Letterman: Why Montanans Are Tougher Than New Yorkers

May 25, 2009 By: Marshall Cutchin

“New Yorkers have to wait for hours to get into the hottest sushi bar in Chelsea. Montanans aren’t into eating bait, but we are into fish, and will drive for days through the middle of nowhere to get to that primo trout stream. And we won’t tell you where it is ’cause then we’d have to kill you.” On New West, Betsey Weltner fires back at New York Times columnist Gail Collins “wimpy cowboys” comments by offering Letterman’s “10 Reasons Montanans Are Tougher Than New Yorkers.”