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I am so glad this was chosen as a category to write to as I am very upset over the late night TV talk show hosts, particularly David Letterman and Jay Leno disrespecting our current president, George Bush, Jr., and our Vice President Chaney.

I do not care if it is a Democrat president or Republican. We are in a war in Iraq and we are fighting in Afghanistan currently. President Bush is the Commander-In-Chief of the U.S. Military, and he is due respect.

I love David Letterman's show and I do not watch the Jay Leno show, but I believe both these men are very good men and highly talented. But they continually make fun of President Bush and put words in his mouth in skits and catch every single miss-spoken word he says and I think it is pure disrespect to the elected President of this country.

Now, in their defense, they also poked allot fun at other people such as Kerry and Clinton and others too, Democrat and Republican. It is a comedian's right to freedom of speech but when we are in a wartime situation, is it or should it be allowed? I am not for censorship totally of any political humor, but so many people love to watch late night TV and yes I believe if continually doing something on David Letterman's show called "Political Speeches" and making President Bush look like a complete idiot because they take a short segment of something he says and misinterprets it, is just plain wrong. I've watched every Presidential address for the State of the Union given by President Bush and he did an upstanding job in all of them, almost flawless, but I never see an excerpt from any of those Union addresses. What if someone followed you all day long, I bet you wouldn't say and do everything right every time, in fact, David Letterman admits he doesn't and I'd have to admit I make allot of speech errors and judgment errors all the time in my life, I guess I am an educated idiot too at least in late night talk show hosts opinion?

Also, when Dick Chaney shot in accident his best friend, the older lawyer, the jokes were especially painful and still are non-stopping, but what if David Letterman had run into a friend in his car whom he loved, would he like such mockery? What if Jay Leno would of hit someone on his motorcycle, say his best friend, would he have wanted to be portrayed as a foolish crazy blind rider mistaking a man for a box? I think he would not of, in fact, I understand Vice President Chaney was hurt very badly by this horrible accident which could of actually killed

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