Cynthia Yockey explains:
Sebastian Gray at HillBuzz has been giving lessons this week on how to get David Letterman fired for his rape jokes about Gov. Sarah Palin’s 14-year-old daughter, Willow.
Today he has a post explaining that Republicans do not have the same tenacity as Democrats in working the system to get what they want — in this case, persuading CBS to fire David Letterman. He is correct. However, there is a bonanza of empowerment in it for Republicans if we make this a fight we are determined to win.
Sebastian says it will take 30 days of daily letter-writing to CBS and Letterman’s advertisers. That’s because for the first two or three weeks, they’ll just wait for the tempest to blow over. Not only do we have to keep it up, we have to make it build. This is our line in the sand. Letterman MUST BE FIRED NOW!!!
I hope you read Sebastian’s entire post because if you do, it will totally change how you advocate for yourself and your causes…
Some might recall that some years back Dr. Laura was slated to start a television version of her highly successful radio program – given the popularity of her radio show, it seemed a given that she’d have a very profitable show on television. Thing is, though, she had made some mildly critical statements about homosexuality and the gay rights activists, on the whole, were determined that her point of view not be seen on television. By a relentless pressure campaign, the activists eventually got the television network to cancel Dr. Laura’s show. More recently, in the firing of Ms. California for daring to hold President Obama’s position on gay marriage we see, again, how absolutely implacable leftists can be – there is no let up until they get what they want. So, I can see the point – a relentless pressure campaign directed at CBS and Late Show advertisers, if really carried forward without a hint of let-up, might very well get Letterman fired.
The question is: do we want to be like that? Perhaps, but not in this case. I think we’ve already sufficiently discomfited Letterman and can let the matter drop – I’d much rather we started getting relentless on, say, forcing Jack Murtha to resign. Letterman would just be replaced by his like, Murtha would be an object lesson, and would also be replaced – almost certainly – by a Republican. Letterman did a stupid joke and he doesn’t fully understand what he did wrong – more than likely, among the people he hangs out with there’s not a single person who doesn’t despise Sarah Palin and so, for Letterman, heaping slurs upon her and her family is perfectly ok. Letterman is, hopefully, learning that there is an America outside of his social milieu and, just perhaps, a bit more sensitivity to it and he might have a shot at beating the Tonight Show in the ratings war. Carson and Leno managed to skewer all manner of conservatives and Republicans but were and remain people respected and, in the case of Carson, beloved in memory.
It could be that for Letterman the furies are turning against him – that, after years of listening to him insult President Bush this insult to Sarah Palin is just the straw which broke the camel’s back. Perhaps, also, if he hit out at Obama a bit more then this slur on Palin would be forgiven – we all like to see our politicians raked over the coals a bit, but there are no sacred cows in politics…just ’cause Obama is the first black President it doesn’t mean he’s not as worthy of satire as any other President. Alternately, Letterman could just lay off politics and find other places for the genesis of his jokes.
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