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After busting the GOP president candidate for lying last night, David Letterman opened The Late Show tonight saying this about John McCain (video here):
"I don’t know if you know about this or not, but last night….Here’s the deal – we do this little TV show every night right here on CBS. And what we do – you see these chairs right here? That’s because we like to have folks come out and visit. And one of the people who was going to visit with us last night was Senator John McCain.
"What a tremendous hero. What a great American John McCain is. Unquestionably, as President Clinton said earlier this week, gave almost everything but his life for this country. And a tremendous hero and a tremendous role model…and he was supposed to be on the show. So at the last minute he calls up and says, “Uh…I can’t make it.” And I said, “What is the problem?” And he said, “Well, the economy. The economy is about to crater.”
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So I’m scared. I’m starting to tremble a little bit because he said, “I’ve got to race back to D.C.” And I thought, holy gosh… And I hung up the phone and I said to the staff that had gathered at my feet – waiting for words of reassurance from me…OK, everything’s fine. Don’t worry about it. The Senator is on his way back to D.C. So not only did he not go back right away, he stopped by to see Katie Couric on his way out. And then ok, we looked at it and we said, “OK, I understand that. That’s news and this is nonsense.”But then after Katie Couric, wham-o, right to the airport? …No. No. No. We found out today that he didn’t really leave until this morning. [Boos from the audience.]
Thank you very much, Ladies and Gentlemen. So what we learned today is that the economy held on long enough – just barely held on long enough for him to get back there.
"Whereas, you can see, 24 hours ago, I felt like a patriot. I felt like I was helping out. I felt like I was doing my part. Part of the cause. Fighting the fight. Not part of the problem, I was part of the solution. I was going to help in my own little way get this economy out of the crater. And now I’m just feeling like an ugly date. That’s what I feel like. I feel like an ugly date. I feel used. I feel cheap. I feel sullied. I feel cratered…"
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Dave has a right to be mad. Senator McCain ditched his show to go on Katie Couric’s newscast so he could balance out the embarrassing Governor Palin interview that was already scheduled as part of the same newscast. He was doing damage control, not helping with economic crisis.
And today his publicity stunt at the White House completely derailed the negotiations that both sides had been working on all week. They were close to a bipartisan deal when John McCain, pretending to be John Wayne, came into town and rather than save the day he made a complete mess. If that’s putting country first, I hope he moves to a different country fast.
Wow
While I appreciate that having a guest drop out at the last minute would irk the hell out of a host (and the show’s booker), Dave going on and on about it like Alec Baldwin goes on and on about his ex-wife isn’t exactly attractive. It just makes him come off like a whiny bitch.
And, Nikki, this is supposed to be a site about what’s going on in Hollywood. How about you quit posting the political shit and concentrate on who’s getting hired and fired huh? That’s a good girl.
Michelle, bailing out the crooks on Wall Street would be making a complete mess. Those crooks fucked things up royally because of greed so let them suffer. Them having to be accountable for their actions will actually make things better for the rest of the population because the price of food etc will go down for a change.
Can’t you see that there would be a revolution if the government bailed out these rich fucks but continued to go after Regular Joe and Regulary Jane for a credit card bill? If you thought the riots in LA after the OJ joke of a trial was scary, imagine that happening all over the country.
Letterman has absolutely no real room to bitch. He’s whining about a fluff show. Yes, I love watching it, but at the same time it’s end of day fluff to clear the palate before you go to bed. No one owes him anything.
First, I do love Letterman on TV. And I have great memories about his ballsy and heartfelt monologue as he was the first entertainment show to go back on air after 9/11. I think that showed enormous character.
As someone who has been in politics – and production, and ‘real world’ business – schules shift on a minute’s notice and 90% of the time the object person doesn’t know where he is next going; that is what assistants are for.
And given the meeting today, I can see why McCain stayed into read, research, confab and lobby and figure out the godawful mess and I don’t care if he did it in NY, DC or the Poconos. Participating in a show who likes seeing how far dogs can jump on Broadway or what 1000 watermelons do to a Buick is waaaaaaay down the priority list.
This is, more than anything, an example of the entitlement and hubris of this all-to-often stupid business I have chosen for this phase of life. At it’s very best, Hollywood is a DISTRACTION from the real world, NOT the real world… but the inbred pretension of this industry cannot see that.
Dave, stick to the metamucil jokes. Any politician, ESPECIALLY during a crisis, who makes you a priority for ANY reason doesn’t deserve to be a politician. Dave, you own your own island in the Bahamas. This crisis can hit millions of people so hard they couldn’t even afford to even buy a postcard of the Bahamas. So shut the hell up and get out the way.
When it comes down to it, Dave, you are pissed off because someone decided to do their job rather than help you do yours. Grow up.
John McCain used to believe that lying was grounds for impeaching the president. Now he believes that it’s the way to become president.
Thank god most sensible Americans are seeing through this farce.
I hope this bee stays in Dave’s bonnet until the election. If it makes a few thousand people think twice about voting for McCain it’s all good.
The only real Political news from Letterman’s show was Bill Clinton’s Endorsement of John McCain for president.
“And today his publicity stunt at the White House completely derailed the negotiations that both sides had been working on all week. They were close to a bipartisan deal when John McCain, pretending to be John Wayne, came into town and rather than save the day he made a complete mess. If that’s putting country first, I hope he moves to a different country fast.”
What a complete load of horse shit.
I do not want the next President of the United States elected because he or she was a guest on David Letterman or Leno or Oprah! This isn’t a joke. This is very serious business with a great many serious players around the world who would like nothing better than make us into a joke! Unfortunately, we seem to be doing a good job of doing that ourselves! Doesn’t anyone remember that sax playing guy with the shades?
Now you know why Letterman keeps hemorraging viewers. Enough with the whining. He really thinks he’s actually important in this whole deal. Sad. He used to be self-aware and hip to all the b.s. — now he’s part of it.
How can John McCain not understand how important show business is? That right there is reason enough not to vote for him.
I think Letterman is a bitter person who cant stand not being the ideal date. oh well…get on line, there are more where you came from. Sometimes life just doesnt go your way. Its not like McCain is that popular to help Dave’s ratings problem.
