Combine that with the heat the feds (and their pals at Clear Channel) put on Howard Stern, and you've got one pissed-off media giant. Infinity (parent company of CBS and Stern's show) and their CEO Mel Karmazin have been pushed and pushed and pushed against the wall by the moralistic thugs of this White House. It's finally payback time.
The So-Called Liberal Media have been mostly bubbling in the shadows since Bush and the other cokeheads demanded we suppress our criticism of them while we fight the terrorists. In time, that fight went so far off the tracks, it became laughable to everyone except the cokeheads. Slowly, one by one, newspapers began to wake up and ask questions, but the major media still held back. Super Bowl Sunday, all hell broke loose - and from that, an indecency war was waged by Michael Powell and the FCC. A public thrashing of Karmazin by Congress and an assault on their hot property (Stern) was followed by continual harrassment, egged on by Powell's friends at Clear Channel who made an example of Stern by cancelling his show on six of their 1200 radio stations.
That's the corner they were pushed to. So instinctively, because of being relentlessly hammered this way, they're fighting back. Infinity has been beaten down by Washington, and they're sick of it. And Bush has nobody to blame but himself. When Moe of the Three Stooges got gunpowder all over his face when something backfired, we all laughed. We're laughing again.
The entire article here is worth reading, but the segment here shows how Dave was himself a target of Bush's thugs - a backstory I never knew until now.
Deadline Hollywood: Dave the Brave
Stupid President Tricks can only be seen on Letterman
...as Stupid President Tricks has gained in popularity, it's become more controversial. Witness the March brouhaha between Letterman, the White House and CNN over the accuracy of footage of a Florida Republican organizer's kid hilariously yawning and squirming while standing behind Dubya at an Orlando campaign appearance. "It was one of those 'You're not going to see that anywhere else but on Dave' kind of moments," Burnett recalls. His team noticed that Bush had a speech scheduled and couldn't find anyone national covering it, so they went to the CBS affiliate in Orlando for the raw footage. Then a writer said, "Hey, look at the kid in the back."
After the video of Orange County, Florida, Chief Executive Rich Crotty's dead-on-his-feet son Tyler aired under the title "George W. Bush Invigorates America's Youth," CNN reported it had been told by the White House that the child was edited into the video by the Letterman show as a joke and was never standing directly behind the president.
Dave went Full Metal Jacket. He stared into the camera and called the White House assertion "an out-and-out lie" not once but twice. Then he warned his viewers, "When you cast your vote in November, just remember that the White House was trying to make me look like a dope!" Immediately, everybody backtracked, CNN apologized and the White House was cleared of ever having complained. But the Letterman folks still believe the Bushies did try to attack Dave. When Letterman made a stink about it, the White House turned and ran.
