Dr. Phil was David Letterman's guest on The Late Show last night.
They talked about Donald Trump.
Letterman was clearly troubled about the way Trump has been pressuring Obama. He had no qualms about declaring Trump racist and going so far as to say he may not allow Trump to appear on his show unless he apologizes for his behavior.
Video.
Longer clip of their discussion here.
Transcript
DAVID LETTERMAN: But my point is it's all fun, it's all a circus, it's all a rodeo, until it starts to smack of racism; and then it's no longer fun.
DR. PHIL: So, you thought it was racist.
LETTERMAN: Well, yes.
DR. PHIL: Yeah. Because of the implication that he couldn't have gotten into Harvard any other way?
LETTERMAN: I have heard enough really smart people discuss this to convince me that, yes, that is very, very insulting.
DR. PHIL: Yeah, I think some people were offended by that. I mean, I do.
LETTERMAN: So, like I said, it's all fun until you cross that line. So the question is - you know Donald Trump - in fact, do you consider him to be a racist?
DR. PHIL: I do not.
LETTERMAN: Well how can you say things like that if you're not a racist?
DR. PHIL: Well, I don't, I mean, I don't think he always thinks everything through.
LETTERMAN: Oh. (Laughs) Oh. I see.
DR. PHIL: I'm not sure, I'm not sure he sat down and said, 'Let's see how this could be spun.'
LETTERMAN: Yeah, yeah.
DR. PHIL: I think sometimes he's a little from the hip. But I don't think he has a racist bone in his body.
LETTERMAN: Well, it certainly, uh, it's certainly unpleasant to watch. And I would think that if he comes back on this show, and I'm not sure that we want him back on the show under those circumstances, he ought to be prepared...
(Smattering of applause from audience)
...to apologize. He ought to be prepared to apologize just for that kind of behavior.
DR. PHIL: Well you've been pretty hard on him.
LETTERMAN: Well, that's the fun of a guy like Donald Trump. You can be as hard on him as you want, and, you know, he doesn't... It's hard to land a punch with that hair.
The "really smart people" Letterman listens to are clearly Leftists and Democrat hacks, since they're the ones always relying on the race card whenever Obama is challenged by anyone.
Letterman should ask Trump if his request for Obama to release his school transcripts is racially motivated or based in racism, instead of automatically slandering him and assuming the worst.
It's possible that Letterman, ratings loser to Jay Leno, wants to be part of Trump's "fun" and "circus" and "rodeo." By joining the fray and feuding with Trump, Letterman hopes to boost his sagging ratings. Letterman seems to be baiting Trump.
It's also possible Letterman is serious, another Left-wing hack accusing an Obama critic of being racist.
I think it's both of the above.
1 comment:
It's "also possible" the Donald isn't playing with a full deck (or, he's trying to pump up ratings for the remaining episodes of his game show). Not two days previous, he alleged "he heard" (from ghosts, apparently, as he couldn't produce actual names), had it on good authority, that the birth certificate was "lost." Yet Obama produced it the next day. Wonder how the Donald is going to lie his way out of that one. The same with his fictitious investigators who were in Oahu investigating the matter, yet not a single Hawaiian official had been approached by any of Donald's rumored investigators. Lie #2. Hey, maybe he *would* make a good politician after all (even if he hasn't voted but, what, once? twice? in two decades?). He's already a good liar. Though, given the country's economic woes, does the nation really want as president a guy who filed for bankruptcy twice, and is working, I think, possibly on a third? (Or maybe I'm confusing his bankruptcies with his marriages.) As for Donald's new-found "grader" status, curious why he didn't have the same curiosity or concern about Bush Junior, who said himself that he was not a good student (too busy tooting the white stuff, I believe--wasn't that his choice of party favors?), had a sketchy military record? Bush wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, and possibly wasn't always holding a full deck of cards either.
Trump loves to prattle on about his own brilliance, but a person doesn't have to be the smartest person in the room as long as the smartest person in the room *is* working for YOU. And native intelligence/academic performance is zero barometer of whether a president will be lousy, mediocre, or great. In terms of sheer "brainage," some of our smartest post-WWII presidents were Nixon (didn't he have an IQ of ~140?), a Duke Law School graduate; Carter, who graduated in the top 10% of his Naval Academy class; and Clinton, a Rhodes scholar and graduate of Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Yet all three men had some serious flaws despite their 'potential.'
And then there were the intellectual "lightweight"--Truman, who was a clerk, railroad worker, bookkeeper, farmer, small-town postmaster, no college degree; Reagan, a fairly lame B-list actor with mediocre college credentials, both men history considers politically successful presidents. (Or to top them all, Roosevelt, considered historically one of the "great" U.S. presidents but was not an intellectual heavyweight.
So what possible reason would Trump have for wanting Obama's transcripts? Because he has nothing substantial to bring to the table otherwise that would make him a credible presidential contender? Seriously, with the very grave problems facing this country, what Trump babbled on about, ad nauseam, has been Obama's birth certificate--(and even on that he was flat wrong, as a certificate of live birth *is* a valid certificate, as you can get married with one, get a driver's license with one, serve with one; not to mention half the things he insisted are ON a birth certificate is stuff and nonsense; my own doesn't even list the name of the doctor who delivered me, just the hospital administrator's signature)--and now, apparently, Obama's college grades. Pretty thin.
As for slander and assuming the worst of someone, Obama has been the victim of both since he announced his candidacy, from cries of being "anti-American" to being a terrorist, and whatever other awful things the nation's crackpots could come up with--from right-wing hacks. Or is it okay when it's someone on the right being the hack? Sorry, but the hacks aren't party-specific; they come from both parties.
Anyway, I love that Obama stuck a pin straight in Trump's hot air balloon. To use a Charlie Sheenism, Obama: Winning.
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