Does this gentleman look like Osama to you?My pet peeve with most American writers and media - if you are referring to a great leader please take the pains to at least spell their name correctly. It's Gandhi not Ghandi.
Letterman is usually pretty funny when he cracks on people and leaders. I've no problem when he was picking on how Bush landed at the Delhi airport and complained to airport security about "all them suspeesus people in turbans" or Dr. Manmohan's name or Dr. Kalam's hairstyle. But then he went over the line when he made a joke about Gandhi and Osama. On the last night's show (2nd March 2006), Letterman was doing a spoof of and hour-by-hour account of Bush's timetable in India. That's when he made the cracked the joke on how Bush looked at Gandhi's photo and asked "when did Osama lose his beard".
He read that from a sheet of paper, then paused for a second, shocked. Does he even write his own material? Then he said something to the effect of "lets not go there" and continued with his item. Maybe I'm being an oversensitive brown dude but I really doubt if Letterman would have the balls to make a similar remark about Martin Luther King Jr.
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