WE’RE STILL HERE CBS!!!
June 12, 2009
by The New Agenda
|WE’RE STILL HERE CBS….AND WE’RE NOT GOING AWAY!!!
We demand action! Our country deserves better than this. Our daughters will not be a target of David Lettman’s sexualization.
We have a request and we are going to keep making it, loud and clear, until you hear it. This is a teachable moment on the escalating crisis of the sexualization of our teenage daughters and the resulting violence against them. We demand that CBS devote a Letterman Show to opening a dialogue about this national crisis. And we are going to keep emailing and calling your sponsors until you do the right thing!
Aveeno (owned by Johnson & Johnson)
Canon
Charmin (owned by Proctor & Gamble)
Citibank
Downy (also owned by P&G)
Hellman’s
Lexus (owned by Toyota)
Nissan
Rogaine
Update : Thanks to our commenters who have posted lists of the sponsors they saw on Letterman last night. The trick in figuring out a target sponsor list is to weed out those who buy time from a local station or as a package deal in which they don’t specifically request placement on Late Night. (Likewise, sponsors who appear only in banner ads on Letterman’s website may have little control over where their ads run.) By cross-referencing the various lists of ads that viewers in different geographic areas have saw on Letterman’s TV Thursday show, my best information is that we should ADD to the above list:
Ambien CR (from Sanofi Aventis)
bing.com (owned by Microsoft)
Centrum (ownedy by Wyeth)
Chase
Ford
Hotels.com
Listerine (like Aveno, above, owned by J&J)
Mazda
Old Navy (owned by Gap)
Samsung
Saturn (not a brand that will be continued; owned by GM, which mostly owned by taxpayers!)
T-Mobile
Here is a link to the interview with Palin on the Today Show this morning. Wow…she hit a homerun. She spoke about the gasline which was the main reason (in her mind) for the interview, but when asked about the Letterman situation she was terrific…speaking up for women and young girls, and smacking Matt Lauer down when he tried to minimalize it. Wow..great interview not just for her but for women.
http://www.conservatives4palin.....-show.html
Gov. Palin sure did hit a homerun – she spoke strongly and appropriately and would not tolerate the usual patriarchal BS about harmless fun, a joke only, blah blah – Letterman found statuatory rape to be funny – how sick and crude and CBS knew darn well Palin’s 14 yr. old daughter was the victim of this sick exhibition of mysogyny.
A public apology and a CBS show to open a dialog about attitudes in the media about women and young girls is a good start. But it is not enough. If we don’t make an example of behavior as egregious as that of David Letterman, it will be open season on women by the media. Please sign this petition and pass it on.
http://www.firedavidletterman.com/
Every time I go to the doctor and he says I have high blood pressure I joking refer to the Huff Post- not sure Amy why you write for them but I just get angry- here is the latest:”Arianna Huffington and Donny Deutsch attack Sarah Palin for the Letterman Willow Palin rape jokes.
They say” Palin was displaying manufactured outrage over Letterman’s disgusting sex jokes”
They have the gall to blame Sarah Palin for “parading her family out in front” during the election?. and thus they are “fair game”( that makes it ok to be sexist etc…can we now make jokes about Obama’s kids…they too were “paraded” out.). Did they forget their horrible attacks against Sarah Palin and her teen daughter and her disabled baby Trig? They say this is ok…as along as it is against Sarah..but if it were against Obama..I doubt they’d react the same way…do you?
keep the heat on
I have contacted all the sponsors! Hope they get thousands of emails telling them to condemn Letterman’s remarks and pull their advertising.
Dr. Jane Henderson Loney
California
New York State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, a Republican, is calling on the CEO of CBS to fire David Letterman for crude comments he made about Sarah Palin and her daughter.
In the letter to CBS chief Les Moonves, Kolb said he took Letterman to task for the “shockingly inappropriate” jokes.
“As the proud father of a daughter, and as a husband, I wanted Mr. Moonves to hear from me directly about Mr. Letterman’s disparaging remarks,” Kolb said in a written statement.
“Firing Mr. Letterman would send a clear message that CBS will not tolerate any of its employees — even an established media figure like Mr. Letterman — making demeaning and degrading comments about women.”
People like Letterman have gotten away with this enough! As Chris Rock said, “I’m tired, tired, tired, tired of this s***! Being a public figure puts you out there (with the exception of some, of course,) but leave all members of everyone’s family out of it. Doesn’t even the Mafia respect this code? I really like Sarah Palin. She’s sharp and tuff and hasmore class in her little finger than Letterman. But, anyone parent would be hurt by this sort of thing. And, BS on which daughter he meant. It doesn’t matter. Bristol is a fine young lady and doing the job that she’s doing now is admirable. She speaks of something that she knows about which is more than most people with their face on the screen. And, who was that woman on Hannity last night? What a Bimbo! I can’t believe that he let her get away with the things that she said. I’ve probably watched his show two or three times and I was disappointed in him last night. I really want to watch the other news channels and get both sides of the news but, when they start the mean-spirited, trash-talk, I turn back to Fox. That’s not news, to me, it’s Tabloid trash.
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