Letterman audience boos Palin

[Stinky The Clown]

Letterman's doing his monologue.

He segues over to the subject of Puckhead: "So, do you like that Sarah Palin?" To which there is an embarrassingly small smattering of applause and a lot of boos.

Unscientific, but his audience is pretty 'heartland' with lots of people in silly tee shirts holding the unused half of a roundtrip ticket from/to Peoria.

[firedupdem]

1. I heard that smattering of applause but wasn't sure if I heard

boo's. Good!

[cui bono]

2. Gotta catch it when it's on here. nt

[ColbertWatcher]

3. Can't wait to see it! (Colbert's on vacation) n/t

[NMDemDist2]

4. Puckhead?!??

:rofl:

:yourock:

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Feel free to use it Liberally.

:)

[TahitiNut]

10. If you think about it ... she's probably PUCKering when she applies the lipstick.

:silly:

Pit bulls do that, I'm told. :rofl:

[dysfunctional press]

5. isn't obama on tonite...?

the audience may not be all that diverse this evening.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. He's on right now, azza matter of fact (11.50 PM EDT)

[Stinky The Clown]

7. "Technically, the failed policies of John McCain would be the pig."

[2Design]

12. this man stays calm and says such great things in response to

their crap - just a few times have I seen him get long winded in explaining - the answers need to be one liners so they are picked up by media and so the GOP can understand what was said

[Dudley_DUright]

9. Thanks for the heads up

Obama is doing great.

[2Design]

11. the other night there was a lot of applause for her - I was surprized

I liked that tonights group was less - I would like to think because they are wising up - but it is just different people

[unblock]

13. selection fallacy. letterman's in manhattan.

godfearin' chrisjins from th'heartland would never visit that heathen hellhole island.

they'll send their kids to iraq for attacking it, but they'd never let 'em visit that den of iniquity.

[yellerpup]

14. Manhattan draws tourists from all over the world...

Dave is from Indiana and LOTS of heartlander tourists make a point to check his show when they are in town. Not your average ain't-never-been-more'n-five-mile-from-home types, but not everyone in the middle is an idiot. Red states aren't ALL red.

[unblock]

15. yes...i'm from the midwest myself....

my point was simply that dave's studio audience is not very representative of thing in particular.

of course his appeal extends to a portion of places like indiana. it's just that that doesn't shed much light on the whole of that state, the midwest, the heartland, or whatever.

it probably does shed some light on how bloomington feels :) but not the whole state.

[yellerpup]

16. Gotcha!

;)