Letterman Brutalizes John McCain For Cancellations *UPDATED With Video
By Logan Murphy Tuesday Sep 23, 2008 5:39pm
Politico: (h/t Scarce for video)
Per Drudge, some brutal late night shots at McCain, who cancelled on Letterman tonight:
David Letterman tells audience that McCain called him today to tell him he had to rush back to DC to deal with the economy.
Then in the middle of the taping Dave got word that McCain was, in fact just down the street being interviewed by Katie Couric. Dave even cut over to the live video of the interview, and said, "Hey Senator, can I give you a ride home?"
"He can't run the campaign because the economy is cratering? Fine, put
in your second string quarterback, Sara Palin. Where is she?""What are you going to do if you're elected and things get tough? Suspend being president? We've got a guy like that now!" Read on...
In what can only be described as the most desperate political move in modern presidential campaign history, John McCain is proving that he is wholly unfit to lead our country. I hope David Letterman is not the only one with a national stage to speak the truth about this. McCain is scared out of his mind and this hoax only solidifies the point. The McCain/Palin ticket is plummeting in the polls, the Davis/Freddie Mac scandal is reaching a fever pitch, they're trying to keep Palin locked in a bubble and more and more Republicans are becoming furious with the way this sham of a campaign is being run. Barack Obama needs to stand firm and not give in!
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GREAT JOB DAVE !!!! Kick his ass !!! This is how leaders act, huh? Wait Mommy!! Mommy! Mommy please, TIME OUT Mommy!
Truth Bombs.
We need more of them.
Great moment in Presidential Time Out's...
Mr. McCain, Eat Mor Chiken.
I’ll have the pulled pork with a side of lipstick.
I loved Barney Frank’s take on the McCain stunt, say that McCain wanted to “parachute in at the last minute and take credit for a solution, after all the work has been done without his involvement.”
Thanks, but no thanks.
Leno soft balls the America destroying Republicans. Letterman nails them. That's why I watch Letterman and never watch Leno.
I agree with McCain. Suspending his campaign is best for the country.
Let's not forget that the National Enquirer dropped a Palin 'adultery' bomb today as well. After Gary Hart and John Edwards we can't take the NE for granted.
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/national_enquirer_world_exclusive_sarah_...
This is a political stunt by McCain. He will soon be saying, "See, Obama is more interested in being President then dealing with the concerns of the American people." This is nothing more than a political ploy that I hope back fires. Good for Letterman for calling him on it!
Letterman is brilliant.
Now, they are trying to dump the VP debate.
I guess palin is ignorant and this crisis is not serious with all this political stunt bs.
I heard on MSNBC that KO is replacing McSHAME on Letterman. They sounded serious. If KO is on, and as a Replacement for McSHAME, it could get brutal; or as I like to think, Brutally Funny!
Ruthless People @ 5:
Bingo and bravo!
Can't stand the whiny, puerile, giggling, jut-jawed Leno, with his goddamn lapel flag. Sheesh, even Pat Sajak quit wearing his.
Leno is awful. Letterman is still the late-night king.
Chill @ 7:
I think the NE is really non-partisan. All they care about is titillation and scandal...
Ruthless People @ 5:
Ditto. Leno is a zero. And his band sux.
MSM is actually saying how heroic McCain is for cancelling. Really? I call it cowardice.
I'm watching Palin's interview with Katie Couric. Why do I insist on punishing myself?
Chill @ 7:
Let's hope this spreads like wildfire, just like the Edwards escapade.
The NE is actually earning its journalistic chops ...
McCain-Palin: UNFIT to Serve
Who here is a boxing fan?
Who here has seen When We Were Kings, the documentary of the Ali-Foreman Rumble in the Jungle? If you have seen it, you probably won't ever forget it.
I believe we are beginning to see the part where Ali, I mean Obama, opens up the final can of whoop-ass on McCain. I don't see McCain recovering from the cumulative effect of this rope-a-dope. It's just more and more on more and more, the slow ugly bleed.
Mind you, I am going to campaign in VA for Obama like we're a half point behind there. But I am beginning to smell a lot of blood. Is it going to be a TKO (like McCain walking out of debates, etc.) or a KO (with McCain effectively unconscious)?
Ali bum-ba-ye! Obama bum-ba-ye!!
Chill @ 7:
Bust her out. Let the Truth be Told.
Obama handled this well this morning but...how can he force McCain to debate on Friday if McCain doesn't want to?
remember, we are bailing out our sino-overlords!!