…..Oh please with the “McCain derailing anything” bull. House Republicans had their constitutients callling their phones off of the hook not to close this deal. Read the web news and see. The HOUSE REPUBS WERE ALWAYS AGAINST IT EVEN BEFORE MCCAIN GOT THERE.
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It would be real nice for Nikki to show how all the hollywood big mouths are throwing lies and mud at McCain-Palin instead of simply being a Letterman cheerleader.
Be real real nice if Dave interviewed Obama and question him on his Bill Ayers connection and why Obama hasnt been more forthcoming with his relationship with Ayers. Be real nice for someone in the mainstream liberal media to follow up on it. Or is Dave simply going to throw softballs like B. Walters & company?
Please people dont act as if Hollywood is fair and balanced. I have seen so much garbage coming out of hollywood as if its a bad movie year.
It is real sad that even a majority of America believes that the media, especially the left and northeast coasts, are in the tank for Obama.
shows how much the media think of the consitution.
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BTW
Dave is as much a liar as anyone. Its not like all his jokes are 100% factually true.
If McCain would have gone on a frivolous show like Letterman, people would have (rightly) wondered why. Why would McCain go on Letterman when our economy is about to go in the toilet? At least Katie’s show has some semblance of seriousness attached to it.
Letterman needs to get over himself. He can fawn over Obama next week if it’ll make him feel better.
Another exciting thread of baseless slams against McCain and Palin. I can’t wait for President “Call me if you need me” Obama.
In the few days he’s actually been working as a senator, Obama managed to rake in the second highest amount of donations from Freddie and Fannie, with Hilary right behind him. Coincidentally they opposed any measures to reform those institutions, measures introduced by McCain.
The only thing to save the day is news that Ricky Gervais may host the oscars. If true, I may even watch.
Uh, Michelle – “close to a bipartisan deal” before McCain got there?? The Democrats have been stalling and stalling the whole deal – they would love to see this country on the brink of a depression just to prove a point. Like making us all pay more for gas while they fly around in their jets and drive around in their limos.
What’s truly scary is, there appears to be a chance he could still be elected. A bad guy? Well, he did call his wife a cunt in public, and he did cozy up to charles keating, who lost tens of thousands of old ladies their life savings, and he did leave his disabled wife, who had waited for him while he was a prisoner of war for years in vietnam, having an affair with a beer heiress, with an eye on her money to fuel his career in politics, but I guess suffering the torments of the damned in a vietnam hell hole for 4 years and not leaving when they gave you the chance because everyone else wasn’t being freed, buys you a get out of jail for life pass. kind of like mickey mantle or neil armstrong. you’ll never have to pay for a beer the rest of your life.
I just think he’s past his expiration date, but with a wild hair up his ass to do something “big” before he takes the dirt nap. and that “big” thing, I get the awful feeling, might require the presence of my two teenage sons.
not to mention – I think the republicans have earned a long vacation don’t you think?
come on america – surprise me – elect obama.
I used to like Letterman a LOT! … but, he’s gone off the deep end. His joke about McCain not coming on the show was funny… the first and maybe – the second time.
20 ridiculous tirades later in the same show – and continuing into the next day is ridiculous and boorish.
News flash Dave… you’re a comic talk show host… nothing more. You’re not the nightly news… nor a journalist of any kind.
You tell JOKES! Lately… bad ones at that. McCain had every right… and common sense to go on with Couric – instead of fielding bush league jokes on your show.
He’s campaigning… not selling a book. Letterman needs to grow up… he threw a similar tantrum when Paris Hilton ditched his show.
Leno is looking better these days.
Letterboy sucks!
Letterman always beats a dead horse into a pulp. There’s nothing surprising about that. It’s his signature move.
Wow, some of you sad people are in some serious denial. To use a word McCain himself has run into the ground, he really “cratered” this week. And to believe that the House Republicans — many of whom are going to find themselves out of jobs come November — weren’t obstructionists is the epitome of head-in-the-sand political analysis. Then again, you’re the type of people who chant “Hanoi Hilton,” “War Hero” and “9/11″ as if those will make you feel better than realizing that McCain is the one who has sold you down the river and devalued your net worth.
Dave is spot on and on fire; his last two shows have been some of the most compelling Dave we’ve ever seen – because he’s always best when he’s got moral indignation on his side and a target worth hitting.
The person who says, “Letterboy sucks” in this talkback only proves how unfunny someone who’s angry and has no talent can be. Dave is the real deal.
Seriously Nikki, WHO CARES?! What’s your point? What are you getting at? We should have sympathy for David Letterman? Guy makes $40 million/year. I don’t give a damn if his guests ditch on him. Are we gonna get the same coverage if Obama does something similar? Letterman isn’t funny, and he couldn’t look goofier with those white socks. Just sayin.
For those of you that like to bash David Letterman for airing his feelings on his show, lighten up. You don’t have to watch David Letterman. It is his show and he can do what he wants with it. If he wants to bitch and moan about a politician missing his show for a reason that ended up being a lie, he can do so. The bottom line is that Late Night Television is a good way to reach voters nowdays and politicians have been doing it for years. The bottom line is this:
*John McCain was booked to be a guest on the Late Show Wednesday Night;
*John McCain cancelled two hours before filming because he said that he had to fly back to Washington to fix the economy;
*The Late Show’s booker had to find a last minute replacement for John McCain. They likely called Regis but he said he was busy so they called Keith Olbermann who agreed to go on the show at the last minute;
*At the beginning, Dave praised John McCain for going back to Washington to fix the economy;
*During filming, the control room discovered live over-the-air coverage of John McCain live on the CBS Evening News which is live while the Late Show is taped;
*The control room cuts to live footage of John McCain at the Evening News with Keith Olbermann at his side and Dave discovers that he has been lied to.
The horrible result of all this is that John McCain is in big trouble with voters over this deal. First he lies to a late night comic that he is skipping his show to make an emergency flight to Washington and somehow has stopovers with Katie Couric and his banker friends before flying back to come to a meeting as John Wayne but leaving as Elmer Fudd after he has been bested by Bugs Bunny. On top of all that, Keith Olbermann, who has better things to do such as prepare an all new edition of Countdown, comes on the program and finds out that his host has been lied to, and now the only thing that might get done by the end of the week might be another special comment which is most likely in one if its final drafts.
