culture? well, i think dave was the most incisive interviewer since johnny carson. i think that s why he ll be missed, within of the main reasons he ll be missed. you see the late night hosts now, what they re doing is things that go viral, the guest interview is sort of an after thought for them. for dave, the guest interview was the thing. and he interviewed, you know, people of all political stripes. it s something you just don t see in the broadcast late night shows now. well, he did do stupid pet tricks. and stupid human tricks. and stupid human tricks. but my next stupid human trick, i will ask you about the political edge that dave often seemed to have, not just with sarah palin, but he always felt comfortable i think being a new york liberal, he talked about gun control after newtown. what s your take on that? and don t forget the interview he did with john mccain when mccain was running against obama. i think you can do that in new york and that was so much of
culture? well, i think dave was the most incisive interviewer since johnny carson. i think that s why he ll be missed, within of the main reasons he ll be missed. you see the late night hosts now, what they re doing is things that go viral, the guest interview is sort of an after thought for them. for dave, the guest interview was the thing. and he interviewed, you know, people of all political stripes. it s something you just don t see in the broadcast late night shows now. well, he did do stupid pet tricks. and stupid human tricks. and stupid human tricks. but my next stupid human trick, i will ask you about the political edge that dave often seemed to have, not just with sarah palin, but he always felt comfortable i think being a new york liberal, he talked about gun control after newtown. what s your take on that? and don t forget the interview he did with john mccain when mccain was running against obama. i think you can do that in new york and that was so much of
and the whole and the bush administrations. and the whole area of federal regulation doesn t get that much journalistic attention here if washington, much sexier to cover the president, the white house, congress, the supreme court, politics, and so i think that s part of the reason. it s not seen as a sexy topic, but it affects anybody who drives a car. julie: david letterman announcing yesterday he will be retiring sometime next year. he s not being very specific, but 2015 lukes like his looks like has last year. yeah. media love this guy. there s been a lot letters to letterman who absolutely did change the face of late night tv. what s getting less attention though, julie, is the fact that he was the most political of the late night hosts and pretty open about his liberalism. he had to apologize for making fun of sarah palin s daughter, why drag her daughter into this, and there was also that sex scandal. the country must las vegas him because he was forgiven despite the fact
one awkward moment for sarah palin during the seventh inning her daughter was knocked up by alex rodriguez. am i guilty of poor taste? yes. did i suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? no. joo but reporter: but david letterman legacy is unelbdeniable. he changed the tv landscape for decade. david s fingerprints are everywhere. his ethos is everywhere whether people who are young know it or not it comes from johnny carson but enhanced by david letterman. because of the leno/letterman thing people forget that. this new round of late night hosts, they are all borrowing from letterman.
military bases. where is putin now? he has already taken over the ukraine military bases and people are wondering where is he going to go next. you know, they really captured it all and it does spell bad things for obama if he has got the late night hosts making jokes about him. josh, you just got back from traveling with the vice president. is this i mean, do you think that they can sort of laugh along with this humor or do you think this is stinging? because these are the two big crises they are dealing with. i think they are laughing along with it. how can they? you thought michelle obama on jimmy fallon s show in the first week. they have humor about the fact that yes they are dealing with really challenging things all the time and obamacare thing is a problem not going away. here is a problem, josh, while they may think it s funny, there are lots of americans out there who are scared to death and they hear about their premiums are going to be spiked. so while everyone