Bruce/Crablaw @ 19:
Awesome.. Hell yeah I've seen that. Sounds good to me.
Hey wait! Dave is from Indiana right? Maybe he could go do some campaigning there for Obama. Pleeeze Dave?
I was going to say that I wonder if CBS was going to let Letterman's entirely justifiable statement onto the air tonight, but I've just realized that the news of his remarks has already spread so quickly that the Eye is in huge trouble if it doesn't let Letterman's remarks air.
-- Rob
Laura Bush agrees - Palin is NOT qualified!
Laura Bush: Palin lacks foreign policy experience
WASHINGTON - First lady Laura Bush says Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin lacks sufficient foreign policy experience but is a very quick study.
In an interview Wednesday with CNN, the first lady remarked that it's fortunate that Republican presidential nominee John McCain has foreign policy experience himself.
getalife @ 10:
Someone has to guard the Alaskan border from the Russians, in this time of need.
It's time for anyone who has a brain to start calling things how they are: McCain and Palin are woefully unfit to serve. Speak up people!
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
--Thomas Jefferson
Lesson #1: Don't piss-off Letterman.
Lesson #2: Always take your meds.
barkleyg @ 11:
Yup, it's true!!! CAN'T WAIT!! :)
Anonymous Hussein @ 21:
The McCain campaign will beat Obama over the head with "putting winning the Presidency first, instead of Country, like I'm doing." You just watch.
Chill @ 7:
Its being known and doing the rounds for a couple of weeks, we were just waiting for the NE to officially release their story.
Having followed and watched and read about this story all day, I just watched NBC Nightly News whitewash the whole thing and make it appear that McCain was doing the right thing! Obama's wonderful, thoughtful, cutting response was edited down to literally 15 seconds. Really shameful. And the reporter claimed the Obama & McCain did NOT talk at 8:30 this morning, contradicting Obama. Anyone getting their news from that would come away with the feeling that McCain was concerned, Obama - maybe not so much.
This has been said many times before. How someone runs their campaign is a window how they intend to govern.
Need I say more?
Hell, Letterman is just plain funnier than Leno, always has been.
Maybe they can get Mittens to stand in. He can explain why we need to pay off bad debt with more bad debt in order to keep the economy in fine shape.
I love you David Letterman. You rock.
This is what all the GOP pussies do. Remember Giuliani trying to suspend the NYC Mayoral election because of 911? Anyone who believes any of these GOP pusiies is tough is delusional. None of them even had the guts to serve their country!!!
OOOPS. Except Grandpa McCain. He must have forgotten he was in the military. Oh yeah, he was a failure at that,too.
GOP. Grand Old Pussies
Plummeting in the polls, eh, I think this was a very clever move. Don't forget about that AFL-CEO chap at the RNC. Unionists seem to be quiet the racists as things pan out.
To slightly paraphrase Lincoln:
If you're not going to use Bill Clinton, may I borrow David Letterman?
BigIslandDave @ 12:
Leno looks like the cartoon figure in 'American Dad', but with a puny whiny voice.
King Dave, indeed!
Devastatingly accurate.
Nader will debate if Obama dares.
Chill @ 7:
Well, well, well, that would explain why McCain dropped his Mass Distraction bomb today.
Just walking the dog @ 35:
Yup and owns a Indy racing team.
I have a great play for obama regarding mccain’s play to “suspend the presidential debates to save the economy;
“John mccain only just last week was telling everyone the fundamentals of this economy are fine, if he had paid attention then when he should have would be more prepared now that we have to put our irons in the fire to solve this problem, he needs to demonstrate he can do more then one thing at a time if he intends on running this country
a case in point, the University of Mississippi and those associated with the debate will lose millions of dollars in revenue if the debate were cancelled, at this moment, the LAST thing we need to do is cause more economic loss in this crisis”
man, that would be good, obama can use it if he comes by to read my post
Anonymous Hussein @ 21:
He doesn't have to.....all he has to do is show up as scheduled and let the rest speak for itself. There is absolutely no reason why the two candidates cannot work on this situation in D.C., then hop a jet and have a debate about SUBJECT MATTER THAT SHOULD ALREADY BE KNOWN like it's the back of their hand.
Sooooo, if McLame if he can't do two important tasks as the same time, what's that tell voters?
ldzppln @ 26:
Doesn't matter. She's a Chreestian and got purty hair and nice glasses. That's good enough for 1/3 of the country.
