Letterman had MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann fill McCain’s spot, and they discovered that instead of going on Letterman’s show as scheduled, McCain was sitting talking to Katie Couric at the time he was supposed to be on. They even showed the live feed that had McCain being interviewed at the time.
McCain didn’t leave NY until Thursday morning
Letterman again expressed his annoyance at McCain on the air last night. He mocked his voice when retelling the story about how he called and told him he couldn’t come, only to turn around and go do an interview with Couric at the same time. Letterman said of course he was understanding that McCain had to take care of the economy, but that he felt really dissed when he discovered that wasn’t the case. He also said that instead of jetting back to Washington right after the Couric interview - he didn’t leave until Thursday morning.
“He said ‘everything’s fine, don’t worry about it, the Senator is on his way back.’
“So not only did he not go back right away, he stopped in to see Katie Couric on his way out. So then we looked at it and we said ‘Ok, well, I understand that’s news and this is nonsense.’
“But then after Katie Couric - right to the airport - No. We find out today he didn’t really leave until this morning.” [audience groans]
“What we learn now is the economy held on enough, just barely held on enough for him to get back there.”
“Whereas you can see 24 hours ago, I felt like a patriot… like I was doing my part… I was going to help in my own little way get this economy out of crater.
“Now I’m just feeling like an ugly date… I feel used. I feel cheap. I feel sullied. I feel cratered.”
[Transcribed from video of The Late Show, found on their website.]
Letterman said he would then “divulge a part of the private conversation that I think comes under the heading of national security, and I know I’m going to be investigated and I don’t care. He said to me on the phone, he said ‘I think people would rather see Sarah Palin, and maybe I’ll send her for you next time.’”
“One, suggesting there will be a next time, and I’m not sure that decision is his, and two, that maybe if there is he would bring Sarah Palin and she will come in his place… We’ll just wait and see, is he a man of his word or not?”
CNN has more details of last night’s Late Show. Paris Hilton was one of the guests and it sounds like they had a few laughs about their mutual issues with McCain. Paris was featured in an ad by McCain’s camp mocking Obama’s “celebrity” status. It featured footage of Obama in Berlin with the fake “Obama Obama” chanting over it which never happened at the event - I was there the whole time. Photos of Paris and Britney were used to illustrate their point that Obama is popular.
He described Hilton — Thursday’s guest whose celebrity was once used in a McCain campaign ad to mock Democrat Barack Obama — as McCain’s first choice for a running mate.
“Here’s how it works: You don’t come to see me? You don’t come to see me? Well, we might not see you on Inauguration Day,” Letterman said.
Noting that McCain wanted to postpone Friday’s first debate with Obama, Letterman said running mate Sarah Palin wanted to put off her debate with Democrat Joe Biden until after Election Day. Letterman said Palin’s meeting with world leaders at the United Nations was like “take-your-daughter-to-work day.”
Letterman’s Top 10 list was “surprising facts about Sarah Palin,” read by citizens of Wasilla, Alaska, where she was once mayor.
No. 10: Palin “sometimes calls John McCain grandpa.”
Later in the show, Letterman couldn’t resist another mention of “that John McCain” while chatting with Hilton, who replied, “I heard he dissed you. He dissed me.”
Milking the moment, Letterman consoled her: “You had a little run-in with him, too, didn’t you?”
[From CNN]
Letterman is not used to being dissed. McCain’s people issued an apology that kind of didn’t sound like one. They said “We deeply regret offending Mr. Letterman, but our candidate’s priority at this moment is to focus on this crisis.”
John McCain is shown at the Clinton Global Initiative in NY on 9/25/08. It looks like he did that yesterday too.
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