Well, nine minutes and all, but still, here is funnyman David Letterman setting up a huge “McCain’s a Phony Loser” routine with a recitation of the old POW stuff and then … “it’s starting to smell.” Here, America, is what your late-night host thinks of McCain’s stupid stunt. [Letterman]
Here’s David Letterman Mocking the Coward McCain For ‘Suspending the Campaign’
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God, this is beautiful.
Whew, I was afraid I was going to be up late watching this.
Letterman is pretty fucking awesome when he’s pissed. It’s been a while since I’ve seen him like this.
The clip is 9 minutes, 11 seconds long. 9:11…never forget.
Are we sure it isn’t Dec 24th? Thank you, Santa!
Where’s the Bush speech live blog?!?!?!?!! I’m stuck at work in late hours. lkfjskldf KEN! KEN!
[re=107268]j6n[/re]: December 24th…never forget.
[re=107266]King Rinzy of Rohan[/re]: Non sequitur: Dave’s monologue after 9-11 was the best speech I heard from anyone about that day.
Thanks for the Reader’s Digest version so we don’t have to see entire thing…. Can’t wait to see what Jon Stewart says @ this.. Katie C is probably feeling her oats— she got two interviews sorta for the price of one…. McNuggets is a jerk..
Oh man, he called mc Cain on his bullshit!! Johnny-Mac must be fuming mad… I calld Mc Cain on his bullshit once.
Well, that was 9 years ago, he hasn’t been back since.
I wonder how he will explain this one away…… it is just too funny that it is David Letterman that is basically calling Mac a fucking liar, and not an opponent.
[re=107266]King Rinzy of Rohan[/re]: fitting as McCain’s twin towers of straight talk and integrity came crashing down.
Bush is old and boring news… he didnt say anything anyway…. Letterman was HILARIOUS. Walnuts will not ever return, methinks.
Rule 1 kids, don’t fuck with Letterman.
[re=107272]King Rinzy of Rohan[/re]: We’re getting word that a reindeer-guided flying sleigh has just hit the second tower
Y’know — for five and a half years, John McCain didn’t have a talk show and a Katie Couric interview to be on at the same time. While he was — and some of you may not have heard this — a prisoner of war in Vietnam, Katie Couric never came to interview him. He didn’t have a gift bag. He didn’t have complementary sparkling water. He didn’t even have a lousy $5,000 a day makeup person flown in to make him look presentable. And that’s why we need to pass this $700 billion bailout.
Almost as funny as Marshall Silvers hyp-mo-tizing Dave.
Today…we’re all investment bankers.
Walnuts has officially fucked himself. This is one of the best days to ever happen to the poor, sad, idiotic and riddled DNC party-of-a-boop.
Did they invite Olberman in McCain’s place just to spite him? Was Maddow on after?
Pure grain animus. I haven’t seen Letterman this obsessed since he went off on his old bosses (“weasels”) at nbc.
Very interesting this was leaked before the show even ran.
Spoiler alert: the funniest line is at 9:09.
Why is Dave so upset that McCain outright lied to him? He’s been lying to everyone else for the last three months straight.
Still, Dave has to be happy that McCain considers Couric an easier interview.
[re=107280]grendel[/re]: Cross off Letterman, The Daily Show, The View, CNN… outside of the (now questionable) debates, it’s starting to look like McCain’s going to have to hold up a liquor store if he expects to get any free TV time in October.
Can we get Letterman to moderate the debate?
I like it better when neither the angry old man neither the proto fascist ignorant lady are around. Comedians are at their best talking about them, not having to pretend that they are funny.
Holy Shit-for-brains Batman! on the $700 brazillian
“It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number.”
http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/09/23/bailout-paulson-congress-biz-beltway-cx_jz_bw_0923bailout.html
I’m a mommy, but I just want to go out and rip out some livers and smack these piles of elephant poo until they liquify!! Oh, wait, that sounds like something Palin would do. Nevermind.
Perhaps the new campaign slogan will be “this doesn’t smell right.”
McCain is a total pussy and if he (and that dumb-ass Alaskan twat) wins the election, we are stupid and deserve what we get. I gotta look into Norwegian or Lituanian citizenship… If Obama wins I might start believing in God again.
