Re: Sponsoring Letterman’s teenage rape “joke”.

June 16, 2009

To whom it may Concern:

I am the father of a large family, including four teenage daughters, two of whom are just the ages of Bristol and Willow Palin. I don’t watch Letterman any more, but of course I have heard and seen his latest remarks about the Palin family, including the disgusting new low of attacking a fourteen-year-old girl. His forced and carefully parsed apologies matter none. Make no mistake, this was not meant to be a joke. It is part of his ongoing effort to destroy someone with whom he disagrees. That he and everyone at CBS thinks it’s acceptable speaks volumes about who they are.

Who are you?

As a sponsor of his show, are you willing to accept this?

Will you continue to pay people to make slut jokes about a woman because they hate her politics?

Will you continue to pay someone to make fun of raping young girls?

I will not. Therefore, I and my family make this commitment: We will not buy any product that you produce until we see a public statement from your company condemning Letterman, and permanently removing yourself as a sponsor of his show.

Sincerely,

Joseph Madsen

Wilmington, NC

People who read Kathleen Parker’s continued attacks on the religious conservatives in the Republican party should see it for what it is: an ongoing effort to topple the party by destroying its foundation.

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Dear Moe,

I read your post on election 2010; let’s all get energized, organized, and go for the prize! Rah! Rah! Rah! Lets gear up for one more election, one more heroic, hopeless attempt to stop the sweep of collectivism. Yet we face the same issues (only more advanced) that Reagan first warned us about more than 40 years ago. Meanwhile, more of our freedom has been lost, and our nation has come to the brink of disaster. What do you propose Moe? One more election cycle? Two? Eight more years? Ten? And will that really solve it? Did ’94 solve it? Listen Moe; I’m not criticizing you, and I want to be with you. I can be with you. I’ve been in the election trenches, as we’ve lost a lot of ground, but I’m still willing to work.

But I need one thing. One thing to give me hope. I need one thing to get me back in the battle. I need a line in the sand. I need to know that there is some point at which we will say, “ This line you shall not cross.” This place we will stand and fight, no matter the election result, no matter the cost. I need to know that we have a leader, somewhere, who knows that our freedom isn’t subject to votes of congress, or executive order, or even to elections. Someone who says, I will not continue to surrender freedom, bit by bit, until all is lost. Show me that line, and I am with you!

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I’ve been having an inner debate, and I need another opinion. I know that many of us see that our country (and likewise many of the states) is careening headlong toward disaster. Please humor my use of a tired metaphor, but it really is like a train, speeding breakneck down a track where we know a bridge is out somewhere up ahead. But the engineers just keep going faster and faster, even though they say they know about the bridge! A lot of us are saying, “Hey, shouldn’t we be stopping this train, or at least slowing down, maybe changing tracks?” The engineers say they’re driving, go sit down.

A few of us on the train agree that it seems pretty sure that at some point, around some curve, the bridge will suddenly appear, and it will be far too late to stop. But most people on the train seem to just trust the engineers, or don’t really believe about the bridge being out, or they think if it is out, maybe it won’t be all that bad. “If the bridge is out, they’ll stop the train,” they say, and go back to reading the paper. The train speeds on. Strangely, the complacency of the other passengers and the engineers has a numbing effect on those who want to stop the train. Is there really a looming disaster? How could there be, when everyone is just… sitting there?

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David beat Goliath with a sling and stone. We can beat the msm.

We fight the culture war for the hearts and minds of the people, but the battle each day is for their attention. MSM, giant champion of the left, has all but vanquished conservative ideas from the battlefield. He has an election as a trophy of his power. If the ideas of life, liberty and property are extinguished, our republic will end in socialist misery. We must make a stand. We can be David. We have our stones, our ideas. Here is a sling.

I have argued that we lost the election because of the press. Yet many conservatives are tying themselves (and each other) in knots over why we lost; too far left, too far right, a poor candidate, a poor campaign, a poor message, on and on.

All the while, we ignore the real answer that’s all around us. Literally. It’s like forgetting you’ve been swallowed by a whale. The msm is all around us every day, in too many ways to even comprehend. We often hear that its day is over; its power is waning. Yes. And the orbit of the earth is waning too. The msm is all encompassing, all left leaning, and all-out to destroy conservatives

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Like a lot of people out here, Rush is a hero of mine. To root for him is to root for all of us conservatives. More than any other living person, he is our champion. We have felt his ups and downs as our own. Lately though, a little concern has been nagging my mind and has finally coalesced with the latest bailout money being aimed at the auto industry. Is GM using big ad buys to mute criticism from Rush and Sean?

In a nutshell, GM has big ad buys on both shows, not merely commercials, but live endorsement spots, highlighting their new hybrid and flex fuel vehicles, and have begun the run-up to the Volt, the all-electric plug in. The hosts are driving demo models of these cars, and talking them up, and Sean said he bought the Escalade hybrid. Nothing wrong with this in itself, I’m glad for them to get the accounts. But it seems to me that rather than pushing these cars, they should be mocking them instead.

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