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UPDATE: More Letterman About McCain Thursday…
Let me explain before you watch the 9-minute YouTube footage (below): I’ve just been told that on David Letterman’s Late Show tonight, the talk show host caught John McCain in a big fat lie as to why the GOP candidate cancelled tonight’s appearance. (Hint: it involves Katie Couric.) Here’s what happened: about 90 minutes before the Letterman taping, McCain’s people phoned to say he was suspending his campaign because of the financial crisis and racing to the airport to get back to Washington DC, so had to scrub Dave’s show. (post continues below)
I’m told the senator himself called Letterman to explain, “I have to go back and fix the economy. I’m going to get on a plane now and go.” The show scrambled and at the last minute booked Keith Olbermann. When it was time for tonight’s taping, Letterman explained to the cameras why McCain was a no-show and even had nice things to say about the guy. That is, until the behind the scenes people in The Late Show control room were shocked to see a live feed of McCain being miked in Katie Couric’s CBS News studio at the same time he was supposed to be in Dave’s studio. Letterman was informed of this during the commercial break, and, when the show came back, ordered the control room to cut to the live McCain/Couric feed. Then Letterman bashed McCain for not being honest. “He doesn’t seem to be racing back to the airport, does he?” Letterman asked the audience.
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Until I hear the phrase “I’m going to get on a plane now and go” confirmed by someone other than the spurned host, I take McCain’s actions as choosing to do a *news* show instead of Dave’s before hopping on a plane and getting back to work.
Charges of “big fat lie” are so far unsubstantiated.
Letterman continues to be the most culturally relevant late night host out there. Kudos to CBS for letting Dave use the Live Feed.
He’s usually not that funny anymore. But pissed-off Dave is always good!
What do you care? Now you guys get a whole segment of Olbermann bitching about Republicans. It’s a win-win for you guys. Maybe McCain simply realized that Letterman wants Obama to win and didn’t feel the need to waste his time.
The only thing newsworthy about this is that he’s suspending his campaign for the weekend to actually try and accomplish something. His appearance or lack thereof on Letterman is utterly irrelevant in comparison.
Dollerhide, have you been on a different planet these last few weeks? This will only be the latest in a long series of big fat lies.
Regardless of what he picked over Dave, telling he can’t make it then showing up somewhere else is pretty uncool. I’d be willing to be pretty much anything that he said what he said to Dave. You honor your committments.
Imagine if Obama took a stand on this vote? That would be something to behold. This debate is on foreign policy so quite frankly I will side with McCain here. Liquidity in the markets worldwide is horrible… Markets will likely crash soon with out adding liquidity and confidence. Worrying about paying someone more than $500k a year to fix these banks seems a bit nitpicky to hold up this funding. Get the best people in to do the job. No matter the cost. By the way the Paulson plan will likely make money when it’s all said and done. He came from Goldman where they have a habit of making money.
Bad week for team McCain and it keeps getting worse. First he backs out of the debate, Sarah Palin is rumored to be going on SNL and now this. The economy has been a mess for almost a year now and one guy is going to change that in a couple of days. As Dave says in the video… something smells…
If McCain can’t do 20 things at once he’s not qualified to be President. He wants to back out of the debate because he’ll be asked tough questions about an economy he had a big role in ruining. At this point his campaign is running along about as smoothly as a car in a Keystone Cops movie.
Someone explain to me how McCain can go from saying that the economy was strong last week to dramatically suspending his campaign and pulling out of the debate this week because our country is on the “verge of collapse” and only McCain can save it. I’ll tell you what, if McCain can single-handedly save the economy and reduce my mortgage payment and give me back all the money that my 401k has lost this last week, I’ll consider voting for him and that floozing from Alaska. On second thought, never.
I have to say that Letterman has a hell of a lot more integrity at this point than McCain…. I can’t imagine him lying about his phone call with the Senator.
Hey, who said in 2005 that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac needed reform or they could go under? McCain. All the GOP senators voted for reform, all the Dem senators opposed. When they did go under yeah, it became a huge and immediate issue.
The last quarter was revised up to 3.8% growth and there’s been exactly one quarter of negative growth in the last 8 years so I’d say the economy is more sound than you would admit.
