Hmmm anyone think that Letterman being easy on McCain? I don't think so. LMAO

[LiberalFighter]

Letterman is taking advantage of McCain.

[Cha]

1. Good! I would think so..Dave cares too

much, like we all do, about this election.

[buddysmellgood]

2. McCain swallowed hard there...he is really nervous... Take her off the ticket? wow

[krkaufman]

16. Dave kept grilling on that because it is unreasonable to think that McCain ...

... hadn't heard of such talk and that it hadn't been discussed within his campaign.

I was a little disappointed that Dave just stuck with his badgering of McCain on Palin's readiness, rather than taking the tack of her supposed support for transparency and reform... given she wouldn't cooperate with the AK legislative investigation, isn't offering media access, and has been found guilty of violating AK ethics laws. Letterman should have asked about the Troopergate findings.

[trueblue2007]

21. here IS THE VIDEO OF TONIGHTS SHOW

Late Show w/David Letterman - John McCain


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiBqHczYJYo

[rcrush]

3. This interview will be historic.

In 2020 they'll be showing this on clip shows during the elections between Jenna Bush and Dennis Kucinichs wife.

[speedoo]

4. Dave had him squirming, that's for sure.

McCain came across like the asswipe he is. The NYC audience was not buying any of his shit.

[RagAss]

7. NYC?.. Actually most of the audience is made up of tourists......

A NYC audience would have booed his old ass off the stage !...LOL

[amitten]

13. Truly. n/t

[BattyDem]

5. Remind me never to piss off Letterman!

:rofl:

[cboy4]

6. I think Letterman has been awesome! Oh wait,

he's not on for another 90 minutes here.

[PatSeg]

19. I'm in Sacramento

and often there are clips of Letterman's show here before it is even on TV!

The show was excellent and Letterman was relentless. If McCain thought he'd be off the hook by going on the show he was wrong.

Jay Leno got in on the act as well. He had Joe Biden on and Leno said Obama was supposed to drop by but he had an important dinner, but wait - then he showed Obama being interviewed by Katie Couric. He also showed the picture of McCain at the debate with his tongue out.

Great night for late night television.

[cboy4]

23. Yea, I've lost count of the amount of programming

I've had spoiled due to East Coast posts, but oh well.

Letterman was great.

[PatSeg]

25. It is always such a letdown when I see a Letterman or SNL

clip posted long before it is on TV here. Then I have to resist the temptation to watch the video, as I'm often looking forward to sitting back and watching the actual show in its entirety.

[October]

8. Wow. That was something to see.

McCain constantly interrupted Dave AND himself! He hardly finished one sentence/thought before he'd interrupt himself.

I thought Dave rather eviscerated him. He let him speak...but made it clear he knew when McCain was bullshitting.

[Cha]

11. mccain is tanked up on

Redbullshit.

[doc03]

12. I loved the way he set him up with the William Ayers

thing and let McCain dig himself a hole then hit him with paling around with G. Gordon Liddy. He made him squirm trying to defend his choice of Palin for VP. Letterman is more of a journalist than Wolf Blitzer or any of those other ass-wipes could hope to be. He has guts.

[krkaufman]

17. Yeah, what will be remembered is McCain's initial silence on the Liddy question ...

... just before cutting to commercial, of whether McCain hadn't attended a fund-raiser at Liddy's house. McCain had no answer, and he looked bad.

[krkaufman]

18. McCain performance on Letterman tonight reminded me of his behavior on The Daily Show ...

... last year-ish, just after his embarrassing "market walk" -- where he said it was safe, even though he was protected by troops and helicopters overhead. McCain was seemingly on speed that night, trying to filibuster his way through the interview.

[calmblueocean]

9. Once again, the entertainment media does the job the press won't do.

John Stewart, Dave Letterman, the women on the View, etc... our media in this country is largely so cowed and so deferent to power that it's left to comedians to pick up the slack. How sad. I hope this changes in my lifetime.

[October]

10. So true. Way too much deference on the MSM's part.../nt

[krkaufman]

14. Letterman did what he could, given his level of knowledge ...

... but McCain did a pretty good job of avoidance and filibustering. Letterman wasn't too pleased with McCain by the end of the show, given McCain's continued harping on the Ayers issue and refusal to acknowledge the comparison to Liddy.

Just check Dave's body language at the end, when thanking McCain for "showing up"...

[mamalone]

15. Love, love love your sig line!

I had to look at it carefully at first.. very funny:)

[krkaufman]

20. Thanks.

The star may be a bit too subtle (rightward-tilted cross); a little more than the previous iteration...



p.s. an alternative:

[dflprincess]

24. I think Letterman gave him the rope to hang himself with

and McCain looked really wealsly as he squirmed around last night. He was clearly afraid of Letterman.