On a side note, Ricky Gervais would be a horrible choice for Oscar host. He is a british TV actor that has as much of a connection to movies as GM has to selling Soda pop or Pellicano has to following the law.
Gee, a veteran senator/Washington reformer/Navy pilot/pow vs. a man who has written 2 books about himself. That’s a really tough call.
Who cares whether Dave was whiney or not. Here is the Question?
Why did McCain say he had to rush back to Washington? Why couldnt he just say he felt with the economy in the shape its in that he needed to go on one of the national news programs to discuss it. If he had done that – Letterman would have had no way to spin it negatively or get pissed. It would have been the honest truth – but for some reason McCain didnt say that – He said he had to rush back to Washington to save the day. For all the people complaining about Letterman – do you not think if a democaratic candidate had done something similar Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly would be bitching the same way????????
Jessy, take a breath. Giving an interview with CBS’ top journalist about the impending economic issue was far more important than talking with big-headed Davey about anything. McCain chose to give his time to CBS News and then fly to DC to help broker a better deal.
If you and Davey can’t understand the difference than that explains why some turn to Letterman and Leno for the news. Very sad.
Dave was lied to by the man himself in a one on one phone call, that is why he is pissed off and rightly so. McCain could have just said he had more important things to do and it would have been fine. I don’t see why everyone here is making it into a political debate. A man lied and is getting called on it, that is all.
“Savvy” –
Like Joe Kellogg says above, honesty is the issue, not McCain’s fake-news (Letterman vs. CBS News) venue preference.
If you can’t understand the difference, than maybe that explains why you consider Couric a “Top Journalist”
Crystal – I’m sure you know a whiny bitch when you see one out you completely miss the point on this one. When theses candidates do interviews they are completely protected, completely sanitized and the television viewer, every American in sick of it. So having Letterman take the gloves off last night and ask why can’t McCain multi-task, as well as call him out as a liar – that was awesome. A great moment of TV.
Many of you are missing the point. The point is that McCain got caught lying about some super frivolous piddling shit. The fact that he’d lie about some piddling shit like this indicates that he’ll have NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER ABOUT LYING ABOUT SOME SHIT THAT IS NOT PIDDLING.
Doesn’t matter whether he bumped Dave or not. The character point is: McCain lied.
When he didn’t need to. When he was under no pressure. When it was obvious to a blind monkey he’d be found out.
So not only a liar, but a stupid one.
Not the sort of character reference I’m hoping for, from a potential President.
There are an uncomfortably large amount of McCain supporters in this thread. Seriously, people? You’re ok with mr. erratic and mrs. dinosaurs-didn’t-exist hovering around the red button? McCain still calls the asians the G word.
While I appreciate that having a guest drop out at the last minute would irk the hell out of a host (and the show’s booker), Dave going on and on about it like Alec Baldwin goes on and on about his ex-wife isn’t exactly attractive. It just makes him come off like a whiny bitch.
And, Nikki, this is supposed to be a site about what’s going on in Hollywood. How about you quit posting the political shit and concentrate on who’s getting hired and fired huh? That’s a good girl.
Ya know, sweetie, this is Nikki’s blog, so she can pretty much discuss anything she damn well chooses to.
If you have a problem with what is discussed here, how’s about you get your own blog, pay for the bandwidth and set up and old rules you like, hmmm?
I’m just saying.
There is no source for Letterman’s story that McCain said he had to fly right away, other than Letterman himself. As he has demonstrated the last couple of days, he is a far-left liberal in the tank for Obama. That’s fine, he’s not a reporter, but he’s not an objective source either. I don’t believe him on this point at all.
And Jessy, Gervais is a better choice than Justin Timberlake, don’t you think? The Oscars has descended into an awful, sanctimonious bore-fest that almost nobody watches. They could use the laughs.
For those of you saying McCain was right to blow Dave off to go back to work in Washington: You’re absolutely right. Except for the small fact that THAT’S NOT WHAT HE DID. He went first to Katie Couric’s show, then stayed around in NYC the next day to give a speech at the Clinton Global Initiative, and THEN went to DC.
I’m sure he had 10 minutes to spare on Letterman’s couch.
John McCain is a son of a bitch!
Doesn’t he understand how IMPORTANT David Letterman is?
Can we really elect a man who has deceived David Letterman?
This Letterman topic has risen above terrorism and just below the economy on my list of important campaign issues this November!
you gotta love letterman…the best comic of our day!
Screw Letterman, if McCain had come on the show the media would nail him for appearing on a fluff program while the economy teetered on the brink. Sorry real world takes precedence over Letterman. Besides if McCain really wants to use a late night show for campaigning it should be Leno, a much bigger audience.
If Letterman is such a lightweight fluff show, then why did McCain announce his presidential candidacy on Letterman?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/01/AR2007030100270.html
McCain is such a wimp. He’s stupid and senile, he doesn’t know he’s talking about. It’s scary that he might be our president. Barf.
Go, Letterman! I wish more talk show hosts would be more angry like that. I rarely watch late night talk shows cos they suck!
It’s not the fact that he ditched Letterman, it’s the fact that he lied. That’s the real fact. If he had just told him the truth, it would have been different. It could have possibly still be a object of jokes, but not so much of a snub. And Letterman is on the same network. The truth of the matter is, he didn’t rush off to WARshington (as he says it). He went to see Katie Couric, (who is now so mean for interviewing Palin, but okay, when he goes in to fix it), and to the Clinton event…. That’s not “rushing” back to WARshington! Tell him the truth, that with these economic times, it wouldn’t seem good to be on a late night show like this (as Obama did with SNL), don’t lie! That’s the part, to my understanding that got in Letterman’s craw! And to be honest, when he got there for the photo op finally the afternoon of the next day, nothing got solved…as a matter of fact, it got worse. He’s one gimmick after another plain and simple..and he got caught in one of his lies….
The ONLY reason McCain scurried over to Katie Couric was a failed attempt at damage control over Palin’s devastating interview.