I’d say it’s a bad week for Obama for having his lies about his friendship with Bill Ayers exposed. I know some people in my neighbourhood, but I didn’t launch a political campaign from their house or work closely with them on a $100 million dollar foundation. Oh, and as far as I know they haven’t bombed any public buildings.
As usual, the mysogynistic comments against Palin continue from the tolerant left. Do you have to personally attack people you disagree with?
Bad week for Obama? What planet are you from?
The first time I heard about Ayers this week was um, here. From you.
So no, I don’t think it was a bad week for Obama at all. There is so much ammunition from McCain himself to last the rest of the election cycle. Believe it, it’s coming and it’s not going to be pretty.
It smells of a debate stall, but not for McCain, he’s doing it for Palin. A presidential debate stall and rechedule will push back the VP debate. And as we all know, the trophy VP candidate is his ace in the hole and pretty much the only thing that has him treading water in the polls. When tha VP debate happens, they are dead in the water because Biden is going to eat her alive.
McCain is SO drowning right now. Dave nailed it – his poll numbers are sliding, the economy (and the bigger fraud of “the bailout”) is tanking, Palin is no where near ready to enter primetime (funny how McCain suggests to suspend the prez debate until next Thurs, when she was supposed to debate Biden)…
It’s Clinton vs. Dole all over again. I smell something nasty in the old man’s Depends.
Well folks it’s a big story tonight here in New York. John McCain told Letterman by phone that he had to no-show on little notice as he was flying directly to DC to work on the “Big Bailout”.
McCain then went instead to do Katie Couric and as of the latest news report is still here tonight and won’t be going to DC until Thursday morning. McCain’s pants are definitely ablaze this evening.
“It’s a bad week for Obama” … you must live in the same delusional world that McCain is living in. McCain went from a slight lead in most polls to being behind by anywhere from 4-9 points. I would say it’s been a very good week for Obama.
Hey Joe, did you ever consider that giving a grossly unqualified hack like Palin a free ride because she’s a woman is misogynist. We liberals here on the tolerant left can’t stand Palin because she’s a cynical insult to intelligent people, not because she has tits.
Wow, nine minutes of Letterman! I haven’t watched his show in a long time. It was like visiting my Grandfather at the old folks’ home. But in fairness, if McCain needed to address the entire nation, he would’ve gone on Leno.
How about…Obama lying that he never heard Rev. Wright say that America deserved 9/11? How about…Obama lying that he never was for being against a bill that banned partial-birth abortion? How about…Obama lying that McCain doesn’t like to use computers (instead of McCain not being able to use a computer after his torture at the Hanoi Hilton). How about…Obama lying about his connection to domestic terrorist Bill Ayers when Ayers was on the same board with him and they have a huge history (by the way, Ayers said they “didn’t do enough” in relation to terrorist acts). How about…never mind.
If you haven’t heard of Bill Ayers before now, you are too ignorant to have a vote. Google ‘weather underground’ – he is a terrorist, plain and simple. Just one of the many unsavory people Obama has surrounded himself with over the years. Palin is more qualified than he is, unless you count running a campaign as experience to be president. Wait, that’s what Obama did claim.
The polls are fun aren’t they? When you have 38% republicans vs 54% democrats being polled, what result do you think you’re going to get? Read beyond the USA today pie chart for a change.
poor dave,i don’t know why mccaine would want to go on a program like letterman’s anyway. i stopped watching letterman years ago. he isnt funny anymore. i dont think these talk show people are funny or interesting, all they do is make fun of people. there hasnt been a good talk show host since johnny carson.
How is Palin unqualified compared to the experience-free Obama? He hasn’t done anything in his life except write a couple of books and run for president. He did work closely with a terrorist, and take lots of money from Fannie and Freddie (2nd most in the senate!), and spend 20 years closely tied to a marxist, racist preacher. That must count for something.
Re: CTSadler, you’re misogynist because your insults are directed at Palin as a woman, not as a republican or even generic politician.
Why do you say she is unintelligent – just because she’s from the 57th state?
Dave has no reason to lie about what McCain said to him. He clearly has more integrity. It’s not bothersome that he went to do a “news” show, it’s about bailing at the last minute and saying you’re going to do one thing and doing something entirely different.
Amelia -
You’re a partisan blogger’s dream. Care to elaborate anymore, especially in regard to the “lie” about McCain and computers? If common sense can’t help you discern the truth as being somewhere inbetween, feel free to entertain us.