From The Drudge Report:
EXCLUSIVE: LETTERMAN MOCKS MCCAIN CANCELLATION
Wed Sep 24 2008 17:41:58 ET
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?"
Earlier in the show, Dave kept saying, "You don't suspend your campaign. This doesn't smell right. This isn't the way a tested hero behaves." And he joked: "I think someone's putting something in his metamucil."
"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!"
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13 Comments
You beat me to the punch(LOL)
I was just about to give you a link to video of Letterman dissing McCain...BADLY!
If you want some more comedy, here is a link to Couric's interview with Palin (it's sad that this woman is really one election away from becoming Vice-President):
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4476649n
And here is a link to McCain explaining to Couric why his suspension of his campaign is warranted:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4476356n
scrawled by Ty | September 24, 2008 9:16 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjkCrfylq-E
Video of the relevant parts of the show. Olbermann is nervously edging away from Dave at times.
scrawled by David Van Domelen | September 24, 2008 9:36 PM
I just watched it.
I'm not sure when its on in your timezone, but you can catch a clip of it on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjkCrfylq-E
scrawled by Slick | September 24, 2008 11:08 PM
Also found on You Tube and related:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr9S0DaTjvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46afFz063B0
scrawled by Scavenger | September 25, 2008 12:49 AM
"Sarah Palin, where is she?"
I think it's pretty obvious why she's nowhere to be found. When she has to answer real questions, she becomes exposed as an incoherent, babbling moron who has no business being the VP of the United States. I couldn't agree more with Jack Kafferty in this video clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ9bP_AqHPg
scrawled by Pete | September 27, 2008 2:42 AM
If McCain loses, i think the person who loses the most is Palin. Until she accepted this Vice Presidency nomination, it seemed like she was coasting as Gov. of Alaska. Now she's being investigated, vetted by the press, and exposed harshly for how incapable she is of holding down ANY position in government, much less the Governer's position in her own state.
And because of the McCain campaign's efforts to keep her already unbuffed image somewhat shiny, she's even being forced to cut ties with Republicans of note in Alaska, in their time of need, when they have supported her in the past.
I don't feel sorry for her, but still, there's a good chance that she has probably ruined her re-election bid as Governer of Alaska when the time comes.
scrawled by Ty | September 27, 2008 9:56 AM
Wow... He really let her have it. And, thank God. Seriously, I was starting to think I was the only one. Which then led me to believe maybe *I'm* the crazy one.
But I hear people, every SINGLE day, enthused abut this woman and excited to be voting for her. Are we talking abut MILLIONS of people in denial, or are they just so invested in *winning* that they'll say or do anything?
I'm really not al that concerned about Palin as veep. But BOTH presidential candidates have a statistically higher probability of dying in office (sorry, I know how morbid that sounds). In THIS election, more than any perhaps since Reagan v. Carter, the veep selection really DOES count.
Also, there's rumors out there that Biden's going to step down, citing health reasons, and Obama's going to put Hillary up at the last moment. Anybody buying that one?
scrawled by priest | September 27, 2008 3:23 PM
"Biden's going to step down...Anybody buying that one?"
No. Well.........
I could see Biden stepping down. He's always been too much of his own man. Never bowing to anyone else or completely buying into someone else's message and/or gameplan. And always finding a way to say the wrong thing at an inopportune time. So now, him having to remake himself into an "Obama Company Man" always seemed like a stretch to me.
I never liked this pick from the beginning. I always thought it shoulda been Gov. Sebelius. I know he was thinking politically, thinking he needed someone on the ticket with a ton of experience that could address some voter's worries about his own lack of lengthy experience. (And who could have foreseen the Palin pick.) But Obama needed someone on the ticket who above all was gonna have his back ALL of the time. I'd have much rather him chose Sebelius, even if would've brought out the Pro-Hillary_Haters_Club.
Having said that, there's no way Hillary will be on the ticket...or even in office as Biden's replacement after the election.
LOL - wouldn't it be something to see both Biden and Palin step aside. That would be monumental, and maybe even warranted.
scrawled by Ty | September 27, 2008 9:18 PM
There's no way that Obama will put Hillary Clinton up as his VP, even if Joe Biden by some small chance does drop out. This is why I don't believe the rumor at all.
Hillary is owned by lobbyists and tries to image herself as being for the little guy, but when it becomes time to create and vote on bills she does just the exact opposite. She creates bills that sound great but when you actually take a gander at what the bills really do, it's complete junk. She's a phony who represents greed and corruption at its worst, which is what Obama wants to rid Washington of and which is why he didn't even consider her as being his running mate.
scrawled by Pete | September 28, 2008 6:40 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29EuHtpQ9Uw
0:40 in this video pretty much summarizes how a lot of people felt after listening to Palin's two recent interviews. Very funny stuff.
scrawled by Pete | September 28, 2008 4:57 PM
"Fungible Commodity"?
Oh, the withering response--where'd that come from?
Anyway, it's official: if I had no other reason for voting for Obama, this one would do: Sarah Palin. McCain's dodgy and disingenuous "release" of his medical records (he gave reporters one hour with thousands of documents) and the seriousness of his recurrent Stage Two melanoma make a vote for McCain *literally* a vote for Palin as president. Even if McCain does not, God forbid, die in office, treatments for his type of skin cancer are so debilitating that Palin would certainly need to step in.
I simply cannot abide her as president. We've already had one of those for eight years.
It simply BOGGLES that *anybody* supports her.
OTOH, I'm hearing predictions of a landslide, yes, landslide for McCain. I think it may be a landslide for Obama as well--I'm really not seeing this as a close race. If the youth come out, if the blacks turn out, if America can move past its race sensitivity, and if the Dems can somehow stay ahead of rigged voting machines and tricked-out poll rules designed to invalidate millions of votes, I think it's Obama in a walk.
Alternatively, I think this is all a waste of time, and we should just swear Palin, er, McCain in now.
I need to check and see how many times I can vote in Colorado...
scrawled by priest | September 29, 2008 6:19 AM
3/5 of a time?
scrawled by Dave Van Domelen | September 29, 2008 2:03 PM
:-)
Apparently, yes. And, hey, we're a swing state this time-- my vote might actually count for something.
scrawled by priest | September 29, 2008 9:06 PM