John McCain might be wishing he hadn’t stood up David Letterman as the first visible act of his “campaign suspension.”
After establishing in detail McCain’s history as a war hero and his lack of animosity toward him, Dave asks, “What happened to that guy?” From there, it just gets better and better, with Letterman filling the time he would have spent interviewing McCain instead wondering what’s going on inside McCain headquarters. He even gets a little help toward the end from Keith Olbermann.
Letterman: It makes me believe something’s going haywire with the campaign…Here’s what you do when you’re running, ah, for campaign in the middle of an economic crisis and it’s about to crater…Here’s what you do. You’re a senator. You handle what you need to handle. Don’t suspend your campaign. You let your campaign go on, shouldered by your vice presidential nominee. That’s what you do. You don’t quit. Or is that really, is that really a good thing to do?
Paul Schaeffer: We don’t know.
Letterman: See what I’m saying? This is a guy who doesn’t have an ounce of quit in him. So all of a sudden we’re suspending the campaign? …You say I gotta get back to Washington to save this country — good for you — and while I’m gone, campaigning in my stead is my great running mate from the state of Alaska, Sarah Palin. And she comes out and campaigns. What happened there? What’s the problem? Where is she? Why isn’t she doing that?
Paul Schaeffer: She is a good looking babe. You gotta admit that.
Letterman: (laughing) Exactly! That’s the point I’m trying to make. So I don’t know, but you heard it here first: this just doesn’t smell right. This is not the way a tested hero behaves.
For several months, David Letterman has joined the other offensive Hollywood crowd, in telling insulting jokes, at Senator John McCain’s expense. Now, when one of the most important, challenging, and controversial decisions in our nation’s history must be decided, Letterman is still crying because McCain chose to do his job, fighting for the best deal he could get for Americans and America. I’d rather have McCain in Wasington watching out for America’s interests, than to have him on Letterman’s show, or to have our Nation’s future decided by Pelosi and Reid, who have a 15% approval rating for a good reason. If David Letterman cared about Americans, who made him rich, instead of being so self absorbed and petty, he would be supporting McCain and our country right now.
Howard, peddle the spin elsewhere. McCain lied to Letterman when he said he was rushing back to Washington from New York Wednesday night. He stayed in New York to be interviewed by Couric — and even spent the night there before he finally flew back to the Capitol. He can lie to the corporate media, lie to the voters day and day out, but he was foolhardy to tell Letterman such a stupid lie — especially because he was in the same building as Letterman at the moment he said he was rushing back to Washington.
Finally, we see a difference between Bush and McCain. Bush is a much more practiced liar.
Also, conservatives are getting tiresome with your constant harping on their victimization by the media elite. Try suffering about this in silence.