Roy Edroso covered it. Pretty funny stuff, except the part where the morans call Letterman a sex offender. The Republican base is base.

Ziegler is clearly trying to use this kerfuffle to improve his image with the wimmenfolk. On the Likelihood Scale, this rehabilitation will occur after President Sarah Palin is sworn in to her second term.

A crowd of 15 protesters upset with the late night comic held signs and occasionally shouted as they stood across the street from Letterman’s studio.

But they were often hidden from view by the more than 35 members of the media there to cover the protest, and out-shouted by a few very vocal counter-protesters.

Nearly 20 years of Mainstream Media Fail crystallized in one anecdote.

Oh the irony, it burns:

Subsequent to his experiences of being fired and sued for saying what he believes was the truth, [Ziegler] he has authored another book, The Death of Free Speech, which claims that American discourse has suffered because of political correctness, and that these taboos are not consistently enforced.

John Ziegler, ever the classy gentleman:

In 2002…Ziegler was hired by Louisville, Kentucky radio station WHAS. Once again, his tenure did not last long, as during a Ask John Anything segment, he discussed the physical attributes, intimate attire, and genital grooming of Darcie Divita, a former Los Angeles Lakers cheerleader and WDRB morning television host with whom Ziegler had a relationship until Divita broke up with him. WHAS fired him on August 27, 2003, and Divita sued for $2,700,000, claiming libel and defamation of character.

It takes scum to collaborate with scum. I wouldn’t want him around my daughters (if I had any).

I can haz Ziegler getting arrested video?

Wolverines!!

Hey, wasn’t it about 15 protesters that shut down the Dade county recount in 2000?

Better play it safe this time and tase the SOBs before they make more trouble.

Ziegler again? Young man, don’t you have any work to do, hmmm?

Didn’t these goddam fucking retards feel the least bit out of place in Manahattan? How’d they even find their way there?

PS John Ziegler/Bristol Palin = ALine celeb couple.

Oh! The humanity!
I expect you will be apologising to the Palins for this soon enough JDM3!

John Ziegler is a doofus, plain and simple, tryin’ to score some points. He is the epitome of everything that is wrong with the Republican party.

So, any time 15 people gather together for something stupid is news.

I was there too.

I’m embarassed to be of the same species as John Ziegler.

I don’t condone picking on kids. However, when you “shill out” your family, making them part of a public spectacle for the sake of a better shot at election to a public office, you have little room to complain when the media take you up on your representation and use them as the butt of bad jokes.

It was Palin who first paraded her family as the Christian ideal–despite their obvious shortcomings in other respects. For Ziegler, who is a sexist pig–not to mention a freakin’ lawsuit just waiting to happen–to give lessons on morality to Letterman, after having been fired for worse, is beyond hypocrisy.

God, John Ziegler – just seeing a few seconds of him of video is like listening to nails on a chalkboard. And seeing him interview Palin is like….squared.

He has some serious hostility issues with women too.

I am sure that the relationship between a misogynist like Ziegler and a narcissistic grifter like Palin is going to come to an interesting end someday.

You know, if I wanted to protest outside of Bellevue because medical science can’t turn me into a pretty pretty princess, I could probably get 150 people to march with me (not counting Improv Everywhere) just by putting a classified in the Village Voice. This fuckwit can’t get more than fifteen? There are probably a thousand times that in NYC who hate Letterman’s guts just because he’s from Indiana. Sheesh.

Within spitting distance indeed, Kid. ZiegHeiler would be a step or two down from Levi Johnston fer Bristol, but she’s probably looking. It’s also consistent from her mom’s Rogue’s Progress from Toad to flappy armed li’l mCcain to Insane Rictus Giuliani. Tough fer a straight republiKKKan woman to mate within the cohort, she wants a republiKKKan man willing to have sexual congress with her on other than a sporadic, reproductive basis.

Insane retarded unregenerate dissembling fucking fucks.

Bristol Palin – Letterman’s target, if anyone still cares – is over eighteen and a public figure. Mrs Governor Sarah bringing Willow into it is Mrs Governor Sarah bringing Willow into it. Honi soit quii mal y pense, which is French for “it’s all in ur filthy fucking exploitive mind, Mrs Governor Sarah.”

Well, considering that Sarah Palin is pretty misogynistic herself towards any woman not her or her immediate clan/kin/friend, I think it’s a match made in heaven.

JDM3, Your reply at #19 almost had me snorting my coffee out my nose. You are part of the reason I de-lurked–just so I could say how much I admire your work.

Tx. Tbogg keeps a friendly, tolerant place. Like pre Bloomberg NYC or mebbe Jerry Brown California (?). Def ultra vires Bushco if not pre 2000 temporally. Time out of time, actually and blessedly.

Yup. I like it here. It’s got that loose, bar-like atmosphere.