Here's a song about McCain's second string quarterback:
me to me @ 46:
ECK - CELLANT my good man !!! ECK- CELLANT !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7trIpspUILg
woody, tokin librul @ 13:
Its a certain matter of fundie christian family values, something which the Republicans are very keen to spew on about in public.
Its a matter of mistrust, lying to the electorate, being a hypocritical fraud, being somebody whose word cannot be trusted.
She wont speak to journalists becauce of this and other matters, the silent shielded VP candidate.
Would you trust somebody not vetted by WcCain or badly at best, unquestioned by the news people, just parachuted into the VP job, then a heartbeat away from the POTUS job.
She would be worse than Chimp.
Im a bit busy ya know with all the Hockey mom duties and alll but I will send the "first dude"
Congress closes shop at 5 debate is at 9. What is the big deal? MSM can't quite figure that one out.
There's an online petition at "demand the debate 2008"--pass the word.
Chill @ 7:
Letterman and the Enquirer? It's a sad, sad day for the McCain campaign. I bet McCain is beginning to have regrets he didn't pick Romney as his running mate, Certainly, ol' Mitt might have been a bigger help to McCain in this crisis than Mooseburger.
Sarah Palin,
not fit to be VP of America,
not fit to be Governor of Alaska,
not fit to be mayor of a rinky dink town.
She needs to retire and rethink her life, go take some civics, ethics and morality classes.
McPalin wants to debate on the date of the VP debate and have the VP debate delayed till whenever.
How convenient. What a fucktard.
Shoeless @ 56:
Its a puzzling conundrum, which one is the bigger albatross, WcCain or S'talin.
99% of most "luminaries" in various fields of money making scanning the spectrum from politics to entertainment try to act down to earth but fail miserably.
Unlike Dave they have a deeply rooted addiction to rubbing their fame and fortune (and unwanted advise) in your face.
Kudos to Letterman. I'm glad he did it.
Someone on air needs to tell it like it is and do it in spades.
maybe shutting up is the best thing for mccain as the public speaking thing isn't working out too well.
Oh, if Dave could just get Palin on his show....
Dave was the man when I was in college and 25 years later he's still got it.
So, if we have crisis in Iran, a failing economy, North Korea back on the Nuke train, a war in Iraq, and failure in Afghanistan, what is McCain gonna do. Ask Wall Street to take a month off, call a cease fire in Iraq, tell North Korea we'll get back to you because he has to concentrate on Iran right now? Wow, what a weak candidate they have.
And even a weaker VP candidate. She's forbidden to speak to the media!!!! Bullshit!!! Just sit there and look cute. How degrading to women.
Any bitter Clinton voter who's voting McCain because of Palin needs to turn in their voter registration card. Any conservative voting for McCain just because he uses the label of Republican needs to turn in their brain.
This should be one of the easiest elections in modern history and it's close? Someone help me figure this out.
Letterman rocks
Don't think the Enquirer story has anything to do with it. But Palin's interview with Couric goes about as stupidly as you knew it would.
Still, there's something wrong with McCain. Physically, I mean. He sounds downed-out half the time and juiced the other half.
Watch those meds, showboating John.
the national enquirer should put more resources on todd palin. there's more gold there.
The combined wealth of the richest 400 individuals is $400 billion more than the entire discretionary spending budget for the federal government. It is more than $300 billion larger than the combined 2008 outlay for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. It is more than 15 times the combined appropriations for education and highways and mass transit.
“In this, the 27th edition of the list,” Forbes glumly notes, “the assembled net worth of America’s wealthiest rose by $30 billion—only 2%—to $1.57 trillion.”
Palin is history. Who was the "decider guy" that picked her anyway?
BigIslandDave @ 17:
Considering that "parties in the know" apparently passed lie detector tests, it won't be long before The New York Times makes this story "all the news that's fit to print" because, if true, it makes Palin and all her "I've been SAVED!!! by a Kenyan witch hunter!" right-wing wacko "posing" show us all what she really is.
Just a pretty poseur.
And of course it becomes crystal clear what it makes John McCain.
An incompetent, irresponsible un-American opportunist who put his personal ambition for power ahead of ALL the important interests of the American people.
They're both toast.
Alice X - (Click Here for Nader Debate What If) - status quObama - change you can pretend in - @ 43:
nader cant even win a debate with triumph the insult dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXn0rU19Apk&eurl
McCain is insisting on a debate format where the moderator uses coercive questioning. He claims he does best in that format. Just before he passed out, he screamed that Ho Chi Minh is the only moderator he can trust.
