BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain

Subject: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Alice
Date: 24 Sep 08 - 10:21 PM

Here is video of tonight's Leterrman show, after John McCain called and canceled saying he had to fly to Washington... then found that McCain was over in another studio talking to Katie Couric instead of flying to Washington.
gets really good at 6:15

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 12:39 AM

I have that program on right now. Very funny.

"Hey, John! I have a question. . . Do you need a ride to the airport?"

I don't watch the cable news channels so I have never watched Olberman. He's a good sport.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Barry Finn
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 01:24 AM

After he left the news interview he went to a school to attend a 3rd grade classroom so he could read to them for 7 minutes.

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 06:32 AM

What, Barry?

Getting some practice for the next one? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Riginslinger
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 09:03 AM

I'm amazed that Letterman is capable of reacting to anything.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 09:36 AM

"I'm amazed that Letterman is capable of reacting to anything. "

Huh???????????

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Big Mick
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 10:07 AM

While you are on that site watching the Letterman video, click the link on the left side and watch the Palin/Couric interview. The last comment by Palin says so much.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 10:11 AM

He has a whole team of writers, probably more than BOTH candidates put together...

We get Letterman on one day delay here, just finished it... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Greg F.
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 10:18 AM

Was McCain reading "My Pet Goat" to them, by any chance??

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 10:38 AM

We stayed up late just to watch this. It was really good! I think Letterman was genuinely miffed, esp. after he found out McCain was still in NYCity!

SRS, you can watch MSNBC online. Keith Olbermann's show is terrific, though I am sure some feel he goes over the top...he says much of the obvious which others skirt around. I also LOVE Rachel Maddow's show which is on right after his. She is also on Air America. She is smart and articulate...a Rhodes Scholar who went to Oxford and has a PhD in Poly-sci. Well worth watching, imo.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 10:47 AM

"He has a whole team of writers, probably more than BOTH candidates put together..."

That is doubtful. You would be surprised at the political machine that creates candidates these days.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Beer
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 11:17 AM

Watched it Big Mick. She scares me.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Big Mick
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 11:23 AM

Yep, friend Adrien, she is a frightening candidate. Not for what she doesn't know, but for what she pretends to know. Everytime she gets that "deer in the headlights" look and gives a silly answer, I imagine what it would be like if she was trying to pretend she has answers while she is covering by just bulling her way through with folks with nuclear capabilities. She is the best evidence I know for which to judge John McCain's decision making ability and fitness to lead this country in dangerous times. He made his first decision as the Presidential candidate, and the fact that he abandoned principle and judgement for political expediency shows that his fabled "love of country" is just so much hyperbole. I used to, at least, respect him. That vanishes more every day as he runs one of the most dishonest campaigns that this old political hack has ever seen.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Teribus
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 11:31 AM

And the importance of this Letterman character in the overall scheme of things is what exactly??

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 11:31 AM

Even scarier is her involvement with Pastor Muthee who has literally "hunted witches" having one older woman run out of town in Africa. There is a video of the pastor actually laying his hands on Palin as he exhorts god to keep all "witches" from harming her: click here. (There is more about it after Keith gets a couple of other things out of the way.)

Olbermann is right, if this were Obama with a "witch-hunter" it would be all over the news!

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 11:47 AM

"And the importance of this Letterman character in the overall scheme of things is what exactly??"

I assume you do not watch Letterman.   He is of no importance, other than being a celebrity who hosts a late night talk show and has a cross section of guests - including many politicians. He has fun with his guests, but he allows them to be serious.   

He was told a lie by McCain, and he called him on it. That is the importance in the scheme of things.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 11:49 AM

And the importance of this Letterman character in the overall scheme of things is what exactly??

Don't worry yourself about it, Teribus. You won't like the answer.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Alice
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 11:50 AM

"The road to the presidency goes right through David Letterman."

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 12:38 PM

imo Oberman does not go over the top but rather he has consistently spoken truth to power. Oten he takes on the language and virtual personna of Edward R Murrow and speaks in a way we rarely hear anymore.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Riginslinger
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 12:46 PM

"I assume you do not watch Letterman."


