Fire David Letterman' is not a demand that many expected to be heard about David Letterman until this week. But Fire David Letterman rallies are starting to pop up in New York, as protestors hope to get David Letterman fired with their rally on Tuesday. CBS would hardly be expected to fire David Letterman, since he just became king of late night ratings this week. But that may have been due to David Letterman's controversial jokes about the Palin family, which sparked the desire to fire David Letterman in the first place.
The calls to fire David Letterman will be heard long and loud at a "Fire David Letterman" rally Tuesday outside Ed Sullivan Theater. At 4:30, an hour before Letterman's daily taping, protesters will march against Letterman, in a continued backlash against his Sarah Palin jokes.
The mess started when David Letterman joked that Sarah Palin's daughter got "knocked up by A-Rod" during his top 10 list of things that happened during Sarah Palin's recent trip to New York. The firestorm got worse when Palin attacked Letterman for the joke, and accused him of making the joke about her 14-year-old daughter Willow getting raped.
Letterman claimed he made the joke about Bristol Palin and her pregnancy, but Palin attended a Yankees game last week with Willow instead. Sarah Palin's continued comments against Letterman have spawned calls to fire David Letterman, from citizens and even a few lawmakers.
New York State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb recently wrote to CBS CEO Les Moonves in hopes that he would fire David Letterman. Kolb wrote that firing Letterman would send a message that CBS would not stand for "demeaning and degrading comments about women."
If Kolb's letter doesn't get through to Moonves, the Fire David Letterman rallies will try to seal the deal. Tuesday's rally is being led by Michael Patrick Leahy, an RNC delegate from Middle Tennessee who usually protests taxes, and helped organized the famed "tea parties" from a few months back.