[re=107288]shortsshortsshorts[/re], [re=107266]King Rinzy of Rohan[/re]: Seriously, this is the 9/11 of McCain’s presidential run. Letterman sledgehammered the last nail in his political coffin tonight.
Of course, a few extra nails couldn’t hurt. Wokka Wokka Wokka!
I believe that funny smell is old fish wrapped in newspaper being interviewed by Katie “I Luv Colonscopies” Couric.
Is it smelly because he is old and crapped his pants?
http://www.yahoo.com/s/959397
[re=107306]ihasasad[/re]: holy fucking fuckcrap. That is just so fucking disenchanting, ugly, uninspiring, fucking ugh ugh ugh. They just completely pulled it out of their asses.
I want to scream…
Moral of the story: don’t ditch Dave for Katie (or anyone else). Sheesh, he wasn’t this upset when they discovered the plot to kidnap his kid.
So goes Letterman, so goes the nation
[re=107309]facehead[/re]: I love how the little jokester could do so much harm. But there’s more at stake for poooooooor Walnuts! Like that debate he’s going to completely fuck up!
I think this is the day that the election ended.
McCain got outcrotchetied by a Master. I’ve been watching him off and on for 22 years, and I’m still in the tank for Letterman.
[re=107309]facehead[/re]: Clearly Letterman is in the tank for Couric.
LETTERMAN IS INTHETANKFOROBAMA MCCAIN IS A PATRIOT HE WILL SAVE US THE REALESTATE BUBLE WAS AN INSIDE JOB!!!!!
Leno is irrelevant.
Love the line about the white mini-van.
This was so fucking awesome. Thank you Dave.
Indivisible Tuna has a chat room and it is the closest thing to a multiple orgasm most of you will ever experience. If you are in the tank for wonkette, or you’re just a lurking homo, this chat is for you:
http://wonkette.chatango.com/
Jesus Christ! The old boy has some life in him yet. Dave that is. McCain is one dead honky.
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[re=107306]ihasasad[/re]: for just a few minutes, I didn’t have a mug of rum in my hand. ::returns to kitchen::
“McCain Mugged by Talkshow Host in Times Square”… Film at 11:30.
McCain, dude, you’re SO transparent on this. Your campaign is in freefall and the Alaska Disasta ain’t helping you the way they told you she would.
And come on, how right was Dave about having the second string quarterback step in? Seriously, if Walnuts had to run off and save the world surely Palin could have stepped in and done the campaign stop. She was in NYC too, for fuck’s sake. That would have made Walnuts look like a hero.
Oh, except for Letterman would have eviscerated her like a grizzly taking down a moose.
Let us pray:
May the Lord bless Walnuts in this time of need.
May HE bring him splendor and righteousness.
May HE destroy the LIBRULS and their ungodly IDIOSYNCRASIES to no end.
HE is the ONE. He is the light. OH SHIT WE DO NOT LIKE HIM HE IS VERY NOT EVANGELICAL.
Fuck this let’s all vote for Barr. I don’t even care what that traitor RON PAUL thinks anymore.
WE SHALL OVERCOME.
Hm, no Letterman yet here, still local news. 11:40 Eastern.
Dude man Letterman has some balls! Way to go Dave!
Dave, the backup quarterback does *not* know the plays. Don’t get me started…
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This and the Palin interview are back to back GOLD. I feel all floaty inside.
Seriously, there is nothing worse for a man running for office than to have the cameras rolling pre-interview while they’re putting his makeup on. When Letterman wants to kick you in the balls, he kicks you IN THE BALLS.
[re=107417]jimh[/re]: uh huh
I like my WALNUTS! roasted, thank you.
Oh, Letterman is going to ride Walnuts! every day until the election. He is a super pissy old grump and now he’s got a grudge.
Also: what does it say about Couric’s journamalism skills that Walnuts would rather face her than possible tuff questions from Letterman? The fluke of the Palin interview disaster notwithstanding, natch.
Wow…Obama must have a big fuckin’ tank…got room for me?
Gold fucking medal baby. McCain could prolly FEEL the heat of Dave’s glare through the camera. And through the walls of the Obama tank.
[re=107400]NotLaughing[/re]: Do you predict human deaths too?
