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October 17, 2008

The Road To The White House Actually Might Run Through Letterman

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In an attempt to make up for skipping out on Letterman a couple weeks ago, John McCain finally appeared on the show last night. BARELY! From the AP:

Not willing to risk the wrath of Letterman again, the Republican presidential candidate rented a helicopter to fly to New York after a weather delay grounded his campaign airplane in Philadelphia.

Whoa. Rented a helicopter? That is intense. You can see the flop butter dripping off of McCain's muffin-face. I am not one of these ELITE LIBERALS who partakes in "gotcha" bloggerism, but there is something remarkable, in the strictest definition of that word: worth remarking, about a panicky John McCain renting a helicopter to ensure that he doesn't miss his Letterman interview and also this. Whoopsie. Looks like he was grounded by a fun delay!

McCain's Letterman appearance after the jump.

Well, OK! He seems light-hearted and capable of laughing at himself, which is a pleasant contrast to the past few weeks. But maybe someone should tell him to cool it with the drive-by shooting metaphors. Because of how YIKES. Oh, and the whole domestic wiretapping thing is less of a punchline in a riff about catching Osama Bin Laden and more of an infringement on our basic civil liberties by an over-zealous executive branch. Not to mention that it seems difficult to balance on the rhetorical tight rope of using your story as a Vietnam POW as both the deeply serious, singular defining moment of your character, and also a throwaway joke about the "torture" of silly questions. Wanh wanh wanh. But otherwise, PERFECT.

UPDATE: The stuff about Ayers is pretty great, if you think watching someone's brain break is "great."

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The second part of the conversation is also pretty good, not as funny, but Dave increases the heat.

Posted by: Jason at 10/17/08 2:58 PM | Reply
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This was secretly the most pointed, most aggressive bit: http://tinyurl.com/6j3os5 Nicely dealt, Dave.

Posted by: Nathan Explosion at 10/17/08 3:55 PM | Reply
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Letterman at his very best!!! Especially in the 2nd half of the McCain interview! Good to see that both -at least somewhat- kept their sense of humor in all of this though.

Posted by: Stop Smoking at 10/17/08 8:25 PM | Reply
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