Worldwide Pantsing

25 September 2008 | 11:07 AM

While I’ve always been a big fan of David Letterman, his esteem has grown in my eyes steadily for the past few years as he’s increasingly been more willing to express his exasperation with the conservative talking heads and politicos who appear on his show. I mean, who could forget his awesome dissection of Bill O’Reilly a few years ago, right? Anyway, last night Dave was due to have Senator John McCain as a guest, when McCain abruptly cancelled because he had “suspended” his campaign in an attempt to weasel he and his VEEP candidate out of the upcoming debates so he could rush back to Washington and save the economy. Letterman gave him the benefit of the doubt, but then began to grouse that Frau Palin wasn’t sent in as a replacement, seeing as how that’s kind of what a potential Vice President does: you know, fill in for the potential President when he/she is otherwise indisposed. Dave’s baseline irritability is humorous enough, but things escalate even further when, while chatting with fill-in guest Keith Olbermann (by the way, how’s that for a prescient replacement?), he glances up at the CBS live feed and sees McCain sitting down with Katie Couric at the CBS news anchor desk. Letterman found this a bit odd, since the Senator had personally telephoned him to say he was canceling his appearance on The Late Show because he was literally getting on a plane and flying to D.C. that very minute. Suffice it to say, awesomeness ensues:

Hell (or at least late night television) hath no fury like a Letterman scorned.

Posted by Andy in Politcally Incoherent