Case in point: NOBODY is talking about what McCain actually SAID to Couric. Everyone is focused on Palin’s garbled words and his dissing of Letterman.
Last night on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno,Leno crack some jokes about Letterman and McCain ditching him like he did. Leno had a field day with David. Cuz it was so funny. Next Letterman gets the grill from Bill O’Reilly.
Awwwwwwwwwwww. Is little Davey mad that the Big Bad Republican man wouldn’t come on his whittle tv showey? Come here, Little Davey, let mommy kiss that boo boo and make it better. See? all done!
P.S. Nikki Finke is the reason Americans not living on the two coasts don’t give a shit what Hollywood says. Your ability to lie out of your ass is amazing if you weren’t all such fucking cowards when it comes to protecting your country. Go hide under your bed and pray that Obama wins, Nikki. I’m sure terrorism will magically go away and the economy will magically be revitalized once Your Lord and Savior, The Obama, gets into office.
This isn’t about Letterman vs. Couric, or fluff vs. news. It’s about intregrity. It’s the character issue. John McCain blew it. He got his hand caught in the cookie jar. Now he must do what every right-thinking, patriotic American celebrity would do under similar circumstances: blame the press and enter rehab.
The ONLY question is… why did McCain lie to Dave when he didn’t even have to. He could have just told the truth — that it was more important to go on a news show that night than on a comedy show.
But he didn’t say that. He lied. For no reason.
That’s a hero?
The oldest GOP trick is that when you’re caught in a lie, attack the messenger and diffuse the situation. Unfortunately for McPain, the messenger is David Letterman and he won’t let it go. McCain is a big fat liar and he got caught. It’s not the first time and it’s not going to be the last time. Attack Letterman all you want but it’s not going to change the fact that McCain is a senile old man that not fit to lead a boy scout troup much less a country in crisis.
“Gee, a veteran senator/Washington reformer/Navy pilot/pow vs. a man who has written 2 books about himself. That’s a really tough call.”
No the tough call is finding out what this guy has actually “reformed”. He voted with Bush 95% of the time.
one of these guys is part of the problem, and one, just could be part of the solution. Just the possibility of change gets my vote.
oh and then there’s the VP choice. I’m sorry but she’s dumber than a box of rocks.
Well, er, with all the respect due to Mr McCain if he has some time he can always come to France to fix our economy too…
What part of “honoring your commitments” don’t you understand, wingnut moron?
And I bet that if Obama had done the same thing, you’d be making a big deal over it, too.
And oh yes wingnut–what’s your opinion of African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, Native Americans, Jews, non-submissive women, gays and lesbians–as if we didn’t already know?
I agree with Joe Kellogg above. My issue isn’t that McCain backed out of Letterman. My issue is that he unnecessarily lied about something so very minor. He could have given a much different yet more truthful reason. If he blithely lies about something this minor and inconsequential now, I’m disturbed about the kind of lies he’ll tell in the future.
@Jessy S.
It’s Letterman’s show but only as long as people keep watching it.
Crystal Diane Stevens
You can’t be a real person. I just really don’t think that a person can be that bitter or demanding of a site that she has no control over and Hollywood in general. Please for the sake of DHD readers. If you’re not happy with this site or if you hate everyone in Hollywood please do something else with your time. Your comments are not helpful to anyone.
My big question is, “Who Cares?”
Who out there is actually be thinking, “Man, I just don’t know who to pick. The stances each candidate takes on the big issues can’t get me to decide. I guess my tiebreaker will have to be the person who did or did not stand up David Letterman.”
Holy fuck balls, Crystal Diane Stevens?? It’s her site, she can do whatever she wants, and you in turn can go somewhere else….”that’s a good girl”? Are you fucking kidding me?!
Wow. Those of you on here criticizing Letterman and supporting McCain have completely missed the point.
McCain lied. He didn’t have to lie, he chose to lie.
Instead of saying, “I think it’s important to appear before the American people on a news show during this time of crisis”…
He lied.
Simple as that.
I’m listening to Rush Limbaugh right now (I do that in the mornings out of a morbid desire to piss myself off). The above thread is basically a transcript of the show I’m listening to right now. I never expected Nikki’s site to have so many republican blowhards on it, still throwing the only sad stones they have left (Ayers, anyone?).
It isn’t the fact that McCain skipped Letterman that makes me (or Dave) mad. It’s that he said he was “rushing back” to Washington to save the day, but then stayed in New York for another 24 hours anyway. And deciding to “rush back” more than a week after the crisis began? And without even READING the 3-page proposed plan???
I doubt if the voters are in troublke. Todays voters are more informed than some of you think. Most voters I doubt watch David Letterman to hear his silly views.
You know most voters have much more knowledge of economics than liberal lawyer politicians do in Washington? I expect Jay Leno to have more fun with Letterman tonight.
“I felt like a patriot. I felt like I was helping out. I felt like I was doing my part. Part of the cause. Fighting the fight. Not part of the problem, I was part of the solution. I was going to help in my own little way get this economy out of the crater. And now I’m just feeling like an ugly date. That’s what I feel like. I feel like an ugly date. I feel used. I feel cheap. I feel sullied. I feel cratered…”
I FEEL is the problem. Need more thinking. Less first thoughts. That’s sort of rash in a 11th grade sort of way. America has become a nation of feelers, I feel, who cares what Dave FEELS? No critical analysis, as to what one’s responsibly are. He’s a chat show host. Nice, good for laughs. But not part of the big picture What’s funny about this (the only thing) is that Dave used to be a pretty analytical comic who could step back, and have a quick thought (not feeling) about something. One must assume having all that loot makes him able to do just about whatever he feels, and yet he seems unhappy. I’ve noticed him become progressively angrier these past couple years. At what? Needs some quiet meditative time, some perspective. Get well Dave.
And Nikki a politician is caught lying? Really? During an election? Almost as non-news as that story about CNBC not giving us the truth on NBC, you actually expect otherwise. Or a story about cronyism in Hollywood? Cronyism is what Hollywood is built on! There is an odd naiveté in all these recent stories in your part, it’s rather quite charming. Have a great weekend!
LOVE how the trolls came out of the woodwork for this one. For crying out loud, how many of these people actually read DHD on a regular basis — or had ever read it before for that matter?
