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September 25, 2008 at 6:04 pm #588183
DianeParticipantJohn McCain, you don’t mess with David Letterman.
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The Republican presidential hopeful was supposed to appear on The Late Show Wednesday, but Letterman opened the show by telling his audience that the Arizona senator was suspending his campaign and “racing to the airport” to fly back to Washington and help with the economic crisis. Rolling with the punches, Letterman brought on MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann at the last minute to fill in. But that’s when things got sticky.
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During a commercial break between Olbermann’s segments, the control room noticed video of McCain being miked up for an interview with Katie Couric for the CBS Evening News, and of course, Letterman ran with it. “He doesn’t seem to be racing to the airport, does he?” Letterman asked as the live feed continued, later joking, “the road to the White House runs right through me.”
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Olbermann got in on the fun, too. “I think he dissed you,” he said. “Or the other possibility is that [Couric] has all the money that’s required to fix the economy. If that’s the case, then I’m voting for him.”
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Earlier in the show, Letterman had praised McCain’s heroism during the Vietnam War, saying “I have nothing but the highest regard for this man…we’re in short supply of actual heroes like John McCain.” We wonder how he feels about him how.
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Watch the video below to see the whole crazy thing unfold. Letterman’s praise comes at the 1:24 mark, and the live-feed hijinks begin right around 7:00. (You can see even more of Dave’s rant in our Online Video Guide.) What do you think of how Letterman handled the situation? – Adam Bryant
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September 25, 2008 at 6:06 pm #641151
DianeParticipantsorry, forgot to put quotes around all the text above
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can we get a preview before post button here also?
September 25, 2008 at 6:15 pm #641152
ZenguyParticipantThis was hysterical to watch last night…you can tell how pissed Letterman truly is.
September 25, 2008 at 6:20 pm #641153
addParticipantDiane, you can go back and edit your post by clicking “edit” next to the time posted under your entry. I was thinking there was a preview/post function but I think that’s only for comments on the main page.
September 25, 2008 at 6:25 pm #641154
DianeParticipantI get those options on main page stories for comments, but all I see for posting here on forum is “send post”, no preview button; are you seeing something I am not?
September 25, 2008 at 6:30 pm #641155
DianeParticipantwow, that was weird; thought I was having a brain lapse, after posting then looking back at your post add, and it was changed; funny; so now I get it; thanks for the tip on “edit”; never noticed
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I like the preview/post much better; is that possible on the forum?
September 25, 2008 at 6:34 pm #641156
DianeParticipantok, so I’m really slow to catch on to the concept here; so we can go back to our comments at any time to edit?
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I’m feeling about as stupid as Bush right now
September 25, 2008 at 6:40 pm #641157
villagegreenMemberThe entire first half of the show last night was genius. After praising McCain as a true American hero, he proceeded to rip him a new one (taking numerous jabs at Palin along the way).
The live feed of McCain being worked on by a makeup artist while waiting to go live with Katie Couric was hysterical. As Dave said, kinda like catching him in the middle of a manicure.
What a complete joke of a campaign.
September 25, 2008 at 6:53 pm #641158
DianeParticipantit was very funny; I don’t usually watch Letterman, but after hearing about this earlier in the day on Keith Olbermann, made a point to catch it
September 25, 2008 at 7:28 pm #641159
AlkiKmacParticipantAnd all this on the same day I heard both Obama and McCain answer a question about if it was every okay to lie to the American public. Rather than lie, McCain should have told Letterman he decided to go with the better set of legs.
September 25, 2008 at 7:33 pm #641160
GenHillOneParticipantDana Perino, who has the same snark as SP, said today in press conference that he didn’t feel it was a time to joke around because of the financial woes. OK. Then why not just say that? It’s not like it hasn’t come up in the face/wake of the hurricane. He blew it and it was a classic Letterman moment. I stayed up especially for it too – brilliant!
September 25, 2008 at 7:54 pm #641161
mellaw6565MemberIt’s on Headline News today!
September 25, 2008 at 7:59 pm #641162
addParticipantDiane – sorry for the brain warp – I wanted to see if I would get the preview button, but when I didn’t I had to change my post via the edit function! I think you have editing access for one hour after the post. I see my previous posts are no longer edit-able.
Oh, and the whole Letterman thing? Of course it’s funny but in reality, it’s just shocking and distressing how ridiculous McCain’s whole campaign has become.
September 25, 2008 at 11:12 pm #641163
ellenaterMemberI RELY on Letterman and Stewart to get me though these stupid times. Thanks for the heads up. It was awesome…
September 26, 2008 at 12:28 am #641164
SueParticipantThe best part of all of this is that Letterman never lets something go – I bet this will be brought up for weeks and weeks. :)
September 26, 2008 at 4:44 am #641165
charlabobParticipantA couple of indie papers compared Letterman, in this case, to Cronkite 40 years ago, when he said, “It’s time to end the Viet Nam War” and Johnson dropped out of the ’68 race. Letterman isn’t Cronkite — except in span of influence:
http://washingtonindependent.com/7466/letterman-do-his-cronkite
September 26, 2008 at 6:50 am #641166
TrickParticipantLeterman tonight:
” I feel ugly, cheap….and sully”
Letterman said that McCain didn’t leave until the next morning…….
September 26, 2008 at 6:53 am #641167
DianeParticipantyes, love it, Letterman going on for 15 mins about what happened last night; very funny
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