What David Letterman Didn't Say About America posted 11/7/2008 4:11:57 PM | 0 kudos what's this?     report abuse

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That the statement attributed to him seems to be a fraud.
Letterman's monologue Thursday night is at
http://lateshow.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/dave_tv/monologue/index/php/
monologue.phtml

Blogger conveniently omits any reference to where this came from.
Another one of those
IT CAME TO ME IN AN EMAIL!!!

This is where it came from:
Hits the Nail on the Head
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/hitnail.asp

Claim: Essay by comedian Jay Leno urges Americans to focus on the positive.

Status: False.

Collected via e-mail, March 2007


Variations:

# In early 2008 the following preface was added to the example quoted above:
Jay Leno on President Bush (Surprising)

Jay Leno wrote this; it's the Jay Leno we don't often see....


# In mid-2008 the attribution changed from Jay Leno to David Letterman:
David Letterman wrote this; it's the David we don't often see....


Last updated: 15 June 2008


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You lost ditso.
Don't make it worse with tons of divisive crap
designed to make many Americans look bad.
Your timing really stinks.

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