[renate]

26. that's a great picture--worth a thousand words!

I also noticed that at the start of the interview McCain was positioned pretty much as he is in the picture above, but within a minute or two he was leaning away from Dave and had scooted further to his right/our left, away from Dave.

I also had to laugh when Dave asked "So what happened?" and then kept talking; finally McCain had to say something (actually fairly testily, because Dave was stepping on his line) like "can I give you an answer? -- (now he unfurls the smile and the weird thing with the hands) -- I screwed up!"

Oh ha ha ha John, you're such a card. No, actually what happened was that you lied.

Another thing I noticed is that I didn't hear him actually apologize. "I screwed up" is NOT an apology.

[krkaufman]

27. Right. Letterman was done asking the question, but McCain wanted to get started ...

... with his talking points.

And, agreed, there was no apology. Nor did McCain really specify in what way he screwed-up. Was it in what he communicated to Dave? Or the whole "suspending his campaign" fiasco?

[4lbs]

22. Freepers are complaining that Letterman was "too harsh" on McCain

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107816/posts



To: seastay
Letterman has always had a mean-spirited, nastiness about him.

Much of that was overshadowed by a sort of midwestern folksiness and some genuinely funny moments in the early years of his now moribund show.

Currently he is just another unfunny, boring, pedestrian New York liberal elitist. Nastiness fully intact.



2 posted on Thursday, October 16, 2008 11:51:05 PM by EyeGuy (Obama will deliver America on a Leash to an envious world.)


To: seastay
I honestly don’t get what the leftist advantage is for trashing Sarah Palin, as if she isn’t qualified, when the top spot on their ticket isn’t even half as qualified.

If Palin is unfit, Obama is unfit to the tenth power.



5 posted on Thursday, October 16, 2008 11:53:13 PM by DoughtyOne (Is Obamanation what our founding fathers, our fallen men in combat, and Ronald Reagan had in mind?)


To: Allegra
“I never watch him, but I guess I’ll watch the McCain one.”

####

Not for me.

From this account, it sounds like the sick liberal Letterman was in full conservative attack mode.

I have enough other things to raise my blood pressure these days!



11 posted on Friday, October 17, 2008 12:01:43 AM by EyeGuy (Obama will deliver America on a Leash to an envious world.)


To: seastay
I thought McCain’s forceful defense and endorsement of Palin was outstanding.....amd the audience did too. Much applause.

McCain doesn’t get the meaning of the Ayer’s connection, or maybe just wants to lead people to look into it for themselves. It’s not just the murders that occured 40 yrs. ago. It was the ideology that inspired those violent acts that have not changed.....those leftist principles have merely morphed into radical education reform. Ayers cozies up with leftist Hugo Chavez. There is more to Ayers and Obama than the violence of the past.

And when Obama lists the more respectable examples of the boardmembers, he should be asked, if they hosted political meetings in their homes for him.

I thought the Liddy comparison blindsided McCain, but in actuality there is a big difference between a burglar and a bomber, one who payed his debt to society and one who didn’t.



16 posted on Friday, October 17, 2008 12:10:04 AM by Abe XVI



To: Abe XVI
Just caught part of it. Letterman tried to “nuts at your rally’s” gambit and McCain knocked the Straw Man down, then mentioned that Obama didn’t repudiate the Congressman who compared McCain to Wallace.

Letterman, ever the shill said “I thought he (Obama) did a pretty good job of doing so”

McCain said “No, he didn’t” to polite applause.

Could Letterman be any more dense or a shill?



18 posted on Friday, October 17, 2008 12:12:55 AM by Rodney Dangerfield ("Obama Girl" will soon need consoling. I'll take one for the team & volunteer.)



To: Rodney Dangerfield
Sorry, it’s late. I meant that Letterman tried to exploit the “random nut jobs at McCain’s rally’s” the ones screaming “kill him” (allegedly) and McCain quickly disarmed Letterman, then segued into the fact that Obama didn’t repudiate the fact that John Lewis compared McCain to George Wallace.

Letterman, cluelessly, said he thought Obama did a good job of doing so.

McCain straightened him out and said “No, he didn’t”

Letterman is dense. This guy shouldn’t be talking about politics.

He had no idea who Palin is, and is now asking was she vetted, and now is asking if Palin is capable and has enough experience, blah, blah, blah.

Ask that about Obama you ass.

Letterman just claimed he’s an Independent, and has no political affiliation.



22 posted on Friday, October 17, 2008 12:18:54 AM by Rodney Dangerfield ("Obama Girl" will soon need consoling. I'll take one for the team & volunteer.)








Freeper: "oj pleaz dont bee to harsh on mccain or palin, dave!!!!"

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