Republican presidential candidateJohn McCain was supposed to be on Letterman last night but couldn’t make it because…, well, the reason he gave the show was because he was ‘heading back to Washington’ to help respond to the economic turmoil.
Well, it turns out he was still in New York and had actually snubbed Dave for his CBS colleague Katie Couric.
:01 – 3:27: Letterman takes fairly tame shots at McCain mixed with genuine praise for the man’s heroism.
3:27 – 6:34: Dave starts getting testy!
6:35 – 9:11: Fill-in guest Keith Olbermann (haha, amazing choice) is interrupted when Letterman finds out about McCain’s Couric interview, conducted at that very moment down the street. Letterman then plays live footage of McCain getting powdered by a makeup assistant before Couric goes on the air.
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You may have seen the rather tacky ad the John McCain camp issued recently, equating Barack Obama to a Paris Hilton-style celebrity unfit for the US Presidency.
Well, now Paris and the folks at FunnyOrDie have hit back with this response: