Some time ago, I lamented the lack of nightly humor on the late shows poking fun at "O" and the White House.. Three months after the election and they still found their political humor at the expense of 'W'. At a recent writer's guild dinner - the truth came out!
This from "Newsbusters.com' :
Letterman Writer Boasts of Discrediting McCain, Obama 'Too Competent' to Joke About
By Brent Baker
Created 2009-05-10
The proudest moment in his career, Late Show writer Bill Scheft [1] boasted at a Friday comedy writer panel held at Washington, DC's Newseum, was when he got David Letterman to try to undermine guest John McCain's Bill Ayers talking point by raising McCain's relationship with G. Gordon Liddy -- as if a political dirty trickster were the equivalent of a terrorist involved with bombings which killed people, could have killed hundreds more if his attempts worked and remains unrepentant. At the event, organized by the Writers Guild of America, East [2], and shown Saturday night on C-SPAN, Scheft declared of his effort to discredit an anti-Obama point: “I'm more proud of that than any single joke that I've written.” That earned applause from the audience.
Later, to a chorus of “yeah” from other writers on the stage representing The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Late Night, as well as another Late Show writer Scheft insisted the only reason the comedy shows don't make fun of President Barack Obama is because he's “a little too damn competent and we ain't used to that.”
Earlier in the day, some of the participants delivered stand-up acts and DCRTV.com's “page 2 [3]" recounted this “joke” from Scheft: “Former Vice President Dick Cheney -- I actually don’t have a joke here, I just like to say former Vice President Dick Cheney.”
http://newsbusters.org/node/30119/print
I wonder if these pointy headed elitist liberals enjoyed their safety and freedom to move about since 9/11, thanks largely in part to the Bush - Cheney Team.
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