                Nobody with an IQ higher than their shoe size watches Letterman.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Big Mick
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 12:47 PM

... and how would you know that, Riggy?

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 12:50 PM

"Nobody with an IQ higher than their shoe size watches Letterman. "

You are wrong once again.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Riginslinger
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 01:01 PM

"... and how would you know that, Riggy?"


                  I've tried to watch him. I'd rate him right up there with the Gummi Bears.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 01:10 PM

"I've tried to watch him. I'd rate him right up there with the Gummi Bears."

Everyone has different tastes. Not everyone can grasp his style.   

Letterman challenges the medium, just like Ernie Kovacs did in his day. Some people do not "get it" and dismiss him, but once you see how he works he is brilliant - and well loved by his intelligent fans.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Riginslinger
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 01:13 PM

Well, I would agree he seems to be liked by his fans.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 01:17 PM

his intelligent fans

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 01:17 PM

Donuel, I agree with you about Olbermann.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Teribus
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 01:19 PM

Letterman is so far up himself that it is unbelievable.

McCain told him a lie and he called him on it - Come on get real, even Letterman didn't say that McCain told him that he was flying immediately to Washington - Letterman said that somebody in his staff told him that somebody on McCain's staff told him that he was flying to Washington and had to cancel.

All the clip illustrated to me was the truth in Letterman's first evaluation, "Letterman, blow him off he's a lightweight" - Quite right he is.

"The road to the presidency goes right through David Letterman." - Who's he kidding!! But if that is the case, by Christ you've got problem's.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Big Mick
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 01:27 PM

TB, you might want to go to 6:45 of that clip. Letterman said McCain called him personally, then said that a member of his staff. The point is that McCain is in charge of his campaign, he didn't honor a committment, and stayed in the city for other interviews, all the while portraying himself as the honorable leader just wanting to rush back to save his country. Then he went right out and campaigned. This, IMO, was because he knew that Letterman was going to ask him tough questions, albeit in Dave's own special way.

You put this next to his not wanting to debate, and along with him hiding his VP from serious questioning, and a pattern emerges. His house of cards is caving, his VP is slowly becoming the liability I predicted she would be, and Republican economic policies are strangling him. I see the end up ahead, and he is in a panic because he sees it too.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 01:30 PM

Teribus - it sounds like you are in denial. Get over it. McCain lied to Letterman pure and simple.

Letterman is not claiming to anything more than a talk show host, but it is is plain as day that McCain and his staff lied. Open your eyes and you can see exactly what happened here.

Sounds like you are the one who needs to get over himself, not Letterman.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 01:35 PM

Rigs, I don't watch Letterman but my IQ is still half my weight

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Alice
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 01:50 PM

As Letterman said, he doesn't get calls from Senators every day... I think he would remember that it was McCain who called him.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 01:55 PM

And, he was in NYCity today, NOT Washington, in order to give a speech at the "Clinton Global Initiative." Surely, by McCain's excuses to get back to Washington, yesterday, this could have also been postponed.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Alice
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 01:57 PM

I guess he meant Washington by way of Katie Couric, a speech, and cooking on Rachel Ray Show.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 02:01 PM

McCain's got a thing for younger women. It's starting to look icky.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Amos
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 02:26 PM

I got a witch-hunting pastor,
To make my tapdancing faster,
And an NDE Master,
Say, I'm a national disaster!


Got those blues
National disaster blues!
It's not easy
Being Sarah Palin
Can't you hear my
Poor heart wailing 'bout them blues,
Them national disaster blues.

I run a state of few people
But an awful lot of weather
We say yes, then we say no,
To the Bridge Across FOrever

Got them blues
National disaster blues, etc.

The folks back in Wasilia
And the bears are all agin me,
And the folks up in the Wildlife Zone
Are threatening to skin me,

Got them blues
National disaster blues, etc.

I guess I'll go to Washington
Where the weathers not so hoary,
Where folks who where the button
Will at least believe my story!

Cure them blues,
Run away from them national diasster blues.
Say good bye to Mrrs Palin,
She out on the campaign trailing
She's spreading 'round those blues
Those national disaster blues.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Riginslinger
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 02:36 PM

I wonder if Reverend Wright can sing that and tap dance at the same time?