They must have some sort of Troll Warning Alarm Travel System (TWATS) that immediately rushes them to ANY website that is bashing their beloved leader. If some kid said “Ur candidate suxx0rs – that’s wut the Jonas Bros sez!” on a Disney Camp Rock board they’d find it and start posting their same old tired malarkey.
People have weird priorities–some commenters somewhere above are complaining because there is a discussion about a potential president of United States being a ego-puffed compulsive liar, instead of superficial gossip about hollywood starlets.
I don’t care about Dave or his show and I agree that he’s coming off whiney. And I don’t mind if McCain is a big fat liar, all politicians are. But this is one of the dumbest lies ever! McCain has to be a moron to think this wasn’t going to blow up in his face. He was bound to get caught. And worst of all he lied to a man who has a national audience every week night. Letterman can and probably will keep talking about this every night between now and the election. And millions of Americans will hear Dave talk about how McCain is a liar over and over again every night. Dumb move McCain! Get a clue. Lie to the little people, not the guy on TV with millions of viewers every night.
For all the McCain apologists repeating over and over again how much more “important” it was for McCain to do a “serious” news program like Couric’s instead of a late night variety show:
You people seriously lack reading comprehension skills. No one is debating his choice to do a different show. The issue is that he LIED about it, completely unnecessarily. As someone else pointed out, why didn’t he just tell Letterman the truth?? He’s a coward and a liar, and now there’s hard evidence. If he would lie about something as mundane as choosing a different late night appearance, what WOULDN’T he lie about?
I love how hypocritical you all are. You think if Obama had done this, y’all WOULDN’T be having a field day with it?! Give me a break. Same thing with Palin’s pregnant daughter. If Obama had a pregnant teenage daughter, the right-wing bible thumpers would tear him to shreds.
Wake up and smell the hypocrisy. It’s disgusting.
Jeez, Dave. Take some Premarin and get back to being funny. Some of us who don’t make boatloads of cash are actually concerned about what is going on. Frankly, regardless of who is President, I want him focusing on issues and not reading Top Ten Lists and jawing with Paul. Yeah, McCain’s people should have said something, but lying to David Letterman’s booker is not a national crisis. The economic turmoil aided on by the Democrats in Congress is.
You all act like this is a big deal – stuff happens and people back out of talk show gigs and – at least on this (East) coast most of these shows have tough & talented bookers with huge files of backup guests – lotta shows shooting in town, lotta movies, lotta stage going on. Fact is this happens more than you know and the show goes on. But Dave wanted the non-event to vent, so he did. And whos his booker that the only filler they can come up with is Keith Olbermann?
Well, when Bush lied, people died.
When McCain lied, Letterman is ‘killing’ him!!!
I think that I prefer the latter. No sense in having another liar-in-chief put innocent people at risk!
Clearly Drudge or someone posted a link to this story, thus all the right-wing brainwashed nutjobs in here defending McCain.
Truth is, McCain is a lying sack of cynical, craven horse shit. This lizard in human skin and his hockey-mom cow of a running mate are so last year’s news in another month.
I can’t wait until Obama is sworn in – then the Dems will own the Congress and the White House and we can finally go about cleaning up the stinking, crumbling mess the Repugnicans have left us (and our kids, and our grandkids, and our great-grandkids).
Hey middle of the country? Go back to smoking meth and fornicating with farm animals. Those of us on the coasts could really give a flying fuck.
Q. Why was McGone Missing?
A.
On the way over to Dave’s show he listened to Sarah Palin talking about the End Times and the Rapture and by the time she got to the Book of Revelations and Armaggedon, he was so spooked he thought she said Ahmageddenoutofhere. Unfortunately this caused a Vietnam flashback. He heard “Incoming,” panicked (er, strategically withdrew), jumped out of the minivan, and ran for the hills lugging his trusty M16 and water bottle.
Fate took him into the CBS building as Sarah was just outside when it happened. He took several wrong right turns and he ended up by chance in Katie Couric’s newsroom. She calmed him down, snagged an interview, but it was all part of the PTSD attack and he didn’t know what he was doing.
When Dave saw the video feed, she was just finishing the calming him down bit and Dave jumped to the wrong conclusions. Like any furious TV host might.
But it was an honest mistake that anyone who hadn’t seen McGone Missing crouching on the floor screaming “Incoming” might have made.
(Why would a bomber pilot’s PTSD include “Incoming” and and M16 and running for the hills? I’m only saying. Editor).
But, remember, McCain didn’t know what he was doing.
Just like he won’t know what he is doing on January 21st if we let him. Save McGone. Save US. Vote for a pet rock over McGone Missing.
What McCain did was pure damage control. Surrogate Palin choked HARD in Couric’s interview. (The videos of it are absolutely laughable!) McCain knew he’d get burned for ditching on Letterman if he didn’t have a good reason, so he used what might have been a reasonable excuse. He had to fry the bigger fish and take whatever Letterman was going to dish out. What he didn’t know is that his live Couric feed would be shown while Dave was talking about it (and with Olbermann, which makes it all the more rich). Which is precisely why Dave has such a big bowl of “fuck you” to dish out. McCain is being humiliated, and he deserves it. Classic TV funny!
But even though it was shitty for McCain to lie about what he was doing (and at the last minute, making it even worse), McCain does NOTHING without committee decision – a committee that he isn’t even a member of. He does and says what his people tell him to do and say. In this case, it was “try to go on Couric and put out the brush fire that Miss Alaska started”. As if. He’s just another Republican puppet getting his strings pulled by the real powerful people. (Ask George W. about that, but wait until Cheney’s out of earshot.) Of course when McCain does actually say what’s in his own head, he talks to Letterman personally on the phone and…
…well, you know. He could have said ten other things – even the truth – but he chose to use a national “crisis” to cover his own ass. Poor choice.
McCain lovers (and I feel sorry for you lately), you can downplay this all you want but it’s a prime example of what kind of man John McCain is. You just don’t like – or see – the truth. This is all more than just funny, it’s illuminating.
Chirst, I can’t believe the stupidity of some of you people. No wonder we’ve had 8 years of Bush.