The hits keep coming -- now McCain says he won't debate if there's no bailout deal by debate time!
I say we call him McNugget -- as in Chicken McNugget.
Leno is still on tv?
Dave rocks!
I don't have a link myself, but someone needs to get Jack Cafferty's diatribe that was on at 3 PM Central.
I love the smell of TOAST IN THE MORNING!
Pretty poseur indeed.
theWalrus @ 33:
don't fret too much -- anyone who was watching cbs got a load of palin talking to katie couric. couric looked really irritated that she had to do this mock interview, and palin was clearly unable to answer even the simplest questions with anything other than memorized campaign rhetoric. when couric asked her for an example of anything mccain had done in his 26 years in washington, palin told her she'd have to get back to her on that.
campaign comedy gold!
"When the economy's in trouble,
I am not slow!
It's 'Ow! My hip, hip, hip!',
and away I go...!!!"
-- P.O.W.-Candidate Man, from "The Transparent Excuses of P.O.W.-Candidate Man" #338 (Sept. 2008) Vol. LXXXVII, Bidder-Liddle Hero Comics
KEITH OLBERMANN IS GOING TO RIDE ON MCCAIN LIKE SEABISCUIT!
ferrofluid (Obama + Biden = 2008) @ 57:
She will have a long slow miserable slide into oblivion. I hope.
Chill @ 7:
that photo of palin should be the next write-your-own-caption contest!
Of course Mac is shitting his depends. I believe he actually thought that the republicans would turn out the rove machine for him and just "give" him the presidency like they did with bush.
The ONLY reason they're even pretending to support him is to keep their own asses out of jail.
The way he looks lately, I would not be a bit surprised if he had a stroke in his first year in office. What a patriotic thing to do to the country.... have a idiot dictator in training, waiting in the wings, just so he can achieve his dream of being more important than anyone else.
He may have been up to it 8 years ago, but he ain't now.
Now he won't even have his integrity when he loses.
P.D. @ 15:
Shoeless @ 56:
the various online polls on the issue, 15-20% agree with the proposed suspension, 80% disagree or strongly disagree.
MSM has 2/3 no suspension.
at the very least two thirds of the country dont want the debates and unspokenly the election suspended.
I think people have more than an inkling of what happens when a dictatorship leaning regime is give the chance to suspend elections.
The Repubs thought that blood and guts McCain would bring a strong national security. Now that the primary skill that is needed is fiscal leadership, perhaps Romney would have been the better choice. I could give you between 9 and 11 reasons why Giuliani would have been a better VP choice than Palin, but l'll leave it at - that New York City is probably economically larger than Alaska.
So, we have seen a VP nominee hiding from the press, and now the Presidential nominee is in seclusion. As far as Obama is concerned, he said he's ready to debate Friday night - apparently, he can do more than one thing at a time, unlike McCain.
Beelzebub @ 73:
He says that like he has leverage or something. what an idiot.
cv @ 63:
Maybe she would appear if Brad Hansen was on it too.
It could be a political blind date type show, mystery person behind a curtain, Sarah pulls the curtain back, surprise its..... Brad ;)
As I understand it, the debate is not canceled. The decision will be McCain's whether he wishes to attend or not. One of his flunkies boasted that McCain will attend Friday's debate, all of the other debates and any townhall meeting Obama is up for. Again with the townhall meetings. Let it go.
McCain canceled Letterman but not Bill Clinton's Global Initiative in New York. He's still speaking there. http://www.clintonfoundation.org/news/news-media/press-release-president... He is giving the introductory speech.
Speaking of Letterman, Chris Rock did a nice job on Bill Clinton's lukewarm bs last night too. Watch it if you can. I believe there is a video on Alternet.
moniker @ 69:
James Dobson.
McCain = Missing in Action.
I think an empty spot at the podium will be great above the fold coverage for McLame.
CMINCA @ 89:
Sex, Lies & ... the Truth (Video produced by Focus On The Family)
Hello? Tool Population? What was it that GWB said in that executive order? Martial law during the time of 'crisis'? What are they calling this economic bailout? A crisis? Pray they have the elections at all, never mind the debates.
CMINCA @ 88:
Bill Clinton was lukewarm on the Daily Show too.
Ruthless People @ 5:
Me too.Leno`s nose is champagne beige.