Comedian and native Hoosier David Letterman during his show Tuesday night tore into Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) for signing the state’s divisive Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law.
“This is not the Indiana I remember as a kid,” Letterman said during a serious moment on CBS’s “Late Show with David Letterman.”
“I lived there for 27 years, and folks were folks, and that’s all there was to it,” he said. “We all breathed the same air, we were all carbon-based life forms. We didn’t care.”
“This guy throws a monkey wrench into the works,” Letterman continued. “Something’s gone haywire.”
“It may be legal, but it ain’t right,” he said.
Letterman then launched into a Top Ten list of “Guys Indiana Governor Mike Pence Looks Like.”
Watch below, courtesy of “Late Show.”
h/t Washington Post
In all fairness, the Indiana that Letterman remembers as a kid is tinted rose and ignores the various racist incidents and homophobic beatings that occurred.
The way It USEd to BE
THE WAy it ought to be
The Way it’s GOINg to BE AgaIN!1!!1!1!!one!!!11!
Really! I don’t believe that Indiana was a tolerant paradise 40 yrs ago. Maybe we should ask a gay adult who grew up in Indiana as a child for a better perspective. I
Hate to tell you Dave, but your state was infested with ex-KKK members during your youth.
And they were only “ex” because of the 1925 Stephenson scandal that effectively destroyed the Klan in Indiana:
I get that Letterman was embarrassed by whats going on in his home state, but insinuating that Indiana was more accepting of gays in the 50’s and 60’s just wasn’t the case.