The issue here is not that John McCain cancelled his appearance on Letterman’s show. It’s that HE LIED ABOUT HIS REASON FOR NOT SHOWING UP! According to Letterman, he received a personal phone call from McCain in which the senator claimed he was immediately getting on a plane to Washington to deal with the financial crisis before the “economy cratered.” Dave was totally cool with that. Though he mentioned to his audience that he thought the decision to “suspend” his campaign was unnecessary and a bit odd, he made it clear that he thought McCain was a decent, heroic guy who was putting the interests of the country first. Dave was more than willing to accommodate McCain given the unusual circumstances.
It was only once Dave had hard evidence that McCain was a bald-faced liar (ie. the Couric newsfeed & the fact that the senator didn’t leave for Washington until the next day) that he finally opened a six-pack of whoop-ass on this pathetic excuse for a presidential candidate.
McCAIN LIED & LETTERMAN CAUGHT HIM RED-HANDED!
I hope Dave continues to kick this sleazy, incompetent jackass in the balls from now ’til election day.
Hey, on stories to follow up on, why not how John McCain started dating Cindy before he was divorced from his first wife. What about Cindy’s drug addiction, stealing drugs from a charity and blaming it on a low level employee? These are popular Hollywood storylines.
The story here is not that he did not appear, its that he personally called and lied to Letterman. He could have easily had a staffer call and say he had some more
critical work to do. Why did he not choose the honest, easy way?
The candidates need Letterman, Leno, and The View etc. more than those shows need any individual candidate. SNL is the only show that is dependent on the candidates.
(I’d love to see Governor Palin on Jerry Springer.
“Governor Palin, cotton or silk?”)
hey you kooks!
how’s this for inspiration?
if McCain / Palin don’t get elected why don’t we put them in a boffo
production of … UBU ROI !!!???!!!
you know, the classic absurdist play about a boorish, slob of a king
and his conniving wife!
now, it’s true that W. would be a better choice for Ubu,
but i fear he will soon lack theatrical currency.
and if they DO get elected, let’s still do UBU ROI, but…
we do it at the WHITE HOUSE!!!!!
we could do four shows a day of a truncated version of the play,
just like they do in Vegas.
some will say, won’t that interfere with McCain and Palin’s
presidential / vice presidential duties?
not at all!
if they get elected the nation will be run by the
rat bastard, corporate, conglomerate clown -swine
that are backing them now!
their days will be free!
now, McCain will do the show at the drop of a hat.
he’ll do anything as long as he gets to have the Oval Office.
Palin might be all coy about it and say she that she’s not really an actress and she doesn’t know how to do that.
then we”l remind her that she’s not really a leader and she has no idea how to do that either, but it didn’t stop her from running for the
second highest office in the land!
if she is resistant after all that, we’ll tell her with the money
she’ll be making , she’ll be able to buy one of everything
in the Cabela’s catalogue! that ought to do it!
just remember:
You can count on the Republicans.
They will always fuck things up.
Marc: “You all act like this is a big deal”
What, that a Presidential candidate will barefacedly lie?
And then do something so public (the Couric interview) that demonstrates he was lying?
That’s not maverick. That’s terrible judgment. That’s untrustworthy. That’s dumb.
All this speaks to the character of the man.
So for a guy who wants to be President, yes, I think that is a big deal.
All this does is set up a big show sometime before the election where McCain does show up. It’ll get millions of viewers. This is very good news for McCain. He’s great on those kind of talk shows. And I think Letterman is overreacting.
I thought Dave Letterman was rather petty and vicious.
If Obama cancelled I doubt he would have reacted like this..
His show is suppose to be entertainment but Letterman is using it to hit at politicans he thinks beneath him.
His remarks about Sarah Palan saying she looks like she works in a bakery just shows what a total snob he is.
His age jokes against McCain seem odd since Letterman looks about 20 years older than he is…..Unlike Letterman Jay Leno is funnier and also nicer.
Letterman is no longer funny, he doesn’t need the money he is just feeding his large ego.
“but lying to David Letterman’s booker is not a national crisis” said Tina. You’re right, it isn’t but when he lies about something so small and unnecessary it begs the question of his intelligence and decision making. And for the people who say, “big deal, politicians lie”. Your right, but at what point did we all just give up caring about holding our politicians to a higher standard?
I’m feeling your pain David. Let it all out. Continue to vent. It’s so much more healthy not to keep thsee negative feelings all bottled up.
Now, one more time, from the beginning, tell me what that old fart did to you.
so I guess Dave didnt like his date with Ober-bite?
hahahah
quote from Obam-ite wing-nut:
“Wow. Those of you on here criticizing Letterman and supporting McCain have completely missed the point.
McCain lied. He didn’t have to lie, he chose to lie.
Instead of saying, “I think it’s important to appear before the American people on a news show during this time of crisis”…
“He lied.”
“Simple as that.”
how do you know he lied??? Maybe he felt, like his press secretary said, that he didnt feel like going on a comedy show at a time of national crisis.
ya know mate??
isnt that the tact of the lounge lizard Obama, when he is caught “lying?”
Obama: “Heh, Ayers, domestic terrorist? so what man…I was like 4.”
“what does that have to do with moi…?”
“pass the…”
cheers folks.
…oh and Daaaave??!! get a better date than Hilton or Ubermann. Both have like a combined IQ of a piece of celery. Your lack of objectivity is showing.
ps what I find that is so hilarious is that this sanctimonious tv comedic liberal, who has made a career over dissing and being cynical of others…doesnt like it when he is the turkey being carved.
oh fking well.
“want fries to go with that shake” Dave?
News flash!
McCain doesn’t want the bail out to happen. Why not? Because 70% of the American population doesn’t want it to happen. Why? Because nobody bails them out when they run into a mess so why should these Wall Street scumsuckers get bailed out when they knew what they were doing all along?
McCain just tricked dumb ass Obama into believing the bail out was a good thing because he knows Obama doesn’t do any research. He’s one of those read-just-the-headlines-and-not-the-actual-article types. Now Obama is babbling away about how important the bail out is, too ignorant to know that if the Democrats push the bail out to happen, 70% of the American population will vote Republican purely out of disgust for the bail out.
