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David Letterman kept up his verbal assault on John McCain, commiserating with Paris Hilton and saying he felt like an "ugly date" because the GOP presidential candidate backed out of an appearance on the "Late Show."
The late-night CBS comedian was upset Wednesday when McCain canceled an appearance to deal with the economic crisis. After backing out of the Letterman show, McCain sat for an interview with Katie Couric, then didn't leave New York until Thursday, further angering Letterman.
At first, Letterman said, he felt like a "patriot" to let McCain off.
"Now I'm feeling like an ugly date," Letterman said. "I feel used. I feel cheap. I feel sullied."
McCain spokeswoman Nicolle Wallace said the campaign "felt this wasn't a night for comedy."
"We deeply regret offending Mr. Letterman, but our candidate's priority at this moment is to focus on this crisis," Wallace said Thursday on NBC's "Today."
Later Thursday, Letterman banged away at McCain in his opening monologue.
"You're here on a good night," he told the audience. "So far none of our guests have canceled."
He talked about daredevil David Blaine's feat of hanging upside-down in New York's Central Park for 60 hours.
"They just left the guy hanging there," he said. "It's the same thing McCain did to me last night."
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?"
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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."
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LMAO.... I guess I am back to watching Dave. I wonder if Dave heard about Palin's letter to the San Francisco paper.
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#1 - Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:00 PM EDT{"commentId":3143772,"authorDomain":"bad-acting"}
FYI
The story is all over Progressive Talk Radio today about the McCain
campaign sending absentee ballot applications to registered democrats or
people that have donated to Obama's campaign. These ballots are
deliberately misleading and have postage paid return addresses that are
for an election clerk that is outside of your city or town. What this
will end up doing is either having your vote not counted, or if you
return one of these, they will cite you for election fraud, saying that
you already voted absentee. These ballots are only being sent out in
'purple states' and this is a big deal.. This is called voter caging,
and is a huge problem.
The McCain campaign is stealing this election as we speak. Please get
this information out to as many people as you can, and tell anyone you
know who has received one of these ballots that they need to contact
their city election clerk or the supervisor of elections immediately.
Also call the local media and let them know what is going on.
The main stream media is never going to cover this so we have to depend
on our ground campaign to get the word out to our voters.
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#2 - Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:10 PM EDT{"commentId":3147909,"authorDomain":"jmeade"}
It seems that Mr. Letterman is more upset by the lie that Senator McCain told. It would have been acceptable for Senator McCain to say it was not a night for comedy and to reschedule for another time. But he lied. Why not just tell the truth? Is the McCain/Palin team capable of telling the truth? This is getting discouraging.
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#3 - Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:46 PM EDT{"commentId":3148315,"authorDomain":"tbsykes"}
What is really discouraging is the fact the McCain lied about a simple appearance won't mean a hill of beans to many who only want to vote according to party lines. The truth and what this implies means nothing to them and just like 2004 when Bush won AGAIN....it will be the rest of us who pay the price.
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{"commentId":3152869,"authorDomain":"powerisknowledge"}
I believe McCain has shot himself in the foot! You don't diss a man who has as many viewers as Letterman. But McCain continues to shot himself in the foot doesn't he?
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#4 - Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:50 PM EDT{"commentId":3164751,"authorDomain":"Cerus"}
Letterman got dissed by McCain. Then Letterman turns around and disses Olbermann. Instead of dissing him, Letterman should have asked Olbermann what he would've done if McCain had pulled that stunt on "Countdown". Then he would've gotten a "pipeline" of material to use from the ultimate source of critical mass.
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#5 - Sat Sep 27, 2008 2:30 AM EDT{"commentId":3247329,"authorDomain":"enufsaid"}
GOSH, I'D REALLY LIKE TO GO ON LETTERMAN OR OLBERMAN FOR THAT MATTER, KNOWING THAT I WOULD BE THOROUGHLY TROUNCED AND HUMILIATED AND MADE FUN OF AND DISRESPECTED. PLEASE, SIGN ME UP!
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