he felt David Letterman made jokes during his apology. Then, Greg turned on the guy and changed the topic into Americans can’t take an apology!?! This type of thinking is our problem as a nation.
David Letterman can duck and run from treating conservatives as having a credible point of view. He made a joke that was actually about Sarah Palin’s daughter, to those who were paying attention. Then he feels heat from above, whether it’s executives, public opinion or his…?wife?…and he says ‘apologize’, then Belfrage rolls over and laps it up. I mean it’s like he wants to live like a dog!?! Don’t take your agressions out on someones point of view. That’s how he saw it - and it’s probably how some of Letterman’s people who saw too!
Greg Belfrage could have acknowledged that this caller ‘felt that way’ and let him go. I guess I understood that Greg didn’t appreciate the Palin joke and hadn’t watched the show for quite a while, OK. Then David Letterman does his apology and his feelings are back to ‘the good old days??’ These waffles in the morning are why I keep turning away from the show.
Yeah, I liked David Letterman too, but he’s not even a consideration anymore. He’s not the same man he was 20 years ago. And on the Belfrage comment ‘I know when he’s sincere and he was sincere in his apology,’ if his jokes can deteriorate…his morals will deteriorate with them.
To put it bluntly - I didn’t accept his Joke…I’m not going to accept his apology. Anyway, I’m watching a little known show called “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien”. And I think Conan is quite close to the late Johnny Carson! (If you wondered what Guy Smylie looks like…find the guy who made the wax statues)
If you’re going to do a show on the premise that the audience’s opinion matters, it would be profitable for you to keep up the illusion. Otherwise change the premise.