Well played, McCain. Well played.
Meanwhile, David Letterman is continuing to act like a little girl who got stood up at the prom. Boo fucking hoo. Go marry your baby’s mama.
I also don’t understand why this is a big deal to people. It does happen all the time with the late night shows.
Mr. David “Narcissistic” Letterman needs to get over it his show is not that important!
Has anyone sat in the audience of his show? Jesus it’s like a god damn refrigerator in there which matches his personality. No communication with his audience what so ever until the show starts.
If anyone who has a warm heart and endearing personality it has always been Jay Leno who walks out and warms up his audience before show time. He’s a great guy. And yes I have been to both shows!!!!
I think the histrionics about Republicans and the word “lie” is bizarre and unsubstantiated, especially after you read the blogs in the LA Times, the Washington Post and even one of the breakdowns in the NY Times today.
Things, the schedule, the negotiations, even the players, were in such flux that DC was panicking and no one knew who was doing what. Schedules changed every 10 minutes.
The statements about “there being a deal in place” before McCain showed up *is a verifiable lie.*
The thing is, you nutballs throw the word around so much you don’t even know what the word “lie” even means. As you use it, the definition is “something I don’t agree with”.
Politics are opinion (not even informed opinion, as you people prove with every post), they are not facts. You cannot, or will not, tell the difference.
And when it comes down to it, McCain went on the news to inform on the real issue, participated in two two-hour conference calls, shuttling between them. These are all facts that are even in the McCain-hostile NY Times. The financial center is in the mess, and so is the government.
Any of these take precedence over some late night asshole whining he doesn’t have a guest.
And what did Obama say? This is a big, confusing mess, and if you need me you can call. Nice way to tend to his sworn duty. Also, it takes his crew a few days to write a good speech, so god help him of he speaks without 12 hours of rehearsals.
I still say the premise of this story is faulty. Letterman has a huge incentive to say McCain lied to him, and there’s no other source for the story. Maybe McCain said he didn’t have time to do the show, which he didn’t if he was already doing Katie (so to speak). Maybe Letterman is the one lying.
If this is your make or break moment to decide your vote, god help us. None of you were going to vote for him anyway, were you?
This brings up a good point: if there is any racism in the electorate keeping Obama from winning, it won’t be coming from the republican side. They’re voting for the republican candidate regardless of who the democrat is. If democrats don’t vote for Obama because he’s black, then who are the racists? Oh right, still the republicans. Sorry.
Hey — am I the only one who noticed that, when it came to the current financial mess, Obama, as he has almost always done, voted…
“Present”.
Oh, and one more thing, I don’t really give a damn about this topic one way or the other – but I’ll just bet that a lot of the people on here screaming, “He LIED — he LIED” are the same ones who said that Clinton lying (under oath) didn’t matter because what he lied ABOUT wasn’t an important thing.
Come on — you know you did…
WGA Writer –
OK, true, Clinton did lie, but in all fairness the Government had barged into his bedroom, uh, oval off…bedroom. Whatever, he never should have been called in front of the country under oath to answer questions about his personal life. McCain just plain old fashioned lied under the pressure of what…disappointing Letterman? Slightly different scenarios, wouldn’t you say? And what’s more, was McCain not aware that those things on wheels pointing his direction during his interview with Couric were cameras? Did he not think he MIGHT get busted? No, this man is too senior-moment prone to be President. Trust me, were cameras present during ol’ Bill’s “indiscretion,” he’d have been smarter about it. That’s right, Bill’s no idiot. He’d have sold the DVD and been an even richer man, despite the lousy residual deal. In any event, no comparison. [/partial rationalization]
Unbelievable… I meant that as a joke and someone actually comes on and tries to make the case again about Clinton not ‘really’ lying. On a board where people are going apeshit about someone not giving the real reason they’re canceling a meeting. No one here in Hollywood ever fibbed a little then?
Sounds to me like McCain was trying to be a good guy – first of all, calling HIMSELF rather than having an aide do it, and then not wanting to say “I’m not doing your cheesy show while the economy is imploding”
And, while we’re here, I just want to make sure I have some of these things straight:
20 years with Reverend Wright as your ’spiritual advisor’ (claiming America invented AIDS to kill black people, believing we deserved 9/11 and God Damn America), having a decade long relationship with and having your first State Senate run kick off in the home of an unrepentant terrorist who bombed the Pentagon and feels he didn’t do enough, and one of your largest fund-raisers and political operatives being a slum-lord from Chicago who is about to go to prison are not troubling indicators of a man’s character but lying to David Letterman is?
The only mistake McCain made was ever agreeing to go on Letterman in the first place. Dave’s a “douche”. Leno kicks his a** in the ratings. Maybe NBC knew what they were doing, huh? It looks like McCain can multi-task after all. He thumped Senator “I agree with John” Obama last night in the debate he hadn’t even planned on attending. Classic McCain.
Liars lying about someone who “might” have lied? How awful! Maybe, McCain didn’t want to hurt poor little Davy’s feelings. Maybe, he didn’t want to appear on a frivolous show while the country’s going in the crapper!
Just imagine the “spin” the liars would have spun had he actually gone on the show. Pitching puns about the economy? Wow! How funny would that have been?! McCain just sidestepped a pile of poop in the road.
Sorry, I just never know when this site will take a submission from this PC. About the topic, Letterman is clearly a Democrat, and his remarks are showbiz news. If Dennis Miller had a late-night show on a major network, his comments would also be nerwsworthy. Letterman like Maher and other previously ” neutral ” comics came out of the closet during the Clinton impeachment hearings, so who’s surprised they use their forums to air political humor?
First of all, everybody lies including those ranting and raving on this thread.
Obama has been lying to the public for his entire inept presidential run but I don’t hear you weeping and wailing over all those lies do I?
Or about Clinton lying about sticking cigars into his interns or Edwards lying about knocking up that woman and giving her millions to shut her up.
Hmm…
Hypocrital much?
Second of all, you have no fucking idea what McCain did or did not say to Letterman during that phone call or even if there WAS a phone call. Unless you were sitting at Letterman’s feet at the time and he had it on speaker. Letterman is an extremist liberal so what the hell do you think he’s going to say? Likewise, I wouldn’t take every word as gospel from an extremist conservative about what someone allegedly did or didn’t say in private.
