"Late Show" host David Letterman kept up a verbal assault on John McCain Thursday, saying he felt like an "ugly date" because the GOP presidential candidate backed out of a scheduled appearance on his talk show.
The night before, Letterman had said McCain's decision to suspend his campaign to deal with the economic crisis "didn't smell right." Letterman substituted MSNBC's "Countdown" host — and critic of the Arizona senator — Keith Olbermann when McCain called him to say he wouldn't appear Wednesday.
The comic was unhappy when McCain sat for an interview with Katie Couric instead of him Wednesday — and even more perturbed to learn that McCain didn't leave New York until Thursday.
He said he felt like a "patriot" to let McCain off his commitment to deal with the economy and "now I'm feeling like an ugly date."
"That's what I feel like, I feel like an ugly date," he said. "I feel used. I feel cheap. I feel sullied."
McCain spokeswoman Nicolle Wallace said Thursday that the campaign "felt this wasn't a night for comedy."
Not a time for comedy? Then why are John McCain and Sarah Palin providing so much material? I would have thought it was the PERFECT time for comedy.
Newspapers in the future"I'd like to suggest to you that the term newspaper should be broken into two parts, news and paper. The paper part needs to be put aside for a moment, as it is only one of many potential distribution methods. The news engine is independent of the delivery mechanism, or it should be…. when you move into the online environment you know that deadline is a bit of a funny word, or at least it should be because it can go as soon as it's editorial accepted. The notion that news is continuous as opposed to an episodic thing has a lot of dramatic effects on the consumers of that information."
And this is before McCain sought to suspend the first Presidential debate, which is apparently playing very badly.Bad news for McCain from our friends at Fox
by kos
Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 08:38:58 PM PDT
Opinion Dynamics for Fox News. 9/22-23. Registered voters. 3% (9/8-9 results)
McCain (R) 39 (45)
Obama (D) 45 (42)Thirty nine? Really? Thirty-freaking-nine?
And this poll was conducted before McCain cut and run on the debates.
Update: Let's dig a bit into the internals (PDF).
Independents
McCain (R) 31 (46)
Obama (D) 36 (31)That one's gotta hurt. That's a 20-point swing.
And speaking of swings, compared to the previous poll after the GOP convention, Sarah Palin's net favorability is down 16 points, McCain's down 11. Obama is +3 (eight points higher than McCain) while Biden is down five.
What else? Asked which candidate they'd be most likely to go hear speak, 42 percent said Obama, 24 percent McCain, 14 percent Palin and 3 percent Biden.