Craig Ferguson is actually ripping into McCain a lot harder. I don’t normally watch him but he looks seriously god damn pissed.
“I can’t believe that John McCain wants to suspend the debate. You can’t suspend the democratic process because we’re facing problems! At what point do you think then, ‘Maybe we should suspend the election, we’ll have the elections later’? Some people have done that before: Castro did it, Napoleon did it, Julius Caesar did it. Listen, listen, listen! You can’t do that! It’s not, I mean, it’s not like, you like it or not, the campaign is part of the democratic process, right. Now, you can’t, you can’t say, look you can take a couple of days off. That’s what bothers me, it’s the phrase ‘suspend the campaign’. If you want to take a couple days off, spend it with your kids — I think McCain’s kids are in their fifties or something — but if you want to take your time off, that’s fine but you don’t say ‘we’re suspending the campaign’. You can’t say that! We didn’t sus– you can’t, it’s the democratic process! We didn’t suspend it for 9/11, we didn’t suspend it for Pearl Harbor, we didn’t suspend it for the Nazis, we didn’t suspend it for the damn British! We don’t do that in America! We don’t! There’s no suspending the campaign! Democracy first! First, first, first! First! Democracy, first!”
I personally expected no less from my hero David.
[re=107438]Godot[/re]: Oh, dear. I missed Craig tonight.
He just got naturalized a few months ago, and he’s super-hopped-up about voting for the first time.
That wasn’t just schtick—he meant every word.
Two words:
CHICKEN.
McNUGGET.
Dave Letterman is from Indiana and he’s pretty much peeved at John McCain. Barack Obama is looking to flip Indiana into the Democratic column. I think it’s now a done deal – besides Eric Severeid and David Brinkley, Letterman IS the voice of the Merkins – I predict Indiana will gObama by a landslide. And “As goes Indiana, so goes the nation.”
God save Murka! The Hoosiers are sending us to hell.
Two words: Palin approval ratings in Alaska are circling the drain. -25% swing since Sept. 2.
Who hates ya, Sarah?
I mean, other than everyone who’s gotten to know you best….
[re=107282]Blue Myself[/re]: Rule 2: don’t fuck with hackers
[re=107358]Atoz[/re]: She was in NYC too, for fuck’s sake.
Bitchwinkle’s probably on an emergency flight back to the Klondike to ban Clay Aiken CDs and Lindsay Lohan movies. Which I actually agree with… though for completely different reasons.
[re=107306]ihasasad[/re]: Oh, my god…I thought that quote was a joke…it is not…directly from the Forbes article…from a treasury spokesperson.
Good gork…we are fucked!
um, am i the only one who noticed that the video is 9:11 long?!?!?!
it’s all a conspiracy!!!!
[re=107266]King Rinzy of Rohan[/re]: or i just happened to miss this comment. phew! i thought wonkette’s commenters were failing
[re=107547]gom[/re]: It would be more of a conspiracy if it was FIVE AND A HALF YEARS LONG ALAN!
[re=107449]hamletta[/re]: As luck would have it, CBS decided it was worth making available. This will probably get lost in the morning topic crush but…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DT3Dest47U
The whole bit would not have been half as effective if Letterman hadn’t shown the Couric bit. That’s the nail that put McNutz’s ass on the door.
Yeah, moving Letterman from passively supporting Obama to actively despising McCain was a bad move.
But I have a theory about all of this self-destruction on the Repub ticket: McCain is in the tank for Obama and doing everything he can to see that Barry wins.
Ouch: http://tinyurl.com/4xxwgl
[re=107266]King Rinzy of Rohan[/re]: Yeah, 9:11, or as we say in the
survivor business, 9/11. Coincidence? I think not. When he, a supposed
pilot with experience (4, maybe 5 planes crashed into the nearest thing
to the twin towers in Viet-Nam, two water buffalo walking in a yoke) says
he has to fly to Washington.
FLY TO WASHINGTON! Oh the irony, that is a FIVE AND A HALF HOURS
flight in an A-4.
[re=107320]Hooray For Anything[/re]: The road to the White House runs through him!
Fabulous! Absafuckingfabulous.
Don’t fuck with the LetterMAN!
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