As NBC anchor Brian Williams appeared as a guest on Wednesday's The Late Show on CBS, host David Letterman charged that Republican political strategist Karl Rove "lied to" and tried to "frighten" the electorate in 2012, referring to the former George W. Bush strategist as a "tubby little weasel." Letterman:
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By Noel Sheppard | November 6, 2012 | 10:09 AM EST
CBS Late Show host David Letterman took a swipe at George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, and the highest court in the land Monday.
In the middle of his opening monologue, Letterman joked that the recount would begin on Wednesday followed by the Supreme Court giving the election to Romney on December 18 (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
By Noel Sheppard | November 4, 2012 | 3:38 PM EST
As NewsBusters reported Wednesday, late night comedians make fun of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney more than twice as much as they do Barack Obama.
CNN's Howard Kurtz defended this on Sunday's Reliable Sources saying, "Obama is just not that easy to ridicule... Whereas jokes about a rich guy with a 1950s lingo -- well, gosh, golly, gee whiz, isn't that hard to make people laugh" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
By Noel Sheppard | November 3, 2012 | 6:04 PM EDT
CBS Late Show host David Letterman took a humorous swipe at MSNBC's Chris Matthews Friday.
In a recurring segment riffing on Zogby polls, Letterman said that 51 percent of people supporting Mitt Romney are doing so because they "Want to see Chris Matthews cry like a baby" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
By Jack Coleman | October 26, 2012 | 6:45 PM EDT
For a hot New York minute the other night, it looked like there might be hope for David Letterman.
And then Rachel Maddow brought him back to obedience. (video after page break)
By Noel Sheppard | October 24, 2012 | 10:24 AM EDT
Stop the presses! Stop the presses!
One of Barack Obama's biggest fans in the media, David Letterman, said on Tuesday's Late Show that he was "upset" and "discouraged" the president during Monday's debate lied about Mitt Romney wanting to let Detroit go bankrupt (video follows with transcript and commentary):
By Noel Sheppard | October 10, 2012 | 9:05 AM EDT
As NewsBusters reported, MSNBC's Chris Matthews had an on air meltdown following Barack Obama's terrible performance in last Wednesday's debate with Mitt Romney.
On Tuesday, CBS Late Show host David Letterman ended his monologue by showing a video of Matthews' head exploding (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary).
By Noel Sheppard | October 7, 2012 | 6:35 PM EDT
"Actually, one of the best presidential debate moderators would be David Letterman."
So astonishingly wrote movie critic Roger Ebert on Twitter Thursday (vulgarity warning):
By Noel Sheppard | October 6, 2012 | 2:41 PM EDT
The dissing of Mitt Romney by America's Obama-loving media knows no bounds.
On CBS's Late Show Friday, Billy Crystal showed up with a picture of Romney with the mouth cut out and proceeded to ridicule the Republican presidential nominee with the assistance of host David Letterman (video follows with transcript and commentary):
By Noel Sheppard | October 6, 2012 | 1:24 PM EDT
CBS Late Show host David Letterman on Friday accused Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney of being "a felon."
"The man has not paid a nickel in United States federal income tax" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
By Brent Baker | October 5, 2012 | 2:03 AM EDT
David Letterman is a Barack Obama sycophant (he once fawned over Obama’s “great courage and great intelligence”), but even he couldn’t deny Obama’s poor debate performance.
Thursday’s Late Show featured a clever parody of Lilly’s ad for their anti-depression drug, Cymbalta, a spoof with scenes of Obama during Wednesday’s presidential debate dropped into the real TV ad.
Dreesen on Eastwood: ‘All He Asked Is That Maybe Our Government Would Be as Fiscally Responsible as He Is’
By Brent Baker | October 3, 2012 | 1:16 AM EDT
All Clint Eastwood wanted to convey at the Republican convention “is that maybe our government would be as fiscally responsible as he is,” comedian/actor Tom Dreesen, a friend of Eastwood’s, explained Friday night on CBS’s Late Show. “And that’s all he came to say.”
David Letterman asked Dreesen, who has a role in Eastwood’s new movie, Trouble with the Curve, about Eastwood’s much-ridiculed by the media monologue with an imaginary President Obama. Dreesen declared the acting icon “has more integrity than almost any man I’ve ever met.”