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: irishenglish
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 02:36 PM

Teribus, I don't know if this is a fair comparison, but Letterman, along with a few others, is something like Terry Wogan. Whatever the origins of the slight, it was a slight IMO, and Letterman was right to call him on it.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Pseudolus
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 03:16 PM

It's hard to believe that here we are in a financial crisis of monumental proportions and McCain is using it to get into the white house. He wants to postpone the debate on Friday. There are only 40 days until the election and 4 debates are scheduled. With the time crunch one is bound to be cancelled, if that happens, which one will it be? Most likely the VP debate again shielding Palin from any real damage in the media because lets face it, Biden will make Palin look foolish and the best that she can hope for is that Biden comes off like a bully.

I agree that she is becoming the liability that I thought she would become as soon as I heard her announced, but I am surprised that it has taken this long. I think the only shot they have is to avoid the VP debate....just my humble opinion...

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Pseudolus
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 03:19 PM

Sorry, in re-reading my post, it was a little thread creep, not my intention. I think the point Letterman was making was that if you're gonna cancel, cancel and fess up about the reason. Don't say it's the crisis and you are needed to fix it, It made more sense to talk to Couric than to joke with Letterman, politically. I thought Letterman was right on and brilliantly funny.....

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Amos
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 03:29 PM

The lag was due to the compulsion on the part of the Party followers for theatrics at any cost. Her clever zingers brought down the house at the RNC, and it took a while for the thater audience to realize that the scripting was clever but the play had no inner meaning.


A

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 03:35 PM

It is interesting to note that McCain was still in NYC this morning. He couldn't get a seat on the Acela?

I don't know how reliable this is, but someone swears they saw him at Rays Famous last night buying a slice.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Alice
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 03:42 PM

Can Palin get away with saying at the debates, like she did to Katie Couric,
Palin: "I'll try to find ya some [answers] and I'll bring them to ya."

Why, oh why, did they not carefully examine who this woman really is before choosing her. It makes me angry that McCain would put someone like Palin so close to the presidency.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: irishenglish
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 03:47 PM

Ron- Ray's Famous or Original Ray's. Or Original Famous Ray's? Or Ray's? Or Famous Original Ray's? It's true, as is the nexus of the universe-the corner of 1st Avenue and 1st Street.

Thread drift!

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Riginslinger
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 03:53 PM

"Why, oh why, did they not carefully examine who this woman really is before choosing her."


                   They did, that's how they came up with such a brilliant choice.

                   Joe Biden, on the other hand, thinks we had television in 1929, and that FDR was the president. The Democrats must have picked him because he had a ritzy compound in Delaware.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: irishenglish
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 03:58 PM

I'm sure you never make mistakes Rig while posting on here or talking amongst friends. Biden made a silly gaffe, I watched it too. Do you think he HONESTLY thinks there were tv's and FDR as president in 1929? He made a mistake, big deal. Folks with ritzy compounds in Delaware or otherwise don't ride home on the train very often as Biden usually does.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 04:08 PM

"Joe Biden, on the other hand, thinks we had television in 1929, and that FDR was the president."

Is that the best comeback you can make? If so, Obama/Biden are in good shape.

Obviously he screwed up with details - but the facts do remain that FDR stepped in to bring the country out of the depression that began with the 1929 crash and the country floundered for three more yeares under Hoover. FDR was not afraid to go on on radio, starting "the Fireside Chats" and gave the nation confidence in their leadership. Unlike McCain who cannot walk and chew gum at the same time. Why is he so afraid of a debate?

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: Riginslinger
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 04:22 PM

It almost seems like people who like Letterman support Obama. What does that tell us?



                      Why is he [McCain] so afraid of a debate?


             He's afraid of a debate they way a pool shark is afraid to shoot pool.

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: irishenglish
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 04:27 PM

I haven't watched Letterman since about 1991. I support Obama. What does that say about me?

Subject: RE: BS: David Letterman reacts to John McCain
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 04:36 PM

"It almost seems like people who like Letterman support Obama. What does that tell us?"

Smart people are voting for Obama?