“I guess we know what side of the red/blue divide butters their unlimited breadsticks.”
Following a week of back and forth between CBS late night comic David Letterman and Sarah Palin over a crude joke he told about the Alaska Republican governor’s daughter, the Olive Garden restaurant says it is cancelling all of its scheduled ads on Letterman’s “Late Show” for the rest of the year.
In an email to a Letterman critic obtained by POLITICO, a spokeswoman for the Italian restaurant chain wrote that “there will be no more Olive Garden ads scheduled for ‘The Late Show’ with David Letterman in this year’s broadcast schedule,” citing the talk show host’s “inappropriate comments.”
If you want to go down the road of competing boycotts, note that Olive Garden is owned by Darden Restaurants, which also owns Red Lobster(!), The Capital Grille, Longhorn Steakhouse, Bahama Breeze and something called Seasons 52, which is probably a misguided attempt to create a not-quite-blue plate special seniors cafeteria. Though I think the whole boycott thing is silly in every direction, this list makes me think it’s a good excuse on general health terms.