Meanwhile Obama was slaughtered in the debate. LOL!
Who is “Francine Fishpaw” and what meds are you taking? because those hallucinogenics are definitely doing the trick!
Helen, sweetheart, get back to me in November when your boy and his snarling wife drag their asses back to Chicago like the losers they are. 70% of people said McCain won the debate and it was obvious that he did to anyone who watched it. Obama was on the defensive which is not what you want to be during a debate. McCain said facts and went into the subjects at hand. Meanwhile, your boy Obama (who really did come off like a little boy with all that “I need to pee” style raising of his hand every two minutes) merely uttered vague slogans and simply couldn’t go into any subject because he doesn’t know jack shit about anything. Gee, it’s amazing how inept he is when he’s not reading from the teleprompter and actually has to, you know, think for himself huh? You know what we call people who say their lines well but are dumb as rocks without someone writing their lines? That’s right. Actors. Obama may be a good actor but he’s sure as shit a pathetic excuse for a politician.
If John McCain is lying to David Letterman now, John McCain will be lying to YOU in January. Just like George Bush….. Just like Dick Cheney. … Just like Karl Rove…. Just like Alberto Gonzales…. Just like Scooter Libbey. Just like the lobbyists who have taken over Washington AND John McCain’s campaign. So, if John McCain wants to “reform” and “change” Washington, he should get off the “Lobbyists and Liars” Express and learn how to tell the truth again. In any event, I couldn’t vote for a candidate who has exhibited such consistently poor judgment, whether cheating on and leaving his first wife and kids, his involvement in the Keating Five S&L scandal,voting for the Iraq war, or choosing Sarah Palin to be his running mate. At the most crucial junctures of his life, John McCain has gotten it all wrong.
Ummm, Lindenwald, wipe your chin… you have a lot of Kool-Aid running down it.
If you are afraid of lobbyists, then look to Obama and how much he took from Fannie and Freddie. Look at his advisors. He keeps having to dismiss them every time someone points out some scandal or lawsuit they were part of.
As for the Keating Five, why don’t you consult ANYTHING written by Robert Bennett, registered Democrat and the investigator/prosecutor in the Keating scandals (And later Bill’s personal White House/tort attorney), who said that after years of investigations, McCain was clean and Bennett even lobbied to have even the insinuations of impropriety stricken. He even made a public apology for putting McCain through it, saying that not only was there not a shred of evidence, McCain handled himself wit dignity and honeor throughout the situation and never so much as flinched at any juncture of the entire multi-year investogation. In short, that means McCain was clean in the matter… but never let any verifiable facts get in the way of your post, right?
Even your whole low-brow attack on McCain’s first wife… jeez. Nothing you said stands up to historical scrutiny. Dude, they got separated BEFORE he saw anyone, and aren’t people in your ilk always saying that stuff like that is a provate matter? Or does that only apply if McCain shoved a cigar up an intern?
You start with politics and then back into things, and act like that is reason or empiricism. Actually, it’s weak-mindedness. Or Development-Executiveness. Either way…
You do a really good job of repeating someone else’s lies. What’s your problem? You are either an Obama-Aid drinker or too dumb to come up with your own lies.
Hmmmm! Did Li’L David’s whining tirades about McCain not showing up for his “slanted” show actually have an effect on the outcome of the debate? Don’t think so…
Just look at the Drudge Poll Debate Winner Results:
McCAIN 68% 287,862
OBAMA 30% 127,627
NEITHER 3% 10,919
TOTAL: 426,408
Sorry CBS!
The problem with Letterman et al is that they think they run the country.
WRONG!
It’s the people between the coasts who don’t give a flying fuck if rich boy Letterman got his feelings hurt or if Streisand broke a nail on the way to her jet.
As the above poster shows 68% of America is voting McCain.
As is evidenced if you actually talk to real people.
Not that the liberal press (that’s so desperate to get Obama into the White House) are willing to hang their heads in defeat. Just the usual liberal propaganda as we’re used to.
I laugh at all the comments from Liberals that think Letterman moronic skits will amount to or be the cause of McCain losing votes or the election itself. GET A LIFE, libtards. NO ONE GIVES A CRAP OF WHAT David LETTERMAN OR ANY HOLLYWOOD FILMMAKER THINKS.
I laugh at all the comments from Liberals that think Letterman moronic skits will amount to or be the cause of McCain losing votes or the election itself. GET A LIFE, libtards. NO ONE GIVES A CRAP OF WHAT David LETTERMAN OR ANY HOLLYWOOD FILMMAKER THINKS.
Comment by jdls08 — September 28, 2008 @ 9:56 pm
So… what are YOU doing here?
Francine, you’re a racist & a liar, just like your friend McCain. If you want to call a black man a boy, like McCain thinks he has the right to call Asians “gooks” just because he was a POW 30 YEARS AGO, meet me @ Greenblatt’s Fri 2pm & I’ll show you exactly the consequences of your statement.
Come armed.
PS: According to the AP poll, 51% said Obama won the debate. MSN’s poll, 53%.
Some you liberals make me laugh. Are some of you afraid that some of us know the real truth and the real problem in the entertaiment industry there is a double standard? And some us members in the public have figuted that out?
Frankly David L. made real big fool of himself. Now he has the CBS news division execs angery at him.
That’s why they call it, “The Boobtube!”
Letterman, who has been funny or entertaining, except to himself since the 1980s should just be glad that a network is stupid enough to pay him big bugs for hosting a dying genere. The late night talk show died when Johnny Carson left the set. Does the ratings company ask how many people who are supposedly watching the show are actually asleep while it is on?
You know, I’ve heard in some religions that lying to non-believers (infidels) is okay since they’re not part of the “chosen ones”…
I just didn’t know that Republicans felt that way too…
Well, Helen… just because you can’t understand no-monosyllabic words doesn’t mean it’s a lie. It means you have to get a little more education.
Ah, I see. McCain telling Letterman he was hopping a plane to deal with the crisis was a “no”, not a “lie”…
Ah, so clear now. thank you. lying equates to “no”…
wow… ethics in action…